001okay call the meeting to order at 6 on the nose reone Mr E [clears throat] Andro here Mr Funk here Mrs Newman here Mr Perez here and Mr walk here please stand for pledge of allegiance Al to the flag United States of America and to the [clears throat] Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all nice to see everybody feels like it's been a little bit big welcome back to this krina [applause] we have a pile of work for you to do [laughter] the honeymoon's over one minute one minute [laughter] obviously very nice to see you [clears throat] all right let's get to uh administrative reports uh Joy is not here but she passed along a brief update which I will present for PTA um PTA units
002have moved to the business part of the Year local Reflections contest is now complete and they're moving on to scholarship applications nominating extraordinary teachers and Helping Hands projects and then they'll be nominating in their units and finishing with voting on that in Spring um she can't be here tonight because uh High School PTA is sponsoring the Dodge Ball battle that we all hope to get to when we get out of here um it's a great event as you all know uh great volunteers so thankful to a lot of high school students who are volunteering their time for that as well so thank you to Joy for submitting that and flis update Kelly um believe it or not we haven't had a meeting yet we meet next week so um just a couple things I just
003wanted to point out events are happening in the beginning of March there is a a robot battle middle school what I don't know is if we have a team from our middle school that's participating or not that I don't know yet I would think I would think somebody in those satellite classes is doing something I would think B where they like fight each other it's I don't know it's like a robot battle I that's all I know I don't know the details but it is open you can go watch it um they are also hosting for seventh and eighth grade girls it's an event to expose them to um some of the trades at Polaris like construction to get girls more interested in those programs that's also coming up we Mar but other than that
004not much a report cuz we we don't meet cool any questions no thank you Kelly Brian uh yesterday I had the opportunity to meet with um soon to be graduates from the University of akan there was an event where um it's just kind of like meet and greet and then the interview and things like that so had the opportunity to meet with upcoming graduates and then there was a panel talking about interview tips and tricks and all that other stuff so it was a nice way to get out there you know let people know what positions we may have open what we're expecting so um some nice young people that I think could do well in our candidate search and I encourage to apply bur open positions um next week we have the Cleveland State
005job careair so looking forward to that and what we come from that great any questions comments are we looking for uh summer labor I know that's always a Hot Topic we getting good applicants for that we get a lot of applicants [laughter] I there's a particular 14-year-old in my house no um I can understand how the applicants are not good [laughter] so I mean the truth of the matter is [clears throat] a lot of the people who come in and do our summer work they're younger they're young kids who it might be their first job so a little bit of a rough learning curve the first couple of weeks but then you know we settle in and past two years we've we've gotten everything done so all in all it's been pretty successful and you
006know the kids are learning as well I think it took us a a little bit because you know some of our custodians and things like that they're not the youngest people in the world so relating to high school kids and and talking a way that maybe sometimes you would want to talk can't necessarily do that with a high school student um during summer work so little adjustments there but all in all than so pretty positive pretty sucessful [clears throat] awesome thank you shanon good evening I have two updates [clears throat] uh first you've been hearing um updates about our cyber security program that will be launching next year so we're in the thick of uh getting set up for next year and in a couple of ways so Paradigm cyber Ventures is the company that
007we'll be contracting with Dr Lloyd introduced uh that group to the district about a year ago and um they will be involved in having monthly meetings with us they'll be coming March 13th to do a site visit um toward the high school and also they will be giving a presentation over lunch some of you have already um expressed an interest in being there if you wanted to visit around 11:30 on that Thursday at the high school let me know we're finalizing our RSVP list part of that is also bringing together an Advisory Board which would is another opportunity for Community Partnerships and they say it's ideal to have ified members so Leo uh spagnol the high school principal Jeff Van arnam will be the Lead Teacher um they both and then Dr ly and I
008we we brought some names to the table and we're spending time talking with those those individuals so no names to share at this point in time but that will be memorialized later in March and um so I'm excited about that program so this day in March or this morning Paradigm will be coming in and which I think is a wonderful component one of the reasons we decided to go with this this outside organization uh our internal high school team cam madic Jeff and ardam went and visited a few high schools in the area that are also partnering with so not only did we spend time with them Dr lyd brought them to us we've also uh worked with Aurora High School and Bedford who are also using the same company what they do is they
009have prepared the curriculum it's a three course program so sophomore junior senior is ideally the the way in which a student would take the courses um but we also will set them up with different experiences [clears throat] in the community potentially intern sites and employers that are ready to hire them post graduation so watch for updates Kim is also a part of the team as well um she'll be helping to push out different social media updates uh the second update is as of June 2026 [clears throat] we are locked into using our CPM program for grades 6 to 12 it's our math curriculum and so now we're at a place where we're starting to begin a math study leaving ourselves about you know 14 15 months to do that really by August of 2026 we
010should have made a decision also with you uh approving if we were to renew those resources as a part of the 6 to 12 curriculum we will also um explore their updated program that they're releasing there's a new that's coming out and then we will also with time with the Math teachers look at the needs that we have for our students and what they need as teachers and also look to see if there's other options we want to consider so I had the opportunity and and Dr Lloyd was there last week things are a little blurred with some of the weather right um we started with the high school teachers and spent the day taking a history lesson on where we've been with now because it was about 2015 where we the standards changed and
011our curriculum also was adopted so it's time to have a conversation again it'll be 12 years once we make our final decision we also had a chance to dive into what is best practice what's the research tell us and then we really started to build a list of what are they finding um their current resources really help them Elevate their instruction and what [clears throat] their needs may still be so it was a full day of collaboration and we were able to spend time and this was probably the most vulnerable part of the meeting but I think the most meaningful is what are our beliefs with the map par [clears throat] we'll do that same thing with Middle School uh early March and then we're going to bring both groups together at our next PD
012day so that there's a larger group discussion so I'll keep you updated on that looking forward to it I think there was a lot of positivity on that day and there was great things they had to say with the work they feel like they're doing the resources they currently have but we wanted make sure that as we move forward um we don't want to stay stagnant and if that even means going with the newer edition of our current program that could be a potential outcome yeah I guess my question would be like um you know uh does the staff like you know they want you know how do they feel are they like oh I'm so glad to get rid of this or I am finally gotten a Groove with it right it's probably a
013little bit of both I think it's more about they [clears throat] know that our math what we need to prepare math students for is an application of right it's not just drilling but there's a time and a place for for building some of those basic skills but also the application of and finding a program that's a one- siiz fits all is impossible um but how do we find a program that that can do that but also cast a wide net and so when we're looking at programs we need to think about not just your average student or your above average student but the student who may have learning challenges you know difficulty reading those types of things so you know what we're hearing is it's really helped them be better teachers in the area of
014math more inquiry based with their students but it's the application of but also the practice [clears throat] of skills um that they find they supplementing but it's not uncommon for a teacher to say we need these other things to round it out and they've done a good job with that than sure any other questions awesome thank you br [clears throat] so through uh through the month of January uh our Revenue uh Still Remains uh On Target the end of the month $34,000 under those expectations I don't think that's a huge number I'm still happy with that there is a delay uh with K hoga in line County and getting those real estate settlements to us the reason is and and you guys probably saw it in your home too you received your bills later this
015year than maybe what you had the last couple years uh that was because all those new valuations were sitting down in in Columbus being reviewed by the uh uh the tax department there and it just took them longer to certify those values and get to the county so they can send those bills out I push back then because of that um in the forecast of of Collections and and what I thought we would get in January February to February and March because of that so I have no reason to believe that those total collections are going to be less than what we anticipate it's just kind of when uh when we get them it's going to change a little bit um total collections for the month if I compare that to uh January of last
016year were down from $494,000 you know as a result of the delay and those B collections um and fiscal year today were $6,000 higher uh than the same period last year expenses continue to Trend within projections uh uh fiscal year to date we are I think uh $34,000 over uh year-to date for the month of January our total spend is 37,000 higher than the same period last year and our fiscal year day spend is 9 31,000 [clears throat] for that same period last year salary and benefits right those were the increases that we had coming into this year we expected that to happen um if we look at the 5year forecast uh we had projected a June 30th cash balance of 12.98 million uh through the month of January with uh being a little bit
017lower on collections a little bit high on expenses we're projecting a 12.91 million balance a decrease of about $69,000 again I'm not concerned about that at all our ending cash balance for January was uh 8.4 million and compared to last year 7.5 million so about $857,000 or more at this time over last year I'd sent you I believe yesterday we received the simulations from the state LSC on the governor's first draft of of the budget and Governor dwine released that there's a little bit of fanry on there from a public school perspective where he uh stated a commitment to the fair school funding plan plan uh we weren't sure that was going to happen he says it did however within the plan uh they made some changes one was they did not update the input
018so we're still sitting on a a value on those and when I say what are those inputs there um you know salaries and benefits for example throughout the state and how does that affect the model uh when they look at those State totals so we're still sitting in fiscal year 2022 from that perspective the other thing he did and he did not announce it that day was um he's reducing the guarantees suggesting recommending that we reduce those guarantees that's what's going to get us if they they hold that through because we're on the guarantee we're pretty deep into the guarantee quite honestly um so you'll see in those simulations I think for next year what was it a $600,000 difference uhhuh year over year 600 year one is 400 year 400 so you know in
019the bani a million dollar less than what we've received this this past year little anxious on that to be honest with you um but also let's remember it's early in the BR this is the first draft um what kind of got my anxiety up a little bit though was I felt some gamesmanship on the governor's and on what he said releas the budget and then what it actually contains so we'll we'll keep an eye on that a lot there's a lot of webinars the pass as what we're conducting right now we're working with forecast 5 um to see what effect that may have so we can we can model these simulations as they come out to see what effect that may have on our I wonder if they have to certify that budget and stuff
020when do they have to certify that June 30th yeah thought Jun yeah so not a whole lot of time but it'll change I you know we'll see we'll see which way it does end up going um so coule that with some have a question I have more thing to say about that in a question so I was looking at that and it looked like districts that obviously weren't getting as much State funding as we Rocky River and Westlake they went up did you see that I I started looking at that Rock River Westlake Beachwood s yes I'm like so then I so then I'm like okay anybody who's like over like getting like over 12 million from the state that they reduce you know was the I don't know how they calculate obviously they have
021I think yeah I I think the big component for us was the uh the valuation that increased here and so what the state year it's gone from about 36% down to 26% in the end they're putting that back on the locals coupled with the fact that there's legislation out there that's really going to if it should have passed going to hinder schools and their ability to go out and request more funding uh from the residents uh both from an income tax and a property tax perspective so um we kind of feel our hands starting to get tied a little bit what they essentially want to shut down the public schools So within and within that budget too right is is a tremendous increase to the voucher program once a year so so you were saying
022they had fiscal year 2022 as so now is what you're saying is that something that's changing and or is that not that's been the recommended change the recommend is not is to keep that in 22 Our Hope was they would update update that to the 25 values we were we were optimistic that if they did that that that would take us off the guarantee and one of the early signs I think people look at is is that formula effective or not it's how many districts are on the guarantee who the guarantee because of the percentage of State funding that we is that right that well when they look at those inputs they determine how much we're getting if we're getting less than what we had the year before those guarantees kind of Hold Us harmless
023we we get at least that amount for fek week 202 so but they're loow loading those Downs so next simulation probably next month I would think it's got to go yeah I think the center will do their version the house will do their version we'll get we'll get releases on each of those and then they'll reconcile between themselves and go forward there so there's probably three more that that are coming out between now and the end of June any any more questions on that bus uh you'll see on the agenda uh we did get two buses in and they believe it or not they came in earlier than what we anticipated which is nice after the last few years and we went through those those long delays um so we've got some items on here
024to address funding um on those so what we did was we we cut a check for Cardinal pay for the buses we'll get that funding and ESP when we urse ourselves for that and pay that back over the next five years so that'll be good so those are the normal buses that what we're going to now these are yeah I know the the last set we got were uh yeah they were they were a little smaller capacity these are back up that normal size 125 ,000 a piece they're [clears throat] still very very expensive um Fieldhouse construction I think you're all aware uh we were told that for personal reasons uh the donor is going to militarily pause that construction plan um when he's back ready to go he'll notify us uh if when he's
025ready to go Phil had ask uh for some cost what what did we in spend uh legal fee wise uh throughout this process and resolutions uh some deing and so on to go back and forth and that number was what about $7,500 roughly and that I do expect uh one more uh one more invoice a small amount to come from supp was not on the January bill I think Matt still had just a little bit of work that he was in progress on before that came through so we made you one more voice on that I mean here's the thing no one wants to spend money on legal fees right however you know it's necessary you have to protect yourself and we have to protect the school district and so but I thank you for
026let thanks for asking questions and letting us know what it what it was centr of office we had the bid the bid openings on January 31st unfortunately every bid as as as close as they were amongst each other they were like 24% higher uh than what our state budget was on that so we were not able to accept any other that if it's over 20% how how are we missing the mark so badly on that a good question that that happened to my isue all the time I call a bit bust sometimes estimates are just wrong material prices change you know dramatically especially lately yeah things are a little volatile in that regard I think s was cuz the the architect comes up with it and um he was I mean embarrassed if you look
027at the estimat too I mean it's it's dart throwing it's Precision dart throwing but it's I mean they yeah you would there were a variety of factors that went into that so we met with Sayad and and we went through some things and did some what's Jim's term value engineering value engineering uh on on design backs of the building to try to get that cost back out square footage roof type HVAC types and another thing that kind of surprised me was uh I had thought if we extended that construction period out and give the Builders a little bit more time to complete the job instead of having a real tight schedule uh and not meeting that schedule because after that completion date is set if they don't hit that there's a cost per day uh
028for them and and they were I think a little bit lary about that so we extended that part out too so abg's gone through uh reworking their spcs creating new drawings it's going to be probably another 40 45 days out jet um and then we'll Reid and see where we are from there and were the people that bid are they you know contractors that that we would normally see bid you know we've done big so we've done big projects so I guess yeah probably for something of this size right but you're you're not going to um you know you're not going to see some of the ones that we used for projects that are just in general they were like okay like or maybe S I think knew the whole he was very happy with
029those just want some outlier that come I don't know who that guy is [laughter] so something we do is we option we basically option A lot of stuff and so if if there are things you can live without you can auction them out yeah and you can also add language into your statement of work for your company you're working with you can put in some like or equivalent statements and tell them to be specific like Hey we're interested we're you you basically say we're interested in hitting this number you can basically recommend equivalent substitutions in some areas Weir about them you know you know it's basically tell me how to design it if I want to get to this price kind of you know and and they did do that um alternate bids we we
030had several alternates before we don't want you don't he you know cautioned us to not have a ton of those but with the value engineering that we did that was part of it was putting a lot of those on the alternate and see whether or not we could just pull them off um with the shrinkage of the square footage along with some of the other things that Brett mentioned I mean I thought that we did a fairly decent job of reducing the cost overall into u a point where Brent wouldn't have to take additional blood pressure man I'm coming down that's right I know yeah I think initially we had maybe four alternate bids [clears throat] and now we've got seven ra we did a lot of that MH so so we're anxious anxious to
031see how that could work I disappointed still optimistic that's is [clears throat] how I been how I would turn that um starting with a very low bar from current state to where we want to get to so we got to cut a couple expect the worst and hope for the best kind of is the sort of where we are I think it just takes us generally it takes us longer to get the things that we hope to whether it's turf or whatever it may happen to be it just it takes long that's off appreciate the you know the path that you know that was taken that you guys to put the work in figure it out and get this [clears throat] far it's all good it'll work out we think so feel good about and
032we just got to shrink your office down from whatever it wasn't that buing for you know one of the things waterfall in the office was all that all that stuff right [laughter] um I I think it was still left in yeah one of the that's just so you know um one of the things was the uh professional learning room/ Board office square footage was shrunk from like 1,800 down to I think 15 or 1,400 Square ft so we we lost some square footage there there were a couple offices that were um removed a restroom was removed as well and then we just put some additional um cubicles in there as well so um but you know we think even with one of our largest professional learning sessions we'll still be fine in that room so
033I think you know it it will work out it it will work out I think we're starting to see the those long-term rates kind of coming down too so when we get into that Bond issu [clears throat] that's that's beneficial to to some degree too so we're not you know we we'll be okay we'll be okay with that um scholarships it's it's that time of season again and Sandy Smith reached out to me and is asking if we could have a board member to work with her her and the scholarship committee criteria amounts number recipients and so on I don't know if anybody's interested in doing that for this year that we can put her in touch with was that you were oh okay I thought you were okay so if you if you need
034help I'm happy to help out too but if you just need one board member that's been I'll have her reach out to you go whatever that maybe and then on on March 13th we have a a scheduled work session out there and um I'm going to have some business items for that evening uh remember a couple years ago they changed the uh valuation uh challenge process we have a small window notify those Property Owners if we challeng anything and we have to have that decision made board action made by the 15th so with that standing meeting on the 13th I thought that would be good if there's no unless somebody had a desire to change that date or anything so we have two properties out there there there're two commercial properties and Tom will be
035there Tom we can have time I like having time honest with you so we have two properties two commercial properties one is and and these are both in my opinion these are air at from the from the county office so we had already appealed and been through the process on both of these properties back in 20121 but those those values aren't carrying forward for some reason now into 2024 but for us to request them to change that we have to go through this process okay so uh for example the first property is $1.75 million and that's what the board of revision said we went through that appeal process 1.75 million they've got it on the books for 2024 and now $1.12 million so that's a significant difference we do want to challenge that so we'll
036have Tom do that and then send the letters out and so on the other one um had a sale price of 2.4 million uh we went through the board of revisions they agreed to a 1.9 million and now it's on the books for 2024 at $981,000 million difference so those are significant changes uh that we think we need to address on that and I'm going to kind of two Tom Horn a little bit here you know Tom and his off they do a great job um but he also had one here that you know went to the board of revisions um I think it was originally on the books for 2.2 million another uh commercial property the property owner filed a complaint uh for 1.4 million uh we had an apprais her go out there
037she valued at 2.5 which was a little bit higher than what the county said um the county threw out our our appraisal they throughout the complaintant appraisal and they said hey we're going to stick with uh uh probably uh the property value at $2.5 million so um uh I take that back yeah that yeah that that was right I think we're thinking of the same we're thinking of the same one yeah it's poor form to mention what it is but and it went down it went down to you know uh it went down to to BTA down in Columbus uh the the owner challenged that ruling um and provided some documentation there was questions on the appraisal that the owner provided Tom's appraisal was much better uh they felt more comfortable with that so they
038um they actually up the value from what the county from what the county had and they said this is B more accurately refle property yeah and so that's like $1.1 million that really was you know if we don't go through that process and it's not like we want to tax the heck out of everyone it's just it needs to be whatever the fair value is a property it's a property owner not happy it's commercial property they may s you know convenient kinds of things so we we appreciate Congress firm there and everything they do with us we'll make sure that Tom's here then on the 1 any questions thank you thank you I have like a couple few things I wanted to share um I was going to mention or talk a little bit about
039Polaris whenever Kelly was doing her update but um Diane Xander who's the new superintendent had her first meeting with the Consortium superintendent today um there so I got a chance to see your cool boardroom and everything it's nice it's fully stocked with refreshment so that's the thing they're like I'm like can I have is there refreshments and she's like no they're in the credenza so you pull it out and it's refrigerator so there's like Diet Coke regular Coke iced tea like it's full on it's very ni yeah very as I sit here like dying for a water to be brought over whatever but that that didn't happen so uh she's going to be great we had a really good meeting it's the first time that this group had been brought together um in like a
040year or so you know at least or something like that um she's got great ideas um one of the things I think that's uh that's exciting um for future programming they want to have an engineering Robotics and automation program um which I think is going to look to go into the fall of 2026 and then we're going to look for 75 people and that program so um I think that's a really cool thing when they're trying to uh um to to expand [clears throat] options for kids she gave us some data and some numbers as well we've been pretty good as far as our standing of the number of students the percentage of students from our student population in um going to flares I think at one point it was like 45 or 40 45%
041of our eligible Juniors and seniors you know using that option we're down next year to 34% so we were the lowest so they made fun of us a little bit but we were higher as far as the number of students um who were uh who apply that were accepted like 92 acceptance rate so that that's a really good thing so when our kids apply um they get into the programs that they want to again and there's a rubric um that sort of determines you know their rate of success to be in there as well so um I think our counselors have done a great job uh with that so we were our percentage was lower than Strongville our percentage of the student population going in for the 25 26 school year so you know junior
042is 34% Strongville is 40% we have 88 kids accepted they have 124 kids accepted yeah CU they don't want anybody they they shot for nobody to be under 25% yeah and Strong's kind of historically been they've been yeah they've been struggling so that's why Cameron made fun of me today a little bit that he's out of the basement and like we're there but we really have never been there so that's fine um they talk you know they mentioned our school district several different times for different things Innovative things that they're um that they're doing one of the things is uh and I guess uh one of the things I'm proud of is the career development initiatives that have come out of clis and not just um you know job fairs at like a high school
043or whatever but really all the way down into the primary grades um and so they're going to do a heavy lift with Falls unox Primary School when they do their job fair um and sometimes is sure maybe next month I forget exactly in the lab of the Ean and you may not know when it is cuz I certainly don't but they're going to help um with that there's a lot of things that they're doing as it relates to Career activity books and career kits and other supports that they're creating not only for our students but for our counselors as well and while when they do classroom guidance um part of that responsibility is that whole um career part it's nice to have somebody from the Career Tech Center come and and take on that responsibility
044and partner with us so I was really pleased about that talking I don't know if you mentioned anything about it one of the feedback that they got from The High School principles mostly in their survey was what do we do about students that didn't go to Polaris as Juniors and now they're seniors Polaris is no longer an option but what can we do for them so there's this new program that they're going to create um called this it's an STNA program and it's going to be for you know those kids that you had just spoke about and it's an earn tolearn program so they'll be able to go and be in that class it's going to be like a 9we rotation and then also go and be employed as well at a place called O'Neal
045Healthcare who's a um a new partner for them so you know Diane helped to create and make that happen and I think those are the kinds of things that um that she has [clears throat] set that she has to add value so it's an experimental thing and hopefully that will be successful I'm you know our kids who are in our fundamentals program could could potentially be a Target population for that we're able to make money and get a skill um at the same time so that's a pretty awesome thing um so yeah Jim will be doing the Polaris update from now on just no wow you know I will be honest the way it's supposed to work is that we're supposed to get some information first and then they're going to share it with you
046guys that's how it's supposed to but it would it's the first meeting that we had in like in forever so I I Remember December I just wanted yeah I just wanted to say yeah and you guys have not had a meeting meeting this year yeah um the next thing is so we have a key communicators meeting coming up um one of the just to give you some idea of uh the things that they ask about because some of them are pretty interesting and current one is um one is driver's education and uh just so I mean unless you five of you go hey let's get back in the business of driver ed and take on all that liability and everything else associated with it and try to find people who don't want to teach kids
047how to drive because a lot of parents don't want to teach their own kid how to drive um I have no interest in getting back in the driver's education business ever imag how much insurance we need for that than place right down the street it's it's no fun I'm sensitive to the cost Factor cuz when I was a kid I took driver's ed through Brookside High School and it was like really cheap because and all the rich kids went to uh whatever program so I'm said sensitive to that I get it I had a summer birthday I wait I figure out I said Falls High School so push it right push you're doing vouchers foro then do a voucher for driver why do the players do it we talked about that was a talk about
048that we did we did talk about that so so that question was asked I just wanted to let you know what kind of question because we've actually talked to them about for us well it came up even [laughter] for a bus driver train it through Polaris yeah we talked about that too as another thing having a bus driver certification program run through uh so that was one the other one was and there's talk of this at the federal level obviously of the US uh doe being put aunder you know personally if you're looking for efficiencies and things the department of Ed is one of those where you could sort of you know look to eliminate parts of it and they said what happens if it if it goes away um the department of Ed does
049really six things first is it provides funding and it oversees um that part of that funding is the University and college um uh Loan program for sure so that's a huge deal but I mean another department could do that but that is a huge thing for us personally um we get about $290,000 from Title One about $793,000 for special ed only $19,000 19,500 for preschool and and then the other Grant's about $98,000 so that money doesn't go away um that you know the responsibilities for the allocations of it just get pushed to uh to other departments really um I don't think I've ever talked to anybody from the US doe and honestly you don't want them in your school district at all because when they do they're there for things like enforcing civil rights and
050other things um like that so that's another function that they that they have they have a policy function the big thing and the most useful one and I hope that they figure this out is through um educational research there's a huge arm of the US doe that helps to fund research projects that are really field research that helps people determine what works in schools and then they have a huge um website and resource you know library of like here are things that work for schools it would be a really really bad idea um to get rid of that to not fund educational research so I get worried when people start coming things with a chainsaw versus like a scalpel and so um My Hope Is that that will continue um to to be in place
051and then there's uh things for publishing and monitoring school performance so we need their money for the federal programs that we're supposed to implement by law they serve a function as it relates to researching and education but after that that's my personal opinion so case you wonder um one of the questions they also ask is with all of this it was worded of all the new developments that are coming into the school district how the schools going to adapt um assuming children are going to come in as well I think that there's only really one that's been proposed right and that's the Boyer development that's over by where um ever uh green used to be it's really it and those are Town Homes right there's not like there's not like a whole lot of developments
052that are coming in are there that you guys so the one on I just drove past all these to check them out the one on Columbia there's two on Columbia right um one that Ryan Holmes is building they are single family homes but what I mean are they 20 no no there's probably about 50 or 60 oh okay so a decent development yeah and then where Shuster Greenhouse used to be I was Justin you might know is that going to be more mixed use I thought I haven't heard anything for a long time heard long time but that zon uh whatever it is our I think it's I think it's going to be some originally they were planning like an L-shaped development that was going to be like multi family like four buildings that had
053like four town homes in a piece and want say like 120 is units be this and then the front of that L was going to be like a mini uh strip ball that would have a daycare uh Community facilities like a play kind of stuff for them yeah like small Plaza and they were they were planning on putting a daycare there and like a couple like small businesses and then like the rest of so the house would be in the back business so that and then the Boyer development which [clears throat] you know again is it going to get developed there's a lot to consider developing that he's got to suck the land drive all the oil first and then he's going to build on it right yeah um and so uh again that's proposed
054like something but it's multi yeah yeah that's on the uh zoning board they just well they just had a meeting about it that's city land right the bo land is city land used yeah but I mean and yeah and that would go all the way up to fit right is what I think that part is in the township part of the township that's an emergency services Road okay that affects the township otherwise everything else is in the Falls it's 60 single family homes and 130 town homes and these town homes are three stor Town Homes I mean if we search with a th000 kids which we've done you know studies to determine that using this kind of like data you know we'll have space it's going to cost more sorry but you know I mean
055a teacher cost $80,000 and a bus driver is going to you know a pair of pro is going to cost you 50 you know basically out the door right like 35 plus 30 for you know probably something like that for full insurance but that's so I think spacewise we would be okay with move our cheese um but cost wise it would obviously it would go up well and I think that that uh if that's what's part of what's going to discuss that key communicators it it should it should be you know yes it is going to cost us more and this is how we think it's going to cost us more right um so yes yeah and and maybe somehow that should be commun communicated to just so we're in control of the narrative notbook
056commun M spouting oh the schools can't handle this well in for I've heard you know people are saying that there's this that the schools couldn't take additional enrollment and that was true at one point in time but when office was built uh thank you uh that changed dramatically I mean we're totally okay there so like I said unless there's this you know this Flex of like a thousand kids um it's going to be fine it's just Cost is going to be potentially with additional staff members they're going to me to teach additional section should we have to uh to add them so so that is uh is that um we had a great District leadership team meeting today um and uh you know we meet we we hold the place for like once a month
057we've met pretty much like every other month and this one was uh a full report out from each building leadership team essentially on um how our district or how our teams at the building levels are progressing with the design work um and it is like like like it should be filmed and shared with like the nation as far as the kind of things that are happening I mean it is exemplary kind things um plus our PBIS work and the different things that they're doing within tier one and tier two um tier one is just your basic kind of in the classroom classroom guide and stuff tier two was your targeting interventions um for particular kids and your tracking to determine whether or not they're making progress that's right that's about it right um and so
058uh we have data on that and then the last is the benefits based accountability so we will each individual building reports I will aggregate all that information and then I will put it into um the second report out of of our benefits based accountability U report card just to let people know how how we're doing but um you know it was really really impressive um today so I was really really proud of that there's that um you know I wrote to you on Bo policies there's a whole ton of them there's a couple of them that uh you know that the law would have that I give them to you as a school board to be considered and that you're going to have to um approve them in order to be in compliance and the
059main driver of that is uh House Bill 8 um I personally don't think that the government should be in our restrooms and our changing rooms that's my own personal opinion on that because um honestly we've been able to navigate that pretty well I think um and if we wouldn't be able to navigate that pretty well I believe that there would be people at the board meetings talking to you about how we're not navigating that very well at all um but effective uh April 9th and 25 househ a requires a number of different things um schools are supposed to notify parent and it's called and this is It's kind of offensive to me too in some ways that they call it the parent Bill of Rights and not that I have anything against parent rights because
060very much about transparency and come and look at our instructional materials and you know we can talk about divisive topics and difficult things it just the the labeling of itself puts us really in a defensive position like we're doing doing something wrong and parents have um they need to you know somebody needs to stand up for them and I get you know political gamesmanship and that just kind of how it works but schools must notify parents of any changes to their child's mental emotional or physical health sure yeah schools cannot uh encourage students to hide changes from their parents um and you can read the um underlining message and coding behind all this because they say it but they don't say it schools must provide parents with the notice and the opportunity need to review
061instructural materials that contain sexuality content not sexual content but sexuality content and they Define kind of really what that is and you know that's the uh the fifth grade boys um and girls meeting that they have to let them know kind of like where babies come from kind of stuff along with um the life skills class and things Diane Norris does in 6th 7th and e8th grade and then the health classes that Kevin seol and others teach too so all of that stuff is in there and anytime you have already have board policy that says if a parent doesn't want a kid to take part in anything like that or any unit of instruction or read any book they automatically we're supposed to provide an alternative assignment to begin with so that language is already
062in board policy so I think this is just over government in my opinion but nevertheless it is what it is um schools must provide alternative instruction upon request schools must notify parents about school provided Healthcare Services um and then they try to Define what healthcare services are and it's a broad definition and really you know it includes um psychological supports and other things but really what it targets is uh if a student is considering or is having feelings sexuality feelings whether it relates to gender identity um or feelings of you know maybe who they're attracted to and it may be a person of the same sex versus the opposite sex there's certain things that are now um required uh by law that that's what it means but that's not exactly what it says and so
063there's board policy now um related to that that's in front of you for first reading so um [cough and clears throat] so that's that I don't know if you have any questions about any of those uh any of those things I'm just curious so I mean I know we have board policy about like if a parent uncomfortable about a topic and you know I mean I had a friend who was uncomfortable with the whole like the girls go off and the boys go off yeah on in general how many parents or how many requests out out do we it's a great question I would and I wish that like Mark or Don were here because they would be able to tell you specifically I mean I know in my friend hardly like likeone [clears throat]
064one friend who did it and we were all surprised like oh I didn't know that people did that so I'm just curious it doesn't seem like it was an it that much it's not I mean that's the whole thing with a lot of these things that are coming as it relates to um you know the law the law change and the policy it's not a problem and I know that I'm I'm an N size of one here but I talked to my colleagues too and they don't think it's a problem but maybe it's a problem in other places and then they use that as an you but I think that's the reason why you have locally elected board members to make that determination on the behalf of the community who elects you to be here
065rather than having like government push it push on to think that our parents feel comfortable enough that if they had a concern or a question they would contact I think they would my experience has been they approach us I know that I've lost count of the number of times I've suggested to people have you talked to your child's teacher but I mean I like to think that our parents feel comfortable enough to at least that was my experience that was my friend's experiences so and you know that's something that we may even just act on asking out of the loop on that yeah if if I could just speak to that quickly when I think about when we have engage students in like a science of suicide lesson or we're gathering information about some of
066these topics it is common practice that we have a knockout form um and as the former director you know I would help support buildings and creating those and monitoring and it was an ins insignificant number you know maybe less than I I can't even give you a hard number but probably less than five for an entire building right but we would honor that and give them an opportunity to um have another activity and and typically it might be while this lesson is happening they go to the library and and and they're working on another assignment or reading a book so it's not large masses per building where we have parents opting their student out it's it's not a big deal I mean we we we'll make it work I mean I would rather have workarounds
067for those sorts of things rather than somebody go well I'm going to go take a voucher or I'm going to go to a charter because you're not going to do that it is in our best interest to do those to do those things and I would say the principal administ have been always accommodating to families you know there there's transparency there's the option to do that and then work with the families when when that request was made I mean my impression and we know what this bill is driven from yeah I understand where I get it I mean yeah I know it's a cultural kind of War sort of thing I just my understanding or my impression is is that we've worked well with the families that fall in that category [clears throat] and with
068the students that's the one thing it's it's um and those are the I'm worried about all students but those students who are the most marginalized are the ones that I'm most worried about because anytime that you're going to like make them feel any more different and weird weirder than they might already think they are to push somebody to like think about ending their life or something like that would be horrible and those are the things that keep me there there's like a handful of them that keep me up at might like work stuff and student suicide is like um is the top of the list because that's very very real so I worry about that a lot you and things like this in my opinion um increase the probability uh to do that I think
069that we can handle things oursel and we can govern ourselves in this regard and we all and we have so but what do I know so there as a result there's a policy that's in place for you guys to uh take a look at and consider and then the next time uh [clears throat] you know whether it's the work session or the regular meeting we'll get together and uh adopt that you can see and I mentioned this before um in the front of that you'll pack it it provides a good review of each one and then it gives you a recommendation so um you know the recommendation is to adopt the policy in order to be in compliance um with the law and so you know that's I disagree with the policy but nevertheless that's
070what that's what the you know how okay the next one is I want to talk real quick about um cultural humility I mean there's a you know uh a lot of fiery topics and it's like why not just talk about them right um the whole uh assault on um what is the government's called Dei and and other things um and you know I'm want to be real careful because when I mentioned that phrase which is uh an incendiary kind of phrase these days and then I mentioned James Knight um James Knight was not hired in order [clears throat] to do Dei for us and I'll kind of try to be because I know we have a thing that we need to get to um but whatever uh the sort of like spark or that happened
071that created this real big push with Dei and that was really the um what happened to George Floyd a lot of different districts were doing different things and coming out with statements and all this other stuff and um for remember I we kind of talked a little bit but sat back on those things and quite honestly because I didn't really feel comfortable um running out and saying anything like whether we got this or we don't have this or we shouldn't do this um but you know just learning about different kinds of things I think the approach to how you're going to handle talking about difficult subjects and I think that we are smart enough and we're um good enough to talk to have difficult conversations about controversial kinds of issues I believe in people we
072can do that and um James and his whole thought of and and kind of like way about handling that was cultural humility and um you know for us we have this we're going to inspire Empower kids and be safe be respectful be responsible and be kind and all of that fit in his message of cultural humility um fits in with with all of that and so um you know I wrote to you guys and told you what I thought that you know for me the culture of humility asks us to be humble to be self-aware to understand the world view of others and to learn what it's important to them through conversation like that's like being a good person and I get concerned whenever you know broad brush painting happens and we're not really saying
073what the true purpose is we have an obligation to make certain that we Inspire and Empower kids all kids everyone we how they look or who they think they are or what they actually are I think we have a responsibility to uh to do that so we will continue to partner with uh Dr Knight and we will continue to do things related to cultural humility because the principles who cross different political lines as far as who what they who they think and what who they vote for believe in their hearts along with teachers same thing um that we have a respons ibility to provide a environment for all kids and this has helped us do that and so um generally speaking we've used the student wellness dollars honestly they come from the governor and it's
074one of the best things that he has done um in in this state and I hope that after he leaves and he'll leave a good Legacy of some really cool things um that that stays because we need those resources to do that it's not expensive you know it's like $5 $20,000 when you first started was a little bit more than that but Dr Knight and his team including his wife have met with teachers they've done Keynotes I mean you guys have heard him speak before you've heard that message he's met with parents he's met with individual kids and so I'm comfortable with um with riding with uh James n you have any questions concerns or thoughts on any of that stuff are you going to talk about that at Communicator yeah I'm going to mention
075that you know one of the things that um [clears throat] yes I will talk about I think be an important thing yeah just in I mean I hard to know what the community is saying you know the big thing I think that people worry about it was my concern at the very beginning after what happened with George Floyd and this big you know movement of being woke and all those other things um is shaming and blaming and making people feel bad for who they are and what they've come from or they came from um and you shouldn't do that that that is wrong um but we should be able to find a way to to find Space to have conversations about difficult things and talk about that and you can do that without blaming and
076shaming and making somebody uh feel bad about like where they came from the issue is this all became a thing as companies in organization did yeah I see that waned to have presentations when there was a need people filled it and they weren't all good programs no they were not and unfortunately something like a Dr Knight which I think is a good program is getting [clears throat] I feel bad for Jan cuz he was his next up was like the Federal Reserve you know that's who he was going in to talk with and we were really really careful about the messaging because you know what's the words you know can't get in the way of the work you know and I get that Kelly for sure there's a lot of dumb problem things that happened
077that people were like okay we're going to let's do this now and then they come in and like people didn't right like 80% of people who were in the meeting feel really really bad about themselves and who they are and what they you know whatever and people just went out to find a program checked a box and did it and didn't really weren't thoughtful about their program what I want to be careful of is that we're not going to get roped into those things that we've been very very intentional and thoughtful about how we've gone about the business of this so when somebody says we're indoctrinating kid kids or you're doing Dei my response is that doesn't apply to us because we don't do those things fall on that category we don't I I don't
078believe we do so that's that um the last thing I'll say is that uh in front of you today for approval is Mike sasi is the next Middle School principal um I think uh and I and I hope that you I told him that I hope that you guys vote five for him for that um he's a a terrific person he'll be a great principal he's been an outstanding um assistant principal um Mark just said today you know it's like I know you you know you you want to like have the celebration of Mark H but it's Mike's time to be able to lead now so Mark has been really really supportive so um I'm looking forward to uh the having Mike B um our Middle School principal he's way way ready for that and
079he will make you proud well kudos to you for navigating the succession planning that's you know Mike Mike's been um patience the right word but he's been he's been extremely patient he probably turned down several phone calls of a he has over years we had homec court advantage for that one and you don't like I told you we don't want to take advantage of people even though we have that but um he knew where he wanted to work and he just had to wait longer than that's that that's all I have I'll answer any questions so I have a comment I buried in the uh updated policies just kind of random there's something about ads on fields yes so I've just I want to share the story so I'm in his youth football there used
080to be an ad out by Middle School [clears throat] they reached out the schools and said hey um the ad was taken away why and expired we keeping the building now if that policy means you have to put one out there does youth football said hey we to have one anyway we all we will donate it to the schools if you have a m I think the reason it was cost Prav they just said hey we we'll the coaches carry one instead which is fine so if it comes to be that you need one out there we bought one 3 months ago we will happily just donate you in the end of day we just want it out at the shed where it used to be so yeah we will I will check on that
081thank you and I will ask um Rob and whoever else oversees those things probably Heath is is assist with that too but there in one of the bills I'm not sure which one it is um there's requirement for training and other kinds of things as well I get it that's that's important you know to do there're supposed to be you don't need to be trained on them because they walk you through the whole thing but whatever that's that's another Point pretty straight forward yeah okay cool awesome thank you uh moving on to the hearing of the public I believe we have one guest who would like to address uh yeah one issue off a busing issue and same as knowing that there is a you know bus driver shortage um our bus which is uh
08294 um the driver has been out for last 3 4 weeks we did not find out until yesterday that apparently you know she might be out until May um our kids are waiting at Falls L now like an extra half hour we getting dropped off an extra half hour um we think that after this much time that maybe you know alternative plans to be made so that it's not one group of kids and parents that are bur and put it upon their kids coming home a half hour later so is it everybody on bus 94 mat a whole entire bus yes right you probably know who the person is I'm assuming probably maybe not and I'm not asking you to speak the person's name I love but um okay and and to that end there
083has been it seems like a lack of communication from the bus garage I know several parents had called up there and did not got return calls um and that was one of the things we didn't find out until yesterday as far as as far as you know when this situation may end and then finally with the bus app um there were times that it wasn't updating so there a couple times where the parents are waiting it for the bus at 3:00 doesn't show up trying to call the bus garage what we're getting answer the bus comes in 33 so I don't know what that bus app looks like so is that a a problem with with cell coverage or is it like we on our end like you need we need to update the bus
084I don't know my understanding is that you know you click on it and it says supposed to come at 727 or what okay but we didn't pay the extra money for like tracking no correct it's not a track it's not a Tracker it's not a track yeah cuz there's a whole GPS cost for that too that we you know we're looking into but again that extra half hour we have kids with their no that stinks man I'm sorry that that happened I'm really sorry I know there's a bus driver shortage so but we think that at this point May Alternatives could be made so that it's not us you know for entally the next two months was so your bus was probably when I sent out that communication of the students in Falls ZX and
085the students at Middle School there's going to be delay that was you yes thanks for not reaching out to me [laughter] so we didn't know how we didn't know how long it was going to last yeah um okay that that's I mean the main thing and then second thing that wasn't going to mention um but this is one Community member you know supporting Mike sowy I played pick up basketball with him 2013 up until Co hit and the gyms closed so you know Mike a long time good dude yeah yeah we'll we'll track that down as far as what's going on there and it's probably a driver shortage but still you're right I mean what are we going to do about the lack of communication also is concerning as well particularly with things like this
086you want to overly communicate you know and not try to help [clears throat] with the frustration so I understand thanks for let F you're welcome thanks man anybody else want to say anything all right I just want to address the communication piece I'm not making [clears throat] an excuse obviously people are calling me make calls back the main secretary that is there she has also been out for a health reason so some tempor [clears throat] so um the EV I mean it's explanation for behavior and it sounds like excuse making but if you want to know why yeah like Sean was like got whatever you know we have a person the person that's normally there she's been out for a while so um not an excuse we'll communicate it to Sean and let know yeah
087thanks thank okay moving on I'd like to thank the uh Fass family for donating some thank you cards for the scholarship program thank you so much for that um we'll move on to our consent agenda I'll accept a motion to approve the items in consent agenda five six and seven any comments questions discussion regarding anything in 5 six or s it was a um I couldn't find it there was something that said facility use that changed I the doc is very big and you can't search it but I think it said there's something some change I'm a policy change I thought it said it was a policy change related to facility use the first the policy yeah yeah so we did update um various board policies surrounding facility usage guidelines they were a little outdated
088um the other part of it is our facility usage agreement that we've been using with Community groups uh it's blessing and a curse it's a very tight-knit community so there's a lot of hand shapy kind of things that happen our new facility usage a little bit more robust are you going to charge nonprofits to use space nothing's really changing yeah yeah [laughter] that was the nature of my question not going to do that in fact um Justin it's the document that's not in the big one it's the it's the one if you go into the board agenda it's board policy 7510 fine so no I mean we we want to work with all of the groups but we are trying to tighten up some things um with all of our groups so it's similar across
089any sport or activity so the football is treated the same as say youth wrestling or baseball things like that have the same processes procedures in place to make so apparently Avon Lake just did this they said I was told they didn't pass the levy and so now they're charging non like Avon Lake youth football now has a charge to use it's charge to use their facilities in some of our Darkest Hours we did not do that and that's prior to when I was the assistant superintendent we were like bleeding we never did that to any of our family groups yeah it's basically just saying you need a fully executive agree and we don't call it grounds anymore it's premises but but Heath is taking a look at the um administrative guidelines and they are they're
090really too he's trying to make them more efficient and tighter than what they are right right now and so there's going to be some changes there but not anything to the level that you're worried about at all we don't want to do that anything else okay Mr Funk yes Mrs Newman yes Mr prz yes Mrs Walker yes and Mr yes motion carries uh moving on to agenda item 9A tre's presentation of the fiscal officer certificate so the the certificate uh is attached there which actually applies to uh 9B but this is just to inform you that the items that are contained within that issuance for financing uh states the purpose of of the equipment and then the useful life you know that has to fit certain parameters and you need to be aware that these
091items are within those parameters okay so I'll accept the motion to approve 9B oh right to approve 9B which is the resolution for that acquisition second Walker and you call V Mr F yes Mrs Walker yes Mrs Newman yes Mr Perez yes and Mr AB yes motion carries okay work session 13th we will have um as well as our regular meeting on the 20th any general discussion do we need to have EXA no no we don't we don't need that you mention that about the one thing about yeah I I no I think we're fine and you'll note that when Holly asked her question about the two items one of them was removed because there was a signature that was not okay General discussion with that I'll accept the motion toour at 712 and welcome
092back I know you've been back