001All right, let's start rolling up here. Uh, may I have a roll call to call this to order? Broadick here. Mr. Felmmeer here. Mr. Thomas here. Mrs. Dollar here. All right. Join me in 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. Um, I Oh, may I have a motion to adopt the agenda? A second. Second and a roll call. Mr. Beler, yes. Mr. Thomas, yes. Mrs. Elen, yes. Mr. Frederick, yes. Okay. And I presume we do not have anyone who wants to chitchat. Okay, then we're going to go um to u executive session. Sorry. Totally out of my head. So moveive. Thank you. And I'll Okay. And roll call and
002then we'll Mr. Thomas. Yes. Mrs. Yes. Mr. Burgerer. Yes. Mr. Belter. Yes. Just for everyone's knowledge, the executive session is is about an employee and also the end is about employees. They are indeed two separate um situations that we will talk about tonight just to make sure we're following the rules. All right. Thank you. We will uh continue. We've come out of executive session uh to talk about the employee of employment of personnel and we will now do committee reports. However, the only committee that's really meeting on a regular basis is summer's facilities. So, let's go right to facilities. Okay. I will share a few highlights. Anyone else can can jump in. On June 17th, we had a primary facilities core team meeting. Again, the focus of those conversations is on preparations for Friendship United
003Methodist Church um and um being ready for Hilltop students to start the year there. And so that's that's very exciting. July uh will be a big month for us as we start to move all of our educational equipment into the church, make sure all of our technology safety uh planning is is set up. Uh and we'll be working to finalize those plans. actually an interesting connection here. Uh if you remember back, our CAC team did a study on uh utilizing alternative sites for educational purposes. And so we're we're looking at that checklist or the list of recommendations that the CC team has shared with us um just as as a checkpoint to make sure that we're addressing a lot of those items. The storage is a big one. So speaking about that uh and testing
004out all of our equipment, so we'll be doing that. Um, our next core team meeting is scheduled for July 9th and again that will be right in the midst of those those final preparations. Anything else from the team to add? [Music] I think just um I'm sorry if you said it and I spaced out, but since our last meeting, I don't know if we got to close the loop with everybody that we toured Indian Hill because that was like right after our last meeting together. So just like as a group, Mike went and just as a opportunity to see a different building and take a lot of pictures of things we liked or maybe what we didn't like or how what they chose that maybe doesn't function. So I think that was helpful for moving
005into this next process as well for sure. Yeah, that was definitely helpful. It's very surprising to me that when you're coming south on Springfield Pike, you can't really see those buildings. Yeah, they're very very well tucked in with some mysteriously not there drugs there. Yeah, it's great. All right, thank you. Uh we'll go on to policies, but at this point I'm moving on to numeral six. Um remember we had a first read in May. We moved some of them about. We've had some conversations. We've had some discussions and now we're back with um ready to do a a second read and approval of those following policies. Um unless someone has a question or a concern, I'm going to move on. I did like the the rewrites. The rewrit due to Ohio state law. Yes. Don't
006be looking it up. Yes, I own it. Well, with the even with that with the possibility of what any legislative changes that happened over the summer, if anything is in in need of further revision, we'll bring it back to the policy committee and the board to to discuss that, too. And that's with some of the items that are on here, we can almost be sure that there will be a some adjustments, a change of some kind. Yes. All right. And then the second part is to approve the revised contract. Uh uh sorry calendar boy. Yeah. And the the change here the only change here is um the the May date um on the original 2526 calendar that was connected to Memorial Day weekend. Um and both the city and the school district saw some challenges
007with that and so we've shifted it one week earlier as TSA. Yes. Yes. All right. All right. May I have a motion to approve the board of education report? So move. Second. I'll second it. May I have a roll call? Mrs. Yes. Mrs. Burgerer. Yes. Mr. Feler. Yes. Mr. Thomas. Yes. All right. Pleasure. Thanks, Genie. Item A, approval of the minutes from the May 19th regular meeting, the May 29th special meeting, and the June 3rd planning meeting. Approve the statement of revenues and expenses for the month of May. accept with appreciation the list of donations and IMD are appropriations adjustments. I um submitted um a few additional appropriation adjustments. Um so I appreciate if you could just talk about those for a second. Those are in addition to what I submitted. Um I was out
008of the district last week. So um just had to tidy up a couple things that that came in last week. So, in addition to what I had originally submitted, there were changes, appropriation increases to um um our voted PI funds, um uh an O7 accounts, and uh the high school band account in anticipation for band hit. So, a couple things um just to get some some additional orders in before we before we close our books for June. So, in addition to what I had originally submitted, which is just tidying up a number of student activity accounts, and we're going to read all of our year- end processes. So, the appropriation adjustments are as revised provided for you here tonight. Okay. Um item E is the 2526 annual contract for services with HCC. This is um
009a number of our data, our EMIs, student reporting, a number of those things. Um, so there's our contract for 2526. And the 26 is item F is this school year 26 temporary appropriations. So, you know, the next seven days, we'll be working to balance everything and shut it all down. And then the temporary appropriations allow us to start it all back up and move forward with the July 5th pay date. And then um we'll be working with um at some time a new state budget and we'll be updating the revenue projections at some point. I I I believe we will see some version of changes to how we submit things to the budget commission. So just kind of maybe be ready for that because that might look different as we work through our normal processes
010for when we shut down our fiscal year and kick up the new one. There are a number of things that we go through are just part of our rhythm at this point. But some of those might look a little different. So be ready for that. But the temporary appropriations allows us to get going and run that first payday of the year. And then G is approved of the report. Please. May I have a motion to approve? So move. Second. Roll call. Mrs. Eller, yes. Mrs. Frederick, yes. Mr. Belmeer, yes. M. Thomas, yes. Thank you. Superintendent report. Right. I have um several personnel items. Number one is a recommendation to approve recommendation or resignations that have come in from staff through the district. Number two is a recommendation to approve uh new personnel. You'll see two
011staff members there. One is Stephanie Humpard, half day kindergarten. Excited about her taking on that role with within that half day program. And then the second one there, Amy Mayer, coming in as a middle school educational. So, we're excited about her educational experience and taking that into an an a perspective. And number three, um recommendation to approve these two new job descriptions, gifted coordinator, special education coordinator. These are supplemental positions that current staff members uh will be recommended for and they are uh to support student services working with Dr. Dean Persner and uh we think that they will be a great collaborative um piece of um of work within pupil services or student services and really working hand inand to um move forward within um intervention and special education. Uh number four uh recommendation to
012approve unpaid leave see for this individual staff member. Number five is a recommendation to improve these athletic supplemental contracts and you see volunteer also here. Thanks to all of these individuals for supporting students in many many exciting events. Number six is a recommendation to approve sources of strength work and this is a suicide prevention program at the middle school. Number seven is recommendation for media specialist summer work. We had already approved high school and primary schools um library media work and so this is connecting the middle school to that summer effort. Also number eight is a recommendation to approve this high school curriculum work. Uh Andy Lion is going to be working on new developing a new course that was approved this past spring. Nine is Wilson training. This is specialized special education training for
013David Ambrose. Number 10, uh the recommendation to approve additional work uh for our MTSS and 504 coach or coordinator. Um and these these additional days go before the school year starts, the 2526 school year, and then after the the school year ends to support the development of those programs and then reflection on those programs. Number 11 is for extended days and this is for district nurse. And then number 12 is for recommendation to approve evaluation committee summer work for these two individuals. And then number 13, you've seen this before. This is a recommendation to approve payment for science of reading training. This is for an individual who is retiring this year. That's still recommended or that's required training. Um and again this is paid by the district and then reimbursed by the state. And then
014number 14 is a re recommendation to approve volleyball camp. This is step two is staffing of the volleyball camp and college course is question. Yes, I forgot to ask it but just real quick on the gifted and special education coordinator N are those fulltime? Did I miss it on the Those are supplemental those are supplemental positions. So that that happens outside the work of the of the regular day by current staff members. So and this is just approving the the job descriptions uh today and then most likely at um a later meeting here in the next the next two meetings we will approve individuals for both of those roles. Okay. I see. Yeah. Thank you. So this person might be the same person who's the current gifted coordinator or there would be well the gifted
015coordinator before was Dr. Workler. He she handled that that role. Right. So this will be this will be another staff member in the district who will take on that that supplemental that'll be new to that individual. Who has the required training? That's right. That's right. It would be one of our current employees who hold the certification. That's right. Like so a gift get to teacher who then has this coordinator role of all the the webs and the Okay. Yes. Got it. Yeah. Other teachers could also have that that special lensure. But yes, it would be a teacher who has that special lensure. Y good idea. Yeah, it's it's nice. It's it's really formalizing the team. We've talked about um soon bringing a conversation to the board about all of the re or all of the
016responses and and actions and future planning that are connected to the audit that was done. And so we're excited to share some of those. This is just one factor uh that is connected with the the audit and moving forward in a positive way. Any other questions? Um, no. May we have a motion to approve? Second. Mr. Ber, yes. Mer. Yes. M. Promise. Yes. M. Yes. All right. Thank you. Uh, the superintendent's report. Second. Superintendent report. Yep. Just an additional personnel item. Uh, this is a recommendation for third quest training. Uh, and that's for the one individual on the agenda. We have a motion to approve. So move. Second. Second. Have a roll call. M. Meer. Yes. M. Promise. Yes. Mrs. abstain. M. Roger. Yes. Thank you. All right. And then um superintendent update. Yeah. it
017being in the end of June and we've shared a lot of communication from the district on the pling budget and and all the possibilities that come with that. I thought it might be best just to reflect on where we are in that timeline right now. Can you kind of bring everyone up to speed on what's happening within the next few days and the next week? So, um, the past week or so, and thanks to Susie for helping us share out the call to action, we had, I think, a pretty good response to that, had a number of folks who were advocating on behalf not just the Wyoming city schools, but um, union leadership here with us. I know that they were kind of involved in that effort as well. Um, we appreciate that. Um, not
018just advocating for Wyoming City Schools, but public school funding in general. been a lot going on. Um, you know, significant debate around um the the funding formula and the guarantee and just a number of things that were specific to public school funding. And then um kind of got a curveball thrown to everyone. And that um this a new piece of legislation as it was introduced that um really was a massive overhaul of not just public school funding but just sort of the tax structure that supports not just public schools but supports a number of local governments. And so, um, I think what has been good about that in the past 10 days is that, um, there has been significant advocacy from townships, counties, um, police, um, police and fire, um, you know, specifically as it
019relates to something that we all know and love called inside millillage. Um, there's a provision of the Ohio Constitution. So, this is, you know, way before all of us, right? Um, that says that, you know, there's some millillage that was allowed to be assessed. I I some call it startup cash when when uh every all cities and townships and governments and school districts were created. There's a provision in the Ohio constitution that allows 10 mills to be assessed without the vote of the people. And that allows you to kind of start up, create a school, have governance, have council, roads, bridges, streets, uh the post office, um fire, police. And so then, you know, once you once you do that, then you're um move into the provisions of voted tax increases. And um so with
020this with this new piece of legislation, all of a sudden inside villages set to be abolished, which doesn't just happen to school districts, it happens to counties and municipalities and townships and uh villages and cities. And um you know, I've learned a lot about how that funding impacts other local governments. Um something that I I learned is that a number of uh at the county level or cities a number of those dedicate their inside millillage to the pension of police and fire. I did not know that. And so um you know that advocacy has been strong and I I I hope that the legislators are starting to understand the significance of the kind of things that they're proposing. So there has been widespread advocacy. You know we have relatively low inside millage in the land
021of inside millillage across the state. You know, I've worked in some other school districts or inside millages was it almost seven. Here in Wyoming, it's 3.85. So, it's a little lower of the you think about the 10. It gets divided up. Um and uh and so, but that is still $1.7 million in tax revenue for us. And so, you sort of start to add that on to all of the other things that we were already battling just in terms of school funding. And there are just there's just kind of some piles of things that we are up against. Um, again, I'm proud of our community, our school community, our our partners who I do think have joined us and been really helpful in this advocacy. So, uh, conference committee is expected to vote out tomorrow.
022House and Senate full votes on Wednesday and then it's off to the governor. So, stay tuned. We may be, you know, maybe full steam ahead trying to get maybe depending on what comes out some requesting some vetos from from the governor's office. So, um, do we have any idea about the inside village? Because that that did spark a lot of people. Yeah, sure. Here's what is so bizarre about that. Right before the testimony, they entered an amendment to the budget. So, you've heard me talk a lot about the 20 mil floor, which is not us, right? We are not in a 20 mil floor. Your inside millillage counts towards the floor, right? And so they introduced an amendment that said that um there was there was sort of this common understanding that if they pulled
023the inside village out and that dropped you below 20, there's this law said you can't can't go below 20, so you just pop right back up. So for districts at the floor, which is a lot of them. They said, "Well, it's fine. We don't care. We have this protection in the law." They passed an amendment to the bill that said that that protection is no longer the bill now includes loss of that protection. So it will become an 18 mil floor. If your inside mill is seven and it bumps you down to 13, then so be it. You're 13. Oh, so it's tricky. I mean, I think what we've, you know, and you've said this a number of times, it is complicated and and the complication factor is being used against us all. There's so
024many different layers of the things and I and I every time I'm do this with you, I just feel like I'm rambling with all of the all of the layers of the things that um are part of what's being what's being considered. It's it's hard to figure out which one we focus the most of our energy on because you you know you focus all your energy on that and explaining and understanding and helping people you know understand enough to advocate and then well that by tomorrow that's all different and it's a whole new set of what could impact us in a really negative way. So, it's really been a challenging budget cycle. Um, you know, some things that have been, you know, part of the the Ohio Constitution and have been um ruled by voters
025for 50 100 150 years are, you know, being debated to be changed in the last five days and that's difficult. So, it's going to be it's going to be an eventful week. Last week there was a by invitation only meeting that I guess all of our lobbyists were invited. Do do we know anything that came out of that closed door? I have an update on any sort of This is very frightening. I I think the problem I'm having with the inside millillage, you take away the inside village because you want to give the people who own property in Wyoming a tax break. Well, throughout the state, but let's go with Wyoming a tax break. All right. So, they get a tax break because now they're not paying the inside millillage. But now the city of
026Wyoming and Wyoming city schools both. We both have to go on the ballot. Yeah. And we both have to ask the community those same people who just at this tax break. It's like this horrible circle. Oh, by the way, we need more money. It's awful. So, this impacts our city partners as well. Yes. We had a good conversation with Jeremiah, finance director at the city about the impact on their budget and um you know, they are their advocacy groups working, you know, the same way. Um, I was invited to speak at a group of local government officials, cities, city finance directors, kind of mine was there, township finance officials from the greater Cincinnati region and it's a really big deal. But I I do think that the weight of it helps um because there is
027there's a broad position. Go ahead. Um the county auditors gave some very compelling testimony. Um our bond council partnered with other bond councils across the street across the state. So the Brad Ruies of the war of the world Prince Horns of the world. So shout out to the bond councils who all um gave again some very technical but very compelling testimony about how this impacts district bond issues. Um and um just to help legislators understand really the the gravity of what they're doing and how it impacts long-term obligation of bond holders and how it and your bond rating and the bond well your bond rating about and then there was something last week in the that um OSBA had a a thing for us to sit in on about the fact that some of this
028will fall to the mortgage lenders will decide when to take the money. Oh, right. Because they are um and you know they're running the escrow. Yeah. And that becomes an incredible mess. The county auditor testimony uh county association testimony. So again, shout out to Matt Nolan who's the Warren County auditor was very well done. Um I just hope people don't understand because the legislation is effective July 1st. Well, you don't pay your taxes this starting July 1st. the the rates are assessed and values are assessed on a calendar year, right? So, um, county auditors have no idea what to do with that information and tax bills that, you know, normally go out a week to 10 days after July 1st in some counties. Um so just so challenging in terms of then assessment collection what
029will the rate be? How do you assess it? How do you collect it? It's really really difficult and that's just the teeny tiniest little piece of what's happening. So So should we be aimed at the governor now or do you want us to stay? I think we I think we wait to see what comes out of conference. Um there will not be a debate once it comes out of conference committee. it will go to the House and the Senate and it will be approved and it will get it out there. But um my hope is that the strength and the advocacy of advocacy across the state will do the job and we'll get something reasonable. I mean it's almost like we've almost forgotten about what's happening with the fair school funding plan now because there's
030been, you know, hundred other awful things that have happened since then. That might be like the sign and we're still not properly funded. Yes. Sure. It's true. We've said from the beginning that, you know, our really our best way out of this is to just keep the state funding that we have. And now at this stage of the game, I'm going to be really happy to keep all the local voter approved funding that we have because that, you know, that's really what it does now. So, the incentive village, everything that's been voter approved. Um, and then also just, you know, keep the guarantee on the state funding center. We come out of this keeping everything that we have. It's going to be a win because that's what the people on the floor are going to
031lose their voter approved. Oh, it was a couple. All right. Thank you. Um, we are not leaving. You all may, but we are going to move to executive session to consider the employment of public employees. And I thank everyone for coming. I'm sorry to make you go home on that kind of low note, but make some calls tomorrow. Thank you. I thank you. Do you want to motion? A motion is sent to executive session. May I have a motion to move into second session, please? And a second. I'll second it and roll call. Mr. Thomas, yes. Mrs. Dollar. Yes. M. Broad. Yes. Just