Geneva Area City Schools Board Meeting - 12/17/25

001I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. I need a motion to wave the reading and approval of the minutes. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Roll call, please. >> Mrs. Syalski. >> The only thing I wanted to comment >> under the wave reading and approval of minutes on the minutes it says Mrs. Pearson instead of Mr. >> I am so sorry. Just update that. I'm sure would appreciate that. >> So, yes, >> Mrs. Syosski, >> yes. >> Mrs. Craig, >> yes. >> Mrs. Milikin Dixon, >> yes. >> Mrs. Ortiz, >> yes. >> And Mr. Pearson, >> yes. >> Motion carries. >> Members of the Geneva Image Show Choir under the direction

002of Michelle Mather will give a short holiday performance at this time. Please give your attention to the stage. [applause] Jingle jingle jingle [singing] jingle jingle sle. Bellsing [singing] together [music] [singing] up [singing and music] snow. Gy [music] our cheeks are [singing] nice and comfy. feathers. [singing] Let's take the single [singing] [music] song at the fireplace where we [singing] watch the chestnuts. There's a happy [singing] world. [music] [singing] It'll be like a pictureing [singing] together. [singing and music] >> [singing] >> Giddy up. Giddy up. Giddy up. Gy [singing and music] along with a song of a wintry fairy cheeks [singing] are nice and comfy. We're snuggled [singing] up together. Let's take that and sing [singing] together. [music] >> Wow. [applause] >> [singing] >> Santa Claus here [music] [singing] [music] [singing] comes >> [music] >> Santa Claus

003[singing] [music] [singing] that is full of toys for [music] boys and girls again. [singing] Here comes Santa Claus. Here comes Santa Claus. Santa Claus [singing] or he loves [music] the Santa [singing] [singing] Claus here. [singing] Santa Claus comes tonight. [applause] Merry Christmas. >> [snorts] >> testing. Good evening everyone. >> Good evening. >> So nice to see everyone here tonight. We are um recognizing quite a bit of students. We know we have awesome students and staff here and it's just so nice to see so many of you that have joined us today. So, thank you for making the time to come out. Uh, this is my superintendent agenda. We're going to do student recognition and then we will do November Eagle. That should say December. That should not be November. So, that's Darn it. I'm already

004starting off not doing my thing. So, think about that as December Eagle Team member of the month. And we're going to make sure we let you know who those are and then we'll move on from there. So without further ado, we do have uh Dr. Briskkey who's going to be handing out awards. So when you hear your name, students, please come on down. I want you to stand here because we're going to do each school and then we want to get a picture with you. Okay? So get your smile going and we want to see you come down here. Okay? So for Austinberg Eagle Awards, this is Austinberg Elementary. Uh these are students that consistently exceed expectations in all that they do. Uh they consistently demonstrate kindness, dedication, hard work, and positive attitude. We are

005proud of these students. Uh the first student, Art, Artimus Davis, Preschool. If you're here, come on down. >> Good job. Here comes Artemis. >> All right. Uh, Ronald Fabian, fifth grade. Congratulations. Nani Lozano, kindergarten. Then Calvin Mclody. Do >> you want to stay for a picture? Who wants to stay for a picture? >> I got my loot. I'm going home. Okay, we should have those four students up. We're gonna get a picture. >> He's so little. >> So, what's this? Last last. Yeah, that's Yep. Oh, they're precious. I love it. Cork Elementary School. So, first grade students are soaring every day. These are our first grade students. They come to class prepared, add extra detail to their writing, practice their AR books, frequently volunteer in class, and model outstanding behavior throughout the school day. Miss

006Kazakar has asked me to share how proud she is of all of their hard work and effort. So if you hear your name, first graders, please come on down and stay up here. Uh Kennean uh Kira here. Adelaide Lawson, you're here. Amelia Varga All right. Now, stay up there. We're going to talk about the third graders now. So, hang on. The third grade, our outstanding student is Emma Welton. So, Emma is very responsible and consistently follows her daily schedule. She approaches every challenge with a positive attitude. Shows great flexibility by going with the flow. Emma has a nurturing personality. She is attentive to others feeling feelings and helps others. All right. And that is our third grader. And finally, our fifth grader, Rebecca Tras. Rebecca is always helping and looking out for others. She's dependable,

007respectful, wellorganized. As a member of student council, she brings many positive ideas that contributes to the betterment of our school culture. Her thoughtfulness truly knows no bounds, and that's really nice. Rebecca All right, here we go with GPS. We got quite a few here. These are soaring eagles. They stand up for everyone and themselves. They stay organized, always given their best effort, and shows respect for themselves and others. So, get ready. GPS, you got a lot of you here. EMTT Bcher, please come on down. Freda Blessing, Kendall Burkhammer, Amelia Burns, Oliver Dunn, Violet Frasier, Charlie Gale and then Chase Gale, >> Mason Reynolds, >> Ariana Hanock, Catalina Harley, Eden Karns, Mariana Rodriguez, Jordan Rhodess, [applause] Annalie Saudi, All right. Yeah. >> Candace Sarvy, Jocelyn Scott, >> Lucy Telman, >> and Tommy Vincent. Did you see

008how she spelled it? >> It's completely different. >> Yeah, >> there's so many of them in the second row. >> Yeah, it's a good school. You're making congratulations. >> You did it last time, too. >> That's not true. >> You're right, though. Yeah, I did steal. >> You really like to get me nervous. >> He's gonna move your seat. >> He likes to get me nervous. I'd like to see if I page [laughter] here. >> All right, we have a bunch of people for Geneva Middle School. So, get ready. Geneva Middle School. At the middle school, the sixth grade students consistently demonstrate what it means to soar through their strong work ethic, responsibility, readiness to learn. They come to class prepared, productive, highquality work. They show respect and kindness to both peers and adults. Through

009their positive attitudes, generosity, helpfulness, and dedication, they set an excellent example for our school and community. Congratulations. So, the sixth graders, please come down when you hear your name. Carrian Bean, John Bernardo, Major Brunner Blackshere, >> Jonathan Camp, >> Elena Maldonado, and Mason Spade. >> All right, seventh graders. Here you go. These students consistently demonstrate kindness by welcoming others and making everyone feel valued. They take pride in their work, put forth strong effort in class, serve as a positive role model for their peers through their compassion, hard work, and positive attitude. They truly exemplify exemplify what it means to soar. All right, seventh graders. Here you are. Blake Arthur, Doulsece Avilia, Galves, Alice Hicks, Delila Miller, Leila Stfansky, Andrew Tidwell. All right. Before I introduce our eighth graders, I'd like to also offer a special

010thank you to Blake and Andrew for extending a warm welcome to two of our new students. They are shining examples of soaring eagles. So, thank you young men for going above and beyond. [applause] Finally, our eighth graders. These are consistent. They consistently demonstrate strong academic achievement, responsibility, a commitment to doing their best. They show kindness, respect, positive attitude towards peers, adults, making them outstanding members of the community. Through exemplary leadership, hard work, and leadership by example, they set high standards for others to follow. All right, eighth graders. Here you go. Paige Burns. Claire Clemens, Aara Donor, Landon Hall, [applause] Jocelyn Ortiz, Dexter Silverman, and Ella St. Angelo I got this. >> [applause] >> memory. >> Thank you, Michelle. >> All right. And finally, our high school. The following high school students helped bring extra special

011Christmas cheer to the high school by creating beautiful original artwork through the building. This project was self-directed and self-funded, making their efforts even more impressive. So, when you hear your name, come on down. Naiva Hicks, Lauraai Martin, Andrea Ramos, and Ella Teal. Christmas artwork examples. That's cool. >> That's cool. All right, we got all the students. You guys were wonderful. We're going to now do the December Eagle team member. These are uh staff members. So, let's talk about our staff. They do an awesome job. Our first staff member, Brianna Rivera, Counselor. Brianna is a vital member of our team at Austinberg. She works endlessly to ensure all students social economic needs are met and provides them with tools to thrive both in and out of the classroom. She consistently comes to school with a smile,

012a listening ear, and a helping hand. Brianna's hard work and dedication does not go unnoticed and deserves to be recognized. Um Cork Melissa Doherty, principal >> [applause] >> Unfortunately, she hasn't been feeling well. Um, so I do want to say some nice things about her though. She goes above and beyond and is always there for us. She has a happy smile and attitude even during the tough times. She is a joy to work with. Uh, from GPS, Britney Savage. Yay, Britney. [applause] She is not only the librarian but also a recess monitor. She's also a member of PBIS and make sure that all the students have a great school experience by providing them with the necessary essentials, decorating the hallways, handling morning announcements and filling in whenever possible. She greets our students in the morning

013and helps with afternoon dismissals outside all year round. Additionally, she is spearheading the Geneva collection going districtwide to provide all children with in the district with the ability to have appropriate clothing. And I will tell you, I'm going to talk a little bit about in my um in my report about our clothing drive. And uh Britney was a huge huge starter of this and it ended up going um districtwide and we have so much success. So I can't thank you enough, Britney, for all you do and how you care about our students here. Great job. Geneva Middle School. Samantha Laner. >> Liner. Nice. Sammy. >> So, Miss Sammy, as all the students refer to her and deserves to be recognized because she is such a supportive team member. Each day, Sammy goes above and beyond

014and to support her students academically and emotional needs, making sure to check in with teachers if her student is having a rough day, needs extra time with assignments. She is very aware not only of the needs of the students, but aids uh but for the aids, but many of our other students as she builds relationships with them. Um she also is a tremendous support to teachers and works alongside them. As an aid and a parent with the district, Sammy has cemented herself in our community and she is one of the sweetest ladies. And when I first got hired, she talked to us. Remember Jen? We were here and she is everywhere. So congratulations Sammy. You deserve >> our high school and Mara John teacher. [applause] Now, an is a workhorse. That's what it says. She

015is always working. If there is something that needs to be done for the betterment of the school or her students, she will put in the time. She's a leader of so many activities and does not just and doesn't get the recognition she needs or deserves. Today, for example, she is running the blood drive at the high school. While I do not know the extended list of activities, it she's always involved. And yes, Miss Margaret John is always here and always doing what she can for students. So, congratulations, Ann. And our transportation maintenance and board office, uh, David Wright, our maintenance, are you here, David? Well, I will tell you Dave is a dedicated employee whose knowledge of the district and has many facets to maintenance is invaluable. Dave can always be relied upon to complete

016any task asked of him and is a dependable and is second to none. He's a great man. So, uh, congratulations Dave. [applause] All right. And that's our recognition. Feel free to leave or you're welcome to stay for the rest of the board meeting, but we do that up front in case you do want to leave. So, please take some time to do that if you'd like. And thank you again. >> Merry Christmas and have a great New Year's. Thank you everyone. [laughter] >> Your dad will be here to get you. >> You could you could look and see where he's at. >> I love that that location sharing thing. It's the best. >> See where he's probably at the church. and Joseph. >> Best thing ever. >> Oh, they haven't got discounts yet. >> Well,

017there goes the whole audience >> after having [laughter] >> Shel's not sad. >> I know. 271. >> Although the way back is a lot better because >> I wonder if Joe knows he's gonna have to sit back. >> Right. >> Joe, the countdown's on. >> Next month you'll be down here. [laughter] >> Stephen Anders coming in. I was going to resonate. All right, it's time for the public comment portion of the meeting. If you would like to make a public comment, you are welcome to come up to the microphone. Please state your name and address and you'll have five minutes to speak to us at this time. >> Oh, Miss Tammy, I knew you would come and join us. That's right. >> Turn it the other way. >> Yeah, there you go. [laughter] >> Sammy

018Lechner, 1602, State Route 307, Austin. Um, first, thank you. Thank you. It um it was exciting. It was a very big surprise to be nominated for this. I just wanted to I should have said something last month, but what a privilege it is to work with so many wonderful people and students. So, thank you. Um, and thank you to Jamie and Marty for your service to the board, the community, to our students. I appreciate you guys and all that you have done. Um, kind of sad to see you both, but thank [applause] you. All right. Thank you. All right. Next on the agenda, we're going to have um some discussion about the athletic facility. That's fine. You can take that. >> I was going to do it from here. >> Do whatever you want. >>

019Okay. >> Hard acts to follow tonight. Um, so anyway, I was here in May to talk about the athletic improvements project. Uh, we had a lot of options. the board ended up deciding to move that to a bond. Obviously, that um wasn't successful, but that doesn't mean the committee and the spirit of what was talked about wasn't successful. We got a lot of conversations talking uh a lot of people talking about the exciting things that could happen athletically. Um Michelle or Shelley, do you mind just maybe talking about maybe what we heard from the bond or Michelle? >> Yeah. So, as we all know, we had bond issue on the ballot in November. It did not pass. Um, so we reconvened with a committee, um, which we're going to talk a little bit about as

020we go into this presentation. But what we wanted to reflect with this committee was that we heard what the voters told us um, and how they feel with regard to paying for sports facilities in this community. Um, however, we also understand the importance of planning for students and their extracurricular activities given the changes that are happening at Spire and what's going to be coming forth in the years to come with Spire in their facility. So, in order to plan for the future of our students and their athletic future, we have come together, had discussions, and come up with a plan. And we'd like to talk a little bit about that. and what we've come up with as a committee and present that this evening. Um again, this is a a conversation and a work in

021progress. This is not something that we're making a decision on tonight. Um these are the thoughts that we've all come together and you'll see who came together in this committee. Um and what we talked about and what we, you know, paired it down to into what we think are the musthaves and what our thought process is. And Russell's going to talk a little bit about that tonight. Thanks, Michelle. Yeah. So, the goal tonight for the agenda kind of talk about what we heard. Uh we reconvened with that committee uh twice since the November bond. We'll talk about some relevant experience that both GPD has, but also some that the district did some homework after that bond. They got to visit Kanyotire. We've obviously done a lot of projects in Northeast Ohio and central Ohio. Wanted

022to share kind of what that scope might look like if district dollars are used and then um kind of what the project would look like. So, we're really excited to share what where the committee ended up. Uh because where we started, we had lots of options, lots of discussion and what we heard loud and clear was let's see what we can do with what we have. And so, what we're going to share tonight is kind of that exciting plan that we put back together uh after the November bond. The committee, this is committee number two. It it it it modified slightly from the original committee, but a lot of uh a lot of parents, um uh student athletes, um board members, city council members, uh we had uh uh obviously the superintendent, board members, council,

023foundation, some community members. So, um for me, it's in some ways I'm the conduit and I put the pencil to paper, but I really need the voice of Geneva to speak to me and kind of tell me what's most important. I draft and draw and create illustrations and estimates, but really I need the voices in the room to kind of tell me what is most important to Geneva. Um, I listened, I heard, I kind of responded and and kind of happy to share what we where we ended up with this committee. Um, the goal obviously with this second committee or this new new uh um uh attempt at this is to really listen to what what the community talked about and come up with a plan that could work with the district's current budget. Uh,

024and then again, we did some tours. We we looked at projects that had similar scopes. And so towards the end of this, I'll share what that what that presentation looked like. Uh really quickly, and I won't spend too much time on this, but uh GPD is the company I work for. We're architects, engineers, and planners. Uh we we do fields like this uh all over the state. And um that's why it's exciting to kind of listen because odds are we've done a project similar nearby. And so we can kind of use that experience, use that knowledgeable uh estimate, estimating, visualization, and then kind of learn to kind of the lessons learned on what we did over there and what we maybe could provide that same service in Geneva. Uh here's just some field uh work

025in Stark County, uh Lorraine County, uh let me see, Madina County, um obviously uh there's there's projects all over and since co there's been a huge influx in athletic fields. Uh getting kids active and then creating athletic athletic fields that can be multi-purpose and and flexible. I think that's the important thing because there's so many athletes that use it in different ways. I know band, uh, soccer, um, you know, football, obviously track. Those are important pieces that are going to be, uh, talked about in this athletic facility in a minute. One of the most, um, comparable I wanted to just highlight this project in New London. It's about 40 minutes north of Ashland. Um, this project had almost all the things that Geneva, after they really looked at what they needed, had. So, um, except

026for a few pieces, and I'll note that in a second. So, uh, track, field, uh, they did a grass or sod, uh, athletic surface on the field. They did, uh, lighting, sound, and then they did a a building which housed concessions, public restrooms, ticket booth, um, and a press box, uh, for a hard cost. And I won't get into the total construction cost, but about 4.7 million uh, for hard cost, meaning the actual bricks and sticks that go into the project. Um so so right away we were like wow that's really exciting project. Uh the district rolled up their se sleeves. They found a couple different funding mechanisms to pay for extra things. So they brought and relocated their existing bleachers. They they funded the lockers on their own and then they built the ticket

027booth on their own. So like when I mentioned the project scope, they really rolled up their sleeves and said like we know what our budget is and here's how we're going to do some extra things either later on or on our own or outside of the project scope. So that was an exciting one to share. And then for Geneva, so we again met with committee number two. We met twice in December. Uh uh worked really hard to get to this point. Uh but this isn't the end of the conversations. This is really just a continuation. We're excited to come back in 2026 to kind of share more, but this is where we're at today and we're really excited about uh this project update. So if you remember the board meeting in May, we had four

028options. The board ended up deciding on option two. that was what was presented on the bond that is this is this is kind of option five. Um and it it really scales back on that scope budget and everything associated and really geared to focus on what was needed on day one but allows the infrastructure to expand day two and beyond. So, what our scope is here is a new football and soccer stadium with uh sorry, 1,200 home bleachers, 500 visitor bleachers, an eight lane track, artificial turf, and that would be striped for football and soccer. Obviously, the band would be able to use that uh uh soccer, football, track, um and there'd be some exciting opportunities for practice. Um it I think it's important to note that we designed this with turf. There's a added

029cost there, but you do it once and the infrastructure for under drains are in place and then other things that you could do outside of that will already be uh sort of carved out beyond the uh scope of the track. So, if you wanted to think about restroom facilities or concessions, you can do that outside of the project and outside of the uh limits of the track and then continue to develop in the future if those funds become available. Uh this includes a press box, new lighting and sound system. And one of the things to mention about lighting and turf is that during shoulder seasons in March and late fall, those kids are going to be able to use that field immediately because of the turf and because of the under drains. Uh you're going

030to be displaced immediately if you do sod. And so one of the improvements of beyond that new London project I shared is that that was a grass sod field. They're getting one use out of that per week whereas you could get 50 uses out of a turf field uh per week. um the committee started to um look at options and uh ways that if money became available where would that money be best directed and so from a base bid I'll call it or the option number five this is where we landed on that uh committee and obviously we can't do a 2D view without showing kind of an exciting visual so uh I don't know if I'll be able to point Yeah. So, the existing high school is here. Um, obviously, South South Ridge is,

031uh, here with the headlights coming at dusk. Uh, the the nice lighting for the field and that field being able to be utilized, uh, obviously in the winter months where, uh, the sun is setting at 5:30. Um, this would have a paved access off of the existing parking. It would try to avoid a retaining wall because that grade change is pretty significant off of South Ridge. And so we shifted the field slightly north um which gives us a ton of options uh in terms of field location prime real estate in terms of location from the existing high school. So kids can access this field directly from the existing high school. Um and then as well as utilizing the parking and ring road that goes around the north side of that future stadium. Um uh what

032this plan does also is offer some opportunities for future development too. So practice fields are something you can think about in the future. Um there's so many opportunities in order to you know enhance what we're showing here, but we wanted to at least put the needs uh of Geneva in this committee first and then offer opportunities for enhancements if that time ever comes. Um and so so the the important things I heard at least in these committees was uh we're going to try to develop a project that um uh uh is as close to uh the money that the district has in their budget uh and work towards that. Um I think that we heard that loud and clear. I wanted to put that on um bullet number one here. Uh ask the question of

033where do we go from here uh because obviously timing is important and playing aspire is at least is going to run out at some point. So there is a s a little sense of urgency, but I know the the communication and the um dialogue is not over. 2026 is around the corner. And so we just wanted to kind of share where the committee was at today, talk about the future. I know we have two new board members coming uh starting in January. And so again, this was meant to kind of be a exclamation point on 2025 that there is some exciting things happening with the athletics uh improvements project. Um there's obviously a lot of dialogue that's going to be coming soon in 2026. Uh I'm happy to continue to share the updates as they

034become available, but uh from a from a position now, this is a this is an exciting place to be for Geneva. Uh and we put it together a plan that works within your budget. So happy to answer any questions that the board might have. >> What are the what are the triangles? Oh, yeah. Shot put and discus. >> Yeah. >> What kind of software do you use? It's so good. You get lens flare on the cars. I like that. >> Yeah. Uh 3DS Max. It's a >> feel like I'm really there. >> Yeah, you are. That is your car. >> So, this is within what we have available to spend. So, so what we did was put together a hard cost number and then there's soft cost meaning like architectural engineering fees, survey, geotechnical. Um,

035we put bricks and sticks together and feel we're really really close to where that number is that I heard the district has budget-wise. I can't speak to the specifics. That's not my world, but we put an estimate together based on what we're showing and feel pretty comfortable with where we're at. >> So, that's around approximately $4 million. Anyone wants to help us build some more buildings, just let us know. >> So, we we had to first we had to pass some policies because we can't just go out and seek that kind of stuff. So, if we look at our marketing and revenue policies, you'll see that we had a second reading at the last policy and that's been on this I was really excited to see Montro has some stuff, but we can't go out

036and seek that until we have a policy that dictates how we can use that money because if we don't have a place to put it when it comes in, can't take that money. We have to be able to tell you guys that's exactly what happens. And Shel's the keeper of the keys when it comes to anything that there's many wheels in motion here. To your question, we are we are in that realm of that price of what we were what we allocated to fund the difference between the two options. Um to what to Russell's point to what he said as far as bricks and sticks and what we're going to have to architectural costs there is we would have as a board we would have to make a decision if we were willing to If

037we were willing to back the difference of what we would have to put behind the numbers, the plan is we are within what would you as far as like I would say within I don't have those numbers in front of me but we our goal is to the 4.6 I would say we are within probably a million and a half of that. >> So, it's getting closer. >> Absolutely getting closer. However, with our last meeting that we had with Russell, um we are we're looking very much towards a committee to seek out um naming rights and donors and and grants and funding. However, we have to have a policy in place to do that. We do not at this time have a policy in place to start going out and soliciting those types of of

038donors. So, we have to have some reasons to do that. That discussion is going to is going to happen tonight as well. Um before we go out and and start looking for that, we want to have a hard and fast committee with people that are going to be represent what our message is to the community to to go out and solicit those funds. This is what we're looking for. If you're looking, we don't want, you know, 20 people going out and asking folks for donations and then we find out somebody want, you know, have naming rights, you know, and then we realize that, you know, oh, but I said I wanted to I wanted to sponsor that. We want to have a very hard and fast plan of what that's going to look like. In

039order for us to do that, we need to have you know, an airtight policy. So, we've got to put things in place before that can happen. We're starting that process tonight with that looking at that first policy. Um, once that committee is in place and then they, you know, form what they want it to look like and we have those folks lined up to go out and say, "This is what we're looking at. We would like to have above what this cost is." Then we can go out and have rights to extra things. You We don't have even there's no showers in these are things that are going to be above and beyond. But I mean I will say you know football playoffs we were at CBCA there was no rest there. They had very

040nicer kinds. There's ways to get around it but again there's we're looking at what we can afford. Again, we're listening to what the community said and we're looking at what we can find with cash on hand right now and then what we can go and do as a board out in the community and you know we want to have community involvement without going to the taxpayers. This is what it's going to look like. So you know but we want to make sure that we have policy in place [clears throat] that's going to go out and you know be an appropriate and positive face of the district so that when we this fund gets everything that we want it to be both fiscally responsible legally and you know policy responsible as well. So that's kind of

041where we're at based on what we talked about at the end of that last meeting. Um, but again, the other piece of this is we wanted to have this conversation tonight and we don't want to make any hard and fast decisions tonight because we have two new board members coming in and it's not appropriate for us to be, you know, driving hard to make this decision tonight when we have two people exiting and two new people coming in. The optics of that are not good. Um, we want to have our newcomers come into this place and you know, boardmanship and feel confident that what we're doing is appropriate, you know, that they're they're not being snowed and we're not trying to do something that they're going to be basically, you know, put into a corner

042and forced to support. We want them to hear what we're talking about. We want them to be aware of what's going on. We want them to know what what we're looking at and the conversations that we're having so that they have time to process, ask questions, and think about this as well. just responsible boardmanship and that's what we're looking at doing right now. Um it serves no one for us to try to push something through quickly just to say this is what we're doing because this is what we want to do. We have neighboring districts that are going through some very tough times right now with you know board members that are trying to push things through because they're on December 31st. We're not doing that here. Um you know we're doing things in a

043responsible way. So if there's questions we can answer those questions. We want to have policy in place and you know we want to do it the right way and above board. So that that's what we're doing tonight. So you can think about these things. You can ask questions. You know all of this will be this presentation will be up on the website. So if you have questions you can reach out to us and we can do our best to answer them and give you the information. >> And to Mrs. Crick's point one of the most important things is the whole reason we designated that money in the first place wasn't to try to fast track it. We didn't at that time if we were going to be able to keep that amount of money because

044the state was changing carryover rules >> and at the last minute the problem we had which forced us to even consider it so early before we had designated all of this um I think in October finally it went away and then we were still holding our breath through November I remember emailing you Shel and and so that's really you know people say well why did you do this so quickly why didn't you garner more um input which is true and good the is we needed to just at least give some type of designation that didn't limit that to a carryover which then went back to the state and redistributed. >> So I mean that money that we when we went to the voters in November that 4.6 that is still sitting there. So you know

045whatever it's not you know a use it or lose it type thing. That money is still sitting there. So we want to make sure that we're doing our due diligence and we're being responsible about it. We'll have those conversations and then we can move forward, you know, appropriately and and see what we all decide when we move forward. >> So, the bricks and sticks that you're talking about, does that have like the underground electrical and stuff that would be needed to then add to it >> for >> like expansion purpose? >> Um, so it includes the underground utilities for the turf. It includes everything that's shown. So, the lights, obviously, the electric to that, the underground for that, the water um for the you know, you're going to um need some utilities out to the

046field. Um >> for for a building though, is that what you're asking about? >> Well, like the other plan had like the locker rooms and the restrooms and then I don't see a scoreboard either. So, I'm just curious as to if there's any >> That's on me. Sorry. There should be a scoreboard show. >> All right. All right. I was just curious because >> if I had not done the lights on the car, there should be a scoreboard. >> It's there. It's just the lens. >> No, there should be a scoreboard. It's kind of like the entire stadium that you would expect for a football um soccer venue with track and band practice and other sports that can use it. So, the scoreboard is included in that. It should be shown here. >> What about

047equipment is included. the track equipment that this >> well like Ashabila has like the band >> that is not >> that's not there. >> So could that be added to something like this? >> Absolutely. >> So like say Gama raised the money. Sure. It could go in there. >> Okay. >> Do you hear that Sammy? >> She was very vocal. [laughter] >> If we gave her another five minutes she'd be here. >> Yeah. How much does the band shell cost? >> Yes. Sammy was very loud and clear about that band uh being represented. So, >> but it would fit. I mean, if the funds if the funds showed up, it would >> and that's kind of the goal, right? Get the get the things in place that can't be moved and can [clears throat] be

048become flexible enough on the outside of that track edge because all the money's from the eighth lane in uh and everything else can sort of be allocart and added later. I love this idea. My first thought when the levy field was then I think we should build a stadium with the money that we have. And even though I'm not going to be here to help decide that and see that through, I I I I agree with that philosophy, right? If the community doesn't want to give us any more money, then we'll take what we have and build what we can. >> And I I love that idea. So, thank you all. motion baby steps. We'll get there. >> Pivot. >> We can pivot. >> Thank you so much, Russell. >> Thanks, Russell. And shout out

049to Russell who has literally listened to us go from here to here to here to here back to here. He's been amazing. >> There's many that aren't too [laughter] rubber band here and share any ideas in the future. Have a happy holiday. >> Thank you so much. >> Thank you. [applause] >> The report of the superintendent. >> All right. So the first one uh I recommend to the board approval of an enclosed letter of understanding between Geneva Area City Schools Board of Education and GADA. This is a letter of understanding. We have >> motion please. >> Some moved >> second discussion. >> Uh what this is is we have about 60 or so families um that we have to transpose letters into Spanish and although Google translator does that, we do need someone to read

050through those to make sure that they are appropriate and that they make sense. So, we are um one of our teachers is willing to do that outside of their time and and we are paying them for that. That's a huge huge win for us and I appreciate the teacher doing that. >> Any questions? >> Mrs. Yes. Mrs. Dixon, >> yes. >> Mr. Pearson, >> yes. Yes. Motion carries. >> All right. I'm super excited about this one, so I hope you are, too. Um, I recommend to the board approves the enclosed agreement between Anchor Point Strategies LLC and Geneva Area City School Board of Education. Um, this is a uh community resource center project. So, uh, when I came in, uh, to the district, um, it actually was kind of interesting because I guess I'm going

051to be transparent. I didn't know we have a little house up there. Did you know we have a house up there on our >> start that don't even start about the house? >> First off, before we do that, so moved. >> Okay, wait. >> Second. >> All right. Now, let's talk about >> Okay, now let's talk about >> Now, I guess this is a sore subject, but I was really elated to know that there's a house up there that we could probably utilize. So, um we are partnering with a group that um that does what's called a resource center. And what a resource center is is whatever the community needs, this center is going to be pro can provide to this community. And that can be in the form of medical. That can be in

052the form of um if students need to get um you know the sports students need to get physicals, if it's dental, if it's social emotional needs. Um and this company who uh they're close friends of mine. They have done this before in other districts. They've been very very successful. Uh and what they're going to do is they're going to do a needs assessment of our community to see what we actually need. The location will be the house and what they do is they go for different le um different grants where they can um fix up the location and uh 100 days you'll see in this proposal 100 days we should have something that that we could utilize for the community. Um we are using DPIA funds. So the funds, there are certain funds that have

053to be allocated to these types of initiatives. Um so we're going to allocate some funds to this and I'm >> Do you you want to talk about DPIA funds? >> Sure. So um when we get funds from the state of Ohio, um there are restricted funds and unrestricted funds. Um and so state we have five different categories of restricted funds and TPI disadvantaged people impact aid is one of them that we have. Um they do tell us what kind of items we can spend that money for. When we decided to go C which is eligibility provision that's the program where everyone gets free breakfast and lunch in the district. So we started that program and in that that did increase our funds. So we jumped up almost a million dollars a year in these restricted

054funds that we have because we went to this type of lunch program. So again um if we don't spend this money that they give us we have to give it back um for these restricted funds. So this is definitely a wonderful thing that Dr. Ardo has found to go ahead and try to renovate what we have to use for the district. So again, these are funds that have used for this reason. >> I'm so excited. It's outstanding that we have a great use for that house on the hill that we all >> I didn't realize it was such a sore subject. I just thought it was a [laughter] house. >> I I I It's been sitting >> stadium. What do you guys do with that house on the hill? >> Playing football. >> Yeah. >>

055No, thank you, Paul, for for your vision on this because it really is exciting for our community. It's something that um we absolutely need and addition >> and I've seen people use DIPA funds for other things like just like mobile clinics or getting people into like the dental programs or things like that. I know that behavioral health centers. So to have a facility where they can go where it's not like hey you have a cavity let's go to the auditorium in front of everyone to get this done it does offer a little bit more dignity and it's nice that we already have that resource. So thank you guys so much. >> Sure. >> When do they open? >> Yeah. So currently they're looking for funding. It's going to I I did a 100 day plan

056with them. So after the 100 day plan, we should have something in place and there'll be more to come on this. Um this is my first time venture through that quite honestly. Um so um I really trust this company and the people I work with are close to me as far as colleagues and I I think it's going to be a really really exciting adventure that that's going to be great for the entire community. It'll be staff, it'll be students, it'll be whoever needs something will be able to come to the house and um and get whatever they need. That's >> that's what we should call it. The house. >> Well, maybe we'll call it the house. Why not call it the house? >> The house community resource. >> The house on the hill. >>

057House on the hill. [clears throat] >> I love it. Okay. Anything else? >> Where are they out of? >> Um, so his name is Joe Specisha. He was the Wickliff superintendent and if you've ever been to Wickliff's uh resource center, it's absolutely amazing and he's got it to be where it becomes self-funded. So, we're going to figure it out in a way where it can self-fund itself. So, um it's not going to cost the district a lot of money to to put on. So, Joe Speish, amazing man. He's retired twice, but now he's retired as a superintendent. and I said if I ever had the opportunity to do something like this, I'd call him and he is so on board with Geneva and this project. >> Thank you, Paul. >> You're welcome. >> Mix. >>

058Yes. Mr. Pearson. Yes. Molski. >> Yes. >> And Mrs. >> All right. Well, I recommend to the board the approval of the enclosed letter agreement between District 1 and Geneva uh High School to run a sportsman sponsorship on behalf of the Northern Ohio Buick GMC dealers, specifically Montrose GMC the 2526 school year. Uh Jennifer Crosley put this together and wait, I I always get too excited. I'm going to stop talking. >> So moved. >> Second. [clears throat] [laughter] >> So Jennifer Crosley brought this forward. I really have nothing to do with this, but Jennifer said this is fundraiser that they do. Um, and I don't know if they did it last year, but they have done it in the past. They're willing to give us funds if we promote um, uh, Ohio Buick GMC dealers.

059Four times we have to put their stuff in our documents and on the website, but this is just an agreement that they they will give us some money and the the coaches work through this and use that money for their for their um, appropriate uh, teams. Is there a separate letter? >> I'm sorry. It was electronic. >> Okay. Found it. >> I found it. Yes. >> Mr. Pearson. >> Yes. >> Craig. >> Yes. No. >> All right. Well, I recommend to the board the approval of the closed memorandum of understanding between Lake Erie College and Geneva Area City Schools. We do have a >> So move. I swear I'm gonna get that right. [laughter] >> Okay. >> All right. Uh so we do have a student teacher coming from Lake Erie College and it's appropriate

060to have an LOU between a university and a school district when you have student teachers and this is that representation. >> Do we know which building Jen, it's Cork. >> It's Cork Elementary. >> Thank you. >> Sweet. >> When I was in fourth grade, was it fourth grade? I think third or fourth grade at Cork, there was a student teacher in my classroom. So, that's pretty cool. >> Awesome. >> OC students are kind of sketchy. [laughter] >> See, you know, you ought to know. All right, >> roll. >> Mr. F. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Mrs. Craig, we have Mrs. Dixon. >> Yes. >> All right. This next one, no board action is needed. Uh, we're going to be reviewing three policies. Uh, our process here is two policies before board takes action. So, we will

061be talking about three policies. The first policy is policy 5112, entrance requirements. Um, we wanted to align our entrance requirements for prek, kindergarten. Um, and um, we wanted to align it with our administrative guidelines. Unfortunately, that wasn't done. Um, so this just aligns what we currently do with our policy of 5112, our entrance exam. Uh, the second one is small unmanned aircraft systems. You know what that is? That's drones drones, >> but they call it unmanned aircraft systems. So, it's policy 7440.03. Um, what this policy does, and we needed to make a change on this, um, this policy allows us the opportunity with approval of the superintendent um to fly drones. Um, you have to be very very careful when you're in schools and you're flying drones. Some of our um coursework or moving forward

062our coursework, a lot of will be I wouldn't say a lot of kids but there are some courses that will allow kids to have that experience of working with drones. It's something in our it's something that kids are doing that we are doing as a you know just as a society. Our first the policy actually restricted us 100% not using drones. This gives quite a few parameters around it but does give the option that we can use drones if it's done appropriately under these parameters. All right. And our third one is 9700.01. We do not have this policy currently in place. This is the advertising and commercial activities. So, as Michelle was talking about, we need and Brock, we need to have a policy in place if we want to move forward with naming or

063sponsorships. So, this will allow us once this is approved to go out and actually ask um for donations for the athletic facility or for any facility that we have here, Geneva Area Schools. It talks about the product and sales. It talks about um and it's very very detailed on what we can and can't do when it comes to advertisements. Um, and at the very end of this policy, you'll see I put in specifically language around sponsorship and naming rights. Um, so this is an essential policy before we go out and and do any of that. All right. Do you have any questions on the three policies? Again, you do not have to make any um motion on this, but um if you have any questions, I can answer them. Or, you know, throughout the next

064month or so, if you have questions, you can send those to me and I'll make sure I get you those answers. [snorts] Okay, we good? All right, we're going to go on to personnel actions. So, the superintendent, myself, I recommend the following personnel actions for the 2526 school year. And we're going to take these all the way down. We have extracurricular assignments are there. Substitute teachers, special needs assistant, housekeeper, substitute, substitute cafeteria, SNA, substitute bus driver, all the way down through temporary contract. I believe I'm also taking the resignations, right, Shel? Tell me if I'm wrong. Uh, all the way through um number seven. Is that correct, Shel? I can take all the way through number seven. >> To the resignations. Okay. >> So moved. >> Second discussion. >> Just out of curiosity, how are

065we on substitutes these days? Do we have enough to cover the absences and things? Well, we don't have enough to cover every single absence, but it's it's better than it has been in the past as what the principles are telling. >> But it is tough out there for substit Roll call, please. >> Mrs. Mrs. Mik, >> yes. >> Mrs. Mr. Pearson, >> yes. >> We have to do seven, Shel, or was that part of >> Okay. On number seven, I recommend the Ohio mandated minimum wage increase from 10.7 to $11. So, $10.70 to $11 per hour. effective 1126 for student activity workers. >> So move >> I mean what happens if we all voted no >> I know right >> well >> I [laughter] mean it says mandated I don't understand >> we go to

066jail I guess >> our symbolic vote in the public [laughter] >> I know like that but got to vote on >> you like [laughter] >> yes >> and yes motion carries presentation. Now, I have the pleasure to introduce two of our students for our superintendent student advisory committee. We have Riley Thompson and Julia Craig. They're going to come up and tell you some things that are happening around the district and what this district means to them. So, ladies, come on up. Hi. Um, I'm Julia. [laughter] >> Um, we were told that we have to say what Geneva Area City Schools mean to us. So, Geneva Area City Schools, >> excuse me, >> obviously volunttoled. Geneva Area City Schools has been the foundation that has allowed me to prepare for my future. I am grateful that

067I have been able to attend school here because of the clubs that are offered that have great adviserss who care about the students receiving the best experiences, my peers who push me to be the best version of myself, and the teachers who prepare me for what's to come. [clears throat] I'm also grateful to have a generous community surrounding the school district who wants to see every kid thrive, including my own village of my mom, dad, and brothers. They have allowed me to be unique in myself and pursue my aspirations with their guidance. Um, so we're going to cover like everything that's happened since the last board meeting, which has been a lot with the holidays. So, starting with Blood Mobile. Prior to Thanksgiving break, junior class officers were invited to the senior class meetings to

068prepare for the blood mobile at the beginning of December. Students collaborated to decide the decorations that would be displayed in the ox gym, sent out signup sheets for blood donors and food donations, and received assignments for who would be working at each station during the blood mobile. Student helpers walked donors through the registration process, accompanied donors as they were giving blood for support, created a menu with the available food options to serve donors, and checked on donors later in the day to make sure they were all right. A huge thank you also goes out to Mrs. Mark John who spearheaded the day and checked on all students whether donating or helping to make sure they were feeling all right and staying energized. Overall, the blood mode bill was successful and students had fun and enjoyed

069great homemade food. [clears throat] Um, next we go to philanthropy, which has had a busy fall and winter season with organizing food and clothing drives. [cough] Excuse me. A few weeks before Thanksgiving, the club organized a cereal drive at GHS asking students to bring cereal boxes to their first period class for a good cause. Um, the the food pantry was really in need of those, so that's why we chose cereal. Um, at the end of the week, the club delivered the food to the pantry. While there, the club helped bag orders for families while restocking items that had run out during orders. This experience is helpful for philanthropy members because it puts a spotlight on how much food is really used by the Geneva Food Pantry and allows us to take into consideration how much

070money we will be giving to them at the end of the year. For the holiday season, philanthropy organized a winter clothing drive that asked for students to bring hats, mittens or gloves, girls leggings, boys pants, snow pants, coats, and boots to their fifth period class. The drive ended today and with a close race between Mrs. Mark John and Mrs. Hull's fifth period classes. Mrs. Mark John's class won but graciously donated their Christmas party to Mrs. Hull's class, which is my fifth period class. Very grateful, Miss Mark John. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. The Christmas party will include hot chocolate cookies and a visit from Santa. I'm really excited. Um, as for Interact Club, members prepared a service project for local first responders in nursing homes. The club decided to send cookies to

071the first responders and Christmas cards to the nursing homes. Members signed up to make cookies and everyone helped to write Christmas cards. These donations were delivered on December 8th and now the club is planning for their next service project. Thank you to Miss B because she helped us organize all of that and make sure we got it all done. So, um, next we have Oh, this is new. Something new has come about the past couple weeks and it is the ghs spirit shop. The shop is aimed to make lowcost Geneva merchandise that will be open to the public. The shop has t-shirts for sale right now. Two of which have unique designs that were only sold in GHS previously. It's the grape jamboree ones, purple ones, and then the neon ones from last year, I

072think. And then the spirit shop is run by students in Mrs. Bleven's PBIS class who make the shirts during their sixth period. All the proceeds will return to the PBIS account to fund pep assemblies and other productions put on for the student body that is run by the class. If you're interested to see the available designs as well as when the shop will be opening in its hours, check out Geneva.spirit.shop1 on Instagram. And then last thing for me, and then we'll go to Bryley. The most recently new NHS members were tapped in yesterday. If you're not familiar with this process, the National Honor Society invites students to qualify to anformational meeting during the fall to learn about the four pillars of NHS. After interested students go through the application process, which includes writing two essays,

073getting teacher recommendations, and listing all of the clubs, activities, and community service experiences they have been involved in. A community or a committee begins to decide its new members. This committee is not run by students, but by faculty. After the new members are decided, the current NHS members pick a theme to dress up for and make congratulatory cups for the new members. The theme for this year's tapin was USA and current members dressed up in red, white, and blue as well as eagle outfits or founding fathers outfits like Jovon and Clar did um blasted patriotic music and paraded around the school to walk into new members classrooms to give them their cup full of goodies and tap them in. This is a complete surprise for new members and a shock to everyone who witnesses the

074ordeal. New members join in on the parade and take pictures afterwards. Um, my name is Bryley. Um, I'm a sophomore. And what Geneva schools means to me is it's basically a foundation of my life. I've been here my whole life. All 11 years of my schooling. I moved here when I was in kindergarten. And it's just been like a like community of just learning, not only through academics, but through life experiences. And um I've had so many amazing educators and opportunities. And as well as that, my life is built basically on like the extra extracurricular activity I do activities I do. I promise. Um I'm in band, I'm in basketball, I'm in track, and every adult I've gone through the process of coaching with and learning with has just been nothing but supportive. not only

075the adults in this um district, but the students too. It's [snorts] just um a learning environment, such a positive environment. You know, I hear all these stories from different schools and I'm like, that's not Geneva would never do that. I'm just honored to be such part of such an amazing community where we're all interlin. We're all just [clears throat] willing to do whatever it takes for our community. And that's what genu means. So, I want to talk about the start of winter sports. As I said, I'm in basketball and I know boys and girls have had such a dominant start to our season. We've been working since I say October. We haven't skipped a single day besides Sundays. But I know the boys have been working really hard and our wins outlaw the losses, you

076know. And not only this, but we're getting more involved in the community like winter sports. I know we were talking about it in some of our meetings with the superintendent. Uh we're planning to get like community events where winter sports teams can like help out the community like cook breakfast or things like that. You know, not just basketball too, it's wrestling, swim, indoor track. We're trying to get our sports more involved in the communities. So maybe that will come back to us. And like this has already happened, the girls basketball team and the boys basketball team. um both have lended out hands to the big leaf tournaments which are just youth tournaments for basketball. You know, we've had boys and girls volunteer, help out, run the clocks, stuff like that. It was actually very fun.

077It was a good experience, good way to get connected with the youth. And of course on that on the youth subject, we had amazing successful basketball camps over the summer. And it's just an amazing way to get connected with your community, you know, meet the parents of the future athletes, you know, to have them have somebody to look up to. It's overall an amazing experience. And I know I talk about basketball a lot, but wrestling has also had an amazing start to their season. They recently participated in the Riverside Rumble and placed fifth out of 25 teams, which is great. Um, their next match is at uh the slow down. The next match is at Pimatooning Valley. They're participating in the Laker Shaker. If anybody wants to go to that, it's gonna be fun. Um

078swim team swim team is doing amazing. They recently had um it was the Edwood >> Warrior Invitational. Uh girls placed seventh out of 19 teams and boys placed ninth out of 14 teams. There was so many PRs set. So, all these teams are working really hard to set their um goals and stuff for the season. It's just really dominant season for all sports involved. And last but not least is indoor track. And although they haven't had their first um meet yet, they've been working consistently. Coaches been pushing their players and it's just looking bright for their future. So, that's winter sports. Um I'm going to talk about band and choir. Um band first winter concert on Monday. It was a great success. It was Emily Va's first concert at Geneva and it was just overall

079an amazing atmosphere. Everybody in the audience was pretty impressed with how hard they've been working, how hard Emily's been pushing them. Um, and everybody on stage thought they did a pretty good job. It was great. It was absolutely wonderful showcase. Um, I believe choir's winter concert was last s last Thursday. I could be wrong about that. >> No, you're right. >> Okay, thank you. I appreciate that. Um, not really good with my dates. Um, it was also an incredible atmosphere. The audience was engaged. Um, GI's had their showcase, although they've performed a few times before, but it was absolutely wonderful. And as you saw before, they're just doing great. So, They are >> missed out Mrs. Mark. I'm sorry. >> Yes. But the choir program and the band bro program are going great. They've had

080wonderful showcases and it's just spring's going to be great, you know. Um I mean yeah. So last thing I want to talk about is the elementary visits that we've had. So I don't know how much people might know about this. It was a subject brought up in Dr. Lombardo's student committee where we basically had the people in the committee choose an elementary school to go to and we went out to help with Santa Shop and that was a great way to get engaged with the community, get engaged with the youth, engage with our elementary school teachers, lend a helping hand to the parents because everybody knows they need one. Um, and just it was a great way to get connected. Like all the kids were excited to see. I went to the one last week.

081Last week was GPS and it was just fun to help out the students and they were all excited to see the big bad high schoolers at their school helping out. >> Yes, GPS is where I went. So, everybody kind of went to where they used to go, which was awesome seeing all the old [clears throat] teachers, you know, reconnecting with them. >> Not old, but previous. [laughter] My apologies. seeing previous teachers, [laughter] >> connecting with them, lending a helping hand where they need it. And it was just a nice way to get high schoolers involved with the youth of the community and with the various parents that were there. It was nice to lend them a helping hand. It was just a nice place to be. Um, I know this week is Austinberg's Santa shop,

082so we have a few high schoolers going there and it's going pretty good. I haven't heard any complaints about help, so I'm pretty sure all of our high schoolers are doing great help. You know, not to brag or anything. I think I did pretty good. [laughter] But yeah, it was a it was a great week when we went and I'm pretty sure Austin is going great. All the kids are excited to see the high schoolers. High school excited to see the kids and their previous teachers, [laughter] parents. It's just >> uh I think pork is coming up in the near future. >> They had theirs last week. >> Oh, theirs was last week. >> Oh, was their first week. >> So, yeah. catastrophic. >> I mean, it is it is crippling when you're >> say

083something funny. >> Missolski, you might I'm sure Sarah told you, so you might have to rehash what happened to the audience here. I know Claire >> Claire had a kid she was helping because you go there and you help the kids shop for what they need. So the one kid Claire had a budgeter or no Sarah had a budgeter who she budgeted accordingly. She had like $20 left over. She was all gifts bought for her family. Bought an extra gift for her family. Still had money left over. She was like, "Can I buy myself a present?" She was like, "Yeah." Um, [laughter] >> my kid did that. Bought himself something. What the >> Claire had, speaking of buying herself something, the kid Claire had um only wanted to buy himself things. [laughter] Um, he I

084guess he picked up a bottle opener and um Claire was like, "Well, that might be a good gift for an adult in your life." And he was like, "Well, would it be a good gift for me?" And she's like, "No." And she's like, "Oh, I don't want it." Um, so those are just some of the funny stories, but and then one more thing I would like to add. Um, it kind of relates to all of this and kind of relates to previous conversation, but I feel motivated to add it. Um, the superintendent advisory board highlights all the things that the student body does here at Geneva, and I know everyone here in this room probably supports the stadium build, but I feel like all of this outlines why we need a stadium and why the

085kids here deserve it. and you get a rehash every month of everything that the students do, everything that the teachers do, everything that everyone contributes to. And I think this is a great reason why we need a stadium and why we deserve a stadium. And I know everyone here probably supports it, but if maybe there's people watching at home, maybe they can take that into consideration. >> Yeah. >> Thanks, ladies. Extremely well done. Good job, ladies. All right. All right. You leaving? All right. We'll see you later. >> All right. So, we're going to move on to the holiday clothing drive. I want to you to take note that this was a huge, huge success. Um, we had two $1,000 donations. The Beverage Depot did donate $1,000 and I thank them so very much. as

086well as we had an anonymous donation. But you can see all the clothing and hats and gloves and hoods and I took a picture that's our um superintendent advisory and philanthropy in the upper right hand corner. Those are all the bags from the high school. It just was amazing the love and everyone that contributed to helping kids. Um it was just it was just overwhelming all the nice things. So I thank everyone for doing that. It was an idea that Britney Savage had in an email and then all of a sudden everyone took note of it and um it's a great opportunity. So, thank you everyone for that. I want to talk about some grants and I want Dr. Briskkey to come up here. We have received three grants. Um I know Dr. Briskkey did

087write two and I know Jen Chabi is writing like a hundred of them. No, but you're writing all the time grants and I appreciate you doing that. The first grant is our Martha Hull and Jennings grant $5,000. This is a grant that um I put together and Miss Chabby helped me for staff and appreciation lunchon. So we have $5,000. All of that has to go to the staff. You're going to get a little uh a little treat tomorrow staff and then as we go through the year staff appreciation, we're going to have lunchins. We're going to have all kinds of fun stuff. We have over $5,000 and it can only be used for staff. So you're going to get that. So, I'm so proud of that one. And then come on up, Dr. Briskkey. Talk

088about the other two. >> Okay. Um, thank you. So, the job coach skills trainer grant. So, that's exciting because, um, we were funded through the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce to train up to 10 of our SNAS to become job coaches. And so their work will be to go on job sites with students in the future to support them and their work tasks throughout the buildings. Um but this will be targeted for our students with disabilities to to bring them out into the community. But but to have that support with them so that as we start to think about what comes next after graduation, how we're preparing them for the workforce, that's really exciting. Uh and then the second one is the PITS provider grant. So that will be used to train up to

089six intervention specialists at the secondary level. Currently Asheville County does not have any pre-employment transition service providers in the entire county. Does not exist. So Geneva High School is going to be the first one. We're gonna we're going to provide them >> here. So yeah, >> Thank you Dr. Briskkey. And as grants come in, because I am anticipating more grants come in, we'll bring them to you. Um, but there's three and I'm I'm really proud of that. All right. Well, each board meeting coming forward, we're going to be having a um one of our building principles are going to come up. We're going to they're going to talk about what's going on at the school, but I asked them to align it to their building action plans. They're going to show data and they're going

090to show where they are with student achievement. So, our first one is the high school. So, um Mr. King, if you want to come on up and um and go through your PowerPoint. The girls did an amazing job sharing and I promise we actually do try to teach them something in between everything else. All right. So, uh, [clears throat] every year I've been an administrator, my PGP, my professional growth plan has always had some tie to the weakest test score um of the building that I've been a part of. Um, in this past year, um, it was math. We took a hit in, u geometry. Um, we thought we might experience a little bit of that because we were trying to realign and, uh, give some extra support to algebra. Um, geometry of on the

091state report card, geometry is reported, but algebra counts. Um, and then we're going to talk about TBTs and then student attendance. So, for our scores, you can take a quick look. Um, you can see what I mean. And I put my own arrow there already. Wh I just do on that one. I apologize for that. >> Okay. I thought I was going to get a red spotlight. Apparently not. Okay. Sorry about that. So taking a look at geometry, you know, we were doing fairly well, 54, 52, 66, and then last year was kind of uh a almost a cliff dive down to 395. And again, we did make some changes to try to resupport algebra. Um we corrected some of those changes, and we'll talk about uh that in just a quick minute. um algebra

0925568 61 uh 68 um you can see the progression that um the high school is able to do um from 8th grade into the high school you know if you follow the color blocks we do fairly well. So what are we doing to correct what happened in geometry and further push algebra? Um take a look. First thing we did in I know this is kind of boring. I apologize. The spring EOCC's are already done. Those kids are already out of those classes. So basically you're taking a post-mortem look. You're you're looking at a dead body because it's already done. You can't revive it. You can't go back to it. But you can still learn what happened. So we went back through and tried to take the best look that we could from the EOC and

093of course uh tests um and of course exams. Our algebra u showed 30% growth from eighth grade and seven and a half growth from the 23 24 scores. But the geometry as we noted suffered a pretty large uh decrease. Um over the summer, right when we got those scores, we did do uh some uh staffing adjustments, um rotating classes, things of that nature. We had brought on map testing. So again, we did some map testing when the students return. We did our first exam schedule so that we could get map testing in in one class. Uh previously that wasn't allowed. We appreciate the allowance from Miss Chavei and Dr. Lombardo, you know, kids were having to take this test over multiple days and that's never a good idea. So, we appreciate that um ability. So,

094we have that data. We've gone through that door. We we've taken a look at um the strands that they did the best on, strands that they did the worst on. Um and we also took a look at the future uh passage possibilities. Algebra one, the passage predictor is 59%. We're going to work on that to get it up even higher. You're going to see that geometry says 2%. That is straight geometry. It's not honors or anything like that. It's just the regular geometry class. And that is because our students aren't taught any geometry until geometry. Algebra. You get some algebra in fifth grade. You get some algebra in sixth grade. Get some algebra in seventh grade. You get some algebra in eighth grade. Geometry, you get a very small taste of it in fifth grade.

095Fifth grade, I don't know. I've been a principal of a fifth grade building. Fifth grade math, God bless fifth grade math teachers. That is the hardest year ever. There are so many different uh strands that are put into fifth grade. It's nuts. So, geometry, regular geometry was 2%. But then if you take a look at our honors geometry classes, 62% already and they haven't even been taught anything. 62% out the gate. Why? Because our advanced algebra classes post end of course exam. Well, let's get a running start. Let's get some of those geometry uh pieces and parts moving. So again, that's what the difference there is. We have also um been identifying students who need extra support. Again, they can get that within the classroom setting itself. We do offer I believe it's five different

096periods where our students can get mathematic support. Either uh the teacher is monitoring a study hall or they have a duty period where they are able to work with students before and after school. A lot of our students will take um usually before they get off the bus, a few minutes with a teacher, try to get some help. Um and at lunchtime um Mr. is always pulling students aside and working with them. So we do have different opportunities before after the school day and uh during our blended time uh which is after school as well. Um EXL implementation. So we're weaving three different things together. restart readiness and map. The data we get from our MAP testing can weave into EXL and we can take that u the base scores, the base metrics, plug it

097into EXL and then the students can get that assistance on top of what the teacher is giving them. Excel will plan out a a pathway for them to um learn some things on their own with the assistance of the computer program. It's incredibly helpful. Uh as it states here, uh personalized learning path, everybody's different. Um if you put me in algebra class, good luck. I couldn't find my ex if there she was standing in front of me. No, just kidding. Bad job. Um, everybody's different in algebra and that's why EXL is so very helpful because everybody has the opportunity to go at their own pace with what they need to learn. Practice and mastery. We're going to take a look here in just a second at some data of uh practice versus mastery. You can

098learn it until you know it. You know, even LeBron goes and shoots baskets every single day. Why? Because he doesn't make it all the time. he has to continue to shoot, stay sharp, and get better. Real- time feedback. The turnaround is immediate. It also lets students know, hey, this is what you need to be working on, and this is what you need to be able to do and go forward. Why did you make that mistake? Is it a reoccurring mistake? And then the progress tracking. Teachers, parents can see the analytics. Uh building administrators, we can see the whole building. We can see by teacher, we can see by student. It's not. All right. So, we have our train uh staff are trained and um some of our folks are using it and we are uh

099aggressively going to be working with them uh to get it being used districtwide in January. So far this year, uh 434 hours have been logged. 1530 skills were practiced. 1,226 skills were completed with proficiency, meaning they understand it. they understand it and they can do it. When they say the skills were mastered, the u problems were rearranged, you know, in a way that for some of us feel like, oh, no, that's a completely different problem. No, no, no. The X was just put in a different place. It's still the same problem, but you have to tackle it from a different perspective. So, 483 skills mastered. Pretty good. Um and again in January uh EXL will go full board. So we will be doing some map uh winter testing coming up in January. So we'll be

100able to take a look at winter data, plug that in and again be able to use that with also restart readiness. Uh we have teacherbased teams that we're going to talk about here in just a quick minute. And we're also going to be rolling out a spring EOCC uh boot camp to help our students. We're going to offer it to any student or any family that wants their student to get some extra support in preparation for uh the end of course test. We will be doing some exceptional outreach to those students that we know would benefit. So yes, anybody can come. we will help anyone who makes it in. But those students that we see have um some specific struggles or a multitude of struggles, we're going to target them specifically to try to get

101them in and give them the help they need to be um very important uh to be successful. So, we're going to be focusing on parent engagement. You know, here's what the opportunity is, the correlation with their future. Every child has a why. Well, let's help you get there. Let's help you understand why these scores are important. Snacks and ride shares, the TVs that we are talking about, um Dr. Lombardo and Miss Chavei have been incredibly helpful uh working with GATA to put u LOU together, which will probably be coming, I believe, next month. >> Um very excited. Uh, anybody who's heard me talk, my first day when I talked to the staff when I got here three years ago was about TBTs and they said, "Okay, well, you have 10 minutes." High school TV time

102was 10 minutes. By the time, hey, you got a nice sweater on. What did you What did you have for lunch? Didn't I see you talk to that kid? You're down to about three and a half minutes. 10 minutes was never enough. So, we're very excited about the possibility to get a good chunk of time where our departments can get together. They can go through strand data, they can go through test data, they could go through um end of uh course uh data, they can go through exit ticket data. Okay. Why did your kids get number seven correct 57% of the time and my kids got it correct 97% of the time? How can I help you with what happened? Or geography. In my class, my kids are running about 80%. In your class, they

103seem to be running about 40%. How can we share ideas and knowledge? TVTs are incredibly incredibly helpful, especially at the high school level because most of our high school teachers are singletons, meaning they're the only one who teaches it. So, when you know they're looking at the tests, oh my gosh, I just can't believe this happened. an outside perspective can be incredibly helpful. You know, go through the data and see what you're able to figure out. All right. Absenteeism. Absenteeism has ballooned across Ohio since CO. And I know nobody likes to say CO, but um it wasn't great before, but CO made it a lot worse. Uh ghs our chronic ex absenteeism is higher than the state average. Uh as you can see there u from 43 to 38. Uh currently uh as of last

104month 38 and a lot of what we're talking about uh is coming into play the second nine weeks and we're building on it from there. All students matter. We're trying to do everything we can and the girls said it best. We are trying to make Geneva High School the place that kids want to be at. Not that they have to go to. Not, oh god, do I have to go there? That place, those people. No, we do every day. We work incredibly hard to give them a reason to want to be a part of Geneva High School. Whether it's our classes, the classes they want to take, the classes that are beneficial for their future, the clubs that they want to be a part of, the teams that they're a part of, those relationships that

105they build. Because if it was just about academics, how many of those kids would show up? Not a whole lot, but those other pieces and parts matter. So, we're wrapping it all together so that we can help support our students to want to be a part of our environment and to reduce uh absences. Um, so how do we do that? Uh, communicate our messaging, positive school climate focus. I think we do a very good job at that. But again, even if you're doing something well, you can still do better. So, we're continuing to focus on uh the pieces that we can build better. monitoring and supporting daily attendance ongoing professional development um and part of this um is oh and I'm I was about to blank handle with care initiative uh we had talked about

106this and worked with it um some time ago but now it's finally in place again caring for the whole child our teachers are more and more trained on what to look out for if a student is eating properly if there's signs of emotional trauma you know, how can we support and how can we make this a good and safe place for them to come? Um, weekly support meetings that include administration, teachers, support staff, counselors, resource officer, and family liaison because it just can't be teachers and it just can't be counselors. One of my favorite people when I went to high school was our custodian. Every child has that one person that they can relate to, reach out to. So that's why we have a pretty large group for our student support meetings. All right. Um

107our student support group, we go through all the possible needs of a child. If something is disrupting their education, if something is disrupting their attendance, what is it? And what's the root cause of it? How can we help? How can we assist? And if we realize coming together we can't do it. Okay. Who do we know that can help? What resources can we get to? Who can we call on? Um we have specifically worked on 57 cases were discussed take action. actions such as, and there's much more than just this, but um schedule changes, transition to online, in person, blended discipline intervention, testing, do they have a need that's been undiagnosed, uh counselor administrator conference with a student and or their family, home visits, outside counseling, and um you know, a lot of the clothing

108donations that you guys were incredibly generous with uh go to Rachel's closet. We have an incredibly supportive uh community. Rachel's closet gets donations probably every other day. I will tell you it is incredibly well used. A lot of it comes in and goes out real quick. Um Rachel's closet is a lifeline for our families. Whether it's food, whether it's clothing, clothing, um toothpaste, etc. It's being used and it's being used well. And again, that is helping our students want to be here because they are clothed, they are fed, they they uh have a sense of self-esteem. So, we're it's all intertwined and to help our students to want to be here and part of our Eagle family. So like I was talking about uh initiatives and incentives uh we are starting some drawings and we

109are starting some uh doughnut breakfast to encourage uh good attendance. Um and I I know all that COVID stuff. Oh, you're sniffling. You coughed. Stay home for two weeks. Okay. [laughter] It's Ohio. I cough all the time. We sneeze all the time. Life happens. We're past that. We need you here. We want you here. So again, we are doing um quarterly breakfast. Um I'm gonna congratulate uh Mr. Chennowith. He worked incredibly hard on putting most of this part together. Um he has taken it and run with it. Uh Christina Church has been amazing. Uh as uh our attendance leaison, uh we're able to snag some Cavs tickets. This is going to be our kickoff for our attendance drive. Um, one lucky winner on Friday, unless we have a snow day, uh, will be winning four

110Cavs tickets uh, because of their attendance. >> Big fans, big fans of snow days. Early early break. Did I say that? Um, so again, there will be many drawings, but we wanted the impact to be with the Cavs tickets. All right. So targeted supports, we have 17 students that we have had land in this support area. Um some of this triggers our um attendance liaison. Some um she works with students well before this. Our counselors work with students well before this. Myself and Mr. Chennowith, our teachers teachers will email. Something tells me Miss Markag John because I just know the person she is. Our teachers will email. Hey, haven't seen you in a couple days. Everything good? we miss you. There is it's throughout the building. How can we help? What can we do to

111make it better? Um but again, a some of this is state lingo. Some of it is on top of the state. Um Miss Church goes above and beyond. She will give a lot of time, energy, and effort even before students hit this um requirement. Um absence intervention plan. Uh we have put together 17 of these plans so far. Uh unfortunately there is a number included in there that's u a continuation from last year meaning they were already on a plan last year and of course you get a clean slate when you walk in the door in August. Some of them boom we're right back on it within just a quick amount of time. We are trying to um through our student support group, we're trying to figure out the reasons why so that we can

112get them back because we need them here. We want them to be a part of our Eagle family. Uh pathway reports and then youth opportunities, youth opportunities is incredibly helpful, but that is one of those programs where the family needs to be willing to engage. And we try to share loud and proud how awesome Yo is. Um again the incentives um we have some guidelines but again drawings for improvement drawings to uh help students with whatever they might need. Um and we're also working on possibly some drawings for families. Maybe there's uh a gasoline issue, you know, transportation issue that we can figure out and be able to help with. Um the second tier of this is intensive supports meaning when they're non-compliant we have put something out we have gone to the court we

113have said this needs to happen the magistrate has said this needs to happen you know unfortunately it's only December and we're at 13 but again we haven't given up a lot of our home visits go between targeted and intensive support students. But again, we want to figure out, we want to be able to help. The more information we can get and we're not prying, we're offering assistance. So, we have mild improvement at 38. Our goal is 36. U we are hoping with our continued work with some of the incentive programs. Um and we are open to any ideas folks have. So if you got great ideas on attendance, feel free to share them in. Um I think it's a great place. I show up every day. You know, who wouldn't? You heard what these guys

114get to do. Good gravy. Um Bryley was talking about the girls basketball team. They're amazing. I don't know if you guys have gotten to see them. They're fantastic. U my neighbor at home is the head coach for um Akran U women's team. So guess who's taking the girls basketball team to go watch Akran U on New Year's Eve. >> They're just such great kids. H they're fantastic. Any questions about algebra, geometry, TVTs, attendance? >> I have a quick question. attendance. We break that down. >> Um like are we seeing most of the attendance issues with >> um students who have socioeconomic issues or are is it even across the board? Um like do we have data on like who's missing school? >> I I can get that for you. Traditionally, yes. >> Okay. >> Do

115I want to talk about this year? I I couldn't this year specific, but there is a tradition of Yes. Unfortunately. >> Okay. That's because >> but we >> I think we can go at it different ways based on who's missing school. >> Correct. And we we we do attack it different ways as well because, you know, we come to find out Joey's missing school because dad hurt his leg. Joey's got to get a job. There's there's a rent payment that's coming up. Okay. How can we get Joey into blended? How can we get Joey into online? how can we get u support services involved and assist? So, we do our best to take that in consideration and that's why we're considering gas cards and things of that nature for the >> for the family to

116see if there's ways that we can assist >> incentives are going to look different based on the need. >> Yes. >> Yeah. >> And I've I've shared my problem with these guys. I'm trying to make it sound as polite, right, >> as possible because I don't want to say, "Here, we think you need this, >> right? >> We just want to help. That's it. That's all I ever want to do for these kids is help." That's it. >> What we're here for. >> So, anyways, enough of me. >> Thank you. >> Sorry, guys. All your hard work. I need a motion and a second to approve >> secondward through the previous month. I'm going to keep it kind of short meeting. presentation in February kind of where we've been on the forecast is just trending

117about 35,000 expend are obviously benefit local and flows of when things come in timing expended this year because obviously that fun facts we are getting a state I' kind of told you about foundation what we kind of looking at the foundation receiving tomorrow and I was like almost gave us last year on the science of reading. So this was an initiative through the state of reading certain teachers in taught elementary school teachers and teachers at a higher level had more intensive math teacher. They were required by the state to take this and we were required to pay them and they reversed. So the higher tiers with the $1,200 reimbursement and the lower $400 reimbursement. So we found out again because they took it from us that they overreatated they did not appropriate enough for this

118initiative. So they took about seven and a half% of everything they just as we talk about state government of We are still waiting for updates on budget and how all the different areu for the budget organized this month. The only one we did not talk about was the STEM classroom that was sought out by Mr. Google Works prototyping studio project. I worked with him this past week in Mr. King. So $2,500. It was great because we applied for this grant for these printers 3D printers. the price a little bit higher. We were able to get four and then we have a little bit extra using funds to buy the filaments. So kudos to Mr. for putting this on and getting this money [clears throat] before breakful addition to the high school. The next thing the

119treasure recommends the board approval of the attached disposal list. Some traded public [cough] >> have any questions? I know the list was attached, computers, monitors. We do have a ice machine from 2014. We do have a 2010 minivan. We really around here. >> We don't get much but we can put them on the black and $5, right? >> Got to paint one line on the new stadium field. Yes. >> Yes. >> Awesome. I'm going to go off the OSBAs in a flash uh blog. I'm going to start giving these ahead of time to everyone so they have a link and I'll provide them as well. I'm only going to go with what's on DeWine's desk. budget bills. There's about 10 of them. I'm just going to read the synopsis and we can go over if

120they pass essentially what the looks like. So, first uh we probably seen a few people were looking at the Senate Bill 50. It's going to change 14 and 15 year olds ability to work later. That got vetoed. Um they have until December 31st to vote for an override next year. So, it's like a year and month essentially. um doesn't look like that's going to have any traction, but these following bills, these House bills are on DWNE's desk right now. So, the first one is HB10. It's going to be from Daniels, and this requires public school boards uh and the Ohio Department of Education workforce to adopt policies prohibiting the purchase of cultivated protein or lab grown meat um and make sure they don't misbrand meat or egg products. HP14 by Adam Bird and Kevin Ritter

121uh would alter age requirements for kindergarten admission and hold harmless students affected by scoring error on the biology end of course assessments during 2024 2025 school years. HB124 sponsored by our very own David Thomas and Thomas Hall from Madison Township would modify the process for property tax sales assessment ratio studies. We are following HB124. It will inevitably impact House Bill 129 sponsored by our very own Thomas would include certain property tax levies in the calculation of a school district's effective mill that will offset based on certain tax levies which have been passed and included in that 20 floor. House Bill 184 sponsored by Brian Stewart and Ty Matthews makes corrections to previous capital and main operating budget allocations. House Bill 186 by James Hoops and Thomas would cap tax growth for districts on the 2004

122to inflation through a retroactive tax credit and provide funds to reimburse school districts for some losses in 2026 and 2027. And that's the one that we've been following. House Bill 186 we talked a few times. First it took 7 million away and then it brought all the 7 million back. Basically, what they're doing is it gets rid of an pretty large amount of money, but they do so in six years. That way you guys don't get to see on the fiveyear forecast, which is a really clever trick. >> It's about half the damage, a little less than half the damage initially. >> So, they are doing minimization, but If you can write to your senators and your state representatives about this tax reform stuff, I can't think of one person who has asked for this

123on either side of any political party for any motivation other than if you own an immense amount of property tax andor are receiving. you would benefit for this and you'd have to make well over 500,000 of personal income. Not business is worth that or your assets are worth that or your property is worth that. You actually have soluble moving income along with property that's that's there not for non purpose. So that that's going to really hit a lot of people hard. Um that's going to hit Ashfield County really hard in general. So Geneva is in in a pretty good position, but I don't know how people like PB and other districts are going to handle that. Um, House Bill 309 by David Thomas would allow budget commissioners to reduce millage on certain voter approved tax

124levies excluding debt levies if they find it necessary or prudent to do so. Um, and House Bill 335 by Thomas would cap the inflationary growth on all inside mill in tax year 206. So basically what we have is a few of our representatives ran on completely eliminating uh property tax and later found out that that's impossible and they're doing everything in their power right now to backtrack from actually eliminating property tax. But unfortunately, there's a pretty good movement going on right now that probably bring it to a vote. And now people are scrambling to try to give as many incentives to lower that tax as possible so they can all raise their hands and go, "Look, we we can't really get rid of it, but this is the best we can do." Which is why

125you see you'll see from Lake County and David Thomas I believe even Sarah Arthur Fowler has begun pushing the brakes on, hey guys, let's not eliminate our property taxes. Let's just let's let's blame the schools and a few other public entities and get this to a reasonable level. And now that fingerpointing is going to be a really contentious point in the upcoming runoff election. So we'll keep a pulse on 186, which is probably the most influential, [clears throat] but other than that, I don't I don't see any of the others having too much of an impact on us. Does that sound good? >> Outstanding. >> Okay. >> All right. So, yeah. So, so 18 129 184 186 are the ones I'm watching. We'll just keep an eye on 1846. And there are still the ability

126for the governor proposed changes and or veto. We have seven days I think until next Sunday. Um well so a few more like 10 days until he has to make a decision on that. But he can also send it back to the Senate and say hey these are my proposals or I'll veto. I don't see that happening, but And then second half beginning calendar year. That's what I was >> talking. >> I know that's when we're like >> I know like is it a calendar year orade? Okay. >> Okay. So, we had our regular board meeting on Monday. Um the holiday dinner was a success this year. There were 2 tickets sold, which is last year was only 15, but the weather did help. So, it was bad weather last year, but it wasn't as

127bad of weather this year. So, and they went back to the traditional ham, turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing, green beans, cranberry sauce, dinner roll, dessert, drinks, so that was good to hear. They held a can drive and it wasn't finished yet, but there were over 7,000 cans or the equivalent of that will be distributed to families. So, that's exciting. And then just something to note um they're working on looking at the lake to river district and how um our career tech impacts the kids in county and the it's over so K through 12 student population of different career focused services to all the school districts in the county. A tech um calculated to have reached 11,753 population in some way shape or form 750. That's kind of >> is that through all their programming that

128they do? All program through 12, not necessarily in the building, but >> Denise Brown, >> not board member reports. Just to touch quickly, yesterday we had a quick meeting on AI. A few people um I met with Paul, Christy Burns, >> and Jared. for that. Um, but I talked to Mr. Bard. I was pretty impressed. We have some pretty robust security options right now. So, if someone is talking or or leaning on AI, um, let's say for emotional health, academic help, maybe things that are crossing some barriers or mental controls, we actually have the ability to most most of the time um, get out in front of it. Our conversation was poised on maybe making a unified or potentially one solution that the school has that one doesn't train AI models and two we can

129implement across the board to keep eyes on. That's an evolving um discussion and once we have that hammered out I'll bring it to the board so everyone can take a look at it. But just wanted to let everyone know that The only thing I have is um I just want to say thank you to Marty and Jamie um for their service on the board. You will certainly be missed. Um you gave me a vote of confidence in March of 2024 when you appointed me to this job and I thank you for that and um appreciate your service. >> I want to say thank you. Um that's the only really thing I want to say. I passed out thank you cards. And here's why. Empty blank ones. I started to make a list of all the

130people I needed to thank. And the list got so long that I'd be writing those the rest of my life, I think. So, what I'd like you to do is pay it forward and write a thank you note to somebody else. That's why I provided those tonight. And um I've just really loved it here and loved this board. So, I just want to say thanks. >> Um, I wanted to take a minute to thank Jamie for her time. She's been on our board for eight years. [laughter] has been for years. Um, thank you both for your time, your service, your dedication, your hours that you put in. Um, I haven't been here as long as both of you and I know the time and just the mental equity that you put into something like this

131is is taxing. And I certainly am not into the number time that you guys put into it. And I know where I am at this point, but we wanted to give you a little something. Thank you both very much. I know that you will miss Thank you so much [applause] with that. Actually, I want to highlight something before these two go. We've had a rough past few years and I want to commend Jamie Ortiz for when the the whole library thing was going on and everyone was cutting friction and picking a side. You prophetically were like, "Well, look, the people don't want what are we going to do to solve this? And ended up fixing that problem at way less of a contentious point to the people of the community, the people that worked alongside

132everyone. And you were the only person that took that problem on. I remember that very vividly. And the second is I'd also like to thank I'd also like to thank Marty for at times speaking up against people to the point of even being censured by your peers. And that's kind of what you get with She's not gonna she's not going to go blindly into being coralled into being told by someone else what to believe or what to think or what to stand for. She just did it. And those are two moments where I stood back and really appreciated both of you and thank you very much for your service to this district. >> Thanks. [applause] >> I did receive I I will mention this. I did receive some letters from students from the middle school.

133I'm assuming they were part of a class and an assignment. Um, they were really interested. I know everybody wants to go home, but I wanted to share because the kids took the time to write, but um I'm not the teacher in me kind of looked at the body of the letter and I'm assuming it was like a five paragraph letter like looking at so I had one that was about um the condition of the gym floors. I had that was about um having having holidays off. Um and the ones that they wanted to add to this were I do agree with Veterans Day, but Halloween and Valentine's is also one that they would like to add. Um the other one that I um was about bullying, which I I feel very strongly about as well.

134I'm going to write back to them, but I wanted to share this evening. Another was about the sport near and dear to my heart and then another pass that they use at the middle school. So apparently this is a hot to is like the electronic pass that they used to go to the restroom. So I had opened I have to share this story because I had opened these up and they were on the And I just kind of had all my board stuff like spread out and this one was on top and so Julia had read it. So I'm not gonna say the student that wrote this, but this is Julia out loud. Um, hello. I'm an eighth grade student that attends Middle School. I'm writing about the smart pass issue. I think the smart

135passes are an issue especially for women. The reason I think it's an issue is because we only get three minutes to use the restroom. You can you can go over time, but you will be told to come back on time. Goes into the reasons why women need more time in the restroom. This was the highlight of this letter. Men don't even wash their hands. [laughter] Julie is like, "Oh my." And Jerry goes, "Yeah, we do." And then she goes on again and she goes, "I'm telling you, men don't wash their hands." So, she said it like three times. So, I don't know. We might need to address an issue. [clears throat] things there at the middle school. I don't know. But I'm going to write them back. But I thought I wanted to share some

136of the letters that I had. I thought they were really cute. But they were really good. Like they were a nice paragraph. They signed them appropriately. Everything was as it should be. But I received those and they were great. I did pop in like for a hot minute at the band concert. Um everything's running together. And I have to commend Mrs. V did an arrangement of She arranged the song herself. It was called Christmas Eve. And I'm telling you, it was amazing. And it had like transiberian orchestra vibes. It was absolutely exquisite. She did such a phenomenal job. But it was just amazing. If you recorded it on social media and you get to listen to it, please take a minute and listen to it. It was absolutely fantastic. I wish I could have got

137to the choir concert, but >> it was amazing. >> That was that one amazing as well. That was the night of the school concert at the school I teach at, so I didn't get to come to that one, but it I always love that one as well. >> Well, she ended it with silent night. >> Did they do it? >> That is my favorite. So, I was able to come to it last year, but I didn't get to this year was the school at the school. So, I wasn't able to come, but I love coming to all the concerts, but the band was just >> This auditorium for vocal and orchestral music is awesome. >> Try I try to pop into as many as I can, but it's hard to all. Um, so at this

138point, any other board comments? Are we good? Okay. The board will need to uh we also need to determine a and a place for our organizational meeting and we have to determine that your devices >> January >> you've been reading Paul's thing too >> we could organize the year in 26 and November 26 that'd be helpful the first Monday >> until Paul finds out that I went in there and changed it. >> I don't even know where I'm at anymore. >> Norally the meeting is on the first Monday of the year. The first Monday of the new year. Sorry. First Wednesday of January. Oh my gosh, I'm so >> January 7th. Okay. Is that good for everybody? Can you do that? Dr. >> Jan, Wednesday, January 7th. >> Is there a time you want a

139different time than 6:30 >> or 6:30? >> Right. January six that meeting. Yes. I'll make a motion. Yes. >> Yes. >> All right. The board will hold an executive session for the purpose of considering the appointment, employment, discipline, promotion, demotion, or compensation of a public employee or official or the investigation of charges or complaints against a public employee or official and conferences with an attorney for the public body concerning disputes involving the public body that are the subject of pending or imminent court action. All matters discussed in all executive sessions are designated to the public officials and asidential pursuant to revised code 102.03b because of the status of the proceedings andor the circumstances under which the information will be received and preserving its confidentiality is necessary to the proper conduct of government business. I need

140a motion please. Second >> roll call. >> Mr. >> 858. >> Can I keep this? >> We will be taking no action when we return from executive session. Have a nice evening and merry Christmas. Thank you. >> No, no, it's the one right here. >> Oh, absolutely. right here. [laughter] >> Yeah, I'm not going. >> So, thank you for everything. Thank you for >> No, that was the 4.6 option and this is the range of what >> you'reelcome. So, how much does So the next step would be this discussion and then we'll bring them up to speed and then we'll make a decision as a new work in progress. It's >> a work in progress. We're listening to what the voters's showers But again, >> thank you. We'll figure You're asking They don't even know.

141He came out of his >> merry Christmas has a rule book right But yeah, everyone's back. >> Oh yeah, I said I know personally. >> Do you? Chris is a great guy, >> dude. Chris is great. >> He's a professional. So I found a picture. And then what's going to happen in January? >> Yeah. Well, so luckily they have 21day period. >> So his period on 14 I just sat there with me and then Chris came up because weirdo like that was very interesting. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No. I just told the parents.