001I really didn't think I'd be here. >> Hey, we're good. It's all good. It is all good. Got to find it. We're good. >> We're good. Uh hello. Hello. Welcome to the August 20, 2025 Talmage Board of Education meeting. And uh if you would join me as we always do, we start with pledge of allegiance. Stand if you can. Hats off. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Uh, Mr. Hostetler, roll call, please. >> here. here. Uh, next up, welcome to visitors in person and online. Uh, hello Becky and uh, and actually a big welcome to Mr. Manion who's our first time on that side of the table. So, glad
002you're here. Thanks. Uh, we will move on and, uh, ask for, uh, approval of the prior meeting minutes. Uh it is recommended that the board of education approve the minutes of the July 16th and 29th 2025 meetings. Uh minutes from all meetings of course can be found online in digital form. So I would need a a motion and a second. >> I'll make a motion. >> Second. >> Any questions or edits or updates changes on anything? >> Spelling errors. >> They spell your name right. Okay. I would ask for a vote. >> Mr. Professor >> I Davis >> I >> Next up, financial reports. Uh is recommended that the board approve the financial reports for the month of June and July 2025 as they have been presented. Uh and I would ask for a motion
003and a second. >> A motion. >> I'll second. >> Uh any discussion, any questions, comments? Uh anything to report Mr. Hostel? >> Yeah. Uh the June report as you know is the end of the fiscal year. Uh the and uh we forecast had it at 3.3 million general fund balance and it came in at 3.3 million. So no surprises there. Uh closing out fiscal year 25. Next will be the conversion to GAP uh and then the audit and then the gap audit. First audit is cash audit. So, it's busy time. Uh, the second month, uh, July is uh, bringing everything up to speed. Now, we're up to date. The, uh, I would caution just to, uh, not compare July this year to, July last year because of the timing of real estate payments. It's not
004very close. So, don't, you know, think that there's lots of uh, problems or issues. It's just a, as we've said before, when we start getting advances on the tax settlements, they come in different times and different amounts each year. So, it's tough to compare, but it's a sheet that I provide and a report that is is most times useful through the through the year, but just some of these months are a little wonky. >> Okay, >> I would ask for a vote then. >> Mr. Lowry, >> I >> Mr. Davis >> I >> Mr. Pasarelli >> I >> Mr. Fers >> I >> uh following suit then we have amended appropriations uh it is recommended that the board approve the final amended appropriations for fiscal year 25 which is the school year 2024 and 25
005um as presented. I need a motion and a second. >> I'll make a motion. I'll second. >> Uh any discussion questions on this? Uh would I ask Mr. Hosteler to kind of point out what this is again? >> Yeah, this is uh this is just a year-end cleanup. Uh it aligns the appropriations with the actual expenditures. Uh it just makes things kind of from an audit standpoint a little cleaner. Uh last month you approved the treasur to make any necessary year-end adjustments, which I did. And this is sort of the result of that uh which needs adopted separately. So >> okay. So these are the final changes. >> That's final for 25. Uh 26 we'll be adopting uh appropriations next month for fiscal year 26. >> Got it. >> Uh because they're due by the
006end of September. So we're working on those now and we'll have those ready uh for next meeting. I then if there's no other comments I'd ask for a vote. >> Mr. Professor Elli. >> Mr. Davis. >> Hi. >> Mr. Lowry. >> I. >> Mr. Pers. >> Hi. >> Thank you. >> Uh, next up, transportation. Uh, in consideration of factors established in uh, uh, article 3327.02, 2 the town board of education declares impracticality of transportation based both on the number of pupils being transported to the non-public school and also the cost of providing transportation in terms of equipment maintenance personnel and administration for the following students for the 202425 school year last year uh Audrey and Eva Ecberg and Bethany Walsco And I'm sure I pronounced that incorrect, so I apologize. Uh, but I would need
007a motion and a second. >> A motion. >> I'll second. >> Um, any questions on anything? This seems kind of normal what we do all the time. So, I would ask for a vote. >> Mr. Lowry. >> Hi. >> Mr. Pelli. >> Hi. >> Mr. Davis. >> Hi. >> Mr. Fra. >> Hi. Uh, next up, uh, Superintendent of Schools. Um, where's my motion? It is recommended that the board of education approve the uh, town uh, elementary school uh, parent student handbook um, as attached. Need a motion and a second. >> I'll make a motion. >> I'll second. Yeah, the board already approved the high school and middle school. Um, >> correct. >> The board already approved the middle school and high school handbooks. This is the elementary school handbook. Um, no significant changes to the
008handbook other than a lot of just staffing updates for the handbook. >> All right. Very good. Uh, I would ask for a vote. >> Mr. Perelli, >> I. >> Mr. Davis, >> I. >> Mr. Lowry, >> I. >> Mr. Fairhurst. Hi. Uh, fun stuff. Um, out of town overnight trip uh, Town Middle School going to Camp Fitch. It is recommended that the board of education approved the overnight out of town field trip for the Town Middle School 6th grade class to attend its outdoor education program at Camp Fitch October 1st through the 3rd, 2025. Need a motion and a second. >> A motion. >> I'll second. And uh this is held every year. >> Yeah. So this gives me a chance to introduce uh Mr. Manion to the group. So Mr. Manion last year was
009the middle school principal at Townidge Middle School. This year he is the middle school principal at Townidge Middle School. His role in the district hasn't changed, but Jeff has stepped up with um Mr. householders retirement and is helping significantly uh in addition to his you know his role as our middle school principal uh in helping with uh with hiring facilities issues, safety issues. So I'm very very thankful to Jeff for his stepping up. I thought we'd invite him to the board meetings. So I'll let Mr. Manion talk about Camp Fitch. Jeff? >> Yeah. So we have gone to Camp Fitch now 40 years. So, this will be our 41st year um of going. The price is $5 a little uh $5 more from last year's price. So, you know, cost of food and that sort
010of thing is primarily the the reason for increase. Um but typically, we take about probably about 80% of our sixth grade students on a 3-day trip. Gets us an opportunity to kind of get them away and and learn them as human beings and get them to start developing the middle school independence that we strive to get. So, yeah. place place hasn't fallen into Lake Erie. >> No, it actually every time we go there, they they have a new building up and I mean they really have done some pretty impressive improvements there. It's it's a pretty great place. So, and there's no cell phone reception, which is kind of nice to be able to get our middle schoolers without their cell phones for a couple of days and and get them away from that. So, but
011a great outdoor ed experience. Anything else? Good. You have something. >> Uh, I would ask for a vote then. I think we're ready. >> Mr. Davis. >> Hi, >> Pastor Elli. >> Hi, >> Mr. Lowry. >> So, I think Camp Fitch is awesome, but my kids in sixth grade, so I feel like it's appropriate to abstain, if that makes sense. >> Okay, >> Mr. Fair. Hi. Okay, here we go. Uh, next up, personnel items. We have quite a laundry list of personnel items. So, I'm going to ask uh that we make a motion to take by consensus all the personnel items 5.1 through 5.24 uh as a single motion. Uh, and if you're okay with that, I would need a motion and a second. >> I'll motion to adopt 5.1 to 5.24. to for you.
012>> I'll second that. >> And uh I would ask Mr. Wood, are there anything here highlights? >> You know what what I'd like what I'd like to highlight more than anything for the board is the amount of work that went into these hires. So there's just um >> a tremendous amount of work. Uh so thankful to uh Mrs. Davis, the building principles, um, everyone that was involved in, um, filling these important roles in the district as we got ready for the school year. It's every year there's some surprise there, you know, we call them the July, August surprises, uh, that we have to fill and and make happen. So, just very, very thankful to everyone. So, I'll go through and just highlight a couple of these for you all. Number one, I I guess I
013I I do want to recognize Kelly Christopher. Kelly's really doing a lot of work around promoting um and trying to attract uh substitute teachers to the district. Really has done a nice job. Our roster, this is the second year we've kind of gone on our own away from Summit County. It's actually working great. Um we've probably have our strongest roster of substitute teachers that we've had in a long time. Um and and just really thankful to Kelly and all of her work in making that happen. Um Allison Taylor, we're excited that she's the new uh welcoming face there at Townidge Elementary School. Allison has been had been working for us for a while in the cafeteria of the elementary school and is excited excited to join us in in the central office there. So, um
014really really off to a great start for us already. And then um you know the only other one I'd point out I think uh the board and I Mr. if Mr. if any of the other um admin team want to mention anyone else. Um want to thank Billy Johnson and there was a number of voluntar volunteers as well as um other coaches and staff to go through the selection process for our new head softball coach. Big role here at the district. Um high expectations. So we're excited to recommend Paul Beex to the board tonight for hiring. Mr. Beex uh has had uh students come through. Sydney's one of the finest player we've we've seen in a long time. Graduated a couple years ago. Um so Paul no longer has students in the district, but wants
015to give back. Um and and in a in a difficult competitive process really stood out amongst the selection committee. So we're excited to uh recommend Paul for uh for that role tonight. That's all I had. Uh I don't know if did uh do you guys have any you wanted to highlight? Good. >> Are we allowed to highlight anybody or absolutely talk about there there is one uh gentleman here uh uh being recommended that Chad Nash, you know, be approved as an adviser of the builder club. I just wanted to point out for on behalf of Mr. Nash. He's been recognized as the outstanding teacher advisor by the downtown Akran Kowanas Club and will be receiving an award September 18th. >> So he gets to highlight and and talk about town and all the good things
016that the students are doing here. So >> that's great. Thank you. >> Yep. >> Any other comments? We're good. >> I would ask for a vote, >> Mr. Davis. >> Hi, >> Mr. Perelli. >> Hi, >> Mr. Lowry. >> Hi, >> Mr. Paris. >> Hi. >> Uh, with that then I would uh come back to central office report again. Mr. Wood, uh, what's going on? >> Yeah, we're going to do kind of a team team report out tonight. Um, I I I just would tell the board and we're just very very thankful to everyone involved in making sure that the new year gets off to a great start. And that of course is our teaching staff, our custodians, maintenance. Uh we had some significant changes in our kitchens this year. Um some changes in our
017transportation department and uh I will tell you the first week of school, hard to believe, first full week of school has been outstanding for the district. So just proud of the whole team uh everybody that helped to make sure positions were filled, helped to make sure the buses ran on time, the buildings were ready. uh just just an outstanding start to the school year for our 2,465 uh students at at Townidge uh in Townage City Schools. So, um just just proud of everybody's effort. Wanted to share that with the board. Uh Billy Johnson couldn't be here tonight. I was going to ask Billy to kind of give a report on um on uh athletics. So, he did share he was kind enough to put a report together for me. So I'll just I'll give that
018um briefly to the board here. Weight room is continues to be very very wellreceived. I should say the Lowry family strength center has been very very wellreceived. Athletes are hard at work getting it done. Girls soccer. Um first time in a long time we have a JV girls soccer team because our numbers are so high which is awesome for our athletes. We're excited for our football team. First kickoff against Elllet this this Friday night. It's hard to believe. Hopefully, it's a little bit cooler for those cross country. Um, we should have very, very strong teams, especially our girls team this year. A lot of returning athletes. Uh, girls tennis and volleyball off and running. I I was at a middle school game tonight. So, uh, and boys soccer, um, uh, also off to a good
019start. Golf, um, boys and girls golf. And then cheerleading, just awesome. And we're very thankful to our cheerleaders for participating in an opening day convocation as well. And uh Mr. Johnson also wanted me to share with you, you may have seen the news about it, but there's um the Cleveland Browns are sponsoring the startups of uh female flag football teams for this spring and they are paying for everything, uniforms, coaches salaries, everything. So, we're trying to get more details on what that looks like. Right now, we have indicated that we're interested. There's other suburban league teams that are interested as well, as well as Metro. So, we got to kind of think about both conferences because, as the board and everyone knows, this is our last year in the Suburban League. So, we're um you
020know, celebrating uh you know, celebrating uh the great experience we've had in the suburban league. We look forward to the the Metro next year and that there are teams within the metro that are also interested in that new um girls flag football team. >> Is that a one-year commitment or multi-year? >> It's a great question. Uh that was asked by the athletic directors because they're worried about that. Right now they've committed to the first year, but according to the Hasslam family and the Browns, they see it as a long-term commitment. It's something important. and it's within the strategic plan of the Cleveland Browns is to support the community. So, uh, more that's a great question and a lot of people were asking that question. So, that's that's it for athletics. So, thanks Mr. Johnson for
021again a great job getting the year off to a good start. I'll turn it over to M Mrs. Davis. >> All right. Um, so I promise to keep it short and sweet, which is a challenge for me as we all know. Um, so new teacher orientation. Um, Ann Hegedorn, as you all know, because we've approved her as our lead resident educator mentor. She does a great job of putting together the new staff orientation. So, that's not only the resident educators, which are new to the profession, but it's also new to Talmage folks as well. Um so they spend a day um being oriented to the district in terms of I'm able to share with them our mission and our vision, the Talmage way, our directional system. Um they get uh to learn about technology from
022Kurt. Um also payroll and so on. So it's a great day of it's a lot. It's jam-packed for sure. Um but sets the tone I think for a great um entrance into our district. So, um I have to give a shout out to Ann because she does a fantastic job with that. Um the Talmage Way prominently displayed. >> Um it really is. I love it. Um and it's not just on our walls, but it is um seen and heard in our classrooms every day and it continues to be at the forefront of everything that we do in terms of guiding our decisions and and shaping our interactions. So um that will continue to be a focus and you'll hear me talk a lot about authentic and personalized learning. Those will be you know at the
023forefront of everything that we do as well. The curriculum platform that is available on the website will continue to be expanded. It's a working uh site. We continue to add and improve that site. Uh but it's intended to be a one-stop shop for everything that our educators need to know and be able to access. It's also a great resource for parents. That's why we we made sure it was public facing. Um, some of it is very specific to our educators, but it is also a good resource, I think, for our parents to understand what their students are learning and how they're learning. Um, so that will continue. Um, math, believe it or not, math and social studies are in that cycle of review. So, it's been three years. So, those two content areas will be
024reconvening our content committees to take a look at our frameworks, our instructional frameworks and our resources to make sure they're still meeting our needs. So, it's hard to believe it's been that long already. Um, and then one other uh piece I wanted to highlight is um our English learner program. We are now we now have four full-time teachers. um one of those teachers at the middle school high school retired and we were able to um replace that position internally um with one of our world language department uh teachers. So she's really hit the ground running. Um but that is a program that continues to grow steadily as um we welcome more and more um English learners into our district. So our district has become much more diverse than it than it ever has been. Um,
025but with that comes those four individuals working really hard to support our English learners and their families along the way, too. So, uh, we continue to to learn and grow with that, um, as well because there are some things we don't know and and we don't know, we don't know. So, um, we continue to learn from the families as well in terms of how we can best support them and their and their students. So, that's all I have to highlight. >> Thank you, Courtney. >> Mr. Zean. >> Uh, good evening everyone. So, we're off to a a great but busy start. Um, in addition to the new hires, um, some of the new hires we're bringing back, we're welcoming back a total of 33 intervention specialists within the district. Just two of those are new.
026Um, 36 instructional parapros and, uh, we have our eight school counselors still in place with Jen Stewart who we' mentioned uh, last board meeting. uh moving over to the elementary school. Um mostly returning all the same support and related service staff. So we we've been really great um in the years that I've been here in retaining um those staff. So it's great to to see the consistency. Uh we continue to receive support and partner through Red Oak Behavioral Health um for counseling services and the three buildings and also for our um alcohol and other drug uh counselor. Um, so that's been really helpful. Um, lot of training. Um, Courtney mentioned teacher orientation and training. We've been through a lot of training at the beginning of the year. A lot of staff training. Um, we've done
027our handle with care training at all of our buildings. So, we're up to date. That's our um that's the program and the the training program we use for verbal deescalation and physical intervention. So, everybody's trained that need to be trained with that. Uh we we've completed our striker chair training. Um Chief Pasarelli probably knows that's our evacuation chair system. So if you remember in all three of our buildings, we have two um evacuation chairs um uh at the tops of uh the staircases um in all three buildings. Um, and then we train everybody annually in that process and as needed. Um, you know, for individuals with disabilities or individuals with injuries that might need to be evacuated out of a multi-level facility. Um, Courtney and I have uh uh and Jeff have worked through our
028um our federal grants program, our consolidated grant. Um it we kind of mentioned to the board at the beginning of the summer that that process was delayed from the federal government reviewing their federal programs um and also the state program. So we finally completed that process, received final approval um on our our consolidated grants. So that includes our title one programs, our title three program, which is the EL program that Courtney talked about, um our special education funding. So all those have been at least preliminarily uh final approved and we'll be looking for hopefully reallocations of that sometime midy year. So we'll update you when that comes along. But moving along along well with that. Uh preschool is off to a good start. Uh we added a third class this year over at David Bacon.
029So really growing in our uh preschool supports and services. We continue to partner with Summit ESC for that. uh last uh >> their first day hasn't started yet though, right? I think they were still >> It hasn't, but it's off and running in terms of Yeah. Good. And I say that because we added this third classroom. You have to go through um you have to have um the state come out and uh inspect and we've received the Yeah. >> Yeah. Yeah. So, we're we're in good shape. We're ready to go with that preschool program. We had it the board we we had to purchase some new air conditioning equipment for that space. So, it was we put some money into it to get it ready. >> Yep. Yep. >> How many kids in each class?
030>> So, we're running uh we run Monday through Thursday. So, four days a week we run uh half-day programs. So, we run AM and PM classes. Um they can be 88 programs. So we run um integ the these integrated programs where um you can have up to eight students with disabilities and eight peer models. Um so overall you're looking at um uh what's that 48 uh 48 and 48 so 90 up to 96 students we can have um and then half you know cut that in half 48 peers uh 48 students with disabilities. So, um, it's a it's a growing program. So, um, like a lot of our a lot of the programs that we have continue to grow. Um, so we're just getting ahead of that and working closely with our partners in that
031process. Um, >> it's mass I mean massively important to capture those kids as young as possible so that we can start getting them ready and we're prepared for them. There's a whole process to make sure then we're prepared for them when they join us in kindergarten. >> Yeah. >> We work with the ESC. We partner with ESSE to run the program, but it's ultimately, you know, the district's program. So, uh, we work closely. I work closely with them. There's a there's an ESC coordinator that manages that program for us, but we work closely with them. We partner with them throughout the year. Uh, we have regular meetings. We have mid-year meetings to start to transition students for the next year. So it it is a a critical part of the process of because many of
032our students um many of our students that go through our preschool program end up in our program uh end up in our kindergarten program. So it's a process of of transitioning. Um a number of our related service staff like our occupational therapists, our physical therapists, um they also work within our preschool programs. So uh they're there for the transition for the students. So, uh, early intervention, early supports are critical to what we do. Um, uh, when Mr. Householder left, I one of the responsibilities I took over was the Title 9 program. So, I am the Title N coordinator in the district. Um, just wanted to update the board that we have some new administrators, too. So, we've decided to bring put a new team together and up update our team and we're going to be
033having training next Thursday um with our legal council for um for title one training. Uh we'll get that that updated and make sure that we have all of our systems in place uh for Title N. If you're um not familiar with Title N, that's um uh sexual discrimination and harassment. It also includes equity in sports. So, um, we'll be up to date with that process, uh, kind of get that refresher and renew that training. Um, last thing I have for the board is we had kind of mentioned this in the spring, but, um, and I know, uh, Mr. Gwyn's talked in the past about our platforms. Uh, we currently use progress book. Within that, there's a module called special services. That's the module we use for documentation of students with disabilities, students on 504 plans,
034uh gifted plans and so on. Uh we have decided um we will have that in place for the first quarter this year, but in October at the end of the first quarter, we'll be uh converting to a new system called same goal. Um most all districts around here already have switched to same goal or are switching to same goal. It's uh it's going to it will allow us a lot more support um and has a lot more features that we need, but I just bring that to the board's attention. We'll keep you updated because it will be a significant changeover for us in terms of how we document, you know, our our documentation for students with disabilities, 504 plans, gifted and so on. >> All right, that's all I have. Awesome. >> Thank you, Mr.
035Manion. I will be brief. Um, just a couple of things from my end. So, I wanted to kind of give a shout out to our custodians maintenance. Uh, our custodial team started kind of the the return to school, if you will, with the professional development just kind of on best practices. It was provided through Alco system. So, um, really impressed with kind of them coming together and and their willingness to to learn some new techniques. Um, but our buildings look amazing. our maintenance team has been working long hours really trying to get all of our outdoor spaces and and kind of all of those things done. So just really impressed with the work they've put in. Um also want to kind of give a shout out to Jen Kirk and Peterman. Our busing uh is
036a a growing difficult process now with some of our new enrollments that are coming in kind of later and later uh into the school year. And she does not stress and just finds a way to make it work. And so, you know, all of those those buses have been primarily on time. Uh lots of smiling new drivers faces and just uh really impressed with kind of the work that she does. Uh and finally, I just want to kind of thank Kirk Gwyn and his team. Um we redistributed or we exchanged Chromebooks for over a thousand students in our district 612. Um his team came in to both the high school and middle school. did a fantastic job of making that process um one that was very efficient in getting the work done. Uh so we're
037just incredibly grateful for the work that they've done. Uh and you know just impressed with with everyone around and their work ethic. So >> thanks Jeff Mr. Manion or uh Mr. Gwen. Yeah, actually uh Manny mentioned 1500 Chromebooks just shy of 1500 newer Chromebooks double memory. So they're little more future models that they exchange out. So, thanks to a lot of work that we're just not the whole day here. They're busy the whole time. Sometimes to go to the bathroom. So, Tomorrow especially competitive ramp to the attorney general's office to replace much uh needed uh radio systems throughout the district. Previously the buildings we had really consumer radios analog radios that even the building had coverage problems. So $40,000 Attorney General and coverage districtwide. So high school also all the buses on the new platform
038updated repeater. So that's a big deal. We're again focused on cyber security this year. Data security. I'll be talking a little bit more about this next one, but we really try to stress the importance of making it top of mind for everybody to be vigilant against hackers, against cyber attacks, against bad actors who want to get their hands on our data. It's lucrative for nationwide everybody and local government and schools are being targeted privacy that we give our data to online requires them to do the right thing. Yeah. about that new law passed in Ohio which >> thanks. Yeah, thanks to the whole team. I think that gives you a flavor of what I'm blown away by every day in my job is this team. All the plates they're spinning and all the great things
039that are happening. I had forgotten about the I mean the radios is a big deal. It's a big deal. Um and uh that's new this year kind of seamless communication between all buildings and uh and all of our SRO's are carrying those radios too. So um that's a huge deal. Thank you Kurt. Thank you Jeff. Thanks, Roy, Courtney. Um, very very blessed here in Townwich. That's that's our report tonight. >> Well, I I had a couple shout outs if I could. Just uh uh two one uh my granddaughter just started kindergarten. >> Okay, good. >> So, I don't know who is responsible for all of this, but she is having a wonderful time. She is so excited to go to school. She rides the bus and she thinks it's the coolest thing in the world.
040So, thank you, thank you, thank you for that. And then number two, uh it wasn't brought up, but uh uh it's what se uh September 17th, is it a Thursday? Uh Townage Chamber of Commerce, you will be a speaker, >> state of the schools where you get to take all the information we just heard and kind of do a kind of a brief over overall ramp up. And uh for those listening or watching online, I hope they attend. uh be a very informative event for the uh the chamber. So, yeah, you're coming up for that. >> Yeah. And actually, I'm glad you brought that up, too, as well as um the board approved putting the levy levies on the ballot uh last month. Um and we are hosting an open house at Townidge Middle School
041on September 9th. It'll be an information night. >> Yeah. uh an information night for families to come and learn and understand uh why this this uh levy is important to the district. >> We call it levy spotlight. >> Levy spotlight >> and uh so yeah it' be very informative and just a big shout out thank you to uh the committee for the citizens of townage schools working hard uh putting a lot of time and effort into it all for all the right reasons all the good things. So, >> uh let's see before Oh, you have something. I see your finger going to the button. Go for it. >> I do. >> I have uh two questions for Steve. Uh first of all, how is our registration going with our new uh online multilanguage app? I
042would tell you that's been a night and day in terms of helping families with the language barrier in terms of enrollment. >> Um I would also just a big shout out to Maria McNalty who is helping out with registration this year. >> There's still a lot of families that struggle with the process because it can be it's cumbersome. It is cumbersome >> and for all the right you know for all the reasons you can imagine with a public school and and the information that needs to be collected for students. So it still is a cumbersome process. The video and the ability for families, you know, Maria very often will refer them to that video and it it kicks kickstart that whole process, right, >> for going through because it walks our families through what we
043call it's the final forms process. That's the vendor. It's the registration process and it walks them through that and what they need to do. So, that's been a huge help to those families and to our office to navigate that. But I, you know, I can't uh can't understate the amount of effort and patience that Maria is showing for our families because a lot of them still do. There still are natural struggles with that. >> And uh she's she's amazing uh amazing and doing a great job. Second question, uh the new glass in the library at the elementary and the glass around, >> how is that working or is it too early to tell? >> No, I think it's uh well actually Mr. Brian and why don't you Mr. Brian, Miss Beck, have you been in
044there? >> Oh, I have been in there and it's incredible >> the amount of noise that has been reduced from the cafeteria right next to the library. >> Right. >> Tremendous. Good. >> Difference. >> Did that last piece get finished? >> Not yet, but it's kind of small, but shout out to Mr. >> David Eden Glazing Systems. Yeah. System. >> So, we have to thank him somehow. >> Yeah, we did a social media post and uh I thanked him. So, yeah, it's been it's been awesome. So, we Yeah, we really appreciate it. And it you know what's what I like about it, too, is it just looks like it was always there. It's it just looks it's not like an add-on. It just looks fits right into the space. So, >> yeah. >> Not yet.
045>> Right. Not yet. >> Yeah. No, thanks for bringing that up, Chief. Thank you. >> Very good. >> Thanks. >> Very good. Any anything else? Good. Uh, well, before I ask for a motion for adjournment. I see that we had some people sneak in. Uh, and we're glad you're here. Uh, stand up if you can. Uh, tell us who you are and uh what's up, what's going on. Well, thank you for the the time. My name is Cynthia Curtain. I'm your new judge at the Stow Municipal Court. So, I wanted to stop by to introduce myself. Uh, first, let me just say your high school is beautiful. It's lovely. I wish I was going to school here. It's just lovely. Uh, but I I did want to stop by a couple things um to introduce
046myself so you can put a name to to the new face at the court. Uh, Governor DeWine appointed me to the court uh right after Memorial Day. I bring 35 years of litigation experience to the bench which has included jury trials, appellet practice, um, arbitration, mediation. I've represented a variety of different clients from individuals to large corporations and I've handled a variety of different matters. I have a wealth of experience which has equipped me well to do the duties of the court. But what I really wanted to talk to you about is I think that we need more education for our young people on the life consequences that occur when you commit a crime or you have a conviction. For example, do you know what an enhancable offense is? Do you don't guess? I mean,
047if you know uh do you know what an expungement is or when it can happen and when it cannot happen? Not all cases can be expuned. Do you know when your driver's license can be suspended? And there are there's more than one instance. So these are things that people don't realize. They don't know about. And I think that if we told our young people about some of these life consequences, which I call them tag along consequences, because they follow they follow you, they follow the the crime, they follow the conviction, uh that maybe they would think twice before committing a crime. So um making a bad decision. So, I am available to come to any middle school or high school class and talk about these tag along life consequences that occur that people aren't really
048aware of. So, I can easily be reached uh at by the court through the STO municipal court. My baiff is with me here too, Dawn. Um so, she she's uh working well with me and and we can help you out if if you would like. And the best news is I am free. It will not cost the district a penny to have me come into a classroom. I'm happy to do it. So, um I just wanted to bring that to your attention as I do this job. I do feel that there is a need to educate our young people because these are things it's not cocktail party talk. Nobody knows about we you're not aware of these tag along things that happen with a crime and having a conviction. So, what can we do to
049educate our young people? And that's what I just wanted to bring to your attention and thank you for your time and and attention. >> Are you I mean is she available to the sixth district or are you >> Summit County? You're just all >> I'm I'm Portage. >> My territory is uh Talmage. It's we have 16 municipalities. So, Talbage, Hudson, uh, Stowe, Ka Falls, Macedonia, Twinsburg, Sagamore, Reminderville, Boston Heights, Peninsula. So, the northern corner of the of Summit County, anyway, we'll reach out. >> Great. Love to hear from you. Thank you. >> Thank you for stopping by. Oh my gosh. Thank you both. Uh, actually, thank you. >> Uh, that leaves one more unfamiliar face. Uh, say hello. Tell us who you are. >> Uh, good evening. >> Hi. >> Long day for me. I
050came all the way from Shardan to be here with you guys. Uh, my name is River Kale. That's my legal name. It's an odd one, but I am the district outreach representative for Congressman David Joyce. Years ago, before redistricting, we had a lot more uh, Summit County. Now, we have none. But with how town has formed and grown and taken land, lost some land, there are about four um city blocks that are in Portage County. And so Dave Joyce oversees that part of the district and I am his outreach representative for all of Portage and southern Giaga counties in today northern Giaga. Um I focus on case work, IRS, social security, uh veterans affairs, um really anything federal dollars touch, um we pay attention to it. Our office also does letters of support. So you
051guys are you know applying for f and things like that. You can call my office. I'll pass out some business cards at the end of this uh meeting here. Um just so we know what your plans are and and what you're looking to do to better your students. We're, you know, big advocates of education on all levels, whether it's kindergarten all the way to college. And if you uh have any questions for me, I'm right down the street. Uh I am a field grad though, so a little biased, but we do love our res nonetheless. >> We like fields. >> Oh yeah, it's a great place. I wish our school was as nice as this one, but that's okay. Thank you very much for having me. Thank you. >> Glad you're here. Thank you. Thank
052you very much. >> The front row, would you any comments? Uh >> absolutely. You know me. >> Can I uh First of all, John Bryan, I'm over at the town elementary school. Um thank you on behalf of the town elementary school. >> Vice President >> Oh, vice president also of the TTA. Um But thank you for the phase in days. Those are heaven. It's nice to have a third of our class getting them into their Chromebooks into everything so that on Monday we were all ready to go. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you for that. Um the other thing I wanted to mention, it's um probably a parent's worst nightmare that had occurred to one of our family members, college family members. Um Maria Boyd, her um son was in an automobile or not
053automobile but a motorcycle automobile accident. He is now at home recovering. But I just wanted to, you know, send thoughts and prayers to her and their family >> and there's be a fundraiser at Brimfield Steakhouse this Monday, August 25th, um at 6:30. So that would definitely as Maria's helping him recover, there's a lot of expenses involved with this, but you know, he's on the men, but you know, this is one of our family members here, so we just want to send our our love and our support. So >> well said, John. Thank you. Anything else? Good, good, good. Uh with that then I would ask for a motion for adjournment. >> I'll second. Somebody went first and second and ask for a vote. >> Mr. Davis, >> I that's it. Thank you so much. See
054you next month.