001I made [laughter] it. >> Think of these people that want to talk. >> Did you think it's something to do with the sixth grade or the open enrollment? She thinks it's something to do with the sixth grade. We don't know. We don't really know. She >> only knew those two things. My guesses were [laughter] >> wrong. It's probably five after. So wait till six. All right, let me go finish my Did he start the recording? >> I don't know. >> Did you start it? What? Yep. >> All right, we're going to get the meeting started. We stand for the pledge. >> I pledge allegiance 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. [clears throat] >>
002All right, we do have a couple people that would like to speak. >> Uh, first is Dominique Becker. >> I graduated here generation. Um, man, am I just quite a Um, but I would like to say that my class didn't because they wanted to get rid of our entirely different thing and I'm asking about I don't know if it's budget cuts frankly to be honest. I barely even grasp of it. I want you to think in the future if resource room is val. >> Good evening members of water school board. My name is Dom and I'm here tonight to express my concerns regarding the proposal to eliminate the resource room available to students with individualized educational programs or IEPs. Why support inclusion and sharing ensuring students with disabilities have an opportunity to learn alongside their
003peers. Inclusion should never come at the expense of providing specialized students uh expense of providing the specialized support students need to succeed. The Individuals with Disabilities Act or IDA requires schools to provide a continuum of services and placements based on each of the students needs. The resource room is an important part of that continuum. Many students with learning disabilities, including dyslexia and other reading disabilities, spend most of their days in general education classrooms while receiving targeted instruction in the resource group. This arrangement often represents the least restrictive environment because it provides access to peers and grade level curriculum while still offering specialized interventions and support. The resource room is more than an academic support service. For many students, it provides a structured environment where they can receive individualized instruction, build confidence, develop coping skills, and
004regulate a group that may be interfering with learning in the classroom. Students with learning disabilities, attention difficulties, autism, emotional disabilities, and other special needs often benefit from having access to quieter settings and specialized staff who understand their challenges. These students do not receive When students do not receive the support that they need, behavioral issues can increase. Frustration from struggling academically, sensory overload, anxiety, and difficulty processing information can lead to classroom disruptions, emotional outbursts, and school avoidance and disciplinary referrals, which I myself dealt with before we got this started. Another important concern is that too many of students who rely on the resource room are already performing low state standards for the grade levels. They receive special education services because they have documented disabilities that affect their ability to access the curriculum and meet grade level
005expectations. The resource room provides targeted instruction designed to close learning gaps and help students make meaningful progress towards their IUP goals and state academic standards. If students already are struggling to meet standards while receiving these services, how will eliminating resources help them catch up? How will students receive the intensive instruction and individualized support necessary to make progress? These are questions that deserve to be quickly answered. Removing a resource room does not automatically create a more inclusive environment. True inclusion means providing students with support that they need to be successful. If those supports disappear, students may fall further behind academically, experience increased frustration, develop more behavioral challenges, and lose confidence in our own abilities of the game. I respectfully ask the board to carefully consider the impact this decision will have on students, families, teachers, and
006the entire school community. families deserve transparency regarding how specialized instruction will be delivered, how students progress will be monitored, and how the district will ensure that students continue to receive the free and appropriate public school education required by all. Every child learns differently. Every child deserves an opportunity to succeed. The purpose of special education is to provide an individualized support that helps student reach their full potential. support to preserve the resource from any ide and and I'm going to [clears throat] call Starcher because it seems like it may be related related issue. [clears throat] So >> yeah, my name is Nicole. I'm here tonight to advocate for true and meaningful educational inclusion for our special needs. I have two special students that were >> take your time. >> Don't apologize. It's okay. [snorts] [clears throat]
007Inclusion for special education students is not a basic or a checklist item. It is a philosophy that ensures every child regardless of ability is fully participating in valued member of our school community. [snorts] However, we cannot build a sustainable culture of inclusion for our students if we cannot maintain stable workforce of educators for support to support them. And I ask that you look at the amount of turnover that this district has had, including the special education department. When we isolate students with disabilities, we limit their potential and deny their peers a chance to learn in a diverse environment. Inclusion improves academic outcomes, social and emotional growth, builds empathy across the entire student body. My concern is not just for individual students, but for the systemic gaps in our school that prevent general and special education
008teachers from co-eing effectively. Right now, our educators need more than just a mandate. They need a structure support to make it work. This past year, Mrs. Nichols and Miss Scott did amazing things for my kids. I ask that we move to a model of integration to true inclusion that is asking the board to prioritize actions such as targeting professional development to allocate funds funds for mandatory ongoing co-eing and universal design training all general education teachers scheduling priority direct administration to prioritize collaborative planning time in school schedules so special and general educators can find lessons together. Accountability merits metrics establish clear magical district goals to track the percentage of time special education students spend in the restricted environment. This last year was my son's fourth grade year. It was his first time being included in a
009typical classroom because teachers don't inclusion is an investment in the culture of our entire district. By supporting these practices, you send a clear message that every student belongs here. And I ask that do not move their classroom. Do not student. Please don't take them away from their peers. >> Thank you, Beth. >> Would like to respond? >> Just need to be Frank. >> Would you like me to respond at all? >> Well, yeah. Go ahead, Franklin. You know, I would I would like to say that, you know, may the may the things that each of you said I 100% agree with. You know, those are those are important things. Special education has been something that has not been a focus area here for some time and that's why we were acting in a way that
010brings it back to focus. Some of our decisions have been based around special education. Bring in a full-time director that's going to focus on special education is to help us in some of those areas. Our high school principal is a former intervention specialist. Our assistant high school principal is a is a current intervention specialist. Myself, the former student with a disability. And then also having a passion for special education is is a priority. Um, I was unaware of your concerns until tonight and I am sorry that I was unaware of that. You know, I hope that we have an opportunity to sit down and have an opportunity to with Mr. Gallinger sit down and read those your children's IEP specifically to address some of your specific concerns regarding, you know, the resource rooms. And I
011don't ever refer to them as units. I think that's a little impersonal. And I always will say self-contained resources. I think that's a little more student friendly and student first language. Um so the big thing that you mentioned in yours was [clears throat] continuum services 100% and that's what maybe is not being a very good job of being described to what that looks like. The inclusion is definitely something is extremely important. Also the collaboration is just like you mentioned is extremely important. Using staff members and retention staff members administration as a priority for all and developing. We in the past have not um maybe put as great of a priority on special education when it comes to how we spend time developing those individuals. the individuals that we're hiring and many of them are on
012our our agenda for tonight have intervention specialist backgrounds. That's their their background. They have experience and we're bringing in people within within that degree. So, we're not bringing in someone that has a different background and hoping that we be successful in that position. We do need to get better and that is a focus area. And so I I hope that you please take me up. I'll sit down with you and talk at length about this. Thanks. Um this is topic near and dear to my heart too. Uh, I also have a nonverbal autistic child here and [clears throat] I the reason I'm sitting here today is because of some of the issues that that both of you described. Um, and in my first interaction with Frank, when I got on the board, I pretty much
013had told him what my experience was with my daughter never going to her classroom, her general education classroom. And this is the first year um that she got to go to her second grade classroom. and [clears throat] the progress that she made getting around her peers. It was night and day. Um I I'll just mirror what Frank said and I'll be maybe even a little more frank. I I think in the past couple years with my child being here for four years, I think there was a huge drop off two years ago when she left the preschool program when she started general education. And I I sort of felt like [clears throat] I sort of felt like my child [snorts] was being kind of pushed in a corner and not uh receiving the education that
014I thought she should receive. And the one of the first conversations I had with the clinical was I think we need to [snorts] focus more heavily on our special education department and our communication with those parents because some of us can't ask our kid how what they did today at school because I I'm not going to get a response. Um and you know I think we're I would ask for patience. Um, and I know that's really really difficult, but I think the some of the things that we're we're trying to do big picture are going to be transformative to especially the special education students. Um, you know, obviously the communication at the end of the year on some of the stuff, some of the personnel changes and some of the moving of [clears throat] stuff
015around, you know, I can't really speak to because I'm not doing the dayto-day uh running the school district, but I think that the big picture has always been to focus more on the [snorts] special education department, not choosing it as like a second uh you know we we want to focus that's why we're hiring a director to focus just on IEPs and making sure students are getting the services that their IEP you know directs them together. So please, you know, I'm asking you to have an open mind to some of the changes that are coming because I I think I think that is going to be helpful for your students, my daughter, um you know, all the other students that you know from the high functioning students all the way to kids like my daughter
016who are low functioning in school. You know, I think that I think we're making a lot of these changes in the background to focus on some of the concerns that both of you have addressed. So, [snorts] yeah. You know what I mean? When it comes to us, you know, >> I agree. I agree 100% with you. [laughter] >> Yeah. and and and I think because of the way the end of the year came and Tyler now is officially starting that position, I I think that communication is going to be um forthcoming because obviously the end of one school year we're just getting ready to start you know this new for for us you know this is the end of one fiscal year like this meeting is one end of one fiscal year. Next meeting will
017basically be a start of a new fiscal year with new personnel. Some of them are here tonight. Um, some of them have already been named but haven't officially started in those roles because the people that were there before are technically still. So, we're in right now this month and next month it's a period of transition. But I think Tyler knows that the board Frank and and the parents deserve some better communication. >> Y I think it should be something that should wait to be tried tomorrow. I'm not saying don't try it, but maybe later can't read, can't write a sentence, doesn't understand, but is going to go to fifth grade where they write papers and they change classes, which is the first time she's ever going to experience any of this. That's the law for
018any child with ADHD that's like that's not okay. Talk about shocking entire Well, I think some of the some of the personal this, but some of the personal changes obviously weren't >> you know anyone >> anyone's decision up here none of actually none of them >> but I think you know we have to do what's best all the decisions we made I think with what with what we have to work with are all made with all of us on the board and Frank and administration are all making those decisions with the power of the special education not not with destroying it but making it better and making it I don't know more deserving of your children my children everyone's children that has a problem [snorts] in that I think that's the goal uh all these
019changes remain with the big picture of this is going to help with some of these issues that you already brought up tonight in the future. We're going to have less less uh problems and better communication with students. just to speak on that one. I mean that's a that's a definitely a a big point is the communication piece and whether the students with has a disability or just a you know a traditional student. Um we we need to communicate what the next year looks like towards the end of the year. So, you know, while we have a specific situation here, it is advantageous for us to make sure that we're creating that picture of what that next grade level looks like. What's what's that? So, that is definitely um I I'm sorry you guys you didn't
020you didn't have that. And those are those are things that uh we need to get better at, you know, at the end of the year. What is what does sixth grade look like? What does seventh grade look like? And design that. So that's something definitely we have to take back as a team and make sure we do a better job uh moving forward on that. >> Thank you both for you know and I'll be around that after the meeting and all of us will want to talk about it. We're going to move along with the meeting, but my information I want to [clears throat] if you guys want to call me or email all this are available, you know, >> yeah. >> Uh yeah, it's on the website and if you stick around till the
021end of the meeting, I'll be glad to give you my question. >> Um [clears throat] we're going to roll call to bring the meeting to order. >> Mr. Wise, >> here. >> Mr. Moon >> here. >> Mr. Wner >> here. >> Miss Barton >> here. >> Mr. Bennett >> here. >> It is recommended that the Waterl Board of Education adopt the following agenda for the June 11th, 2026 meeting. >> A motion. >> I'll second. >> Mr. Moon. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Bennett? >> Yes. >> Miss Barton? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Whittener? >> Yes. >> Mr. Weise? >> Yes. uh president's report. Um be brief because school's over the year. Um one thing that we as a board and I I think we've all talked about this and had this conversation with over [clears throat] the
022last year. Um, you know, I feel like maybe we need to bring it up maybe by the time school school year starts have a actual uh board policy in place. The community members have parents have expressed a lot of concern about the building especially the high school and the middle school and it seems to have been a regular problem throughout the area and I'm sure it's only a tiny handful of people of vandalism but so I I [laughter] I think the community's concern to be briefed on is you know what is being done about if we catch if we catch [clears throat] a student vandalizing school property what is going to be done and I would like to serial [snorts] policy towards property you know As everyone knows, the budgets for schools are concerned. We're
023constantly fixing stuff that shouldn't be being broken and painting and using the resources of the janitorial staff and maintenance staff to fix things. You know, that was an unneeded strain on on the district. So, I don't know how else feels about that, but this has been an issue since all this got elected that has been brought up by multiple [clears throat] units and the community members over and over again and to be fair again I don't know it may not have been addition to the year it may have been resolved but news travel slow through the community and now you know we're being asked to deal with it so And I think we should how everyone feels about that. >> Yeah, people talk to me about it for sure. And then I had parents complain
024to me that their kids had to use bathrooms [laughter] at the other side of the school because the one closest to them was closed. So yeah, I heard about it from at least a dozen people, too. [clears throat] That's not fair, but 99.9% of the students that are great kids, not that the ones that are realizing the school might not be terrible kids, they just be students or whatever, but I think we need to have a a clear policy for the administration of how the board expects that to be deal. So that'll be forthcoming [clears throat] [snorts] discuss formalized policy by the time school starts in September. >> Can I speak on >> Yeah, speak on that. Some of the things that we do to respond and early [snorts] on in the year we did
025have some more frequent damage. uh as you mentioned they you know we we see most most frequently it's the boys restrooms and so what we did earlier in the year is we close down two bathrooms you know throughout the building and by doing so what you do is you increase frequency to the other two by increasing frequency there's less likely some some things that occur because there's more more eyes going in there we increased our staff um frequency of of checking those areas. We've also one of the things that uh they've been instructed to if if there's some type of damage and we are able to determine who that student was that one of the things that they could do is do a 10 days out of school suspension with a recommendation for expulsion and
026they have restitution for it. Significant damage is also encouraged. we have a school resource officer. We could file a report um in that case. And so early in the year, we did have some things that are more significant and we had some things that uh you know, so we had some graffiti outside after school on a shed and also on our pavement. And uh what we did is we had some some consequences for that behavior, but we also did the restitution. We figure out how much the labor cost would be, how much would be for the paint, things of that nature. Uh this is this is something that uh is a focus area and it's not acceptable and u we you know we will act in the board if you want as a board policy
027or if you want that in the you know the high school elementary handbooks we can do that as well. Those are um with that you know those are just some of the different ways that um you know we're trying to respond to some of that the damage itself that that has occurred. That's all I have. >> Is there a preference? Would you want a board policy or would you rather in the handbook? >> I can't believe it's one already. Yeah, >> it's it's usually written in a handbook, but I also say like discretion of the you know administrators because that gives you some more area just in case you know that is needed that discretion of the the challenge most like in bathrooms um is just that's a place where where students can go to
028do things and you don't have someone stationed inside the bathroom. We did have some incidents inside the locker room. So, we responded to the locker room is now we have locks that were just recently put in. So, we unlock the locker room. So, there's no one going in there unless a staff member or a coach unlocks that locker room allows them in. So looking at where your your hot spots are in the district and increasing your staff visibility in those areas and limiting access to things that they don't need access to will assist with that. [clears throat] >> Yeah. I mean I think I personally think first whatever. I think it just needs to be communicated to the administration that you know student that the expectation of us and the community is that student each
029[laughter] student would be held to the same. It's not going to be a case by case basis. If you do this, this is the, you know, just make it kind of clear to us. >> I feel like listen, school is not that. I don't feel like that's punishment. I feel like that's >> You mean out of school? >> I'm off school for a week. I don't believe that's punishment. I believe it should be something more they should be involved with fixing it maybe. I I mean, I know we get into trouble with child labor and all that. I don't know where that falls into place, but we're talking punishment. School, missing school is not punishment. >> In some cases, you are correct. So, some students do act out because out of school suspension is what
030they want and they don't want to be in school. And so, each each situation, each administrator tries to determine what is it that that is an unwanted response to the behavior and tries to to go that way. You know, if a child, let's say a child refuses to do work or doesn't want to do work, one of the responses is, well, we'll we'll keep you after school until that work is complete. And once it's complete, then you can go home. You know, those are responses to get to change the behavior. Any kind of consequence, the intention is to change the behavior moving forward. And if the if a child wants to be home, they will do things to get themselves home. Um and then but that's part of the art of being an administrator is
031trying to figure out you know what is the what is the child not want and then utilizing that to kind of change the behavior as well. So maybe there's a way to be [clears throat] you know five days or whatever the time would be mandatory in school or out of school whatever the administrator decides to do but I just want to make sure that not just me I feel like everyone I talk to just wants to make sure it's all being together [snorts] in a [clears throat] consistent manner >> absolely case by case basis. So I think I think that's something that we're going to have to hash out a little bit more. >> Okay. I can I can uh consult with you know our you know legal counsel to kind of see how that
032how that could look and if they're aware of others that have similar kind of policies. All right, for superintendent report just a couple of things. I did provide some some some interesting discipline data kind of that board might you know find uh you know something to kind of discuss. The the one that kind of jumps out is you know right now we have a epidemic in our for young teenagers and vaping and that's been something that has been significant. We do have vape detectors inside key areas of our, you know, our building. Uh, one being in the bathroom. So, if someone is using a vape, it does go off. Uh, looking at our data from last year to this year, we have about a 71% decrease in those alarms going off. And every time an
033alarm goes off, we get the email. Actually, one of the most common times we get emails for vape detecting going off is when we have uh community events and the families are here. We have uh quite a bit of emails during that period of time, but those were taken out those time frames. I could look from just 8 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. and those were when there was vape detected inside the bathroom. So due to kind of that shrinking of increasing frequency [clears throat] of which bathrooms you know students especially boys can use and also the increased monitoring by some of our staff. Do we attribute you know some of that decreasing significantly this year. Um you can also see some out of school suspension. Some of that data you know can be attributed to
034some [snorts] of the alternative placements too. You know, not everything is out of school suspension. Sometimes it's diversion, which is kind of like a counseling and coaching teaching experience for some of the students such as a first time, you know, first-time student that might be caught vaping might go through a diversion program to kind of help them understand like, you know, what's, you know, how do we move forward and move away from that practice. [snorts] So, that's included for for your review. The other piece that I I share for your review is a flyer that the communications class created. It just says, "Imagine what it's like to be a Waterlue Viking." And we thought this is a nice little trifold. So, our communications class created and uh there's photos by Kylie Smith, one of our
035students that's here. And I thought it's a really it's a really nice flyer. something that uh you know if the board's interested we could send this out to our community. I know one of the things we've talked about in the past is, you know, how do we share positives? And uh while there's not a huge amount on here, you know, this this is something that potentially could go out to our community and be at, you know, different points. We could mail it. Are all our families do receive our principal newsletter and my newsletter. We could just send it out to those. But, you know, just wanted to see what the board's thoughts were if if this is something that would be interested that we should send out to the community or just have this as
036a flyer that someone can pick up at different locations. >> I like it. >> Pretty cool. The student creates it. >> Yeah. I was like, "This is exactly kind of what we were talking about, positives, and then I saw the the communications class and that made me pretty happy actually to see that they did that. Rather, it wasn't something that came from you." No offense, but >> No. Well, initially they gave me the first rough draft of it and I said, "We need to have on there where it came from because I think that's important to know that students made this. It wasn't it wasn't just a a communications, you know, group or administration. That's really cool. [clears throat] Great. [clears throat] I like it. >> Any thoughts on whether we should mail it out
037or just keep it as like different different spots throughout our community, make copies and allow people to to grab a copy wherever we are. I know a lot of us young folks don't uh don't really get that much uh mail that we open or read, but I know a lot of older they stop sending out the quarterly one. >> Yeah. >> They got that news. >> So I be curious what it's going to cost. >> Yeah. But even it being as a handout or people when they walk by the door they can grab some definitely >> or even at events sporting events >> or even other community events that we have. >> I know that the last one we were mailing out we were we were paying to print. So hopefully by the next board
038meeting I will have a price to potentially do that. So we have to you know get all the mailing addresses for everyone. So there's a price involved with that and then the printing and and the mailing itself. So I'll have a price and I can share that at the next you know board meeting and then we can make determination if you would like that to to be shared out. U the last thing and this is from our elementary principal report. This is what she asked for me to share. As may thanks to the Kaiser and Coots families for making the elementary field day so much fun. We had many volunteers who helped make success made successful. We're grateful for them. Thank you also to our PTO for bringing in new Baltimore ice cream for everyone.
039Prior to Field Day, we held our annual recognition assembly and gratitude this year's and graduated this year's kindergarten class. I was busy end of the school year with um and we made many core memories and so I I concur with with that is you know it was a great end of the school year and once again I appreciate this is uh my first conclusion of the first school year here and I'm you know it was a special year and I I appreciate the support we have for families and also staff and the board. >> PTO does a great job. Yeah, absolutely. I've seen some some commentary online about how we have lost a lot of things in the past like field trips and activities and we have been able to bring so many of those
040back because of the PTO which has been absolutely amazing. >> Great job. Thank you. [laughter] >> So that would bring us to the high school report. [clears throat] Um, first I just want to start off by congratulating uh David Lindseay. He's one of our sophomores. Uh, he made it to state uh to the state track meet this year. Uh, his first time running track and so that's that's phenomenal for him. Um, and I'm going to butcher what this is, but he was also an all Ohio academic student athlete. He got that recognition as well. Uh, Miss Dennison told me it today and I forgot to write it down what it specifically was, but um, just congratulations to to him. It's fantastic to have that. Um just some things wrapping up end of year activities um
041that we had you know we had our awards night the cap and gown walk uh our field days both the junior high field day and a high school field day and then obviously graduation which a lot of people were at. Um all great events. Just wanted to give a thank you to Mr. Negron's class. Uh they coordinated the high school um field day. Uh to Miss Mrs. Allen and Mr. Dugan. Uh they are the senior class adviserss. So all of the senior events were coordinated through them um as well as graduation. And I especially want to thank Mrs. Richards um who did all of that while I was on paternity leave. So uh she helped manage those things and uh everything ran smoothly and I'm very uh grateful uh to her. And then lastly um
042I just want to express my appreciation uh for having the opportunity to be the junior senior high principal for the past three years. Um, it's been it's been an honor and a privilege to be able to do that and to be entrusted with that responsibility um by the community and the board and um I know that Miss Richards will do a fantastic job coming into that role um and with Mr. Kerber uh as the assistant principal. they will do a phenomenal job running the junior senior high and I am just appreciative and excited uh to continue working here and a little bit more of an expansive uh district level role and I I thank everyone for that and I'm excited for what next year brings. >> Uh legislative report >> um just two things that
043are going to be before Governor Dwine. So, Senate Bill 19 I've brought up before and this is about academic intervention in math and math improvement. So, it'll be some mandates and requirements for students who require intervention in math and it's um schools will have if Dwine will probably sign this pass and so things with free tutoring, additional instruction time, extended learning opportunities. Two other things are that well three other things the the Ohio Department of Education workforce they are going to review textbooks other curriculum and establish high quality core curriculum and instructional materials in math. Um another thing is that now students going into seventh grade take can take an advanced math course that combines seventh grade standards with algebra 1 which is usually eighth grade. So their students will be able to take that.
044And then finally, um the Ohio State Board of Education will test new teachers on their math skills and proficiency. So a teacher can still receive a teaching license. Um but if they are not proficient in a certain level of math, they um cannot teach math unless they become proficient on those tests. And so this will go um House Bill 455, we've talked about too. This is just changing some things basically going back to before things changed a few years ago because this is what our legislature does. It'll change the way the report card comes out. Certain elements of the state report card that are reported, certain things won't be reported anymore. And it will also um it replaces the performance measure on the early literacy stuff like the third grade reading guarantees and things will
045change there. But these both passed the House and Senate and they will be going to Governor >> Dwine. um to end the school year as of right now there's 414 students registered for next school year and of those 414 of them are um we had five students go to Skills USA which is a um like the kids in each lab um go and compete in Columbus with other um career center students and then from there they go to nationals. Um and we had a second place in medical assisting, first place in service technology, first place in medical assisting, um first place in Nan Hamilton, who was a water student, got first place in Columbus for electricity from the industrial motor and was a national qualifier and he actually went to Um, and what else do
046we have? Um, two of our administrators met with representatives to discuss the new student attendance requirements. Um, they suggested that schools put student incentives to come to school. and already knows that. So there wasn't a huge change there. Mr. Griffith says that with the new requirements he does not see that there will be a huge increase in attendance. we don't have a lot of attendance issues. Um the priority curriculum for next school year is being finished up and the for that will be finished. Um >> thank you. >> We talked about business. Oh yeah, can be super brief. >> Oh yeah, please go. [clears throat] >> Ava Reynolds is student at Water and she was in the animal science program and she had she was the student of the month. And then um we had
047two water students that had all year. Okay. Uh, okay. Quickly, um, I learned that you can have subcommittees on the board of education and I was excited about that. So, I reached out to Angela and we would like to work this summer as a subcommittee um, on just community engagement. Um, and so I think one of the things we'd like to do is review all of the board policies like really deeply on anything that's involving communication and participation with the community. Review all those. uh some of them are quite old. So seeing if anything needs updated or changed. So our goal is to review all those and then also have over the summer kind of an office hours maybe at one of the town halls where the community can come. We can kind of discuss
048some things the community wants to talk about or things that that we think might be change could improve our um just communication and engagement and then we can kind of put all that together and bring it back to the board and kind of propose. Then the board can decide if we want to make changes or not. it will just be kind of like fact gathering and kind of just meeting with the community over the summer. Um, so we thought that would be fun and interesting and we'll do that and then we will just kind of pick a time probably in uh August and to have the community somewhere and then we'll report back. >> I don't know structurally what we have to do. >> We will learn Dane. We are going to learn about that.
049[laughter] We will definitely get >> we'll figure it out treasure and right superintendent figure out what we have to do in the next meeting to make that a reality. So >> all right superintendent's business letter A and please if you want further clarification we do that in discussion period recommend to approve the following agreements. Educational Alternatives for Service and Transportation. LLA Therapy Portage Private Industry Council included or lease agreement effective August 1st, 2026 through July [snorts] 31st, 2028. NWA MAPS and Jefferson Educational Service Center for Virtual Learning Academic or Academy Services. [cough and clears throat] Can >> we get a motion? >> A motion. Second. Would you like would you like to share a little bit more about >> So Educational Alternatives is in a alternative school that some of our students attend and so
050we do have to have you know individual contracts with them for for those individual students. So this one is for services provided such as transportation. So we have to have thatou for that. The LLA therapy is also part of you know one in this case it's part of educational alternatives uh where you know we can they have like SLP or speech services or OT services and so then they could charge us for the students that are attending that school. Any questions on on those two so far? >> Nope. >> Uh the next one is our Head Start preschool program. So that's just the lease agreement that they can be here for that period of time. So they they lease a space and they provide that for for our preschool students outside of um the the
051integrated preschool that we have. The NWA maps that is our diagnostic assessment that we we do with students. Right now we're using the STAR readiness assessment. So this is replacing that. After we critically looked at it and we looked at some different vendors, you know, our staff with with their input, they decided that they would like to move away from star and move move towards maps. This is going to give us much more um friendly parentfriendly reports. It's going to give user friendly data reports to use with our staff. It will also, you know, provide uh more accurate data. you know, we won't see as much fluctuation some of the percentiles as you might see some of the other. So staff requested it kind of move in that direction and so we are it's a
052for year one of implementation it's you know it's a little bit more and then from year two and year three we anticipate it's about the same same price as what star assessment that's that's a requirement from the state of Ohio. The last one, the Jefferson Educational Service Center. That's our virtual learning platform. So students such as the credit recovery or they might be out for disciplinary reasons, you know, we give them an opportunity to take a class virtually online and get credit for that. And so this is, you know, this is an option, you know, for some of those students. Uh each student that we sign up for is approximately $200. And I think it's Don't quote me. I think it's like $100 a class that we we add to or 50 or $100 a
053class, something that Rachel, I apologize for not knowing that off hand. >> $50 class >> the something that we're exploring as well with this. Is this something that some of our homeschooling families would like to be a part of? So this is something that uh we're working closely, you know, to maybe this is this is an option that we can offer some of those families and then work work more closely with us. So any additional questions to that >> Mrs. Bennett? >> Yes. >> Mr. Whittener. >> Yes. >> M. Barton. >> Yes. >> Mr. Moon. >> Yes. >> Mr. Wise. >> Yes. Motion passes. Letter B is a recommend to approve the following retirements. Pete Negron, teacher, effective December 1st, 2026 after 30 years of service. Tim Fox, transportation supervisor mechanic, effective June 30th, 2026
054after 9 years of service. >> A motion. >> I'll make a motion. >> M >> here. >> Yes. Sorry, >> Mrs. Winsner. Yes, >> Mr. Moon. >> Yes, >> Mr. Bennett. >> Yes, >> Mr. Wise. >> Yes. >> Letter C is a recommend to approve the following resignations. Lord Nichols, intervention specialist. Anita Michael, SLP. Troy Hardway, van driver, and Carissa White, transportation secretary. >> Motion. Sorry. >> I'll second. >> Mr. Moon. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Bennett. >> Yes. >> Miss Barton. Yes, >> Mrs. Woodholder. >> Yes, >> Mr. Wines. >> Yes. Motion passes. >> Letter D is recommended to approve one-year limited contract to the following effective beginning 2026 2027 school year contingent upon full and complete compliance with the state of Ohio and Waterl Board of Education eligibility criteria. Beth Moon tutor step five.
055>> Motion second. >> I'll second. Oh, >> that's okay. >> I got it. >> Yep. Miss Martin, >> yes. >> Mr. [clears throat] Benn, >> yes. >> Mr. Wner, >> yes. >> Mr. Moon, >> abstain. >> Mr. Wise, >> yes. >> All right. Letter E is recommend to approve one-year limited contracts of the following effective beginning 2026 2027 school year contingent upon full and complete compliance with the state of Ohio and the waterl board of education eligibility criteria. Katherine Goodwill, intervention specialist, step two, bachelor's. Tanner Noble, school psychologist, step one, masters plus 20. Christian Johnson, intervention specialist, step one, bachelor. Brooke Meadows, title tutor, step five. Lillian Peterson, intervention specialist, step one, bachelor's plus 15. Leah Andreo, SLP, step one, masters. [clears throat] Make a motion. >> Motion second. >> Can we just tell everyone
056like where all these folks are going? >> Yeah. So, uh, Katie Goodwill is an intervention specialist and passion for, you know, students with disabilities. She's going to, uh, be in our intermediate self-contained resource room and, uh, she's really excited about that one. Tanoval, school psychologist that replaces Hannah took another position. Christian Johnson is the because we had some students that are moving in, you know, from a different uh community and we had to expand our high school offerings with students with disabilities. And so Christian Johnson is going to uh kind of do what Mrs. Pennington's doing this year was with students in self-contained resource room. Brook Meadows is a title tutor. So, um, this will give us additional title tutors to work on some of our reading and and if we have some additional needs
057like what you're seeing with the math, we can can probably bridge out with that a little bit as well. Lillian Peterson is going to be your intervention specialist. She's going to be working with sixth grade and fifth grade potentially u assist a little bit if needed with second grade. And then Leah is our SLP. Real nice young lady and u she's she's excited. So we have two new SLPs. >> Is that helpful? >> Yes. Thank you. >> And someone said good job to the staff. Some discuss previous >> hard to fill your job. actual intervention specialist for this. I don't know. There's a lot of people that say they're intervention specialist, but our teachers with a [clears throat] license have actual intervention specialist teachers. It's not their back. >> Mrs. Whitolder. >> Yes. >> Mr.
058Yes, >> Mr. Barton. >> Yes, >> Mrs. Bennett. >> Yes, >> Mr. W. >> Yes. Motion passes. >> F is a recommend to approve extended days for the following for the 2025 2026 school year. Bar Rock operations manager up to 15 days. Mad Docky IT director up to 10 days. J Alim high school counselor up to five days. And Nicole Nicely elementary counselor up to four days. Motion. A >> motion. I'll second. >> [clears throat] >> Uh, any discussion? >> No. >> I mean, I don't speak for everybody, but I [clears throat] said I don't speak for everyone. I just said no for me. >> Good. >> Mr. Bennett, >> yes. >> Mr. Moon, >> yes. >> Mr. Waldner, >> yes. >> Mrs. Barton, >> yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. Motion passes. G is a
059recommend to approve the following. Teacher provide extended school year services to students who individual educational plan requires them at a rate of $30 per hour. Sydney Strey, our SLP. >> Can I get a motion? >> A motion. >> I'll second. >> Yes. >> Mr. Moon. >> Yes. >> Soldier. >> Yes. >> Spartan. >> Yes. >> Mr. Wise. >> Yes. Motion passes. Letter H is to recommend and approve the stip following stipens for 2026 2027 school year per the terms and the conditions of the contracts. Jason Huthian coordinator and William Jackson athletic site manager. >> Can I get a motion? >> I'll motion. >> Second. I'll second >> Barton. >> Yes. >> M. >> Bennett. >> Yes. >> Mrs. W. >> Yes. >> Mr. Moon. >> Yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. I recommend to approve the
060following position for the 2026 2027 school year per the terms and conditions of the contract. Jennifer Henry. Even coordinator. >> Motion. motion. >> Second. >> I'll second >> Patty. >> Please. >> Mrs. Woodner. >> Yes. >> Miss Pardon? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Bennett. >> Yes. Mr. >> Moon. >> Yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. Letter J is recommend to issue the following non-certified subcontracts of the following effective the 2026 2027 school year contingent upon full and complete compliance with the state of Ohio and the wireless board of education eligibility criteria B Tiffany Risk Casey Corp and Kine Stone Kot. [clears throat] Yep. >> Mr. Bennett. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Wner. >> Yes. >> Miss Barton. >> Yes. >> Mr. Moon. >> Yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. Motion passes. >> Letter K is a recommend to approve
061paytoplay participate part pay to participate athletic fees for the 2026 2027 school year. Single high school student athlete 22 $200 for the year. Single middle school athlete $100 for the year and family fee for athletes not to exceed 500. >> Can I get a motion? >> Motion. >> I'll second. >> Can you talk about this a little bit? Just let folks know what it is now for kids maybe parents whose children going into middle school. >> So So currently we have $150 per sport for high school students. For out middle school, it's $100. One of our limitations with making sure we have accurate collection is at this point in time, we have to wait for the roster to come in from the coach itself and then we cross reference to see if that that family
062or that individual paid. We've had numerous situations this year even where our team numbers were small enough that you know recognizing that we've had some [clears throat] some individuals on that team not pay and we had to make a determination. Do we have that child sit and possibly forfeit that game or that that event or do we allow them to continue to play without and and not pay. So moving to this structure allows us to do one time upfront and we keep track. We can have right from day one these families have paid and this student is okay. [laughter] They can play whatever sport they want for the remainder of the year. And so it's a more of a structural piece that we can make sure that we're more on top of how this looks
063overall. And so a coach can say here's my roster. I can see which which families, you know, have paid that $200. Um, this is a $50 increase for families that only have a child that have played one sport. It would be a significant decrease for families that the child plays two or three sports. >> Yeah. >> So, the overall collection, you may be down, you know, for next year. Yeah. But uh this will allow us to operate more efficiently as an administrative collecting and and keep coaches from being the people that actually have to ask for money. >> I also think you might have the opportunity to encourage people to play more than one sport, right? Because it is a cost savings in the end to play two sports at this point. >> Yeah. >>
064No. Thank you, >> Mrs. Bennett. Yes, >> Mr. Moon. >> Yes, >> Miss Barton. >> Yes, >> Mr. Woodner. >> Yes, >> Mr. Wise. >> Yes. >> Letter L is a recommend to amend resolution to reflect the following. Resignation of Brady Jones as middle school assistant football coach, Kinsey Web, assistant girls soccer coach, going from a 6% to a 3% split. I'll >> motion. I'll second. Mr. >> Yes. >> Solder. >> Yes. M >> Barton. >> Yes. >> Bennett. >> Yes. >> Mr. W. >> Yes. Commission pass. I recommend to issue the following supplemental contracts for the following individuals are the following for the 2026 2027 school year contingent upon full and complete compliance with the state of Ohio and the Waterl Board of Education eligibility criteria as listed. Can we get a motion? >>
065A motion. >> Second. >> I'll second. >> These are all existing coaches except cross country is new. >> Correct. >> Mrs. Bennett. >> Yes. >> Mr. Moon. >> Yes. >> Miss Barton. Yes, Mrs. Wner. >> Yes, Mr. >> Yes. Motion passes. [laughter] >> Letter N. Recommend to approve the statement for the following staff for supervising a student teacher during 2025 2026 school year. Matthew Null, Katrina Wise, Huth motion. >> I'll second >> Mr. Moon. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Wher. >> Yes. >> Mer. >> Yes. Mr. Yes, >> Mr. Rise. >> Yes. Motion passes. That concludes the super. >> Um, I'd like to recommend to approve the minutes for the meetings listed below. >> A motion. >> I'll second. Mrs. Bennett, >> yes. >> Mr. Moon, >> yes. >> Mrs. Witzer, >> yes. >> Mr. Barton,
066>> yes. >> Mr. Wise, >> yes. >> Recommend to approve financials. >> A motion. I'll second >> Mr. Moon. >> Yes. >> Mr. Wner. >> Yes. >> M. Spartan. >> Yes. >> Mr. Bennett. >> Yes. >> Mr. Wise. >> Yes. >> To recommend to approve the following appropriation modifications of the time. Can I get a motion? >> A [clears throat] motion. I'll second. >> Can you briefly tell us what the fun what I mean? Can you just tell what this what the funds are? Yeah. >> Um the uh the O7 um there are two scholarships that came in. One from American Red Cross and another one from American Endowment. Those are scholarships that we pay out to the students. Um uh and then the 016 is the emergency levy or the emergency funds. Um this
067is just to get us through the remainder of the year. Um we have several staff that are paid out of that as well as the preschool program. Um so um and then 401 is the um is the fund for St. Joe's that we're responsible for. Um and this is just the increase to get them through the barrier as well. Mrs. B. Mrs. Bennett. >> Yes. >> Mr. Wise. >> Yes. >> Mr. Moon. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Wner. >> Yes. >> Miss Barton. >> Yes. >> Motion passes. >> Recommend to approve uh temporary appropriations for fiscal year 27 by fun by fund level. Mr. Blow. I'll second >> Mr. Wise. >> Yes. >> Mr. Moon. >> Yes. >> Mr. Lner. >> Yes. >> Miss Barton. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Bennett. >> Yes. motion tasks. >> Recommend
068to approve all funds as shown on the June 30th cash summary report along with the associated revenue and expenditure accounts. >> A motion. >> I'll second. >> Mrs. Wner, >> yes. >> Mr. Moon, >> yes. >> Miss Barton, >> yes. >> Mrs. Bennett, >> yes. >> Mr. W. >> Yes. Motion passes. recommend to authorize and allow the treasur to make any necessary transfers, advances, and fiscal year end appropriation adjustments to close fiscal year 26 uh to be confirmed at the July 9th regular report. >> I'll second [cough] >> Mr. >> Yes. >> Mr. Yes, >> Mrs. Whitner. >> Yes, >> Miss Barton. >> Yes, >> Mrs. Bennett. >> Yes, [clears throat] >> like to recommend to enter into an agreement with the Stark Portage Area Computer Consortium, Spark, to provide treasure services for 2026 2027
069school year. >> Can I get a motion? >> I'll motion. >> Second. >> I'll second. Can we talk? >> Yeah. Yeah. So, um, as some of you may or may not know, Brian is done, um, the end of the month here, right? >> The end of July. [laughter] Sorry. Yeah, I'm just skipping ahead. >> Uh, we had posted the treasurer position. Ryan was a shared position with town. [laughter] uh he split his time between water district provide treasury services treasurer services to both districts. Uh we decided to go a different route this time after we uh posted the job and received very little interest from the public. Um an opportunity arose to work with Spark who we already use for some of our uh uh internet service uh security things like that >> where they
070provide a treasurer to us and we pay then a flat fee which saves the district some money because we don't have to pay into the retirement. We don't have to pay vacation days. We don't have to pay sick time. Um, it's a flat fee and it will provide about the same amount of savings that we saved with. Actually, it's almost identical savings that we saved by sharing the treasurer with Redstone. And we had the opportunity and the ability to snag a treasurer from Spark who actually was a water and see John post graduated. What year did you graduate from? >> Uh 2010. >> 2010. >> Yeah. Um no, [clears throat] thanks Dave. Thank you board and kind for this opportunity. Uh been thinking a lot about this with Spark as a service. So we work
071with 30 school districts here in Northeast Ohio. Um we handle all internet services, uh fiscal support, uh it's got EMA support, student information support, all these other aspects. One of the things that's been great about the opportunity that I've had is I've worked with a bunch of different districts uh being the treasurer and finally to come home you know wherever [clears throat] I've been and asked uh like where you from um where you from and it's always been wonderful right so it's really nice that we can come back home help out the district when in need and uh provide hopefully provide good support get some good answers like what are funds and things like that uh subcommittee answers like that so yeah so we can work together to make water great. So really excited about
072it. >> Thanks. >> Thank you. >> This is just um when you with Spark, it's just the one year contract. Yes. >> See how it goes after a year and hopefully it goes good. >> But it's just one year at a time. >> And and I just want to say on on my side of things, I've worked with John for a couple of years now. He's been tremendously helpful to me as a first year treasurer. He knows his stuff. He's from here. It's a great um found a great replacement um that I think has the best interest of everybody in mind. Um not that I didn't, but um being from here is is is a is a home run. So um I this will be a very nice easy smooth transition from him. So um
073it's a good pick on your part. So I don't think this work you really could have probably worked out with the position you're in the better way it's working out. So with that I guess [snorts] >> Mrs. Bennett. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Whmer. >> Yes. >> Miss Barton. >> Yes. >> Mr. Moon. >> Yes. >> Mr. Bis. >> Yes. Motion passes. like to recommend to approve the below um insurance for the 26 27th fiscal year listed below. Um the I go ahead and do your motion and second >> a motion. I'll second >> the um the gist of this is that our our total [clears throat] um property crime violence, fleet insurance, general liability, educated legal liability, [snorts] everything that's listed here. The entire premium has gone up $415 from last year. So, um that's
074pretty good for for what we're getting coverage wise. Yes. >> Mrs. Bennett. >> Yes. >> Mr. Barton. >> Yes. >> Mr. Wner. >> Yes. >> Mr. W. >> Yes. Motion passes. >> Recommend. Uh, pursuant to board of education policy 9.24, following items are no longer needed for school purposes. May be disposed of in an appropriate manner. Old High School track uniforms and various furniture items. That's chairs, lockers, no longer being used in this repair. >> I'll motion. >> We'll second. >> Mr. Wise, >> yes. >> Mrs. Whitmer. >> Yes. >> Miss Barton. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Bennett. >> Yes. >> Mr. Moon. >> Yes. Um, last, I'd like to recommend to approve an agreement with Julian Group to prepare our um, financial statements for 2027. >> A motion. >> Second. >> I'll second. >> What
075is the OCB? Um so uh that is to file our financial statements on cash basis versus um GAP. Um the long and short of it is is since we don't sell a product, we don't um we don't have um we don't sell services. We don't sell products that are on account with somebody. Um so the state requires us to file um financial statements per gap. Um but since we don't and that costs us more money to do that um we can opt to file them cash basis and that's what this is is to file them on cash basis. Um [clears throat] so it it's a savings. It's less that we have to pull for them. Um the only downside to it is that you won't ever have a perfectly clean audit because the state wants
076you to have gap. Um but they it's it's not it's not detrimental to the district. Not >> okay. >> Yes. >> Is it? >> Yes. >> Miss Barton. >> Yes. >> Mr. Yes, >> Mr. Wise. >> Yes. [laughter] >> And without anything else, >> um I I did want to ask and I'm just throwing this out there. Is there any way that we could possibly move the July 9th coordinating to either [cough] 14, 15, [clears throat] or 16? I'm open to that possibility, but I can't tell you right off the counter. >> Okay. >> I should be fine with the evening. >> 14th, 15th or 16th of your available disc. >> Yes. [clears throat] >> I shouldn't have a problem with that either, but >> Okay. >> I just want to verify with my other
077counter. not be the 16. So I can't go back to the 14 and 15. Okay, >> we discussed that with that. Yeah, we'll get with the [clears throat] consensus and get it posted right there. Unless you guys have >> Okay. Unless you guys want to just do that right now. >> Either day 14 or 15 is >> 14th or 15 actually 16. >> I would prefer the 14th but >> Tuesday is perfect. [clears throat] Is that okay? >> Thank you. Yep. And Brian, thank you for being here with us. Uh, we're going to journ the meeting at um 7:26, I guess that is Genius.