001East Lyndon Elementary School. We're going to see what kind of math is involved in planning and preparing for gardens. Come on, let's go inside. So, look what I found. A nice little bag of beet Detroit Supreme seeds. So, when we're thinking about planting gardens, we have to have a plan on where we're getting started. And that plan first involves what kind of seeds are we going to need for planting. Now, the cost of this bag of seeds is $2.79. But take a look here. Today, there's a savings of 25% off. So, calculating that discount, that is math. And then some other specs that are included in planting and preparing for your garden is they need to be harvested. It takes at least 60 to 65 days for that harvest time. So the depth, in other
002words, how deep are you going to plant those seeds? That's part of measuring. You need to make sure the depth is at least 1/2 an inch deep into the soil before you begin to plant those seeds. Let's see what else we can find here in terms of math at the nursery again. We're here today at Oakland Nursery with some East London summer experience students. And here I have with me is >> Zion and >> they're going to help me do something called subetizing. I've got a really pretty plant to show you. And I want you to look at the plant and tell me how many blooms you see. You ready? >> Yeah. >> This one. >> Three. How did you know it was three? >> Cuz I was looking with my eyes. >> Yes. Did
003you didn't have to count? You just knew. Right. Now, we are still going to count so we can confirm that there are three. Let's count together. That's >> one two three. Hey, so that's three. Great job. Give me a high five. >> Yes. >> So, if you're thinking about planning your own garden, remember there are a few simple math concepts that are wrapped up in gardening, like measurement, time, the size and shape of your garden, the square footage that garden is going to cover. Perhaps a visit to Oakland Nursery will inspire you to want to create your own garden. As always, thank you for joining us today with Math Math Everywhere. And as always, math is everywhere. I can say it's truly magical. They love the taste of fresh produce just from the plant. Some
004of my student don't even know where some food comes from from the grocery stores. So they learn so many things when they garden. So they really want to be a part of it. Some of them at first they're really excited about it, but then there are others that say I really want to know a little bit more about this. So it's more than just looking and glassing at it. It's like how can I be a part of this? because I've seen it go from being just a seed and now it's growing and I want to be a part of that process. >> So they they really take care of everything and do it all and know how to do it all and they have a lot of pride in that in Greetings and welcome to
005this week's highlights from across the district. On Tuesday, June 1st, Woodrest Elementary School celebrated its youngest learners during preK promotion and kindergarten graduation ceremonies. Students were recognized for completing important early learning milestones and preparing for their next step in their educational journey. The celebration continued on Wednesday, June 2nd, as Woodrest honors its fifth grade students during a promotion ceremony, marking their transition to middle school. Congratulations to Woodrest students, families, and staff. We can't wait to see our Woodrest scholars back in session this summer with grades 1 through five returning July 23rd and preK and kindergarten returning on July 28th. Recently, career technical education teachers from across Columbus City Schools and classroom teachers from themmies at Beachcraftoft East, Walnut Ridge, and West High School participated in the fifth annual Steam Rising Experience in partnership with the
006Ohio State University. Steam Rising gives educators an opportunity to explore science, technology, engineering, arts, math, and medicine pathways through the lens of a postsecondary learner. Teachers participated in hands-on learning experiences focused on entrepreneurship, marketing, engineering, manufacturing, and logistics while exploring classroom connections that can be brought back to students. The two-day experience also allowed CCS educators to collaborate with OSU partners and rising sophomores, strengthening the connection between classroom learning, career pathways, and realworld opportunities. On Wednesday, June 3rd, Columbus City Schools hosted Career Tech Forward 2026 at the Ohio Union, bringing together industry partners and public charter, and non-public school districts to advance the future of career and technical education in the Columbus region. This year's conference highlighted innovative programs, strategic partnerships, and career connected learning experiences that are helping prepare students for the region's growing workforce
007needs. The event included a keynote from Relle Pride, Franklin County Chief of Economic Development and Innovation, a student conversation on workforce development, and a spotlight on the Kota CCS student trainers initiative before participants moved into breakout sessions. Events like the Career Tech Forward Conference reflect the district's continued commitment to expanding highquality pathways that connect students to college careers and realworld opportunities. On Monday, June 8th, and Tuesday, June 9th, Columbus City Schools welcome education leaders from across the country to the fth annual Leading for Student Success Institute at the Ohio Union, hosted by the Ohio State University in partnership with Columbus City Schools and the Wallace Foundation. The two-day event featured keynote speakers, workshops, panel discussions, and collaborative learning opportunities focused on strengthening school leadership and improving student outcomes. The institute centered on student success as
008both a leadership process and an outcome, allowing school-based and non-school-based leaders to explore best practices, share lessons learned, and collaborate on strategies that support every school, every leader, and every student. Together, the two-day experience highlighted the importance of partnership, collaboration, and strong leadership in creating meaningful support for our schools and the communities they serve. And finally, I am so proud to celebrate our CCS track and field athletes. They went to state and cameback winners. Congratulations to all the athletes who earned their spots at the state championships. Also, congratulations to Aziah Smith who won first place in Division 2 girls 300 meter hurdles. Special congratulations go out to Britney Douglas who won the division 3 girls 300 meter hurdles and Nehemiah Meals. He placed first place in the division 2 boys 400 meter dash and set
009the new state record. He had the fastest time across all divisions as a junior. Congratulations to all of our athletes. We are CCS proud of you. These have been your highlights from around the district for June 16th. Thank you so much for joining us. Good evening. We made it to the end. The regular business meeting of the Columbus City School Board of Education for Tuesday, June 16th, 2026 is now called to order. Please call the role. >> Miss Adair, >> present. >> Dr. Pierce is online. Dr. Kennedy >> present. >> Mr. Simmons >> present. >> Mr. Kamemar >> present. >> Vice President >> present. >> President Dr. Miranda >> present. >> You have a quorum. >> Okay. Please join me in saying the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
010to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Tonight's meeting will cover a variety of topics. Board committee updates will be presented along with an update from a recent board conference. The board will also provide an update regarding voucher litigation. We will review and discuss several key policies. There will also be an update on the high school transportation workg group along with an update on the school realignment. We have public hearing notices regarding the reemployment of retired employees. Finally, the board will vote on the proposed consent agenda which includes various items ranging from 9.1 to 24.6 and other legislative items. After the vote, the board will move into an executive session before adjouring for the evening. Is there a motion to adopt the agenda? >> So
011moved. Second. >> Thank you and second. Hearing no objections. The agenda is adopted. Please call the role. >> Mr. Adair, >> yes. >> Dr. Kennedy, >> yes. >> Vice President, >> yes. >> Mr. Kameer, >> yes. >> Mr. Simmons, >> yes. >> President Dr. Miranda, >> yes. >> Motion carried. >> I would now like to provide an update on the Columbus City Council, Columbus Board of Education joint committee. Supporting students takes all of us. On Monday, June 15th, Columbus City Schools and Columbus City Council came together for our first joint committee hearing. The new Columbus City Council, Columbus City Schools joint committee is a formal partnership between the Columbus Board of Education and Columbus City Council. The purpose of the committee is to strengthen collaboration around issues that affect both the city and the Columbus
012City Schools, particularly in areas where local government and public education share responsibility for supporting children, families, and neighborhoods. The committee was established in response to the district's significant financial challenges and a shared interest in identifying opportunities for partnership and advocacy. It should however be noted that this is a committee that was voted to be in existence by city council. Therefore, the committee is part of their structure. The June 15 meeting was the committee's first public hearing and focused on school funding challenges and student and community support. The meeting was primarilyformational and we had the opportunity through the public participation section of the agenda to hear from the community. No formal actions were taken. City council and Columbus City School Board leadership used the session to establish a foundation for ongoing collaboration, identify shared priorities, and
013begin discussing how both entities can work together to support students while navigating the district's financial challenges. The committee also heard from Superintendent Chapman on district priorities, from Treasurer Cook on the financial challenges our district and public education as a whole are facing. We heard a presentation from the Cincinnati's Community Learning Center Institute about building educational, cultural, and civic partnerships that help improve learning conditions for students and a presentation highlighting all the ways the city and district are already partnering. When the district, city council, the board of education, and community come together in partnership, we are better positioned to set priorities, identify solutions, and strengthen support for our students. We look forward to continuing this work together and keeping students at the center of every conversation. Our next joint committee meeting is tenatively scheduled for September
0148th, 2026 at 5:30 p.m. to a place at a place to be determined. And as we move into summer break, I'll be asking the board to come together for a retreat regarding our governance model. Our professional service agreement with the council of great city schools will provide coaching services and the coach has strongly recommended that the full board participate in the training. We will receive a roster of those who have participated previously in the training. a a point of personal privilege. Um, continuing with Dr. Chapman, we want to take a moment to acknowledge and celebrate the incredible achievements of our student athletes who competed in the recent state championship track meets. Your hard work, dedication, and perseverance have truly paid off, and you have made your schools and communities proud. I think we have one
015of the athletes here. She might come up with her family. Beachcraftoft High School. Third place girls 100 meter dash Celeste Hutchinson. Yes. Thank you. Sixth place boys 100 meter dash Nemiah Mills. Third place girls 100 meter hurdles Brittney Douglas. Fourth place girls 200 meter dash Celeste Hutchinson again. Seventh place boys 200 meter dash Nehemiah Mills. First place girls 300 meter hurdles Brittany Douglas. And first place boys 400 meter-st state record Nehemiah Mills. Eastore Academy sixth place boys 200 meter dash Donovan Del. Seventh play boys 600 meter relay Willie Po Dexter Jaden Turner Day John West and Yuri West. And third place boys long jump Donovan Delph. South High School first place girls 300 hurdles. A Azia Smith, Wet Ridge High School, 10th place boy shotput, Abron Davis, and Weststone Girls High School, 14th place girl
016shotput, Michelle Pierce. Each of you has showcased remarkable talent and sportsmanship, proving that hard work and determination can lead to exceptional results. Whether you're setting records, earning medals, or simply competing with your best, you have represented your school with great honors. We do have something for you, and we will take pictures. Celeste has two of these. Did you want to say something? >> No, >> I would like to. Um, I know your coach puts a lot of effort into not just what you all do on the track field, but also you all being good students of character and integrity. And so on behalf of our Beachcraftoft alumni as well as our board and staff, I want to just uplift the people that are feeding into you all, that are supporting you all, that are there
017to help you and your parents and grandparents um do the great things that you all are doing. So, thank you all so much. Yeah, we're all set. Are you >> school? It's always fun part. >> I would agree. I would agree. >> Ready? Oh, maybe not. >> All right, we have no public comment this evening. So, I'm going to turn it over to uh Jennifer Adair, Hatsomire, and Engles to provide an update on board committee updates. So, I go first on your committee. >> Me? Okay. Yeah, Miss Seir. >> Okay. Um, yes, the academic and facility alignment committee met on June 10th. Uh, we continued our discussion about the layers which we are going to more formally bring to the board when we give our report u when we answer your questions which we are
018asking for a little bit of an extension on um because we have a survey out right now and it already has 1,500 responses. But in looking at that data, we realized we needed more students. So we would like a little bit of an extension of time and bring back a report answering the three questions um in August. So we just have more time to look at that data. Um but we continued our work on the uh learning about the layers and we really started to learn more about academic return on investment. So, Treasurer Cook uh made a presentation to the committee about that. Um how we're going to start using um those um looking at uh student outcomes uh versus the um the the inputs that we're putting in which includes financial but also different
019resources. Um and the team is categorizing some of that now and that is also going to be part of the report that we will bring back in August. um as a practice we started to look at some of our programs and one of those that we uh started looking at were our gender schools. So our Columbus uh prep school for the boys and Columbus city prep school for the girls. Um part of what we have to do as a community as a whole is understand um above our mandatory requirements um the the optional services and I'm going to call them that right now because they aren't mandatory by any state federal law. Um we have to decide what our community would like us to have in our education specifications as mandatory for our community and
020what won't be there. And so we have to go through this exercise through many programs, many services that we offer and we're going to use the the lens of academic return on investment um with that. So this was a practice we were we were working with the team to figure out how these presentations should work, what kind of data we wanted to look at. Um so we did look at the those two schools in particular and you can see the presentations um of the type of data and information that was shared. So, this will be a continued thing that we do. Um, we're going to uh bring in uh the TRM committee because they have part of that conversation as well. Um, and eventually what will happen is we will layer all of our programs
021to determine which ones our community uh says are part of our mandatory package. Um and then those will get put into the ED specifications which will be delivered um end of year maybe beginning of next year. Um so it's a process and we're excited about it and it's it's um as Treasurer Cook said uh while this idea around academic return on investment has been out there and Dr. Roser from Georgetown has uh been training all over the country, no school district has really implemented it. So, we're hopeful that um we can be one of the first in the country to really look at it, get it down, and be a model, especially in urban education. Um and so, we're really hopeful that Dr. Rosa will come in the fall and help us work on that
022as well. So, I know we were supposed to do our big report today, but we're asking for a little bit of an extension, board leadership, um because we did get um a lot of data that we need to go in and we saw some gaps in the data. Yeah, I think that would be fine. In August, I have been watching the meetings and I think you are making progress and particularly in terms of the data that you're collecting and I think the survey getting student input is going to be really important and some of the information that we'll want to see. >> All right, any questions for board member Adair? I think I would just add um President Miranda, you shared a very informative research piece with um the board members that are on the
023committee. I would encourage that to be shared with the entire board because I think that will inform everyone being um or having a broader perspectives as to why gender-based schools are important and the value that they can add. So, thank you for sharing that and if we could share with everybody >> do that. >> Yes. Or member Simmons. Um, thank you, President, Dr. Miranda. Um, I do want to say I did have a chance to review the um, gender school um, presentation that was prepared for the committee. And I think while test scores are certainly one component of how our schools perform, I don't think they tell the full picture. And so I would have liked to have seen um, a bit more information. I know the board members on that committee asked, you know,
024a a lot of really good questions from the dialogue that I went back and listened to and asked for um, a few more deliverables. But, you know, when you look at the two schools report cards, for example, they start to tell a different story. When you look at their chronic ab absenteeism rates, they're about the same, which is really curious to me because we know that that has such a big impact on education. Um, and so I just think there's, you know, we have a lot of data that is both quantitative, but also um, you know, some of the qualitative things like how are these schools aligning with our portrait of a graduate? Um, so certainly be considered. And so I just want to make sure that as we consider all of our, you know,
025programs we have that we're, you know, we're certainly considering the breath of information we have available to us, not just the the topline performance of the school. >> And just to chime in on that, um the the committee did public members of the committee as well as the board members did lean in on the data uh with the administration. Um we, you know, thought about different ways to look at it, what we should benchmark, what was missing, what were the gaps. Um and again, we're learning out loud on this. Um, so there's going to be uh different ways and we and this is part of the the dialogue is to figure out what we are measuring and what types of data we're using. Um, and uh, you know, the uh, administration is actually going to
026be working on internal metrics first to kind of help take a first pass at things. Um, so we are learning out loud. So I appreciate your comments. Uh, board member Simmons, it would be helpful if you could give those to me more in advance though so that I can actually incorporate them into our committee work. >> No, and that's all right. I didn't expect um an answer right away. I just think um it's important that as the administration is preparing this information um that the complete picture is taken into consideration. When you see a presentation that kind of reduces the work of our staff and students to just a few metrics, it's a little disenouraging and I I think that the feedback from those folks would be consistent to that. >> Right. Thank you. Um
027board member Katz Meyer. Um, all right. So, I have a uh an update from the committee and then following that a um a brief request for an uh an amendment to the the charter from the board. So, I'll explain that in a second. Um the uh so our last committee meeting was on May 20th. Um and the next one is actually on Thursday. Uh so this is kind of a a late report, but we have the next meeting in two days. Um, we received a financial presentation from uh from Treasurer Cook regarding potential future funding mechanisms for the um for new construction and capital improvements uh including the use of permanent improvement levy revenues and certificates of participation. So, we're looking into um into that more and hope to make a recommendation relatively soon to
028um enter into, you know, kind of one of these agreements to figure out how to move forward along with um what board member Adair was saying uh with regard to the facilities um uh committee uh academics and facilities committee. The uh we also received a presentation from chief uh operating officer Maurice Woods regarding the district procurement thresholds uh and purchasing authority. We currently have the the lowest um uh purchasing authority in in the state it appears out of out of out of all the districts. So um wanted to discuss that. There's also um you know the other side of that is there's some reasons why uh some smaller contracts need board uh approval. So we're we're kind of looking into both sides of that. Uh we received an update from committee member Martin Davis regarding
029a uh kind of data gathering for facility planning effort that uh that he's undertaken. Um and we engaged in a discussion regarding the Everett School and Dubberry School properties um and the difficulties of moving these programs and you know the potential ramifications of of um of removing them from the closure list. So, uh, we're continuing a a a number of these discussions and, um, look forward on Tuesday or on Thursday to to having a presentation from the safe green schools folks about, uh, about the policy that you guys enacted last year and and how that's going. Um, so we're moving along. Um, any questions there before I get to this this charter amendment? Okay. So, uh the committee reviewed so the uh equitable and transparent resource management committee reviewed its governance charter and identified a
030discrepancy between the charter and board polic board policy 0155 which creates the charter. Um the charter specifically requires no fewer than four volunteer community members. Board policy 0155 requires at least two non-elected community members. We have three. We may get to four eventually, but wanted to continue our work and and kind of going back going to what the board policy is, which supersedes the um the charter rules uh will allow us to do that. So, the recommendation was approved by the committee on a on a vote of five to zero. So, at this time, on behalf of the equitable and transparent resource management committee, I move that the board of education approve the proposed amendment to the ETRM committee charter as presented, which uh you guys should have in a memorandum here. >> Second. >>
031Okay, now it's open for discussion. >> We're rolling. There's a motion second. It's recognized. >> Discussion. So, are we referring to the amendment recommendation that's in board docs? >> Yes. >> And the recommendation is to change that charter number under no fewer than four members. >> Correct. >> To no fewer than two. >> No. No. Uh to more than two. So, right now the revised language that I'm looking at says no fewer than two additional volunteer members. That's the revised language. >> Yes, that's correct. >> So, at least that leads to >> what are we doing? We had we when building the committee we interviewed a number of people found three that were great for the role and we're looking at the committee language. So this allows us to continue uh moving forward with this
032and uh I feel like we're in a in a great place there. >> Okay. I'm I'm I'm trying to process this, so I'm just asking this question and it it might not be um worded properly, but help me understand. Walk me through this slow. Walk me through this. What it sounds like is you currently have three, but because the charter says four, you want to change the charter language to say two instead of opening up the application and recruiting an additional member. Not uh except for the last part. Yes. I think we'll eventually have more members on here, but we have our committee tomorrow. We have potential votes on there. We want to continue to move forward and this would allow us to do that. I also think we great representation on the committee and
033>> I'm not really I I I think I think I'm not I don't think we're shorting anything by by doing this. No, but the sense of urgency would be that you don't have quorum. Maybe is that what it do? You not have quorum? Like what's the sense of urgency to change the charter? >> Board member Adair is going to >> Yeah. So, it's I know this is weird. It took me a minute, too. So, remember that these committees and this committee structure is fairly new, right? And so, our um our policies lay out the number two just as was said. And um so technically every year that we seat a committee because they're only technically yearly. The president appoints them and when a new president comes on that's every year. The committee charters should be
034updated. So they shouldn't really carry forward. Um so the the policies are always going to govern over the charters themselves. I think though that the reason we added numbers to these charters when we first did it was because that board at the time really wanted to have and ensure a certain number and a certain amount of community engagement. In fact, we did if you you remember we did I know we did a whole different application process where we had >> it was over 50 60 people apply to be on the committees. Um but technically the charters don't outlive the year. So it should revert back to two unless there is a change and we decide as a board that for some reason we want to go above the uh the required number for our policy.
035Um so right now there's three. So there is above two. Um and I always think that it's good to have more people. And in fact our committee that you're on with me, we want more more people too. we didn't fill all of our seats either. Um, but I also think that we need to figure out as a board the actual process that people will apply to be on the committees and what uh the minimum qualifications are going to be. Um, so I do think that is a way that we need to continue this dialogue around committees and how we um get people. But I don't think I don't think it's fair to characterize it that um this committee is doing something wrong or proposing something wrong when it's it's following what the actual board policies
036are. Let me clarify. I didn't say that the committee was doing something wrong. I simply posed the question of do we need to open it up to recruit an additional member. Wrong did not come out of my mouth. So, please clarify. Um, but I think board member Simmons wanted to >> But you said at the beginning that >> I said, "Help me understand. Walk me through this. Help me. Help me slow walk me through this. Explain this to me." Right. What's the sense of urgency from for >> I would I would say there's no no sense of urgency except except that we have been prevented on voting on items thus far and we have another meeting tomorrow because because of this. Now I'm confused again because I said does it affect quorum and you said
037no >> it's not quorum it's the lack of >> sorry we actually decided it didn't we did vote last meeting because we because we discussed it that it reverts back to the board policy so board policy says two and since this charter has not been readdopted because it hasn't this is the first time the board has approved it uh for this this calendar year um the change he's making the change back to two to be consistent with policy. So really this charter hasn't been approved. >> I have another question but you can go to member Simmons. >> Um thank you colleagues. In our policy when it says two committee members I believe I'm aware in our policy where it says we have to have two board members but then we have language in our charter
038that talks about community members from a cross-section. And so I'm not sure I'm kind of conf you know I'm fine with making this change because the reason it came up Dr. Pierce in committee is because um you know when we first met for the first time in the year we wanted to approve our calendar and you know I reviewed our charter and I said well hey we don't have enough members appointed to the committee. We did have enough members present showing up of those who had we had appointed which is why quorum has not been an obstacle but because we had not had the appropriate members of community committee members um you know I did not feel in the committee agreed at the time that we should approve the calendar we should you know let's
039get our charter in good order and that was consistent when we first did these committees there was a a really big hollowaloo about how we had to have these charters and they they meant a lot at least two years ago and then now they they seem to not mean as But um you know when we first set these up there was a really big hollow blue over it. And so you know I said well let's get our charter correct first and then you know chair um Kamire did that you know at the next meeting I wasn't able to attend. Um and so this was the result of the committee saying we would still like to conduct business even though we're short one member. I'm not exactly sure why two instead of three was decided but
040that's where we landed. Although I do want to just get clarification that in our policy the reason it you know we have policy board policy that says two board members on a committee. If we do have board policy that requires two community members on a committee I'm not sure where that is in our policy. So if we could get that pointed to that be helpful. I also want to communicate that the reason it's two board members and not three is because the board was in a very unique set of circumstances at a time where we just did not have the full board of education um in position to serve on the committees. And perhaps we should have considered suspending the policy instead of permanently altering it. But I would even say we probably should go
041back to having three board members on all the committees. And I think you know President Miranda has made sure we do. But you know maybe we should put that in our policy. And so, yes, it's two board members in the policy. I don't believe it's two committee community members if we get that verified. Um, and perhaps we should consider going back to three board members in our in the policy. >> Um, just for it's policy 0155 and it says the committees shall be comprised of at least two non-elected members who have subject area expertise appointed by the president of the Columbus City Schools Board of Education. >> Thank you, colleague. I wasn't aware of that um language. What policy is that you said? I know you mentioned I just didn't call. >> 0155. >> Thank
042you. >> Also, board member Peter, just a little context. We So, you know, kind of behind the scenes, we we interviewed a number of folks, selected three of them. Um, uh, reached out to a couple more who, uh, didn't end up, uh, for whatever reason were not able to join or or or it didn't make sense. So, we're continuing to grow the committee. Um, we were just trying to cross the tees and dot the eyes to make sure there was any question about whether we continue to vote or committee continue committee business. We're aligning it with what was already in the policy. >> Yes. >> Thank you, President Miranda. So, um, it sounds like the board policy that we have for the committee to supersede the language in the charter. So, I'm fine with the
043change of language, but I think the bigger issue, and I'm observing this in all of our committee participation, is that we do not have solid community participation on our committees. I've requested um through a number of channels that we reopen our committee application, that we promote it throughout the community so we can get solid community participation. Right now we are having pretty much the board and administrators meet for these committee meetings and this is really an avenue in which our community members can have a voice and a seat at the table. And so I think colleagues it is upon us while we are crossing tees and dotting eyes to make sure that we are recruiting individuals to serve on our committees that we are very clear on how long that service will be and what
044that service will entail. appreciate that. >> You're welcome. So, um, >> motion and a second. >> Yes, the motion. >> There's a motion in second, >> Dr. Miranda. >> Yeah, there's somebody seconded. >> Yes. I I did request at the ETRM first committee meeting that we get the terms of the members up on our website because the public should be able to, you know, the same way our board member terms are up there, the public should be able to look at the committees and see, you know, hey, John Smith, their term expires this date. Um, and so I that if we could please just to echo Dr. Pierce, I appreciate you asking for that cuz if we could please get the terms uploaded to the website. >> I think that would be that I I
045echo that request because I think it also will show other community members who's currently on the committees and that might spark some interest as well. And then I know um one of our colleagues has mentioned it. I know I've mentioned it a couple of times, but if there are ways that we could also have student participation, we do have um Zoom. we have, you know, the internet now and we can devise ways where maybe they just come to one meeting a quarter, but we can also look for ways to incorporate student voice. I know um board member Adair, we've discussed that on the committee, especially as we've been looking at our programs, making sure that we have student voice. And so, if board leadership could also um include that in the discussions and the thought
046process, that would be greatly appreciated. >> We'll do that. Okay. No, there's no other discussion. We'll call the role. >> Dr. Dr. Kennedy, >> yes. >> Vice President, >> yes. >> Dr. Pierce, >> yes. >> Mr. Kameer, >> yes. >> Mr. Simmons, >> yes. >> Madair, >> yes. >> President, Dr. Miranda, >> yes. >> Motion carried. >> And we will look into all of those things and see what we can do. So stay tuned for August. All right, Vice President Les. >> All right. So our policy and governance meeting, our last meeting was held on May 21st. Um many of the policies that we actually passed as a committee have come before this board and three of them are before the board for consideration tonight. There were a number that were before the board last
047board meeting um that we discussed. We had a presentation about educational options and um we also had a presentation about uh attendance. So the attendance policy we talked about last board meeting and we had a presentation there. We had a number of um different transportation related policies some of which will be retaken up today um and then some of which we handled last uh board meeting. Um, I do want to call out that a lot of our policies actually have workg groups that are um working behind the scenes and those work groups the committee has made sure to insist um that the administ administration include um all relevant parties and all relevant stakeholders including students. And so a number of the work groups that have worked on um these policies do include um a number
048of students I would say um since um our March meeting we have had or I'm sorry since the beginning of this year so since January we have as a board adopted 22 policies and that's a significant number compared to years past. So, I just want to give um considerable shout out to our legal team and our policy support team um because that is a it sounds like a maybe a small number to some, but that is a massive massive lift, especially when you consider um a couple of these policies were very very very intensive and took a lot of work, especially the AI policy um which was new for the district and required a lot of feedback, a lot of stakeholder engagement and a number of committee meetings to not only discuss language but discuss
049concerns behind them. Um so from the last meeting all of the policies have come before the board except for um we are still working on and thinking about the VCAP and Apex question and we have a work group um currently established who is um working on that topic and we'll make a presentation to the board or to the committee at the next policy and governance committee meeting. Um, we also discussed the parental status of students. Um, board, you may recall or at least the ones who were here last spring that we took that up for a first read and the board decided to take no action because there were a number of questions um or the board just wasn't ready to adopt um in reviewing that meeting. Um, in looking at the language of the
050uh policy, we decided um as a policy team that there are probably lots of things missing from that policy and we could use some some considerable community feedback to think through some of those things more deeply. And so I explicitly asked our committee members to engage their networks and engage their community around the language of that policy and come prepared with a number of ideas of what are we missing um to support our students um who are nursing our students and staff who are nursing and we had a very robust discussion um in that meeting and so I thought it was very fruitful. There's a lot of things that um were kind of instructed to go back to the policy team um for consideration and to rewrite the language and bring it back to us.
051But um a lot of really good input and thought and so thank you to the our community members who took that charge and really um thought critically about the policy and how not only how we can make it more inclusive but make sure that we are um affording our students and also um thinking about how we can afford our staff um ample opportunity and um and and treat them considerably as well um per policy. So that is something that we are going to take up at our next meeting is redising that we've got a number of different policies that we have kind of in the queue of things that we need to look at. As we know, state law passes all the time and quickly. And this last week um is no uh is an
052indication of exactly how that can happen is bills get folded into other bills and suddenly one bill has seven new requirements on school systems. Um and that's just one piece of legislation on a day where you can have 25. So um that has happened at the legislature. They're on a break. And so now we as a team are kind of looking through some of that and determining what is it that is required by law to change quickly. And then also looking back at our policies um because we have a number of different policies that have either not been updated in a number of years or have not been updated since they were initially adopted. And so we're kind of peacemealing and working through those as a team in bite-sized chunks and trying to do that
053in a way um that makes sense and also kind of prioritizes those most pressing and those most um urgent issues to make sure that we are in compliance. So um it was a good meeting overall and um this board has already seen a lot of the fruits of that labor. >> Thank you. Um, Vice President Les and I will just do a brief update. We attended the OSBA leadership um, com conference. Um, we were both able to go on Saturday. Um, and I'll just briefly just one of the sessions that I went to that made an impression on me was from Pickerington City Schools and it was about giving students voice and I was thinking about our superintendence ambassador program and thought that we already have an organization and I don't know how much we
054use them but I was thinking about how we could use them to get input and hear their voice but also from other students. So it was pretty impressive. The students spoke about things that they came up with, how they were able to give ideas and so again it just made me think about how we can continue to give student voice and whether it's through the survey as you talked about or whether um how um Dr. Pierce talked about is making sure that we hear the voices of students as we continue to do the work here in the district. So Vice President Les. >> Yeah. So, um, President Miranda and I kind of decided to divide and conquer in the forums and we picked out, uh, four and we each went, um, and and split them
055up and then, you know, the big session halls we were kind of all together. Um, but one that I want to, well, one that I'll call out quickly is there was a legal update and so I went to that just to kind of hear if there was anything, you know, that might um, trigger a need for our board to respond or um, operate differently. And I can say that I feel very confident that everything that they were instructing, we're pretty much following. So, I feel very good about that one. Um, I did ask for that presentation. I have not yet um received it from OSBA, but if I do um I'm happy to share that with my fellow board members and um administration. And then um there was a presentation about America 250 because July
0564th, 2026 is the 250th anniversary of the nation and there is a nationwide effort um to engage all 350 350 million Americans um into our nation's 250th anniversary. Um it's known as the semiquincentennial. It's quite a mouthful. Um but there is a a cohort um that is leading that charge and I know um one of the people is Representative Joe Miller and another um being a teacher and educator actually out of the Washington Courthouse School District and he was there to present um about how schools can engage students in America 250 and how boards of education might be able to uplift um some of uh the celebration itions that are happening. A lot of what he talked about was ways that he engages his students in veterans initiated projects and um the research projects that
057he does um down in um the Washington Courthouse and Miami tree school districts. They have done um a lot of research around unmarked grave sites and helping f veterans and their families um reattached to some of these unmarked graves from um numbers of of years past. And so um talked about that project. He talked about um different ways that we can kind of teach American culture and history and all of the things. And um obviously our culture and our history is one that is very diverse. Um it is both uh very uplifting and it can be um very traumatic and learning and um I think that we see a lot of that in our district. But um that is an opportunity as well coming back um for some of our you know social studies area
058educators to really talk with kids when they come back from um the summer to uh talk about the the 250 um celebrations and and um really lean into uh learning that history. So, it was an interesting presentation. Um, and I think um it also kind of made me think about like different ways that we as board members just like through our own networks and um community outreach can um do a good job of of uplifting um this national celebration um around our country's history. >> Thank you. All right. I will turn it over to board member Adair who will give the voucher litigation update. >> Thank you so much. Um I wanted to provide a brief update on the status of the Ed Choice voucher litigation in which Columbus City Schools serves as the lead
059plaintiff alongside a coalition of public schools and other organizations across Ohio. This lawsuit was filed um because of the significant concerns regarding the dramatic expansion of Ohio's voucher program and the impact that that expansion has on the state's constitutional obligation to maintain a thorough and effective system of common schools. That's actually the language in the constitution. At its core, this case asks a fundamental question. Can the state continue to expand funding for private education without first ensuring that it has met its constitutional responsibilities to adequately support the public schools that educate the vast majority of Ohio's children. This case is not about opposing parents or families who make different choices educationally for their children. Families will always make choices they believe are in the best interest of their individual student. Rather, this case focuses on
060the state's obligation under the Constitution and whether the current funding system appropriately prioritizes and sustains public education. As many in our community know, public schools serve every child who walks through our doors. We educate students with a wide range of needs and circumstances, and we are responsible for ensuring that all students have access to highquality public education regardless of their background, ability, or income. So most recently the case was before the 10th district court of appeals for oral argument. That means it's an appeal from the trial level court. During that hearing the court heard arguments from both sides and ask questions about the significant constitutional issues presented. The appeals court will now consider those arguments and issue a written decision. There is no specific timeline for when that decision will be released. Given the importance
061of the issues involved and the broad impact this decision may have on public education throughout Ohio, it is expected that litigation will continue through additional appeals potentially to the Ohio Supreme Court. We will continue to keep our community informed as the case progresses. This litigation is about protecting Ohio's constitutional commitment to public education and ensuring that every child has access to strong, stable, and adequately supported public school systems. Thank you. >> Okay, moving on. Vice President will talk about three board policies. >> Yay. Okay, so Mr. Rodney Stuffelbean and Attorney Mr. Barnes. Would you mind coming to the podium? So, our last board meeting, we had these on the agenda, but it we as a board decided that there was some work that and questions that we had um around some of the language in
062the policies. And so, I know our attorney um Mr. Barnes has been working with board members to answer some of those questions and through that um had suggested some additional language into the policies. So board members um we will take I want to make sure I'm going in the right order 8640 which is transportation for non-rine trips. Um this is a complete replacement again because there have been five four different revisions since 2015 um from Niola from our policy provider and in order to adapt all the changes and language and yada yada um we just basically had to rewrite the policy to make sure that it was easier and cleaner to read. Um, and so, uh, kind of reminding folks, um, there's language in here about multi-function school activity buses, and those are school buses
063that do not have the standard safety equipment that our typical day-to-day buses apply. So, that's that's what that's talking about. That's all that's talking about. Um, and non-rine trips. I know last board meeting we had some questions about like what is a non-rine trip and what does it entail and what does it not entail. So, um, there is some additional language. You'll see that highlighted in green in the back. And then there's a strikethrough of some language. Um, but I will go ahead and turn it over to our team to kind of explain where we landed with the language and um any recommendations moving forward and ask any questions if the board has them. >> Yes. As as uh Vice President Engles indicated, there are three transportation policies that were um that were before the
064board at the last meeting and were tabled to to this meeting. I will be talking about u policy numbers 8640 and 8651 and Mr. Stubblebeam will talk about uh policy number 8650. There there was some some heavy discussion at the last meeting surrounding certain language in 8640 uh regarding the superintendence discretionary authority to enter into contracts with government entities and nonprofit uh organizations. So what we um in in in speaking with the the board members who had some concerns uh we have added language to um the last paragraph of that policy. Um and that entire paragraph relates to the superintendent's discretionary authority. Um that language added is any contract with an agency of the federal government for the use of for the use or operation of boardowned vehicles including but not limited to buses shall
065require prior approval of the board of education. So it carves out the federal government from local and state government. There was also uh some discussion uh regarding students ability to drive personal cars uh during non-rine trips and language was added to the last sentence of the first page. Uh that language is an exception may be made by the principal on an individual basis provided the students parents provide written authorization and a release from liability and the student does not transport any other student unless the parents of the student being transported have also provided written authorization and a release from liability. In addition, the parents of the approved student driver must provide written authorization for the student to transport others and a release from liability. So no language was taken away but language was was added
066um to just to uh for convenience purposes I'll go directly into policy which had the same concern as 8640 regarding the superintendants discretionary authority. So the same language was added to that policy. It's not on the last page, but it's on the first page under the under B, use of buses by authorized entities during emergencies. The same language was added. And now I will turn it over to Mr. Stuffbean for 8650. >> Thank you, sir. You need to vote for that one or do you want me to go ahead and go through? >> We'll just call in the order of the board docs after you guys kind of talk about the three. >> Absolutely. Policy 8650 is transportation by alternative vehicle. Uh this is a complete replacement and policy scope on this addresses the transportation
067of students by alternative vehicles and formally defines what qualifies as an alternative vehicle for district purposes. establishes min minimum driver requirements for alternative vehicle operators. The purpose and rationale is the prior policy used outdated school van language that no longer reflects the range of vehicles in district use. A full replacement was warranted to establish a clear current definition and consistent standards for drivers. Some of the key changes are alternative vehicle formally defined as any passenger vehicle originally designed and constructed for nine or fewer passengers not to include the driver. All references to school van are replaced with alternative vehicle and the minimum driving requirements are as described for all alternative vehicles and the operators. Those are the synopsises of the changes and it'll bring us in line with the statute as it stands today. Um,
068seeing no discussion or questions. Um, >> actually have a a question. It's it's not actually I'm fine with all the things that you just presented. It's actually a question. It's totally different. When you were reading the language, you said parent and I just wonder is that what we is that do we do parent or guardian now in our policies? Is it both or does is parent also defined as guardian somewhere else in our policy? >> Should it say parent and or parent or guardian? >> generally it would be parent/guardian. So yes, >> are you we can add that? >> We could uh yeah if uh 8640 where the new language that was inserted um it just says students parents and it's several places in here parents. >> So that language was literally taken from the
069old policy and so that probably does need to be reflected that it's parent or guardian. >> Yeah. >> Okay. So that's on 864064 >> and it's just 8640, right? >> Yes, I believe so. >> Okay. >> Um there's also other places now that I'm glancing through this where parent places you didn't touch it. So I would just say anywhere that there is parent if it could be parent. >> Yeah. >> When we go to put this in final. >> I think that's that's right. >> Is this only for 8640 or is that for the other policies? I don't think it's in any of the other policies, but um I will make the caveat in each motion. So um I will go ahead and make the motion that the board adopt um the policy as written
070in board docs for policy 8640 with additional changes that when it says parent, it should say parent/guardian. >> Second. Vice President, >> yes. >> Dr. Pierce, >> yes. >> Mr. Katame, >> yes. >> Mr. Simmons, >> yes. >> Mr. Adair, >> yes. >> Dr. Kennedy, >> yes. >> President, Dr. Miranda, >> yes. >> Motion carried. >> Moving on to item 4.5, board policy 8650, transportation by alternate vehicles. I do not see parent/guardian, but I also am doing a very quick skim. So I will make the motion that the board adopt the policy as written in board docs with with um if there is any parent um it should say parent/guardian >> second >> Dr. Pierce. >> Yes. >> Mr. Kame. >> Yes. >> Mr. Simmons. >> Yes. >> Mr. Adair. >> Yes. >> Dr. Kennedy.
071>> Yes. >> Vice President. >> Yes. >> President Dr. Miranda. Yes. >> Motion carried. >> Okay. And moving on to item 4.6, board policy 8651, non-rine use of school buses. Again, here I will make um the motion that the board adopt the policy as written and upload it into board docs with the caveat that if there is any point where it says parent, it should say parent/guardian. >> Second. >> Okay. >> Mr. Kame. >> Yes. >> Mr. Simmons. >> Yes. >> Mr. Adair. >> Yes. >> Dr. Dr. Kennedy, >> yes. >> Vice President Engles, >> yes. >> Dr. Pierce, >> yes. >> President Dr. Miranda, >> yes. >> Motion carried. >> Great. And thank you, board members, for your feedback and work in between the last board meeting. >> Thank you, Sarah, for leading us
072through that. All right, Dr. Chapman, we're going to turn it over to you for several updates. >> Yes. Good evening. Um, President, Dr. Miranda, Vice President, board members, staff members who are here with us, and community members who are either here with us in person or online. Welcome. Thank you for the opportunity to provide this update on the high school transportation 9 through2 workg group. The purpose of this workg group is to provide further analysis at the board's request of the two high school transportation options presented last December. To clarify, this work group did not come up with these two options. They have been asked tasked with providing a deeper analysis of them. And that is the focus for this update tonight. The work group will present its final recommendations to the board no later
073than January 31, 2027. This work has followed a deliberate structured process. Following the board's direction in December, the team completed the pre-planning and planning phases and is now actively engaged in analysis. That work includes reviewing student access, travel times, transfers, walking distances, safety conditions, infrastructure needs, operational capacity, potential costs, and the time required to implement any future transportation changes responsibly. It is also important to understand how the two options currently being evaluated were developed. On September 11th, 2025, the joint committee on community engagement and advocacy, equitable and transparent resource management, and academic and facilities voted to advance two options for further consideration. Those options were later presented to the full board, which the which directed the district to analyze both options. The current analysis focuses on two transportation options. One that would allow that would
074discontinue yellow bus service for general ed high school students and another that would combine Kota access with limited yellow bus support based on students transit needs. You will hear more about both options during tonight's presentation. The work group will continue to evaluate both options and again to reiterate has not yet developed a final recommendation. This work has been a strong collaborative effort amongst Columbus City Schools, Kota, the city of Columbus, Columbus City Council, and the Mid Ohio Regional Planning Commission. Each partner brings essential expertise in student transportation, public transit, infrastructure, safety, citywide mobility, and operational planning. That collective knowledge is necessary as we determine what is practical, sustainable, and most responsive to the needs of our students and families. The team is examining how students would travel to and from school, where infrastructure or safety
075concerns exist, what improvements may be necessary, what each option would cost, and how much time the district would need to implement any changes responsibly. Tonight's presentation is a progress update on this important work. Again, not a final recommendation or an implementation decision, nor does it require a v board vote. At this time, I'd like to welcome our chief operating officer, Maurice Woods, who provide a more detailed update on the work completed to date. He'll be co-presenting tonight with Rodney Stufflebeam and Ashley Ashlin Rodriguez from Kota. Welcome team. Thank you, Superintendent Chapman. Good evening, President Dr. Miranda, members of the board, Superintendent Chapman, Treasurer Cook, Auditor Okconor, and Q community members. Superintendent mentioned, my name is Maurice Woods. I am the chief operating officer. And here with me tonight are Rottney Stufflebeam, our executive director of
076transportation, and Alyn Rodriguez, our senior director strategic partnerships at Kota. On November 18, 2025, superintendent presented proposed budget ree reductions during the board meeting. I said November 18th. Let me correct that if I didn't say that. On December 2nd, the board voted on multiple board resolutions specific to the two high school transportation 9 through 12 options presented. The board did not pass the resolutions and directed the superintendent to establish a transportation working group in consultation with Kota and other stakeholders. Next slide, please. Tonight we are providing an update to the board and community on ongoing school transportation 9 through 12 workg groupoup activities. We want to emphasize from the outset no final decisions have been made. No high school transportation changes are being implemented for the 2627 school year. And this presentation is intended to
077provide the board with a progress update on the work currently underway. This is the a decision filtered for the work of student focus, sustainability, and safe requirements. Student focus means we are not just looking at a map and assuming that a route works. We have to understand how our students would actually get from home to school, including walking distance, transfers, travel time, and whether the path is reasonable. Safe means we must look at the actual conditions around schools and bus stops. That includes sidewalks, crosswalks, traffic patterns, ADA access, lighting, shelters, and how students would respond if a trip is delayed or disrupted. Sustainability means the district must be clear about cost and capacity. Transportation is already one of the district's largest operating costs, and we cannot continue to design a system around empty capacity. Routing
078students who do not ride create cost, staffing pressures and operational complexities. So the goal is not simply to reduce services. The goal is to design a transportation model that matches actual student needs, protects students who require support, and reduces avoidable waste in the system. A plan that saves money but does not work for students is not good enough. A plan that supports students but cannot be staffed or funded is also not sustainable. The recommendation must balance all three. This point I would like to introduce Mr. Rodney Stufflebeam will take us through the next slide. >> Thank you sir. President Dr. Miranda, Vice President Angel, members of the board. Thank you. Back in December, the board asked us to take a serious look at high school transportation to work alongside Kota, the city of Columbus, Morpsy,
079and other partners. Sorry. Study the OP options together and come back with a recommendation for the 2728 school year. That's the charge we've been carrying ever since. Here's how we've gone about it. Rather than rush to an answer, we built a process. We move through initiation, then pre-planning, planning, and we're now in the data analysis stage. The full committee meets on a regular basis, and underneath it, five subcommittees are doing the hands-on work, digging into the operations and data, safety and security, infrastructure and marketing, and communication, and community engagement. Each one owns a piece of the puzzle and they report back up so nothing gets decided in a vacuum. So where does that leave us right now? We're in the middle of the real work. Validating the data, understanding how students would actually get where
080they need to go, assessing what's safe and what our infrastructure can support, and figuring out what it would take, genuinely take to make a change like this work for families. I want to be clear about one thing because I know it's the first question on people's minds. Nothing is changing for high school transportation in the 2627 school year. This is about building a plan worth your consideration and we'll bring that recommendation back to you in January of 2027. I'll turn it back over to Mr. Woods now. You sir, the CCS code of work group consists of two distinct groups. There's a crossorganizational work group that consists of strategically selected tactical operations focused subject matter experts. They have recurring meetings. They meet monthly and face toface. There's an executive advisory group that consists of executives from
081partnership organizations that meet quarterly to receive updates and provide feedback to the crossorganizational work group. Mr. Steelbain will take us through a few slides and then we'll bring up Asen Rodriguez. >> Thank you sir. evaluations of options and criteria. Now that now that we have walked through the what the work group is focused on, how this work group is structured and the support groups to ensure we successfully complete a final recommendation to you the board by January of 2027. I'm going to run your attent to turn your attention to the options that the team has been analyzing. As Dr. Chapman mentioned during her opening remarks, these two options originated from within the joint committee last fall. And on September 11th, 2025, they voted to present these two options to the board. These two options were
082then brought to the full board on December 2nd, 2025, where the board determined that the two options needed additional planning and evaluation. That is when the charge has given to create a cross- functional work group to assess these two options. This slide provides what the work group has learned thus far. First, let me begin with the clarifying that the phrase state minimum state minimum requirements describes describes a compliance baseline. It does not describe the standard the district and this workg group is using for the assessment of these two options. Rather than using the state minimum requirements, the work group is evaluating the two options by addressing the following questions. One, can students get to school safely? Two, can they get there reliably? Three, what are the travel times? Four, what transfers are required? Five, what
083sidewalks, crosswalks, shelters, and ADA access are needed? six, what students require exceptions? And seven, and what can the district sustain financially and operationally? With that assessment process now laid out, let's dive into each option previously brought forward. Option number one, starting with it to support students in grade 9 through 12 if a decision is made to reduce student transportation to state minimum requirements would mean that the district ends yellow bus transportation for all CCS and CMP 9 through 12th grade high school grade students and does not replace transportation with Kota with a Kota pass. Students with IEP transportation needs and CTE shuttle needs would remain covered. Let's look at this line by line. The yellow bus transportation provided. No. Yellow bus transportation of CCS and charter non-public students 9 through 12 is not provided. So
084code of passes offered? No. CCS will not purchase code of passes for CCS and CMP students. Who covers the cost of transportation? Families will have the responsibility to transport CCS and CMP 9 through 12 students. Is the state minimum met? In this example, yes. Will there will there be state non-compliance fines? No. This option eliminates non-compliance fines for grades 9 through 12. The projected cost savings is $7.2 million. Option number two, to support students in grades 9 through 12. if a decision is made to reduce student transportation to state minimum requirements would also end broad yellow bus service for high school students but adds Kota passes and limited yellow bus service for students with more than one transfer I will repeat that with more than one transfer looking at this line by line the factors
085are yellow bus transportation provided yes but only for CCS and CMP 9 through2 students with more than one transfer is the code of passes offered. Yes, CCS purchases KOD passes for the CCS and CMP 9 through 12th grade students. Who covers the cost of transportation? District will cover the cost to the transportation CCS and CMP passes with more than one transfer. Is the state minimum yet met? Yes, with code of passes for CCS and CMP 9 through 12 students. The department of education and workforce workforce public transit is an approved form of transportation. Will the state be will there be state non-compliance fines? This option reduces the liability for state non-compliance fines. The estimated projected cost savings is $4.8 million. The reason this analysis matters is because our current model routes every eligible high school
086student. Even though fewer than 30% actually used the service based on the December 2025 routing data, we routed approximately $8,692 public high school students. Using the $7.2 million savings model, that equals to about $828 per routed high school student. If fewer than 30% ride, then we are maintaining routed capacity for roughly 6,000 non- riding high school students, which represents approximately $5 million in unused routed capacity. Let me simplify that. This is the operational problem we are trying to solve. Not students doing anything wrong, but a transportation system designed around eligibility rather than actual use. The work group is now studying what is safe, feasible, sustainable, and student focused before bringing a final recommendation back to the board. The next slide begins to show what the initial code of modeling tells us about public high school
087students access to transit. CCS can speak to our student transportation needs, our routing data, and district operations. Kota is best positioned to explain the transit analysis including stop access, direct routes, transfers and average travel time. As lean, at this time I will turn this over to you. >> Thank you, Rodney. Um, thank you President um, Miranda, Vice President, and board members. It is my pleasure on behalf of Kota to be with you this evening. I would like to begin with acknowledging the existing wrership for the 2025 2026 CCS school year. This year, there were over 9,000 students, exactly 9,884 distinct high school riders that rode Kota, equating to over 400,000 rides. Students are already choosing our system for school, for extracurriculars, for employment, and more. On the screen here, you will see an analysis based
088on an anticipated enrollment for the 2026 2027 school year, which includes 7,597 CCS students across 21 schools and 2,236 charter non-public students across 44 schools, all of whom live um more than 2 miles from the school. The first takeaway is encouraging. 73% of students have a direct route to school. I'm going to repeat that. 73% of students have a direct route to school. That means a majority of students could get to school um home to school using a single bus ride. Another 24% would require one transfer which is still workable but introduces an additional time and coordination that would need to understand and plan for carefully. That leaves just 3% of students exactly 65 CCS students and 211 charter non-public students who face the most significant access challenges. These students either live more than two
089miles from a bus stop or attend one of four non uh public schools that are not within two miles of a code of service. When we look at walking distance, we also get a clear picture of students experience. On average, students would walk about 73 miles from home to bus stop and 49 miles from the bus stop to the school. Importantly, nearly half of all students, 46% would walk no more than half a mile to each of the bus stops, which aligns more closely with the typical urban transit expectations. From school access standpoint, the system coverage is strong. All CCS high schools and um about all but four charter and non-public schools can be accessed by bus stops within a mile. So when you step back the picture is this. A majority of students have
090direct access. A significant portion can be served with one transfer and a small group will require targeted solutions due to distance and infrastructure gaps. That this is exactly why the work we are doing um right now matters. These numbers help us move beyond assumptions and begin identifying where the system works well, where we need to focus on safety, improvements, infrastructure, expectations, and additional support to make this successful for all students. I'm now um I'd now like to highlight um key findings from our infrastructure field observations. We convened a crossorganizational team that included three CCS representatives, two Kota representatives, and two Columbus City of Columbus representatives. This team conducted on-site visits to each high school along with the transit stop students would use to access the school. At each location, the group assessed existing conditions and
091discussed um potential improvements. And one thing I want to note here is we did do the data crunching first. But that wasn't enough for us because while data can tell you a story, it doesn't tell you the whole story. We went and put our eyes on each of those schools. And I think that that's really important to hear is that we looked at the data and then we doublech checkck the data with our own um experience. Overall, a majority of the sites um doc um documented strong accessibility. These include Downtown High School, Columbus Alternative High School, Afroentric um International East, Walnut Ridge, Wetstone, Lynon, Mckenley, West, Centennial, and South. Across sites, one consistent recommendation emerged, upgrading student crossings um to a type two, which essentially is a high visibility piano key style striping that improves
092the safety and visibility. So crosswalks were a huge recommendation in the consideration of this work. A small number of the locations would benefit from more significant improvements, particularly the addition to new sidewalk crosswalk infrastructure. These include Mary and Franklin, Independence, Beachcraft, and a portion of International um area. From a service perspective, we also identified a few key um consideration. transit stops near Beach um currently operate a rush hour. So while we were looking at infrastructure, we were also asking ourselves a service question as in Kota, right? So when we looked at Beachcraft, there is a stop right in front of Beachcraft. However, that stop is only serviced from brush hour and that students would not be using that those stops. They would be using 161 or Cleveland Avenue. And so that's why Beachcraft actually kind
093of went up to the top for us in terms of consideration and areas for improvement. Um, and then I will say this that Mary and Franklin and South High School, they have considerable fixed route service, but they also have co our kota plus zone which is an ondemand service that students um can also access. I'm now going to go to the next slide that um helps you understand what sort of a model stop looks like. Um, East High School is um the stop located directly in front of the school um across from the school and also across from the school from Broad Street to Parkwood. These stops the stops are positioned within the school's speed limit zone. So, obviously reducing that speed because Broad Street uh can be fast, which is an important safety feature
094for students arriving and departing. The crossing is also designed for visibility and safety with um signalized piano keys. You can see here that that needs improved, but the piano keys are there. So, they need sort of need restriped. Um but that's what we're looking for. And from an accessibility standpoint, the stops uh have shelters and ADA pads ensuring that it's usable for all students. And importantly, this is not theoretical. Students are already using these stops and others like them. So when we talk about students access through Kota, this example illustrates how strong alignment looks. Close proximity to a school, building in safety features, accessible infrastructure, and establishing student use. You see students using it. I'm now going to go um to the next slide which outlines infrastructure and safety challenges. I'd like to briefly highlight
095the most significant infrastructure gaps identified through this fieldwork. First, Mifflin High School presents the most critical challenge. I'm sure that you all can see Mifflin in your head and and that is obviously something that you sort of see it and say yes. And in this current state, it is effectively not feasible to serve via transit without substantial infrastructure investment. Um, addressing accessibility would would would require major improvement both in cost and in timeline, making this a long-term consideration rather than a near-term solution. At Beachcraft, um, the primary issues are incomplete sidewalk network and relatively long walking distance to the nearest viable um, stop, as I mentioned, um, 161 and Cleveland Avenue. Together, these create meaningful barriers for consistent safe access. For Eastmore, the concern is less about um availability and it's more about safety. Pedestrian
096conditions around the school raise clear safety risks that would need to be addressed to support reliable student use. And finally, there are additional opportunities for improving at Briggs and Mary and Franklin. While these are less severe, targeted infrastructure enhancement at these locations could be meaningful and improve access and usability. So that's our infrastructure analysis, but I'm now going to turn toward our uh KOD CCS student trainer program. We began with 19 students representing 50% of CCS's school participating in the Career Tech Forward Day on June 3rd. These students stepped into the role of peer trainers completing they have not completed but will complete 16 hours of instructional instruction and 10 hours of hands-on training. So in total it's 10 hours. Um we've just condensed some of that. Um truly these students are going to help
097other students. That is the model students helping students. What we saw throughout the day was a meaningful growth. Students started the morning timid, unsure, but by the end of the experience, they were actively engaged, confident, and fully participating. The shift in confidence and ownership is one of the most important outcomes of this work because they're going to be working with their peers. So, if they can't articulate what's happening at Kota, how are they going to help their peers? We ourselves have a full-time travel trainer, but we that's one person for 21 schools. And so we need help and these students are going to be that help from skills standpoint. Students gain handson transit knowledge and access. Many sharing um that they learned how to navigate the system in a real world way as both empowering
098and open and eyeopening especially as they realize how extensive kota services are including the availability of mainstream for individuals for all individuals with disabilities. These also built practical transit skills, learning how to use the color-coded system, our stop IDs, and the different types of code of services. One of the most important activities was an interactive map where students mapped their own route. And they got to see how to get from home to school, an afterchool program, and that's what we would ask them to do with their peers. This experience also connected directly with their learning goals. Students earned up to 50 hours toward workbased learning requirements, including community service and internship credit, reinforcing that this is not just a transportation conversation. This is also a career readiness and life skill. And finally, students practice self-
099advocacy, learning how to ask for help, communicating with the operator operators and navigating the system with confidence. Our operators are there and you can ask them for help. Importantly, this work is already extended beyond the students. We connected with approximately 20 coaches across participating CCS schools, expanding awareness and support as um at the staff level as well. Because while we can start with the students, the reinforcement happens with the staff. to meet varying schedules. We are offering four different training options for two-hour coach sessions, ensuring strong um participation and flexibility. The response from staff has been overwhelmingly positive. Many shared that they learned new information about us adults saying we learned more from you and notably several had never accessed Kota before highlighting the broader impact of this education. We also see clear momentum building.
100schools are already asking for the next cohort. Um, and they're growing interested in expanding the model beyond CCS. So, the takeaway here, this work is not just about transit systems. It's about students building independence, confidence, and real real world readiness. And just as importantly, it is creating broader engagement across staff and partners, positioning this to be a scalable model in the future. I'm almost done. I promise. Oh, one other thing I wanted to share. Um, and I apologize. I had one for everybody, but I left them. Um, this is our travel training guide. I I have been working at COD for six years. This piece is one of the most the p proudest pieces I think we've ever put out. This is what our students will train their their peers with. It is a comprehensive
101travel training guide and I will make sure that each of you gets a copy of this. In summary, I wanted to briefly ground us in where we are today. First, no final decisions have been made regarding high students transportation. This work remains in an active evolution and planning and evaluation. What is clear, however, is the strength of the partnership support between CCS, Kota, the city of Columbus, Columbus City Council, and Morpsy. At this time, the research and data collection completed to date is consistently pointing to the meaningful opportunity both in expanding access and improving outcomes for students. To translate that opportunity into action, subcommittees have been established and are actively advancing implementation planning, working through operations, infrastructure, policy considerations regarding um uh required for success. Importantly, school leadership engagement continues to grow. This their participation
102is strengthening operational planning and ensuring that what is designed is both practical and aligned with the dayto-day realities of school. So while decisions are still ahead of us, the foundation is strong, grounded in data, supported by partners, and moving steadily toward a clear path forward. What's next? Establishing timelines and costs for each recommended improvement came from that came from the field observations. Kota providing plans for information sharing on routing changes, delays, reroutes, cancellation of trips through their transit app to improve communications to all customers. Developing plans for potential future sidewalk placement and the repairs near neighborhood schools. obtaining information technology and legal input regarding RFID and enabling student success cards and student data and drafting joint standard operating procedures for incident responses. Those are some of the highlights that we will be continuing to work
103forward through as we go through this process. This time I will turn it back over to Mr. Woods. >> Thank you, Mr. Stuffel Bean. Thank you, Mrs. Rodriguez. There's an acronym on this page that I just want to clarify. Um for those who may not um know the the technology obviously it is infrastructure information technology RFID is radio frequency identification just wanted to call that out. So in closing, I would like to thank the board, the superintendent, our transportation team, Kota, the city of Columbus, city council, Morpsy, and all participating partners and their continued engagement throughout this process. This is complex work. This work group will continue throughout the 2026 calendar year. And at this point want to reiterate that no high school transportation changes have been implemented. All current high school transportation services remain
104in place and a final recommendation is not anticipated until January 2027. That concludes our presentation. Want to thank you and we welcome your questions and comments. I want to thank you for providing um an update. I think um the work you've been doing is very informative. It's what we need and so I look forward to the final um product in January 2027. All right, questions for member Adair. >> Um yes, I want to echo that to start off by thanking everyone. This is exactly what we need to be doing as a city uh coming together and working to solve these these big problems. Um I do want to ask a technical question about us the slide if you could go back to I think it was slide eight and nine where we're talking about option
105two. I just want to be clear that is not what the board was talking about when we say yellow bus transportation provided unless something changed in the law that I don't know about. Um we are not required if a CCS student has one or more transfers to provide yellow bus. >> Correct. Is that what that's not how I'm interpreting what you said in the presentation? Because this is why I got upset during that vote because the yellow bus services, if it's one or more transfer, that only applies to the charter nonpublic students, not our students. Our students can have as many transfers as it would be. I just want to make sure we're still on the same page about what option two is and everybody has that understanding. >> That is correct. that the state
106law says that that CCS students can have unlimited transfers. The the limitations to one or more transfers only applies to the charter nonpubliclix. I will say that there is discussion about how we would go forward with that if we have students that are CCS students more than one transfer would consider that as like services and do yellow bus service for them as well at right now that number is 65 students. >> Okay, I appreciate that. I'm not opposed to it. But what I'm but I'm looking at the number because that 4.8 number is still the same number that we were looking at back in December and I believe that if we were to do that that would then mean we're not hitting 4.8. >> No, that's we went through that data yesterday. Um that's and
107we've been reviewing it for the last couple weeks because our initial inclination was that as well that we would lose some of that $4.8 million savings. as the data we ran yesterday, it is 65 students and we would be able to en encompass that with very little change to the data or to the cost savings at all. >> Okay. and and in doing so um excuse me um but board member Adair we would be able to provide like services for our students at the same way for CMP students so that our students would not be um experience more transfers and so forth. So, but again, >> I hear that. I just >> these are all factors that >> you made a big point of saying that these were the two options the board put forward
108and this is not that I'm opposed to the change, but I just want to be clear that this was not the actual one the board considered. You're now modifying, looking at it, digging in. That's that's great. We need to know that. But this is a change. The board did not vote on that in December. it it was looking at providing zero access of yellow bus services while the charter nonpublic students who got one or more transfers um would get yellow bus. So there was a distinction in equity about what our students got versus what they got. So >> not opposed to like let's being creative and figuring it out. I just want to be clear because this is a public thing and you said that this is what the board voted on or was considering
109>> and that's not the case. Word board member Adair, if I may, I just want to draw a distinction that came out of the working group. So, we apologize that that additional when we were talking with the chiefs in the room, everybody came to the consensus, we would not well the group I'm I'm talking as a working group. The working group came to the consensus that no CCS student would also have to have more than one transfer. what we do for CMP. So, I apologize that that distinction was added there. You are correct. When we looked back, that was not the distinction in December, but the working group said we're we're not going to require CCS students to have more multiple transfers if that is, you know, what is not required of CMPS. So, that
110was a recommendation from the working group and I apologize for that con that confusion, but that was added based on the working group's recommendation. I want to recognize that >> board member Simmons. >> Um, thank you, President, Dr. Miranda. Um, I I don't think the the issue is that the working group, you know, kind of did did his work and found new information. I think the the issue here is the board when we made that decision, it was a three-for decision. And two of my colleagues who um, you know, voted to do this working group and continue said they felt very concerned about um, our students would not receive the same equitable services. And that was a big big big big big big factor behind their vote, behind the board's decision. And so now this
111is June and we're learning that it what the board what I was led to believe and what the board was led to believe was that it was either we do the yellow buses or we don't we do Kota and our kids don't get any yellow bus service or but the charter non-public kids do. And so we were not we were told that it was that we didn't have the option to transport our kids who would have more than one transfer. And so now that it's June and I'm very happy we brought in outside experts because I think this is a topic we needed the assistance on very clearly. And so I'm happy we got that additional information. But at the time last December, what the board was informed was that we had basically an option
112between yellow bus service for everybody or KOD passes for CCS students but yellow bus services for chartered non-public students who need more than one transfer. This is a third option. And I also have issue with the fact that the projected cost savings is no longer accurate. I don't know why we would put a number on our slide. You know, if we're going to transport those 69 students, those six 65 students are going to cost money. And so, if our projected cost savings are now 4.6, 4.4, 4.65, whatever, you know, let's get the correct number on the information we're going to provide to the community. But I just I don't understand why, you know, it's great that we're digging in as board member Adair said and we're learning new information, but my issue here is where's
113the update to the board? Hey, we've learned new information that we have have a third option. We can transport CCS students who require an additional transfer. And so I just, you know, that was a very big big big big factor of the board's decision last December. And it's costing us money to continue to have our high school students on the yellow buses this year. And so that's key information that we needed to know last year. Um, thank you. >> Thank you, board member Simmons. >> Yes, board member. >> I have a a maybe easy question. Um, well, I think it's easy, but I don't know. Um, have have we thought about what additional staff support, if any, is required if we were to fully utilize Kota? Would there be anything on the CCS side that
114we should consider as far as staffing stops having safety? I don't know if we've had those discussions in the work group. >> So, yes, those those are things that all each one of the independent committees, we're working with the safety and security committee. Um the central enrollment committee committee for the the assignment of passes for both CCS students and CMP students. All of those are the topics that these committees are working on right now to wash out and look at what kind of things it's going to entail if the decision is made and they're they're continually getting to each step and then they're going to bring that as part of our recommendation. >> Okay. Yeah, that's great because I I remember when we were having this conversation, there were lots of parents like who's going
115to be around to make sure you know they get from point A to point B and don't veer off or whatever. Um, and also just like safety on the buses and safety on, you know, waiting at the stop and all those kinds of things. And so I think that's great that you're talking about that. Thank you. >> Again, thank you all for the work. >> Member Simmons. >> Thank you. Um, I did want to say I was really impressed with the student component, the student training component. Um, you know, that really blew me away and because it is really empowering to teach folks how to um, utilize our bus system and how to do that just from from knowledge. Um, and you know, it it's it's really great and I love um when I get
116to ride the bus and help other folks navigate it. Um, but my question is specifically around how um, you know, Kota and the CCS are going to partner to get our information, our students information about, you know, delays and reroutes of that sort. I think my my biggest concern now is that the current public doesn't really get that information. Well, so why would CCS get that information, you know, better to push it out to our students? And so, you know, I know there's in the plans there's, you know, a transit support desk. Maybe we could get more information around that, but there really needs to be um a way that CCS is notified of changes to routes, delays, and that we're able to communicate that to our students. And we also have to consider that,
117you know, some of our schools are like um Briggs and the number nine is an hour route. I know it's a big goal of KOD to eventually be a city where we don't have any hour routes. Um but, you know, for now, that's that's what it is. And so, you know, if our students miss that one bus, you know, if I'm a high school student, I'm going home. I'm going back to bed. If the next bus comes in the next hour, um I'm probably not going to go to school that day. But if the next bus comes in 15 minutes, you know, I might stay there and and wait for the next bus and and go to school that day. And so, I think having that information, um the district having that information and being
118able to equip it and pass it down to our students and so they know um you know, I I don't want our kids standing out at the bus not knowing, you know, is it coming, is it not? And the truth is, you know, as you know, you do ride Kota now and you will see people when there's a reroute or um a delay or or change, you know, you'll see folks standing downtown at a bus stop that I know because I have a lot of experience and I'm tenacious and resourceful and have my mobility um you know, I able to navigate our city and our bus system really well, but when I see folks standing at a stop that I know the bus isn't coming because it's rerouted, it's really concerning. And as a board
119member, I don't want that to be the case for our students. And so we definitely need um to have more, you know, the the information's got to be accurate that Kota pushes out to the public, I think, because if the information isn't accurate, it's going to be hard for us as a district to let our families and our students know. Um what's up? >> Thank you, board member Simmons. >> Any other questions? Yes, board member Kennedy. >> Again, I I've I appreciate the work that's been done uh with this work group. uh though I'm on the executive uh work group uh I have taken the liberty to go to the the tactical work group meetings and and the level of uh data gathering that uh the team is is presenting is very very in-depth u
120and there's a lot of thought that's being uh centered around this this project uh and so I'm encouraged there certainly uh And to board Simmons point, I mean, it's it's it's it's a great point. in the absence of us being able to share data in a way that's going to be effective for uh the district to know what's happening with our students for Kota any other partners for us to be able to really partner those data sharing agreements those data sharing uh processes have to be in place or all of this will just be for the show right and so If we're really really serious, I would certainly love to see and and in the way that we're approaching the data, it appears we are very serious, right? And the subgroup the work that the
121subgroups are doing is magnificent, right? I I the work is the work is being done there. Uh but if we're going to really do the work, we got to make sure that uh we are sharing data and and opening those that that information system and processes. I appreciate that and I know that that was a request of the subcommittee to have a data sharing agreement when in reflection us receiving information opens us up to and I don't ask me the acronym name but furpa um and so we can push our data to you all we don't have the CMP information so that's why we've relied on the CCS team who is doing a magnificent job crunching the data sitting there and so we are sharing the data but instead of us receiving it we're pushing
122our data over so that you all can use it and uh put that out to the group. However, that doesn't mean that other agreements cannot exist amongst us. Right? So as we talk about safety and security, what do those potential agreements look like? because there is a line in the sand where CCS ends and KOD begins and how do we share those incidents, accidents, safety mechanisms and all of that. I do want to address one um um issue around pushing information. This fall, Kota is looking to launch a um a push notification that would go to um any rider. I was going to say students, but any rider, and they can identify the line that they want to know the information about. So, that is expected in the fall. Um, I don't I can't give
123you a direct date, but please keep your eye out because we do know and we have heard from our riders that they want more accurate information around reroutes and canceled buses. We also acknowledge that we've had some vehicle issues with our electric vehicles. This is public knowledge. We've had some um issues with our our I'm going to read it directly so that I um I make sure that I'm saying this correctly. Since 2025, Kota has exclusively purchased um compressed natural gas. We were originally purchasing electric vehicles. The reliability on those battery electric vehicles have not met our expectations and we have gone back to compressed natural gas. So that has been a big part of the pain that unfortunately some of our community members have had to feel is that those vehicles have not met
124our expectations and that has um forced us to do some reroutes and cuts and all that stuff. So that notification is coming in the fall. We acknowledge our shortcomings. we are turning the tide and buying these compressed natural gas vehicles and we we'd hope that in the future that those lines are not cut due to vehicle availability. >> Thank you board member Simmons. >> Um thank you. I I did have I I don't really understand the the thing about the data sharing because, you know, tonight on the agenda, we're going to approve contracts and data sharing agreements where we're going to have to send our student information off to, you know, not government entities, but completely private, you know, corporations. And so I it we don't need an answer right now, but if I could
125get more information as to what exactly the obstacle is from Kota's end, um you on I just don't quite we we share data with a variety of entities all the time. Um, and then my other two questions are the board originally was told during our joint committee there was some concept with vans where there'd be a van that would roll around and then a student could um could it was a kind of we were going to excuse me experiment >> excuse me we're going to um experiment excuse We're going to experiment with that and there was a concept that the uh the team went and saw sorry it's just I I thought the idea was really cool and so the team went and saw these fans in Denver Colorado and they came back and said
126maybe this is something we could do in a few years but not now. There was a you know we had talked about it as like kind of something far down the road. Okay. I think you may be misinterpreting a van for kind of a shuttle system. >> Yeah. A shuttle where students can go on at any point. >> Yeah. Um those were still yellow buses. >> Oh, those were still yellow. Oh, I'm sorry. I misunderstood. >> Our visit to Denver, they ran a shuttle system that ran on a loop service >> and had about two or three buses on one direction of the loop, two or three buses on the opposite direction of the loop and they picked up at designated stops. Very similar to what COD does. >> Plus, yeah. when we came back
127and we tried to implement that with our current direct routing model is physically impossible. >> Okay. >> But if we are able to get to a situation to where we go back to community schools, we are starting to draw some of this back, we can expand our experimentation with the routing models, >> then it becomes feasible. >> Okay. I thought it was it was really innovative, too, especially if that concept could be done without the yellow buses and with just the vans. Um, and if if that's a possibility, >> can I can I if it's more micro, >> was it more I think I'm recalling a little bit of this. There was the dumper thing, but I think it was like more of a um a first and last mile van shuttle, >> and it
128wasn't it wasn't that they were going to look into it. I think it was just brought up as like, okay, is this something? >> Oh, I'm sorry. I misunderstood at the time that >> Yeah. Oh, they they brought up Denver and this model, but I think it was like so for example, Mifflin the the Mifflin stop. If if kids got off at the Mifflin stop and there was a van and they got in the van and could get up the road, >> those I I believe I recall some of this conversation. I think my response to that, if I'm correct, we have to be very careful with that because of like services. the minute we do something and and that's what we're working with with the Department of Education workforce right now to get some
129clarity on because it's also been discussed to possibly be able to roll this out in phases. The limitations with that are if we pick one student up in a yellow bus then it's like services for everything else. So the limitation of phases is very hard to navigate and there's not direct answers we get. I do recall that conversation now that we we spoke a little bit more about it and that's where we would have to ask for some legal clarity to say is is if we do this with a van and is it considered a like service would it go down that avenue and then would we then be obligated to offer that to charter nonpubliclix >> thank you I thought it was really um innovative but I know makes it so hard for us
130to be innovative in many ways um and then my last question which doesn't need to be answered now but I'd like to get I'd like I'd like a legal update to the board about um you know this option two 2A I'm going to call it um 2 A which would be cuz it's not option two it's not what the board called option two last se many months ago but option 2 A this new option that has just been unveiled to the community and to the board u but I liked a legal update on you know what's where's the legal basis for it in or we don't have to have it now but you know written to the board you know what's the legal basis for it in OC and how much it's going to cost
131to transport those 65 students and when we discovered did and why the board wasn't able to, you know, be apprised of that when we made our decision. Um, at a later date, please. >> Yeah, we can do that at a later date. But I would also say I was not on the board then, but we didn't have this information. So, there's no way you could have voted um one way or the other because there was no information. I think that's the benefit of this workg group is that you were able to dive into the data to make different decisions. And so you did make a decision in December, but it was because this data would not have been available unless you had a work group. So that's important to remember. Board member Dr. Pierce. >>
132Thank you so much, President Miranda. I think this uh question goes to the entire uh working group as you all are getting student feedback. Um could we ensure that we are getting feedback from a diversity of students? I think a lot of times um some students our families may be um pre uh may be more likely to enroll in a particular program like the one that you all offered. Um my parents my mother was very old school. So uh I learned how to take the KOD bus in elementary school, find your way home, right on some just like figure it out. Um, and so I think we have students that are learning public transportation in a variety of different ways and we can't always assume that our students that need it the most are going
133to enroll in a particular program like you're offering. Also, I think we need a diversity of students because as you noted with the beachcoft route, right, there are different practices, athletic practices that are shifting and happening. the girls basketball team might have the gym the first, you know, couple of hours after school and it switches off. So students are trying to figure out, okay, do I have time to go home? Can I come back? What's my transportation looking like? If I'm a student at Ka and I need to get to Centennial for my practice, how is that going to work? Right? And so I think having an audience with those students and really looking at how we as a community need to lean into public transportation would be extremely helpful. >> Thank you. I want
134to thank the work group again. I look forward to your presentation in January. Um great work. Thank you. Um, >> thank you to the the resolution is every six months and so we should have another update before January if it's June now. >> Well, the um >> six months from now would be >> the I think the >> there should be two updates to the board before the recommendations made. We'll be we our goal was >> the resolution that was uh approved by the board. >> The resolution um included making sure that we had a final recommendation to the board before January of 2027. So our goal was to be make sure that we come back to you with those recommendations. I want to name and acknowledge that um we will have absolutely honor the
135board's um resolution and directive from December and make sure that the recommendations and the data that we bring back to you is reflective of the very specific language that um the board voted on in December. So that is our commitment to you. We will make sure that we pull the language directly from the resolution. Um and the team will continue to analyze the data, explore all options. If there is a third or fourth option that the data reveals is a possibility that also meets our standards of sustainability, safety, access for all students, we will also bring that back to you in the follow-up conversation. So, we'll um make sure again just want to name and recognize that we receive that feedback and we will do everything um to make sure that the final recommendations and
136the next update includes the very specific language that the board voted on in December. I also want to give again thanks and kudos to not only our team members who are here with us tonight um Maurice Woods, Rodney Stuff Bean, and Ashley Rodriguez, but there are several committee members that have been working tirelessly on the committee work as well as the subcommittees now that are picking up additional um areas of um need um and working on providing recommendations. ations and feedback. Um, so and I also want to say thank you to all of our partners who are um, maybe in the room with us tonight or not in the room. Um, I believe that what I believe that um, board member Adair said this in the beginning of her comments that this is what we
137should be doing as a community and a city is working together and planning how we support our residents, how we support our community members who are also our students. And so I am confident that when we land with a final recommendation, we will also land with an exemplar of what um this true collaboration looks like between multiple agencies between Columbus City Schools, the city, Kota, and Morpsy will be able to say here's a structure, here's a process from the the different phases that the team has gone through um to ensure that we're working collaboratively again across multiple agencies. So again, thank you to all of our partners who are not in the room with us tonight but are with us in spirit and have been helping and supporting us. Um no one has said no
138to us as a part of this work. Everyone has said what else do you need? How can we support? Where do I need to be? When do I need to show up? How do I need to engage in this work? And so I just want to acknowledge and appreciate the willingness from all of our partners, community members, even our students who have said yes, sign me up to be a trainer. And I know that there will also be additional opportunities for the adults as Dr. Pierce mentioned, broader engagement with our community for training opportunities, ride along opportunities. There will be specific opportunities, engagements for board members, for our CCS staff members who will be supporting students as well. And that work will needs to happen and that work will continue to happen regardless of the
139board vote, right? Because we know that thousands of our students every day are writing KOD and we need to continue to build their um expertise, their confidence in um you know their transition and on KOD whether it's to school, from school or to activities or work and so we'll continue with that work as well. So again, thank you to the team, thank you to our partners, and we look forward to um continuing the dialogue. >> Thank you, Dr. Chapman. I I see the the issue is the resolutions that were distributed, and this is not what the board voted on, and this is why I was stressing that it is important board docs, our official record of board activity be accurate. So what we was distributed at the board table now, this is language that maybe
140was working or at one point in time. But if you go actually to board docs, then you can see the language. And forgive me, board president Miranda, it's six-month interrolls beginning January 31st, 2026. So, we should be good if we do it January 2027. Thank you. But this is not this is why board docs has to be accurate when we meet. That way, when the treasur's office does the minutes, we're able to go back and know what the board's direction was, but what was distributed does not include. And also, it doesn't make sense that we would have did the work group and did state minimums. So, >> thank you, board member Dr. Pierce. >> Thank you so much, President Miranda. So yes, board member Simmons is correct. It is in sixmonth interables interals. My request
141is that the board work on updating our board working calendar to recal all the updates that we will need moving forward for our 26 27 school year. and that we again the request has been made include that in the superintendent's weekly updates that come to the board to ensure that all board members are adequately prepared prior to meetings and well informed. >> Thank you. >> All right. Thank you. All right, Dr. Chapman. >> Yes. So, we have another presentation tonight. Tonight, um our second presentation is a school realignment update. Um, this is an update on the district's ongoing school realignment work. As the board knows, this work has been part of a larger effort to review our facilities, enrollment patterns, building use, and long-term needs across the district. The goal is to make thoughtful decisions
142that support stronger learning environments for students while also being responsible stewards of district resources. Tonight's update will provide background on the realignment process, review previous board actions, and share where things stand with consolidations completed for the 2627 school year and those planned for the upcoming school years. The presentation will also include information on proposed state legislation related to underused school facilities and what it could mean for the district. This time, I'll turn the presentation over to Dr. Brown, our chief of strategy and performance. >> Good evening. >> Evening. >> So, uh, today, uh, I'm going to go through, uh, a series of slides here, um, beginning with a little bit of background information, uh, that that formed, uh, part of the the purpose and the reason for the consolidation, the series of board actions that
143have been taken to date connected to that. I do want to introduce uh Senate Bill 311 because it was passed uh a little bit less than a week ago and I I think it adds some urgency to this conversation. Want to talk about the completed consolidations and the planned consolidations moving forward and then uh at the end looking at uh the list of buildings that are below 60% as outlined by Senate Bill uh 311 and those that have been addressed through consolidation to this point and those that remain at risk. This is touchy today. So we have 112 academic facilities across the system and we have approximately 60,000 seats available for our students across the system whereas we have only about 45,000 students. So there's quite a bit of excess capacity across the system. This
144was one of the driving factors behind consolidation and looking to to be able to move forward to bring the the number of seats in the system in closer alignment uh to the total number of students that we have. That being said, we would always expect to have a little bit of excess capacity across the system because uh special ed uh students require additional space in buildings and that has implications for capacity both uh for the room rooms for um self-contained rooms but also for inclusion and and so that impacts capacity across the the water buildings as well and require some excess space. Also, just for some background, um, uh, secondary settings tend to run at about 85% of capacity. And the reason for that is because, um, again, the rooms have to be booked in
145a little bit different way, scheduled to allow movement of students across classes, etc. A lot different than elementary setting when kids sit in one classroom all day. Again for background um many of those 112 uh facilities that we have across the system are quite old. Uh the average age of facilities across the system is 45 years and we have some buildings that uh were here before electricity and I will come back to that uh a little bit long a little bit later along the way. We are incredibly thankful for our community and its investment in PI dollars as we move forward. the uh the PI dollars are are helping us uh be able to make improvements across the system uh as we move forward. And part of again part of the work around consolidation is
146an effort to be wise with how we invest PI dollars uh to be able to provide the best learning environments for our students as we move forward. In the start of the 24 uh academic well start of the 24 year uh the board approved the membership of community task force uh that was done in February of 2024 with a goal of determining which school or schools should be closed. task force made recommendations to the board in June of that year and the board of education continued the exploration of recommendations and made multiple visits to schools before making its decisions uh in December of 24 and then coming back and making additional decisions for consolidation closure in December of 25. Those decisions are outlined here. In December of 24, the board voted to close Broadley Elementary
147School no earlier than the 2627 school year. Buckeye Middle School no earlier than the 262 27th school year. And the McGuffy facility, which houses cause, and I I want to be very clear, there was no no desire to close cause, but but rather to move the programming to another site, a more modern facility. Again, no earlier than 26 27. closing Mhler Elementary uh no earlier than 2627 and closing West Broad no earlier than 2627. And the board was very specific. They wanted uh that to be considered with uh in the FMP process. Uh and as I recall at the time uh it was very contingent on the on the idea of having a plan for replacement building uh in the works uh to be able to accommodate those students. The following year, the board uh
148voted for closure for KOMO effective 2728. Uh Ducksberry Park no earlier than 2728. The Ever facility again which houses the gifted program not closing the gifted program, relocating the gifted program from an aging facility. uh again effective 2728 and the closure of the uh Fairwood Elementary effective 2627. As I mentioned last week, Senate Bill 311 was passed through the Senate. This has been in the background through much of our uh communication with the community as we were doing community events in the fall last year. We talked about the impending legislation and how that could impact our our buildings. Well, this legislation has passed and I don't want to pretend in uh for a moment that this captures the content of that legislation that's like 134 pages long, but just hitting the high points on it.
149If this were to uh pass unchanged through the House and become law, we would be required to offer unused facilities for sale or for lease. And when we talk about for sale, the sale is not for market value, but market value as an educational facility rather than the market value of of of the building as a whole or the property. So just for a quick o overview of underuse which actually as they define it they call it unused. Uh this slide was actually presented in u the equitable and transport uh transparent resource committee um meeting a little while back. When they talk about 60% they're talking about 60% of either the building capacity or the highest enrollment in the past 10 years. That or clause is is a big deal. So downtown high school has
150a capacity of 800 students. Its highest enrollment in the last 10 years is 501 students and its current enrollment is 445. Under Senate Bill 311, it does not meet the 60% criteria for the capacity of the building. It's under that. It would meet this criteria for 60% of its highest enrollment by this legislation. And again just looking at the in uh capacity criteria alone uh this would be considered an unused facility and we would have to put it up uh for offer for lease or for sale. This is the list of buildings that meet that 60% uh criteria and they are in ascending order of utilization. So the boys and girls schools are are pretty close to the top of that and coming down to the bottom Johnson Park is right at the threshold. We'll
151come back to the slide at the end because it will uh we'll be able to show which of the buildings on this list have been taken care of through consolidation or through planned consolidation and again which buildings are are left at the end. What you see uh as you look down this list the center column there is the number of seats or the capacity of the building. available. Uh the second column is utilization, what percent of those seats are filled. And the final column uh is what year the school was open. You'll see in the case of Ohio Elementary School um it says FMP uh and Eastgate Elementary School, you'll see was 2008 as a as an opening. So FMP means it was um sub substantially improved uh as as part of the FMP process,
152modernized So moving on through completed consolidations this year uh broadly at the end of the academic year closed for instruction. Uh broadly students are going to attend Eastgate. Eastgate was one of the buildings that was underutilized as well. Eastgate again is a modern facility recently built. So we've moved uh students from an aging facility to a neighboring modern facility. those students uh will have a better learning environment as they move forward and it preserves the investment in Eastgate that the community's already made. Additionally, this expands the catchment area for East High School. So, the students who live in the Broadley community will now attend East High School by address as they metriculate through the system. This will help us uh make better advantage or take better um make better use of East High School as
153we move forward as well. Fairwood again closed at the end of this year as well. Uh Fairwood students will attend Ohio Avenue uh elementary school by address next year. Again, uh Ohio Avenue is a school that's been modernized. Uh so students are moving from an aging facility that hasn't been modernized to a modern uh learning environment, improved conditions for our students and it preserves that again that investment into Ohio elementary school and Ohio feeds into East. So this moves the MER catchment area into the east feeder pattern as well which would again help with the enrollment of East High School overtime as those kids metriculate uh upward through Champion into East Mhler was um oh pardon me Fairwood sorry Mhler uh was closed for instruction at the uh conclusion of this academic year. Mhler students
154will attend Livingston or Lincoln Park by address and the break point is essentially Friebus Avenue. Alignment uh on this for the guiding principles again we're moving students from an aging facility to a modern uh two modern facilities in this case and it preserves those investments in in both Livingston and Lincoln Park elementary schools. I want to thank uh the teams that have worked through this process during this this year. It was an enormous to to get this done, to close these three facilities and to do it in a planful way that engaged uh the families in terms of uh establishing new boundaries for the schools and also um providing opportunities for memorialization of the buildings as as they closed. We know that that transition is hard for families, but we know also that our students
155are going to be served in modern facilities, and we're honoring again the investment that the community has made in those facilities. Now we're transitioning into the plan consolidations for 2728 and beyond. Como was um identified for by the board to uh have an effective closure in 2728. So it would close at the end of the coming school year and Oakland Park is anticipated to receive the vast majority of KOMO students. I say the majority because we'll have to go through a boundary process and we're actually going to look to do enrollment balancing across that whole area in the coming year. Uh so the actual attendance zone won't be determined until after the community has an opportunity to participate in that boundary uh process and determine where those boundary lines should lie. So there's a real
156opportunity for the community to be involved in a genuine two-way dialogue with where those boundary lines will uh end up uh landing in the coming year. And this will impact uh all the schools east of 71, south of Morris Road, and north of 670. So, it's a sizable chunk of the city that's going to be involved in this uh boundary process as we move through. Again, the focus here is to to uh have students attend the best possible learning uh facility that we have and to preserve the the community investment in Oakland Park Elementary. Every one of these that we've talked about so far moves students from a aging facility to a more modern facility. Everett is also meant to close at the end of the 2728 school year. The Gford program is in one
157of our oldest facilities. It was opened in 1898. An interesting little fact is that the first public uh electric company facility in in Columbus opened a year after that. So just for some I think the community has got its money's worth out of that facility. It would be We came with a proposal to move uh the gifted program into one of our largest elementary schools and I think this was one of the things that that began to kick off the edspec conversation because it was pretty clear that the the programming that goes on in the current EV ever facility wouldn't fit easily into even one of our largest elementary schools. So if we were going to move forward with this, we really need to be looking at secondary facilities and I think we have some
158opportunities for that and we've been looking at those more closely as we move forward and again want to work with both the committees uh to evaluate those options and evaluate them in terms of what programming would fit in available facilities as we move forward. Moving forward to 2829 and there are several involved there. Buckeye and McGuffy are somewhat intertwined as we move forward. The timing for these projects are connected uh connected to the planful transition of things from downtown high school. So we have a lot of CTE programming that exists at downtown high school uh that needs to be transitioned out of there. Uh and this would give us the opportunity then to move cause into downtown high school uh which would certainly provide them a much more modern facility uh to support their program
159as they move forward. And this aligns very well again to the emerging academy model and moving again CTE programming into academy settings across the city. Originally, when we had talked about Buckeye, we had talked about uh potentially moving Buckeye into Marian Franklin. The numbers don't work. And additionally, we got a lot of feedback from the community that they don't like the idea of a 612. They're not real thrilled with our 712s either. So, based on that feedback, we also looked at the alignment to the FMP process and what what had existed in the FMP. was something I heard a lot uh from the Marian Franklin community. Hey, the FMP talks about this being the site for the new Southside High School. So, by consolidating South and Marian Franklin high schools at the Marian Franklin site,
160it preserves that site for a new Southside High School. Uh which again aligns to the FMP, the previous FMP. And that opportunity to have a new southside high school would actually make the southside somewhat unique in that virtually every building on the southside would be modernized at that point. Uh it would be the the again sort of the beacon for what we would maybe want for other parts of the community as well. We would move Buckeye then uh to South High School and that would then allow us to establish a uh traditional middle school at South High School serving grades six through eight which also means that the entire southside would have standardized grade bands. PreK5 at all the elementary schools, a standardized middle school and a large high school on the on the Marian
161Franklin site. >> Normal size. >> Yeah, normal size. normal size large for CCS normal size compared to pure districts. >> Absolutely. Uh you are correct. It would be a normalsized high school. Um and again this the other thing that is sort of consistent through this is we are building larger school communities. We're serving students in large in improved schools in larger communities which means that we have better offerings as well. Ducksberry Park. Um there was a lot of conversation about this. Uh this is a program that I'm familiar with, been in the building quite a few times. Um again, we had looked at combining Ducksberry Park with a neighboring elementary school and would would have meant uh combining the programs, not running them parallel, but actually combining them. This was not acceptable. Um, I think
162there was a real desire instead to have Dubberry on the Fortes comp uh compound and having a um a prek12 pathway for the arts. Obviously, this would require new construction. And you know, at this point, again, I want to come back to saying, hey, incredibly thankful to the community for the PI dollars which are allowing us to do improvements. We have a lot of needs in terms of construction. We have some places where we need new seats to be able to accommodate. We have lots of competing interests here between, you know, even in the case of the ones we've talked about here, Dubberry and West, both are are of high interest. Um, so as we move through this process, we really need to look at that comprehensively and that capital plan that will come to
163the board in January of 27. So any existing site that we would choose to move Dubberry to in the in between uh would require some compromise. And again, I think we need to work with the board committees to look at available sites and what those compromises would look like and what facility modifications we would need to to put in place to be able to reasonably accommodate uh the arts programming until we were able to to see that vision for having a again a prek12 uh feeder uh pattern on the the Fort Hayes campus. So, uh, the next slide I'm going to come back to that list and I just want to look at that the list of schools that are below 60%. And the ones that are addressed in the plan and those that are
164not at the top you see broadly, Fairwood and Muller have all been closed at the end of this year. So, they are coming off the list. Columbustown High School, a downtown high school will exceed 60% with the inclusion of the cause programming. East High School will be well above uh what it needs in terms of the threshold too as we again see those kids metriculating up through Eastgate receives broadly. So it will be above 60% as well. This helps preserve that. Marian Franklin with the inclusion of South would be above that 60% threshold as well. and Ohio Elementary again by receiving a fairwood is is well above that threshold. We are continuing again to have a dialogue and and engaging the board committee um committees in the process around Columbus Gifted Academy and Duxberry Park.
165Uh and I feel like there's there needs to be a certain urgency to that conversation given Senate Bill 311. If Senate Bill uh 311 goes through the House unchanged, I I there's a lot about that that is is not in favor for our our students. At the bottom of the list, you see a group of schools that are are not addressed um by the consolidation plan. These are all vulnerable at at this point. If this again bill passes through the house and becomes law with no modification, these would all be buildings that we would need uh to consider listing or would be required to list for sale or lease. And so there is an opportunity, I think, to think about the relationship between the buildings on this list and the buildings that we want to
166consolidate uh moving forward. Uh but again, there's going to be some urgency with that as we move forward. With that, I think there's room for a discussion. >> Thank you. Board member Adair. >> Russ, can you just go back to that last slide again because these are public facing. I just want to be super clear because you wrote on here Mary and Franklin High School would exceed with all Southside high schools. But the actual plan would not be to put South kids in Mary and Franklin. It's actually to build a new building. So, I don't know how that plays out with the this House bill because it isn't our plan to shove kids into Mary and Franklin. It's actually to build our first normalsiz high school for the standards of of uh Ohio right now.
167Um, which is exciting, I think, for the Southside as you identified. So, is that that's not really what you meant when you wrote that, right? And then if if it is, are you saying in order to just preserve Mary and Franklin, we would be looking at doing something that isn't what I just said? It really would be moving kids into Mary and Franklin. >> To be able to close Buckeye, we need to be able to move them either to Mary and Franklin or to South. Again, the original FMP plan involved making South High School the middle school for the Southside and the Marian Franklin site the location for the Southside High School. If we want to preserve that site, again, it would be if we do not move uh students into that site, it will
168be vulnerable for sale and we would then potentially lose that location for a Southside High School. I don't pretend that this is a pleasant conversation right now. Um, but again, greatly concerned about the language in Senate Bill 311 and I think that that's language that we should spend a little more time particularly in the committees going through. Again, it just passed last week on the 10th. Um, again, I'm just touching or scratching the surface of a 134 page bill that is pretty wide wide ranging, but it does concern me that this is now passed through the Senate and if we don't act with some urgency, um, these are properties that we could lose. >> And, um, Dr. Brown. Forgive me. I don't know if you said this, but the original plan, we talked about moving
169Buckeye Middle School students, transitioning them to Mary Franklin and creating a 612 campus. Even if we did that, we number one, there are several concerns with doing that. One, um the community was not in favor of a 612 campus. And if we moved Buckeye students into Marian Franklin, the school would still be underutilized and still we would be, you know, impacted by the language in um Senate Bill 311. And that would be again even more challenging for us because it would prevent us from being able to implement any of our FMP strategies to complete the Southside. we think about building a high school on a site where that's the largest land mass that we have on the south side because there's actually two properties right there on the site of Mary and Franklin. You think
170about South High School um they do not have space to have athletic facilities right by the school near the school. They're using a you know space that's further away. But at Marian Franklin site, we would have the space and the land to build um a large high school that would a comprehensive high school that would, you know, provide comprehensive programming and athletic facilities that would support um programming at a high school. >> Um and I know that you said you're still digging through and and and part of what you're mentioning is the timing. um for the other green ones um in particular East High School when you're saying they're going to receive three 300 to 400 or more students. I mean that's not bam. This is metriculation through the new high uh middle school. So
171if do we have a timeline for when um or how long these properties have to be under 60% before they hit the trigger? like because I mean east high schools could still be under 60 for a few years because we're waiting for the metriculation to get there. >> Again, I I've done a a a read through that portion of the bill applies to this. Um I would like to spend a little bit more time talking with my colleagues and having a little bit more in-depth review of that bill uh and some of the implications in it. There is a caveat in the bill that would allow uh for appeal and and I would suggest having a plan in place that involves consolidation and a projected change in enrollment over time uh could be a basis
172for a strong appeal. I get concerned when we don't have a plan in place for building at all because then I don't know how we would make an appeal or or argue against the consequences of the law. But again, I this is just a cursory read. I I think we really do need folks to lean into it quite deeply and to understand the implications before. And again, I think both ETRM and uh the academic and facility alignment committee are places that we should have that dialogue. I just want to say before I yield, um, you know, it, uh, one of the things as a board member that's really important to me is that we do not shove students into buildings, um, that make it so their academic program is not what it should be. And
173that's the history of this district to be honest. We we do that not intentionally, not to be harmful, but we kind of do that. We have space. We move programs. we um you know in the past have you know uh wanted to move kids and and put pe put people in buildings that don't fit and that includes adults right um and so I think part of having the ed specs and really talking about that is that we are being more strategic and more um you know mindful about what it is that our academic program needs and even though this and this again the state house is doing this to us and it's really impeding our ability to plan with our community's own resources to provide the best education that we think we can for our
174students because they're putting these arbitrary rules around us. Um there may be instances where we are going to lose property um because we aren't ready on the on the academic side because it takes time to do what we're doing with edspecs and to create the plans. And so I would just say we need to be very open and communicative with our community. So just like we said about Mary and Franklin, we have we I have never said that before. I never wanted to put merge. It was never a merge in my mind. It was it was a new identity uh for that south end. But in that case, as the superintendent said, if we lose that huge piece of property, we can't do what we need to do for our vision. So, Southside, there may
175be a merge and that's not what we want. Um, so we have to talk about that and we need to go to those communities and that could happen faster than we anticipate. So, I would just very much en encourage us to say it out loud as we are now, but making sure that those communities hear us. Um, and we might need to go into those communities and not might, we will need to go into those communities and have this very intentional dialogue with them so that they understand. Um and and just one last just reminder to the board, now that we have closed these three schools that are in gray, we do have one year from the closure to figure out what we're doing with the land. So our time clock has started member Simmons.
176>> Um thank you, President, Dr. Miranda. Um um Dr. Brown, could you just I I don't quite understand what will happen to Buckeye and that school community come 2028. Could you barring any additional board action or changes to the state law, come 2028, what will happen to Buckeye? >> Buckeye again would move to South High School. >> All of the middle school students at Buckeye will be assigned to South High School >> as as would all sixth grade students from the the South community. >> Okay. >> South High School would become the middle school for the south side of of the city. and Marian Franklin, that site would become the the site for the Southside High School. >> So that also means the 9 through 12 grade students enrolled at South High School, what would
177begin school year 2028, they will be or the 9 through 11 or no 9 through 12, they will be assigned to >> uh the Mary and Franklin site. >> Okay. And again, I to uh board member Adair's point, I think it would be important as we're going through that process to begin. I know that there's been thought about academic programming, the movement of academic programming and which of the facilities is actually better able to accommodate academic programming that is in the background of this. uh we've had a committee that was not only working on trying to think about what it would mean to and actually work through the whole consolidation process for these three buildings, but has also been looking forward and and thinking about what aligns to what we're trying to do academically as
178well. Um but yes, uh all students on the south side of of the city would be attending high school at the current Marian Franklin site. Uh though it would probably make some sense to start thinking about mascot naming, branding, etc. so as not to diff disenfranchise one community or the other, but to begin to have that forward thought about what that means for a new South. >> Well, and you know what what ultimately hurts is is is not, you know, because the adults in the community are or the graduates are upset their school's no longer there. It's when our kids are in buildings and they're not getting the services they need. Um and you know, I remember when I first started on the board, I met with Dr. Chapman. And I told her, I said,
179"I would really love for us to get under 100 facilities." I started, we had 112 um unique school communities and 112 academic facilities. And you know, here we are on our way to getting down to 104 facilities, but we're still going to have 108 unique academic programs. And so to put 108 unique academic programs in 104 unique facilities, you know, the the math there just doesn't work. And so I think for the board to, you know, we've gotten to the point where we've ordered the building closed but not the the program. And ultimately the challenge that we're facing here regardless of what happens with the legislature is Columbus City Schools has too many unique school buildings. We have too many too much staff, too many dollars, and too few students spread to too many buildings
180throughout our district. And that continues to be a really core obstacle to all of our students in the district. It's something that I felt throughout my time as a student here. And so, you know, I I am happy that we have those three facilities taken off lines because those kids are going to be in more modern facilities with more supports and more services that meet their needs. And I want to know how we can take the next three offline. Um, and so I think um because that's ultimately it's going to deliver our students what they need. We can't continue to operate like this. Atlanta City Schools has more students than us, thousands more students than us, maybe even 10,000 more students than us. They've got 40 less buildings, you know. So, this model that we're
181running, it doesn't work. It doesn't work for our kids. It doesn't work for our staff. It doesn't work for our community. Doesn't work for our taxpayers. And the question is not will SB 331 be law. It's will SB 331 be law by the end of this bianium. Will it be passed into law and signed into law during the lame duck or not? And so the question for this board is not what do we do if SB 331 becomes law. It's what do we want to do now about it. What do we actually want to do right now in this moment this year with our facilities to prepare oursel for the when this bill becomes law. It's introduced by the chair of the Senate Education Committee. It's gone through committee. It's been passed out of Senate
182committee. It's been passed out of the Senate chamber. It's going to go to a House committee. It's going to get passed out of House. It's going to get passed out of the chamber. and it will be signed into law by either this governor or the next governor. And so we need to make real decisions about our facilities that aren't what do we do with far buildings two, three years from now. It's how can we continue to, you know, if we're not able to move the Dubberry and Everett programs currently, we need to consider other facilities to take offline because the fact is we have too many schools. That that hasn't changed. That hasn't changed from last year. That hasn't changed till today. And so I think, you know, we have some really big decisions in
183front of us. And this is my uncomfortableness with the current facility strategy we're embarked on is it essentially pushes all the decisions till a year from now. >> And because I think we get the point. >> Well, we're supposed to have 10 minutes on each agenda topic for our rules. And I I'm not sure we do because we have, you know, I'm I'm not sure the board does get the point, respectfully. >> No, I think we do get the point. I think Senate Bill 3 um 311 will force us. >> Um we've talked about this and sometimes you have to have a crisis >> to make things happen. We don't know if it'll come out of the house, but even if it doesn't, it could get a budget bill >> and be and slipped in
184there. And since Governor Dwine is still the governor, he can sign off on it. So I think the um Katzy uh committee um and your committee will start to look at this. There is urgency now and so we will have to make hard decisions. So we've understood that we have too many buildings. >> We have kicked the can down the road without a doubt and we can no longer kick it down the road. So we will be making decisions. So the summer will be pretty busy for you. I hope you're not going on vacation. No, I'm just kidding. Any other questions? >> Yes, I I wasn't I did not conclude my um comments. Thank you. Um I think you know about the facilities is that really means it means bringing back more buildings for closures
185this year. It means we have 7105 colleagues. Where's the new policy? You know, my colleagues have told me for a long time now, multiple colleagues, they want a new policy. We have to actually have that drafted so we can do the school closure process again. Um, but it means we're going to have to close more buildings. It means we're going to have to get a building under construction this year because if we're not ready to go by next springish, we're not going to be eligible for state money. Um, and so it means taking a step back and realizing that if we decide we're not going to do any facility decisions for another year, we're not we're going to be left flatfooted when this becomes law. And I think the question really is not when will
186this become law. is when will this become law? This bianium, this lame duck or next benium in the budget bill as you indicated. And so for us as a board to continue to ignore our facility problems and we've got to get a building under construction, guys, Mr. Simmons, >> we have to and we have to consider more. >> We have a lot more on the agenda. We get the point. >> We will work on that. I think the board does understand the urgency of this >> this year. >> Okay, board member Dr. Pierce. Thank you so much, President Miranda. I would just like to speak to the fact that um our academic um and facilities committee has discussed uh ac our policy 7105. Um and our chair has made a a very um I think
187valid concern that we need additional meetings with our um administration and our district team to determine if the said changes that have come from policy and governance um will impact their work moving forward. And so um it is the goal of myself to reach out to organize those internal meetings with our team. So I just wanted to make my colleagues aware that as it relates to 7105 um we are going to bring that back to our team internally and discuss the said changes and proposals that have come from policy and governance. >> Thank you Dr. Pierce. All right. If there are no other questions we'll leave you alone. >> Thank you Dr. Brown. And thank you to all of our community members, families, and parents that have participated in our boundary process engagement activities related
188to um the current schools um that the board has voted on. And we want to name and recognize that a lot was discussed in this meeting tonight. We will make sure that we're providing updates to all of the impacted communities and discussing this work publicly, discussing this work in our board committee member board committee meetings and also um dialogue with um the neighborhood schools and the impacted schools and communities um that would require some change or transition. So, more to come. Um, but we certainly will continue to provide updates on where we are in the process and recognize that there is a lot more work to be done. And we also want to recognize that we are under tremendous amount of pressure um from the state legislature. Um, my colleague uh Ryan Cook um shared
189a lot of those financial pressures yesterday at our meeting that we had with city council. Tonight we are talking about other legislative pressures that are requiring us to make swift, fast decisions that are not necessarily on the timeline that we would want that would allow for intentional planning and strategic um planning for the programming. But we also want to be mindful of the assets and resources that we have and we don't want to lose them all together which not give us any agency ownership or authority over property some of which are buildings that we've already our community has already um invested in um through previous FMP projects. And so we want to be mindful of that and certainly keep this top of mind for everyone and continue the dialogue. >> Thank you, Dr. Chapman. All
190right, moving on. Um, Mr. Okconor, do you have a report for us this evening? >> I don't have a report this evening. >> Okay, Mr. Cook, do you have a report for us this evening? >> No report this evening. >> All right. Um, notice of public hearing on the reemployment of retired employees. Pursuant to Ohio Revised Code section 3309.345, the Columbus Board of Education gives notice that Kitty Carr, teacher who retired from the Columbus City Schools effective May 29th, 2026, is seeking employment with the Columbus City Schools as a teacher effective August 17th, 2026. The board will hold a public hearing on August 4th, 2026 at 6:00 p.m. in the boardroom at 3700 South High Street, Columbus, Ohio on the issue of Miss Car's reemployment. Pursuant 8.2 two. Pursuant to Ohio Revice Code 3309.345, the
191Columbus Board of Education gives notice that Carla Scott, teacher who retired from the Columbus City Schools effective May 29th, 2026, is seeking employment with the Columbus City Schools as a teacher effective August 17, 2026. The board will hold a public hearing on August 4th, 2026 at 6 PM in the boardroom at 3700 South High Street, Columbus, Ohio on the issue of Miss Scott reemployment. 8.3 Notice of public hearing on the reemployment of retired employee Michael Flushi. Pursuant to Ohio Revised Code section 3309.345, the Columbus Board of Education give notice that Michael Flushi, teacher, who retired from the Columbus City Schools effective May 29, 2026, is seeking employment with the Columbus City Schools as teacher effective August 17, 2026. The board will hold a public hearing on August 4th, 2026 at 6 PM in the boardroom
192at 3700 South High Street, Columbus, Ohio on the issue of Mr. Flushi remployment. An 8.4 Four. Pursuant to Ohio Vice Code section 3309.345, the Columbus Board of Education gives notice that Theresa Bombber's teacher who retired from the Columbus City Schools effective May 29th, 2026 is seeking employment with the Columbus City Schools as a teacher effective August 17th, 2026. The board will hold a public hearing on August 4th, 2026 at 6 p.m. in the boardroom at 3700 South High Street, Columbus, Ohio on the issue of Theresa Bombbery's remployment. We will move to the vote on the consent agenda. We are going to consider our consent agenda. Our consent agenda consists of items 9.1 to 24.6. Are there any items a member would like to have removed and voted on individually from the consent agenda or member
193Dr. Pierce? >> Not necessarily to vote on it separately, but I do have an amendment for item um 11.2 two 11 point >> 11.2 resolution for the adoption of a plan for completion of makeup days via online learning. >> It's point of order. Uh President Miranda, if it's an amendment, the consent agenda is meant to be a yes or no up or down vote. That's it. No amendments, no changes. So if there is an amendment for a resolution, we just need to pull it out and put it on a put it on the end. >> So do you wish to pull it out? >> Yes, I wish to pull it out. >> All right. >> Second. >> Okay. Thank you. Any discussion? If not, >> Mr. Adair, >> yes. >> Dr. Kennedy, >> yes. >>
194Vice President, >> yes. >> Dr. Pierce, >> yes. >> Mr. Kameer, >> yes. >> Mr. Simmons, >> yes. President Miranda. >> Yes. >> Motion carried. >> Now the con consent agenda. That was the motion. >> Pull it out. >> Yes. Correct. >> That'll be 25.4. >> We're back to consent. >> Um motion to approve the consent agenda. >> Second. >> I'm sorry. Who was the second? >> Me. Thank you. >> You're going to pull these out separately. >> 11.2. >> Oh, 11.2.4. >> Yep. >> Correct. >> Okay. >> You have an amendment. >> No, it's Well, now we're on the regular. >> We just need a vote on the consent vote agenda. >> Correct. >> Yes. Just regular >> motion second. We call the role. >> Dr. Pierce >> with the exception of 18.1 18.2
19518.3 18.4 18.5 18.6 25.1 14.1 14.3 15.1 16.1 16.2 16.4 16.5 20.1 20.2 and 22.7 Yes, those items are a no from me. >> Mr. That's a mayor. >> Yes. >> Mr. Simmons. >> Um, would you come back to me, please? >> Yes. Miss Adair? >> Yes. >> Dr. Kennedy? >> Yes. >> Vice President? >> Yes. >> Mr. Simmons. >> Um, yes. >> President Dr. Miranda. >> Yes. >> Motion carried. >> I've got them. >> Yes. Board member Dr. Pearson. Um, I would just like to encourage my colleagues to um give thought into consideration and thought and consideration to how we are handling our single source contracts. Um, if we are looking and making hard decisions and cuts as it relates to our schools, our budgets, um, when it comes to these single source contracts,
196we also need to do the same. And so, um, I look forward to additional conversation and discussion around not only how we're advancing our LED process, um, through our contracts, but also how are we making sure that we're following our board policies as it relates to single sourcing. >> All right. We're going to consider our legislation agenda 25.1 to 25.3. Is there a motion for 25.1? >> I'll move. >> Second discussion. >> Call the role. >> Mr. Dair, >> yes. >> Dr. Kennedy, >> yes. >> Vice President, >> yes. >> Dr. Pierce, >> again, with the exception of 25.1, which I'm saying no, yes to everything else. It's just 25.1. >> I'm reiterating the number for him. >> Mr. Katameir. >> Yes. >> Mr. Simmons >> abstain. >> President Dr. Miranda. >> Yes. >> Motion
197carried. >> 25.2. >> I'll make a motion for approval. >> Second. Is there a second? >> I had Dr. Kennedy. >> Oh, okay. Thank you, Dr. Kennedy. Discussion. >> Uh, yeah. Thank you. Um, I'm going to uh actually vote no on this for um a few three reasons. Um I I I'm concerned that uh our our representation at the state house um based on a number of detrimental bills that have passed over the last few years and um including Senate Bill 311 uh that is likely to pass in the lame duck. It sounds like um uh I'm concerned that our representation has not been effective. Uh I'm concerned that our that our uh main person at state house impact group who this is about was um was Senator Andrew Brener's uh senior legislative aid in
198both the House and the Senate. Our experience and legislative knowledge are why they've been chosen. Those are great reasons that she's a lobbyist, but this also means that um as as Senator Brener, senior legislative aid, um she was helping to draft many of the bills that have have decimated public schools. and I I just can't get um past going back to the people that were attacking public schools uh to to to go to them to now protect us. I I feel like we got to have some respect for ourselves. Uh the third is Senator Brener loss's primary um which means kind of the main connection that we had at state house impact group won't be there much longer. So even the good side of the bad isn't isn't that good anymore. Um so so kind
199of ineffectiveness um the fact that they they worked for Andrew Brener and the fact that Brener is leaving. Um for those reasons I'm going to be a no on this. >> Thank you board member Dr. Pierce. >> I appreciate my colleague uh board member Katamire for bringing this to the uh to the table to discuss. I agree with many of his points. Again when we are making such tough decision choices as it regards our budget we need to be mindful with how we're spending it. And so I as well will be voting no. >> Yes. For member Adair. >> Yes. Um I also have reservations about this one because um the individual who is now leading this effort was not the original person that was hired. That person left for another position um in Washington
200DC. We also made internal changes. we no longer have a government affairs person who is really leading this work. So I am concerned that we are also losing to the point of board member Ketmire kind of understanding on what this contractor is doing. So um I have huge reservations about this. Um I do think we need help and I do think we need a lobbyist. Um but I am concerned because we didn't I don't think we rebid this, did we? Um this is an extension of the contract that we hired that was somebody else's. >> Um so I also will be a no on this >> or member Simmons. >> Um thank you President Dr. Miranda. Um colleagues, not only did we not bid this out, but I do believe the explanation on the single
201source exemption is the exact same as the previous year. And when our internal auditor identified that the um exemption paperwork was from a previous contract, a new one was uploaded, but the explanation is the same. Um, and it has been a challenge to get consistent single soul source explanations. Um, but I I'm think I'm go uh I will be voting no today. Um, and with that, I'd like to make a motion to table this indefinitely. Um, if the board wants to bring it back at a later date, I think that would be appropriate, but this legislation does not have um today to be approved. And so I'd like to make a motion to table. >> Can we just vote no? Why are we tableing? >> Yeah. Well, the we can move forward with the vote,
202but then that would mean the legislation could only be brought back by a member of the prevailing side. I am concerned because our staff have identified that due to potential conflicts, it would be difficult to identify an additional lobbyist. Um, and I do believe one of our colleagues intends to abstain from this legislation, which is why it's under other and this because of the type of um contract awarded is I do believe that requires a super majority of the board and I it doesn't appear that is present today. Um, >> I guess I still have the same reservation because I I do think it can be brought back by a staff member and we don't necessarily have to table it. >> What we've reached the consensus in the past is that if the board votes
203down legislation, that legislation may only be brought back forth by a member of the prevailing side. If you remember, Dr. Pierce last year, you voted down and I abstained some committee and I think Ramona wasn't here and I abstained on some committee the the one to three um policy language and we had to bring that back and you were actually the one to make the motion to reconsider. A member of the prevailing side must make the motion to reconsider and so tableabling it would just allow it to come back at a later date and the board could still reject it at a later date but the legislation it doesn't appear it will pass today >> next meeting. I do believe that board member Simmons is correct for this particular vendor. And so based on the
204feedback from the board, um we we can certainly do an RFP for this work. Um this is we all know and agree that um this is work that is needed. We need extra support in this area to advocate on behalf of our students, our staff, our families at the state house. The state house is very busy and this legislature is very busy in working to um provide more barriers and burdens on public um school districts across the state. um an RFP. Just want to name that um you know when we put out that RFP and bid, it is my understanding that even if State House Impact Group was the group or would that was selected, we would have there would be specific rules that would apply for bringing it back to the table even if
205we did the RFP. Gotcha. And so I'm just naming that we will certainly do our due diligence um on this particular item, but we do want to give consideration for how we either move forward with it, take it off the agenda and so forth so that it will allow for the next steps um as we move forward. >> So that that informs my question then for my colleague board member Katamire then. So, if we table it, the state house group can come back under an RFP with a proposal, but because but because we've tabled it, they could be considered. If we vote no and they come back for a proposal, they couldn't be considered. >> Is with an RFP, they could still be considered is my understanding. No, what what we're talking about legislation, not
206the the specific legislation to award the contract, not the actual, you know, we can do a new contract process and they can be the winner of that new contract process and then that would just be new legislation. But for this legislation that's resulted out of this selection process, that's different. >> So, as I'm understanding it, I'm still okay with a no vote not tableabling it, but colleague hats, what are your insights and thoughts at this point? I appreciate that. I think that's right. I mean, I want whatever gives the administration the most flexibility to to figure this out moving forward. It sounds like that's a a no. Um >> Okay. Is it a no or is it It's a tableabling. It's a tableabling. >> Board me board member Simmons is correct. There is a motion
207on the floor. >> It's not been second. No, it has not. >> But I think to >> Well, to table it indefinitely was the motion, I believe. Which one gives you the most >> flexibility ability to do this again? Is that a no or a table? >> I think it's tableling it. >> It's it's tableling it. >> Yes. To move forward with the motion to table this legislation. We'll bring it back. >> Correct. >> Um at another time once we've done an RFP and it may be this organization or maybe another organization, but it would allow us the opportunity. So now we are at the the motion to table versus the motion for no. >> There's a motion to table it indefinitely on the table. Correct. >> Second. >> So there's a motion to table
208it. >> Okay. >> And a second. Yes. Vice President >> Dr. Pierce. >> Yes. >> Mr. Katame. >> Yes. >> Mr. Simmons. >> Yes. >> Madair. >> Yes. >> Dr. Kennedy. >> Yes. >> President Dr. Miranda. >> Yes. >> Motion to table passed. Thank you for that discussion. Uh 25.3. >> Motion to approve item 25.3. >> Second. >> There's no discussion. Call the role. >> Mr. Dair, >> yes. >> Dr. Kennedy, >> yes. >> Vice President, >> yes. >> Dr. Pierce, >> yes. >> Mr. Katame, >> yes. >> Mr. Simmons, >> yes. >> President, Dr. Miranda, >> abstain. >> Motion carried. >> All right. 25.4. four >> which was >> so colleagues with the drafted policy that's currently uploaded in board docs um when we ask questions of our administration policy 2370.01 was shared with
209us where I would like us to have consistency between the drafted policy and our current existing policy of 2370.01 is the tracking of ours. So I'm motion that this drafted policy 25.4 Four, include a sentence that states the superintendent will collect, comma, report, comma, and track program data annually or data annually in accordance with data reporting guidelines and provide regular reports to the board. That's the motion. >> I'm sorry. >> Can you repeat that? I'm sorry. >> You should tell us where you are. >> Yes. So, sorry >> for So, the drafted policy that we have 25.4 4 >> 11 >> which originally was 11.2 >> 11.2 two. >> So the makeup plan for instructional hours, >> right? >> There was no mention of tracking of hours and when we posed the question to administration,
210they uploaded 20 23 70.1 and if you compare the two, my motion would be that the superintendent collects and tracks attendance and data. So the motion is thus to include the second to last sentence from 237.01 which is the superintendent will collect, report and track data annually in accordance with data reporting guidelines and provide regular reports to the board. I took program out of that language because this isn't a program. It's closures due to um events that we have no control over. Okay, I will second your motion. >> Does everybody know? >> Are you putting it here? >> We're putting at the bottom. >> Okay. >> But this is click and go that. >> Oh, in the attachment. Okay. You're not Okay. You're not changing the You're changing the the agreement. the agreement and can
211um legal counsel help? So, it would be a changing or Dr. Klein, one of the two. It would be a change of the agreement language as well as the resolution language to add that line in both. Dr. Klein, can you help? Is that okay, Dr. Chapman and Dr. Klein? Come up and assist. >> Dr. line. >> I'm not opposed to the change. I just wonder because now there's changes to this agreement if uh because CA is a signatory on this if they would need to review this or not. Yes, I'm seeing nods, but I don't think Mr. Kinglio is here anymore. >> Dr. Klein. >> Yes. Um, President, Dr. Miranda, Vice President, members of the board of education, treasure cook, and auditor Okconor. It is necessary to discontinue our current blended learning declaration, not our
212policy, our declaration that we filed with the Ohio Department of Education, who is now titled the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce in 2021 due to CO. We are recommending to file a makeup day via online learning plan with ODEW prior to August 1st. This would give us up to three school days if needed due to hazardous weather conditions, law enforcement emergencies, damage to the school, etc. The current board of education policy 2370.01 01 regarding blending learning would be reviewed by a committee next school year to determine future recommendations for the board of education's consideration. Please note that if these makeup days are needed, which previously were titled blizzard bags, these plans would be posted on our learning management system district website and students would have up to two weeks to complete the assignments. This
213filing must be submitted no later than August 1st to the Ohio Department of Educational Workforce and have written CA support. >> And thank you, Dr. Klene. And um board member Adair, you asked a question about making sure that um we are following all of our labor contracts. We make we'll make sure that once this is approved and if we have to activate it, we will make sure that um we will connect with and plan with our labor partners as a part of execution. So this is a contingency plan. If in the event we have a significant number of snow days, inclement weather days, we have to close because of electricity, you know, any type of um weather events or any reason, it gives us a cushion to um move to this this use this activate
214this blended learning plan for up to three days. So that would be planned. It would be intentional and we would engage with our labor partners to ensure that we are honoring all of our negotiated agreements as a part of executing on this contingency plan. >> And also legal also shared that we're not making the change to the resolution. We're making a change to the draft the attachment which was 11.2. this thing that says draft to include the sentence of tracking the data. >> Yeah, that my question was I don't have a problem with the of the change. My question was though, I just don't know in the process is because this is a draft and it has Mr. Kiglio's name on it if he reviewed this draft and like said it was okay for us
215to review or if it's what you just said it would just be something that's the contingency plan. I just didn't know if he needed to know about this addition because it sounds like we actually need to do this today. We absolutely need to do this today for next school year and we have you know again I know that John Dean is not is he can provide context to the conversations that he had earlier today uh with our labor leaders >> and because we rescended the previous plan until we adopt that before we leave tonight we actually don't have a blended learning plan uh because the recision is in is as effective but the adoption has not happened >> that is not correct based upon the conversations that I had earlier with with legal and Dr.
216Klein. Am I correct in that? >> No. >> Thank you. >> Okay. >> We rescended the declaration for blended learning as a result of COVID 19, but our policy 2370.01 remains standing. Am I correct in understanding that? >> Yes. >> Remain standing. And that's why >> Thank you, Dr. Pierce. >> Back to the microphone, Dr. Klein, so everyone can hear you. >> Thank you. Um and board member S Simmons to your question. Um in my remarks I mentioned that that we that we would be reviewing that policy to recommend to the board of education any changes to that during next school year. >> Oh okay. Thank you. >> Yes. >> So the agreement that was attached to this agenda item has been reviewed with CA and Mr. Kiglio has indicated support of it. If we
217make an amendment to this agreement, I would have to go back to him to make sure that it is acceptable. But I have no problem doing that. >> And to be clear, if if it's unacceptable, the added language, we do have an additional board meeting we could >> handle this in before the August 1 deadline. >> Yes. >> So we would be okay. >> Okay. >> Next Monday. >> So it's been first is second. We've had our discussion. >> Mr. Cook, >> Dr. Pierce. >> Yes. >> Mr. Came. Yes, >> Mr. Simmons. >> Yes, >> Miss Sadder. >> Yes, >> Dr. Kennedy. >> Yes, >> Vice President. >> Yes, >> President Dr. Miranda. >> Yes. >> Motion carried. >> Thank you, >> President Miranda. >> Yes. >> Thank you so much, colleagues, for that. And,
218um, while we are thinking about instruction, attendance, and hours. Um, I also would like to request that we have a conversation about the potential hours that our students that are attending. Um, and Dr. Klein, I hope I'm getting this correctly, that are attending like our K through eight schools and how they are potentially learn losing valuable instruction hours because of the structure of that day. And so if um >> through eight, >> our our middle school students who are in those K through eight buildings are losing valuable instruction time because they are pretty much on an elementary calendar schedule. Um and so if we could all lot some discussion time and probably academic facility alignment committee to kind of discuss that especially given the discussion that we've had around our realignment plan I think it
219would be really fruitful. >> I think that's a really good point because we've kind of said we want to go back to traditional grade bands but we haven't really said that like as a as a board we haven't like said that. So I think it's a very good point Dr. Pierce. We now need a motion and second for the amendment. The amended version. Yes. >> Oh, >> you don't need you don't need a motion and second. You just need to vote on >> vote on it. >> Well, it was actually never a motion. We a subsidiary motion before we took a main motion. >> Correct. >> We did. Yeah. So, motion to approve um the resolution for the adoption of a plan for completion of makeup days via online learning. >> Second. >> Thank you.
220>> Okay. Call the role. >> Dr. Kennedy, >> yes. >> Vice President, >> yes. >> Dr. Pierce, >> yes. >> Mr. Mr. Kameer. >> Yes. >> Mr. Simmons. >> Yes. >> Miss Sadder. >> Yes. >> President Dr. Miranda. >> Yes. >> Motion carried. >> Thank you. >> All right. The chair now recognizes board member Sarah Les for a motion. >> I motion that the board of education move into executive session pursuant to Ohio Code section 121.22G1 22G1 to consider the employ appointment, employment, dismissal, discipline, promotion, demotion or compensation of a public employee or official or the investigation of charges or complaints against a public employee, official, licency or regulated individual unless the public employee, official, licency or regulated individual requests a public hearing and G4 preparing for, conducting or reviewing negotiations or bargaining sessions with
221public employees concerning their compensation or other terms and conditions of their employment. >> Second. >> Thank you. Please call the role. >> Mr. Simmons. >> Yes. >> Missair. >> Yes. >> Dr. Kennedy. >> Yes. >> Vice President. >> Yes. >> Dr. Pierce. >> Yes. >> Mr. Katame. >> Yes. >> President. Dr. Miranda. >> Yes. >> Motion carried. >> Please note that the board will adjourn following our executive session this evening and will not be reconvening in this room.