001To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation indivisible and justice for all. All right. Recognition of visitors. Uh Mr. Ron Lewis sign in. Uh I'm Ron Lewis with the Viking Youth Football with our president Will Espazito, vice president here. Uh we just wanted to thank you guys for the opportunity to possibly use the field and the visitors concession stand. It helps us out because putting equipment and stuff in there plus a concession stand. Typically on a game day that we would be there, it would take us nearly two hours to set up, two hours to take down using tents, coolers, everything else. Our goal in this is to form a relationship, a better relationship with the not the high just the high school football program,
002middle school program, both cheer programs. This ultimately These kids start with us and we want to keep feeding the programs. Um, for instance, the first year that I was there this year is a freshman class that's going in. I think there's 12 to 13 boys when we playing football. This last group is going in seventh grade. There's 17 boys going there. Um, you know, we are donating six five gallon things of paint. We've also allocate, we've already talked about this happens, allocating a good chunk of money to for repairs, renovations for the visitors concessions, for us to be able to put our own equipment in in there after games. We don't have to use anything from the school. We already have it and it's just much easier for us. And it gives our boys the
003opportunity to play on a field that actually has bleachers. Um, you know, we have to play at the at rudder. Um, yeah, the old school at now we have no stands on either side. Parking is a mess. But we really want to build help build the community and the relationship between youth program and water schools. Thank you. Okay. Um, Liz, PTO update. Um, so for PTO, we have our next meeting on Monday the 14th at six o'clock. We have some spring events coming up that I want to share. Um, April 26 is our spring dance for elementary girls and May 4th is our Canton skate for elementary boys. So this uh all the stuff for the dance has gone out and the stuff for the skate will go out soon. Um, few other things. Um,
004we recently PTO donated um $1,500 to elementary school for the sixth graders to do the hands of gratitude project. And I this phrase will probably talk about that, but um that was really brave. We were pleased to do that. Um we uh Mr. Null reached out to us and Miss Richie about doing some fundraising during fine arts nights. So, um, one of the things we talked about was possibly having a concession stand, um, helping them do a raffle to raise money that would go through PTO but strictly to, um, the high school and elementary and junior high school art programs. We had the fun run in February and that's all been totaled and done and we decided to do it for something this year. So, we did fun run for field day and we're going
005to talk to Sabrina about things she needs and then we have suggestions for the kids and we raised like $9,000. So, um, we will be able to buy some things that can stay with the school. So, instead of like renting things or just having all consumables, we can buy like real games and real carnival type stuff that the school can keep and then continue to use. So, that was pretty exciting. Um, and we um we had one gal volunteer to do the yearbook. She did a really good job. Today was the last day to order, but we don't have extras available to sell to students. Um and then at our meeting on Monday, we will be doing nominations for elections for four elected officers for um the next school year. Oh, oh, the big one
006really great thing, too. Thank you. Um Mrs. A came to us and we um gave money to put in the sensory hallway. So, if you've not seen that yet, it's pretty awesome. There's stuff on the walls and floors. And u Mrs. They kept saying it's a way when she was describing it to us, she's like a way for kids to just get their wiggles out so they can jump, they can touch things, there's different things to do and it's been pretty exciting so far. So PTO PTO is really doing great things. That's all. Great. Thank you. Appreciate everything you guys do. It's nice to see. Okay. Um, so that brings us to at this time we'll call to order the regular board meeting of our board of education. Roll call, please. Mr. Cherry here. Mel
007yes. Mr. Hick here. Mr. Moon here. And second. Okay. Uh can I have a motion to adopt the listed agenda for tonight's meeting? I make a motion the agenda. Second, please. Second. Comments or questions? Roll call, please. Yes. Yes. Mr. Mr. Yes. Mr. Yes. Motion passes. Okay. Brings us to the president's report tonight. Just wanted to touch on a couple things. Um, as was evident by last board meeting, we uh unfortunately had the resignation of our superintendent who's retirement and our and our treasurer as well. So, we are entered into a search with both for both those to replace both those positions. Um that's here probably start interviewing uh sometime towards the end of the month and hopefully have somebody getting position late May early June and um see how that goes. We haven't uh
008haven't finalized all the details of how the process is going to go but we'll keep you updated as we move through the process. The other thing u wanted to mention as you'll notice on the board on the agenda tonight is the resation of Perry Zachariah. Uh just wanted to thank her for dedication work for the last year doing this and it's been a lot of fun working with you and we're mission coupled with that is we have to fill that position. So um effective immediately we're checking out letters of interest with resumes those kind of things for anybody who wants to uh interview with the boards for appointment for that to fill uh seat that would be for the remainder of this school for remainder of this calendar year essentially and then you have to
009run if you're interested to continue on you have to run in November to to be elected in November and start your start the next two the last two years of that term uh in January. If you're interested, you know, people that are interested maybe running for the positions, those typically have to be in the board of elections, I would say, let's just say the first week of August. So, you can't wait till November to run. If you're going to run, you need to kind of make that decision in June, July, and start getting the signatures you need. Uh we are going to if you're interested in interviewing for for vacancy please send a letter of interest and or resume to our treasurer Scottman and also we'll put it up on the on our website I
010believe. Is it up yet? Okay. So we're waiting till after today. So tomorrow it'll be up on our website. So, um, please, um, anybody who's interested, please go ahead. And, and it's kind of a, you know, we hate to see Terry go, obviously, but it's it's it's one of those things where you're not committed to four years, like if you typically run for a new seat. It's not four years, but it's a it's a six-month term where you can see if you like it or not, and then decide if you want, what have you. So, hopefully we get lots of lots of uh, lots of people who are interested, and we're going to typically interviewbody So I think I can't see any reason why we wouldn't continue that practice. So we're going to be very
011busy uh in in middle of April through June interviewing people for for three positions. We have to fill legally we have to fill Terry's position after May 10th and before May 3rd. So if we don't do that then a judge can come in and appoint somebody that her position is probably going to take some time. Our deadline is April 24th for applications or people of interest for the vacant board of education. So if you have any questions, don't hesitate to give one of us a call. Scott, call Scott, whatever. Email Scott your your information. Looking forward to hopefully a lot of people find that was I have tonight. So, we'll move on to the superintendent report. Thank you. I have three items. First of all, um I do want to talk a little bit about
012the concession stand because I've noticed that on social media today there's a little bit of discussion. I want to kind of clear the air, make sure people know what's going on. First of all, I absolutely am a huge fan of music and and our band. I think one of the very first events I went to was dropping off obstacles to the kids hat. I've always been a music supporter and I'm very proud that we're adding to music next year. We're adding a teacher. So, we have choir and music at the elementary grade level and we are very fortunate here to have Gabby leading the chart. She is a rockar band instructor and you should do whatever you can to keep Gabby here because she's outstanding. Um, it's really really a great program and we're great
013to see how it's great to see how it's growing. Now, the the the visitors concession stand has been um out of use for three years. The last year that both concession stands, the home side of the visitor side were open was in 2021. And in that year, over the five uh football games, uh the visitor stand made, and I don't know if this is profit or um or total revenue, $3,984. and the home stand made $10,890. Um, so it hadn't been used for three years and youth football and cheerleading approached us asking to take it over offering to provide paint for the field and maintenance and repairs of the stand. Um, at at that point I had heard that the music boosters were also interested in taking that concession stand back how they had used
014to how they had used to have it. Um, I did let the boosters know, music boosters, that they could have baseball and softball concessions immediately. We have not had people doing that for some time. I don't know if they've done that yet. The weather's not been great to be quite honest with you, so I'm not sure if they've taken advantage of that. Um, one thing that did come up when I was meeting with the boosters to hear about their concerns for this is um, they do the boosters do give a lot to the district, right? They do a lot to the music program in terms of struments and uniforms. And one thing I mentioned was that they also uh pay for sheet music for the band. And I honestly haven't taken the time to delve
015into that, but I would say if that's true, they shouldn't be. Um that you the sheet music is to ban like textbooks are to other classes. And that's an expense I believe that the district should take on because music isn't just an extracurricular, you know, on Friday nights. They're here during the week. So, I'm not going to be here and Scott's going to be here a little longer than I am, but I hope that the board uh you know directs the new leaders to look into how we are funding music and making sure that they are getting the support that they need from the board level to take a little bit of that burden off of of the boosters. Um you know, it's I when I did meet with the boosters, I let them know
016that this is a it's a it's a tough decision for me, right? Because either way, not going to be happy. But what I my belief is this is that, you know, we're one community, we're one school, they're all water kids, and we just need to be good neighbors with each other. If if you're um in a sandbox on the playground and you have two Tonka trucks and you're playing with both of them, that's great. But if another kid gets in the sandbox, it's best to share the the second truck. And I don't know if that's a good analogy or not, but I think the football and cheer, they do great things for our kids. the band boosters do great things for our kids. I want all of our kids to have great opportunities. So that's
017why my recommendation coming up will be uh to give the visitor stand to to the football cheer. Okay. Uh the next item is bad news. The youth intensive services I did let the board know this but in the community but I want to reiterate it here in this meeting. I'm concerned that I let the board know that um Youth Intensive Services let us know just yesterday, yesterday or two days ago that effective April 18th, next week, they will no longer be providing services for us. Now, they've been providing these services for free for more than a year. Um and they tell us that the decision stems from delays in Medicaid payments at the state level. Uh Molly Powers has been um the person from Youth Intensive Services who's been here providing services in our district
018for over a year. She's been fantastic. Um, and she's going to be the one impacted by this change as well as our kids and our families. Um, we do recognize that this development is going to cause some anxiety among our students and our families. We do um have other relationships with um what's community children's advantage. Children's Advantage is the other group and um Hazel Health provides some So, we're not going to be without services. We're just going to be out without one of those service providers that we have had. So, I wanted to let the board know about that that we'll continue to look for ways to provide these services for our families free of charge. But that was that was bad news that we got this week came out. My final item is the
019compliance with the federal DEI certification requirements. If you've been following the news at all, there have been some recent directives from the United States Department of Education and the Ohio Department of Education um that we are to certify that we are not doing anything that would be discriminatory um based on any uh protected class and particularly title six which deals with race. So this follows the US Supreme Court's decision in students for fair admission versus Harvard which prohibits preferential treatment based on race. um in educational settings. So my job as superintendent and every other superintendent in the state has to by next Friday upload a affidavit into the Ohio Department of Education's um system saying that we do not have any race based programs here that that it gives advantages to anybody based on race.
020I have taken the time to go through our board policies. I have found anything in policy that would suggest that we do I have not heard from any board members or staff members that we have any practices that are doing that still I haven't upload I'm not going to upload that until next week because I just want to make sure that um when I when I upload that that I'm I'm accurate on it so if you do happen to recall anything or you know we we do do this I don't think that we do but if we do let me know so we can make sure that we can get that correct before I upload that to the state next Um, and if I don't upload that to the state, they will stop our federal
021funding immediately and they will go after my license. So, I will absolutely get this done. That's all I have. More good news. All right. Thanks. Um, the junior high junior and high school principles report. Um so I'll stand up here. Um so we started into course testing um this week. So we had that on Tuesday and Wednesday um for seventh, 8th and 10th grade in ELA. Um I mentioned this if well Sherry would have mentioned this board meeting, but um all other students are on testing are on a two-hour delay um for us and then we run a kind of modified schedule where you go half your classes one of those days and half the other. Um so we actually have full class periods instead of uh kind of running through every class for 20
022minutes and you know that kind of deal. So um it adds a little less chaos to the day uh which is nice and then also we get a little bit more you know teachers actually have some uh quality of time to actually address some things in class even on testing days. Um we'll still run testing Tuesdays and th or Tuesdays and Wednesdays sorry uh throughout the month of April. Um, so we have four tests we have to give. Uh, and we'll do that for subjects and we'll do that on Tuesdays and uh, Wednesdays. Um, I just want to thank uh, Miss Phillips and Miss Albine for helping with test coordination. Um, it's a lot of running around and you know, everyone's rostered into certain classes and uh, kids have accommodations and all these all these
023other things and it's it's a lot that goes into it and uh, they've been a huge help. Um, I want to thank our teachers for proctoring and taking it seriously and and to our students for taking the test seriously as well. Um, that doesn't necessarily happen in every district. Um, and our state report card kind of shows, you know, we're four four and a half stars um in our schools and that that's a credit to our our students in taking seriously. Um, prom uh just this will happen before the next board meeting so I want to mention it. Um, prom will take place on May 3rd. Um, It's at almost home event center which is in Sebring uh so it's a little bit different than where our usual places were booked uh on the day
024that we had chosen and so instead of moving the prom date um we had moved the location so that will happen on May 3rd. Um we have the district art show coming up um which is the first school week of May. So May 5th through the 11th is that Sunday but we don't have anything on the Sunday because that's Mother's Day. Um just highlighting some junior high events that we'll have. Um we are are having yes uh a battle of the bands on Monday um May 5th. Um so there'll be some student bands. Miss Miyatti is asking uh teachers to come. Uh she is trying to get me to play the kazoo there. So we'll see what happens with that. Um we have the actual art show for the community and then a band concert
025on Wednesday of that week, May 7th. And then we have our theater performances. The first uh time was bringing those back of Matilda Jr. on May 9th on Friday and on Saturday, May 10th. Um tickets are on sale uh in the office. Um and then there's also an online option through Go Fans. Is that right? Yeah. So through Goof Fans. Um so you can get tickets for those performances uh now. So come out and support our our art programs. Um, one note that I wanted to make, so our senior end of end of year events for our seniors, um, are coming up. Obviously, we're gearing up for that. I'll mention most of these and highlight this a little bit more at the next board meeting. Um, but one change I just wanted to kind of,
026uh, telegraph a little bit more is that our academic awards ceremony typically takes place during the day. Uh, we are moving it to the evening. This is something I kind of toyed around with possibly doing last year, but with moving graduation, we did not do that. Um, it would be Thursday, uh, May 22nd at 6 PM. Um, the simple reason for this change, um, is just to allow more family members to attend. Uh, doing it during the day, um, is great because we have students that get to see it. Um but having it in the evenings with parents that work or you know grandparents, aunts, uncles, what have you. Um and it also allows us to actually focus on um all the achievements of our seniors and other students um on just a management piece.
027Sometimes you worry about behaviors and things if you have the whole student body there. Um and so just being a little bit more intentional with that planning um in the evening. But uh that's still a ways away, but just wanted to mention that um since that will be a change from the past. Um I just want to echo what Dr. Clark said um about youth intensive services and Molly. Um Molly came here in December of last year. Uh she has been a tremendous asset um and at no cost to us um as well in the building. um she has helped our kids uh tremendously, has made meaningful relationships with them um and and has has really uh had an impact that's on student well-being, but then that's also translated to achievement, right? We address mental
028health issues um and just social emotional issues that students are having and they're able to be in class more and and Molly's been a huge part of that. So, uh she will be missed tremendously. um there's a possibility that Children's Advantage may uh hire her. I don't know if that's going to happen, but um and then we'll have a model that'll be similar that will it will keep her uh in sort of the same role, but that is very tentative and I have not heard if that's going to happen. So um that is the end of Maya except for my last piece here um is I have Mr. Cle here to talk about our MMR program. um MMR is mathematical modeling mathematical modeling and reasoning um they're changing the name to advanced quantitative reasoning right
029um to be in compliant in compliance with NCAA requirements for classes but um this is a algebra 2 alternative class so for the state um the only math class you absolutely have to have on your transcript to graduate is algebra 2 um so this offers an alternative pathway way for students to meet that requirement. There's a couple classes, there's a computer science class, there's this there's a couple others that I forget names for them, but uh that the they have some alternative pathways um for this. So again, just giving more options to our students. Um what I will say before uh Kyle talks is just there's a huge time commitment that goes into this class as far as training goes. Um there are some summer trainings, there are monthly uh meetings uh that you have
030to attend. Uh most of them are virtual. Um and then there's a couple that are in person I think throughout the year as well. So it's a huge time commitment to be a part of this. Um and I think that needs to be recognized as well. Um but it's also I don't want to steer so I I'll go for that. But um anyway, I'm excited for it. Um and getting off the ground here as just another opportunity for students and Kyle's going to talk about it for a minute. Sure. So, like Tyler said, this is our first year having the MMR class. And the idea behind it and why the state started it was instead of having a more traditional math class, this one's more project based. So, it covers standard wise, mathwise, it's a
031little above algebra 1, a little below algebra 2, but it also like all of the math cornerstone goals. It like having meaningful discussions and articulating the reasoning, defending your reasoning about things. It focuses more on that than the skill set. So, that's kind of the difference between the two, but they do both qualify a student for equipment. And I just wanted to share just a couple of minutes some of the projects that they've done throughout the year. We have a little over 20 students taking this class this year. We have two sections of it. And again, most of the students enjoy because it's a little different spin of things. Instead of having, you know, the traditional notes, homework, quizzes, and tests, this is really group centered project based learning is what it is. It's very
032similar to the computer science classes that we offer high school. So with this like here was one of the first ones. This was kind of a traditional icebreaker that it's not unique to math classes but they were given tape spaghetti and a marshmallow. And the objective was to build the tallest structure you could that retain the marshmallow on top of it was the idea. And like it goes back to if you're familiar with geometry usually using triangles. This group I'm pretty sure either knew about it or had seen it. I guess anyways it won't work this way. But the group on the left they use triangles. You could think that that's the strongest structure they can build. Here was one of the activities. Maybe if you guys were watching your district emails at one point
033we asked for donations of Barbie dolls and the reason was for this. They essentially for a couple of days they practiced with modeling uh rubber bands and action figures and dropping them and seeing you know if you drop them from four feet above the ground how far does two rubber bands take you? How far does six rubber bands take you? And then they used that model and they built a regression model to estimate eventually we were going back to the stadium and I'll show you a clip on the right where the objective is you want to get as close to the ground as possible because that's the thrill of bungee jumping but you want to make sure you don't hit the ground is the thing. And so the objective was how many rubber bands they
034knew how tall it was. We measured what that height was up to the top of the stadium but they never got to actually drop it from there. They had to use math model was gonna be so like here's just one of the students that did it and this one they were pretty close to yeah I know then they hit the side we just had to do that like it was that was not part of the competition drop it was actually pretty but the kids did have fun with that one of the other things so this one we used popsicle sticks and glue guns and they created catapults and the objective of this one was to teach the consistency. So the idea with this was it wasn't could you launch the catapult the furthest. It was
035they had to try through trial and error and again you use regression modeling but to project you know based on their catapult they got to put the map on the ground and then they launched it three times and it was to see you know how many times whatever scores there's on that. So the stack of books and the chair height was the constant for all of them. And again they didn't get a practice at that height. They were told the catapult is going to be you know whatever 36 in off the ground. You need to project where is it going to land is how bad the project were. And then they did a bunch of things with measurement throughout the year that they had to with the classroom figure out what would be they had
036to create a budget proposal for if we would carpet the classroom, paint the walls and add some other fancier things to it. So essentially my classroom is a really good one for it because it's one of the old mech ones. So it has a bunch of cabinets and weird fixtures and like dishwashers and stuff. So they had to take into account all of the different like you can see there those are sewing stations. But most classrooms don't have a little cubby hole emptiness that they had to do the measurements for. And then essentially it was a project on their own like go and find how much paint would cost much carpet would cost and then they created a proposal and they had to give class. The one on the right like they do a lot
037of things with like food and fun things. But this one was a cell growth modeling one where essentially like you start with a couple of M&M's and you assume like if you started with two M&M's, you roll them if they roll side up it's like the cell would duplicate. If they roll side like the M side down it wouldn't. And then they see after you know like 10 15 childs. It's an exponential growth model is what it is. How that works. We had officer cutting one of the class where they were given each class had like four different trial cases essentially where there was an accident and they were told information about like skid marks and then they had to use we had some formulas and some again more model building where okay if this
038was the evidence that happened at a trial would this person be innocent or guilty? Essentially, it was like a biker pulled out in front of a car and the car slid on their brakes and they still well some of the cases they hit the biker and the question is who was at fault and so half the class got assigned. There were a couple cases in each class but there were always two sides to every argument and officer cutting came in and essentially was the judge for all of their cases and we decided who had the best argument, who used the math the best, those kind of things. And again, those are just some of the projects that we did this year. Just thought it would be nice for you guys. And like Tyler said, wanted
039to show you guys what we are doing in some of our classes. Very interesting. Yeah. So, let you guys go. Just grab the lap. Sure. Yeah. If you guys have questions, I don't mind. I I sub that day. That was the class that I was in where they were measuring You did? Yeah. At the beginning of the year when they were So that one wasn't they were measuring the classroom, but we had ramps set up and they were figuring out essentially like slope and how does that change based on ramp height and we even measured the ramp out there to see if it fell with the compliance for national standard. And I think we decided it was a slight little too a little too inclined. I know you got to be quiet, but we'll go
040with their measurements worth the grade on. So, we'll do that. Super interesting, Kyle. Thank you for sharing that. Thanks. Okay. The elementary school. Hi everyone. Um, so the hands of gratitude project was mentioned by um Mrs. Barton and we were able to assemble about 10 robotic hands. These are all materials that have been 3D printed. They're sorted, labeled. There's an instruction booklet and the sixth graders worked in groups of two to assemble 10 hands. They're going to be delivered to um either Honduras or Guatemala. So, the kids got to actually hear and see um on the map and actual photos of the places where these hands will be used and the kinds of kids they're going to. The kids also um wrote a note or a letter to the recipient and designed a little canvas.
041So, the kids are each getting a picture. Um, when they received the robotic hand, um, the kids were really well behaved. I was so proud of them. Um, they worked really hard. You could tell it was really a meaningful project for them. Um, Hands of Gratitude is going to return sometime before the end of the year. We came into testing season, so we want to hit the rest of those sixth graders before the school year ends um for another group project for designing those hands. So, as Tyler mentioned, state testing began this week. Grades three through six are the ones that test in our um building. They take um they took the ELA test this week. In two weeks, they take the math test and then fifth grade only gets to take a science test
042and that's happening next week. Um all of these tests have two parts that we're um administering over two days. Um my kudos go to Mrs. Nicely, our counselor, and to Mrs. today because we had um such an extensive amount of students who needed accommodations that we actually had to sub a few of our specialist teachers so that they could help administer tests. So, we had a huge team effort to do this for our kids. Um and again, we were really trying to um ease anxiety for both the teachers and the kids, and I'm really trusting that they're plugging along and trying their best. Um the elementary school has started a competition for students who ride the bus to and from school. Um we bus behaviors are an everyday thing in a school building and to
043try to decrease that we're calling this the rider rally. Um we're focusing on promoting positive behaviors on the buses. So when a bus route earns 12 tallies for 12 routes with good behavior reported by the driver, they're getting a donut party. Um, so we have one bus that's very close to getting their first uh set of 12 tallies and we're really happy to reward them because if they're staying um if they're bathing on the bus, they're safe on the bus and that's what we're trying to enforce. Um the annual meeting with Candace Curtis and Sarah Batty from the Benton Curtis Family Foundation takes place next week to discuss our birdie bags distribution. Um we currently have 160 bags from the foundation that we receive each month. These bags contain non-p perishable food items um for
044families that are experiencing food insecurities and are distributed um twice per month facilitated by Nicole Nicely, our counselor, um with help from Sabrina, our school secretary, and our transportation supervisor, Tim Fox, picks them up each month from the foundation's warehouse in Kent. Um this is a hugely impactful program if you're not familiar with it. Um and we're really grateful. So, we're going to be reviewing plans for next year when we meet next week. Um we are just beginning interviews for our open elementary teacher and intervention specialist positions. Um we're hoping to have um those recommendations in place for the board by the end of the month. Um so perhaps looking at a May hiring. Um both the high school and the elementary have art installations happening and that is what you have um photos of
045in front of you. There are two designs being applied as vinyl pieces. one called Together We Are is located or is going to be located in the hallway near the cafeteria outside the bathroom. And you'll see there's like a little space cut out because it goes over um the drinking fountain. The other one is called Together We Are Vikings and will be located in the high school cafeteria. Both installations were designed by students in the Meyers School of Art at the University of Akran and are made possible under the coordination of Waterl Parents Chassity Baldwin and Jody Mñano. Um, we think these are going to be pretty awesome additions to our blank walls for our school and we're thankful to have been selected for this opportunity. No cost, nothing changes to the structure. All Mrs.
046Rock approved. Um, we're pretty excited about it happening. And I think that's it because Mrs. Barton stole my thunder about PTO updates. So, anything for me? I'm so excited. Thank you. As of late, we're excited about the upcoming events for PTO. Thank you. appreciate it. Um, item nis reports. I sent our last board meeting had sample letters and stuff. I actually sent a couple out myself. Hopefully, others did as well. I don't know. The House bill released yesterday or two days ago kept us harmless on the funding, but there's tax. How's that? How's that treat? I haven't they just simul But 468 school districts in Ohio are not massive. And that sounds like it does sound like a ton of money, but if you think about it, let's just say we have let's say that
047we are budget 10 million just to keep the numbers easy. So that's saying we can't have more than three million carry. And what happens is is your funding is pretty much flat. So your your your revenue or your expenses are sloping up, right? So while they're flat and they're sloping up, you want to bank your banking money here while your revenue is less than your expenses, your banking money to cover you when it crosses over that line and you're spending more than you're taking in to fill that gap. That's really what you're trying to do. So it's really conceivable that I mean we haven't had that issue many times of having that much but carrying over from one year to the next. But I mean it is conceivable that you know get through a fiveyear
048forecast without planning on going back on the ballot. 30% for the first year or two is not a ridiculously high number. If you don't have that, you're not going to make it in five years. This is it's fundamentally a misunderstanding of our elected officials about how school funding. That's what it basically comes down to. And it will have the opposite effect. If that passes, schools will be on the ballot more often, not less often. So the penalized cash surpluses are the result of two things. One was extra money. Two, is they're aware of big capital projects that district. So they're trying to save money so they don't have to go for that. That's a good like we were trying to save money to fix the roofs that we we had issue still have the issue
049where we have a surplus in our cafeteria fund and the state is always like we need to spend that money spend that money. And it's like, well, what if we spend that money and then another one breaks our freezer goes out or whatever. We don't have any way to, you know, it's kind of like like that idea that I should spend everything I make every every week because I should live pay we should live paycheck to paycheck. It's really kind of pushing that forward. Um the treasures within Portage County treasures Scott tried to have a meeting with the the our state representatives uh this past Monday and why were they not able to make it? They just didn't fit their schedule county treasur with along with the treasure superintendent and board trying to have a
050meeting with the legislators and like I said we're not able to get together for this past Monday that future hopefully hopefully they care about public education in a positive way. Um you know something just occurred to me. Um, do we need to appoint somebody to be part of your interview process? I mean, you know, that's a lot. That's a lot. I'll be happy to give report. I'm not I'll be happy to report on legislation in May, but that will be my last looks like he's excited. really put together. He said, "Yeah, why don't we just Can we just vote? I don't think we have to vote. We just Yeah, I'll do. All right. I was gonna go like this. So Joe, so you can make that change. I think so. I'll double check. Okay. All
051right. Maplewood. Um, so there's not a lot going on, but and I forgot to email you guys this, so if you would like me to email, I can. Um, I don't know if you guys saw the article in the quarter, but the Maplewood um, electricity classes and also the HVAC class um, did some heating and cooling work and some electricity work at the um, Renaissance Family Center in Windham to do some updates for them. Um, so there was an article about it if you guys want me to email it to you. Um, also the um 202425 yearly achievement report from Maplewood, Waterlue had 28 students on it. Um, and it was all um the Skills USA competition that they do and then also any students that passed their CPR and first aid and um the
052learn um they passed. So any certifications that they passed that would have to do with their program. Um, so all of our students that went to um, Skills USA, all of them placed at least in third place. And we have three of them. Um, one of them is in collision repair, one of them is in welding and one of them is in electricity. Um they are all regional qualifiers so they are all going to the regional competition which I'm not positive when the date of that is. Um and then just a few other updates just important dates um and it was last night but they have cupcakes with teachers. So the new students that are coming in next year they have an open house and they meet all the teachers and parents and students get
053to meet everybody. Um, and then April 17th, so next Thursday, um, is the National Honor Society induction. Um, April 25th is their none for under 21 rally. Um, and that is at Kent State University in the MAC Center. Um, May 19th is their award ceremony at 9:00. Um May 23rd they have a field day and perfect attendance drawing and they actually get really good gifts for their perfect attendance drawings. I was really surprised when Mason was a senior with um things that they can win for that. And then May 27th is the senior awards practice at 1:00 um at the map center. Oh, I'm sorry. And then on May 28th is the senior awards ceremony um which is their graduation at 7 o'clock at the M Center. And then June 3rd is the junior's last
054day of school. What day was the ceremony? Um 28th. Well, their graduation or they have an awards assembly at May. It was the 19th. Okay. May 19th. Okay. Okay. Thank you. New business. Is there any new business board like this? All right, that brings us to 11 board business. Okay, so uh can I have a motion to approve the res of Teresa Zach board member effective April 30? I have a motion. Second, please. question. So the 30th question, please. Yes, Mr. Yes. Yes. Motion passes. Okay. Can we have a motion to resend resolution 196-24 principal and assistant principal? Second, please. I second. Comments or questions? Roll call, please. Yes. Yes. Motion passes. Okay. Superintendent business. It may I recommend you enter into the following four minutes. Okay. Can we have a motion to approve entered
055agreements? Motion to enter agreements. Second, please. Second. Want to take questions? These four. The first one is ESC to do the superintendent and treasurer search. The second one is our service plan with the ESC for next school year. Just a a reminder that we are scaling that way back. You're going to save uh money on this because many of the tests are being picked up by the principles. Um there's the agreement with Viking football and cheer uh for the concession stand and using our fields for the games. And there's the sheriff's officeou for our school resource officer for this year. It's really late because they were in negotiations, but it is for this year. Any questions? Okay. Roll call, please. Is that correct? Mr. Mr. Yes. Yes. M. Yes. Motion passes. Item B is a
056recommendation to approve a three-year contract for Bar Rock operations manager. Do we have a motion to approve a three-year contract for Bar Rock? Second, please. I'll second. And as we talked about, we are this is a new position because Barb is currently food service director and also facilities director and different rates, different days and all this. We're trying to streamline and make things more coherent. So, it's a new position that combines all of that work. Any comments, questions? I just want to say thank you. You did a great job for us. We're very lucky to have you and we appreciate what you do. Don't tell that often enough. I don't appreciate you. Roll call, please. Mr. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion passed. Item C is a recommendation to approve the salary grid for the operations
057manager. Motion to approve the salary grid for the operations manager. Comments or questions? I I ran this by Kyle and he assured me that the union would not Roll call, please. Yes. Is that correct? Yes. Mr. Mr. Yes. Yes. Motion passes. Item D is a recommendation to approve the destination imagination supplemental memorandum of understanding. So motion to approve the destination imagination supplemental. Second, please. I'll second. So, this will create the position and next month we should be hiring the individual who's going to take on the supplemental. A reminder, we got a generous $5,000 donation from one of our parents to fund this. It's a great program. It's offering more steam activities for our students after school um for K12. It's really exciting and we're grateful for the generosity of Mr. Yes. kind of similar to
058what in the old days might have been called. Yep. Odyssey of the mind. Similar or future problem solving? Any of those things? Similar kind of things. Kids work here and then they go out to regional competitions and state competitions. Any comments or questions? Roll call, please. Mr. Yes. Mr. Motion passes. Item E is a recommendation to appoint Bob Wolf as interim superintendent from June 1st through July 31st. We have a motion to uh appoint Bob Wolf as our random superintendent on the list. Second, please. Any comments or questions? I was I was in the building named after him the other day and I noticed that his photo does not look the same as he does now. So you might want to do a new photo. He's a great guy. He's been a fantastic prior to
059that. Well, you would take some action, but yes, they absolutely know that it would be two month. And if it for, god forbid, needs to go longer, they can do it longer or they'll scale back. We expect it to be two months. And that is part of the agreement that you already passed for the search. This is included in the search. So essentially essentially they're not charging us for this service. So which is very nice obviously. And uh this Bob here he he was our principal for 15 years. He was our superintendent for probably 10 or 15 years. Just a a great class individual that really loved water do anything to help us out. Um and I don't know that district for any other district. I don't know doing this. So, we're just so for
060have a work for us. Hey, roll call, please. Mr. Mr. Yes. Motion passes. Item is a recommendation approve the retirement of Lisa Lang. Have a motion to approve the retirement of Lisa Lang. Second, please. Second. 34 years of service. We're grateful for all she's done for the best. Roll call, please. Yes. [Music] Mr. Yes. Motion passes. Item G is recommendation to approve the resation of Aiden at the end of the contract here. Do we have a motion to approve the resation of any motion? Second, please. Comments or questions? Roll call, please. Mr. Mr. Mr. Yes. Motion passes. Item H is a recommendation to approve the following substitutes both certified and classified. So motion to approve the list of substitute contracts. Second question, please. Yes. Yes. Motion passes. Item I a recommendation to approve stipens for
061the following teachers for supervising student teachers. We have a motion to approve the statement as listed. Motion. Second, please. Second. These two are splitting a student teacher. That's why the cost is about half of what it would typically be and it is paid by the university to the district who then pays that. So, it's not cost out. Okay. Roll call, please. Yes. Mr. Yes. Motion passes. Item J is recommendation to approve a stipen for a student teacher supervisor. Have a motion to approve the stipen for supervising student. Second, please. You'll notice the cost is different because different universities give different that's the only difference. Questions roll please. Yes. Yes. Mr. Mr. Vick, yes. Yes. Motion passes. Item K is a recommendation to approve the following classified contracts for the 2526 school year. Do I have
062a motion to approve the list of classified contracts? Motion. Second, please. Second. So, those listed as two-year limited will be getting a new two-year contract. Those listed as salary notice are in the middle of a two-year contract. So, we're just Any questions? Roll call, please. Mr. Yes. Yes. Mr. Merry. Yes. Motion passes. L. Recommendation to approve the following classified contracts for next year. Have a motion to approve the list of sub classified contracts for next year. Motion. Second, please. How much questions? Mr. Yes. Mr. Mr. Yes. Motion passes. It is a recommendation to approve the following certified contracts for the 256. Can we have a a motion to approve the listed certified contracts? Second, please. And again these are either one year, two year or three year. And the salary folks are either those with
06310 year or those who are in the middle of a contract. Roll. Is that correct? Yes. Motion passes. Item N is a recommendation to approve the following certified contract for next year. Have a motion to approve the certified contract for next year. Second, please. Any comments or questions? Roll call, please. Mr. Item O is recommendation to um issue certified and non-certified substitute contracts for the 256. Um We have to to issue certified and non-certified sub contracts for 25.6. Second, please. I'll say that on the board, you got colorcoded versions of this. I want to explain that to you because you hear us talk all the time about how we have a lack of substitutes and you look at this list and you think, "Oh, we have plenty of substitutes." But the color codings that you
064have before us are some folks that you can count on to sub for us every day, some that never sub for us, but they're still on our list, and some that do it periodically depending on what their calendar is. So, when we say we have a lack of subs, it's not that we have a lack of people approved by the board. It's that we have a lack of people who are willing to um I was just um so the students in blue, they are college students and they will Yes. There is no age requirement. Um, a couple years ago, the state passed a law that allowed that really did away with any kind of qualification you would need to be a sub and they slowly reduced it. It was a back back in the day
065when I started it was a four-year degree in education. Then it was a four-year degree, then it was a two-year degree. Now it's a high school diploma. And it was a high school diploma, but there had to be like it's only a high school diploma. You can do elementary and high and that's gone. anybody who graduated high school. Having said that, D does her absolute very best to make sure that we only put these recent grads in high school classes if we have no other alternative. That is not what we want to do. But a body is better than nobody. But D is the absolute best at making those calls. And nobody can say no to D except every once in a while. And when they say no, you'll be eligible to be eligible. She's
066putting them in the lower grade. Yes. Yeah. That's the That's the entire goal. But we it would be disingenuous to say that they never that never happens because it does happen. Sometimes they have to go in there, but it's not for lack of trying. So just noting the way things are the way things are noted on here like some of them are only Friday some of them are noted long term for for the teacher that might be out um this is for next year these are the if they're in a longterm right now that is for the color coding is what they're act what it is actively so the expectation is they'll be next year we were just doing that for for information. Yeah, just information. I guess what I'm saying is that when we
067enter this into the meeting, we're approving them just the names. Yeah, without the notes and the notes are great to help us understand what we have. It's just that will not be part of the official record. That's correct. What people are seeing here tonight either only you guys have a just sees names. Yep. Okay. Roll call, please. Yes. Yes. Motion to pass. Uh item P is a recommendation to amend resolution uh 25 215-24 to employees retirement date. Okay. Excuse me. Can we have a motion to amend the resolution 215? Second, please. And this is for Mrs. Wain on this. You find a motion, but you want to thank it's changing. Her original date we accepted is May 30th. It needs to be May 31st. Roll call, please. Yes. Yes. Motion pass. Okay. And item two,
068the last item is a recommendation to approve the following new revised board policies. We have a motion to approve the uh new and revised board policies. I make a motion to approve. Second, please. And most of these are simple law changes or whatnot. The two that are marked new 735 and 818, those are the brand new release time for religious instruction. Parents bill rights. The board is required to adopt these. There's no choice not to under law. Thank you. Is that correct? Yes. Yes. Mr. Yes. Yes. Motion passes. My recommendations. Thank you. Appreciate it, Mr. Mr. All right. Item A is um approval of March 13 minutes. Do I have a motion to approve the March 13th minutes? Second, please. Any comments or questions, corrections? Roll call, please. Mr. Yes. Yes. Motion passes. Uh B
069is the financials, which I can hit on real quick. Um so March is when we get our final settlement from portage count property taxes. Um so our March uh general fund and emergency fund surplus was a little over million. Um year to date um for general emergency funds were a little over $2 million. All funds for March we were a little over a million dollar and yearto date all funds were just under $2 million. Um revenue outliers I mentioned the March settlement our Our interest was almost $60,000. We got a school safety grant um that we will approve a little bit later. Joe talked about it last month as well that was $40,000. Uh expense outliers really just some siphons, some overtime stuff like that. That was really question actual projection item 6.0 uses. It's
070probably is I meant to call you. No, it's fine. It's my fault, but I think it's what there's a missing part of the sale there. So, I think that 6.01 I believe is the total revenue minus the total expenses. Okay. Any comments or questions? I'm so sorry. My bad. I got I got this track. I saw a number. Uh I have a motion, please. A second, please. No, sir. Comments or questions? Roll call, sir. Mr. Yes. Yes. Mr. Yes. And yes. Motion passes. Uh the next item are some donations. Um you can see listed there the PTO um which has been talked about tonight $1500 Dr. Clark donated some steam and PBS supplies to help those programs out. Um we've got a $500 donation for the theater program and then we've had an American endowment
071foundation for $1,000 scholarship that'll be given out this spring. Then we have a motion to approve the list of donations. Second, please comments or questions. I just want to say thank you to everybody who who uh donated the PTO, Dr. Park, and of course the American Foundation. Great appall. Mr. Yes. Yes. Motion passes. Uh the next item is for um grants. So Dr. Clark talked about the $4,000 um that we actually received during the month. U we're also going to get um a little over 7500 for the recycle Ohio grant. Um and I believe we are putting dryers and bathrooms. Okay, thank you. Have a motion to approve participation in grants. Second, comments, questions, roll call, please. Yes. Mr. Yes. Motion passes and then the Yes, it's the final one for me. Uh there's two
072agreements uh for the board to approve. One um is our basically it's our essentially our Medicaid audit where they go through our Medicaid expenses and try to get us as much money back as soon as possible. Um, and the next one is Julian group for our financial statement report and it's just a one year engagement with them next decides to go somewhere else. Motion to approve the list of agreements. Motion second comments or questions is the the second one is that what we do instead of a I'm sorry. So, the second one is where cash filing instead of the gap fil about $3,000. Yes. Roll call, please. Mr. Yes. Yes. Mr. Hick. Yes. Yes. Motion passes. Okay. Have to read this. I apologize. Whereas a public board of education may hold an executive session only
073after majority of public forum of this board determines by roll call vote to hold such a session only at a regular or special meeting for the sole purpose of the consideration of any list of matter. And I have a motion to recess executive session to discuss second. comments, questions. Roll call, please. Yes. Mr. Yes. Motion passes. Thanks everyone for coming. You're welcome to hang around. Yep. That's all we need is gone. Thank you.