001okay all right this we will call to order Cleveland Public Schools regular board meeting on Monday February 24th 2025 at 7M welcome everybody first item on the agenda is adoption of the agenda any additions fractions or changes to the agenda that was prepared make a motion to adopt the agenda okay made a motion to adopt the agenda I'll second K second all in favor say I iose carries all right Community comment at each public meeting we allow for Community comment we ask that each comment be limited to three minutes per speaker and no more than 15 minutes per subject topic is there any Community comment at this meeting okay seeing done we'll move to item four which is the consent agenda consent agenda reviewed at every meeting has a number of things within it um
002pass meeting minutes February 11th special board meeting February 11th work session January 9th organizational and regular board meeting approval of bills and payments approval of contracts we have an amendment to work agre agreement for of the office staff one new contract for a care professional my abusing two resignations that looks like Jose Rees and Brook stencil Jose Rees professional book stencils and then we have approval of a second reading of a few policies that we've had on our agendas for the last few meetings discipline suspension and dismissal of School District employees policy 403 policy 524 internet acceptable use and safety and then 54.5 cell phone policy and then last item in consent agenda is donations fy2 you know if these are year-to date donations assum that's what they they are would imag okay so again
003the consent agenda items approved all with one motion um we discussion about any of them as we go through it we'll make a motion to accept consent you made a motion I'll second I second discussion on any of those specific items within content agenda second everyone for the donations you want me to read that I think I'm it's gonna take a little bit but I can do it uh there we go uh Cleveland Legion uh 250 for fourth grade science Cleveland Legion 2500 for volleyball Cleveland open is $5,000 for athletics Cleveland fighter relief association, 1500 for alter basketball courts Suns of the American Legion 500 for volleyball Cleveland PTO 5,000 for technology Grant Katherine W $10 for Lan RoR Memorial M Thomas 1650 for the kitchen fund iron Le wolf $15 for uh janitzky py
004Memorial and 24 Lan RoR Memorial Cleveland Legion 800 for school counselor program Cleveland Legion $1,000 for Fellowship of Christian athletes Cleveland Legion 1500 14U community at softball Le Legion 4800 Junior High girls basketball uniforms Junior Judy H $90 for gift of the max day a general donation Hometown Insurance $100 for pray of trees General Free Will donations of $412 for Elementary music Freel Legion $5,000 band trip pleas on booster club 6150 for the band trip pleas on Pioneers for H $500 for SNAP Gman Jefferson Sportsman's Club $1,000 for track teames $7 for band Michelle porile that right $50 for band German Sportsman's Club 367 from the fishing tournament to the track team Cleveland Le 500 for elementary program all right thank you for all those and it's a big list so far so okay and
005any other discussion on consent agenda items if not we can vote all in favor say I POS right item five is presentations we don't have any tonight item six is new business 2025 26 school calendar we've looked at this a couple of times at least preliminarily um I know I made a few just um text updates from the last version I from what we saw the work session anything else specifically that you had that okay it's been through the teachers union and been reviewed by admin and all staff anybody have any questions or comments similar schedule school's in just after Labor Day and is out at the end of May right the motion second any other discussion favor say I iose carries see 6. 6B Westside Transportation contract again we reviewed this at the work
006session um potential to add up to two additional years on the contract Nick's not here is he okay um yeah any any comments or questions as we talked about it's increase increase from prior year slightly and then slight increase built in from there for mileage rate and an hourly rate um that was pretty reasonable 3.8% one year and maybe slightly high the first year we added some extra routes right yeah think Nick reported at the last meeting that everything's going fairly well and they've been um good to work with and was positive on the renewal any other comments I guess or yeah I just run into heral every now and then and makes comments that our kids are so well behaved on on the bus especially to activities and such we doesn't have to worry
007about being left on the bus or anything like that so he's he's more than happy to follow our kids around good approve the side okay Ryan's made a motion second Kevin a second any more I guess we we'll vote all in favor say I I iose right 7.3 maternity request for Clara Lynch just curious about the start dates and through July I'll make a motion to accept the maternity leave request for clar Lynch made a motion Kev a second any discussion congratulations I guess congratulations enjoy all right if no discussion I can vote all say I iose motion carries right 7D be the summer and school year sack fees for 2526 that'll be beginning this this summer summer 25 through the year 26 I presentation at the at the last work session on the fees
008um The Proposal here is looks like what was prepared at that that meeting right yep so a couple of increases proposed for both summer and and school year um I guess the highlights if anybody wants to chime in um lunch was going to be included for the summer for four days a week so that's a pretty major change um but I think a positive one number of field trips activities all the snacks are all built into that budget so thanks for preparing a nice well-rounded budget um and get St to speed on what's Happening financially with um with sack um comments questions discussion I just want to thank Amber for putting all that together that's not an easy task she's always organized and well prepared she was nervous as heck um last last at the
009work session but she did a wonderful job um answered I think most of our questions and I think has done a great job in in the fact program yep I've had parents come up and I've Heard lots of really good things yep um I guess I little feedback I had gotten was that people kind of expected it to go up lots of things are going up these days you know some were a little disappointed I think with how much um you know we have talked we want the program to be self- sustaining for sure and and I think and got a really good handle on what that what that takes to be there um you know so i' I've been asked to think about that fee as we go forward um that was I think
010some of the feedback I had had gotten um but people also understand that you know you're trying to make programs work and provide a a well-rounded program you know with like I said activities and learning and lunch and trips and all that stuff um so I guess wanted to report that yeah I would guess I would along those lines I think there's everyone's aware that that increase needs to happen again is there a thought process that says maybe we split this up over two years or we better off just put band off and doing it just is I mean it's what was the percentage at uh it was per day I think it was up it's up $10 a day for the summer is that right so from 20 to 30 but the school year
011was uh 40 to 50 per per week that is though right yeah so yeah the first one's about 50 50% the second one be 25% I guess so yeah but F snack or something you don't know do you know the last time it was adjusted it's been been doing with last year and years least be easier keep it ni have to review every year the report as to how it went how it's going and we got make an adjustment yearly that's probably easier to to handle for people's budgets going you know going forward so a good [Music] learning learning exercise too from that perspective okay make a motion to approve the sac summmer and school year fees for 25 26 okay a motion to approve as presented second any more discussion any opinion on year-over-year
012have any feedback from anybody else from your perspective Amber said we're the cheapest District around even with an increase we'll still maintain that reputation we have a lot of families who have students that are anners right now who will be next year I would like to send them if they we would still be but we're still offering a substantial as long as we you know as long as we problem sure right don't want to charge them and then they're not getting problems they're not getting the structure they're not getting social emotional P they're not getting the stuff that the students really do need thank you for that can I have your attention please conferences will be ending in 10 minutes thank you all right with that we can we can vote all in favor say
013iose next on the agenda is 2526 proposed budget reductions all right yeah we've talked about this you know for the past several work sessions which way to go and what we're doing um I gave you a more concise layout in the work session I condensed it down here um just with a staff reduction it's about 232,000 there with the district uh realignment and adjustment there the district office we save about 725 custodial realignment saves about 13,000 and the speech alignment I think originally I I had about 102 on the on the document and that was based on a first year teacher and I thought it would be wiser to shift towards the middle of the contract to be more realistic maybe um so that's why that change occurred doesn't mean we can't go you know
014back to that 102 depending upon when we line up so and all of that totals to about 408 and 566 I also think the office realignment a little higher until um we work out the agreement with the administrative assistance in their little bone still saving a very nice chunk of change that realignment okay questions comments from anybody we've been over it three or four times I guess you know thanks for working through it we uh not an easy thing to do you know you guys did a good job presenting about three different times on possible solutions you know from Megan being here to you know budging other places trying to find Cuts all throughout the year as we've gone or realigning Transportation realigning all the other stuff um we went went out for a vote
015and that didn't pass so we think we're all kind of feel like we got to do something to make sure we're got our responsibilities in order to balance the budget um even if they don't want to El I any comments or think you hit the mail on I mean no one wants to have to do what we're about to do but I think that's the situation that we're in and hopefully by doing this it shows a little of confidence to our community if we end up having to go and ask again maybe we get a little different response give Mr boser some Kudos he had fresh eyes coming in and was able to tear it apart and find a lot of areas that needed to be into so I headline in the making a free
016press like two weeks ago that Waterville was looking at cutting like 800,000 so I mean it's it's happening and yeah we gota be responsible with it obviously we all all know that too so yes thanks for looking through a lot of that and we'll probably I don't know March or April down line we will have to come back with some non individuals yeah okay yeah this gives us ample time to work through any changes that naturally occur throughout the system and trying to get geared up for next year too I think yeah and respectful to employees themselves too okay to approve made a motion and Kevin second any more discussion or questions okay all in favor cose carries [Music] okay 6f was setting the mark meeting for the finance group we hav't done with anything
017with that yet but part of that same kind of process is to you know I think we all had the mindset of trying to go back to the public and and gauge their interest in what an additional operating referend looks like and so our finance group is kind of work through those details um so we just want to set a date for Le hope we can set a date we can wait until the survey comes back which will be in April that or we can meet in March and whatever you guys want what for minus when the survey is if I can get that survey to her tomorrow she'll put it together and her goal was to get it out on March 10th and collect it by April 1st then I'm sure she'll need a
018little bit of time to analyze and do that so it's going out mail it'll be mail it'll be on our website there's a QR code for it they can contact the school we can get them a paper copy so we're trying to get just about every Gambit that that can be so it'll just like the mailings last fall it'll go to Every resident disc or resident home in the in the district are we sending out a like a math like email to the school like the no my heads up yeah or even with the link maybe to do it pay to get together before we know what they think but at the same BR nice I think it wouldn't [Music] hurt f you didn't need any more you kind of passed the questions around for
019that survey got haven't said does what we just voted on uh get into the survey informationally in any way is that I know there was a question that kind of yeah that referen reductions but specific reductions here and some of the things that we're doing for an easy way to communicate it if we want they were more specific after today or it's also written in there some of the um other possible reductions that could happen the upcoming one doesn't out and I had some good suggestions from individuals to add a few that that weren't there Molly you you got the points of what we are reducing what important to have on there okay AAR okay okay I appreciate that so next section is items for information discussion um any other board member reports last meeting
020we're going do community ed meeting for the next work session that one since before the last work session so meeting the audits went well um there the revisional budget revising the budget to possibly look better but we had to initially when our assistant when our um principal left embed um we decided to absorb her job into the director and um one of [Music] the remember where title was but teachers and member districts uh really want that assistant principal have a contact person have somebody in school all the time um and so we are going back to hiring an assistant principal um in the process of hiring for that the reinforced walls that um had to be put in because the other ones were being destroyed have been working really well um there's still more to
021be put in they're still looking can I have your attention please conferences have now ended have a good night um they are so waiting for the um the steel doors metal doors to come in because the wood doors are being they chip at them and they aren't what they need um and then we also talked about um boards member district boards touring Ed um either during the day to see what it's like um or even in the evening um the director said that she would will meet any of us that want to meet there which I think would be a good thing just to see you know like I talk about the board the walls basically falling apart you know it's when you walk in you see it instantly and see what it would be
022good to go during the school day to see how the kids interact and how the kids move through there um but if that doesn't work we can also do it at night so that would be something that we might want to look into setting that up sometime yeah okay um I'll throw some dates out and we'll you don't set up right any other board member reports was was there a request for a meeting confirm and yep I received an email requesting a meet and confer I responded back by saying I will set up a meet and confer once we have the agenda and I have not heard back from them right I mentioned technology committee tavish and I been working on getting the camera set up these camera seem to work pretty well so maybe
023next time we'll be live and on air with uh we're gonna meet on Friday again to look at some of the settings make sure I don't screw it up to that so all right how about principal's report okay um just got Emma and Carter and Vanessa back with us thanks for being here tonight um so this month that Elementary is doing I love to read month it's always a fun time they're sharing a you know a lot of different um different I love to readed dress up days they're doing book buddies deer time so on we had Miss rolloff and the elementary student council did a glow dance on last Friday Jump Rope for Hearts kicked off we're actually going to have our uh celebration on Thursday fe uh February 27th at two um if
024you're not if you're bored you want to go roller skating March 3rd to 21st come on in um Conference of tonight and Thursday I don't have it band yeah um State contest for 9 to2 Jazz at gavis Wednesday March 5th science fair I guess coming up for fifth and sixth graders on March 7th and that's uh yeah it's during the day they'll have it here in the Commons area and then ACT test for the juniors March 11th Miss Gibbs does a lot of the work for that and gets that all set 11th graders are going on a career day uh Wednesday March 12th at South Central College that's in the mornings and 12th grade English is going on a field trip to the Guth Thursday March 13th me I was going to bring up one
025more thing I don't know what's going on I've talked a couple different principles but a lot of movement with kids after the first of the year um we've had 11 kids come in and eight kids go out or positive three but it's crazy and um play Crystal I think they said they won up 17 kids since the first of the year don't know how many they lost but that's just a lot of movement right now and I don't I've never seen that at this time of year anybody have any ideas of why I have no clue yeah I don't know that was weird because all of a sudden they'll be like well we're gonna go and there's no Rhyme or Reason any idea which areas the N three were at yeah I got we got
026all where they go and come we got B does a nice job when the come and go worksheet in there um look a few Lola kids are coming like Elementary schol um got [Music] a sixth grader 11th grader a sixth grader a fourth grader they left came in ninth seventh kindergarten 11th and a sixth left was a ninth a fifth a second coming in is a sixth and a sixth leaving is a sixth and a kindergarten are coming in hopefully tomorrow so it's all over the place and sixth grade has been capped off but then all a sudden somebody will move so we can take somebody else so it's kind of are they families or are they individual um a lot of them are families got a couple kids in each yeah it's just awkward
027have another L shadowing y so that'd be a good pick up too I we look around the behavioral referral situation I know we talk we talked about that like a month or twoo Y yeah we you know we continue to to hold meetings when we get to the various thresholds and I guess I'll be blunt um the push back we get from from some of the parents are they they think the some of the referrals that are issued are for petty minor little things and I I try to remind them that you know we're not talking about one or two we're at seven or eight you know and and and I know there's frustration on on their part and I guess I understand that um honest truth those meetings aren't fun at all nobody's ever
028happy to be there uh they don't want to hear the news we're giving them and and a lot of times that comes outs sideway ways and it's um yeah it it can be it can be challenging to to maintain your composure when people are blaming you for stuff that you really isn't really your fault and so honest truth uh yeah those are hard I'll just be honest with you they're not they're not fun but I do think it's worth that effort uh our kids deserve an environment uh free from distraction and I'm I'm com I'll take I'll take my hits if I need to to help us get there and Dave does a very good job um we've set up a a new system system yeah and you know it's working very well um and
029you do you keep that consistent message you know they don't like to hear hey we're on number seven or eight it's not like one or two I started sending out the I I created a sheet with the multiple Behavior referrals and what happens at five 7 8 n 10 and I start sending that out on the third Behavior referral so nobody can say didn't know you know we do get we'll get people say oh I didn't get an email from you then you you punch it up and say I sent it January 10th yeah I don't know if you look at it or not but it left here went to the Box um so I mean that those are the challenges to be honest but um I'll be honest I just told boss earlier today
030I I love this job I love coming every day and we'll keep battling because I think it's worth it no I outside of the start of the school year I don't think I've had a parent call and usually they W they're done with them then they take the next step and so forth outside of the start of the school year that hasn't happened so they're keeping their composure when they're dealing with parents they're they're staying on task and the parents are coming out they may not come out of there happy but they come out there understanding where where they're sitting I don't know if you're getting any calls or anything been quiet yeah I must be working though because I know there was definitely a few that were starting to get up there I think
031once you have some of those really hard conversations and and and I want to be I'm trying to pick the right words to make sure it sounds the way I wanted to but I think sometimes for parents um they maybe they get three four five and and they're like okay 10 a ways away but when we start talking about seven8 n now now you're looking at it saying you make one more mistake and we got some really hard conversations we have to have and I think when it gets to that level um student and parents have a pretty Frank conversation and a lot of times obviously I'm not there but I think sometimes parents say to the kid you got to figure this out because I can't get you to St Peter I don't know
032how we're going to get you there you know or whatever else and and I we we really see I guess what I'll call some of the the the the silly little behaviors that I think are easily avoidable those really slow down once we have some of those meetings and yeah I think Scott and Dave do a nice job of having respect respectful candid conversations with the student themselves I'll give you an example and I'm just throwing these out as fictional student has been given a referral four times for having a phone then three more times for having a hood they have a conversation with that student saying you want to stay here because you're intentionally doing things to get yourself into a different school you know and when you have a candid conversation with a
033student like that sometimes the light bulb goes on and well yeah I guess I am intentionally doing some things and then they start to adjust and and figure some things out and every kid believe that the staff member that writes them up hates them as a Target on their back or whatever and sometimes they realize well okay I guess I I understand why they get upset with me because I've been in my phone four times or I fallen asleep five times or whatever the case is so students want to be treated as as much of a as adult as possible but they're still students and we have to guide them right and and I think you know you hit on a a really important Point too if if if those lessons don't get taught you
034know we're going to send them out on this out on the street not ready for reality and that's why I think it's an important thing that we're doing even though it's difficult and and we do get pushed back and I'm sure you you'll hear things from time to time but um I hope you understand our goal here is is ultimately to help those kids to see you know what uh the skills they need to be successful and that goes back this morning the conversation Miss Peterson wasn't here kid got was was gone and that's what's neat about our our building is Katie knew that he's gone so he was I don't know where he was but he came down and told us he had the worst weekend ever and we talked to him for 15
035minutes and I think I finally just said you know what I hopefully you can take these soft skills what we're teaching you weekend's terrible let's make it better now and and that's I care the kid learn today because he's not going to learn anything in school because everything what happened over the weekend you know was terrible for him and it just yeah we got a lot of really good kids here I think it's our our job is to to do the best we can to help help shape that and that's not always something that they like but again it's something we think they need good I was learning environment in school I would say it's like better than last year like last year there was a lot of interruptions all the time Cas just being
036disrespectful I mean that might just because obviously we've grown up over the last couple years but I would say it's a lot better and a lot more structured I agree too I can't obviously speak to it because I don't know the behavior of FS I don't know I'm not you know I don't know who the kids are I don't know what they're doing my thing I always think of though like to myself is like having Grace with them the kids that I know are the kids that I do know that are getting B peals myself I think it's important for me and other students to have Grace with them because like you said stuff like that we don't even know about there's always something so much bigger me so I think and might be benical
037to for more of the student body like us to like think about that because a lot of times you see someone acing out and it's not because they trying to be annoying it's because it's an under PA but like said thanks any other questions we have the kids we have questions otherwise I would said Nick's not here for transportation report this meeting but super report yeah I don't have a whole lot you know I've talked a lot during the work sessions and try to keep you up to date through there the one question about the donation for the coral um kind of got ahead of the the cart got ahead of the horse we had an individual that inquired about sitting down and having conversations about doing like an after school program or something like
038kind of like the jazz band or something to for kids that want thinging and and be involved and we agreed to meet then we were supposed to meet last week and the the delays and and such so we're going to meet tomorrow morning and then in the meantime Legion brought down a a donation and the individual said I told him to hold it on reserve and and we saw the email and it was just hold it on reserve so well we're not going to turn down money if it comes in the shore so um I have no issue with them you know starting up something like that and you know if we have kids that that want to do it and donations to to make it happen then for it but we'll meet tomorrow and
039have that conversation as you saw we had conferences tonight have them again on Thursday not a tremendous turnout in in the high school which is typical in the Spring Elementary is their classrooms are a revolving door of of parents and kids coming through um we had a not sure who was sitting out here with the mental health but Christine me Christine okay so she's sitting out there and saw a couple little elementary kids walk up to her and what are you doing what's going on and she's having a nice conversation and asked one one little girl that uh well do you know what mental health oh yeah we talked about in school and so it's just nice that that we have that available and and someone willing to to be there for families and giving
040them the resources as well Christine said she signed up two kids so for some some sort of support good and say kudos to Monica she fed the the staff again um right after school uh she always comes up with something something else man and I'm not sure why how we cannot be the most obese I was say if I was Mar she is wonderful you guys are very very fortunate to have her I guess yeah I appreciate the weekly updates those have been coming through they're seem to be really helpful if anybody else say it's nice to couple of things that carry over week to week but always seems to be new stuff and it's good to have that information at your fingertips I appreciate appreciate that anything else looks like our next meeting is
041a work session on Tuesday March 11th at 8m change that time you want to do here we're doing the community meeting at 715 oh that could be moved I guess if that worked for you we could side that up I'm sure Rich wouldn't mind but everybody else ear I'd be fine with that whatever C is leaving for the U the 12th at like 6:30 so be later you're approaching is bedtime it is bedtime we can move it to seven that works I'm sure we can talk to Rich great okay so we're 7 PM it's not for good to tell Andy doesn't show uph okay make a motion well what are you going to do I don't know yet I'm going to make a motion to go dur the meeting made a motion so second all
042favor say I order