001Lost out. Maybe I We had the two Okay. So, we're going to reconvene the meeting and go to superintendent's business. All right. Item A, I recommend you Approve a one-year limited contract for Michaela not fourth grade teacher. I have a motion to approve a one-year limited contract for Michaela KN fourth grade teacher. Second, please. She's going to be great. Any other comments or questions? Roll call, please. Mr. Yes. Mr. Mr. Yes. Motion passes. Item B is recommendation to approve a one-year limited contract to Katrina Johansson, sec second grade teacher. Is there a motion to approve a one-year limited contract to Katrina Johansson, second grade teacher? Motion. Second, please. Second. Any comments or questions? She was not here, but she is also great. And she is um correct me if I'm wrong. Initially we were moving
002the the third kindergarten teacher to second grade because we weren't sure about about her higher than expected. So she school because pre previous years we started with three kindergarten teachers and then the enrollment didn't justify having three kindergarten teachers. So we had three kindergarten teachers. So you know I apologize for the community for that because basically we used funds that we didn't have to use for that that year we did that. might have been two years. So, but we try to do your best and make the best decisions and we did it this year. So, we're able to get a great candidate get everybody on board before school starts. There's nothing sinister at all in this plan. It was not a secret plot to hire. Any other comments? Roll call, please. Mr. M. Yes. Yes.
003Motion passes. Item C is a recommendation to approve a one-year limited contract with Susan Hoover intervention specialist. Have a motion. Motion. Second. Second. Any comments or questions? Susan was here and she is going to be fantastic. Roll call, please. Mr. Yes, Mr. Yes, Mr. Yes. Motion passes. Item D is a recommendation to approve an athletic director siphon to Tyler Binger. A motion to approve an athletic director siphon to Tyler Ballinger. A second. Any comments or questions? I'm excited. Tyler's willing to take on this job. He's at every event anyway. Uh we definitely need somebody in the building and um and just because of the dynamics of the position coming out of the union, ironically, it made it a little more difficult to uh figure out what we're going to do. I'm glad he's doing it.
004He does have coaching experience and obviously experience working with parents and he will be outstanding. Any other comments, questions? I just want to add that the fact that we are able to in this day and age athletic director and for $10,000. Please plug your ear so you don't hear this is just unbelievable. I mean, I think every district around here has a full-time athletic director with full-time benefits, full-time salary, all those kind of things. School just north of us uh has had one since probably 2012 or 2013, and they still have that person today. They're not they're not any bigger than us. So, uh the fact that we're able to fill the position our mouth they are tremendous and it's to people like Mike and the predecessors of Mike people like appreciate your willingness to
005do that roll call please yes yes motion passes item is recommendation to approve the curriculum director stipen to Julie have a motion to approve the director of Julia. Motion. Second, please. I'll second. I'd like to say a few things about this. Uh first of all, um just to clarify some some things. Um so there are we have issues within the district with um because there are not people who are assigned to certain duties that things fall through the cracks. um through nobody's fault. Well, probably my fault because I'm the superintendent, but um be because you're a principal and your job description doesn't list all of the things that you're supposed to do. It says other duties is assigned, right? And so when a guy like me comes in who's not a curriculum director um and
006we don't have a curriculum director, things get missed. And we'll say the same when we get to the special education director. So, I think it's vitally important for us to have somebody who is assigned to that role. Now, this is something the district has spent money on. In 2022,223, Angela Terrell, the superintendent, was paid $5,000 to be the district curriculum director. She was last year also. This year, if she had been here, she would have been paid $7,500 uh to be the curriculum director. Uh two years ago, we spent $10,000 with the Educational Service Center of Summit County uh for curriculum work. Uh last year, we spent $5,800 and this year, we were spending $11,000 on curriculum work. So, each year 15,000 11,000 11,000 on curriculum work that we will not need to spend um
007because of a stip a $5,000 stipen uh for Julie to do this work and Julie's strength is curriculum. This is right up her um right up her alley and for Julie to take this on and to know that this is what her role is. Um, and as I talked to the board about, we are creating a job description for it. The reason I did not have the job description here first because I want Frank to have um some say on what what that looks like, but the intention is for you to approve the job description for this position so she will know exactly what's expected of her. So, there is some accountability. Um, and it's also important to note that this um there are various grant funds that can pay for these positions. Specifically with
008curriculum director, you use title two uh part A, you might use title four part A. Um you might use ESC funds. That's up for the next superintendent, next treasurer to decide how that's going to be paid for. Either way, a $5,000 stipen uh for a designated curriculum director is less than what we paid the last three years. And I expect that the work will be much more uh deliberate and consistent because uh we are assigning this position. Any questions? Anything else you would not say? Yes. Mr. No, yes. Motion passes. Item F is a recommendation. I thought you usually ask for comments. Can I make a comment? Oh, I thought we're going to have comments with this next throw in. I recommend we approve the following PK through six special ed director stipen to Mary
009A. We have a motion to approve the PK6 special education director to Mary. Motion second. comments or questions. I I'll speak that you got four for sure question. So, I'm going to say the same some of the same things about the special ed positions. Um now, Mary was hired as an assistant principal um and a special ed director. Um that is understood and what we came to find was the absolute level of work associated with being a special ed director and an assistant principal was overwhelming. You might know that we have 20% of our students are on IEPs in this district. You might know that our special ed report card for the state is abysmal. You might have heard stories about kids who are aloping from classrooms because of the supervision in there. And we
010need to get that fixed. Not only for the safety of our kids and the education of our kids, but because uh if anything is messed up with special ed, that is the one area where you're most likely to lose money and be sued over. We need to have people that are dedicated to that. Now, um Adam Brown was paid $5,000 uh out of the title one grant to do this uh work for two years. This year, nobody's being paid um for it. It's just part of Mary's job. So, this is not um well, it's an it's an additional fund that will be spended next year as opposed to this year, but not compared to the last two years. I'd also say again possible funding sources for this. Uh you can use title one part A
011funds for this. You can use IDEAB, IDA 619, you can use Medicaid reimbursements uh to cover some of these costs. Again, that's up to the next superintendent and the next um treasurer. Um that this is also a position that we are creating a job description that I want Mr. Gant to have say in because they'll be working for him and I can't remember if there's something else. No, I was just going to add that another function you know miss special ed information is very important getting that array and that affects our funding right and our reimbursement I should say all that kind of stuff. So, so we'll be able to have a much more deliberate. So, that's not something we can say, oh, we're going to you can't point that to what that's going to
012help us with, right? But that's definitely going to make that that smoother. It's also going to make sure we all are low. But I I remember what the last thing I was going to say, I'm sorry, Mr. Moon, is that is that again, um, I heard tonight somebody say, well, they're already doing this task. Why should we change it? And my philosophy really of life is you don't perpetuate incompetence or you don't perpetuate dysfunction. When you find that something's not working, you fix it. And what we found, we had every hope that this would work out and it's not. And I think it's a sign of a leader with integrity to um realize that it's not working and to make a change. So that's the reason for this recommendation. Any additional question? Yes. I just
013want to um mention that um at this point I feel like it looks like I have something personal with our administrators and there's nothing further from the truth. Um, I'm going to I'm going to read a part of an email that I sent to Joe uh for transparency purposes and to let everybody know I'm not here to fight anybody else's fight or take one side over another. Uh, this email was sent on Tuesday before I had any idea that there was going to be any kind of crowd or anything of that. But um Joe put out his idea and I just said, "Hi Joe, I'm perfectly fine with Tyler accepting the additional duty and pay for it. I am however concerned about the other stipens at this time. I hate to to upset the delicate
014balance we've had with the union and parents since the grievance was resolved. I'm afraid it will look like we're going back on an agreement we made with the union. I don't see the harm in allowing the new superintendent to make the call and hopefully it will not be perceived as a workaround from a prior agreement and andor with the superintendent. Uh perhaps a discussion with the superintendent and Kyle, the new superintendent and Kyle would be helpful in that respect. I'd ask for it to simply be brought up at the meeting as a future consideration. The new superintendent will be there and we can discuss in private with him the positives and or negatives. If you leave it on the agenda, I'm pretty sure you'd have a 3 to1 vote. Uh, but I wanted to at
015least let you know my feelings and feel free to call me and and for the audience, anyone that wants to talk to me after this, I'm an open door. Thank you. Any other comments, questions? Roll call, please. Yes. Mr. Yes. Mr. No. Yes. Motion passes. And item G is a recommendation to Approve the 7 through 12 special ed director stipen to Sher Phillips. Have a motion to approve the 712 special education director to sh all the things that I said apply to Mary's position apply to this position also. I would just say that you know uh typically what would be preferable in most districts is to have a full-time special ed director. We realize that with our financial situation and even our size that's not doable. Um but to have somebody who's focused on the
016high school level and somebody at the elementary level I think is more realistic to make sure that nothing falls through the cracks and that we continue to improve our performance in that area. Any comments or questions? Roll call, please. Mr. Mr. Yes. Motion passes. Item H is a recommended recommendation to approve increasing hours for the instructional aids for the 2526 school year. Have a motion to approve increasing hours for instructional aids for the 2526 school year. Motion second. I'll second. Just a reminder, we talked a lot about AIDS and how there's another dysfunction this district had was that we had aids that would work for a couple hours for the ESC and a couple hours for Waterlue and it really made things confusing and so we made the decision that we are not going to
017have aids through the ESC next year. Um so all of the aids from the ESC were non-renewed but we still need those bodies here. So we posted the positions and we will be filling them slowly. The reason these two are here and not others is because these two also worked some hours for Waterl. So they have an automatic bid on it based on their union contract. There will be more of these coming in the next uh month or two as we get through the process. But these are not additional bodies. It's not an additional cost. It's just putting them from the ESC where they've been unrenewed under water pay. Okay. Any comments or questions? Thanks for helping us clean that up. That was roll call, please. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion pass. Item I recommendation to
018approve the classified substitute contract for the rest of the school year. A motion to approve the listed substitute contract. [Music] Second will be comments or questions. Roll call, please. Mr. Yes. Mr. Yes. Motion pass. Item J is a recommendation to approve the retirement of Connie not a paid and bus driver 21 years of service. We have a motion to approve the retirement after 21 years of service. Second just a great great lady did awesome work for us. We wish her all the best. We're going to need another bus driver. If anybody wants to become bus driver, we need those. But we wish you the best. Congratulations. There's a special place in heaven for somebody who was bus. Any comments or questions? Roll call, please. Mr. Mr. Yes. Motion passes. Item K is a recommendation approve
019the retirement of Wanita Saltzman custodian 21 years service. Motion to approve the retirement of salita I think was one of the first people I met when I came here and wish her all the best. I know she's been down with some injuries and we're glad that she's made it to this point where she can retire and congratulate her and wish her the best. Any other comments? Questions? Roll call, please. Mr. Mr. Mr. Yes. Motion passes. Item L is a recommendation to approve the resation of Marshall Wise Elementary Junior High. The motion to approve the reser service. Marca was a funny lady. I ran into her at a restaurant somewhere, right? We kind of like I know you, I know you and she had maybe been a year or something and she just ra about kids
020at how much she loved working and stuff like that. It was really nice to see, you know, she worked a lot of other school districts in her career. It was kind of cool. You run into somebody like that and you just go on and she didn't know, she didn't know I was a board member. It wasn't like she was, you know, she was a lot of Roll call, please. Mr. Mr. Yes. Mr. Yes. Motion passes. Item M is a recommendation to approve extended days for the school year to the following folks that are listed. Have a motion to approve extended days listed. A motion. Second. I'll just say note to Mr. is that we take these guys in the fall for half their days and in the spring for half these days. My brothers, I
021put them all in the fall so we didn't have to do this, but extra work that they do and they need to do the year up. Any other comments or questions? Roll call, please. Yes. Mr. Yes. Motion passes. Item N recommendation to hire the following students for summer help. Have a motion to hire the list of students for summer help. Motion second, please. Second. Happy to have these students and they get a great um respect for our custodial staff and for the building after they spend the summer cleaning bathrooms and comments. Roll call, please. Mr. Yes. Yes. Motion passes. Item recommendation to approve the list of graduating seniors of the class of 2025 contingent of course meeting graduation requirements. A motion to approve the list of graduating seniors. I'll second graduation two weeks from three
022weeks. Okay. Any comments or questions? Roll call, please. Yes. Mr. Yes. Mr. Yes. Yes. Motion passes. Item P is a recommendation to amend resolution number 76-25. Motion to amend resolution 26-5. Second, please. So, this Matt and Chelsea, I saw they were both here today. Um, this deals with their student teaching and Scott could probably explain it better than I do, but they get their stipen comes after taxes are taken out. And so, when we approved him last time, we approved him for the higher amount, but it needed to be approved after taxes. They're aware of it. They get it. And this is a correction. Any other comments or questions? Roll call, please. Yes. Mr. Yes. Motion passes. Item Q is a recommendation to amend resolution 77-25. Have a motion to approve to amend the resolution
02377-25. Same thing. This Beth is separate because she's the spouse of the com. Yes. Mr. Yes. Mr. and Mr. Yes. Motion passes. Uh and item R recommendation approve the following agreements andus. Motion to approve the listed agreements and a motion. Second, please. Second. Okay. The first one there's the the ERRA life skills program I was talking about earlier. This is the one that is going to be fully funded by a wealthy benefactor through the ESC. Um where in effect they will be paying us uh $70,000 a year to cover the cost of the teachers that will be teaching this their salary, their benefits, everything. Even planning time, they will cover that cost. So next three years it'll be 210 extra thousand that's coming here without us adding staff. being done uh with regular staff. We're
024super excited about this program and it is this uh gentleman I have not met him but he's been described as a guy that likes to build the plane as he's flying it. So I think this program will morph but we're happy to take his money and I've been to the um discussions about what the program is and it sounds like things that our our kids um can definitely use. It's about relationship building. It's about having conversations. resumes and job searches and all those things. Any comments or questions? Roll call, please. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion passes. That concludes my report. Item A is the minutes from our April 10th meeting and in there. Okay. A motion to approve the list of minutes. Second, please. Comments or questions? Roll call, please. Mr. Yes. Mr. Mr. Yes. Motion
025passes. Next are the April financials that we sent to the board last Friday. Um so April uh we for the general fund emergency fund we essentially broke even there's a small deficit roughly $100,000 that usually happens on the months that we roll back payment which is state share of our property taxes. Um here today our general fund emergency fund you have a surplus over 2 million um for April for all of our funds um everything that we do we have a small deficit of just under 100,000 um and year to date all funds do have a surplus of 1 million uh revenue outliers um I just put it here because I'm not find another place but star Ohio interest we got about 19,500. Um we did get some preschool excess cost money. Um so basically
026if we have preschoolers that are they live in the neighboring district but they're preschool and then like I mentioned before which was almost um our expense outlier is um basically our team um it's not really an outlier but she's not the most regular on our invoicing. So, we get two or three months at a time. So, we have about $30,000. Um everything else is pretty standard as what you normally get. I do want to draw your attention to this um sheet here. Um I'm and I've mentioned this before, but I am keeping an eye on salaries and benefits. Um at the end of April, we had 83.33% of the year completed. Um salaries were almost 80% and um benefits we are almost 82%. So I am watching those those are pretty close. um with uh
027retirements and stuff like that, it would be crazy for us to be over budget for salaries and we did have a lot of people between when I budgeted in the spring and throughout the year either they didn't have insurance and they had single Did you mention excess cost? Yeah, precis Oh, and the other thing, sorry. In your folders is a draft of five forecast. So, I sent an email that um I didn't want to because I it really just got finalized this morning. I didn't want to just throw it on here for you guys to prove without having a chance to look at it. So, we'll include that. I know you have some more special in the month of May. So, that you have any questions or concern? Obviously, the night that you approve it,
028I can go through it in a lot more detail that information. Okay. Thank you. Yeah, we'll have to hopefully our next