001Director Cooper's absent. Director Colliver? Here, ma'am. Director Donia? Here. Director Husovsky? Here. Director Hunter-Reay? Here. Director Myers? Here. Director Roberts? Here. Six members present. Thank you, ma'am. Can everyone rise for Pledge of Allegiance, please? On the flag and 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. Please stand for a moment of silence. Thank you, everyone. Good evening. Good evening. Thank you all for attending tonight's Blessed at voting meeting uh virtually. We appreciate you all. Um Any public comment related to any of the agenda items? Board members? None heard. I have a point of information. The Straus School Board met in executive session after the board meeting on April 16th to discuss personnel
002agenda items. For presentations, we have none tonight, but I want to uh do a quick shout-out to a few people. Uh recognize a few people. So, uh first, uh Ms. Diane Ripple being nominated as our Teacher of the Year. Uh Ms. Lauren Fergurson for rookie of the year teacher. And then Dr. Lisa Mumbauer for principal of the year. Congratulations to those individuals. We appreciate you all for all your hard work and look forward to your next next step. Thank you so much everyone for all your help and support. Yes, ma'am. Keep Keep killing it. Please. Uh, with that being said, before we go ahead and go into the voting portion of this meeting, I want to jump to new business. I'm going to jump to uh, section I under new business. Page seven, sorry. All
003right, I'm going to go ahead and pass it over to our business manager. Um, approve, ratify the payment of the bills from the general fund. Um, and one note on there, there is a um, there was a line item for paying the Bank of New York for 69,000. Sorry. Um, it was for interest payment, but that actually comes out of our subsidy as part of our intercept, so um, that was voided and deleted. So, that payment won't be made. It'll It'll be made out of our intercept payment in June. Um, second part of that is section two. The school board of directors hereby authorize the following expenditures from unassigned general fund balance that was not anticipated in the district's 25-26 budget. Lighting upgrades at the junior senior high school from the Sterilox district capital improvement
004plan of May of 2029. Page and auditorium May of 2024, sorry. Um, stage and auditorium renovations necessary to reinstate usage of the 26-27 school year. It failed inspection in November of 2025. And then specific maintenance and custodial equipment purchases to improve workflow and efficiency. Three auto floor scrubbers, one work truck, one snow plow, and one swing machine, which is a floor buffer. Um, all related purchase of service, supplies, and equipment will be compliant with local policy and procurement guidelines with the total cost of purchases not to exceed 1.6 million. It's a long time coming for some of those things, so. Any questions? None heard. Operations approved the following ABC transportation employer, I'm sorry, employees for our school district. Number two, accept the NFL Play 60 physical activity grant from the American Heart Association to the
005primary center for $3,500. Anybody want to talk about that? Any comments? I have a question with my mods on. I'd like to, um, Mr. Colliver, Board of Directors, Mrs. Coleman. I'd like to congratulate Alexis Welsh, our first year teacher, for submitting the grant. It's looking at overall student wellness. She's going to be focusing on heart-healthy activities, um, to support gross motor. We're going to be utilizing some CPR mannequins. Right now, students in second and third grade are working with Bosu balls, so we're going to have some mannequins not only for the primary center, but for the upper elementary center, or upper elementary school, excuse me. We're going to have pickleball, um, the rackets, the courts, update, um, playground balls, basketballs, um, and she said different things for skill development, so we're going to be working
006through that process with her, Mrs. Coleman in the business office. So, we're so excited that our students will have some new equipment come August 2026. Thank you. I appreciate that. And great work to everybody. Thank you again to Alexa, like you said. Thank you. Approved the renewal NEFCO 5-year agreement for the purchase of a new basketball scoreboard, shot clock, and football scoreboard paid for using the grant funds and the total family foundation funds. That's what I'm talking about. Curriculum approved Peppi's Hoagie sale for the junior high school music program to help raise funds to attend a musical production of The Lion King in September 2026. I love the musical Lion King. I love it. Oh my goodness. Educational leadership approved the IU notice of adoption of approved LEA policies, procedures, and use of funds. Any
007questions? Comments, concerns, or comments? I can comment. Basically, that's just saying that um that as the school district, we also adopt the policies that um the IU uses for the funds that pass through for us. Thank you. Want to get this one? Yep. Approve the AIU IDEA Part B use of funds agreement. Again, that's the same thing that the funds that come through pass through the IU to us that we um just follow the agreement. Thank And then number three, approve the special education matrix as presented. Jennifer Corbo reading specialist network location AIU. Any questions? Mrs. Hoover, do you know if Mr. Dorsey is online by chance? I don't she can make it tonight. Okay, thank you. All right, with that being said, we're going to go ahead and go back to the uh section
008A. We're going to the voting portion of this meeting. I think items say items A through F 13. A through F 13. Sorry, A1 through F13, I'm sorry. I have a motion when ready. I'm sorry, did you say a motion for A through F as in Frank 15 13? Yes, ma'am. A1 through F strap 13. Thank you. Yes, ma'am. Motion. That was um Director Myers Director Myers for a motion. Can we have a second, please? Director Godfrey second. Okay, for voting, Director Hunter will? Yes. Director Myers? Yes. Director Roberts? Yes. Director Colliver? Yes. Director Donya? Yes. Director Hisawski? Yes. Six yeses, motion passes. Thank you, ma'am. Now, I can take items G1 through G3. Can I have a motion when ready, please? Director Holsapple motion. And I have a second. Director Hunter Rowe second. For
009voting, Director Myers. Yes. Director Roberts. Yes. Director Colliver. Yes. Director Donahue. Yes. Director Hasouski. Yes. Director Hunter Rowe. Yes. Sixteen yeses, motion passes. Thank you. Congratulations to Alexis Wells, Sabrina Foote, and Josh Kemp. Um, and Elsa Albert Clark. Thank you all very much. Legal, you have anything, ma'am? I don't. Thank you so much. Yes, ma'am. Now, we're going to new business. It's items IB1 through IS3. IB1 through IF3. Can I have a motion when ready? Director Holsapple motion. Thank you. And I have a second. Director Donahue second. For voting, Director Hasouski. Yes. Director Hunter Rowe. Yes. Director Myers. Yes. Director Roberts. Yes. Director Colliver. Yes. Director Donia. Yes. Six yeses, motion passes. Thank you. We'd like to take up item IG IG1. All together? For IG1, sorry. Can we have a motion ready? Motion Director
010Hosack. I'll second. Motion Director Honore. For the voting, Director Myers. Yes. Director Roberts. Yes. Director Colliver. Yes. Director Donia. Yes. Director Zawacki. Yes. Director Honore. Yes. Six yeses, motion passes. Thank you. Do we have any committee reports for tonight? None heard. Anyone sign up for public comment tonight? Should be a no. Um before we go into the next portion, I do want to give a quick shout out to um once again to everyone including all of the staff, um admin, honestly the entire building like all the buildings for working their way up. I mean people are noticing us and seeing us and they want to bring great things to our district. I mean um I think the superintendent, uh Mr. Paul and I, we all met in the office um yesterday. You know, with some
011folks who want to kind of honestly bring some great things to our district because of the work that they're saying that, you know, us putting in here out here, you know, so uh I just want to thank everyone for putting the work in. I mean, for our teachers, again, all the way up, uh custodians as well, all the way up, you know what I mean? Um it's really important to make sure that we're saying thank you sometimes. It go a long way. Um and we we generally mean it. What was that? The administrative and office staff as well. I believe it was just administrative day the other day as well. 100% 100%, you know, and and we really do just appreciate everyone, you know, for putting the work in our district, you know, um we
012don't see everyone every day. You all do, you know, um and we have faith that you all are honestly doing the right thing and and really killing it around here. So, again, thank you to everyone. I love the emails that I'm seeing from the superintendent that come out about not the Browns or what not, but that's all right. Uh but but but again, though, just thank you all very much. It's it's really it's a breath of fresh air, you know, so thank you. I appreciate it. Always. Our next general meeting will be Thursday, May 21st. We'll be a combined agenda review and voting meeting location at the junior high school at 7:00 p.m. in the cafeteria unless otherwise noted. And then after that in June, Myers Ridge, and then August um back at the high
013school. Any questions? Comments, concerns? Can I have a motion to adjourn this meeting? Motion, Director Holcomb. Can I have a second? Second, Director Roberts. Meeting is adjourned. Thank you all.