October 2025 Goshen Local School District Board of Education Meeting

001October 13, 2025. Go board of education meeting to order at 6:30 p.m. Mr. Shinkle, can you please call the role? >> Mr. West. >> Mrs. Mury >> here. >> Mrs. Paparazzi >> here. >> Mr. Rivera >> here. Mr. Gray >> here. I have a motion to approve tonight's agenda. >> Moved. >> Second. >> And Bill has made the motion. Lisa, who second? Any discussion? >> Mr. Shankle, can you please call the role? >> Mrs. Warkey. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Papro. >> Yes. >> Mr. Raer. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Gray. >> Yes. >> I'd like to invite everyone to join me in a brief moment of silence. Thank you. Please stand and join our high school principal, Stephanie Walker, as she leads us in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the

002United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. >> We welcome Principal Walker to share our student achievement for the night from High School. >> Fantastic. Thank you so much for having me here again. Um, this is always one of the most exciting uh evenings that I have because um gosh, bragging about the people that you work with every single day is um definitely a a highlight for any any educator. Um, we do have a lot of people that we're going to recognize today. But if you would flip to that second slide, I've got a little bit that I want to talk about before I turn it loose to Miss. Um, as you know, I think, um, sometimes

003we get, um, well, sometimes it's good to know why are we having the conversations that we're having. And the big part is I want to start by bragging a little bit because of course we're here. And we uh, had a 4.5 rating on our report card from the state of Ohio. I tell you that because we are incredibly competitive at the high school. We're compet competitive at the district level and 4.5 is fantastic. However, it's not good enough yet. It's not good enough. I believe that this time next year, I'm calling it out. We're going to be sitting at a five-star rating. And there are some thoughts behind that as to why I think we're gonna we're going to meet that um meet that mark. You're going to see up here that college and career

004readiness, we had four stars this past year. The interesting thing about college and career readiness is that the data is one year in the rear. So although our report card was about the class of 2025 and all of our students uh that were here last year, anything that is CCR related was one year behind. So our think about our class of 2024's data is in the report card for the 25 school year. So again, we got four stars. So we already know and we have been extremely intentional about the work that we have been doing. We've put in the work. We have we have thought through and created goals that are going to result in us being a five-star rating because it's a year in the a year in the rear. That's hard for me

005to say, a year in the rear. We already know that we have met the criteria to be a five-star rating next year in CCR, which if all things continue, let's say equal to where we were and everything else, that is going to bring us up, I believe, to a five-star next year. So, I'm super super excited about that. And I tell you that because I'm going to use the word again, intentional. we were super intentional about CCR and knowing what what the criteria was and um yes, it's great to have a five on a report card, but the bottom line is is that we have fantastic men and women that are here and the driving factor for us is what is right for kids. But we believe and I and I work with Pat on

006a daily basis. We believe so very much that, and you're going to see this because I say this all the time, a diploma is not our endgame. I'm super proud again, another bragging moment. We have a weighted graduation rate of 99.2%. That is our four and fiveyear uh composite rated uh graduation rate, which is fantastic, and it's obviously it's one of the very highest in the state of Ohio. Again, we get kids to the finish line, but if they get to the finish line and they don't have a plan for what's next, I I don't know. Were we successful? Did we let them down? These are all things that we sit and we think about on a on a daily basis because our goal is is that we want goan graduates to walk out of

007goan high school with that diploma but a plan and then connections and actually stepping foot into doing great things so that we're able to have a great future, a wife, children if we select to do that, um a nice car, a nice home. All of those pieces go hand inand with being successful in the next steps. So, I took a little bit of our smart goals and again you're you're very familiar with the work that we do with a portrait of a graduate and I know that Garrett will be talking a little bit about that um here in a few minutes. But even further from that, at the beginning of the school year, we break down and we have goals from a district level and you all are a part of that in the work

008retreat that we have. But then it goes from district level goals all the way down to building level goals. And our goals fall into areas of high quality instruction. And again, that's the the meat of what we do every single day in a classroom. Talks a lot about student development. that those are things like mental health, um engagement, um being involved as a student, technology education, that's for our students and staff, and we'll see a little bit of that today. Communication, I forgot a comma, literacy, and college and career readiness. So, those are our goal areas, and I highlighted a couple on here that is going to directly correlate with what we're going to see here today. So, college and career readiness. We want to equip our students with transferable skills for high demand careers.

009So, think about everything from engineering to the medical field. I I could go on and on and on about the pathways, business, um but also it and we're going to highlight that. Um this talks a little bit about partnering with colleges, employers, and networks for dual credit internships, pre-apprenticeships, and certifications. And again, pre-apprenticeships are going to be um I think the the heat and light that we're going to start. We're going to hear a lot about pre-apprenticeships in the next couple of years. But again, it's giving students um experience ships with um with paths that are out there. I'm a believer that sure if you get in here and you decide, gosh, I'm going to be in the IT world, right? I'm going to take a class. I'm going to get involved. But you discover

010you hate it. Absolutely. Discover you hate it. That's a win because we can mark that off of the list of of things that we're trying to I I say before we throw some things at you and we hope something sticks that you're going to love and you're really going to want to take off with that. But it's giving students the opportunity now to be able to live with that so that we know we're not going to college or we're not going to a field and discovering a year in when there's money and time put in that that we don't love it. So that's that's part of the beauty of doing this. The other part talks about hands-on learning. um having 250 hours of work-based learning, credentials, pre-apprenticeships, again, you're hearing that word again, and entrepreneurships.

011So again, it's an intentional focus that we're having on more than just a diploma. It's giving kids a path that they're going to go ahead and move forward on. So these are of course we're having conversations about what's happening in classrooms each and every day, but this is kind of the second prong that's going along with that. We hire great staff members to go ahead and give our children the most rigorous instruction that we can possibly give them while we're looking at these um pathways that we want our kiddos to go ahead and find something that they're going to love. So this is the why as to why I have these young men and women that are here today that are going to showcase some of the things that they're passionate about. So this is

012Garrett Walt and he is our IT teacher was an English teacher that um we've talked him over to this side right and um he is fantastic. he has taken our IT world, embraced it, and um and I'm super excited honestly about everything that you're doing and have done. So, I'm gonna give the floor to you and let you run with it. >> Uh before I jump in too much to this, not to split your guys' attention too much, but I know these guys are probably anxious to jump in. So, we thought maybe we'd show you a little bit of a demo over here. Um so, behind curtain number one over here, uh we have Ethan and Aiden. These are two of the students who are in the student help desk that we are currently running

013out of the high school right now. Um, if you guys want to show them uh and get started here. So, they're going to go ahead and do something that we see probably two, three times a week at least, I would say, which is a Chromebook with a broken screen that they're going to go ahead and replace while I talk to you guys a little bit about what we're doing and expand a little bit of what what Miss Walker said about why we're doing it that way. So, go ahead and jump in, guys. Um, so last year, one of the needs that we discussed as we started with scheduling and we're getting kind of close to the end of the year was this idea of finding more opportunities for students to get hands-on learning. In particular,

014we found that uh two kind of directions that we were struggling with is number one, finding a way to get students who have an aptitude for technology plugged in here at the high school. We've got really great opportunities in early grades. We've got the Slaggel squad over at the middle school who are doing uh basic Chromebook repairs. I think they do a few screen repairs as well. Uh but we didn't necessarily have great ways of getting those students plugged into those same sort of opportunities here. And then as Miss Walker mentioned, we're also trying to find more ways uh to get students to have meaningful actionable skills that they can take with them into their career. Uh I teach the early IT program here, which means that all the classes that I teach for the

015most part are dual credits through University of Cincinnati, which is a fantastic course opportunity. super great amazing way of saving money and getting you a head start on college if that's the pathway that you want to go down, right? It's a great opportunity for those who are interested in that. But if that isn't necessarily your path, if you want to go more directly into a career field or if you're interested in listing or if you want to I mean just get a job while you work through courses like that. We didn't have a lot of opportunity for meeting that need. So what we added last year um Miss Walker came and asked, "Hey, what would it look like? what would it take for us to be able to have some students doing hands-on tech work,

016doing screen replacements, fixing Chromebooks, uh updating things that need updated? Um the document camera, the the exact one that they're using over there right now, we just rolled out to all the classrooms here at the high school, and that was these students who went around and implemented that. Um so we partnered with UC as a an option for dual credit courses. Um I actually have some students who are in the help desk right now who are also with me doing dual credit classes at the same time as well. Uh we also partnered with a foundation called past. Um Mr. Dobs came across that opportunity last year. Uh they are out of Columbus and they do a lot of work-based learning opportunities. So, they had a really great grant-f funed opportunity uh for me to go

017up to Columbus a couple times uh towards the end of the spring term and essentially work with other educators who are interested in doing work-based learning in adding things onto their case load in the same way. And that was a super great opportunity to really flesh out what that looked like. Uh and so the result of that was some of these students came in in spring of last year and we did a pilot program. We had four kids who all essentially happened to have extra time in their schedule. They were either in a study hall and I kind of press ganged them into it or they were in a dual credit class that just happened to be finished up a little before the end of the semester since the college and the high school schedules

018don't always line up. Uh and then they went around and uh the main purpose was to get hands-on skills for them to document a ton of things that we thought could work better or processes uh and just kind of figure stuff out. Um, Maria Thaxton, who uh you guys know left us this year, but awesome part of our tech department for a long time. She brought us, I think, about 10 Chromebooks and essentially said, "These are all dead. Have at it. Let's figure out how to repair them. Let's do some tear down." Um, so these guys kind of did some disassembling, documented what they found, and then that formed the basis for what the students are doing now in my classroom. Um what that looks like in this year is during first bell and seventh

019bell. So the very beginning of the day and the very end of the day, we have a group of about five students in each of those bells. So 10 kids total who are doing it repairs. They handle loaner Chromebooks. So if a kid comes in and they've forgotten it at home or it's not charged, um if it's been lost or misplaced or if there's an issue and there's damage to it, then those kids come down during those bells. Uh these kids handle them. you know, they they come over to me and I say, "Talk to these guys right here." They walk over, these guys get them a loaner Chromebook while we work on repairing it or a temporary one for the day. Um, at the end of the day, they do the same thing. They

020wrap that up, see what everything has been fixed, and then they return them. Um, our our, you know, green stack here is ones that are currently waiting repair. Our pink stack is ones that are done that we then send back out and get back into the hands of kids so they can keep learning and working. Um, in addition to that, a few other things that they've worked on. They've also been adding some tech support opportunities. Um, so I mentioned when we got these document cameras here at the high school, they actually went around to those classrooms and installed them for teachers and got them up and running uh and just kind of went around and did that during a seventh bell uh for a couple days. We also uh have had a couple folks who,

021you know, we've gotten word from teachers, hey, I'm struggling. I need to get this working or this isn't connecting right. And these kids have jumped on it themselves. Um, Miss Raml the other day, Ethan jumped up and said, hey, she needs help with this in class. And went right up and helped her with it. Uh, and then finally, we also have the commercial printer that we added here as a great opportunity for doing our senior banners, um, doing stickers, all kinds of great stuff like that. Um, some of our students help out with that. Sarah in particular has been awesome about helping with uh, organizing the art for that, getting the printer set up, getting things up there, and then essentially delivering them out to other places in the district. Uh, just to talk a

022little bit about the impact that these kids have had in doing this. Um, aside from all the things that, you know, I as a teacher think are great from it. Uh, things that have been great for the district itself, uh, at the start of this year, we have a little bit of a backlog because of our tech department having a whole bunch of different plates that they have to keep spinning at the same time. We had about a little bit more than 80 Chromebooks that we would need to send out for repair. Essentially, these were ones where we know there's an issue with it. We're not exactly sure what it is. Uh, and we're going to need to package it up. We need to send it to one of our vendors. they'll take a look

023and let us know which at the ve I mean could be anywhere from you know the minimum of shipping to I mean how much are we talking for some of these repairs >> we try not to go over $100 because a Chromebook only cost $200 so around that one to 115 range but you're also talking about the time to get it out in the mail then they have to communicate with us get back with us the overhead of us organizing all this stuff it's a day now >> y >> it was weeks before >> y and we got that number the devices that we were not able to repair here that need to send out, we cut down from 83 to six. That's that's the number of computers we have right now that, you know,

024is something that they either can't do or something that hasn't been diagnosed. It's a bigger problem with that Chromebook. Uh they've done over 120 repairs. So, just like they're doing over here right now of getting that screen swapped out, uh we get tons and tons of these that come in. Um and in fact has kind of led to some opportunities as well, which I'll I'll talk about as we talk a little kind of about where this is going. Um so, it helps us save on cost of repairs. It makes it so that we have way quicker turnaround. Like Mr. Slegel said, some of these kids I mean we got some that came in in that backlog who have had a loner Chromebook for I mean a couple months before the end of last school year

025and it still hasn't had a chance to get back in their hands because it's just we've got a million other things that we're we're kind of jumping on to with the tech support and these guys have been able to get that handled super quickly. Uh they also have had a ton of insight into our systems and our tech things. They're the ones who are in there every day logging this stuff. And it's been huge for them to say, "Hey, you know, I know that you had this great idea, Mr. Walt, about how this was going to work, but actually that was a terrible idea, and you're here's what we should do. Actually, we should fix it." Trust me, these guys are not uh uh at all hesitant to tell me when my idea is terrible.

026Uh and then obviously they've got some skills and experience. Um so to mention what I I said a little bit about how we're expanding options and how this is kind of leading us in some different places. uh with Maria stepping away and we now having some new staff that we're training up in the tech department, they've actually started to essentially have uh you know inter office mail for Chromebooks where we're starting to get some in from the middle school. We're starting to get some in from Spalding and Mark Cook. And then they are our students here at the high school are able to do some repairs on those, send them back over and we have again a turnaround time of a day or two for something that instead would have taken us uh I mean

027weeks to even get sent out, much less then to get back to us and repaired. Um regardless of what that ended up even costing us. Um, some things that we're looking at in the future, we want to continue have uh continue to have these high school students offer some opportunities for support, more things that they can do to help out teachers. Um, we want them to develop uh ways that we can have those same systems for getting stuff from other buildings and over here and and expand what that looks like. Um, we're talking about some possibilities of maybe even ways that we could get some of these students, similar to how we've done with Project Moore, uh, opportunity to be in some other buildings doing some work supporting teachers, doing some immediate repairs for needs

028as those arise. Um, we're going to start adding, sprinkling in some professional development opportunities. Um, Paige Visi, who's working with uh, our college and career department, uh, Mr. Dubs over there, um, she's going to help put together some opportunities on resume writing. These kids are doing stuff every day that is awesome to see on a resume. Being able to turn around and say, "Let's get your verb. Let's talk about exactly who you put this in here. Let's list it out." Because literally right now, you're essentially doing a pre-apprenticeship. You're doing hands-on on the job training. Let's advertise that so that you can really have that, you know, future pathway that takes you out of Goan High School and into something, you know, for your life as well. Uh and then also, uh future work and

029internship opportunities. We're partnering with Inner Reliance and at the moment, not to get too far ahead of ourselves, but it's looking like in second semester of this year, the students who are participating in that first and seventh bell time period will actually be able to receive compensation for their time as well. So, they'll get a pay rate of about an hour each day, uh, which adds up to quite a bit of extra change. You know, they're they're doing it for one of their bells out of their day, but they are also doing tech work for us as a district. Um, so similar to how we've had students come in as interns for the summer, uh, they're basically doing that same thing, but right here. And Interliance is fantastic because they use state funds in order

030to essentially reimburse the full cost of that. So we can pay them and it doesn't actually cost us a dime. So it's kind of winning on every possible front for how we handle that basically. >> Just give them a hand. So, is that is that finished? >> Um, I had to go in and actually unplug the battery because it would not actually turn off when I was pressing it off. So, it is not completely finished because they still have some screws, >> but it is almost done. >> So, tell us you did just now in that five minute period of time, what was your task? What did you do? Um, >> so my main task was to fix the screen throughout here because if you guys noticed it was all white. There were black spots

031and all that. I mean, there's a yellow line right throughout here. You can see I did not notice that that was there right beforehand. So, that was something that she didn't figure out when I saw that. That that made my heart drop for not going to lie to you. >> But you know what? If you if you sent that computer away and you had a tech person that was working on that, they would have done the exact same thing, right? And then the yellow line would have been there and then the next step is, oh, wait a minute, I've got to go back and problem solve that again, right? Just as you said with the battery, too. >> That would be just another screen probably swap swap in the screen. That's just that problem there.

032And also during that five minute time period I actually had already swapped this screen and then I was getting ready to plug it back in to the computer and then the computer would not start itself. So I had to go back in and actually unplug and replplug back in the battery and so then it worked. >> That's a lot to do for a short period of time, man. Good job. >> Yeah, no kidding. And Garrett, if you would, could you get all of your kids to get up here, maybe do an introduction, and then um I'm going to have you answer two questions. One is um when you're thinking about post high school, what are you thinking about doing, whatever that looks like? And then also, what what are what skills do you think you

033personally are getting out of being a part of this? >> Coming up over here, guys. We'll finish that up in a minute. All right, come on up. >> So, I'll introduce these folks. >> Um, while they're on their way up here, I'll mention we have a few folks who weren't able to be here this morning. Um, we have Lindseay Cameron who is in my first bell. Uh, as well as Elijah Harrington. Uh, and then in addition, we have Pearson Peyton Robinson who just last week I think were taken out with uh one of the one of the various illnesses that that floats around these days. Um, but our group that we have here, uh, we have Sarah Healey, we have Wyatt Vance, Ethan Holshire, Ethan Bond, we have Carson Shurers, and we have Aiden Davis.

034Um, and then if you need a reminder, Miss Walker's two questions for you guys are, what are your plans if you've thought that far ahead? What are you thinking for after high school? And then, what are some skills you feel like you've gotten out of doing this opportunity for me this year? Hi, I was planning on going into it even before this year, but I think getting my hands on some of it has definitely helped me to figure out that like, oh, it's actually something I can manage, like not just this thing that I might be able to do. >> Uh, I'm planning on going to it. >> What if you guys And Sarah, you did not you did not answer my second question. I'm going to go back to you. I'm going to go

035back to you. What is other than discovering that this is really what you do or want to do? Um what is something that you've taken away from this experience maybe that you learned that you didn't otherwise learn? >> Um I don't know. It's definitely helped me to work more with people. I do a printing stuff like he mentioned and so I have to talk to a lot of teachers and administrators and figure out what's the best thing to do. So, I feel like that's helped me give people skills. >> Bring your name people skills that a lot. >> You're on a first-name basis with a lot of the teachers now from having to bring back Chromebooks for kids who forgot them and stuff. >> All right. I want to go to college. I'm not sure

036what for yet. I could get into something like this maybe. And I feel like this has given me the opportunity to learn that I could do something like this possibly in the future for a career or >> and if not a career, you can fix your computer at home, right? Right. There's some skills in that. >> I'm planning on going into something online. So, it one of the major things I've learned is also like problem solving skills. Like you saw over there, the problem that I had battery that came up last second. I just came back in. unplug it, plug it back out. That's a common problem I've had way more than just what I had over there. So, just problem solving skills like that is one thing I've definitely learned from just helping fix

037Chromebooks every day. Um, I want to go to college for uh computer engineering. Uh, this job has helped me learn problem solving, especially how to pivot during a job because, you know, things always don't always go as they're expected to go, just like with that repair. So, I have to find myself searching for the problem and then finding it and then going into repair and it's like, oh, this is also a problem that I need to go in and fix. And it's just changes in the job that I have to deal with and it's a learning experience. And uh I want to go to college for throughout the IT industry. And this lets you get some hands-on learning otherwise you might not always be able to get as you work around problems that you can

038get as was shown and you get some good skills. >> It's very good. And again, this this whole kind of process, this IT kind of help desk um notion that we have here was um a really authentic conversation that the three of us were having um at the end of last year when we were talking about what is our vision and how do we how do we give kiddos experience, but also like make our school district um better. and they're definitely um a great group of of kiddos to help us out with that. And now we have these bigger these bigger ideas because you're you're letting us know and letting us see that it can be done. So it's it's wonderful. Did you have a question? >> Well, I was just going to also point

039out additionally on Wednesdays during lunch there's a partnership that's emerged between Inner Alliance and the Claremont County SC took took a lead on helping organize that. But um some of these young people are taking their lunch on Wednesdays and are part of the jump start uh program where they are working with students from all the Claremont County schools on IT focused topics. Sarah, you want to maybe like just talk a little bit about that and the others can jump in, but I know you'll you're not afraid to say something. So what's happening during jumpstart? >> Um we've met with a lot of people from different parts of the IT industry. We've met with cyber security people. We've met with data analysts and just all kinds of people from different walks. I guess we even went

040on a field trip last week. And I feel like that's just showed like the how broad it is, like how much you can get into if you just work hard. >> Anybody else talk about jumpstart? >> Uh I could jump in. It's definitely very helpful to try and find a career to get into college for. Like a lot of people come in for the Google Meets we do or I don't think they're the Google Meets, but they're a meet of some kind. So, they get a lot of people on there to talk to us about their jobs and what they do. >> Who's your favorite person you've talked to so far from the business world? >> It's a great question. I know I guess I could say Keith. He's the CEO. I think was Keith

041C. >> Keith Con he's the head of Inner Alliance. Yeah, the head of the head of Inter Alliance. He's been really good to talk to. He kind of brought this all together. So >> So they've been with Tata. They've been with PNG. Who else have you been with? I know you did US Bank, too. So I know you've done those three so far. Who else am I missing? >> Fifth Third. >> Okay. >> Fifth third. >> But again, they're rubbing elbows with some folks that are working um in these businesses. So again, you start build building relationships and connections that ultimately down the road could land you or help land you your first position after high school, after college, um whatever that path looks like. So that's super exciting. >> Um I should mention as

042well, we also uh just recently, you reminded me of this as you mentioned just a minute ago, Pat, uh were invited by UC for the early exit round table that they've got coming up to share out a little bit about what our approach has been. Um, which I think is huge because I I go to those things sometimes and I hear folks talk about, oh yeah, over here at Lakota we're getting kids recruited right out of our cyber security program and stuff and then to have us come from Goan and say, well, here's how we're doing things over here. That's a little bit different to go get the kids these these opportunities and and help them figure out what they're doing. >> And Garrett, one more thing that's just happened. Talk about the cyber security

043class that's been added. Uh so next semester we have a cyber security elective which we're doing here at the local level. Um the curriculum is based on stuff that's offered by cyber.org basically just because we had a need for it. We heard from the BAC and we heard from colleges that this is something that there's an increased need for. Um and we kind of added that with the assumption that we were thinking UC would kind of meet us partway on that a little bit later. And we actually just got word about a week or so ago that UC has now added a cyber security option intro course as part of their early IT program. Uh and you know we're already approved to get doing that. So starting next year we should be able to offer

044dual credit UC courses in cyber security here as well. >> So I have a question what uh what year like would the would those be mostly junior seniors could be first year kids taking cyber security? >> So it depends on the course. um they have a progression that they like to follow, but it is they can kind of go all cart a little bit depending on the student and their approach to it. Um generally we'd have kids freshman sophomore year looking at our fundamentals of it which is sort of the intro. We we always kind of compare it to the sampler platter where you get a little taste of everything to kind of decide what you're most interested in. Um and then it's kind of started moving in a direction where there are sort of

045pathways from there depending on what you're interested in. Um, so if you're like Carson, for example, and you're more interested in the programming, computer science, from there you might go into the web development and programming courses with the assumption that then you'd be going to college for something like that. Um, but they also then have networking courses and system admin, which would then maybe lead into cyber security. Uh, as you're becoming sort of a junior or a senior student as well. Um, really they can take them at any time. It's just making sure that they have the requisite knowledge. Every once in a while we get some superstar students who are like, I'm ready to jump in. Let's do it. I'm I'm ready to get started as a freshman, as a sophomore. Um, but you're

046absolutely right. It kind of is a progression as they go along so they can pick and choose a little bit. Uh, but then for those higher level classes, we're definitely looking at students who have gone through a little bit and those who are kind of interested in getting plugged into opportunities like this. >> Awesome. >> I'm super impressed. I oversee student success um for the college of nursing at UC and I'm talking to my students that I teach this semester about networking and some of the things that you guys are already doing as high school students. So um you know you you don't just every student has this opportunity but you guys have stepped forth and said I'll do it and um that initiative is incredible and so congratulations and kudos to you and I

047know your parents must be proud as well. Sorry to get a head start on I think before you even stepped foot on campus I think is just amazing. I mean that's when I started at Ohio University it was a I was left school in computer engineering and my head started to spin and as soon as I stepped on foot on campus on campus not everything had ever stopped. I mean, I didn't know what that but to have at least, you know, you get little head start here, you know. So, it's plus your freshman year, you go and if you want to work while you're on campus, you can get a job at the IT help desk right away. You know, most freshmen end up working in the cafeteria or something, you know, and you go

048right into your IT. >> Yeah. Yeah. That's great. Great. Super excited for you guys. >> Well, I think if you go back to the slide that Stephanie kind of started with, diploma is not our end game. This is true testament to that. And I I think it when you think about all this that's going on at our high school, whether it be the IT program, um some of the tech credit programs that we have going on, uh CAP, I mean, we're providing a bunch of opportunities. And I think when you have kids come in and explain it, um you can kind of put all the pieces together. But I think the thing that we have to remember as a board, and I have to thank our administration for is you're still living in a high

049school schedule. It's got lunch in the middle, seven bells, core curriculum, and you got to fit all these pieces together because it is what's right for you guys. >> It's what's right for the kids to put these programs in place. And you know, I think the state of Ohio doing some of this, putting um some heat and light on college and career. I remind you of this. We would have been a fivestar, but too many districts look bad in the college and career, so they changed the metric midyear. So, I'm gonna stick with it. I'm gonna >> I hope that everything you just presented that it's a fivestar that they don't go and change it again. But I think in the end the fivestar is just a it's a measure. But the outcome that you

050guys are getting and what I'm seeing from high school kids standing in front of a board talking about their experiences is a win. So, and I thank Mr. Walt um Mr. Slaggel, Mr. Walt. There's never been a no out of that guy. I mean, it's like, yes, can give me some orange. >> I should also mention for Rick Davis and Dave Fight, who are our two IT folks, they've helped a ton with jumping in, showing these guys how to do stuff. >> And like my goal, our goal down the road is whenever a teacher or a student at any point throughout the school day is having a tech issue, our goal is is that we would like to be able to have somebody that's on that's here, a student that can go and problem solve

051that so that we're not having lost instructional time. kids are not losing the opportunity to be able to do the work. That's the big picture. And and I think this first step that we're doing right now is telling us that it's very possible. We've got brilliant, smart, fantastic kids in our building that can do the work. It's just figuring out the system to make that work for us. So, it's it's um I can't wait for >> You do have more than a team of three. >> I I I talk to Mark every day, and you guys are going to learn this. Technology touches everything. I mean, you're diving all these paths in the intro piece, but there isn't a day that goes by that I don't have to say something to Mark about it's something

052techreated, not just whether it's infrastructure or it's uh just hitting the on button, Mr. Bailey. But it it it is you guys are getting into something uh really useful. Even if you don't go to it, the problem solving, all those pieces that you're getting into will help you down the road. I'm going to give you a go pin for going above and beyond. Mr. Sherzinger is going to give you a certificate for being here tonight. And if you brought parents with you here tonight when I introduce you, you can because they're supporting you as well. So if you don't have parents here with you, no big deal. But if you brought your parents, introduce them when we introduce you. >> Ethan. >> Yes. >> All right. My parents are over there. [Applause] recognize those [Applause]

053handshake. Thanks, buddy. >> My mom and dad are not here. >> Yeah, [Applause] >> I do want you to know that Garrett did all of his coursework to teach these classes while teaching full-time. >> So, that is he was giving kudos to everyone else, but kudos for doing. >> So, Garrett, you're a former English teacher. Yes, I I have a master's in English and I'm about >> missing. Did that drive you crazy that out? >> I wasn't going to say >> I didn't notice it until I was there. I was like, "Yeah, not good." >> No one will take my offer. >> And thank you guys for all the support you offer to programs like this. We really appreciate it. >> Well, hey, you looks like might have saved the district $7,700, right? Six now.

054That's way less way less. >> Well, we want to thank you guys for coming. Um, you're welcome to stay for the remainder of our meeting, but you're not obligated, of course, because we understand you have lives. So, um, thank you for coming, allowing us to hear a little bit of your lives while you're here at GHS and all that you do to support us as well. So, thank you. parents, that's you, too. If you guys want to stay for the rest of the meeting, you're more than welcome to >> Glad they did that. >> It's awesome. Those are the kids that don't have the good. >> Thank you so much. They were smooth as last name. That's awesome. >> I know. >> So, moving on. Um, >> old business facilities. Mr. Bailey. >> Yeah. I

055just want to give you guys a again still 50,000 foot here, but it's getting a little lower. Maybe we're at 40,000. We're starting to see some pictures, but um we're still working on the timeline, which I'll kind of share with you on the last slide so that I can remind you. But really, we've been through the design phase. And I just want to reiterate as we go through this, the whole reason that we purchased the property up on 28 was to renovate the current board office to get five to six classrooms back. uh really feeling like um five six is not a stretch right now as we kind of go through and think as we've talked with Mark Cook and as we've gone through this renovation process just the design piece of thinking what can

056go in there besides the two classrooms that are added on to the side to the treasur's office side what we can uh pull into those small groups that are taking classrooms space and the library so I think we're six is very easy um so I'm not I think that and again six classrooms and on the Mark Hook um double the cost. So just right now where we're at, this was the fun part. I I had no input on this part of it as I don't at home, but uh interior finishes as we got into colors and pattern selections um that kind of match the feel of the building. There's not a ton of color, but trying to put something in that for this space. Kind of see the overhead view. Uh, and this is just

057this is without the treasure side attached. Um, but what we would be doing from an overhead standpoint kind of wayfinding with those colors is what they say. Everything you see furniture-wise we haven't really picked yet, but it's all movable unless it's on the wall. So, all this will move around, make the space flexible. Um, that is one of the classrooms on the uh the treasurer's office side. just a view of what that would look like as you're looking kind of the windows probably are on the wall that is at the bottom of the screen I guess orientation wise um for the for the uh treasures office site. This is kind of a look uh that looks like you're probably standing at Danny Dietri's desk and kind of looking out towards uh the double entry there

058uh to Mark Cook. And then obviously um this is kind of double cook entry to Mark Cook. And then this would be Mr. Turner's current office where we put an OTP. And then you kind of see the two bathrooms. We're going to be dropping those setting those in. So the storage that are inside of there goes away. That kind of becomes a flexible area in that space as well. Um so it's using the space um you know as efficiently as we can. you can't see to the other side of this is obviously the small groups that'll be there as well. Um just another view of it probably from Missy Smith's kind of viewpoint where Emis sits behind a wall now kind of coming in looking back towards the other side. So questions on that? I

059mean we are we're really essentially nailing down to the finishes doing some furniture selection and then we'll be into the estimation and the bid process to see where we're at. So feel like we're on budget right now with everything that we've talked to SHP, but obviously kind of go out to bit for that to understand where we're at. If there are I don't think there's any big I mean the ceilings are saying the same. Those penants you see are just kind of acoustically and a little bit of a different mood lighting that'll be able to drop down from there. So really it's the walls and guts that are there and we're just going to repurpose it. >> Six classrooms huge. Is it I mean we just wait to see where the need is like what

060classroom is needed in there. >> Yeah. You know I've talked to uh both Mark Cook and Spalding because there was a lot of we started through this there was a lot of angst on moving grade levels and you know my statement right now as I've showed them and I I looked at our enrollment study from last month that I presented to you and there really aren't any changes but I've kind of shared that with them that that's what we're watching. We're going to see if there's an influx of a certain grade of students, then we'll have to make a decision. But I don't plan on making any decisions for next year unless we're forced into it. So, right now, our building makeup will stay the same unless we see something over the summer that makes

061us go. Uh because it's not good for teachers, that's not good for organization. I mean, you have to have a plan for it. It's really hard just to say, "Here you go." So, uh, we're we're a year or so out from utilizing that, but it'll give Mark Cookook some flexibility as well. Good question. Any others on the Mark Cook space? Okay, board office space as we've kind of looked at the the blueprint or floor plan of it. Kind of same overview. Um, I've looked at it so many times if you guys haven't stand up. So, this would be the entry coming in from the front. Parking lots all out here. Um, kind of the reception area and then offices around the outside of it. Um, kind of a PD area, boardroom, whatever it might be

062here. Uh, with a work room here, conference room here where we could have hold larger conferences. Some flexible workspace in the middle here. We have auditors come in when we have traveling folks, you know, that need space. easy to give them a work area to work from. Um so really this is again we were given four walls with the square footage and just trying to work um office space around it. This is storage here and storage here really treasures office files then personnel files in the back um so we're using the space as efficiently as we can um you know but also accommodating for growth in this in this as well. So again we went to color selections. Now, this one you can go a little bit district themed. So, you do see some red

063and gray in here. Um because it is, you know, central office. And then, um kind of this would be the reception area as you come in. Um you know, really counters there. It'll just be kind of repurposing it a little bit. Um and then some walls, but it's kind of the reception and then that would be the conference room that was in the middle of it. just trying to use some um some branding and I think we'll still go through this and how we do it. The training room or PD room slashboard room, community use room that would be in there. Those two double doors, all those tables would slide into there. So, you've got storage in there where we could just put chairs out if we needed to. Um but that will store, you

064know, the seating and make that a flexible use space in there as well. So, I think that is it. reminder, this is kind of the what week are we in? Week of the 13th. Um, floor pans with furniture storage layouts and 3D with finishes. So, we're kind of getting into that phase. Um, I think we set our next meeting. I think it's for next week. Um, I think we're a little ahead of schedule on this last goound. So which given them some time but again I don't they I'm not an architect but CD page turn is essentially when we are heading into that that bid component where we know we've got everything that we want in it understand the estimation cost and would be headed out to bid for that piece of it. So questions

065on any of that um with what you see so far is it have you essentially presents it to you or when they show like anything like real like eye opening like wow you I never really thought of that or that's a really >> yeah I mean I just I mean I can give my I think the Mark Cook space when they started to show that it's just it's great for kids. Yeah, I mean looking at that piece of it, I mean an an office is an office. I get excited because I think it you know from the board office and administrative side that does kind of give a focal point for our district as you're driving into town. um you know that you know this is the school district but um just as you go

066through this I think the excitement kids will see when they walk in space >> instead of you know two classrooms that's a library and you know just the space to to be kids and and move around a little bit and the flexibility of that was my wow I don't know agree yes >> the colors like how much is like the colors have an impact or just little like >> yeah I mean that kids see that it's >> they get jealous that it's, you know, we've got this high school and that's got great spaces. Um, you know, but I think some of the things that you'll be able to see teachers and staff do down there at Mark Cook, which is even certain small group work and yeah, you know, teamwork and pieces of that innovation

067piece in that just some of it just letting kids go be kids in those areas and do selfguided, you know, tours of the library area or whatever it might be. So, but that's our teachers. They'll find a great way to use those spaces. They find the great way to use the spaces we're in. Um, but this it's exciting. It is. >> I have a few questions. One is was that a double entry at the board office? >> So like there's a safety entry there. >> Yes. Sorry. Yes, that will be so there'll be a entrance and then you have to be buzzed in to get to the >> rest of our building. Okay. And then um you this didn't click but you said community room uh kind of like this and I know this is

068requested and used a lot. >> Yeah. >> Um for various things, you know, early evening meetings or whatever it might be. >> The rest of um the offices are secured spaces. So if someone's using it for a community purpose, >> this has a separate entrance to it. Oh. >> From the outside kind of like that would be, but it's on a fire exit. So, >> you do have the option of probably locking that down and just having that room. >> Just having that room accessible if it's a bathroom that's outside of it. Yeah. >> Nice. Okay. I did I I you know we called this the community room and I was like >> now we have two community rooms kind of >> I um does SHP or does is there a recommendation since it's going

069to be a shift like how would a new family know like >> so in my in my superintendent report I've got a process that we're working through on that. >> Okay. >> Um and I'll kind of share that. I mean it's we're doing a self audit of all of our functions and whether that be you know moving files to how are we communicating that to we you know when do we actually move registration to there so there's a lot we're working through right now internally with central office staff with our you know administrative support there at central office with building secretaries will be involved because there's a lot of communication pieces that I think grant talk about before spring >> we probably have to I don't know. And now, you know, we don't need too

070much signage on this street because it's like, wow, here we are. But now we need some like >> signage is a part of that. Signage will be a part of it. >> Well, and it'll have, you know, I was just thinking like it'll have a separate address when you put it in GPS. Right. Right now, it's on the corner of that building. So, if you're brand new to the area and have no clue, >> actually, we've already down there. >> Oh, really? >> You could kind of get lost a little bit on our campus trying to find that. I mean, I actually had to stop by for a meeting and the FedEx guy asked me where Elsource was. Like, they couldn't find Health Source. They were at the board office and I was like, "Oh,

071if you're >> not from, you might not know." So, that would have its own independent address. >> I do interviews of people that are not from Ocean. I have to tell them at the end of Mark Cook, the right closest to the middle school. I have to go into detail because they'll wander around lost. They can't find it. >> But that will have a separate address. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Good. That's good questions and I'll share just a little bit of that piece of what we're looking at. I mean >> it's extensive. >> Yeah, I'm sure there's other places >> and there will be things that we don't >> and >> Yep. And they do help with some of them structurally organizationally. >> Yep. >> All right. Anything else? >> That looks exciting. >>

072Moving on to um item eight, new business a public participation. This is Sherzinger. Do we have any one signed up for public participation? >> One signed up. >> I didn't get to see. >> Okay. >> So, as you're signing in, I'll read the little blurb that I read for public participation. Each person addressing the board will give his or her name. If several people wish to speak, each person will be allotted three minutes until the total time 30 minutes is being used. During that period, no person may speak twice until all who desire to speak have had the opportunity to do so. Seems as though there's one. So, um, the period of public participation may be extended by a vote of the board if necessary. Um, my son is going to speak some on this.

073You can put his name down. >> No, no, you're all right with yours. >> Yeah, you guys can come up together. >> I don't know if you heard, so I'll just say briefly. You'll say your first and last name, address, and then you have three minutes to speak. >> Right. My name is Shad Dictton. Address is 2308 Route 28. This is my son, Aaron Dictton. He is a sophomore in this high school. We had a situation that I don't think was properly handled. Um during the whole issue last month with what was on the news and everything, my son was talking to what was her name? >> Mrs. Edwards about the situation that was going on and then a tutor for history here in the high school um made a comment that was not very

074appropriate. >> Tell them what he said. >> He said, "No disrespect to Charlie, but he wasn't important enough to get a magical bull." >> I don't see that myself as a political statement. I see that more so with making a mocker of somebody's death. I did call and talk to the principal. Um she said she was having a meeting the following day of the situation with the vice superintendent. Um I didn't hear anything back for a couple days. My son said that he was still here. Um I then tried to actually contact Mr. belly to set up a meeting with him and was transferred to the vice system superintendent. She told me that she felt that a situation was handled properly by the principal and that you know she would contact the principal and have

075her contact me let me know what was actually done. I haven't heard a word from either one of them. She also says she'd call me back, let me know, you know, if I want to go any further with the situation, which my personal opinion to have a person say that to student, that's really not a good look for anybody trying to teach a a child. I mean, last thing you want to do is make a mockery of somebody's death. Vice versa, if a student were to do that, say to a history figure, they'd get in trouble for it. We all know that. You know, some of us did do it, but not to an extent like the way the teacher did it. You know, I strongly believe that individual should not be here anymore. And

076you know, I tried waiting for the phone call. I try to call and leave a message. I haven't heard nothing back. So, this is my next resort was to come here, talk to you guys. >> Thank you. We'll have someone follow up. Okay. >> All right. Thank you. >> Is that the only name on there? >> Okay. Um, moving on to new business, uh, B treasures report, Mr. Shinkle. >> So, um, there's a lot going on in the financial world in the state of Ohio. Um, so I'm going to share that here in a second. Our financial data, um, as Mrs. Walker was talking about on our report card score, there's also on this the report card some financial data. And I'm just wanted to share a little bit of that with you real quick

077so you kind of get an idea with how we look for a school our size versus the state. We go to the next one. So um the financial data you can just go online and you'll see that our um this little area here is what percent of our funds are spent spent in the classroom. We're at 66%. So feel like almost 70% of our money goes right to directly into uh classroom instruction. This part here is our is our spending right now. Go share of local property tax revenue is already 13% lower than this the state average. So, in this little part right here, if you took our five-year forecast and you took our real estate taxes, our public utility taxes, and our income taxes, that's that's our number. All that together is our local

078dollars. So, out of that, our state, our average is 31% comes from our local taxpayers. And we know everyone got hit with the last rebal. You know, we're at the 20 mil floor and that's what our people paid altogether. thing is interesting the state average is 44%. So we are actually 13% under the state average on our taxes. So statewide if if you if you took that number that's how much lower we are is at 13% compared to the whole state. And then the interesting part here is where we make up the difference is our state share is 52% and you can see it's 39. we actually get higher state share of 13% from the state even though right now that's kind of what where the shuffle is starting to be is like we're collecting

079more local and now the state starting to to drop our number. Um another couple of things here is our federal grants we we get we spend on average about 7% versus the state average of nine and then other income is 9% versus 7.5. I like to think that we've been blessed with on other income. It's like our interest revenue has been a pretty good number these last couple years. Sorry about that. I don't meant to have mine and they were all good. >> Yeah. >> So just from reminder this is on the state report card. This is measured >> as we had all those academic measures that we talked about at the high school. This is the financial section. So on this um one thing that super proud of really is our operating spending per

080pupil. Our district average is about 11,000 almost. The state average is 127. If if we went out and and spent that state average that would spend another over $4 million because roughly 1,200 kids and 2,700 kids in our district that would be that that's what that number is. So, you know, we've done a great job of of keeping that number down. The thing that's nice about that is if you read this, we're already in the lowest 20% of of Ohio school district. That's one of the little things that they mark on the report card score and we have a check mark there for. I mean, it's the first time we've got that, but that just shows how much we've been working keeping our expenses down and getting great results on on the report card. So,

081super proud of that. We don't get a four or five stars or anything like that. basically the the 20% deal is is what you get on the fi on finance side. I think that's anyone have questions on that. I know it's a lot of data there, but it's um to me, we was real excited just to see that, you know, on the on the financial. >> You say that's the first time we've gotten it or it's the first time >> that we've hitten the 20% uh below the among the lowest of operating expenses >> in the state. >> Yeah, that's good. Who's excited on that one? >> Yeah. >> Mr. >> All right. Yeah, that's pretty much done unless you guys had a question. I know Mr. Bailey went and uh there's tons going on

082in legislators and he had a bass meeting and come back with a lot of stuff that >> well turn it over to him on this one. >> I think as a board um and as a community I think this conversation will start to evolve some. I mean, Todd goes through, we're performing incredibly well um for the dollar amount spent per pupil. Um our teachers work extremely hard to get those results. We are financially responsible, but there is um you know, a conversation about Ohio school funding going on. I talked to you guys about the banial budget and I'll kind of cover that here in a minute. But kind of what I hope to do tonight is just kind of 50,000 foot view of state funding revenue and local revenue. As Todd showed there, we're 13

083below 13% below the average school district what they're collecting locally even with income tax. Um but our residents still had increased property taxes, increased valuations. So, I really want to talk to you guys about, you know, where the state's at with that, where legislation's at, and what we're trying to do to plan for that, but also, um, educate our our local, um, our local residents on where we're where the state's at with it and what we need to stay four and a half stars or go to five stars. Um, so, you know, with that tipping scale, you kind of see that Todd just kind of set it. So that's the picture that I always go back to is updates on income and property values to current levels, but on the lower side, the state is

084freezing education costs. So they're not accounting for inflation at all. Um, and that's really that state side what they're giving us. The locals are paying more, the state's giving us less. >> Just that conversation. So, their 2022 inputs is what was inside of the funding formula. So, with that said, this goes back and um I'm just gonna hold this because I'm this was um the banial budget. So, as the state of Ohio approved the two-year budget, if you remember, that plan did not keep up with inflation. So we were projecting and Todd does a lot of projections based on the forecast that we get. We were projecting more state revenue. If you remember this was back in July when they passed the the banial budget. We were 1.4 million. We were there these are all

085the schools in Claremont County. Gan was the only school district that lost funds projected funds from the state level. A lot of reasons that we had talked about. Um, but I think you know, go growing, having a higher valuation, being able to provide more, the state's going to give you less. Um, so that's kind of where our mindset with that was. We talk through that as a school district. We look at the five-year forecast and we have to make educational decisions with you guys at board of education and with our administrators. So, right now, we had already set the year in July. We had already had our plan. So what this was projecting out, we had to start looking at uh as we start planning for next year and forward. So again, July had us

086kind of set. We were set for the year. We planned on it. We didn't plan on losing uh you know 600,000 this year and about 900,000 next year just in Claremont County. Um, others didn't see that loss, but you know, there's only one one or two other options in the state of Ohio that you have is to put an operating levy on or make cuts to programs. I think we all understand with where we're at as a district, our only choice in the future if this were to continue was to look at programs and make educational decisions because going on on the ballot for operating dollars is not an option. We live within the means and we've done that very well since 1989. >> Yeah. >> So, just with that being said, I want to

087understand property taxes in Ohio a little bit, the facts, the myths, and the solutions and still kind of that that tipping point of, you know, we have increased valuations and we see a decrease in state funds that only means that it can come from local funds. I hear this all the time and I'm not just saying it because we have balanced a budget. We're providing as you guys saw an incredible education. Um and anytime school districts start to talk about needing money or money, it becomes schools are mismanaging the money they have. That is the myth and and I understand that as a taxpayer just do with what you got. But from that side of it, I think we have to understand that the state is giving us less, not keeping up with inflation. But

088yet, as school districts in the state of Ohio, there used to be a thousand school districts in the state. The state schools have consolidated already, consolidated as far as we can. We share services, we share resources, we've reduced cost. I start thinking about what we've done here to make sure that we're using dollars wisely so they stay going into the classroom. We've had energy plans. We've had capital plans. We've negotiated agreements. We've written grants. We've done insurance changes. You name it, we are living within the dollar that we have. Uh we're not mismanaging funds. I would venture to say that Claremont County knowing a lot of the treasures and superintendents, nobody mismanaging money. You've got the money you've got and you've got to make it last as long as you can make it last. Um,

089I would say that the data I'm going to show you shows that Ohio schools aren't the problem. Uh, but it's the disinvestment from the state of Ohio that's the problem. So, facts, and this is on the one pager that you guys have here, and I don't want to bore you with it, but to kind of go through and talk about data. Um Ohio back in let's say 1990 was 35th in the nation in the amount of public funds state funds they gave public schools. We are now 45th. So when you look at all the states in the United States Ohio is 45th in the nation in the state funding that comes to public schools. Back in 1991, homeowners and farmers paid 47% of the property taxes. As we stand today, it's around 70%. So, it's

090no wonder, and this just isn't for schools. This is police, fire, libraries, parks, roads. It's no wonder that we have people upset about property taxes. >> Yeah. Yeah. But again to come back to if we're just talking about education and we're not talking about libraries, parks, fire, police, it's because we're 45th and the amount coming from the state. It's all been pushed to the farmer and to the homeowner. Um with goan um in particular, we have not been on the ballot for an operating levy since the 1% passed in 1990. So ours is a little bit obviously lower than that. We showed 37% coming from local level. Um but still the cost of education around the state is about 70%. Why is that? Um there's been a lot of policy change at the state level

091and I think it's to grow Ohio to bring business in but they eliminated the the business tangible personal property tax in 2005 which schools used to get and that was a big loss to a lot of school districts not to us in particular. We did not have a bunch of business inside of the district. Um, but a lot of districts did. The state used to cover 12.5% of your property tax bill. And I will say this, and I said used to, go residents still receive 12.5% rolled back from the 1976 operating levy. That was the last operating levy passed in goan. So residents are still seeing the state pay 12.5% of that cost of that operating levy back in that time. However, anybody that's put a new issue on, school districts that have put an

092operating levy on since 2013, those residents are bearing the full cost. They don't get 12.5% paid. So when you see a district have to put on an operating and that's not us but when you see districts have to put on operating and the residents pay the full 100% of that now it is a higher rate. >> Um so and that's a state decision that's not a district decision and I'm just again this is not just go this is property tax big big picture. >> Can I add Mr. Yeah on that part there the 12 and a half% that's taking your valuation you know like say 100,000 times 35% times our millillage and then after that then it's 10% and two and a half% roll back on that so like if you look at your tax

093bill you'll see RB and on that I mean it's it's so it's the 12% of the tax not the overall value I just make sure that >> so with the third piece under the current model as we've talked As values increase, the state gives us less. So that's why I say it's a higher bill for families in go and around. As property taxes can pay for more, the state's going to give us less. >> Yeah. >> So, however, and I say this, you this program tonight's the perfect example. We're asked to do more and I love it. Our teachers love it. We do an incredible job of doing more and doing the right thing for kids. But when you talk about the costs just keep going up and we're doing everything we can write grants,

094do an energy conservation plan, >> having kids, >> use kids to fix the item. We're doing everything we can to keep cost down, but the state's not keeping up with inflation. That goes back to that fair school funding at the start. We're on 2022 numbers, not 2025 numbers when inflation's been big and the state's not using that inflation. But we continue to try to do what we can to meet the kids where they're at, getting the education we can. Um, but there's got to be at some point the impact of inflation from the state level to support that. Otherwise, if you're not hitting that, you're on the ballot to operate. We're okay right now. I'm not saying that's us, but as you look at other districts holistically, when they can't when those dollars that they

095pass don't keep up with inflation, of course, they run out and you're back to the levy cycle for operating. It's not us. We've been in a good spot with the 1% and again, as we have downturns in the economy and people lose their jobs, they're not paying the 1%. We have to budget for that. So, question on on that piece of it. But what are the recommendations from whoever um on like what our community, the taxpayers, what we can do as a board? >> I think that maybe >> it's coming. >> Yeah, I think a little bit. I think it's educate. But um I just think >> I mean educate our >> Well, I think this is what we can do. Talk to your legislators and I'll talk about what I've done with Jean Schmidt,

096Adam Bird, and Terry Johnson to this point. um our house reps and senate reps. Um but share the facts with neighbors. I think a lot of times this gets out and again I'm not just saying it because I'm the superintendent of schools. It's not a mismanagement of funds. It is inflation. Schools are not we're not immune to inflation cost. Whether it's electric, gas, insurance, benefits, >> busing, >> we try busing. We try to do all the pieces we can to live within that. We do a very good job. I'm not here saying go needs an operating lab. Don't quote me coming out of this. That is not it. That is the furthest thing from what I'm saying, but I think it's understanding. I have this here someplace and I'll get there. I'm passionate about this.

097Honestly, when you see what could have happened to go kids here and to our education in a second, it was scary here over the last couple weeks. Um, I will say this, it is a shared challenge to go to your point. It is a shared challenge. Families are struggling to pay bills. Uh schools are stretching to maintain teachers and programs and safe facilities. And the state has to be a part. We can't just sit here and debate locally and I don't have a room full of people. But if we were to go and say we're making cuts for some reason, we'd have a room full of people. Then we'd be debating you wasted your money. >> I think we really need to be looking at the state of Ohio piece. Our legislators do an incredible

098job up there. They get beat up for same sometimes as we do um for decisions, but they've made investments or a disinvestment in tax policy decisions that aren't helping right now. There are other ways to do this besides looking at property tax relief. Uh so I say that why is this thing not all of a sudden clicking >> and Mark? No, Mark's here. >> Mark's here. >> Oh, here you go. I just had to say Mark's name. So >> when I say that um >> this was what was projected out of and they're they're looking at it legislatively at property tax reform. But I think what's happening right now is it's not reform for all. It's not reform for all of Ohio. And this is part of what I sat down and talked with our

099state reps about. If you look at go, we were slotted to over making changes throughout this formula. The way it currently stood if it was going to go to vote back a week ago was we were to lose 1.8 million this year like in January and then about another million over the next two years. So go back to we got 1.4 four less than projected. We've got um this out there and this I don't know this didn't go to a vote. There were some changes made um to some emergency levy stuff and some different pieces of property tax reform, but this looking at it and I've given you the one pager that I sat down and talked to uh Jean and and Adam about. It's the other one, the impacts to go local schools. Todd's

100going to share a five-year forecast with this in it in a few minutes. And I think you'll see again we can't if we were if they were to say 1.8 million gone right now, we've already contracted for it. We can't change that right now. Um but I don't think that this is going to go in this form. It will be in some form. There will be House Bill 186, >> but I mean if they did if they put this through right now and we're 1.8 8 mil say in the hole for this year then we would have to consider that knowing next year we're going to be 2.7 plus the 1.8 we already >> it's about it's about three and a half four million >> over the three years. >> Yeah. So you're gonna you're

101going to have to be making decisions. We are going to have to be making decisions. >> Yeah. >> Um because again go back to what I said we're not going back for an operating. We're eventually going to need a bond issue. just have to do more with less or programs. I'm hoping that a lot of the conversations that we're having, that other districts are having, um, that we look at this and go back to this is a shared problem. This isn't just a local problem. Um, but I, you know, I put this up here. I said, is this reform for all? This is Claremont County. And I didn't highlight, but these should all be read except for Milford and New Richmond. As you go down to Hamilton County, they're losing no money. Why? We're at

102the 20 mil floor. We're operating the lowest millillage that we can by state law as well as many other Claremont County schools. We don't pass a levy every five years to fund schools. >> What's happening county? >> Well, they're passing levies. They've passed operating in most of those school districts to keep up with them. So there is their millage will be paid down as um property taxes go up. Whole different thing. But that's where I say is this reform for all? Um you know I think I mentioned uh Jean my parents live in one of these districts. Dad's a retired or a disabled Vietnam vet and there's no tax break coming there. So I don't know that this is the answer for the if we're reforming for all. I mean, we don't want it to

103all fall on our community. The problem is is, >> you know, going from 47% in 91 to 70% today. I mean, where's that 23% going? >> Well, it in this piece, it would not be a reduction in property tax. But when you go back to Gan's paying 37%. We're not >> we're not higher than a lot of these. So, >> where's our saying? Where's our state spending? not going to >> Oh, that I don't that >> that I can only like you said tax breaks for we're you know business to Ohio >> and we do want that we want businesses in >> correct but not to our dispens >> I don't I don't want this message to come off as the state's messing up this is a shared >> this should be a share between

104$800 million brown so I think But, you know, there is this I just wanted to be clear that, you know, as Todd goes through the five-year forecast in a few, we're not misappropriating, but if you keep taking revenue away, there's only one way to get revenue, and that's to put something on the ballot. >> Yeah. >> Or cut to where you're spending at the revenue that you got. and Mark, [Applause] >> there's some big double digit negatives for all of I mean, right? The majority of Claremont County. >> All right. So, what's at stake? And I'm just going to quickly these are I just talked about this. We met with legislators. You've got the one pager. >> Property taxes are a real burden on families. Reform is needed, but it's got to be studied and

105balanced. Like, I just don't think we can rush in and say, "Let's make this change." because you don't know the long-term impacts of it. Um, families and communities require schools safety and services. I will say the stake for us, this is going to be a struggle for us to to plan long term. We don't know revenues and what to expect and it just changes year after year. It's hard for us to plan long term uh for programs we need, for extra teachers we need. So, you know, that's a it makes it difficult. And then without some type of reform, families pay more or we're at risk of losing services. And that that's just not school services. That's fire, police, roads, senior services, community services, uh that are at stake. So, as we look at any

106type of property tax reform, that's all those things are paid for in the state property tax. So as you reform that or take it away, you're going to get you have to do less unless you can find another way to do revenue. >> So is that am I it's such a it's you know school finance is it probably took me two semesters as a superintendent in college to get through school finance 101 to explain that quickly. I think the answer is, you know, we have to look at this from a local level and I think the state has to look at it from a state level more than anything. If we're 45th in the nation, the amount of dollars going to public ed, that's where I'd start. Why are we 45th? Is that acceptable? >>

107Not acceptable to me. Is that acceptable to residents that we're providing >> educational dollars elsewhere? I don't know. So, and I think we can all agree it doesn't need to be on the backs of especially elderly. >> Yeah. >> Folks that maybe have maybe disabled, have income barriers, um you know, property taxes are here, but I think there's reform that can be done, but I think we have to work together to do it with legislature and state and locals. But go back to your question. I think it's just that there's got to be a balanced approach and it's not just a local issue. >> There any questions for Todd? Is that the end? >> So Todd's going to go through what that five-year forecast would look like and where we're at um where we're at

108spending wise this year. >> So I do have a question. This doesn't need to be answered tonight, but I think one thing that we will hear as we start to talk about this with the community is um as more residents are coming in and we're receiving that 1% income tax from them as they come in, how does that affect our funding from the state? >> Yep. >> Um and how do we use that to balance our budget? >> So, it's funny. Todd and I just sat before I left the office today. I said, "Okay, >> we're down a million. Let's just quickly we're down a million based on this. What's it take to make that up?" >> Well, we just said, "Okay, they're building 200 houses and household incomes of 200,000. You quickly do the

109math. >> We do, it's $200,000 for 200 houses with a family income of of 200,000. Make sense? two 200 houses is not making up a million dollar cut from the state level in income. >> Yes. >> Just 200 houses. Not to man not to talk about the costs that come in those 200 houses with teachers, buses, >> right? Yeah. >> Just the income alone. >> Yeah. So, we need a thousand new homes to make up one >> pretty much in still get real estate tax on there. I mean, there's a lot. I mean, and you know, we're at the 20 mil floor. They talked about moving inside millillage. I mean, honestly, you know, all those simulations that they run. I mean, I I I didn't do them. The state put stuff in and they just

110keep throwing stuff out there about redoing it and it just throws everyone's numbers and really it all shifts. I mean, like valuation per pupil at one district versus another. I mean, so every time they put something in, it's there's more there happening to all the all the districts in the state. So, it's really I mean I I can tell you I mean being here 25 years I've never seen so much thrown at something like this and and people are we're all really still trying to learn what's the impact because it's not clearcut at all. So, >> I think the scary thing is Sue when people are doing stuff that quickly and you can't keep up you know in the end >> it can be detrimental. I can give the honest story on we were playing

111Betavia. Keith Mard was down the end super superintendent of Bavia. He goes, "You see those numbers that came out from Bass today on House Bill 186?" I was like, >> I mean, we're all focused on educating kids right now with all the talk about all the report card pieces and everything we're trying to do and then we've got legislative changes that are happening >> By the hour and it's hard to keep up with, >> you know. >> Yes. >> All right. Well, I know you guys got the fiveyear in your packet and this is just kind of the summary that we have. So like finishing up last year, fiscal year 2005, I think you guys remember the 16 billion7. That's where we finished finished our year was just then again that's where we start. It

112just kind of rolls through there on our um on our funding right now. The numbers in they're not really talking about doing a huge reduction this year. So, we're kind of staying status quo on our unrestricted and then our restricted that's like the student wellness dollars and that sort of thing. There's a there's a slight drop there, but as you can see coming across dropped it a million and continue that on and again like the future years there's not been a ton of talk on how that's going to continue on out, you know, on the because they do the bal budget. So, we're doing 26 27 and the impact here. And then also with the changes, it's only a four-year projection. So, this will all be changing. But anyway, I kept that number going across

113just to give you guys an idea. Our revenue went from 39 to 38 to 3939. That all looks pretty good. But the costs are going up 10%. I mean, like, we know that if we if our revenue stays stagnant and our costs continue to go up, we're in trouble. I mean, we're gonna be dipping into our cash, which basically on here, since we're on the excess, you can see the the negative numbers there. We started the year off with 16. At the end of five years, if we stayed status quo, >> we would we would be we would almost cut our general fund dollars in half down to about 8 million. Now, it's a blessing that we have money in the bank and we can, you know, make these decisions and there's >> a lot

114that goes into it, but those are the numbers that we put in. Uh lot of people I mean like treasure we're all talking to each other like what are you going to do with this? What do you think we ought to be doing? So going through on those numbers dropping ours down by like a million bucks. I think that's ballpark where we're going to be at. I mean I guess it' be an educated guess. May maybe that's a way of putting it. And um but I I I think the thing that I hope that we do is we just kind of you know we keep working legislation and tell them this impact like you're going to cut our general fund in half over this five next year five year cycle. So that would be you

115know tough. Now again like you guys just said we're going to have people moving in that's going to have impact on cash revenue but we're going to need more staff. We're going to need busing you know that sort of thing. So that'll be a juggling act that we we really need to look at. >> What what's the reasoning for using 2022? >> That's the fair school funding formula. That's the inputs they used. >> So that hard is then for them to >> realize that. >> Well, it's more money. It was like I don't I forget what the number was. It was more money from the state to go to 25. >> So it broke the formula. Yes. >> And that's a great point. I mean in and the the states rainy day fund is full.

116I mean like they have they have money up there that I mean they could actually be help >> and my cost of work when I buy thing I mean I my cost up well over 20% since 2022 for things everything I buy >> since 2022. >> Yeah. Oh over 20%. >> G like how do we just like skip inflation? So it's like because we have managed our money well right and we do have roughly I mean now it's probably less but we have almost six months to continue operating if they cut us totally off right so we're saying in three and four years we'd have >> 12 weeks we could continue they totally shut us offer. >> So you're saying operating cash on hand? >> Operating cash where we could pay >> continue on >>

117about six months. >> So thank goodness we've managed money pretty well, but we we can only do that for so long, >> right? And if I mean if we need I mean I totally get it. So I mean we're on this if this would be the case we'd be positive 150,000 which would be phenomenal this year. >> This year correct. But what what our concern is if they if this continues our savings >> I just think you're I mean yes and will have to make a decision that >> you know there's a certain point there where you don't want to get below and it's only way to do that is you got to balance and cut >> okay are going to outweigh the revenues because we will have more expenditures coming in with kids >>

118and they want us to go to a three-year forecast Correct. >> That's a bill three years prior and then >> I think it's four, but >> yeah, they're changing they're changing that. The one thing I will say that I mean I don't want to like >> there's still income tax and real estate taxes. I mean I just highlighted these areas. We'll still be getting money from them but that's one reason that these go down overall if that makes sense. I mean these numbers here are total impact. Those are that includes everything that we got. >> Yeah. It's off off of our for forecast. >> So when will we know >> they got until next December >> December 2026 to override veto's property tax. >> It's the craziest. I mean they've got over a year and

119a half. And so like really right now we've contracted for our fiscal year here. So July, August, September, we've already signed contracts. We're getting busing. We're food. >> So we could be into 2026 before we even know. >> Yeah. >> 425. like will they go back into >> that? That was the a lot of the conversation we had was you can't make this retro because we've already budgeted for it unless you want us to cut off services. >> Have they done that before historically? >> No, it's never been done. I mean, we did I I talked to the Claremont County auditor's office and really what they talked about doing is giving people credits on their tax bill, which then we would get the because we've already got the money. Some districts who have no cash,

120they already got the tax dollars and spent it. I mean, it's gone. So I mean like to to them to say pay it back. I mean they >> they would have it pay would have to pay. >> Yeah. >> Correct. >> It's it's very complex. School funding itself is not constitutional. How many years they found any stuff about that? Yeah. >> I I mean I as you go back to this and I know Todd's gonna I mean I >> I think you've got to go through this here, don't you? >> I do. I can you don't have to. I think they've seen it. So anyway, I guess I'll just just real quick on this. This is where we're at for this year. This is our 16 million that we started. Year-to- date revenue is 13.

121Our fiscal year expenditures, I mean, we're up 2.6 million. I mean, like if things don't change, I like we're we're looking pretty good, which we we known that for a couple years. Go the next one. So, our revenue through September, our revenue is up 1.3 compared to last year. So, we got 11% increase. A lot of that is due because we get our settlements on real estate taxes and income taxes during this time. So that's where a lot of the money are. You can see that on our local and state share that our total revenue is up 1.3. Um our expenditures are up 1.6. I mean most of that is due to all the projects that we did. You know we did a lot of lot of things there and our you can see our

122salaries and purchase services that for that falls under the other and that's um the total there for the 1.6 18%. I think the one thing that uh I mean Mr. Bail and I talked on this a little bit and transparency. We want to continue to be clear where our money comes from and how it's spent. I mean we want our taxpayers to know I'm a taxpayer. We all are taxpayers here in Ocean. So we want to make sure >> property taxes we feel are high because they are high. This is not a school district decision. I mean, the fact that we're at the 20 mil floor, we went at 40% evaluation times our 20 mills, we didn't do that. I mean, that's just that's how that that worked out. >> And then so now then

123what's happening is it's >> our local paying it and the states reducing that down. >> Um, >> we uh support reform that uh relieves families while ensuing strong schools and safe communities. Uh the go local schools, our allies, our taxpayers. State level tax policy shifts have left our goian homeowners and farmers carrying too much alo. We know everyone's getting just taxed to death out there and we hate that. We do know that in the end every child in go local schools deserves the same opportunities we had growing up. Excellent teachers, safe schools and educational programs that prepare them for success. They're not luxuries. They're investment in our community. I just think tonight it was such a testament of it. Those kids >> have a game changer that I can tell you a lot of districts

124don't have, but we've got that. And the fact how it's funded and how those guys do that and you know that Mr. Wall went and got all the certifications to be quote UC teacher is amazing. So that's great stuff. >> But those are the kind of things that we would have to make decisions on, right? >> We will. And I think as your question will we know I think we're going to continue to monitor this. will continue to work with our local legislators and having conversations. We've got a legislative breakfast at the county with on October 24th with our local reps and continue to have conversations with them. Um, and then as things come up, there may be a time where we need to do some town halls to educate our community. I think as

125we go through uh our master planning process, there was going to be some of that naturally where we need to talk about the funding pieces and where it's at. Um but it may expedite some of that conversation. But I think, you know, you look at that, it's not close the doors, but there are conversations that we have to have to maintain financial stability here and make sure we're doing the right thing with taxpayer dollars so that it's not because things triple quick. And if you spend it over one year, you're really spending it over for five years on that forecast. So, we really have to be watching it and monitoring it. And we have to, you know, as we do every year, monitor the economy and where it's at. um and do what's best for

126go kids in the end. So, we'll continue to update you guys. I felt, you know, tonight just looking at this sheet that I gave you really that balance piece and where it's at or some of those talking points, it's not made up, these are true numbers. So, and you know, as Mr. Shankle presents every month. We try to be transparent with where we're at with the programs we have and go back to, you know, local shares 31%. As that state share continues to dip, the only choice we have is local goes up and that's how they do the the fair school funding. Is it since this is all facts, can you can we include a PDF on your Friday update or is that >> I think it'll come a little bit at some point. Yeah.

127>> Okay. When we're ready to just let people >> Yeah. Just like things are on your mind and then >> you want to get informed. I think >> and and I think with like especially with our conversation, you know, staying on our local legislators here, that's good. I mean, that's that's great because >> they're only they only know what they've been the information they've been, >> you know, and I know they have staff that's supposed to know these things or whatever, but maybe some of their staff that they have is maybe they don't do a great job. You know what I mean? So, >> so that's so what you're doing saying legislators plus OSBA we talked about last week that our regional uh our regional meeting >> you know I mean that's to to fight

128for public education >> you that's >> this one's staggering though we're like the fifth >> so percentage wise we would have been >> I mean these are like little tiny island schools right like middle bass >> yeah Kelly's Island. I mean, how many students do they have on Kelly's Island? 15. >> I had four. Like our >> seriously, >> seven. >> Well, my gosh, >> yeah. I mean I mean they're important but gosh if we you know so seriously like that's that's >> well and I think that's where as I said earlier there's a passion for it because go kids were going to lose on this and >> and it may not be trying yet but I know we you did we did one podcast and it was really good. Yeah. >> Um what about

129could the GNN interview you or is that I I >> think if we get to that point where we Yes. I do think that's >> and let's put our kids to work some more. They're doing great. So, >> okay. >> Yeah. >> Do I have any additional questions for Todd? And is that a wrap up? >> That's a ser I I would do want to say that I mean Brian I mean I got to set in with Mr. Schmidt and I mean she listened and even got gave her a go that she actually wore on the next day and voted. But she was really I think the thing was great is she was unaware of a lot of things until Brian clarified exactly was what and so that was it was I guess what I'm

130saying is it was good meeting to have that and but she did listen and >> keeping people informed. I think that's the key. >> Yes. Yep. >> Yeah. Moving on to agenda item eight, new business C. Um items one through eight. Do I have a motion to approve? So >> second have a motion by Lisa, a second by Melissa. Discussion >> just quickly on seven and eight that resolution declaring transportation impractical again >> costsaving side routes don't go there. So we had a family there to transport elsewhere. And then I think you heard um that we lost a member of our tech staff. This was a replacement for the rest of the year with a um local LLC individual. It's been great so far. So great. >> Yes. Had a good midyear. >> So that

131is an agreement for that LLC for the rest of the year. >> Any further discussion, questions? Mr. Shankl, can you please call the role? >> Mrs. Marin, >> yes. >> Mrs. Prai, >> yes. >> Mr. Raer, >> yes. >> Mrs. Greg, >> yes. Moving on to new business D personnel 1 through eight. So I have a motion to approve. So >> moved. >> Second. >> Motion by Bill, second by Lisa. Any discussion? >> Always trying to find substitute teachers. So you see we have one there and then we have a maintenance substitute. A few different substitute aids. What um what about the school psychologist intern? So at Maruk um we have a basically like a student teacher. >> I was like wow. >> Yeah. So he's going to be shadowing at Mark Cook with our

132school psychologist there. >> Okay. >> School psychology. I was read that. I was like oh that sounds great. >> Yeah. Additional resources. do have a new high school custodian there with some transfer movement from Kevin's open >> kind of working through that right now but it's good >> any further discussion Mr. Shel can you please call the role >> Mrs. Papari >> yes >> Mr. Ra >> yes >> Mrs. Gray >> yes >> Mrs. working. >> Yes. >> Moving on to new business E. Athletic personnel 1 through five. I have a motion. Second. Lisa made the motion. Bill second. Any discussion? >> It's a good start. Coaches >> coaches. Yep. Anything else? Mr. Shenko, can you please call the role? >> Mr. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Gray. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Barking. >> Yes. >>

133Rocky. >> Yes. >> I will say if you look down through that list, those are all teachers. A lot of those are teachers. We're fortunate to have teachers. >> Coach for our kids. Teach all day and work with our kids after school. And I can't thank our staff enough for that. and community members to volunteer in one of these positions too. >> Moving on, do we have a motion to approve new business G miscellaneous which includes donations from recrelet PTO, GAB, upscale auto um and the business advisory council plan. >> So moved. >> Melissa made the motion. Do we have a second? >> Second. Just a second. Any discussion? Just continue to thank all the partners that we have. Incredible support around the community. >> Mr. Shinkle, can you please call the role? >> Mrs.

134Gray? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Wy? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Papro? >> Yes. >> Mr. R. >> Yes. Can we >> new business G board of education reports U Melissa? >> Well, um there was a a a student achievement. I got this article that said that uh there's 80% of employers don't feel that they that our students have not our students students in the state of Ohio and across the country don't have the soft skills and the skills that are needed um for employment and I listened to this. So apparently not at go. So I was just like oh my gosh this was um incredible. So, um yeah, it was like everything that they um were saying in the opportunities, we just dispelled all of that. So, but I think the resume writing um definitely um

135is a great um fit, but what they were saying they were learning the soft skills um was right on. And then um it also said that the college board um in relation to this is expanding some AP offerings and they're going to be for the 26 school year um business, personal finance and cyber security. So um that would go in line with um our new class um that we are offering. So um and then at the middle school um just a couple of upcoming things. There's a choir concert on the 15th and then the band concert in conjunction with the marching band um concert at the stadium on the 28th. >> Sorry, making some notes. Moving on to Bill. >> We had at Great Oaks this past week. We had the uh ribbon cutting at

136the expansion of the uh Laurel Lopes campus. Uh we had uh with state money I think it's dollars that that Laurel Lopes got from the governor's a few years back it was 200 something million for career tech campus in Ohio. >> So with that with that uh that that money we uh doubled the size of our welding program. So, we had 25 weld booths. Now, we have 50. Um, we built a new building uh for we moved construction tech program out to that building because they were next to the weld program before. So, that way we kept all our weld weld program together. Construction tech was moved outside or in this separate building. And one reason separate building is it's now our new uh EV program, EV repair um and manufacturer program. So Honda has

137a new battery plant they're opened up up there or they're opening up in north of the uh outlet malls Jeffersonville or something. But anyways, it's a gigantic place. So they're partnering Little Oaks up there or helping with that uh that program. But it's going to be uh EVs electric vehicles and also things uh like electric hyos uh bicycles. Uh if you see a lot lot of electric uh lawnmowers and all that kind of stuff, they had um some of those eco zeroturn battery mowers there. the kids will be learn how to repair all those kind of things too because at first you think okay it's going to be EV right then I mean this goes further and I believe they're even going to I think they're going to talk about the uh they like charging

138EV charging station too like maybe touch on that a bit about as far as installing chargers that that's a big there's a lot of companies need you know people to install those things uh yeah so that was that was great um also we have a a law enforcement program they up there. That's new. And uh that's it. Um then the following night was back up at Laurel Oak there with us with me. Um for the Southwest Ohio Regional U meeting, business meeting, we were awarded the spotting less awarded the purple star award >> and that picture was taken up. So that was great recognition for us. That is all I have. >> All right. Thank you, Lisa. Um, so for legislative, um, as you guys heard, there's a lot going on up there in Columbus.

139Things are changing rapidly. Um, I'm going to forward the two emails that I've received since our last meeting regarding um, new bills that have been introduced because there's a whole slew of them. I mean, they came back into session and they were well rested >> from their break. So, they they're um making uh bills left and right introducing those. >> So, um I'll forward those to you because otherwise we'll be here till midnight. Um for the business advisory uh committee, we had our first meeting of the um school year last week uh last Wednesday and we focused on the myth that um people don't want to work is the um was the theme of the meeting and how it's a myth and um one of the things that came out of it was actually the

140soft skills that you just mentioned before um with student achievement and how we had the demonstration tonight and we um also went outside to see um a lot of our students um outside doing construction um pulling wires and stuff like that and all of those skills that they're learning hands-on experience with with um volunteers from construction industry around us and that that was really great. So um that was a that was a really good meeting. Um just a couple things that are coming up is um the Ohio Education Policy Institute has a meeting on the 27th from 2 to 4 that I've signed up to attend. I know we have a policy committee meeting this Friday that I can't attend because I'll be out of town. Um, so I'm thinking that it's probably going to

141align with what we're discussing this Friday, but um, and then I've signed up to do the delegate training for our um, uh, capital conference in um, November. And then um, the Mark Cook Carnival is on the 28th of this month. Um, it's right before it actually overlaps by 30 minutes um, with the band concert. So, we can we can double dip on that one. And then also the PTO trunk retreat is on the 30th um of this month. I'm sure Brian will talk about that. So, just put it on your radars because as you know, we have at least 800 kids that come through with that and it's always a fun experience. >> I think Stephanie Roli has told me that they're already up to 35 trunks. >> Um so, she's hoping for at least

14250 because they had 50 last year. So, That's all that I have. >> Thank you, Lisa. >> And then Corey's next. Um I did reach out to Corey because he's traveling for his job and he did not have a report for this evening on Gian Township. Um moving on to my report. Um as always, public relations committee. Um, just a reminder, if you know a veteran who didn't receive their diploma, um, we do have a date slotted coming up in November. So, have them reach out to, um, Mr. Bailey who can put them in contact with the appropriate individuals leading that. Um, I've already shared all the spring event dates. Gian Education Foundation hosted Bootsburg and Barbecue, which was another extremely successful event. Um, and because of everything that they've done in the last few

143months, they actually just voted to double the amount of teacher grants that they'll be giving this year. So, >> that's incredible. Um, a lot of GEF board members doing a lot of hard work. So, um, that is my and then audit and finance. We plan to meet in January unless something comes up equipment. >> We can meet whenever you want though. Talk about a lot of hypothetical numbers. As soon as those come out, we can meet. >> Yeah. >> Um, any questions? >> Um, I No, I was just gonna I can speak of it in the other, but I'm gonna speak of it now. Um, I think it's great that we empower our staff or give them the the uh the guidance of direction, whatever to they go out like Mr. you know, just they're

144not just uh coming in here every day and just going through the motions. They're not just, you know, they're not being micromanaged, being pushed to excel and better themselves and >> go after these opportunities for the kids. And, you know, so many of them keeping out for those grants and stuff, too. I mean, it's that's great. >> It doesn't happen without Yes. All these things we talk about don't happen without creative ways of doing it, being innovative. I GF what they're doing for our schools and for teachers. $10,000 in teacher grants this I mean >> just changes the classroom environment opportunity. It is. Yeah. >> And still get PTO. Yes. >> I mean there. Okay. Good. >> Yeah. Because I know for a while it was like uh begging the teachers, right? And >> in

145the beginning, but now that they know they're like >> That's great. >> And to read the grants. I mean, it's just >> doing great stuff. >> Yes. >> Yeah. But and that's how we save money inside the school district, right? because we have no different um groups supporting as well. >> Any other questions on the reports? >> All right. Thank you guys for the work you do outside of this. Um moving on to new business H superintendent report, Mr. Bailey. >> So just coupleformational I'll have we'll have an itinerary to you guys as we kind of look through uh Sunday, Monday, Tuesday up there. I know you've each got some things delicate stuff, but we'll I know the hotel and stuff and that's booked for that. So, we'll we'll get an itinerary with all that

146stuff to you here very soon. Uh report card update. I know we've talked about this and I don't think I' I had to go back and look at past presentations. We haven't done it at a board meeting. Um it is one measure, but it's one we're extremely proud of. Our teachers work incredibly hard. Our kids work incredibly hard. And then you go and look at the funding piece and yes, we are competitive and that top right kind of shows you where we stack up at around the area. There's a lot of really good schools in Clar and Southwest Ohio that provide incredible educations and we're right up there with them um and opportunities provided for kids. This isn't about testing. This measures all the pieces including the finance piece. So extremely proud of our teachers,

147our buildings, our graduation rates, our college career readiness rates, literacy pieces. We work incredibly hard um and have to do it differently than some, but we get the job done. So very proud of our staff and kids for that. Um as Lisa said, PTO trunk or treat. We will have a trunk for the tailgate of my truck, unless you guys want to get creative and dress it up. You know, that's not my uh strong suit, but tailgate down and there will be candy. So, we'll have the tunnel as we always do as the entry to the to the trail. So, >> if you guys want to we'll get the candy in that for 800 kids and you guys just show up. We'll start setting up around 5:30 that time. >> And then I think Melissa

148talked about it earlier. We as you talk about some goals updates and things at you know our level we have begun the conversations about what does this administrative office transition look like. Teresa sent out an email or a survey to all of our central office staff and administrators to talk about what that workflow what are they worried about? What do they think needs to be worked on? Um and really the goal of that is to identify challenges and then plan for adjustments. So, what do we need to do as we are presented with a challenge with this move? Uh, how do we adjust for it? Make sure that we communicate it. So, and then lastly, Bill said it. I just should have let you guys get my report. I do. Congratulations to Spalding. They did

149receive the Purple Star award the other night at uh Southwest Ohio Fall Conference. Um, and again, that that designation just signifies what they've implemented. um you know with what challenges military children face, frequent moves, parental deployments, and we've got the services for them and then also how we celebrate military service here in our community. I know our other buildings are looking at tackling this one uh as well. So hopefully we'll continue to build on that. But we are a proud military community and whether that's active duty or veterans, it's great to see that support out of our buildings. That is all I have. I didn't cover a question. >> Well, I don't think this applies to our district, but there were, I believe, three bike accidents of students like in the news. And I just

150wanted to do we have any bike riders um >> small amount >> and it's I don't I mean I don't know. They just seem >> tragic that they were just hit. I don't know if they I don't know. I just I don't know what we could do. Is there anything we could do to ensure they're safe? It seems like most of the time it was the drivers that were the problem, not the bike riders. So, I don't know. I just don't want it to be on our >> I know that we have talked to any student that has bike to school. Generally, it's at the high school. Um had conversations about their routes and really, you know, there are buses. We're not set up to be a walking or biking district for the most part,

151>> but there are a few kids that do work locally after school and we have had conversations at the high school to make sure they're doing it safely with their parents, but they're sidewalks as far as they can make it the media to school and then get on 28. I Yeah, it scares me too. >> Do we anticipate more as the Linton Road? Fortunately, we did get the crosswalk back on Linton and we do have sidewalks to navigate through to campus. >> I don't know. I mean, yes. Do I think kids will walk? >> Yeah, >> just being mindful of as we see that. I mean, >> I'm a Linton Road traveler because it does, right, cut off the main way. Um uh so just I don't know if there's we can consider or they

152consider some additional light. I mean we are fortunate enough that our tennis courts are right there so it does provide some additional light >> at night. Yeah. >> Um but you know I just think about here in the winter it gets dark at 5:00 p.m. and it's dark until 8:00 a.m. about right. And so as we see that grow considering foot and bike, >> I mean I will say that we have tried three times unsuccessfully to do the safe routes to school grant through ODOT and I know Bob Ross and I talked about are we getting close enough? It's always rooftops. Are we getting close enough to start looking at that again? Because that that sidewalk's on 28th. That sidewalk's up probably to Linton. >> Yeah. Um, but it's >> we should put the statistics.

153>> Got to qualify. >> In Cincinnati, there are how many? I mean, it's it's a lot. It seems like it all the time. >> I mean, the thing that makes me most nervous about Linton is people just not being used to there being a subdivision there who travel. And I mean, I live over Shil Road and people fly. >> Um, I imagine people probably fly down the street away. Um like >> like if it got to be where there's a lot like if there is like um >> well it probably be a school. >> Yeah. Or in like in the old years ago like >> we would have to probably say >> Yeah. Who does it who supplies a crossing guard? Is that like a volunteer or >> heard there's a group of parents who

154do crosswalk? >> Yeah volunteers. >> So yeah. Um, so what we should think about that though >> if we get we've already had that conversation back online. >> Yep. >> Yeah. We should tell the bike riders >> wear bright colors at least, you know, don't wear a black sweatshirt. You know, >> we can even talk to our bike rider and find out make sure that the bike rider that we do have has like appropriate >> Yeah. reflectors and possibly a light and stuff like that early morning >> or a helmet. I don't know if they would wear it, but we should buy them one if they >> I'm sure there's programs out there. >> Y >> any other questions? >> All right. So, do we have a motion to adjourn this meeting? >> So moved.

155>> Second. Bill made the motionless second. Any discussion? Mr. Shankle, can you please call the role? >> Mrs. Papari, >> yes. >> Mr. R. >> Yes. Mrs. Gray, >> yes. >> Mrs. B. >> Yes. >> Meeting adjourned at 8:30 p.m.