Geneva Area City Schools Board Meeting - 9/17/25

001Welcome everyone. >> Welcome to the September 17th, 2025 monthly board meeting of the Geneva Area City Board of Education. Uh, roll call, please. >> Mrs. Syalski >> here, >> Mrs. Craig here, Mrs. Milick Dixon >> here, >> Mrs. Ortiz, >> and Mr. Pearson >> here. >> Uh, Madam Treasure, are we in compliance with the meeting requirement rules? We are. This meeting is a meeting of the board of education and public for the purpose of conducting the school district's business and is not to be considered a public community meeting. There is a time for public participation during the meeting as indicated in the agenda. If you're able, please stand for the pledge of allegiance. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under

002God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Do we need correspondence this month? >> I do not. Dr. I do not wave the reading and approval of minutes. Do I have a motion, please? >> Second. >> Roll call. >> Mrs. Savolski? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Craig? Yes. >> Mrs. Milan Dixon? Yes. >> Mrs. Ortiz? Yes. And Mr. Pearson? >> Yes. >> Motion carries. Uh, now it's time for the Eagle team member of the month. >> Yes. Good evening everyone and thanks for being here. I'm excited about this. Um uh not that the district hasn't had any recognition for staff in the past, but I want to tell you just quick little story why um I wanted to bring this forward so quickly and superintendency is um there were a lot of surveys that went

003out one to the community, one to the staff and even during the time when I was meeting with people what I heard over time and time again is how awesome the staff is in this district. I mean truly and if you look back at the survey result which is actually on the superintendent's page under August 20th you'll see that our staff is amazing and it was over and over one of the positive things about our district. So I thought it would just only be appropriate to start recognizing a staff member from every building as well as transportation and the board um once every month. So we're going to be bringing people forth every month. Um, these are nominations from your peers. So, people nominated other people and I will tell you, we had almost 42

004nominations for the first month of this. So, what we're going to continue to do is send it out for October and we're going to keep carrying people over and um, we're going to continue to recognize people. So, when I call your name, if you can come up, I'm going to hand you a certificate if you could stand in front and I'm going to read all these wonderful things that people nominated you about. Okay? You won't know who stat what. I can tell you later. >> It's all positive. Believe me. That's why you're sitting here. >> Then you'll have to give a speech >> and then we'll rate your speech on a scale of five. >> We have a rubric >> and then I'd like you to stand. Michelle and I will come out, take a

005picture, and then we're going to put it on our website. We really want to make a big deal about this because it is a big deal. Okay. So, the winners for the first month are uh and they are up there. I'll call your name. Please come up and then I'll I'll uh talk a little bit about you. So, the first person I'm going to try to say this right, Helena Moore, teacher Austin. So, Blaine has been an intervention teacher who has served for more than her case loads for some time. She cares about students and fights for what they need at all times. She has stretched so thin but still makes everyone come together. She is amazing. Helena is an amazing intervention specialist. She truly cares about all her kiddos and if they were as

006if they were home. Their struggles are hers. Their wins are hers. The amount of care and compassion she shows to those students is amazing. Helena's dedication and deep love and care for her students goes beyond the school environment. She works from home even when sick to make sure her students have their needs and supports met. She sees who they are as individuals, connects with them, and celebrates and support them. So, congratulations. All right, Deborah Bal from our cafeteria. Are you here? >> Deborah. >> Okay, we're going to read about Deborah anyway. So Deborah does a great job making sure our students get breakfast at lunch and she is our uh cafeteria manager. Cafeteria manager plays a vital role in the daily operations of our school. Each day she works hard to ensure that all schools

007are provided with nutritious well- balanced meals for both breakfast and lunch. Beyond simply serving food food, Deborah oversees the planning, preparation and smooth delivery of meals while maintaining high standards of cleanliness and efficiency. Her dedication helps create a welcoming environment in the cafeteria where students can enjoy their meals, recharge, and be ready to learn. This consistent commitment to our students well-being makes a significant difference in the student school experience. So, thank you. And from GPS, Shelley Cochran, teacher. Michelle Cockri goes above and beyond to create a culture of excellence in the district and inspires her colleagues daily by demonstrating dedicated and quality uh dedication and quality, maintaining a positive attitude, promoting a collaborative team and encouraging open committed communication. Shelley should be recognized as Eagle team member of the month for the September at GPS

008because she has posit Now there's a lot here so we have positive energy. Her classroom radiates warmth, encouragement, and joy. Students feel safe, supported, excited to learn. Thanks to nurturing environment Shel Shel cultivates daily. Team spirit. Shelley isn't just a phenomenal teacher. She's a phenomenal teammate. She's always ready to lend a hand, share resource, celebrate others successes. Her collaborative nature uplifts uplifts the entire Eagle team. Innovative teaching. Shelley brings learning to life. Her creativity keeps students engaged and helps them thrive academically and socially. Student advocacy. Shelley is a fierce advocate for her students. She knows their strengths, listens to their needs, and works tirelessly to ensure every child feels safe and valued. So, congratulations. We have the middle school Jessica George, guidance counselor. Awesome job. Uh Jessica George exemplifies what meant to be a dedicated

009and compassionate team member. She shows up every single day for our students, given her time, energy, and heart to make sure they feel supported, seen, and cared for. But her impact doesn't stop there. Jessica is the kind of person who steps up for anyone in our building, always ready to lend a hand to fellow staff members without hesitation or expectation of recognition. Her consistent kindness, reliability, and selflessness often goes unnoticed, but they are deeply felt by everyone around her. Words truly can't express the gratitude we have for everything she does. Jessica is the quiet force that helps make our building a better place, and she absolutely deserves to be recognized as Eagle Team member of the month, which is why you're here. Congratulations. In Randolph Aram couldn't be here. He's uh seeing his granddaughter and

010there's a birthday. So he he says, "Thank you for giving him this honor and we're going to read about him. A top-notch guy who was a Geneva graduate and has been given the last 35 years of his life to Geneva schools and community. He also coached just about every sport at the high school. A true Geneva Hall of Famer, Randy is always willing to lend a helping hand. Even though he's close to retirement, he is still engaged with students and staff. So I appreciate him. and for transportation maintenance and board of education, Joseph Toe. Joe has gone above and beyond expectations to ensure the district continually moves in a positive direction. He can always be counted upon when extra help is needed in a variety of areas and his overall positive attitude throughout stressful times

011never goes unnoticed by all within the building. Joe provides care in every aspect of his job. Goes above and beyond his position maintenance for every building in the district. Assistant maintenance mechanic at the bus garage, transportation, subschool bus driver. And the way this man looks out for everyone, he meets with a smile. Makes you want to do the same. keeps a positive attitude and willing to go out of his way to talk to anyone. Takes time to look out for others. Always willing to help. We love having Joe on our team at Geneva. He's an incredible human. We thank him so much for all his hard work. >> We're going to come out and get a picture with you. >> Capture this moment. Are you sure? >> Camera's right there. >> Please join us. >>

012That's genius. >> Are you sure you're not? >> Am I good? one of the guys. >> We did this at the beginning. Don't feel you have to stay. >> These meetings can't be long. You're welcome to stay, but don't feel you have to once you're recognized. Yay for all of you sitting criss-cross applesauce. I'm so proud of you. Yay. >> I know, but look at them. They made the best. >> Okay, we're going to have a time for public comment at this time. You'll have five minutes to speak. Um I don't think we have a microphone in here this time, do we? Um, if you would like to speak, you just need to give your name and address and you're welcome to take a moment. >> Anyone up? Mr. Griffith, >> Jeff Griffith, 130 Pepper

013Ridge Drive in Geneva. >> Pepperidge. >> Pepper bridge. I don't know where to stand. >> That looks like a great camera. >> You know what? You might want to move over a little bit. >> Camera. That's not my best side. No side. Um, >> all right. Uh, yeah. So, thank you very much. I just wanted to come. I just came from a tennis match, so pardon my a middle school tennis match. Pardon my outfit here, but uh believe in the new sports facility 100%. I just want to continue to echo that I also believe that the the tennis courts at the high school as part of one phase of that plan. Hopefully is part of that long-term plan. I think our high school tennis teams play both seasons. I think they deserve to play at

014the high school as much as the other sports. Um, we have a relationship with the United States Tennis Association where they will offset some costs of those facilities. And I'm grateful to Miss McDeran and um I know um and Beth who I think met with um Scott Toro and and Mike Gross and so grateful for that information. Um the pickle ball courts that were playing as part of the facilities could be done on court six of the middle school courts. You can put three or four there easily and convert that sixth court at the middle school um and still get that objective. it. Um, also with middle school, they engage in, you know, more kids in fizz ed, so they would be able to use those pickle ball facilities more. Um, I I I hate

015to not uh say that, of course, the junior tennis program is the winningest program in the school and the county. You know, if you add up soccer, track, football, basketball, and softball, junior tennis still has more conference championships. And we have students playing in college. We have tennis professionals who are as their professional uh as their job across the country have been recognized by the United States Tennis Association as professionals of the year. Multiple professionals across the country. We have a head coach at William and Mary alumni men tennis coach. So um so I hope there's some consideration there. Um I think it's warranted. I think you can do the pickup ball thing again at the middle school and convert a court and still have facilities for middle school and high school. again, there's money

016there to do it and um so I just would advocate for just that consideration to the whole group. Again, I know I value and appreciate the meetings that you had. I just wanted to echo that as well. >> Thank you. >> Thanks, Jeff. >> Thank you. It's a good idea. >> Anyway, go ahead. Um, >> your address. >> My name's uh Joe T. Uh, my address is 2145 Lef Fever Road. Uh, I've been working for the schools for three years now. And I just want to say that I appreciate all of you uh for what you all do. Uh, I know there's a lot of stuff uh that goes into uh the whole workings of the schools a lot more than I realize for sure. Uh, I'm just at the brunt end of it. I

017like to work with my hands and fix things and make people happy and try to get everything done that I can possibly get done. Uh so I just wanted to stand up and say uh I appreciate you guys too. You know what you guys do. Everybody plays a part. You know, everybody's role is a even if it's a little one, you know, it's a it's a big deal, you know. So, uh and I wanted to say that what a wise choice with uh the other uh people to get picked for uh what is it? Employee of the month or whatever. Uh, oh my god, I can't tell you how awesome Shelley is. I know her. She's a great person. And, uh, Miss Jessica George has helped me and my daughter through some really hard times

018and stuff in the middle school, too. So, uh, welld deserved. Uh, and I just wanted to say that I'm going to go try to catch my nephew's soccer game real quick. So, I'll see you guys next time. Thank you so much. >> Thank you so much. >> Hey, there's a chair right there. Thank you. >> Anyone else? >> Okay. All right. Report of the superintendent. >> Yes. Uh we're going to start with number one. So we have some approval of some contracts. So the superintendent recommends approval of the closed service agreement with the move. >> Second. uh for a little discussion. I just want to let you know I asked Yiola now for those that don't know about board policies. I'll just give a real quick update on that. So uh the board one of

019their major roles is to approve policy which is how the district is run uh through policies. And then there's what's called administrative guidelines. Administrative guidelines are is what the superintendent approves which is the day-to-day functioning of those board policies. Um, in a previous district I I was really uh I oversaw the board policies administrative guidelines. I'm really focused on those types of things. Um, so what I've asked Niola to do and what Neiola is an organization that takes all the legislation and they provide templates for districts um when new policies are changed or when the law changes they send us templates on policies and administrative guidelines. So, what I've asked Niola to do, which we we have Niola as one of our partners, is to do an audit of all our administrative guidelines. Um, it's

020really important that we align all our administrative guidelines with all of our board policies. It's just good practice. We're finding that there is a number of administrative guidelines that do need updated. And because the amount of work, Miola um is willing to do that work for um it's a minimal amount of money, but they're going to go ahead do all an audit of our they do our policies anyways, but administrative guidelines to allow me to upload those and um I work with experts on each area so that we're up to date. So, this is part of that one my projects for the year. >> Thank you for that. just to chime in just to talk about a little how how far ahead of the curve you've been Paul at 8:20 so that's you know what

021two weeks ago three weeks ago now um I received notification that the state mandate had passed a bill changing the language uh that surrounds cell phone usage the state is going to ban effectively needs the policy on the books that bans cell phones usage and they didn't really give us a lot of articulated guidelines I believe a month and a half before that Paul had sent us the language for that and I joked with you about it um revolved heavily around personal devices. I've listed cell phones as PDAs. So, if anyone knows what a PDA is, I think the last time those were largely was 2003 to 2006, meaning that our policy likely hadn't been revised there. So, we're we're ahead of the curve on this. And looking at all the policies with Niola, who

022already does our policies means that when we end up handing over a book and our bylaws are written, you're not going to see the same mistakes or outdated policies you've seen years prior where we navigate, well, how do I even report something that occurred or how do I know if my child is actually in trouble for XYZ? um because when you're looking at the policy, it clearly defines herself as a PDA or a digital assistant as opposed to whatever they had, an iPad, a Chromebook, what have you. So, thank you, Paul. >> Yeah. And I I've been trying to get this started, this policy committee for three and a half years. And so, I'm so grateful that you lit that fire and and that I'm included in that the meeting even though you were absent.

023Thank you, Jennifer, for running. That was outstanding. I learned so much. I I I it was just a really productive committee meeting and the the one that I'd been to the previous time was Dave Riley and Amy Bzeno and me. >> We had nobody from you know what I mean? We didn't it wasn't it wasn't effective and so this one is and I'm looking so forward to being part of this and cleaning our policies up. So thank you. >> That's very good. Very good. >> Comment would The agreement it references Kashakton >> says that the the materials will be forwarded to forwarded to Kashakton for final processing before we sign it. >> Oh, that's where their office. >> Oh, they're located in >> Okay, makes sense. >> Even though they're still I got it catching

024up. >> At least they didn't call us Gova this time. Any other questions, comments? All right, roll call. Mrs. Craig, >> yes. Mrs. Milikin Dixon, yes. Mrs. Ortiz, >> Mr. Pearson, yes. >> And Mrs. Syalski, >> yes. Motion carries. >> All right. Number two, the superintendent recommends approval of enclosed gifted identification service plan for this school year. >> Need a motion, please. >> So, move. >> Second. >> I'm going to have Miss Chabby come up and just talk a little bit about it. She's she's been really working um to align our gifted identification service plan. Um so go ahead. >> Okay. Yeah. So in April of this year, the operating standards that um regulate identifying gifted services and identification were changed. So in red, I've changed all the verbiage that aligns to our policies here.

025Um and then some minor changes with you know the how department of education and workforce because we had be in there. So I just changed those. The biggest change with the operating standards is we no longer have to we're not required to identify students in creative thinking. However, we will still offer that if a parent wants us or teacher would like their child identified in creative thinking. We will still do that. So that's still in here, but we're not required to do that. Um, so we're only required to um do a whole grade level screening in once in kindergarten through second grade and we do that at the end of second grade and then once again in um sixth grade we do screening. >> Can I ask a question real quick and Michelle, you can

026ch >> I did notice that that the fir that the primary screening is done at the end of second grade. >> Correct. >> So the end of the window that's recommended required, right? Is that the most appropriate time to do that assessment? >> Many districts do it then. I mean the the thing the the rational behind that is if we identify them and at the end we have that summer to prepare services for them. So like if we have a really big um year of identifications then we can hire more teachers to provide the services. If we do it, why don't we do it early? >> Well, if we do it at the beginning of the year, our budget's already set for the year. It's hard to um add services at that time. >> You

027mean like first grade? >> Yes. Once we identify them, we have 60 days to to notify them. And then >> I'm saying why the end of second grade? Why not kindergarten or first grade? >> Oh, because well that's when normally um most districts identify that at that time >> and that's not too late. I mean it it seems like early intervention is better right? >> Established time for you know kindergarten gives principles of phonics. First grade is typically your prefix based in grammar and then second grade is a mastery of language. So once they are there you're going to see the crossover rubric of math into language into expressive arts into things like >> okay thank you. >> Yeah thanks for that. Um, and then the other thing that I did was instead of having

028a form, we're going to have an online form for parents and teachers to refer somebody to be tested. And once they put that information in, I get an automatic email so that we can make sure the student gets tested. So, just trying to make it a little easier. And that's already on the website. Once um this is for proof, this will also be on the website as well. So, >> any other questions? >> Do the gifted kids get more homework? >> No. >> Well, it depends. >> It depends what their skills are, >> right? >> So, I just want to give a plug. Thank you, Jen. Um, so Miss Chabby is is really wants to make sure that this gifted program continues to grow. She's she probably say this, but I'm going to say it

029anyways because I'm so proud of you. She's getting trained in her gifted certification, >> which is a lot involved to get a gifted certificate. She's doing that so that not only does she oversee gifted, that she can really understand and and work with students and so I give you a lot of credit for doing that. I appreciate you. >> Is there a lot of homework? >> Indeed there is. >> Excellent. Okay. Any more questions or discussion? >> All right. Roll call, please. Mrs. Milikin Dixon. >> Yes. Mrs. Ortiz, Mr. Pearson, yes. >> Mrs. Syolski, >> yes. >> Mrs. Kirk, >> yes. >> All right. The superintendent recommends that the board approve the enclosed student parent device handbook. So, >> second. Any discussion? >> Are there a lot of changes or >> There aren't a lot

030of changes. Uh, Jira did put this together. Um, but there are not a lot of changes to this. And do we still have the insurance that is available for it or is it Yes. Are we is the district paying for it still? >> Yes, that is true. We are still paying for that insurance. Yeah. Any other questions? All right. Roll call. >> Mrs. Ortiz. Yes. >> Mr. Pearson. Yes. Mrs. Syalski. Yes. >> Mrs. Craig. Yes. >> Mrs. Milendix. >> Yes. >> Well, they've all been exciting for this is a really exciting one. Uh, the super recommends approval of Geneva Middle School 8th grade students to travel to Washington DC in May of 26. >> So moved. Second. >> Second. And I know we may have someone here to help explain. Yes. Tony said someone was

031coming. >> Who did you just want me to talk now? >> Yeah. >> I'm Alice Kusy. I teach seventh and eighth grade histories and this I've been in the district in some capacity since 2012. This has always been a dream of ours to be able to do this. So it's wonderful. Thank you for this opportunity um to take this forward. Um Mr. Colon, our previous principal at the middle school, helped get all of this um going. Um contacted the company, got contracts, and then just because of how things changed over the summer kind. Um so, um we plan on taking the kids to Washington DC uh May 19th, 20th, and 21st. So, it's a Tuesday. We leave early Tuesday morning. We come back late Thursday night. So, it's after testing. It's toward the end of

032the year. >> Awesome. I'm sorry. Say that again. >> 19th, 20th, and 21st of May. >> Thank you. >> Um, so we have um the flyers from the company and of course I'm gonna >> uh traveling classrooms is the company that we are working with. Um the trip it's going to be between 525 and 5:45 um per student. Um and that includes obviously their trip down will be staying at the Sherin in Virginia. Um eight meals are included. So they'll have two continental breakfasts. Um and then the lunches and dinners um will be included in that. They also get three shirts. So each day all of the kids will be in matching shirts which makes it a little easier to keep track of them um as we are making our way. And then we'll have

033one chaperone for every 10 to 12 students. We are going to waiting kind of for this to all go through um to reach out to staff to see what staff is available um to help chaperone and then go from there um as far as covering that. Um, and they do cover the chaperon cost for us. >> Questions. >> Is this a each student would pay their own way? >> Yes. Yeah. And um that and they pay directly through the company so that the school doesn't have to try to juggle all of those accounts. Um, so the parents can pay online, they can mail in their payment, or they can bring their payment in. one of the reps will come in on the due dates so that somebody can come in and pay directly if that's

034how they prefer to play prefer to play pay. >> I had a qu you Tony talked about the dates because the dates are the dates going to be extended because the dates coming up on September 30th. >> Yes. So the initial um first payment was September 30th which obviously is not practical. Um he was able he bounced that back to October 17th which isn't a huge push. But if we now that we have this going and if everything goes as planned, then we can be preemptive next year and send the stuff home at the end of the school year with the seventh graders so that they can prepare better over the summer. Um payment in full that's due in October. >> No, it's um it's a $150 non-refundable payment. So the first payment is non-refundable

035and then there are options for that money to be refundable. Um the second payment would be in February and the final payment would be due in April. I also asked him because obviously this is a hefty expense. Um if we did a fundraiser since we're not collecting the money, how would we distribute that? So he said we could just like if we had a spaghetti dinner or something for the students to help raise money then we can send them the check and tell them, you know, each kid gets 10% of this money for each of the accounts or whatever and they'll distribute it. There's also a grant I'm looking at um through American Battlefield Trust. They give up to $3,000 for um field trips that somehow incorporate uh the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812,

036or the Civil War, museums, things like that. they try to be a little bit lenient with things. So, as long as we're going to something, so I reached out to them to see how that works since how we're doing the payments um because I have to show proof after the fact. So, I'm working on that um to hopefully try to >> if you want some help with the grant writing, I'm doing a huge research project on Colonel Bennett, who Ben Court's named after. Okay. We were highly involved our specific area in the conflicts in Georgia Antium and later around I never knew that we saw some of the most service engagement 52nd cavalry here >> and Mr. Bennett >> Mr. Bennett wrote one of the cold like the coldest killer speeches of all time and

037he's like if they if they want to take our constitution then we'll take their lives and like he literally marched to Cleveland to the grays and started a three core and marched down to Georgia with district. >> Yep. >> Yeah. >> So if I could help write I know it's just fresh in my mind. >> Awesome. Thank you. >> Alice, do we have any idea how many students are going to want to be interested? >> Um I have absolutely no idea. >> I'm hoping a lot but I know again that's a huge expense. >> So, that part worries me a little bit for how many you'll be able I know when we went to Columbus, how many kids did we take to Columbus? Like 120ish. >> So, I'm 100 at least. >> Well, their class

038is smaller, isn't it? >> 15. >> Okay. >> So, that would be my goals for to be able to go at least >> and then anything they can do to, you know, plan fundraising to help some of that for those families. Is there any way to um do some kind of sponsor chat thing >> where if there's someone who can't go in and the other opportunity I would think would be like the local Eagles in BFW, they might be willing to sponsor some students to go who can't go. >> Yeah, that's an excellent idea. Can >> Yeah, reach out and see what >> Yes, please. I think it's awesome. I think this is so >> and we do we're talking about seventh grade and sixth grade. They're not going ignored. This was just the biggest

039one to try to get the ball rolling with. So we work out the details for sixth and seventh grade. >> Do you think the state house trip will happen again? Um, so we're talking about shifting it in the state house being part of the sixth grade trip and doing something different for seventh grade that would also perhaps be out of state, but would be a day trip. Not like the eighth grade is the only one with the overnight trip and then sixth grade do a day trip around Ohio and then seventh grade an out of state trip. But that all depends on transportation, too. I know that was a huge issue for us last year. that I mean the district obviously that's not attainable like that would be crazy to expect five school buses to

040take us everywhere. Um but just being able to schedule with an organiza like with a company to take us because there are so many people doing trips that time in May that it would be a little more difficult to try to orchestrate that but we'll figure it out. >> The company that you're working with doesn't work with transportation or that I don't know. >> Oh, >> I um Bob is our contact and I've only been talking to him and I didn't honestly think about asking like obviously they're doing our transportation for this but I don't know if they're just contracting somebody or if they have their own buses that I'm not sure. >> Well, looks like >> it says Baron Baron's Motor >> So is Baron's the company that traveling uses maybe >> that would

041probably >> be Barren and Anderson are the two big players. Yeah. >> Yeah. So traveling classroom must use Barons. >> Well, um once we get the finances or even is there a way to gauge interest versus initial down payment? I I don't want to make too big of an ask. Um, so we're planning on Friday or Monday, depending on how quickly we get everything the p like the details on here finalized and printed to send stuff home. Um, we're Bob will come up and do anformational meeting with the parents. Um, we're planning that for October 1st at 7 o'lock. >> Makes that >> would you I was going to say, would you be willing to shoot all of us an email as a reminder for that meeting. >> Absolutely. >> Okay. >> Because it's a

042big lift and if more of us can help with it, especially if there's a child that or family that might not even show interest because they can't make initial down payment, >> if we can kind of just silently pick that lift up and see what that looks like or what what that would be and if possible help with that. I think that going to some of capital at that age is huge. >> Yes. And as a daughter of a veteran, I know there's probably a lot of veterans that might sponsor that trip. Yes. >> Yeah. The organizations as a whole and individual >> Yeah. >> folks. So, I'll help you reach out to >> Yeah. >> And there are they give discounts um because I know we have a few sets of twins in the

043eighth grade. So, they do give sibounts. >> Few sets of a few. Wow. Um and then uh >> what was the water? They also give discounts like for chaperones kids. Um so there's a little bit of offset there as well. So >> great conversation. >> Thank you so much. >> Absolutely. >> Yes. Thank you. >> Awesome. >> Any other questions or conversation? >> Mr. Pearson. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Mrs. Craig. Yes. >> Mrs. Milican Dixon. Yes. And Mrs. two items. >> All right. Number five, the superintendent recommends the following personnel actions and there's a number of them you'll see. Thank you for this list of rate classifications. >> Not sure that one, but thank you. That's great information. I hate any other questions, conversations. Mrs. Dowski. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Craig, Mrs. Dixon, >> Mrs.

044Mr. Pearson, >> yes. >> All right. Um, you're going to have to hear me talk a little bit more, so I apologize for that. But, um, I'm excited to bring you my second superintendent. >> Volunteer coaches. Oh, there's >> number six. >> Oh, this is separate. I thought it was a superintendent recommends the following volunteer coaches for the 2526 school year. There are two. All right, Mrs. Craig. >> Yes, Mrs. Milican Dixon. Yes. >> Mrs. Ortiz, Mr. Pearson. >> Yes. >> Mrs. >> I did have one question actually. It's not really >> Is the guard related to Jared? >> This is also the head of the Geneva Wrestling Club, which is a powerhouse. >> Nice. >> Okay. We're ready. >> All right. Now you're ready for my second uh superintendence report. On the agenda, there

045are five items. A new facilities management program. We've been talking about that. I'll give you an update. We're going to talk about update on the transportation. I'm going to show you a little bit about the bus ride um program. Uh excited. We're starting the superintendent student advisory council. I'll tell you a little bit about that. I'm going to touch about on the report card data just real quickly and then I'll tell you what we're going to do up to, you know, in October and then we're going to look at the scorecard, the first 100 day plan update. So, the first thing we're looking at is the new facilities management program update. So, we are on schedule to launch this. Uh you may recall we've been trying to computerize our maintenance management system. It helps our

046schools facilitate operations, work orders, preventive maintenance, asset tracking, schedule reports. Um all of this um we have everything in the system right now. We are going to be training staff on September 26, our PD day, and the roll out will be October 3rd. So we will um we're on schedule to roll this out. We're excited about this to make us more efficient and effective with our operations. Okay. As far as a transportation update, um, want to give you some really, really good >> I'm sorry, I had a question. >> So, when you say new facilities, man, you mean the programs new, not just talking about the new facility. >> Correct. >> This is a new entire district with a new system. >> Correct. >> Yes, that's right. I think it's the new program, not new

047facilities. I can see why that might look confusing, but thank you for that clarification. All right. As far as our transportation update, since we last talked in September, they have added a um a 4 day a week bus driver who does have a CDL. Um they are pursuing another career, so they can't work five days. if they could work five days, they would be a full-time bus driver and we'd open up another um another route. Um but he's doing an awesome job. And from the last month, you may recall we put out uh and thank you for approving the trainee program. You'll see that we did approve two trainees today. So, we have two people in our training program. Um they're starting the training. It takes about two to three months. Kathy Odigard is actually

048going to become a trainer. So that will speed up that process. So as long as they stay within the program in two or three months, we'll have two more certified bus drivers, which will give us so much more opportunity to open up some routes and to do what we need to do. Bus drivers are doing an awesome job transportation thus far, getting kids where they need to go. But this will give us, you know, three people in the last month. I'm very proud that this program has actually paid dividends already. So, >> excellent. And Kathy >> and Kathy, >> Kathy, good. Kathy good. Kathy good all the time. So, thank you Kathy to public. Yeah. Now, >> I wanted to show you a little bit about bus right now. Now, bus right is our new

049online program that I know people are waiting for. So, I'm going to attempt to show you what it looks like. Okay. I have about two minutes more training than all of you in this audience. So, um, but I'm going to do my best. I did work on this. Um, the bus drivers are going to be trained on September 26th. We have all the equipment in house. They're being installed and, um, we should have this out sometime in October. So, I'm going to see if this works. So, I'm going to take you to bus, right? Now, parents do not have access to the app yet until we open up all the routes, okay? But I just want to kind of give you just a real quick glimpse of of what this looked like and how what

050a game changer this is for our transportation department. So they have to create all the routes. So this is I have an administrative obviously administrative function here to go into all these routes. I'm just going to take you to a route. We do take kids to spectrum and this gives you an idea of what a route looks like. Okay. So this is what a route looks like. Um, it really gives the idea of the address. It gives times. And let's just say we get a call from a parent that says, "Is the drop off where you're dropping off the most safe for students?" Right? In the past, what did we have to do? We had to go out. We had to go look at it. Well, what they can do here, I'm going to see

051if I can get this to work. Is they can do it right at their desktop. So, what this does is I'm going to open up, see if I can do this. What is Spectrum? >> We take students to Spectrum. >> Yeah. So, Spectrum is a location that we take students to. It's just a location. >> It's an It's an outside facility that we take students. >> Okay. So, let's just say um this gives you the route of what we're doing. And these are all the stops. Now, let's say number five here. And let's see if I can make this a little bit bigger. Let's say we're not sure on number five. This is on um trumble uh locker plant. Take this little guy over here. And I'm going to drop it right here. And what

052this does is it opens up the actual location of where this route is. And then you could move this route around. And there is a >> room. >> Is that the old hood? >> All right. And then you see this is where students get picked up. But let's say we wanted to move this over here. We would just move it over here. We would save this. And then what would happen is when the parent would look at their app, it shows exactly where the location is where students get picked up. Um, so all of our routes, we have 12 routes right now. They're constructing all the routes. And um, if they wanted to move the route, they just have to click on here and move the route and it calculates everything. If a parent calls

053up and says, "Is there a closer route for me?" It calculates the closest route to where that person is. and um and then you can make that adjustment. So, I just wanted to kind of give you a glimpse. Again, I haven't had a ton of training. I went through one training module with this, but this really is a game changer on on so many aspect. There's so many different ways you can do AM routes, PM routes. If you need to change a bus driver, you change the bus driver and in the bus drivers, they have an app that uh or a Chromebook that comes up and it shows exactly where the bus driver needs to go. there's special pickups, if there's special situations, the notes come up right on the application. Um, so if we

054do have a sub, they'll know exactly what to do and where to do it. >> Will it bear in mind when we have implement weather? >> Yes. >> Okay. >> It does bear in mind. It gives you different routes. Um, if there's an accident, it'll reroute you. And then at the beginning of this, you'll probably see the dashboard. I'm going to disregard this because I don't want to um So you can send notifications out and you can send notifications to parents, drivers or administration. >> Oh, that's wonderful. >> And it's just a matter of putting in the information and sending it. It goes right to the app. >> Oh, that's great. And we have to invite the parents. >> Yeah. So what'll happen is in October there is a you know the uh bus ride

055is really good about the communication and then we'll send it to parents and then they'll have to apply or you know get on the app put their information in >> but not just can look at our bus routes there the parent has to be invited >> the parents has to be invited and then there's a special code that the parent has that they can put in to to gather that information. was looking at that too. There are a few cyber security rollouts and what's really cool is these each app is encrypted separately. So it has a special lock on it and it can only be unlocked by your code in your device. So if someone else tries to use your code on a different phone and tries to activate it, it doesn't rout back to

056your phone number and factor in you throw that little code in. It won't allow them to track anything. So that's actually really really cool. And the encryption changes. So you'll unlock it every once in a while. Um you have to relog in but it the encryption keys do change. And this is the first education solution I've seen that does that which is awesome because right now I'm sure you're seeing what I'm seeing. There's a lot of low endpoint encryption that's being hacked by people. What they're doing is they're looking at school infrastructure and saying hey that computer is really old. Let's see if we can get some information out of it. Uh processes like this stop that from being an issue later on. And um and we do get questions like what if information changes

057like if someone moves if data changes on a daily basis and I get a report every morning about 5 in the morning there's a data dump every morning that updates everything and then all the administrators get an uh you know an email showing the different changes. >> So does it work with final forms? >> It works with a progress book. >> It works with progress. So the parent can go in and change their address or something like that. >> So if if our registar gets someone that registers or there is a change of address then it goes from our final four and it goes progress book and it dumps it every night into the system. >> So they would still start the way they start. They wouldn't be able to initiate that process from the

058>> No. And you can't just change your address. No, you have to go through our registration. >> I moved >> overnight, >> right? What? >> But what's nice about it is, you know, you know, right now what we're doing is we're creating documents and then if there are changes, then we have to change those documents. This is an automatic upload. So, I know that was a lot, but I I thought it needed to be said because I know transportation is something that's on the minds of everyone, but we are on track >> to have an October release. >> Good. >> Thank you so much. >> Okay. >> Uh students super uh superintendent student advisory council. I'm really excited about this. So, we have a grades 9 through 12. We want to the purpose of this

059is to have meaningful voice in shaping Geneva area city schools. Review and connect with the district's mission, vision, and goals. Provide input on planning and decision making. Um, I'm going to talk about the students, but this is a studentdriven council. So, they're going to tell me what goals that they want. Um, and I'm excited to meet with all of them. Uh, lead, uh, I'm going to suggest a fundraising event, but they may not want a fundraising event. They may want to do something else. So, we're going to go through that and um if the board is okay with this, beginning in October, October, I'm going to have two students from the committee present high school updates at each board meeting. So, they'll be, you know, what's going on at the high school and give each

060of those students an opportunity uh for some leadership and um for coming to talk to the board of the community. So, we'll see how they like that. Uh our first meeting, we're going to meet monthly. Our first meeting is the 26th. I know it's no school for students, but I actually had 17 that applied and want to do this. So, I I hope uh I hope they show up. They're going to show up. They sound like awesome kids. Um so, we're going to meet 17 students have applied and um I did ask them all to come on the 26th. uh their commitment will be the remainder of this year with the option to reapply next year and it was based on application responses positive contributions and this 17 students I've read what they want to

061do and they are so excited just from reading it that I'm real excited to meet them and and get this started >> will all your meetings be this long >> no all day >> no I'm going to talk to the students I know many of the these students are in extracurricular activities so we're not setting the schedule until we all come together and um decide when we want to meet. >> Thank you for this as well, Paul. You're welcome. >> This is another thing been on this is carrying my list for a while trying to get this going. So, thank you for that. >> Sure. I'm I'm really looking forward to this this work of the students. All right. Now, let's talk about the report card data. The uh the report card data came out

062at 10:00 a.m. on Monday. Today's Wednesday. And I want to just give you that perspective. So Jennifer and I and our team is is currently looking through all that data. Um so I just want to give you just a little bit of what the data stated and then talked about our next step. So we are ranked three out of five stars. Um out of the 29 schools in the county here is how we rank. So Geneva Platt Spencer Elementary School is a fourstar school. They actually got a five star in progress on growing kids. and they are second in the county out of 29 schools. I think that's absolutely amazing. Congratulations >> Dam Bersenko and the and the staff at um GPS. I mean just we got >> Geneva High School got three and a

063half stars and they're 10th in the county. Um and Austin Elementary School 3.5 stars and they're 12th in the county. Uh >> who's number one in the county in the GPS category? >> What's that? Who's number one in the county? >> Jefferson Elementary. >> Yeah, >> of course they are. >> But I do want to give them a round of applause. >> I also want to say I don't want to disregard the other buildings. There are a lot of really positive things going on in every one of our buildings. And I want to state that publicly. Um, what our job now is to really look at the data is to see what we can do to continue to improve student achievement. I know Jen met with the principles yesterday. Was it yesterday? >> Tuesday. >>

064That was yesterday. >> See, this you and I I don't know how Thursday. >> Yeah. Not yesterday. And and we're looking at the data and we're creating building level action plans based on the data and based on goals moving forward. with collaboration from staff. You got to have collaboration from staff to do any of this. So, what I'm asking the board if you're okay with it in October, Jen and I would like to come and my uh presentation is going to be to do a deep dive into the data and to tell you a little bit about our building action plans and what we're doing to move student achievement forward as a collaborative group. Okay. So, um that'll give us time from now until October to uh get that information um together. We're going to

065look at um the history and bring that forward to you. So, I I'm not anticipating an hour presentation, okay? Because I don't know if you want me to do an hour presentation, but I do want to do a deep dive and give you um the basis of what we're doing so that we can set our goals and that the board is and the community knows that we're really serious about student achievement, what we're doing. I am absolutely down for that. And I think >> I think the community needs to understand too that you know report report card data release and and what the state rules out is a constant moving target and and I'm just going to say it if they are the line moves every year. What they assess moves every year and the

066performance index changes every year. So what one school is focused on as you know I know where I work you know we think we're knocking that out of the park and then our performance index you think 100's great we only had 107 this year but your neighbor over here had 112 and you're like but I thought 100 was what we're going for it's a constant moving target so you know it's definitely collaboration it's definitely getting with your teachers and drilling down in that data to figure out those those tiny little gaps where you can that performance index you can close it a little bit because that's where we're going to raise it at but our teachers are amazing and our leadership is top-notch and I have absolutely no doubt that it's going to be phenomenal

067so no doubt thank you all >> if I can just be blunt which I known for being >> I don't know >> these uh these these scores would have been a lot higher if we had listened to the staff innately about resources being spread over testing dates I think I had asked about that several times And I've been told that it absolutely will not be all tested on the same day. And I just want to say that the data will speak for itself. But in your analysis, I think we should look at resources who we all had on deck. Hadn't during testing one absence been reported by a staff member, everything would have hit the fan. And I know that I'm supposed to be kind and make an excuse for that, but I don't have

068one. >> And if we had listened to staff in that, we would have gotten out in front of that. So to see a 3.5 in a school that was having an issue that many people in the audience here today have told us about I think that we would probably be closer to a four than we were and so we will be all right and finally you'll see this probably at every presentation. So the first 100 days remember we're building trust transparency improve communication and operation and strengthening the staff to support enhancing academic excellence. This is also on the superintendent page. I did update update this and it's a scorec card and it's a personal scorecard for me as well because I do look at this often and if you go down to the first 30

069days you'll see that um we are uh completing some things right here. Um so I'm going to continue to update this. We'll get 31 through 60 days in and then um and then uh I'll do another um we'll look at what we need to do and then I'll keep adding to this. So that keeps me on my toes. All right, questions. >> Okay, so I don't need that quite yet. >> First thing up is the uh treasures financial report. So I did send it to right really quick yesterday. Um and I did print off the main draft for you just so you have a copy. Again, we're two years or I'm sorry, two years into the two months into the fiscal year. Um so this is uh going against the forecast which was approved in

070May which had the revision that we approved actually last month with the transfer of the funds into our our new funds. So um right now we are you know pretty good on on track to where we thought we were going to be even last year. Um tonight we will go through the new forecast. So this will be changed for next month. Um, but you know, it kind of just outlies where we are revenue-wise compared to last year at this time. Um, and then compared to what we thought we would be also on the forecast, >> these are so pretty and clear. Thank you. >> It's so easy to read the program we're using. But yes, I think >> I think you know reading financials at least, you know, with graphs and colors are a little

071more entertaining than a bunch of numbers on >> Well, it's easier to it's easier to digest like this. So, thank you. >> Also, when it says favorable a lot, it's very nice. So, we stress the word favorable. >> Yes. >> And it's in highlight. >> I need a motion in a second. I'm sorry. Second. >> Any other questions? Roll. >> Mrs. Milican Dixon. Yes. Mrs. Ortiz. Yes. Mr. Pearson. Yes. Mrs. Syolski. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Craig. >> Yes. >> Um, I recommend the approval of the closed enclosed resolution. This is authorization to purchase from purchase from Ohio Schools Council school vans and buses. Um, so sorry. Let's go with the motion. Second. >> Can I get a motion, please? So move. >> Second. All right. Go. >> So, this is um every year we approve

072a um a resolution so we can uh go through Ohio schools council. They actually do all the research for the pricing on bus uh buses themselves and other transportation vehicles we must we can use. Um so they kind of do all the leg work for us so we don't have to do you know go do all the research. So we kind of told them this year we're kind of looking at two new buses and um two vans. So, you know, they take that into consideration on how many throughout um all the other districts in northeast Ohio. Actually, I think it's what did you say? Northern Ohio. Well, we met with Ohio school council. They they deal with quite a few. >> Yes, >> the second one. Okay, let me make sure. There's two different ones.

073>> Oh, actually, >> sorry. We're gonna we're going to rescale. So the first resolution is is because we are looking to purchase today a nine passenger van. So that's why we are able to use last year's bid pricing. So that's why that the first resolution does say from the quotes received last November. So um talking with the um athletic department, we had purchased some vans last year. They were not nine passenger vans. They were a little bit smaller. they don't do us a lot of good. So, um >> the first one I was just going to ask the same thing. >> So, yes, the first one is we are actually purchasing from last year's bids through our house council um a nine passenger bid which we will take out of our PI funds um to

074purchase this. They have it in stock. So, once we get this approved um we can submit the purchase order to them and we can get that so it can be used for the golf team. We don't have enough storage in the back to help us take this without taking, you know, >> okay, good. >> Outsourcing the transportation >> to do this. I apologize. So that's what this one is to purchase this from the bids from last year. >> Do they win a lot? >> I don't know. Is there someone we can ask? >> Just been hearing some rumors. >> Rumors. All rumors. >> Yeah. Any questions about that now that we >> No, >> distinguish between the two is when we're >> Yes. So then we'll talk about that. >> Okay. >> So are you

075ready for >> Yes. >> Okay. Any other discussion about that? >> Okay. Take >> Mrs. Ortiz. Yes. Mr. Pierce. >> Yes. >> Molski. Yes. >> Mrs. Craig. Yes. And Mrs. Milan Dixon. >> Yes. >> Okay. Let's let's revamp. Let's go for the Ohio schools council cooperative advertising and receiving bids for school bus chassis and bodies. >> So move. Second. >> Okay. Okay. So again, this one really quick is that we are going to participate in getting quotes coming up uh to purchase. This is where we are looking to purchase two new school buses and maybe two new bands. Now, we may change that just because we're purchasing one now, but again, this is not >> This is just to get the quotes. >> Okay. >> For us, >> how many of the seven passenger vans

076do we have? >> Seven and nine. >> We had bought two. I thought we had two >> two new ones. >> So, are we going to get rid of those? >> No, because we thought So, we are using one. We have that new uh pony driver which we had made into a larger position. So, they are actually taking some of our students there. We've combined it. >> Perfect. >> Instead of outsourcing that >> I'm sorry, what? >> So, we the seven passenger >> van with the bus. >> Well, it's the same person who's driving. She got van certified to carry students. >> Oh, that's right. So instead of making it a two and a half position >> hour position, it's now a seven hour position. So she could do our student in the morning student

077in the afternoon and do um our our inner office in the afternoon. Correct. >> So we're utilizing that. We talked about um the gentleman um what is that? CPI CDI CIP. >> Oh yes. It's a >> career based enrichment. So he was using his own personal car to travel to all the businesses for the students. So we are going to start utilizing >> instead of paying mileage, right? We're just going to use our vehicle that we have. So >> excellent. We are not going to get rid of anything that >> Perfect. That sounds wonderful. Okay. Got it. >> Love it. All right. Anything else? All right. Roll call. Lisa Pearson. Yes, >> Mrs. Craig. >> Yes, >> Mrs. Melikin Dixon. >> Yes, >> Mrs. Ortiz. Yes. Nothing else from Lost. >> Nothing else from you.

078>> That's another grab that. Uh the treasur recommends the approval of the forecast which is the projection of revenues and expenditures >> for the current fiscal year and the ensuing four fiscal years as required by house bill 12 >> second. >> Okay. So this is a change. Normally the Fiser forecast was presented in May and November of every year. Um with the budget bill passing in June, they have changed the dates. So the dates will now be um August by the end of August and the end of February. Well, because they made this they passed this on June 30th. They thought let's split the difference between August 31st and November 30th and they made it um October 15th, which is the date of our board meeting next month. So that wasn't going to work. So

079instead of having special board meeting, we thought we would just get it accomplished today. Um so it's a little bit different um just because they changed it from a five-year forecast to a four-year forecast. The software we are still modeling five years out. So you'll see that. But when the information is submitted, it will only be submitted for four years. Um so it does again everything will look the same as it has in the past. So, I'm kind of just going to hit the highlights on here because again, it's not very exciting on most part except for the fact the software does make it a little prettier than it's been in the past, right? Um overall, you know, we have where we're at today in 2025, what our expenditures are going to be in the

080next five years, uh where our cash balance is going, and kind of just kind of touch on on things that are changing um that kind of stand out that aren't the norm. You know, this will be posted on the website tomorrow. Uh we have I worked with Mr. Marbell and we have kind of moved the financial information over to the treasures page on the website. So instead of trying to search for it and not being able to find it, it's buried in the board of education page. All the forecasts are listed. You can click on there and this will be on here. Um again, this pretty graph kind of shows um where we're at uh where the revenues are in blue as compared to the expenditures. um 2026 we are actually expecting our expecting our

081expenditures to be a little bit lower than our um revenues which is a great thing but as you can see as we go into 2030 uh that yellow line will go up higher and above our expenditures deficit spending kind of go the state is kind of looking at cash balance cash on hand um our our policy is 90 days is where we have to start getting worried. You can see in uh 2030 which is again a far way to project is that we're finally getting close to uh where we are talking about you know how to get our our cash balance our cash on hand days increased. Our revenue overall you can see that 48% in the green comes from local taxes. That's our real estate tax, our public utility tax and our income tax.

082Um as you know we have half percent uh school district tax. So that does fall underneath there. State sources, I'll touch base on those. Um what happened with the new budget that came through where we stand. Um so we get state funding, we have restricted funding and we get a state share or roll back um that's a small percentage and then we have other revenue. Other revenues would be um payment in le of that we have for spire. It is our interest income. Real quick, I just want to touch base on this little graph here. Kind of shows our revenues and where it's projected. I just want to point out, we'll talk about uh the orange on here. That is the falling off of the uh 2029 income tax and what that will do to

083our um our revenue sources and what it'll do to our cash balance. Real estate property tax again makes up um this one makes up 29.37%. This is uh our property tax revenue that comes in. We are on the floor. So um we are guaranteed 20 mill of of millillage here. Um so that comes into play. So when um your property values do increase right now we are getting um a little bit more income from your property tax increase. Uh we are expecting the value to change. They do do the uh updated reappraisals in 2026. So we will see that uh difference in income coming in. You can see a little bit of a higher spike in 2027. That's where that will start showing up. Your public property public utility that is your utilities. Um we

084were just aware if you look down here normally we have a value change of um about 820,000 starting in 2027 they said that value change will be significantly when we do some other that will go towards our taxes and I just got wind of that in the last probably 10 days. Here we go. School district income tax. This makes up 15.79% of our revenues. Um real quick as you know in uh uh 2018, the voters voted on the 1.5 uh percent income tax, earned income tax. Uh it went into effect January 1st of 2019. So you can see in fiscal 19, I'm sorry, fiscal 2029 here. So remember taxes are on a calendar year and we are on a fiscal year. So we go July to June. Um so even though you are going to

085be paying it through the end of um you know for us that's only uh for that's only half the year. So we will get the rest of you know collections that you're going to pay you when you file your taxes in uh the spring of 2029. So oh it's 1.25. I apologize. >> I know. >> So without that in 2030, >> correct? You can see 20 2030. Yes, >> we are down. >> She she means 1.25 so you guys aren't freaking out. >> It's not 1.5, it's 1.25. >> What is >> the school district? >> Yeah. >> 25. Yes, >> it's correct. I hear you just missed. Yes, I discussed. >> So again, it will be a significant, you know, loss in revenue. Um, meaning that we will probably have to go no later than

086November of 2028. So there is no uh interrupted collection on that >> conversation happen. >> Unrestricted. This is state aid. Um so we just did uh finish with the uh the budget bill for the next two years. They are uh continuing with the current funding. So we are getting six and seven I'm sorry five seven six and seven um of the years we do have restricted funding. So here we did talk about in the previous forecast in 2025 fiscal year. Last year we did go C which is the uh the free lunch and breakfast for everyone. Um so what that did do is it increased our um DPIA funds which are our disadvantaged people impact aid funds by over a million dollars. Um so that is money that is restricted for certain things to um

087to help those children who are affected. Um so if we looked at last year um we kind of lost a little bit of money in our um in our lunchroom. We lost about $200,000 but we gained a million dollars that we can spend towards these students. So um I did put it in that we were going to continue that. We are continuing that through 2026 just so we could see um what it does and then we can still have those conversations yearly. Um and with a new uh food service person this year, she is kind of looking at the the purchasing and the menus and where we can make some cost savings on that aspect. So um you know we'll see what the the loss is if there's any loss at all uh this year.

088Um and then like I said make that decision yearly on on continuing that C local share property taxes that's homestead and roll back. Um those are kind of you know just those will increase as property tax values increase. There is no new ones coming. This uh was in house bill 59 which eliminated which no new roll backs um since 2013. Again, all other property revenues um I'm sorry, other operating 11 revenues. Um again, most most of this funds are investments. Um I did change as I came in here. Uh the old treasurer did do self-investing, which is a lot better than I would ever want to do for district funds. So, uh we did uh we do have a company, Ree, uh who does handle the investments. And then we also, um we have our

089money invested Star Bank, which is a um is is where most of the schools do. It's a really quick I can take my money out at any time. It's kind of just, you know, a nice savings account, which has a higher interest rate than any banks that we can get around here. Um we do have a little bit of loss coming in 2028. You can see uh we do have a payment in lie of with spire. Uh they do give us 120 $197,000 each year. That does expire at the end of the spire contract. >> And that's which year? I'm sorry. That's >> last year was 2027. Correct. >> Other funding sources are just um miscellaneous things. Um last year or I'm sorry this year we did uh at the end of last year I

090did have to advance money to the food service fund. We were negative at the end because of the timing error or timing request. So we did get that money back in July. So you can see that bump up. Normally we don't have that. So those are just rebates and refunds of prior year expenditures. Um was a little bit higher in prior years when we had paid to participate. people if they paid in July and it was due in June again it would fall into here expenditures expenditures um make the world here so we had higher expenditures and we kind of will touch base you know 2025 and going forward and where it goes from there personnel is salaries uh account for 50 almost 52% of our budget we are are in the second year of

091our uh negotiated agreements. So um this is the final year of the teachers union, the gaddy union, and this is year two of three of the um OC union, the classified union. Employee benefits make up 26.42. Um so we had in 2024 we had a little bit of an extra payment. we did do a a plat payment for health insurance uh to keep the cost lower to the employees. Um so this year we had a uh a 5% increase after having a 13% increase in last year. So across the board it's forecasted for another eight. Um little things that are coming in on both salaries and benefits. Uh last year we did have about $400,000 that we had in a student wellness fund that we were given in 2021. Um which is again restricted things

092that we can use to be purchased with that. I had to use up those funds or we would have lost them. So I had $800,000 that we would normally spend in the general fund. I did put to that fund. So that $800,000 is coming back this year into the general fund. So, we do have a little bump in both salaries and benefits and a little bit of purchase services of things that were um purchased last year out of those funds. >> Is that the difference then between 25 and 26? >> That's why it drops like that. >> Oh, you mean in in the overall? Yeah. >> Well, we kind of we can kind of look at the different graphs here. >> Okay. and we'll see which one is, you know, uh purchase services. Those are

093all our contracted services. Um right now the highest um purchase service is probably people outside people transportation. Um you know that's like that with every district. Uh everyone is having a shortage of bus drivers. Everyone does have to contract you know most people have to contract it. um professional and technical services. That would be our legal fees. Um there's just >> we're hoping to see that get a little smaller. >> Yes, we are. Um just kind of touch base. Let me let me kind of touch base on this little large >> up and downs on this one. Um this is supplies. Um you can see in 2025 we were a little bit lower. um 2026 we're going to be a little bit higher. We did have the Amplify which was the curriculum um that we

094did purchase. We, you know, talked about it last year, but we paid the bill again um amplify for K through five reading curriculum. Um 2027 we are set to purchase a new K through 12 math curriculum and it is about a cost of over a million dollars. So we know that that is coming and we will plan for that. um you know going forward we will look at curriculums and so we can plan out in future years um you know I didn't want to bombard uh Dr. Lombardo with okay I need to know now so I think there's you know for for five years out so we also have fuel costs in there which again have you know ebed and yes ebed and flowed over the years a little bit better uh capital outlay So,

095um, as talked about when at the end of June, we kind of have made those those new funds. Uh, so we do have a capital improvement fund. Um, so our buses will no longer come out of the general fund for a few years. We still have some money left in our PI fund, which uh has gone away after not being re uh voted on or renewed. Um, so again, we are going to keep those costs low. We're on on the capital improvement a capital outlay. I'm sorry. >> We have no inter I'm sorry. Why does it jump so much from 24 to 25 the capital? >> Well, because we are switching. Yes, we're switching off and on where it came from. So uh 23 and 24 a lot of our buses came out of um

096>> the general fund. >> No, they were actually coming out of Esser funds. >> Oh, okay. >> You have to remember. Yes. So yes, we have the you know the runoff of er funds. So things came back in in 2025. >> Um you know if we have a large um improvement to the building, right? So it's not just a repair maintenance. It's, you know, if we have a new roof, a major reconstruction of and it would come out of capital outlayary fund. >> Okay. Thank you. >> So, yes, we've had a lot of, you know, with these grant funds, you know, trying to keep track of where your money and the pots it can go through and you know, >> so you know, it's great for a year, but then, you know, that was the

097that was the ESSER cliff was everything you funded through ESSER eventually has to come back to the general fund. So, Yes. And we did well at that, right? We did that. Well, we didn't have to draw. >> No, we did not. Yes. >> The things that that were purchased in Geneva with Esser funds were were pretty much a lot of one time purchases. Correct. It was things. >> Correct. did not, you know, it did cover a little bit of salaries um because we, you know, for um extra hours for custodians, you know, for that. >> Um here we have other objects. This is a lot of this is things we don't have control over. Um it is the auditor fees for them collecting our property taxes. Um we did have a payment for a settlement

098agreement in 2025 which did increase that um which obviously was a one-time which was why it was larger in 2025. Other financing these are transfers. So you can see at the end of 2025 we did make that one-time transfer. Um I made an 77.5 million to the 070 no capital improvement funds and 500,000 to a severance fund. Um going forward uh most listed of these this fund this transfer in 2026 and on will be for athletics. Again come February I will look at to see how our food service um account is doing because we may have to permanently transfer funds there. We did have enough of a reserve balance that I did not I just had to advance it because I knew it was coming. Um but that may not be the case next year.

099So this is the main um summarization of everything. Then this is what is submitted to the state. Um so it does show our cash balance um this year without our levies. Um we are at 13 million, 13 million next year, 12.7 the following year. Um and the only place you see the real drop is going to be as that income tax uh levy does fall off. Uh but if you do go down to this bottom row on 12.010 if we do renew it where our cash balances will be. Um also I've just included that you can look at in your leisure are just some fun little graphs so you can you know kind of see where everything >> and what is that do? >> Yeah I do love. >> So return thought one second. So,

100what percentage does that give us with the with the push to lower that percentage of amount of cash on hand we're allowed to have? >> Yes, we are. Correct. Yes. Yes. >> Correct. >> I would have to run and get you the exact percentage. Yes. But with that at that level or above that level, >> we are it was 40% that was line vetoed. Right. >> Correct. >> 40% number. Is that likely to go up or down? Do you know if Let me read. >> I would be very surprised if they can revive that in the veto. And the reason why is it's so egregiously out of touch and has just completely blew through several already formulated fair school funding plans. You're going to see a lot of bipartisan support and opposition for it because

101the taxpayers already went from 45 to 65% property taxes in the past 30 years and they're going to have a hard time justifying how much of an ask every not just us your your local municipalities, your emergency services, your regional healthcare facilities will have to ask if something like that would pass and eventually go elsewhere. I I I don't want to speculate that I think it would happen. I'll defer to you because you know way more about this than me, but just three things. >> We don't have enough time for me to get started on this. >> Yeah. I don't I don't I don't think that it'll be revived. I don't even want to say a percentage because I don't want to will it into existence, but I don't think that that will happen. >>

102Okay. >> I I would I would lean into what he says there. I just don't I don't I do not foresee it. >> Okay. >> To summarize it, it would be like if I told you you can't have a savings account for, >> right? If we had a huge carryover and everyone was getting thousands upon thousands back, I would agree with Mr. Thomas. Um but that is just not the case. >> Yeah. >> Right. And and again with that money being in that capital improvement, you know, we have allocated it to the portion right now of the athletic facility. >> Correct. >> Right. We also do have a a five-year plan um that also spends that money. >> Um you know, on there was the new computers. I I know we're purchasing new computers for

103um the the lab. So that's third, you know, I mean, so we are using that money as outlined in our in our capital improvement plan. >> And I and I think that piece of having a plan for those dollars, it's, you know, I I can I can lean into a sliver of just sitting on a pot of money with absolutely no allocation of it serving students or districts. But I mean I think we obviously have a very a solid plan and great conversations as to what those dollars are going for. So but yes >> and so that yes so that satisfies that. I think that's true. I think the motivation was to make sure that public funds weren't just sitting there. >> Well I take contest with that because this building we're sitting in was

104built with 16y old funds. So I think that it takes our ability to have a earmark. You know, when someone donates something to a college and they say, "This is only for potentially gifted kids that be XYZ or this fund is only to be put on permanent improvement projects, something on this school's campus that lasts more than 5 years and they give us that designation, I think saying, well, that person actually doesn't know what they're talking about. We're going to take that back and redistribute it." I think it has a very strange cousin that most people probably call communism. >> Yeah. >> And I think that that is where we get into strange waters and I don't quite understand. >> I hear that. Thank you for that. Thank you very much for your report, Mrs.

105>> All right, go right in. >> Mrs. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Greg, >> yes. >> Mrs. Milican Dixon, >> yes. >> Mrs. Ortiz, >> yes. >> Mr. Pearson, >> yes. >> All right, Mr. Pearson, legislative report. So, we don't have too much in legislation from the state because now that they're all working on their campaigns to get reelected, most of them are not writing too many bills as we can imagine. I did want to talk really quickly though because I've seen a big performative push by a few people, some outright eliminating taxes and some calling for property tax reform. Um, I agree with the push for property tax reform. And really quickly, I want to talk about the burden shift that's been asked of people who own property since 1991. So in 1991, homeowners and

106farmers paid about 47 48% of the total expenses for any given school district. That's an average, right? Um we'll say that because we're more rural that that pips up a lot. We're talking about farmers. We're talking about people who own property. All right? So half. So 50% of the schools are those people since 1991. So that was what 34 35 years ago. that's now become about 67 to 70%. They're relying on us. So what that what that says to us is there's a shift somewhere. And when I looked at it in those past 35 years, we've basically seen laws, credits, and abatements given to pretty large businesses in the area. For us, it would be what would be the former great complex, which really, really, really hit us pretty hard. And so, in the last

107triannual update or by annual update, they change it two or three years quite often. We saw that about 3 to 5% of the houses in this area went up for sale and they sold. And that 3 to 5% raised your house property about 22 a.5% to if you're out in Harper's Field up as much as 30%. Which means that now your house if it was worth $100,000 was now worth $125,000 and for every $100,000 valuation your millage goes up. The 20 mil floor that we're guaranteed means innately that the millage goes up, right? So that would come towards the auditor's office and the people who formulate that reevaluation. So why am I talking about this right now with these pushes for our legislative changes? No one has talked about changing the reformulation. No one has

108talked about entering the equity fair school funding plan which basically takes the whole amount the state has and shifts it. Trumbull has different needs than Astrabula inner city schools has different needs than Geneva schools who serve as Rock Creek all the way up to Shivon and we know that and the fair school funding was bipartisan or Republican and then a local Democrat John Patterson's attempt to fix this and they basically said well I don't really like how you do finances the other person said well I don't really understand how you do finances and they said well let's figure this out then so they hashed it out and had a really successful result and it was it was not just fair it was equable What I mean is financially it was responsible. Whether you want to

109call that fiscally conservative or you want to avoid that term is your own prerogative. But what we have is pretty fair funding. In lie of that, we've seen its elimination and now we're kind of watching the tax brackets and the numbers and saying, well, there's another evaluation now coming down the pipeline for 2026. What happens? Do our properties go up? And we're not seeing anyone look at that. So, a lot of people I I've heard have been asking, well, what's the school's role in this? really nothing. I've seen local officials blame their local school districts and I I did look to see if it was our fault and it's not. >> But what I have seen over the past 35 years is those people in 2015 eliminated all of these large corporate entities from paying

110any tax at all. So if you started a small business or you had an Airbnb achieve on the lake, you'd have to pay that tax. But so long as you're a larger entity, you don't have to use that. You can increase the, let's say, amount of traffic on 534. You can you can increase the amount of maintenance need on on roads that comes back to the taxpayer. You can increase basically the value of our homes and force us into paying more, but you won't have to pay that equitable tax. So I think that if we're going to ask anyone for reform wherever you sit politically, I think that have that conversation with how is it that my property is the entity of which all of this taxes is going through and all these people who've

111had control of that from the auditor's office um from the state legislature, uh whether it's the House or the Senate and say, "Hey, how come 5% of home sales in 2023 mean now my mortgage goes up $300?" I think if we all just focused on that ask of our local elected officials, we'd probably get a more concise answer or a larger push to solve that issue instead of us having to look to 2030 and say, "Do we need to pass another effective levy that basically increases 15% of our operating budget?" Because I think that's crazy that we're increasing the tax burden on homeowners by 30%. And then saying, "But we don't really get much more for it. The money has to go somewhere." And as much as local elected officials may disagree with me, it's

112not some secret savings account because as Shel has shown us, um, we're not going to be hiding any money in here because she has it all unfortunately completely calculated in a way that you can you can look at for yourselves. This isn't a paper thing where we're hiding it at central office anymore. The answers are here and if anyone wants to talk about those tax numbers, you know, I'd be, whether we agree or disagree, I'd be willing to sit down and talk about that evaluation process. Um, so a little offkilter for probably what my normal legislative report would be, but just kind of a tax 100.5 if you will. Um, because I had to do a lot of research to understand this because before that I I was not aware of any. >> Thank you.

113>> All right. Hey, Chuck. Okay. So, the newmies are in use. They have some minor repairs or final touches that they're doing, but the kids and students are enjoying them. Um, we received a five star on the report card for the um career technical planning district report card. So in the different areas, achievement was a three star, career and post-secary readiness was a five-star, graduation rate was a five-star, and postprogram outcomes was a fivestar. And then at our last meeting, um not this Monday, but the Monday before, we had a presentation from the powers sports classroom, and I believe there were eight students, but talk about enthusiastic. So, and they're very excited and they're pushing to get FFA going again at awesome >> at Tech. So, hopefully they can do it because they were very

114passionate. >> Blue Suit Nation, baby. >> Good for a tech. Five stars. >> A tech also wrote that grant that won a ridiculous amount of money. Congrats to everyone involved on that. >> Yes. >> Awesome. All right. athletic facility discussion. >> Let's go. >> So, as you heard in public comment, we have had some inquiry on bringing um up the tennis courts from the middle school to the high school. Um we I did meet uh with Coach Torque and a representative from the USA, I'm sorry, his name was >> Oh, the JD coach. Okay. And so they came, they met with me um first to inquire about why wasn't this considered and can we consider it instead of using pickle ball courts, you know, where we had put them next to the softball field and

115the practice fields. Uh you know, could we put could we fit six tennis courts there? This way all the varsity sports would be on the high school property. Um and so I kind of did a you know we did some little digging obviously. Um they also presented that there is a a USATA which tennis association um grant out there uh that would put money towards the building of the tennis courts. Uh I think it was the grant was up to 200,000. Um stipulation is though they could only be tennis courts only, no pickle ball. So it's not like we could line them. Um, so kind of like um it was mentioned Mr. Griffith that we could line the middle school tennis courts at pickle ball courts. Um, so >> I'm sorry. That means draw the

116lines on it so that it's >> Yeah. So they're a lot smaller. So you can play pickle ball on those. Yes. >> Yes. >> So in talking to our um architectural firm who has done the drawings on there, we can I know you can't see, but we can put six tennis courts there, right? Uh they will fit. we could move the the four soccer fields, the practice fields down. They would fit their cost, right? That's always the thing. So, the cost they gave me to put four tennis courts in would be $464,000. >> Is that four or six? >> That's for six. >> Okay. >> Six tennis courts. They were 77,385 a piece. Uh times 6 is 464,310. Um, it would replace the pickle ball court that we had in the quote. >> The pickle

117ball courts were 127,492,000. >> Pickle ball courts were $127,492. >> No, that's for all that's put new that's where we're going to put the new pickle ball courts in. Right. In the original plan. >> Oh, it's not going to be the It's not going to be the current tennis courts. We're going to replace where the pickle ball courts were planned that we had included in the price. We're going to replace those with tennis courts. So the difference >> from the original quote we received is an additional $336,818. >> Why are tennis courts so much more than pickle ball? >> They are so much larger. >> Just bigger. >> Yes, much larger. >> So then what happens to have regulation distances all around? Yeah. Right. just >> more space >> more. Yes. >> So again with

118that though we have to take into consideration that there is that tennis grant out there for us too. Um >> and that's 200,000 >> that max of 200,000. Correct. >> Up to 200,000. >> Right. >> So then what happens to the maintenance of the current tennis courts that are turning into pickle ball courts? They would still need to be maintained because the thought is we have the we have a very vibrant middle school tennis program >> that plays in the fall >> and the spring >> and all summer long they have camps. So those courts would still be used for middle school >> even though there's the size of tennis court. >> Yes. So there's there >> but they're difficult to maintain >> historically in a swampy area and they're not a huge hill >>

119but we have to spend a lot of money to maintain. >> So typically tennis courts have to be re >> surface every so many years and then they actually have to be dug up and replaced every so many years. That hasn't happened. >> Well that's true for tennis courts in general. >> Yes. >> So That's why right now we have a lot of dips and we have a lot of cracks is because it it's ready to be >> it needs to be resurfaced. >> We got a quote on that too. But um but yes, so we would have to maintain the ones at the middle school and the ones at the high school. >> I was under the impression that that location's bad for tennis courts. >> That's not true. >> I would ask Mr.

120Griffith and Mr. >> I don't mention right it's kind of by the woods though too, right? So we get well it backs up to a private property but >> it probably technically >> they I mean they've been playing tennis >> in that was my high school >> not really thinking I that was the question why are our tennis courts at the middle school anyway not growing up here >> maybe it's because of the tough train that's why they're so good >> that the high school used >> that used to be the high school well I mean not that building but that site and so that's why I recommended we move or asked if we could move the dentist court to here two high from campus up in new facility. >> Right. And that's what we're

121discussing >> and just get rid of them. >> But now we always get rid of them. Correct. >> Now don't ri that tennis crowd. >> No, no, no. I don't think >> I didn't say that. >> Keep the courts. >> Those courts that I thought were difficult to maintain. >> And as Jeff was saying, they can use them for PE. They can use them for um >> well and we still have a middle school, >> right? Okay. >> And they can be lined for pickle ball which is you know what we said we would offer. >> Don't say that either. They're going to >> I know we have to drive home tonight. I get it. I get it. And then there's one more ask. Um so we also had an inquiry of putting outside B

122know where we live. >> So I did get a cost on an outside basketball court. another ask of community. >> It was another ask of the community. So a unlighted court would be about 80,000 >> and the lighting would be an additional 40,000 and so kind >> 80,000 for the >> for daylight. >> Yep. Additional 40 >> additional 120. >> Okay. So again, um you know, if if we went ahead and did all this, you know, this money would come out of the money that is set aside in that capital improvement fund. Um so we've set aside >> set aside for capital improve. >> All right. So here's another question. Don't we already have outdoor basketball courts in middle school? >> One one court. I know my kid played there all the time in middle

123school. >> Because they make them leave the property and then they come back to the property. So, this one would be, you know, we I kind of looked at the thing. I kind of asked him real quick. Um, so, well, I think we had brought up maybe on the south corner. Um, as long as the fence goes around the stadium, there is a little hole right here. There's there's a little there's a little space. We're put >> I think you know the bottom line of this is that Dr. Lombardo had attended a city Commissioner. >> Yes. >> He had attended a city council meeting and I know many of you know that we've been working with Spire and working on you know building that bridge between the district and the community. And so Spire is

124um working with the city of Geneva as their fiscal agent to bring in a community park. That community park is going to have pickle ball courts. So when you look at the big picture of having so up at at Memorial there's pickle ball courts there. >> So if Spire is also going to have a community park that's going to have pickle ball courts. As a district we're hearing the community say, you know, as a board I've had people stop me literally everywhere and tell me about, you know, we don't really need more pickle ball courts. We need we would like tennis to be there. And again, we're not a tennis family, but I hear what you're saying. Like I I and I'm really not a I mean, I've played pickle ball. It's probably not pretty,

125but like I I get that that's a a big rec sport for folks. And we were looking at doing something that was going to encompass and bring in the community. And what we were hearing as a board was the very thing that we were looking to like link arms with the community was now being something that was once again dividing the community. And that was not the that was not the purpose. So when Dr. Lombardo had attended that meeting, he's like, "Well, hold up. They're they're doing this. We've got the pickle ball courts at Memorial." So maybe we need to like take a step back and see what we can do in our build. Can we figure this out? So after we talked to Mrs. McDermott and we realized that, you know, we've got we

126knew we had put those funds in that 070 account for that um our build project. So we and then after talking with Mrs. Ibolski and then Mr. Ro coach Rose and then USA which is the tennis association knowing that that grant is available that we could apply for again not a guarantee that we would get it but we could apply for it and I think that the >> the odds would probably be in our favor that we could probably get that. Um, so that's a nice chunk of money to go go towards that. And then knowing that we would apply for that, but we wouldn't be able to line those courts for pickle ball, but knowing that there's all these pickle ball options in our community that we could say, hey, we're not doing this.

127We heard what you were saying. We're going to do this instead. And then there was a big push in the community as well for a basketball court here. I get that there's one at the middle school, but we also have this entire community over here, this development over here with kids that are all the time out riding their bikes that come over here. We've got, you know, all the fields back here, soccer, baseball. I mean, the high school is a place where families are literally I know kids come to lift weights early in the morning. I mean, there's literally people here from 6:00 to 11 o'clock at night. Yeah. So, I I think that having a basketball court here would also be a great idea provided, you know, we can make sure that it's suitable

128and there's not any, you know, mischief. Officer, you all could probably help us with that, but you know, Okay, perfect. So, you know, making sure that it's it's a place where kids can come and and everybody's safe and using it appropriately would be, you know, also key. There's a little space that um you know there is some gating around our the stadium the the hopeful stadium um that would have that would be a possible um spot for that basketball area. But again that's something we could really really squeeze in anywhere honestly. So I mean but the point is is we're we're listening to you and we're we want to be transparent in this process. So, I mean, yes, we have to think about the dollars and cents of it, but we're also thinking about all

129of these pieces and parts. And with Dr. Lombardo attending council meetings and listening to what they're doing with the city and what Spire is doing and the conversations that we're having with them, again, linking arms, working with the community, having the conversations, figuring this out, and we want everybody to be involved in this. We don't want an undercurrent in the community that's saying, "Okay, well, here this here they go again doing whatever they want to do." No, we want everybody to be a part of this and we want everybody's support. So, I think that's kind of what we're coming to you with as far as we hear you. This is what we're thinking. What do you think? And this is where we're at. So, >> beautiful. >> And they ask the taxpayers doesn't change. Again,

130anything that would, you know, difference in price is something that the board would pick up. >> Um, that is set in stone 1.96 mills. $69 per $100,000 of of assessed value um is what same thing that you know we said that we would ask the taxpayers for is what we're going to ask. We're just talking about improving what we said we were going to do. >> Yes. >> Perfect. >> Great idea. I just didn't know. That was my question. >> Don't we already have basketball court? >> I don't know. >> Yes. >> So good. Yay. >> Yep. So >> anyway, that's where it stands. So, okay. >> Great. Any board member comments for courts? >> I have a couple questions. Who's going to capital conference and are we registered? And is anyone else interested in

131going to the one at the Galaxy November, >> October the USBA regional situation? I would like approval to go to that. And if anyone would like to join me, That would be great. >> The date on the exact >> I'm working on it. >> October 1st 5:30 to 8:30 Galaxy Banquet Center in Wadssworth out anybody else. >> I think that's conference for me. I don't think I can. >> Okay. So, if it's just me, I still want to go. So, um, can I get a motion to allow me to go? >> You know what? That's conference the next week. I could go to that one if you would like to go. Want me to register you also? >> Where is it out? Did you see >> Galaxy restaurant? Is that where I got my big

132old >> um Yeah, I'll go. >> Okay. Thank you, Jack. And we did temple conference last time, right? Let's take a motion and then I'll give it a go. >> Okay. >> Need a motion? >> Moved. >> Second. >> Uh, Mrs. Craig. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Milan Dixon. Yes. >> Mr. Ortiz. >> Mr. Pearson. >> Mrs. Yes. >> Okay. So, capital conference you we are the people who said they were going to attend. So, I have Mrs. Milikin Dixon, Mrs. Craig and Mrs. Syolski, Dr. Lombardo, myself, we are all registered. Um, a little craziness with the hotels yesterday, but we do have a place to stay. Um, as I logged in with at the exact second of 9:00, I was in a queue of 22nd in line. >> Yeah. >> Uh, there were over a

133thousand school districts trying to get a hotel at the same exact moment. >> Yes. >> Um, so we are a little bit off. It's a very lovely hotel. Um I will get you all I will change all the registrations out of my name so you will get an email in the next two days with the information. Um so we will be for Sunday the 16th and uh Monday night 17th of November. Um I did talk to the treasures uh county this morning and they will have a county dinner again like last year that will be on Monday night. So we do have plans for that. Um Dr. Lumbar and I talked about trying to get together maybe for the five of us to have a a dinner on Sunday while we're there. So, we'll talk

134about that next. Okay. But yes, >> Monday night. >> Yes. >> We have a rep for the business meeting. >> Yes. All right. Thank you all. >> So I will register your both of you for that. Thanks. Good. Thank you. >> Any other comments. That's all I have. >> Okay. The board will hold an executive session for the purpose of considering the appointment, employment, discipline, promotion, demotion, or compensation of a public employer official or the investigation of charges or complaints against the public employer official. I need a motion. >> Roll call. >> Mrs. Craig. Yes. Mrs. Mill. Yeah. Mr. Mr. Pearson. Yes. Mrs. Yes. Motion carries 8:23. We will not be taking any action after we come back from session. Thank you and have a great evening.