001started the March 10th Westlake City School uh work session roll call her not here lukan here lamb here lazinski here Mr craft is absent tonight and is unavailable due to work inone please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance unit States of America for it stands we always like to start our meetings with going through the mission and vision and we uh educate for excellence empowering all students to achieve their educational goals to direct their lives and to contribute to society and our vision is the Westlake city school district will provide a dynamic student center centered learning environment our district will be characterized by high achievement actively engaged Learners mutual respect shared knowledge pursuit of new skills and capabilities Collaborative Learning willingness to take action a team commitment to data driven continuous Improvement through our strategic
002planning process and tangible results and I want to thank everyone for being here tonight on this beautiful March evening we'll try to keep this moving quickly so we can actually go and enjoy a little bit of sunlight um is there a motion to approve the agenda move second call zinski yes pukin yes lamb yes P not yes motion carries and I'm gonna hand sure we have uh in our work session tonight uh the board is going to hear from uh well one building one Department um athletic department as well as Administration from Lee Bur middle school and um just talking about I think with Lee berners giving an update on some opportunities that they're looking at and some uh shifting that they're doing to provide more options to um students in the middle school so
003I like what they're doing there and then we're going to talk to our athletic director and uh our principals here too um about pay to participate and those will be presentations tonight so we can start off on here it says lbm so if we can have uh principal Shaw and uh Mr Barry come on up and the floor will be yours I think Todd are you gonna control it yeah bear with me for one second I just saw Kevin reaching I didn't I didn't want the competition of all right we'll go ahead and get going here while Tod's getting that um we'll have Kevin slideshow here so first of all um wle Board of Education thank you so much for having us tonight and giving us some time um I know Scott told me he
004was like I get like an hour at least we'll keep it quick here but um there is a choir concert at the high school at 7 no we got that an hour no we'll keep it quick um but uh we want to go through some of our scheduling changes for next year um and some of the some of the things that that we've talked about with our teachers our students um and obviously um Mr Barry and I so I'll turn it over to him at this point so I get to start first I've been at Lee bereson for this is eight years now so um I've seen this schedule for eight years uh The Good the Bad and the Ugly and there's a lot of great things that we've been trying to do with berners
005uh We've made changes throughout the last eight years we've done trimesters we've even aligned the schedule so we could do some vertical teaming or that teaming could be uh by team so that the Departments could meet together together uh we've changed and aligned the bell schedule so it was the same bell schedule throughout the year but very we did very little to like the core philosophy of what we were doing so uh we tried to get everybody every student a little dip of everything so they kind of go around the wheel they get a little bit of you know science health and all kinds of things and Technology um but there was really and I think it was uh Dr gagin mentioned just a second ago options and so you know the core philosophy while
006it's remained the same we've had our two exploratory periods a lot of times that would be of music or we'd have like requirements for different things and uh we've always discussed even from back eight years ago is what kinds of things we could we do to engage kids uh and keep them engaged in their learning to kind of stay up to the curve um as technology changes what can we get them with stem and different ideas and different options you know the high school gets the luxury to have different options and electives we didn't always have that we felt a little hamstrung so um but it's been a great it's it's great to have kids all go around the wheel to learn um but I like what we're starting to do now I'm excited to
007partner up with uh with DJ to look at these different options for our kids um so kind of going back to what Kevin said if you look up here this is just like a typical day that um you would see for a seventh or eighth grader depending on what team they're on um with their four core subjects and then what we call exploratories or in the high school World electives now like uh Kevin said our exploratories were kind of based around the fact that we had certain things and we had all of our students take everything and there was no options of well I like I like art better than this or I'm a music person so I'm going to I'm gonna take this over a World Language like you do at the high school
008it was kind of we're going to give a little bit of everything to everybody and make everybody take that and so that's a little bit of a philosophy change um because in those two exploratory classes I'll explain here in a minute um kind of what that's going to look like but kind of going back to what Kevin was saying um our our past experience was every student um again taking all exploratory classes um we always have allowed students at Westlake or at Lee Burson Middle School to take more than one music class which is awesome as as the research I did a lot of middle schools limit students to one music class and music's obviously a very big deal our music programs outstanding so we've always allowed that but on the other hand students that
009took a music class in one of those exploratory classes they would only take it three days a week and then they would get pulled out of it the other two days a week to take their art or their fad or their health or a stem class something like that so um when we talked with our teachers uh we had a scheduling committee last year that met several times that was something that um I don't think most of our teachers liked and certainly our students that wanted to take certain courses didn't like because what that would do a lot of our our our exploratory classes were one quarter so if you if you figure they're meeting for nine weeks weeks two days per week they're really only going to see that class 18 days that's that's
010without counting a sick day that's without a snow day anything like that so we were really limiting students to say hey you're going to take this art class that you're really excited about but you're only going to be in there 18 days for the whole year that's a very small amount um and then the other hand we were we were limiting our music students who have a passion for music to three days a week um so those were some of the things that we talked about that we didn't like and and that we wanted to change and um as with anything with schedules it's really hard there's a lot of moving pieces so so it was difficult um but the other on the other hand too we started talking about different stem opportunities and I'll
011get into that a little bit more later but um Career Connections is a stem course that we have at lbms that Mr Primrose teaches um and I'll show you a little little video with that but then we looked into two two courses that were Project Lead the Way Automation and Robotics excuse me and app creators um and again we'll we get into that a in a little bit here but um those were those were kind of the reasons why we wanted to look at um some changes with our schedule so um here I'll start that okay Mr sha one sec yeah so this is just a little video that Mr Prim put together to to show show uh some of our students what what his class is about and again this is Career Connections but
012um a lot of kind of STEM related activities that they do there I'm gonna restart this real quick just to see if I can get it a little louder I apologize it's pretty soft is gonna be real loud but he can control it here least [Music] Focus sciencey most and that I made show what we do again problem based it's St and [Music] e okay so um that just gives you a little bit of what what they do in that class and you think of Career Connections it's really kind of different from what what the how the name would be um you know if you define what a Career Connection would be but um you can see they were dissecting um they were uh coding ozobots uh they were building things they were working on
013um you know Hands-On type of type types of activities and and I think you know that class has been awesome our kids love taking that class and so we really wanted to try to build on that um Mr Hopkins can you go back to the PowerPoint there I think it is if you just click oh to the next while while you're clicking you know I I whenever I observe the Career Connections right now you can really see how that three-day or that two day uh doesn't allow to get into some of the depth and I think that when you bring that full day five day instruction to those kids it's they're going to be able to go in more depth with them class do all the kids do all the kids get to take that
014or is that just a select number um again most all of our kids have got to take that class but some of them only two days a week so you know if a kid really like that you know and they really liked a music class they were in they would only get it to take they would only get 18 times which I gota be honest with you it it makes it you know difficult for a student that is trying to get a bunch of work done you know and only has 18 periods but it's really hard for a teacher to only see a kid two days a week as well um you know and so I think there's a lot of challenges there and that's what our our our committee talked about um but with
015with that being said so that Career Connection seventh eth grade there's two different curriculums there we're going to keep those because we think that's a great class we want to build on that with with some Project Lead the Way um app creators is a class that um uh we're we're introducing for next year into our curriculum and um you know that that's exactly what what the the name of it defines itself it's um I mean our kids our adults we're on apps every single day um having our kids be able to um learn how to manipulate software to create apps and solve problems um they're going to be given a task and then they have to build an app to um kind of get around the issues with that task and it it could be
016something in the health field it could be something in education or Community Based um really apps are in our lives to make things easier and that's what in this class the kids will be learning about but it'll be a Hands-On with a device and Technology um so we're really excited about that course that's going to be an eighth grade course and then this will be a seventh grade course Automation and Robotics can't see it up there but um again our kids are going to be working on Hands-On they're going to be building things and they're going to be solving problems um this this class obviously uh they'll have some Hardware you can see the the uh the building that that person is is working on but uh working on prototypes and again they they'll be
017given a problem and then they got to come up with Solutions and try to try to work through um work through those problems so um we feel like those two classes will really couple really well with what we already have buil at lbms um and then again with with changing our schedule a little bit um allowing students that want to take those they get a full helping of of that which I think will be outstanding so um so again we know that's that's next year um but we're we're really excited about it um I think our kids are going to love it a lot of feedback that I get from from our kids when we sit out and talk is that you know they want more things like this to be able to do in
018their school day so Dr guy so explain how that works so you're saying in the current schedule um a student who is taking music would be three days a week music and then two days a week in Career Connections how would that change next year so if we go back to what what a day look like so let's just look at seventh grade if you're on the C team um so seventh grade in the in the C team the music all the music happens in seventh grader for seventh graders third period so if you chose to take choir third period that only leaves you one other period to take a an exploratory type class and that would be seventh period in this student schedule um so what what was done at lbms in the past
019was you would have your four quarters of an exploratory for seventh period but then they would take third period and say you're going to take three days of music and you're going to take two days of you know what other other classes we need to get you because we've got to give you everything this year what I'm saying is seventh grader that's taking music third period they're going to take five days a week of let's say choir now that that limits a little bit more what you're going to do in seventh period but you are going to choose what you want to do instead of me telling you you have to take a little B bit of this a little bit of that a little bit of this so you're going to get a a
020larger size of of what you want to do is is basically going to be our what you're saying is you have to take Career Connections World Language Health PE and all those kind of things and that's why you had to break up those two periods right but you're giving the option if somebody is really stem focused and and wants to do that or if somebody's really music focus or somebody's really into the world languages or those they then get to choose so then you won't split up at least the weekdays yeah right I mean people was kids will still be taking health class PE class and and those things but it's just not broken up in a 3-2 type of thing yeah and we're and we're not going to take away music time in order
021to get that done I think because I think the the whole thing with this schedule was our our students who took music or two musics even um it really limited the amount of time we had to get them everything well now we're saying you know what you could take your music or two musics we're we're going to make it work but you you're going to choose you know what what you would rather take and get a longer portion of that so yeah I'm guessing you've already done the scheduling meeting with parents and students and how was that how was this received well you have you have new sixth graders coming in um and so they don't really know any any different um and then our our seventh graders um I I think we've heard a
022lot of excitement about about this so um a lot of that a lot of that scheduling meeting is how do I get my son or daughter in algebra one so maybe they weren't paying attention to this part but um the the people that did ask questions seemed really excited about some STEM related classes and um that was the you know the small amount of feedback that we got on that I like seeing some of the the exploratory teachers uh getting excited to re-engage sell it more Sal sales and I think that's wonderful to do during this time um and you see them going down to the like over to disc you know they're creating videos like you saw for Mr Primrose uh it's kind of reinvigorating the teachers a bit as well so I this
023was very exciting to see because when we had our strategic planning um my big Bugaboo is I I think um we should return to shop class but not building bird houses in Ash Trace that type of thing and in fact in the Wall Street Journal this past Friday was an article about the schools Reviving shop class offer a hedge against the AI future and it talked about some of the uh school districts around the country that are spending millions of dollars to expand and revamp high high school shop classes for the 21st century and the kids get to work with wood metal machinery and all you know and I do think that we need to offer something um other than just uh kids that are on the road to college because not everybody is I
024don't know how you're going to fit it in the schedule though but this is at least yeah uh sim a similar idea yeah and I think Barb too what I like about that and what you're saying is that you know we're looking for a way for our students out of their core classes to apply what they know and to use their problem solving skills to get from point A to point B whether you're using 2x4s and the saw or you know you're you're on an app you're you're trying to solve a problem using the tools that you have and the knowledge base that you've built and so I think that that's one of the goals that we want to try to accomplish with this now Kip isn't the only one teaching it is he or
025no we'll have one other one other teacher other questions very nice great thanks than you we stop 45 minutes on the we go we really break it down here thank you um next we have uh rob you coming up to or is it just Nick talking about pay to participate okay I just saw saw you here too and I didn't know I don't I think Mr Hopkins Take Care thank you all right well good evening everyone um I'm here to talk a little bit about PID participates uh for West Lake City Schools um so maybe last year a Google survey yeah last year Google survey was sent out to a lot of the districts in Northeast Ohio um asking about pay to participates at both the high school and middle school level so that's where
026this information comes from uh the first slide you see here is of our current Cleveland West Conference at the high school we have eight um schools and at the middle school there are 10 but you'll see here uh we're kind of towards guess the top when it comes to pay to participates in the Cleveland West Conference uh just because Valley Forge Normandy Bay North H set and Rocky River do not charge a pay to participate fee um Lakewood is $75 per sport we're at 125 or 55 depending on that Sport with a transport a one time per year Transportation cost an individual cap of 315 and then Buckeye um they kind of do it by sport where um first child or first sport is three 45 seconds 245 but then they have a family cap
027from 7 through 12 for500 um Middle School is very similar um as that of the high school here Cleveland in the Cleveland West Conference um but you kind of see a little bit all over the place I also put together um our former conference not the Great Lakes but the uh s swc so I took this from the Google form put it together and you'll see not as many schools offer the zero pay to participate in the swc as they do in the Cleveland West Conference um you'll see everybody kind of does their own thing um with Avon Lakes uh Levy failing this past fall that's TBA but uh from the reports it's going to be probably the highest one of the FWC moving into next year but kind of all over the place um
028and if you compare us to the swc we are more towards the lower of the Ean there versus a little bit of the higher in the CWC so we had asked Nick to come here tonight um and present some of this information I've had some questions about uh pay to participate and what uh the district might be uh uh thinking about going forward now a little bit of the history it it predates me so I can't say exactly uh how long it is but for at least the past 10 years the district has in place uh uh a pay to participate fee that pay to participate fee goes to offset the salaries and benefits associated with paying the supplementals for coaches or Club advisors it does not go to the athletic department uh or to
029the uh Sports directly it goes to offset the costs of the out of our general fund that the district pays same with Transportation it com uh it goes into a general fund to to help offset the cost of transporting students uh uh to and from athletic events um Mr Rolo and I went through as well as Mr Woods uh the three of us went through uh the current pay to participate uh I know there's uh some changes that we're looking at for next year do you want to briefly talk about how we went through those and what we're kind of seeing offhand yeah so um when like Mr Hopkins said this predates us so whenever this came B pay to participate in Wesley uh I'm fairly certain that boy lacrosse is the only lacrosse that
030we offered here in the spring and then years later girls lacrosse um was formed as a club and now it's one of our interest classic Athletics so on the pay to participate it didn't even have girls lacrosse listed so we changed that um obviously now it's just lacrosse and that kind of flows with the rest of our uh formatting because with soccer it just says soccer uh with track and field it just says track and field for lacrosse now it just says lacrosse we got rid of the boys part because now we have girls and boys in the springtime um and that was one of the changes and that one when it was added to pay to participate however many years ago that was boys lacrosse is probably in the early stages and there was
031no girls lacrosse so we compared that to soccer moving forward and that was one of the changes meaning the pay to participate will change from 55 to 125 is one of the items we discussed but that was really the only one and then we added a few clubs and activities add those speeds so when we looked at the the different sports you you have those two uh ranges that we charge the 125 those are going to be your your typical fully funded Varsity Sports um and that's really where we are with lacrosse right now it started as a club but it's now become a a full Varsity uh a funded sport uh we have some sports that are still at the lower amount an example would be hockey now the reason that we would still
032charge the lower amount on that is hockey and hockey parents hockey fundraising pays for a lot of uh uh air equipment and ice time we don't fully fund we don't meaning we don't pay for all the expenses that are involved with hockey for instance so that's at the lower amount of $55 I think gymnastics is a similar piece yeah where they pay for a lot of their own uh uh gym time um so as we looked uh through those we're trying to make sure that we have some parity or equity among the different sports so again as Mr ralo said we looked at it and said okay well lacrosse at this point is very similar to soccer and soccer we're paying the we're charging the 125 why wouldn't we charge the same at uh uh
033lacrosse now that it's passed its Club phase in and it's really a fully funded sport um same thing as as U Mr wood said as we looked at the different clubs uh there's been been some clubs that are added now if it's a club that someone's volunteering hearing right now we don't charge anything again it's only to offset the supplementals that the board pays uh um so uh some of the clubs have now become paid supplementals with the teachers so we would charge that and I think our clubs are $15 I believe that's what it is uh so it's a relatively small fee but it goes to help offset I was told way back Yonder when they implemented this uh the direction of the board was to cover 20% of the expenses of the board
034of education for those supplementals uh I will tell you over the past 10 years the supplementals have changed significantly we have not changed the amount that we pay that we charge for um pay to participate so um at this point um I would look I I believe that in talking with Mr ralo specifically um we would con you know we would look to continue the implementation of pay to participate but that's always up for discussion of the board um you know we would be looking to bring all of those changes to the board uh probably in April so that we'd give enough notice to everybody um again the only major change would be the lacrosse change and that's a Spring sport nothing would happen this year it would before next school year so I'm the
035one that has been asking for the pay to participate conversation because since this has been implemented we really haven't had a conversation about it and I fully understand with Nick joining in pandemic and everything else it kept delaying the conversation but it's been in place for a while I'm not looking to throw the baby out with the bath water make some major overhaul and charge significantly more significantly less I just feel like we need to have the conversation um and see where we are compared to our peer districts and what the fees are and I do know this is something that readily comes up in the news um and there's often discussion about with the legislature about potentially capping paid participate in what is charged um I pulled up in the handbook so our clubs
036are doing anywhere between a $15 or some of them are $35 fees for like Computer Club um there was something else that was a techmates I'm guessing that's more because of materials potentially again none of this money goes towards materials okay um well and Science Olympiad also has a $35 fee but that's also I know they've got transportation and other things but they've got a separate fee there um and really it's more just making sure you know if we're saying we charge a fee for if there's a supplemental paid are we consistent with all of the when things are added and with all the across all the buildings that's what I'm wondering that's my conversation of that I was particularly wondering about and then things like Horus I know there's been some comment because some
037people have that as an assigned class or are these all outside of class time um where they are being charged the $15 fee so the ones that we charge the $15 are while they may have classes associated with them show player is a prime example of that that is a a high school class but because they have the extracurricular portion of that or co-curricular portion of that after school hours and we pay a supplemental we have charged a a club fee for that that's the one that I keep hearing the biggest push back on particular because while there's some supplemental it's not 100% clear to the parent parent always what's the charge for showard it's $15 but then a lot of them it's a matter of like they're in marching Bandit it's 35 then they've
038got a show choir which is 15 and then women's Ensemble is 15 so it just sort of stacks up and we have a a cap on don't we uh we do have a cap on pay to participate um I want to believe it's two sports in the transportation fi I think it it caps out maybe 3:15 or something like that is that individual individual yeah so it would be 315 so it's essentially it's roughly if you play two sports and one of them has a transportation fee with it because transportation fee is only charged one time per year uh for that individual kid so you'd cap out at around that 315 Mark so what's the reaction been uh from the parents or uh over the last few years I mean are we getting a lot
039of I would you know defer these gentlemen got anything no we um we set deadlines and we communicate it several times our coaches do so it's been pretty smooth sailing from the athletic department in regards to that do we have any uh students that can't pay we've had a handful per year and and are we doing I mean I know we talked about it before uh providing the money somehow hard boosters helps out with the hard fund correct so there's an application process yes they aren't denied no we will no okay no we figure out a way and I think with um not that people like to pay that but I think when you have families who are involved in let's say Club volleyball Au basketball the 100 whatever costs it's very minimal compared to
040what outside extremely yeah so when you're when you're saying you have a cap for year to do three sports clubs all those type of things at $315 I don't know I don't know I've never done Club volleyball or whatever I don't know what that costs don't want to it's a few dollars more than we just it's a coup so like I said I mean it's not like people are like excited about it but I think if they are involved in a lot of things by comparison it's it's a pretty good deal and I think by comparison we've tried to be reasonable in that and keeping it at that that same rate I don't think it's been I I don't it has not changed in the past nine years so do the coaches uh inform the
041parents that the fees can get reduced if they fund raise more how yeah that doesn't happen so they don't we don't use fundraising money to offset the cost of pay to participate but so for hockey you were saying that it's only whatever it was 55 because well it's not because they fund raise because they pay for like their own ice time and equipment so we're not paying for those expenses yeah yeah yeah but I'm I'm wondering and then I know that they I know they fundraise because I I get I got yeah they get the money through fundraising because hockey does their Super Bowl boxes or picks because I email yeah but I'll pick on it like because involved in club volleyball for instance so the example would be is we would do the same
042thing for volleyball if volleyball went and rented their own facilities played at their own facility that they're paying for paid for their own equipment while it's a a sport under the school where we may be paying paying for like the uniforms or things like that they're pretty much paying all their other costs okay and that's the big difference I see what you're saying now because hockey's going into a rank and corre other sports are with they're paying a massive amount for ice Time Gymnastics is renting a gym somewhere to have that practice do they pay for their own rafts or do we pay for we pay okay yeah for our home games we started out we charge admission as well and are they still uh they aren't transported by the school or are they now
043to North said rink no um that's self transport but to our far trips a bus does transport okay because when we started out they transported themselves to everything yeah they the I know they transport to the pond which is in giaga County so that's a hike and the games normally start like 8:15 at night so for safety purposes rather than a kids driving home at 11:30 a night an hour away transportation is provided to some of those I almost wonder if some parents just don't realize that there's supplementals attached to these versus it being kind of a volunteer you know so and so is a math teacher and he also is a coach why would you think he's just he's just a coach he's a high school coach he's a teacher a lot of people
044may not understand that they do receive supplements because it's extra time associated with that um unless you're into the schools you would probably make that assumption they're a teacher there extra things for doing is coaching then why would they get paid for it I don't even know if they're thinking about that because we they're not getting calls right you know so I mean they're probably just not even you know it's what it cost to play the sport and it and we play it um for history barbin when uh the last time we went on the ballot which was back in 13 well not the last time but the last time for an operating L for an operating lby um it failed and that right after that is when uh Dr Keenan um and Mar compar
045decided or not decided but talked about instituting a pay to participate at that time um because we were not a Trailblazer because there wasn't definitely BAS the sswc a number of people are already doing it right um so that was the precipice of it that F lovey and that was that was partly um so was not the have to cut anything in the way of sports um and or bus against so um even though Sports and busing together not necessarily as an aggregate busing so yeah and we Westlakes had pay to play I mean I hadn't pay to play when I went through Westlake schools back in the ' 80s 90s um so I remember you graduated yeah but when I was in Middle School I think we had pay to play yeah huh maybe
046they do something else I don't know so what so what are are you asking us uh to raise it or no no so this is just a review tonight uh uh as uh uh Miss perat had uh brought up she had asked uh for a conversation about it reviewing it uh we're in a work session tonight so there's no business okay that we're doing tonight anyways uh I think our plan right now unless the board would direct us otherwise is making those adjustments that we've talked about making sure we have the parody uh with like lacrosse making sure we have the parody with all the clubs listed that pay have a supplemental uh associated with it so that we bring it we kind of double check it bring it up to parody and then uh
047have the board approve those changes or those changes but we're not looking to change the base amounts at all um not unless the board would direct us otherwise the only thing I'm wondering is the transportation fee just because I mean this was set 10 years ago yeah and I I know that's going to raise it astronomically which I don't think we necessarily looking to do but might be worth just taking a look at that one again I think all of them it's all about what the goal of the district is you know I will um I'm going to jump off base a little bit real quick uh because you know the Dr gagin did leave the the sheet up behind his head there and um you know uh Dr gagin has been very very good
048uh working to finalize our behind the W and um and as we've looked at the the rates of other school districts you know right now uh Westlake has the lowest millage rate uh for schools and vocational education in kyoga County uh additionally when you take into consideration Lorraine County and Madina County we also have the lowest millage rates um you know some of the things that that the district has done is we've certainly been very very blessed by the the community and the leadership of the mayor and economic development office uh and city council throughout the city to help us uh continue long-term growth but also through the direction of the Board of Education the superintendent we've be able to uh manage those finances while pay to participate is a fee to our stakeholder ERS
049okay it is a fee that helps maintain lower millage rates because the people who are using those Athletics or or transportations uh things like that it helps uh offset the costs for the district now again um does it save us you know millions of dollars no but it plays a a piece in that we want to keep it uh uh you know at a fair amount for our families we want to keep it uh as a reasonable cost for our families uh but um when we look at the other ones that our in our current conference you know I don't know if I would recommend on raising it right now when you see you know your other districts that are at lower amounts I think it's or none yeah or none two neighbors you know
050so I think it's you know it's I think it's a fair amount so I don't know if I would recommend you know increasing it right now but again if the board would like to I can I can look at that well um I'm curious as it relates to to Bay and River since they're so close to us and everything I'm assuming we we have more um I'll call it just Varsity Sports options for both um boys and girls at the high school than Bay and rivered is that a bad assumption or a good assumption it's the same I think it's almost the same I'm trying to go through yeah we have 26 and I'm I think they do as well I'm thinking like you're able to schedule all of our Sports against them aren't you
051and that yes I'm trying to think of what we would have that they wouldn't they have swimming we have swimming lacrosse soccer football tennis bowling yeah all it hockey but again I guess as as Mr Hopkins said um it's all coming out of the general fund whether it be coming out of for Rock River or for Bay coming out of their general fund correct and we're doing it a little differently this helps offset our general funds slightly and I think having that history of it was that 2013 failure that started this conversation in flat out even when we went to pass the uh bond for and Pi for the elementary school you know that was part of the conversation that we do have paid participate fees in and it for there are a number of
052people in the community who very much want that yeah yeah and and I do want to stress because I know Mr ralo said it uh but no kid is denied access to playing sports because of their their because they could not afford it or their family could not afford it uh he's very good about working with the students families and then our boosters are very generous and and supportive of our programs uh but so it's not necessarily impeding anyone uh from playing um but it is it helps offset the costs I guess I would leave it with everybody's paying whether they're paying it through a school levy where they have a higher percentage of their tax rate such as Bay and River compared to us or ours is lower and the the students and parents
053are are paying the fee that way it's everyone's paying it it's just maybe different buckets but it all comes and washes out at the end thank you thank you appreciate it yes thank you thank you John okay moving on to four committee reports for legislative liaison there's a lot of stuff moving on in the um house and the um Ohio House and Senate um they're particularly about school funding um I don't know if you've seen any of the calls for reaching out to our Representatives because Westlake gets a bump of about $400,000 I've not really been advocating for change because of this we we're one of the few districts that actually get an increase so it's also one that you have to consider we've always gotten so little corre and so since we've we really
054haven't received a lot so as they do calculations it comes out that we get a little bit more and um I guess that's a benefit to not getting a lot and so when they recalculate you get a little more but I will caution that this is uh an early draft what this budget's going to look like then we can go from seeing a little bit to losing a little bit to anywhere around there so we'll see but I agree with you it's hard to Advocate against it right now because it does put a a small benefit to us I think my exact text to you was uh is this true yes correct and as we've seen in the past Bion uh cycle you know a lot changes between now and when it's theore supposed to
055pass by July one but nobody likes to see how the sausages made oh jeez that's if I can jump in real quick there are other pieces of it that you know I was talking to Dr goggin this morning on I mean ones that we want to be cognizant of um you know there is a a provision right now that's proposed that would be um if your district is 20% free students uh you need to provide a breakfast for everyone at District cost okay or you have to publicly come out in a meeting and say why you can't provide it why you financially can't provide that uh so there's some little things that you know it's the devils in the details all the time so I'll be curious on how it plays out through that process
056but uh in the formula we see a benefit but there could be others some other details that might bite us as well so is is that just that they have to provide it or that we would just have to provide it say at you know Middle School it would be at all schools yes Y and you would provide it for all students everyone for free Universal free lunch or a free breakfast it would not be the lunch program just breakfast and and and it's interesting because you know there are districts that provide Universal free lunch uh usually the conversation about Universal free lunch starts when you're well over 50% free and reduced population okay um you know they're talking 20% and you get what uh so free and reduced I think we're sitting 19 or
057so 1819 oh yeah and and is it safe to assume that the say bay and River are much lower uh I know they're lower last time I looked but I can't tell you how muchow at one time besides lakid I think we were one of the higher higher percentages in the Western on this Wern western side here Lakewood as high anything else on legislative updates student achievement Mr gra still uh Super T committee policy we finished up in our last meeting that round of policy I have a whole another round of policies to send out and um those will be it's typed up and can be sent to you in the morning and we could start to talk about those can't wait and treasure um you know we have a treasure meeting um coming up
058next week that we'll be meeting with a couple I think we are going to do the 18th yep um with a couple of board members to go over a variety of topics mostly revolving around permanent improvements and our plan for uh summer projects uh so we'll spend a good amount of time going over that I also wanted to let the board know that last week we uh the auditor of State uh released the uh audit Awards and we did receive the auditor of State Award with distinction uh yet again this year so um I'm very grateful to my staff uh who works very very hard to uh keep our books very clean so I'm very proud of that um but beyond that we're working through our normal stuff this time of year and then uh
059we will be targeting remember the five-year forecast a review of that uh and an update will be done in U May so I'll be looking to not only this finance committee meeting we'll schedule one for may as well uh or treasure uh committee meeting um to go over the five-year forecast before it comes to the board in May okay that's about it board comments where are we with paste of w like um the person who is running it um is out um and we could try and get something together or plan something for fall um I'm not quite sure we want is something we want to do annually but the person who had run it before cannot run it right now any prospects for um we Liz and I talked a little bit we don't
060have a person um targeted but if we wanted to try and step on the gas and get something for May which would be tight you know but we can also get rolling and plan something for fall I think fall would be good because uh but I do think that we need to continue it because you know if we don't have it I know we're gonna lose it and I thought to hard last year I don't want to battle those guys agreed any other board coms I had the pleasure of speaking on behalf of the board at uh the uh PTA Founders Day dinner I don't think I did too badly oh you're great okay the mayor stole the show though he did steal the show he do gota wait gota wait for the video to
061come out I'm just kidding well they they were playing music uh as people were he was like the the first speaker and they were playing music and he danced his way onto the stage and just livened up the entire crowd and so then from then on everybody was getting he's runting for reelection he's on he's I wonder where he got his moves I don't know it was a fun evening though very it was good and congratulations to all the winners of I am very s sad I couldn't make it but I thank you for attending any other comments is there a motion to adjourn so move second let Brad take it roll call to adjourn at 6:50 PM bin yes lamb yes lazinski yes you're not yes motion carried you are adjourned to make meeting
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