001[Applause] [Music] All right, we'll go ahead and call the meeting to order. Rachel here, Katie here, Sarah here, Doug here, Lorie here, Harry here, Jeff here. All right, if everyone will stand for a pledge of allegiance and remain standing for a moment of silence for armed services personnel. 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. Thank you. Are there any items to be added or changed to the agenda? Move on to recognitions and acknowledgement. We have tenure middle school. Casey Stradling Gayard Intermediate School. Julia Nerv North Ohio Elementary School. Dina Dina low. We went over this before the meeting and I knew I'd still screw it up. Uh, South Maple Elementary School,
002Melanie Owens. Got Teresa Payton. And I apologize, Teresa Payton, also at North Ohio. And let's start with uh Joe. Yep. Casey's been like the perfect hire, you know, although with all his coaching, he it doesn't make too many staff meetings. I had to introduce him to the staff at the end of the year. But, um, I know Casey's celebrating the community and, you know, everyone loves him at the school. Uh, today I walk by the gym, he's playing, uh, floor hockey with the kids, coaches football, now has taken over the head wrestling uh, position. So, and again, settled in the community. So, it's uh, it's been a good hiring. So, congratulations. Thank you. Congratulations, Casey. Congratulations. Congratulations. Thank you. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations, Diane. You can have the floor now. Thank you. You want to come
003on up? We have here today Melanie Owens who comes to our school with nearly 30 years of educational experience. She's been in Gaylord for this is the fourth year for her in special education. And Melanie works with our students who have emotional impairments. So, um she does a phenomenal job of meeting students every day where they're at and um is good at rolling with the highs and the lows for every student. um and she she loves each and every one of them and is a big advocate for our students. So, congratulations on your tenure. Yeah, congratulations. Thank you so much. Congratulations. Thank you. Congratulations. Congratulations. Celeste, would you like to go next? So, we're bringing two staff um to be recognized for their tender. Um, Dina Map Lil um is a kindergarten teacher at North
004Ohio. She has been at uh NOE for four years. She has over 30 years of teaching experience. Um she also is a active community member teaching swim lessons at the Sports Plex. So she sees students and families sometimes during the day and at the pool in the school. Yep. She is a fantastic team member. She's part of our school improvement team and um is a strong kindergarten teacher advocating for kindergarteners and their learning and their development. So, congratulations. Thank you. Yes. And we have uh Teresa Payton who is our PE teacher at North Ohio. She has uh been at North Ohio for two years. Two years. Yeah. Has six years of teaching experience. Um, and many of you may have already heard about the fun day, the quite literally very fun day that we had
005at North Ohio. Um, that was in large part because of Mrs. Payton's efforts planning and organizing those special things outside of her PE role. And if you ever pick up a student at the end of the day, you might hear her. She is our car caller. Uh, so she is the one calling all uh 200 plus names of students, you know, spot three, spot four. So, she knows everybody's parents, everybody's vehicles, and which kids go to which families. And she too is a fantastic asset to our teaching team. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. If I need Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And Carla, that's awesome. Oh, there she is. I'm excited to anni announce the tenure of Julia Newver. She is a fourth grade teacher. She's also been a fifth
006grade teacher in our building. She came from Elma and also coaches volleyball. So, she gets to And you know what? I did a student interview with some sixth graders, an exit interview as they're going to the middle school, and many of her former fifth graders shared that she was a great teacher and that she was their favorite for her fun activities in her classroom. So, that was fun. So, congratulations, Julia. Congratulations. Congrats, Julia. Julia, congratulations. Congratulations. I believe that's all we have for tenure. Correct. I didn't forget anyone. Okay. Okay. We'll move on to MSBO human resources specialist certification. Caitlyn Styles. Mandy, are you I am prepared. All right. Oh, there we go. The certificate and everything. Yeah. Very fancy. Brandon. So, I am just I've been just thrilled over the last year and a
007half. Been so lucky to work with Caitlyn. anyone who's called central office, you know, that she's someone who knows everything about the district and has a lot of institutional knowledge about how things are done. And um over the last two years, she's worked um towards getting her human uh resource specialist uh from MSBO, which is a deep dive into Michigan regulations and laws, contracts, evaluations, all the things we get really excited about, but nobody else really seems to. Yeah. But um and so just really enhances her knowledge. One of my favorite things about Caitlyn is, you know, um things have been done a certain way. Uh and but she's not afraid to change and really make things more efficient so that we can spend our time doing what we need to do, which is really
008um servicing the employees of the school district and helping them with what they need. So congratulations. Thank you very much. Thank you. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Thank you. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. [Laughter] All right. Now, we will move on to one of the big reasons why we're all here. Uh we're going to recognize our uh student athletes of the year. Dale, are you making that presentation? Happy to. You have the floor. Well, first off, when when I moved to uh Gaylord and had the opportunity to come up here, one of the things that I was really blessed with is upper classman leadership at the high school. Um, and all three of these students represent at the highest level. Um, when you talk about leadership, work ethic, drive, motivation, the character that they've instilled not only
009in the things that they do, but also the things that they lead their teammates to. Um, so, uh, as we've worked through the year, we've decided to to kind of revamp both the Kim Schwam Memorial Trophy and the Burning Crest Memorial Trophy. Um, and and part of that has taken their patience. So, I appreciate that. Um, because it needs to follow the spring sports. Um, so these awards will will now always be awarded after the spring sports are are finalized. Um, you know, and then we have a a sevenperson committee that chose the awards. Um, no one whose last name is affiliated with the awards was really a part of that. Um, you know, and this year, um, we'll start with the the Kim Schwam Memorial Trophy, which goes to our most valuable girls athlete.
010Um, and that is Aubrey Jones with her parents, Dawn and Greg. Yeah. Come on. Then you really look at the career that Aubrey Jones has had here for softball and and this year for volleyball as well. She was the big North Conference uh volleyball award honore this year. Um but when you look at softball, there's a banner in the gym as a Gatorade athlete of the year. Um and I think that speaks volumes um to the athletic accomplishments that she's had um you know throughout her career, but also uh this season um you know it's just been a treat to to get to watch you and the crew. Yeah. So congratulations. Congratulations. Thank you. Congratulations. Congratulations. On the voice side of things, the Bernie Caress Memorial um trophy is is going to co-awward winners this
011year. Um the first one's Katon Abraham. Um come on up, Katon. Katon uh with his his parents um Sean and Sarah. Um obviously congratulations. Um Katon from the time that I got to walk in uh to Gaylord. I think one of the first memories I had was before we had actually moved up here walking in and seeing Katon leading a group uh through summer football where I was an all state honore um on the offensive line. Um certainly earned some defensive side of the ball accolades as well and then was a state champion in the ski um you know and I can't even say that correctly. um slalom, right? Close. Um so he was a state champ in the in in on the ski course in this last winter. Um but when you talk about
012again leadership and skill development, the impact that he's had on the boys in the high school um throughout his career, I think it's it's tremendous. So congratulations to congratulations. Congratulations. And other uh co- winner from the bird forest memorial trophy is Zach Kalper um who gets his athletic skills from his mom and certainly his his win as well. So congratulations Zach. Zach was an all state offensive lineman as well and um is really uncomfortable publicly. Um doesn't like the idea that he even has to be here. Doesn't want to open or any of those fun things. Uh but ultimately I can't say enough about the way he's transitioned. um you know and been a part of our you know our journey um but also to be able to to to move up here and be
013all state on the football field in the fall um and then win a state title this spring in track and field. Uh, congratulations. Congratulations. Thank you. Congratulations. And as just as a part of that, since it's at the end of the year now, what we're going to do with the trophies is that families are welcome to take trophies to, you know, celebrate at their open houses and so forth. Um, I think Aubrey, are you finished with yours or do you Yeah. So Ken, if you if you'd like to take trophy here when we had a break, then you guys can take that with you. Thank you. And we'll we'll take just a quick break. If if our athletes want to grab your trophy and go home, uh you're welcome to do that. You're al you're
014welcome to stay. This is usually when everybody leaves. Trophy. Don't drop it. I wonder how many times it's been dropped. That's the same trophy when I graduated. Yeah. Hasn't been dropped, though. That's very cool. All right, we'll move on to our building uh updates. Mr. Byum, too short for these chairs. I hate these chairs. So, we just got uh three and it's really kind of wrapping up the school year. Um interesting information as you know the summer's coming. We've got students applying for jobs and everything else. So, this is kind of like a good CTE connection. Um, our MEDOC class has right now four students that are interviewing for medical assistant uh positions right now. And we've got uh dental offices reaching out. So, that's a quick connection to, you know, what we're doing in
015the classroom and quickly getting uh students employed. So, that was a a big piece. Um, charity week wrapped up. Um, I got to sit in the dunk tank for a little bit. That was fantastic. Um but we were able to raise uh roughly $4,500. Um we our charity donation was to the landing zone and that'll get disseminated in the landing zone and then also for our local veterans. So got that. And then last and definitely not least, um I don't know if you guys know, but May 30th we graduated um 222 students. And that wasn't stressful at all. Um but we made it. And uh the good news is is that um when we do our pre-calculation rates for graduation rates, it's an improvement from last year. Um Sean takes the numbers and and tries
016to get as close as our my school data will show. Sometimes we we don't match up immediately just because of how cohorts and things are considered. But last year when Sean calculated the numbers, it came out to roughly 88.09%. Our my school data, it was down a little bit to an 86.5. So, we're usually within a 2% guess. I tell you that because right now our pre-calculations suggest a 94.42% graduation rate. So, pretty significant increase. Um, and if we're only off by 2%, that's still a still a win because it's a net game. So, those are our points of pride. Congratulations. Thank you. Is this Joe's last one? To wrap up the year, we're having an assembly Thursday morning. We're honoring uh 105 kids with a 3.75 grade point average or higher. So, we've invited
017all their parents and then we're going to have a slideshow also with u 300 plus photos memories of the year and everyone's excited except for the girls that made the slideshow because I told them I'm doing the uh playlist ' 80s rock. [Music] So GIS completed sorry completed their field day. This is the most serious field day I've ever seen in my life. It was it was incredible. So um we had our top three winners. Fourth grade was Mrs. Van O's class. Fifth grade was Mr. Adter's class and sixth grade was Mr. Noak's class. All very close. But um it's really exciting to see how competitive the kids are and how much fun they have too. So that's great. Um, our PTO wrapped up the end of the year, did an amazing job supporting all
018of our field trips. Mrs. Boiac's class won the big bunny, so she was really excited about that. Um, so her class had we had again an incredible amount um brought in for our school. Um, and then we have a dance tomorrow for fourth, fifth, and sixth graders through throughout the day. We will be doing just dance on the screen, but our leadership team wanted to bring in a dance for the kids during the day. So kids are really excited, teachers maybe not so much, but they're very excited for it. So, um, and then our sixth graders are going to do our walk through the building at 11:15 on the last day of school, annual tradition. They get their picture taken out front and then walk through the building and then, um, say hello to all
019their family members um, who pick them up a little bit um, after school. So, if you're around, that'll be at 11:15. Thank you. Thank you. Like everybody else, North Ohio has some end of the year wrap up things going on as well. Um, we had our fun day like I had mentioned earlier and days like that are absolutely not possible without the support of our PTO. Um, they have been recruiting volunteers. We have so many people at school. so much time and energy and effort gets put into. There are people at school at 6:30 in the morning getting things set up for the kids and they have just an absolute amazing time. So, just really grateful to our PTO, our community sponsors, and our staff who put in triple on those kinds of days. Um,
020but it's it's so rewarding to watch the kids have such a great time. Um, we also were able to reschedu our steam museum and I talked about that a few months ago that had been scheduled and obviously was canceled when we had some um, weather challenges. And the steam museum was a fantastic experience for our kids. They were able to see and do lots of things. It was very interactive. Um and again it was the teachers worked on lots of reorganizing the day so that kids could participate in the full experience of that. It was amazing. Um we had we do have coming up our third grade. We always do a third grade walk kind of like a farewell walk for those third graders. That's going to happen on our last day of school. Um
021so very exciting for those kids as they move up to GIS for next year. And um we had two students this year in the building that have not been absent and not been tardy any of the school days. So on that very last day of school, we'll be recognizing those two students as well. That's a a pretty great accomplishment for them and their families, keeping bug free and germfree as well as, you know, rearranging appointments as necessary. So pretty proud of those kids. Um, and then I did do a quick dive into some of our data. Um, and the math and the reading data as far as an NWA goes um is promising. We have um when we look at data, we have in NWA in particular, we have um uh percentage kind of like
022chunks of the information. And when we look at our 60th percentile and above students, so st students that are performing on track and on target and when I look at the beginning of the year to this time of year, we grew by double digits in math at each grade level. So that those students at that proficiency, that 60% and above mark doubled um in double digits they grew. So for instance, our first grade increased by 18%. Um, we also then when we look at that data and we talk about students who are in the lower 40%, so students that would be requiring additional assistance, additional supports, we saw a decrease from fall to this time of year. So we saw a decrease in those students needing that level of support um by double digits as
023well. So for instance, I'll use first grade again that first grade decreased that 40th and below percentile by 29%. So uh that was just math specific information but our reading is looking similar. So increasing up here and decreasing that need down there. So pretty promising. Wonderful. Thank you. Hello everybody. How you doing? Um, at South Maple, our fun day is tomorrow and we still have some slots for the dunk tank available. If anybody wants to get dunked by a kindergartener or first grader, they would be so grateful. They do not care who you are. They just want to dunk you. So that's tomorrow. We just wrapped up career days today, which is where we have a bunch of professionals from the community come and talk about their profession to our students. they get like a
02415inute um block of time to talk about their industry or what they're professional at. Um and it kind of helps give students an idea of what a professional career looks like at a young age. So that was great. Thank you, Sarah. She participated. So that was great. Um and then we have our PTO to celebrate. They have graciously sponsored each student up to $20 for field trips this year. And right now that's really helpful when you've got people who want to go and do things. um they've paid for several of our buses to go to um Raven Hill or Meno City um to the fort and things like that. So, the PTO is killing it. They also um let the teachers create an Oprah gift list of items that they might want to purchase for
025their classroom and PTO purchased those items for classrooms. Um the list was pretty extensive with some expensive items, so that was great. Um and then just a quick little plug for our student growth data and math. our students, 75% of our students met or exceeded their growth goal. Um, and then in ELA, 60% met or exceeded their growth goal. So, that's good. Thank you. If you don't mind, you can pass. Thank you. Hi. Good evening. So glad to be here to share with you. And I wanted to introduce you all to our four amazing preschool teachers that are here with us this evening. They are the ones. We're going to talk about this dad in a minute, but I wanted to introduce them to you because they are a terrific team. I want to have
026you Kaylee Miner stand up. Then we have Lauren Birdman and we have Bailey Holsho. We have Ashton Flynn. They have just been awesome teachers this year. And you're going to see some of that data in what I'm giving you, but they have just done an outstanding job. You know what? I think you should come up here and present to the board and of course say hi to these board members too in just a minute. But the reason I get to share with you is because of them and all that they do. You know in years past it would be that kindergarten was where everything started for our students. That's when they started school. But now in the 21st century it's really preschool where it's at. That's where they learn so much of what they need
027to know to be successful for the rest of their lives. At at Gaylord Community Schools preschool program, we use my teaching strategies gold. That's the creative curriculum that we use. And this curriculum supports lesson planning and student assessment. All of the students are assessed on developmentally appropriate domains. And each domain has 38 objectives that the students are assessed on. Focusing on these domains ensures that all of our Gaylord Community School preschool students have a high quality preschool program. The domains include social, emotional, physical, language, cognitive, literacy, and mathematics. And if you look at the charts that I gave you, you can see where our students began back in the fall and where all of them are now in the spring. And it's just incredible. Most of them were I think the lowest was 88% but
028most of them are up in the 90 95% 97%. So just super proud of what these teachers have done with these students. Some of them were three years old when they started. you know, a few of them now have turned five, but you know, these are some young kids and they're learning a lot. They're playing a lot and having a lot of fun, but while they're having fun, they're learning and preparing for kindergarten. So, we know that these kids when they go to kindergarten next year at South Ohio, they are going to be prepared and uh that's exciting for us to to talk about. Now, this spring we did in in May, we had May 15th, we had a parent night where all of our preschool parents were invited to come and do a craft
029activity with the kids. They planted flowers and painted their little flower pots and had a lot of fun and we got to interact with the parents then. And then this Wednesday, we are going to have our preschool graduation. So, we're super excited about that. They have their cap and gowns. We're going to go to GIS. All of you are invited if you want to come. It's going to be at 9:30 in the morning at the gym. So, thank you so much and thank you teachers. Thank you. Thank you. Good work. Thank you. Good job. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right. All right, we'll move on to public input. We have none. Okay, move on to the consent agenda. We have board minutes from June 3rd, the committee of a whole board meeting minutes,
030treasures report, general fund and athletic fund bills in the amount of 3 million, food service fund bills in the amount of 121,000, syncing fund bills in the amount of $18,000 and prior period adjustments of zero. And then we'll have new hires. We have Gayard High School social studies teacher Darren Khan. And that is the end of the consent agenda. I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda. Second. Any questions? Okay. Rachel, yes. Katie, yes. Sarah, yes. Doug, yes. Lori, yes. Carrie, yes. Jeff, yes. Motion carries 70. Mr. Byum, do you have your new hire with you today? So, do you hire Darren? Um, he's been a a parent in the district and now we get to have him as a teacher in the district. I know he's excited. He's got a he's been an
031English teacher at uh Joelberg um for seven years now. Okay. And he was at Vanderbilt before that. Family kind of moved him here. Uh he taught down state prior to that. Um graduated from Eastern and Ohio University. I know he's excited. His passion came through on the interview. He's very excited to be teaching US history and we're excited to be able to to offer him that. So that's obviously a class I really like. So I'm looking forward to it and we welcome you to the team. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you Darren. Welcome. Thank you. Welcome. Thank [Music] you. All right. Moved on to new and unfinished business. We have the 202425 amended budget resolution number two. It is recommended the board approve the 2425 amended bud budget resolution as presented. I'll make a motion
032to approve the 202425 amendment budget resolution as presented. I will second it. Just going to ask if anyone had any questions for Joe, but he's not here. At least I don't see him. Oh, there he is. It's ready for questions. We went over pretty good on Tuesday, but does anybody have any other? No. Okay. Rachel, yes. Katie, yes. Sarah, yes. Doug, yes. Lori, yes. Carrie, yes. Jack, yes. Pass 70. All right. 2025 2026 proposed primary bud budget resolution. It is recommended the board approve the 2526 proposed primary budget resolution as presented. I'll make a motion to approve the um 2025 2026 proposed preliminary budget resolution as presented. I will second. Does anybody have any questions for Joe on this new budget? Okay. Rachel, yes. Katie, yes. Sarah, yes. Doug, yes. Lori, yes. Carrie, yes. Jack,
033yes. Motion carries. 70. Superintendent contract. It is recommended the board approve the superintendent's contract as presented. Are you want to ask a question? I was going to make a motion. Oh, okay. Go ahead. I would like to make a motion to approve the existing superintendent contract that expires on June 30th, 2027 to now expire on June 30th, 2028 with the same terms and salary increase as presented at the committee of the whole meeting on June 3rd. So no changes to the current. So the same contract just advancing it a year. Okay. Just because we had some questions and this would give us time to work it out if we had if we wanted to make any changes. Okay, I will second it. Any questions? Okay, so your motion to approve the superintendent's contract is presented
034to committee the whole meeting. Yeah, the same it's same terms as your as the current contract, same salary as what was presented. Just the same contract just advancing here like we do. Are is that I'm confused. What's because you you want to do it in June instead of in May? No, no, no, no. We're we're leaving uh every everything is staying the same. It's just moving forward. One more year. Still a three-year contract. Okay. Um the current language that's in there stays in there. There's no We had uh law firm took the date of May 31st out of there, but we're going to leave that in there. Your motion is to leave that in there. Just leave it the same as change nothing. Still a three-year contract. Works. Anybody else? Okay. Rachel, yes. Katie, yes.
035Sarah, yes. Doug, yes. Lori, yes. Carrie, yes. Jeff, yes. Motion carries 70. Principal's contract. It is recommended board approve the principal's contract as presented for Gaylord High School. Sean Byum, Gaylord High School assistant principal Brooke Oliver Hempenstall, Gaylord Middle School assistant principal Dave Smith, GIS principal Carla Vandrin, GIS assistant principal Alan Daw, North Ohio principal Celeste Schiffer, and South Maple principal Diane Parker. I'll make a motion to approve the principal contracts as presented. I'll second. Any questions on those? I'm assuming the middle school new middle school principal is not in here because we just did his, right? Because we just hired him and just we've already approved it. Just wanted to Yeah. Okay. Anything else? Okay. Rachel, yes. Katie, yes. Sarah, yes. Doug, I will abstain. Lori, yes. Carrie, yes. Jack, yes. All right. Director's
036contract. It is recommended that the board approve the director's contracts as presented. Director of special education and curriculum Dennis Kek. Director of facilities operations and security. David Parcell. Director of technology Todd Ostermeer. Director of human resources employee relations Mandy Bolan. Director of business and operations. Joe Hart. Director of license program. Carla Hawkins and director of athletics Dale Kalper. I will make a motion to approve the director's contracts as presented. I will second it. Any questions? Okay. Rachel, yes. Katie, yes. Sarah, yes. Doug, yes. Lori, yes. Carrie, yes. Jack, yes. Motion carries 70. Administrative support personnel contracts. It is recommended the board approve the administrative support personnel contracts as presented. Executive assistant to the superintendent Cindy Huff, business services special support specialist Caitlyn Styles, payroll and benefits specialist Andrea Bogath, business and finance coordinator Lisa Hibner.
037Business office specialist Donna Pavick Pavlica. Pavevela. Pavvela. Central office receptionist Karen Byer. Automotive technology professional Mark Meard. School safety and security monitor Ranch Sharban. School bus mechanic Keith Lain. Preschool teachers Haley Miner, Ashlin Flynn, Lauren Erdman, and Bailey Hosu. Literally lit literacy specialist Wendy Cole. I will make the motion to approve the administrative support personnel contracts as presented. I have a second. Questions. Rachel, yes. Katie, yes. Sarah, yes. Doug, yes. Lori, yes. Carrie, yes. Jeff, yes. Motion carries 70. MHSA membership resolution. It is recommended the board approve the MHSA resolution as presented. Make a motion to approve the MHSA resolution as presented. I will second it. Questions on that? Okay. Rachel, yes. Katie, yes. Sarah, yes. Doug, yes. Lori, yes. Gary, yes. Jeff, yes. 70. Gaylord Community Schools apprentice teacher. It is recommended the board
038approve the hiring of the GCS apprentice teacher Brittney Smith as presented. I will make a motion to approve the hiring of GCS apprentice teacher Britney Smith as presented. I'll second. Any questions on that one? Okay. Rachel, yes. Katie, yes. Sarah, yes. Doug, yes. Lori, yes. Carrie, yes. Jeff, yes. Carry 70. Board of Education generator installation. It's not generator for us, but it's for our building here. It is recommended the board approve the board of education building generator installation for the amount of $699,414. It's a big generator. I will make a motion to approve the board education building generator installation for the amount of $699,414 as presented. I'll second. Any questions? Just so I mean we just so everybody knows we talk about all this in our committee of the whole meeting. All of this has
039been discussed. This has been this comes out of our scing fund and has been planned forecasted. This is a necessity for this building. Keep this building in operation just in case we might have a It's a nice storm. Yeah. It's part of the 5-year plan. And if anyone would like to tour it, it's sitting over in the parking lot over here. It's about about half the size of a bus. So, oh my gosh. And this is just the installation. This doesn't include the generator. We already had to purchase that. So, Rachel, yes. Katie, yes. Sarah, yes. Doug, yes. Lori, yes. Carrie, yes. Jeff, yes. Motion carries 70. All right. Our public input, we had none from the first, so we'll have none for this one. One more motion. We'll make the motion to adjurnn the
040meeting. Second. All in favor? I I oppose. All right. Thank you all for coming. Welcome to our new staff. [Applause] [Music]