001Welcome to the June meeting of the South Range Board of Education. The first thing I'd like to ask us to do is to stand. And the flag's over there. Say the pledge of the flag, please. 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. Mr. Phillips, would you call the roll, please? Brian Bagwell. Taylor Christian. Here. Terry Lally. Here. Amy White. Here. Ralph Wentz. Here. First item on the agenda is the approval of the minutes from our regular meeting on May the 18th, 2020. If there are no additions or corrections, I'd ask for a motion to accept the minutes as presented. I motion. Terry moves. Can we have a second? Amy seconds. All
002those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. And on to Mr. Phillips. In the Treasurer's Report. Okay, our fund balance in the regular general fund as of the end of May, $4,367,943.66. On June 30th, I'll be asking for your permission to do an advance for the $3,623 negative bus fund under that. And so that would bring that to zero for the end of the year. Moving down. Moving down to the lunchroom fund. It looks like we have an $89,609 deficit, but what happens is there's a starting money check, I think about $35,000, that they'll be sending back this week. That's another reason we do this on June 30th, because we have to wait for these last-minute things to come back. And then there's also federal money, hopefully, that comes back. I don't expect that
003we're going to make it to a zero balance or better. They're still hurting in the cafeteria due to a la carte. They had to serve the kids in the classroom, in the elementary and middle schools, and a la carte suffered a lot. And some lunches in general have been suffering still due to COVID. So anyways, that contract, they make good up to a certain amount. So we'll see where that ends up landing, but we've got a problem there. We'll end up transferring some money in there. I just don't know how much. I don't see it. The next page, there's going to be a transfer, which will wipe out the athletic fund negative balance. There's plenty of money in there to cover the negative balance that you're seeing. In the Ohio High School athletic tournament, from
004the tournament games that we had here at the school, at the end of the year, you're allowed to transfer whatever is left over from all the bills into the athletic fund. And so that's set up for the June 30th meeting as well. And then all our grants, looking down below, I've got, it's too late to do too many, if I do the cash request, they're not going to mail the check or put it into our account electronically until July. But the amount you see here do not include monies that we did receive this month. So I won't be making advances for the big amounts that you see, like $167,000 on the ESSER. I think that we have to do that. I think that we ended up with about $73,000, if I remember right, that I'm
005going to ask you to let me bring in as an advance. And remember, advances are a loan until next year. So we can close, we're not allowed to have any negative accounts as of the end of June. So advances are loans from the general fund to these grants while we're awaiting the federal money. Whereas the transfers for the bus fund and probably cafeteria, those are a gift. You're saying we didn't make it, we ended up with a negative balance, and every year, any time we buy a bus, the only reason I keep that bus fund separate makes it easy to track and know what buses are here, what buses aren't, and how much we did spend on buses. And I like doing that, probably being an old guy, because the state used to pay for
006buses, and now that they don't, I like to keep track of what that costs us. There was some talk about putting that into House Bill 110, the current next biennium budget bill, but I don't think it's going to make it. All those comments aside, the total amount of money that we're going to be spending on buses, the total fund balance, all funds, $5,821,226.21. That reconciles, if I can turn the pages, follows. Farmers National Bank, Premier Bank, and Star Ohio combined for all bank deposits of $6,166,532 even. Outstanding checks, $348,218.09. We had one deposit in transit for the pay-for, which was the cafeteria account of $70, and another one for $82.30 even. The expenses in transit, sometimes when the month ends on a Friday or close to it, you get expenses in transit. We did have
007one to handles for $1,980. So when you total all those, you get negative $346,085.79. As always, the cash is in transit. As always, the cash on hand, petty cash account, $780. And when you do that math of the $6 million minus the $346,000 plus the $780, it comes up to $5,821,226.21, which does balance with the cash summary report balance that we just read. You also received the appropriation account, the revenue account, and disbursements. If there's any questions on any of those three, or this report, I can entertain those now. Okay, does anybody have any questions for Mr. Phillips on the financials? On the bus fund, is there a point where you're not going to be able to keep that in a separate account anymore? I think we might have talked about that before. It used
008to be mandatory starting in 1994. That's why any of my grants, you'll notice all our grants are 9021 for Special Cost Center. That one's 9194 because that's when the law was passed. It was in 1994 that you had to keep separate funds. They were still giving us money then, and they wanted it to be kept separate. I can't remember when. It's probably been 10 or 15 years now that they revoked that requirement, and so I could have collapsed it then. But there's nothing illegal or wrong or anything else with doing it. I can have a lot of general fund with Special Cost Center to keep track of different parts of money if I wanted to, but that particular one was already there, so I just let it ride for my own purposes. I thought there
009was a question. I thought there was talk of one of the funds we had, I thought we had to collapse. Well, I am just, we used to have a middle school athletic account, and there's still $78 and some odd cents in that account. And all this year I've been meaning when I get an athletic purchase order to code to the high school account and then code $78 and however many cents to the middle school, which would automatically wipe that out. Never thought to do it. So it's going to start again next year. So, Donnie, on your first PO, remind us. On my first PO, remind me to get rid of that middle school account. Okay. Any other questions for Mr. Phillips before we move to accept the financials? If not, I'd entertain a motion to
010accept the financial report. Brian moves. May I have a second? Amy seconds. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. And on to Mrs. Carlson and New Business. Today, being that we're in the summer, we have not too many today, but Mr. Farron, our athletic director, is here to give us an end-of-year update on our athletics. Good evening. I'd like to take this chance. A lot of people this year are saying this year is going to be remembered as the year of COVID. Standing here as an athletic director, I would like to say this was the year of the Raiders. They fought with each other and they defeated COVID. They stayed together as teams. They did what they needed to do to show what South Range student-athletes are all about. And that was
011making sure they took care of each other and coming together and building that camaraderie they had with each other to excel on the athletic fields and courts and trails. It's very impressive, as I was sitting over the last two or three weeks, thinking about the accomplishments our students have done over the course of one year here at South Range. We offer 14 sports that we compete in in the NEA conference. Seven of our 14 teams were league champions. Many of you were at the meetings five years ago when we were deciding which conference do we want to go into. And there was a lot of people. And I'm not saying that we're going to be the only ones. We're going to be the only ones. There were people that said, we will not compete in
012that conference. That's too big of schools to go into the conference with them. What have our kids done? They've stepped up again. They've showed you what they want to be challenged. They don't want to play down to the smaller schools. They want to play up with the big boys. And they want to be respected by everyone. So in this area, not in the Tri-County area anymore, you ask our coaches and our kids, they want to be respected from the whole state. But I want to acknowledge our league champions this year, boys cross country. I am recognizing two teams, and there will be two more plaques on the wall. Our football team was 6-0. They tell you we're not NEA champs. We didn't play one team in the league. Their head coach will come here and
013tell you, you would have beat us 60 to nothing. Football was league champs, undefeated. Girls basketball team shared the league. Our wrestling was again league champs. Our boys track team was league champs. Our baseball team, undefeated league champs. Oh, no, I'm sorry, they did lose one game. They were league champs. And our softball team was league champs. Our regionals, our teams that got out of our sectionals and districts, regional finalists was our football team. Our girls basketball team. Our baseball team. Our teams that competed at the state level that qualified for the state meet. Our wrestling team qualified for the state duels. Our boys cross country team competed in the cross country meet. And our softball team was state runners up. I don't know how to say it. At a school this size, to have
014that much success, that is awesome for our student athletes and our coaches for the work they put in. I'm proud of them. I'm proud of them. I don't have enough paper here. I would have had to do two more pages. If I went into detail about each individual kid that did something, who was player of the year, the NEA, who was player of the year, YSN, who was player of the year, Northeast Ohio, who was player of the year, all Ohio. We had many of them also. But the list goes on and on. One thing that I would like to add to this, just outside of success, every student athlete, two of us did a lot of work and no experiences. Just outside the success, every team we had this year at our school, and
015I've been around the school for a long time, many of you have been around the school for a long time. We have 12 graduating seniors who are going on to continue their athletic careers in college. Not one of them is getting a full athletic scholarship. All 12 of them are getting academic scholarships. Our kids are doing both on the athletic field in court and in the classroom what it takes to go on to the next level. And I just wanna thank you guys for having the trust in our staff here to lead those young adults. So thank you very much. Thank you very much. Next up, Ms. Lally, is there anything? Mr. Christian? Okay. That's all of our monthly reports. I know they relaxed some over the summer months here. Next up will be the
016Rader Before and After Care Program approval for the 21-22 school year. Yes, just asking that we continue this program. It has actually grown every year where more students are needing the before and after care to support our community with our start time and end time. Next would be an approval to approve the amended food service agreement with the nutrition group. Yeah. The lady from the nutrition group came and met with Jim and I and to kind of maybe support and help the issues of COVID. She asked if we'd be willing to split and do a shared service since we do have like a director here that helps Kaitlin. Kaitlin's not alone here. So we agreed to transition. She'll be three days here, two days at another school. So we'll be able to do that. And
017it will help defer some of the costs, which then may help us in the long run with some of the cost issues we had this year, as well as then maybe start helping generate money into that fund. Okay. Next would be our annual transfer of funds. Once from the class of 2021 to the class of 22, we typically do that once all the bills are paid and we're asking to be able to transfer those funds. Is there anything you need to add to that? Next up, and obviously we discussed this a little bit beforehand, we need to have a special board meeting on June 30th to close out the fiscal year for Mr. Phillips. I believe we're gonna go ahead with that since we have three board members that said they can be there. Next
018will be the approval of donations for the 2021 school year. Is there anything you'd like to add to that, Mrs. Carlson? No, I just, since it's not the resolution, just I wanna truly thank our board members. I wanna thank our community for the support. You'll hear it in the resolution how much they gave this year. It's very appreciated. Next would be the approval of the drug and alcohol testing of students in the non-academic activities for the 21-22 school year. Back in 2000, I think it was 14, we passed the policy to do drug testing on our student athletes, as well as the non-academic activities. So that included any activity they're in, and it's been a success. It really helps deter the students from doing things they shouldn't be doing, so we'd like to continue that.
019Next up is the approval of the contract with the youth intensive services for the 21-22 school year. Yeah, this is another thing that we do every year. We partner with youth intensive services. It's at no cost to the district, but they're here onsite providing our students additional and more intensive mental health services. And just to make a note on that, they also will reach out and collaborate with the families and do family counseling as well, not just with the students. Item number nine is the number of board policies that were given to us last month, and we're gonna adopt those this month. Next would be the same problem that so many places I know are having, but an increase in the 21-22 school year substitute pay. Yes, Mahoning County, COG is going to start their
020own substitute service. They're leaving, I don't know if you remember Rachel Wixie, that was the company that was here. So knowing what they're gonna pay and to be able to honor our staff that like to come here and support us as substitutes, we need to increase it to make sure we can maintain our high quality substitutes. Next up will be for the 21-22 school year school resource officer agreement that we do annually with Beaver Township. Yes. So the board is asking that we approve this again this year. There was an increase, Mr. Phillips, do you remember how many years it's been since? Three. Three, since we've had an increase. But again, this is also, we pay this out of the student wellness fund grant, so this is not a general fund. Next would be the
021approval of the South Range Local School District technology initiative. Yes, since we will be a one-to-one device, we've worked with Mr. Pagnotta and the administration kindergarten through sixth grade, we'll have them in their classrooms. Middle school will be able to undock them and take them from room to room. Seven through 12, we will let them take them home, so it will be more of a one-to-one. They can use it at home to do their homework. So the form that I gave you will be sent home to every parent, and it's the rules and regulations that we have, and then once we get the exact cost of the repair of replacement, replacement of a cord, we'll put those funds in there. I do want to highlight, a lot of districts have a yearly fee that they
022have to pay. Yes. Not really knowing what a true repair cost would be in a district of our size for like keyboard repairs, little thing repairs that Mr. Pagnotta has to do. We are able to continue to use some of our ESSER funds to kind of set aside and kind of look over this year, maybe even next year, how much are we really needing to collect, and then have a better idea to set a fee price instead of just saying $25 more a month, or a year for technology. So we want to really make sure we only ask what we need. So we're gonna take two years to use our ESSER funds. And lastly, before we end, before we go to public participation on the agenda items is the ARP ESSER III fund allocation and
023funding plan. The state of Ohio has to have theirs approved. They have to put a presentation together and have that approved before they will be receiving all of their funds. So it kind of trickled down, that now we also have to do a quick presentation. So I've met with a few staff members, the administration I have worked, and we've put together a budget with the funds that we are receiving through the ARP ESSER. And it will be posted on our website, but I have to present it here. So when we get to that, I'll switch screens and present how we are allocating our money at this time. When we come back through, correct? Yep. Okay, that's all the June agenda items. Next up will be public participation on agenda items only. If anybody would like
024to comment or has something they'd like to say, now would be the time to do that. I'd say step up to the microphone. And you have two minutes and state your name and address for us. Rich Rinchak, 115 Longview. Could you elaborate on number seven, the drug and alcohol testing? Can you, it just, it doesn't really go into any detail and we didn't seem to go into too much detail on that. It's the same, I believe it's the same policy we've had for a number of years. So we're still doing basic, I mean that will still include band, that will still include parking permits, basically anything that's not just coming to school and going to class. Correct. Have we, and I don't believe, I brought this up since Beth has been here. You know, I've
025been a big advocate of looking at maybe going to hair testing as opposed to urine testing. I don't know if we would consider maybe putting that out to bid to see what a cost comparison would be. And the only reason I say that is urine testing is only good for about three or four days, if you're lucky. Probably actually closer to 24, 48 hours for most substances. Whereas hair testing, you're gonna get a lot more time. You're gonna get about a three month look back on what that particular person has done. So you're much more likely to catch somebody. And I'm not looking to catch a kid because I wanna see him punished or anything like that. But I see the drug abuse in our society every single day I go to work and it's
026out of control. So I think if we could do anything to intervene in a child that has some type of a substance abuse problem at the earliest possible age we could, it would be beneficial. And I would at least encourage us to put out the bid to see, let's compare the two. And if there's not that much of a difference, I'd like to highly encourage you guys to potentially look at hair testing. Okay, thank you. Anybody else? Agenda items. So with the, I guess I have two agenda item questions. With the district technology initiative, if a student is to kind of like, not just the regular wear and tear, but actually break a computer, are they then held responsible for paying it back or fixing it? If it's gonna be a full replacement, that's the
027only cost we're gonna ask for. But if it can be repaired, that'll go into our total fund that will determine. Okay. And then this is more of a comment on the drug testing. I think the way we do it, we do it in a way that is so expansive, we're just trying to throw a net to catch as many kids as we can. I see that as kind of a constitutional issue. I see that as a kind of unreasonable search and seizure of their personal effects. I looked it up on Amazon. I highly encourage parents to test your kids. You don't have to follow the constitution at home. It's like 10 bucks to get a, I think it's a 12 panel test. So I highly encourage that. I don't believe we should be doing this
028though. Okay, anybody else? Not, we'll go back through the agenda items. First up is the before and after camp approval for the 21-22 school year. May I have a motion to accept that? Aye. Second. Taylor makes a motion. May I have a second? Second. Taylor seconds. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Next, approve the amended food service agreement with the nutrition group for the 21-22 school year. May I have a motion to accept that? So moved. Taylor moves. May I have a second? Brian seconds. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Next up is the approval for the June 30, 2021 final appropriations meeting at 7 o'clock a.m. to be held over at the Board of Education. Is that approved? Aye. Second. Taylor second. May I have a
029second? Aye. Second. Terry second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Next up will be the approval for the June 30, 2021 final appropriations meeting at 7 o'clock a.m. to be held over at the Board of Education. May I have a motion to accept that? Next up is the approval for the June 30, 2021 final appropriations meeting at 7 o'clock a.m. to be held over at the Board of Education. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. May I have a motion to accept and approve the donations for the 2020-21 school year that amounted to, I wanted to read, $105,837.78. All those in favor say aye. Second. and 78 cents and i might add that that's um and it's kind of amazing i i guess when you take a look
030at that that we've had that many people and and obviously the list will be made i'm not going to continue to utilize the same cleaning products we were using that they recommended keep the room somewhat cleaned out we're going to try and we're going to build that extra little storage area that we can put some of these tables that are under stairwells and whatnot still keeping the rooms cleaned out so if for some reason things were spike we could spread the desks out a little bit but the the goal is to go back to normal as much as we can some of the big things that we will be keeping in play will be bottles the bottle fillers we feel that it's not just a cover reduction but it might have also helped with keeping
031flu and other things down because kids aren't drinking on the fountains and in fact all the research says the more water you drink the smarter you be because your brain is hydrated so they actually drank more water this year so it was a good thing and also the front four years it was really effective to have the table so when parents would bring things in they could just set it there they didn't have to come and wait for kids to come down when the kids were in a break in between classes they would come get their things and go back so kids were in classrooms better and longer so certain couple things we're going to keep in play that actually we found out to be effective practices um so as i mentioned the sanitary bottles
032masks as of right now we will not be mandating if a parent chooses and they want their child to have a mask on in school they are more than welcome to wear one i say all of this with as long as we aren't mandated to do something as of right now when the new department of health order came out covid reporting is still on there i don't know how the cover reporting is going to be mandated i am going to work with our one call system because there's a text message availability to see if we can get that set up because i think our parents would prefer just to give text message than me calling like crazy um as i mentioned we're still going to do our after care i've already mentioned this i think
033two other meetings we will not be offering an online our kids need to be in our building we had such a few amount that were out at the end as it was if a child is quarantined though they will receive the same quality that we did when students were quarantined here they can either live stream in or they'll get their work if by some chance again things spike and the school has to close we will revert with our one-to-one and go remote if things change and as things change that'll be updated on the way out. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. It's a nice way to wrap up. So S.R. funds we have received to
034date a couple of different amounts back. We when we first went to shut down the two that have come about since i've been here were the S.R. 2 which we received $356,000 we received at the beginning of the school year we've been using it on cleaning supplies technology technology software different things so it's been being used throughout this year as Mr. Phillips has mentioned at various times it helped keep us a little bit more level instead of dipping down. ESSER ARP is the one that is new. It is starting to be, we like to use the word, allocated into the CCIP system. We don't have the funds he has to request them. We are going through the process right now of determining where the funds will be spent. To try to keep some normalcy, I
035tried to separate the ESSER II was for these things, the ESSER III were for these things. So then he, as a treasurer, it's easier to figure out what's going to which fund. I really want to highlight they are requiring us to put 20% or more of these funds, has to go towards addressing learning loss through evidence based intervention, intervention response to the student's academic, social, emotional needs, anything that has to do with EL students, the English language learner students, low income students, students who maybe are in foster care, any activities that are related to that. So we are going to put 20% or more of these funds. So we did do a large chunk and I'll explain that in a minute where those funds are going because we focused on our students. That was our
036main area to focus. You can also use it to repair school facilities to reduce the risk to transmit environmental hazards, renovation if necessary to prevent, repair, or respond to COVID, upgrade to school facility. Now there's a little caveat there. Also in a lower one for the school facilities, it can't hinder your impact to your funds. So if it's like you want to build this new building and now you've only got 10% left, you're not allowed to do that. So there are some different things you have to be careful with. HVA system is a big one, upgrading and looking at the HVA system. Anything other activities used to address unique needs of students, cleaning, sanitizer, emergency supplies. As I already mentioned, evidence based intervention, purchasing, and other activities. Then there's the summer learning programs that we
037have going on right now. So what are we doing here at South Range? Like I said, over 20% we are allocating towards our students to start. Nice thing about these funds, if we get like these are for three years. These ARP funds can be spent for three years. So we tried to plan a three year plan on how to do different things. If things shift and change or an emergency arises and we need to, we can go in, rebudget it, and I can get another approval. But we're going to do summer tutoring. We have it going on at the elementary. Middle school is working on it. If a student can't attend, I have one teacher working with one of the students who were remote the whole year privately doing hourly tutoring. So anything, learning gaps
038or credit recovery at the high school, we will be able to support that. Extended day programs throughout the year. Over the next three years, we're going to look at offering, especially middle school because I think it's better for kids, but also at the elementary that we need to look at data. And we see there's some concerns with students. We may do four weeks of after school for like an extended hour specific for those students, specific content. Support and ensure that our IDEA, our special education and early intervention will continue. Some of the things we are doing, I am, the middle school has one Title I tutor. So we are going to purchase an hourly tutor with these funds to add a second one at the middle school for seventh and eighth grade. And then we
039also, to maintain our special ed services as well as early intervention, we do have a resignation of its, elementary teacher. We're going to use these funds to maintain, because that's one of the things and what you're allowed to do. Maintain service at the elementary for the next three years with these funds for special ed and elementary, like first, second, third, kindergarten, early intervention. So we are going to use those to help offset some of that and maintain. Purchase evidence-based intervention, benchmarking. Other areas that we're going to look at is some professional development. We need to, our staff is going through social emotional programs. We need to, our staff is going through social emotional programs. We need to, our staff is going through social emotional programs. K-4, they're going to have an intensive PACS training. The
040middle school counselors, Ms. Pettit will have some and then she'll be working with different various classrooms. So if we need to, development for teacher clarity, the embedded plan that I talked to you guys about. So this can help offset some of the costs with that and work through that. And then at the very end, you notice I also mentioned the substitutes. This can help offset the substitutes. The big one is our facilities. As of right now, Mr. Pagnotta and I have worked. We are the HVAC system. One thing that's different with COVID, we kind of let it run a lot more. So we are in year 12 heading to 13. So replacing the engines, you can replace the software. But when the guy came out and talked, he advised us to replace the engines, which
041includes the upgraded software. And it was just time to do that with as much as they've been running. That makes it more efficient. So we are able to use that money to get that done now. And then continue to maintain our service. We are still continuing to look at the well. As I've mentioned before, we run this district on one well. So we just need to evaluate can we look at maybe getting another well. Throughout the last year, actually probably a year and a half now, the ice shield on the roof has not been replaced. Mr. Pagnotta brought it to me early last year. And I looked at him and went COVID. So this was one of those things. If you've kind of let something go that you need to get done and it is
042directly was ignored because of COVID, it is causing some leaks, which is causing mold on tiles and different things. So they told me it fell under that hazard that they would rather see it fixed. So we're going to get the ice shield fixed. So again, the rest of the stuff I mentioned. Now, at the very beginning, I mentioned they have about $500 and some thousand dollars that was allocated to us already in the CCIP. That's what they're telling us we have. But we should be getting another $300,000 once this is done. So that's what we're getting. And then once the state's budget is approved. So some other areas that we can look at to support the district's general fund are we are allowed to use it to purchase buses, which from what I understand, we
043used to be on a better routine of purchasing new buses. And we've not been able to do that because we've been watching the budget. So we can utilize that to maybe purchase a bus or two. So when that $300,000 comes in, we'll sit down again and see where we are and evaluate. I did not budget that $300,000. We allocated the 20% that were mandated as if it was the full $800,000. But there's still $300,000 sitting out there that we haven't really. And by the time it's budgeted, we'll be in the school year. We'll see what's happening and see what we really need it for. But again, that is a three-year plan. We're hoping, like the instructional staff I mentioned, it is a three-year plan. So any questions on that? Any questions from anybody here? Okay.
044If not, may I have a motion to approve the application of the new bus. I have a motion to approve the ESSER fund allocation plan for the 21-22 school year. Terry makes a motion. May I have a second? Second. Taylor seconds. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Before we go to public participation on non-agenda items, just a few comments. One to tie in with Mrs. Carlson as well as the end of the school year. So first thing I guess I'd like to say is when Mrs. Carlson applied for the superintendent's position here at South Range, obviously we had nobody had any idea that COVID was coming down the highway and that. And although she has been in the administrative side of things for a number of years in her career, this
045obviously is her first superintendent's position. And I'd just like to say that. I'd just like to publicly. I've told her this privately, but I would like to publicly say that I couldn't be. And I think I speak for the board any more well pleased than how she's handled the situation that was really just thrown at us as well as every other district in the state. I also would like to commend the whole board. All of us felt very strongly about this. We felt very strongly as it was obvious that most of our parents did that we needed to be in school five days a week, every day, all day. And we took a little approach. And I will say some of us were not in favor of the way we started out the school year
046this past year, you know, kind of splitting and everything. But we thought better to take a step back. We thought better to take a step back. We thought better to take a slow approach and see how things go as to go full force into it. And after a few weeks, I'm not going to say we're the only district in the area, but we are one of the very few districts in the area that was pretty much open five days a week, all day, every day, with the exception of a little bit of time in there. And I think that number one goes to Mrs. Carlson and her leadership at the top. And then I think it also, you know, the trickle down effect here goes to, you know, next level of management and the way
047they handled and kept kids focused and what they should be doing. And then I think it also is a testament to our parents in the district and how they tried to make sure and made sacrifices that they weren't commingling. And we were bringing COVID into the school. And I think that's a testament to that. And lastly, I'd like to say I don't think they get enough credit. I know Dean's setting up there. But, you know, you think about our custodial staff and the amount of cleaning that they had to do every single day. And I just cannot say that I'm any more, could be any more happier that how that worked its way out. And obviously, you know, our teachers who had interaction with the kids each and every day and keeping them focused. You
048know, kids, kids, although they're responsible, are kids. And we had to keep that focus. So I'd just like to again say thank you to Mrs. Carlson for everything that you've done in keeping our district focused. And really, I had no complaints from that side of things. And I think I speak for the board. Did any of you have very many complaints of how things were handled? As far as our situation here. So thank you to each and every one of you for all of your parts that you did. It was greatly appreciated by this board. And I really do think, although I think kids did lack some of the things. And we see that with having to spend some money for remediation and stuff. But anybody that says that learning can be done non-face-to-face. I
049really don't believe they know what they're saying. Because we need our kids face-to-face with teachers. Parents aren't teachers. And they aren't designed to be teachers. And I think that there are very few parents out there that want to be teachers and stuff. So again, thank you to everybody, our staff, teachers, and everybody there. At this point in time, we would have entertained public participation for non-agenda items. Same rules apply. Two minutes. And please state your name and your address if you have any comments. Anybody? Rich Rencheck, 115 Longview. Yeah, I reiterate everything you said, Ralph. Kudos to the entire district. I mean, from the top on down, they did a wonderful job. I didn't have a dog in the fight. But I thought, you know, the fact that we stayed open was fantastic. I have
050a question with the ESSER funds. I know one of the, we haven't really had testing, I don't believe, in the last year because of COVID. They pretty much shut down all of that. But one of the areas that we seem to always fall behind in that is value added. Can you use ESSER funds to address value added? I don't know. I just, I didn't remember seeing it with what you went through. You can't directly address value added because it's a, I can never say that word, statistical measure that takes over three years. So it's actually three different groups of kids. How you address value added is working through our professional development with our staff to make sure that their alignment to the standards that's being taught, which is what we're doing with our embedded PD
051plan this year. And then also to offer the intervention to the students. So if they are struggling, they get a second area of help. But the value added solely comes off of that one test, one shot, and it's three different cohorts that it adds together. It's hard to directly add it, but we will underneath with the tutoring. That's why I'm adding somebody to the middle school because the seventh and eighth grade needed a little bit more support. I mean, it just, and it looks like we're spending a lot of money to help, you know, raise deficits, which I'm sure are going to be substantial through all this. It was a struggle. But it just seems like one, you know, one of the things that we're doing. Yeah. One of the things I've championed is to
052try and get the top as well. It seems like the top doesn't get the attention that the bottom gets. And those are the people that are going into, you know, a lot of your STEM fields and stuff like that that need to be challenged that way, too. When you're able to, when I'm able to provide more support like the middle school with these ESSER funds for students who maybe need that extra intervention, it frees up more time for the teachers then to address the students who may need the acceleration. So yeah, it does kind of work in tandem. Okay. And there was only one thing I ran into. I was, had an interaction with somebody in the community, and we started talking about the school. And I mean, we're doing the resource officer, which I
053would think is great. You know, I wish Green Township would kick in a little bit, too. But, you know, we've fought that fight. But one of the things that bothered me was I was talking to a parent, and they had a student who, one of their children was a student. And this person just happened to be a law enforcement official. And apparently a teacher told the class that all cops are bad. So, you know. I would encourage parents to immediately have them call the administration and myself because. Well, they did. I mean, it was supposedly brought to the middle school principal. But I would hope, you know, I think one of the things we like when you see all this goofy stuff on the national news with all this critical race theory and all this
054liberal mumbo jumbo, we don't do that. And I would hope we would continue to, you know, teach nice, strong, conservative values to our kids. And I think that goes against what we typically have represented, you know, to our children. So I just want to make you guys aware of that. Thank you. Anybody else? Okay. Seeing none. Next up is executive session under Ohio revised code and board policy 0166 for the consideration of appointment, employment, dismissal, discipline, promotion to motion, or compensation of a public employee. I would now entertain a motion to go to executive session. Brian moves. May I have a second? Terry second. Mr. Phillips, roll call, please. Taylor Christian. No. Terry Lally. Yes. Ralph Wentz. Yes. Amy White. Yes. Brian Bagwell. Yes. All right. The board enters executive session at 748 p.m. 756.
055Carlson. Personnel, please. Yes. I said we're back out. So we're back in open session here. Summer bridge tutor. She stepped up. I want to thank Ms. Coy. $20 an hour. Also approved moving into the end of the year, we'll meet at the end of the summer for middle school. Krista House. Krista Hosler. Marnie Toot. Heidi Williams. Kim Vavacqua. And Brooke will be a substitute for the elementary summer school. Proved Denver Kittle to remain with us beyond the school year as summer help and to continue to be paid at minimum wage. Approved Colleen Marshall as an instructional aid if you remember Heather Livesey resigned at the last meeting. So she'll be replacing that position. That was one I had not reduced. Approved summer seasonal transportation. This is actually just to clarify for payroll because I never
056put the amount on it for the last people that were on here. And it does include Kylie Tullis. She was able to return us just in a couple hours helping with cleaning in the summer. Accept the retirement of Carol Dawson. Effective June 17, 2021. Carol has worked as an intervention specialist in South Grange Elementary for 14 years. During this time, Ms. Dawson worked very closely with her resource room team. Ms. Smartz, Ms. Manchester, Ms. Ombrecht, and Ms. A. Mrs. Dawson worked especially closely with the instructional aids in her classroom. Ms. Frank. Ms. Dawson started her career in the K3 building in North Lima where she created her own specialized classroom for students with special needs. Thank you. Over the years, Ms. Dawson has worked with students with many diverse needs and she has always looked
057for creative ways to meet the needs of all students. Ms. Dawson has served on various committees and has always been willing to pick up any duty that was necessary to help make the day run smoothly. More than anything, she will be, we will miss Carol's warm smile and love, caring way she treated the staff and students. We wish Carol the best retirement as she looks forward to the future. We also wish Carol the best retirement as she looks forward to spending more time with her husband, John, and her family. Also, we need to accept the resignation of Sharn Creen, who is an instructional aid in one of our resource rooms. Sharn has been an asset to our special needs population. She had, for those of you who don't know, she used to be a full-time
058teacher. So what she brought to the classroom was also, she supported the instructional teacher. Though she's only been with us a few years, she has made a lasting impact on our students and our district. Lastly, I want to thank Ms. Ombrecht, Ms. Ombrecht, Ms. Ombrecht, Ms. Ombrecht, Ms. Ombrecht, Ms. Ombrecht, Ms. Ombrecht, Ms. Ombrecht, Ms. Ombrecht, Ms. Ombrecht, Ms. Ombrecht, Ms. Ombrecht, Ms. Ombrecht, Ms. Ombrecht, Ms. Ombrecht, Ms. Ombrecht, Ms. Ombrecht, Ms. Ombrecht, Ms. Ombrecht, Ms. Ombrecht, Ms. Ombrecht, Ms. Ombrecht, Ms. Ombrecht, Ms. Ombrecht, Ms. Ombrecht, Ms. Ombrecht, Ms. Ombrecht, Ms. Ombrecht, Ms. Ombrecht, Ms. Ombrecht, Ms. Ombrecht, Ms. Ombrecht, Ms. Ombrecht, Ms. Ombrecht, Ms. Ombrecht, Ms. Ombrecht, Ms. assistant varsity cross country terry kinney co-middle school coach david bizaco co-middle school coach tyler bradley and then three middle school assistants alex dickey chris patrone
059zane pridler volunteer cross country coach daniel bizaco volunteer high school basketball coach okay i entertain a motion at this time to accept all the personnel out there my motion terry makes motion may have a second second taylor seconds mr phillips roll call please taylor christian yes terry lally yes ralph wentz yes amy white brian bagwell yes next up motion for adjournment terry makes the motion we have a second brian seconds and we are adjourned thank you very much