001all right we're um come back from um our executive session going into our business meeting if we can all stand for the pledge pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice all I have a motion to um approval of the board agenda I'll make that motion thank you second Mr Fraser if you can call the roll please Mr Davidson yes Dr Copus yes Mrs Matthews yes Mr sprag yes Mrs Baker yes if I could I take a motion for to approve approval of the minutes so move thank you second uh Mr fer if you can call the role please Dr Copus yes Mrs Matthews yes Mr sprag yes Mrs Baker yes Mr Davidson yes all
002right next on our agenda city council I don't see anyone from city council I don't see anyone for public participation so next I will turn it over to superintendent uh Miss Andrea blevens for her comments thank you president Matthews I actually have a number of comments this evening first I want to acknowledge that it's public schools week which is a celebration of strong Public Schools SCH um I firmly believe that it that strong schools support our community um I believe that it takes a village to support our students and I'm proud of the work that we do here um you know each day we serve 9,52 full-time students in grades prek through 12 uh with a dedicated team of over 1200 staff members who give their all every day uh we're committed to serving every
003student regardless of their needs or challenges ensuring ensuring they have opportunities to succeed both academically and beyond graduation it's not just within our walls we we provide so many other resources um I'm confident that we have one of the finest Public School Systems in the state of Ohio and I'm deeply grateful to our families staff board members and community members who choose to support Hamilton City Schools I encourage our families this week to take a moment to reach out to a staff member who's made a difference in their lives and express appreciation for the invaluable work of Public School Employees their dedication truly makes a difference in our community we SM we saw a small sampling of that today second comment I'd like to make this evening I just want to remind our board that
004this weekend is the 17 strong neighborhood Summit that will be Saturday March 1st at Hamilton High School registration will begin at 88: a.m. with the actual kickoff will begin at 9: um we have amazing representation from our district at this year's Summit one our Ridgeway Matilda cast will be performing forming two songs from their upcoming Musical and showcasing their talent Mrs Brandy Hazelwood the principal at Lyndon is presenting on building stronger schools together how the community can make a difference Miss sorantino is participating in a session on building stronger schools how the community can um help with mental health in the community Miss Missy Harvey will be presenting in a session called celebrating The Unsung un unsung women who build connection and belonging Mr Jean Zer will be Co presenting called welcoming welcome to Opportunities
005Pathways from kindergarten to college a group of our administrators from every single one of our elementary building buildings and Mr Smallwood are going to be leading a panel discussion on a conversation with Hamilton City School leaders and finally I will also be presenting with an opportunity to meet the new superintendent and engage with the community so I'm just very proud to see that Hamilton will have a seat at the table again going back to my sentiments that a strong School District represents a strong community and I just appreciate the uh invitation from 17 strong this year it's also hard to believe that it is the end of third quarter next week we are already there so it is the end of uh third quarter on Thursday March 6th I do want to remind our families
006that we do not have school on Friday the 7th that is a teacher records day to get report cards and grades in for the quarter uh we are wrapping up an amazing winter season of Athletics our Fine Arts are kneed deep in competing uh and traveling all over our show choir this weekend will be going to T Valley to compete in uh quite a few competitions I also have very exciting news that uh senior Mason Kelly today qualified for the state championships in bowling so um I love to see our numbers of our swimmers who have qualified again we provide so many opportunities and outlets for kids to to pursue their passions and I just want to thank everyone we are three4 of the way through this school year and I just feel it goes
007faster every time I turn around we'll come back on uh Monday the 10th to start fourth quarter which will be a busy and exciting nine weeks I also wanted to take a second earlier this week I got the opportunity to attend the retirement uh celebration of gunny sergeant Todd mallister he has led our ROTC program for over 20 years in this district and he has created an award-winning Legacy program and I just um his service is extremely important I know many of you have been able to see him over the years and I just uh wanted to acknowledge his support for our district but president Baker that or president Matthews those are all of my comments this evening awesome thank you so much for sharing that greatly appreciate that update so next we'll um I'll
008take a motion to um what was I going to say oh uh our board policy that we had attached a resolution to adopt the uh Dew special education model policies and procedures to be um approved as presented I'll take um any discussion I'll make that motion second it um Mr frer you can call the role Mrs Matthews yes Mr sprag yes Mrs Baker yes Mr Davidson yes Dr Copus yes uh next I'll uh take a motion for a final read for our um to approve the policies as approved approve the policy as presented so moved thank you second Mr frer if you call the rooll Mr spra yes Mrs Baker yes Mr Davidson yes Dr Copus yes Mrs Matthews yes our um Human Resources uh I'll take a motion for uh for personnel items I'll
009make that motion thank you I'll second thank you Mr Fraser if you can call the role Mrs Baker yes Mr Davidson Dr Copus yes Mrs Matthews yes Mr spra yes and I president Matthews before we move on I just wanted to acknowledge in that batch of um approvals that did allow many of our building both principls and assistant principls that were up for Renewal as well as that um put through and confirmed the naming of the new principal of the Freshman Campus Mr Jesse Funston the new principal of Wilson Middle School Mrs Megan ikenberg and the new principal at Ridgeway Elementary Mr Ryan Brittain awesome um um have a motion for uh for o hsaa resolution so moved second thank you Mr frer can call the rooll Mr Davidson yes Dr Copus yes Mrs Matthews
010yes Mr sprag yes Mrs Baker yes um next we'll have our consent agenda accept a motion for that uh comments about the consent agenda first generalized comments just to take a moment sorry we should make a motion in a second and then discussion I'll make that motion I'll second any discussion discussion Mr yes just discussion I had a uh Community member question me the other day about what the consent agenda was and I mean apparently they pay attention to our meetings and I tried to explain to that it was a part of the larger Board of Education meeting and that it contained or sometimes it contained very detailed sometimes confusing um information particular to curriculum instruction uh special education uh and and certain business operations um and when I say when I said sometimes detailed
011and confusing information the next that led to the next question how can you agree to it so quickly and I explained to this them which they did not know and I think it's important for people to know that the board members are given this information anywhere from 42 to 78 hours before the the meet before our meeting uh so we have an opportunity to discuss it individually if we wish to or to speak to any of the administrators if we need clarification or have questions on certain items so I think I put a little bit of comfort in their mind that U you know we are looking at this and we are paying attention so I just wanted to make sure that our our the public knows that so I brought up to Mrs bevens
012before I'm not a big fan of consent agendas I think it should be separate items with it I'm sorry thank you it should be separate items with discussions um because we are on TV um people want to hear about it and some people think well we're just going through it and they're not getting the information even though I know they could do they get online and try to find it but I I think maybe next year we we discuss maybe doing away with the consent agenda we can talk about it later then Dave my my feeling is that we have the opportunity as board members to review it in advance and we have the opportunities to discuss it just like any other items that we need to I mean it like right now we we're
013we're in discussion about the consent agenda so we we have fulfilled that uh that type of thing I remember we used to have board member board meetings that went very long uh when I first started we were going almost an hour and a half um just reading line by line and one of the reasons that I think it was Mr um hook that did it we went to the the consent agenda just to streamline the meetings the information is still out there the meeting the information is available to us and to the public and we still have that opportunity and that people can still have the opportunity to weigh in by coming to our meetings and act in public um public thank you public participation so I understand what you're saying but I'm also of
014the the feeling that we are fulfilling the the duties of the position of our positions I I agree with that too and Mr Davidson I'd say that the other thing with the consent agenda is anybody has the opportunity to pull something from the consent agenda if they want to set it aside for further discussion so I agree I agree that it's it's much more streamlined because other than that you would sit here and you would read through that whole list of names um not necessarily I mean we've already pulled human resources from the consent agenda we don't read every name off of that we just break it out um one of the when Mr Davidson brought this to me during uh a meeting that I had with him one of the suggestions that I thought
015we could make is to read what is included on that agenda prior to taking the vote not necessarily line by line but saying we have a number of field trips that we're approving we have you know kind of an overview of what those items are just as an extra measure because we do have audiences that are watching elsewhere um so that might be something that we could look at as a as a possible first step or um because I think there's a there's a time and a place to use that consent agenda and we do use set for kind of that more routine approval not those Standalone items such as policies or our HR agenda or things like that but I thought that might not be a a bad first step of just prior to
016taking that we read you know this this agenda almost you know very similarly to the document that uh I share out with the agenda that gives you an overview of what every item that you'll be voting on kind of what um Dr Copus mentioned earlier Mrs Blen you mentioned field trips and I just want to make a positive comment here about our consent agenda um as we're looking at um um well let me back up here make sure I know what I'm talking about uh referencing field trips under curriculum and instruction it is amazing to me that so many of our student organizations have parent organizations that financially support those things and I'm looking specifically at the uh Hamilton High School main campus boys wrestling going to ketering uh there's a um wrestling fundraising account
017that's that's covering the cost to that that's just amazing that our students have groups adult groups behind them that are financially supporting that I I think it's wonderful and speaks highly of our community so since since we're still on the consent agenda I do notice that we might want to take a look um at the um title of the Miami University nursing agreement um I don't know who put that puts that in there but there's a misspelling sorry I looked at you miss Frasier I don't know if you're yeah under nursing I think uh uh principal wibo did that okay let's blame her we'll blame her for you gonna get that discussion anything else oh can call the role Please Mr fr Dr Copus yes Mrs Matthews yes Mr spray yes Mrs Baker yes Mr
018Davidson yes all right our finance agenda and that is on you Mr Fraser thank you president Matthews uh we have a extremely short Finance agenda as we uh had an open business meeting uh just two weeks ago uh on there you will see the normal uh treasur reports which consist of the cash position report cash reconciliation and the cash flow analysis um the agenda is highlighted by donations received by the district um we received $5,200 from the Hamilton youth wrestling organization uh to our wrestling team which I think is fantastic um and then we also received $150 from the greater Hamilton V visitors bureau uh to the Hamilton High School MD class and those are the only items that I have this evening thank you so much I appreciate that update um if I'll take
019a motion to we need to approve yes I something else yes so if I can take to approve the finance agenda so moved second call the RO please Mrs Matthews yes Mr spray yes Mrs Baker yes Mr Davidson yes Dr Copus yes awesome our next meeting will be here March 13th uh at 4:00 have I accepted a motion to adjourn make that motion second call call no no no thank you for