July 2025 Goshen Local School District Board of Education Meeting

001Call the July 14th, 2025 Gosh Board of Education meeting to order at 6:30 p.m. Mr. Shel, can you please call the role? >> Mr. West, >> here. >> Mrs. Wy here. >> Mrs. Papari, >> here. >> Mr. Herrera >> here. Gray >> here. >> Moving on to agenda approval. Do we have a motion to approve tonight's agenda? >> Submit. Second >> motion. Motion made by Lisa. Second made by Melissa. Any discussion? >> Mr. Shankle, can you please call the role? >> Mr. West? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Wy? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Fraki? >> Yes. >> Mr. Rivera? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Dre? >> Yes. >> I'd like to call for a moment of silence as we think of those who have been impacted by the flooding in Texas and other navigating difficult issues at this

002time. Thank you. Please stand and join board member Melissa Pepi in leading the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Moving into item six, Mr. Greg Miller, would you like to discuss updates with the athletic department? >> Absolutely. Well, thank you guys for having me and uh thank you guys for your vote of confidence in me as athletic director. Um I'm honored to lead an athletic department, a school that supports athletics like you guys do. Um, so we do have a new Facebook page this year. Um, Melinda, thank you for the idea. Um, wanted just to have a place where we could focus athletics content, uh, where people

003knew they could go to see updates. And what we found is we like to post, we're very proud of what we do in Goan. We post a lot on regular Facebook. So, we wanted to kind of pull athletics out of that. We will repost um athletic stuff on there, but I'm not a big algorithm person and stuff, but I think it makes sense for us to have a hub where if you're looking for something, you want an update on a game, you go to the Facebook page and we're working on that. Um think we have almost 500 followers now, so the screenshots a little bit old. We're trying to get the news out there. So, we will very soon reshare it. Um, and I'll talk a little bit about some of the new things that

004we're going to do and hopefully those posts draw a lot of traction and people will begin to follow it because I think what's go have 15,000 followers or something like that on the general Facebook page. So, we want to get the athletics up. You know, our Instagram is over a thousand people. So, we want to get a lot of people on this page. Um, and then again, we can just continue to highlight athletics. Had a lot of great success with our teams this year. In no way is this all of the graphics. I could not put all of it on there and make it look good. Um, but we had a lot of great team moments this year for the middle school and the high school. Uh, first boys soccer championship in school history, which

005I thought was crazy. Uh, but I learned that boys soccer was I say relatively new to the other sports and I think it was suspended for a short bit there too. Just didn't have interest. So, I was very proud of the uh boys soccer team that included a coach of the year and a player of the year trophy and I'll talk about them in just a second. also had boys basketball win a team championship and then the middle school is killing it. I mean, if there's a middle school all sports trophy, we're bringing it home every year. Um, but eighth grade football, volleyball, boys and girls basketball, and then the eighth grade uh or the middle school boys track and field team, and I think the girls finished second. So, had a really great run

006uh in middle school athletics. We have a lot of dedicated coaches at all levels. Um, and I'm hoping that next year when I come do this update, we just have an expanded list of champions. So, if you go go ahead. Um, a lot of individual accolades, too. Um, you can see we're putting people up in the SBAC. That's a coach's vote. If you didn't know, it's not automatically going to the league title team. Um, so the coaches in the league are recognizing how good our athletes are. U, we're getting players of the year. Uh, we're getting coaches of the year. uh when we're having kids hit milestones, you know, we have Gage Crowley showing up to state wrestling as a sophomore, only sophomore in his bracket. He's placing sixth. Um Carson Kessen hit a pretty

007big mark this year in wrestling with a 100 wins. Uh we have Ethan Shock who is creating a problem for us here at Goan because now I have to expand my shot put pit a few feet because he's out throwing the current grapple situation out there. Um and Ethan and Tyler McFaten before I or after I made this presentation and sent it to Mr. Bailey. um they qualified for the National USA track and field the summer championship. So Ethan will be throwing at that and Tyler McFaden will be running in the hurdles. So just our kids are doing really well um in in all sports. And again, here's middle school um or I'm sorry, individual championships. Had a lot of players and coaches um do a really nice job uh bringing home some accolades. And

008this I could not fit all state, all conference like it. We have a lot of kids doing a lot of great things. Uh, for middle school, I tried to just hit the the biggest highlights outside of the team. So, we had Jasper Anderson and Lucas Beverton qualify for the uh uh I think I have a a typo there. I think it's OAC uh state qualifier, which is a really big meet across the state. Um, one thing that's unique about middle school, there's only two sports that the state sanctions um postseason play in. Um, but the OAC state wrestling is the next best. like it's not a state one uh because OSA doesn't do middle school sports but those kids qualified and that's the toughest one to qualify for my understanding so it's a really big

009deal um Madison Weaver won the girls American division championship in cross country and then we had Trenton Brooker show up to the um state meet and he placed in both the 800 and the 400 meter open uh which is really tough to do uh anyway but really difficult because those races are kind of I say back to back but they're really close you know so he doesn't get a fresh set of legs on that second race, but uh really good middle school track career for him, capped off by, you know, a state birth and a and a place in both of those events. So, really good stuff. Um this year, things that we brought in new signing day ceremony, I think a couple of people were there. Um we've had signing day ceremonies for individuals

010before in the community room and you stay after school and it's really hard for their classmates to get here. Their coaches and parents can be here. Uh but talking to Mrs. Walker, we decided to go with a new idea. So, we had all five of our college signees at the time. Um, go to the auditoriia. We introduced all of them together and then let them have their individual moment, but we were able to invite all their classmates that participated with their teams and I thought that gave them an opportunity um, you know, one last hurrah in front of everybody. So, did that at the end of the year, thought that was successful. Um, we can bring, you know, a little bit more to that, but in the first year I thought it went really well.

011Uh we introduced last year uh at the beginning of the year our athletic sponsorship program. So wanted to streamline and be consistent about how people got advertising here at Goan and supported our athletics. Um so we opened up the doors and went through with Mrs. Ba or Mrs. Bailey, Mr. Bailey, Mr. Shinkle. Um and you know I I looked at some other school sponsorship programs and just kind of put us where we uh where I thought we were and we filled all five of our platinum level sponsorship. um spots. And so those those businesses have agreed to five years to uh donate some more money in return for advertising. And you'll notice on a lot of our posts, one of those five local businesses is on there. Um you know, they have banners at the

012stadium, banners in the gyms. Um we give shoutouts to them. Uh but they're giving our kids more opportunities, which is what we're here for. So, it allowed us to kind of weather the storm of some increasing athletic costs and, you know, not uh cut back on anything for the kids. And it, you know, all these people who are sponsoring us now get to be highlighted. We have more. We still highlight them. They still have banners. We still talk about them, but that top level was full um within a week or two of us dropping that. So, it was great. Um, we kicked off the senior banner um and kind of senior package deal. It's really small. Um, but you guys have probably seen them. We started this in the winter. Um, we have a really

013nice printer. I don't know how else to say it. Anybody want to weigh in a little bit more on what it is, but we can print senior banners. And if you've had a senior or you've looked into that, senior banners of any size are $85 to $110. And what we were able to do was involve Alli Ashcraft, a student here at Goan, to take the pictures and do some editing work. Um, I use the graphics program. Um, so that's why they're a little simple. This year, um, with the help of Mark Suggel and some other people, we were able to turn out, um, all the senior banners for winter and spring at $65 a piece. And then that also included a senior package that we collaborated with Wage War on. So that was a a

014t-shirt, a hoodie, and a fathead. Um, all for 65 bucks. And how we able to do that, the athletic boot uh boosters donated 1,200 bucks to cover the print materials. Um you know, it's not any cost and labor. It's just us doing what's best for kids. Um we also wanted to make it consistent um for our senior banners because it's really hard to get volleyball banners and they make them six foot tall and then football makes theirs five foot tall and cheer only decided on four foot tall. So, it made it made it look a little bit better when you're out there at the stadium or in our gymnasiums and it provided kids more stuff for less money. Um, we were able to partner with Children's Hospital. Mr. Bailey, I think, spearheaded this more than

015anyone, but um, you guys were around, you've heard Beacon dropped us. Um, you know, they're just making a business decision. And so, Children's Hospital was there. We were we were able to retain Gabriella, uh, which I think is outstanding. Um, you know, not having an athletic trainer would be a big blow to our school, to our programs. And we have schools that are like us that they don't have ATS or they share ATS. I mean, I couldn't imagine us sharing an athletic trainer with Blanchester. Not, you know, no, for not rivalry reasons, just for like availability for kids. And so, thank you guys for supporting that. I think Children's doing a great job. And, uh, the more that we're involved with them, the more we're going to get out of this. Um, and as soon

016as they open this Eastgate Center, things are going to be a little bit closer for all of our kids, too. We will continue with Huddle TV. Um, that's our streaming service that we provide to community members who can't make it to games. Um, right now we have a camera in the stadium and we have a camera in the high school gym. Um, we have the opportunity now with our package to stream some other high school sports like baseball and softball, but cameras are tricky for those. You can't just mount one and and hope that it gets everything. So, we're working with that. Um, but it provides all of our coaches film opportunities with kids, you know, for teaching. It provides kids with this is all AIdriven. So, they have quality game film for their highlights

017and for their memories as well as our obligation to trade film with other schools. So, um, while it's a little expensive when you look at it, um, it's the best deal out there. We explore some other streaming platforms and we generate a little bit of revenue from it. So, we get a we do get a little bit out of it, but it's uh it's a lot for our coaches. Takes a lot of time out off our coaches plates to have to find somebody to film and cut film. And I know I'm thankful that the coaches don't have to uh make copies of VHS tapes anymore. >> I did I did uh start a relationship with UC Sports Management and Ohio Northern. Uh Ohio Northern might be a long shot to keep around, but I have

018two interns that are here with me this summer. If you've been around campus, you might have caught them. Um, Andrew Bradic is a senior at UC. Um, and he's getting some hours in here. And then, uh, Chuck Booy's son CJ is from Ohio Northern and he needed a place to get a summer internship in. So, he came with me and I think it's been great. Learned a little bit from them and they're learning a whole lot with me in year one. Like, they're right there. So, I told him day one, I said, "Guys, you this might be the best internship because you get to see somebody who's just starting out in this role." I mean, I've been here, so I know a little bit, but there's a lot to this role that I didn't know,

019and I'm still learning. So, they've been here a lot this summer with me, and we'll continue up uh into August, and then we'll see those guys go out. But one thing in talking with UC is I would like to keep that pipeline going. And there's other opportunities from other schools. Um I went and met with Wilmington College um and spoke to their sports management students back in April. So, I'm hoping that when they have somebody who is in this area, this would be a good opportunity for them to come, you know, and do an internship here. And the last thing, uh, we continued our Under Armour contract, um, for our jerseys. We investigated Nike and Adidas and even some offbrands, and what we found is that Under Armour's given us the best deal, um, on

020uniforms. Um, they they upped what we get from them a little bit. Um, and it wasn't, you know, be honest, one of the major brands didn't entertain us and the other one wasn't that attractive like in terms of what they wanted wanted to give us as a school. And so we actually went to two different vendors with Under Armour and explored that and decided it was, you know, the most responsible decision was to stay with Capital Varsity as our vendor and continue being an Under Armour school. So, any questions about that before I move on? I know that's a lot. Real quick, so what's next for us? Um, obviously I'm learning a lot. I'm in I've been in the role for eight weeks maybe. Um, there's going to be new stuff that comes, but here's

021what I can highlight for you today. Um, not so positive admission prices within the SBAC. I think it's fair that you guys know that's a conference vote and that takes a lot of things into into consideration. Um, but a lot of it comes with cost of, you know, performing that activity and officials. And so recently, um, Southwest Ohio Schools all got together, um, and we've signed a agreement, if you will, as a conference that, uh, we're going to keep our prices where they're at in accordance with everybody else. We're we're all going to kind of join forces because it's nothing against officials. They deserve the money that they're getting. But it kept it kept being a fight because there's an official shortage. So, it was this conference will pay you five more dollars to come

022do these games or 10 more dollars to come do these games and really kicking ourselves doing that. Um, and so everybody in Southwest Ohio sent representatives to this meeting. Um, and I think everybody was on board with it. It's 85% of what that official would get in a first round OSA tournament game. So, I think that that's a very fair value and for the most part our league values were right around there. If our league values were already above that, they will stay above that until the state until we hit that floor. Um, if we were lower, we brought it up. You know, you know, their sports we were five or six dollars high per game. The the referees will continue to get that until the state raises their minimum. So, and I think it's

023fair for officials that they no longer have to pick, you know, hey, I'm driving extra because the GMC wants me or the ECC wants me here and I get a little bit more money from them. Now it gives them the opportunity to work with different assigners and kind of spread the wealth. We are adding varsity co-ed powerlifting. Um if you've paid attention to our social media, you've seen a lot of our posts and there's a lot of hype around it. Coach Elen and Coach Omise have grown what is almost I say a dead activity in Southwest Ohio. I don't know very many schools that have it um back into something special here. I mean, we have kids that I mean, males and females who are getting super excited about powerlifting. And, you know, I think

024it's great for our athletes, but I think it's great for our kids that that's their sport. Like, they're athletes, too. And that gives them an avenue uh to be a part of something. Um, biggest thing is like we're driving kind of far. Wish we could host, but that's a down the road goal is like we'll be able to acquire the equipment to be able to host something like this. Um, it's very popular in northwest Ohio and very popular down in southeast Ohio. So, we are going to a lot of meets that are kind of far away, but our kids are having great success. I highlighted Hayden Peters here, um, set the school squat record at 505 pounds or the school squat record as we know it. If I I told people if if you got

025a newspaper article, you squatting 600 pounds, put your name on the board, but this is what I can show. So, we're excited about that. It gives all of our kids an opportunity, relatively short season, so shouldn't conflict with too much. We are looking in to competition cheer as an athletic department. Um we've had good success at middle school and kind of a club model. U but now we'd like to extend that. So we've got the high school involved. Uh they're going to do a couple um competitions this year and we're hoping that the interest is peaked and that leads to us having a competition cheer team. I think we have a lot of great young kids that do it. um we just have to make sure it's something that's sustainable for us and something that

026you know kids are gonna a lot of people a lot of kids say yeah I'd love to do it but we want to see kids do it before we make it an official sport. So we're working toward that. Um it's not a league sport a lot like powerlifting but again it gives our kids an opportunity to showcase their skills. So we're excited about that and hopefully it won't take too long to prove that we're going to be a great competition cheer school. We are transitioning to hometown ticketing. Um you might we've been with Hometown for a couple years on on one side. It used to be called Tickets Ticket. Hometown purchased it and is cancelling the platform. So um Hometown is who essentially everybody uses including the OSAA. So it was a no-brainer in terms

027of who we go with. Uh but you'll start to see me roll that out um very soon. I've been working with them to make sure everything on the back end is good in terms of passes and teams and venues and such. So our uh our passes should go on sale very soon. I think our uh if I remember our SBAC passes through that now. >> Well, it was going to be so it became a conflict when they were trying to get all the league schools and there's not enough channels to say your pass would be good for a Western Brown Battavia game when your card says it's good. So, we actually dropped that uh just a couple weeks ago and I should have your guys' league passes in August. So, okay. Yeah, that was the

028goal was to put it on your phone and I thought it was great because it was going to save the conference money, but hometown was a little confused about how that's all going to work and and make games beat games in their side. I think that's where they had the snack, but they promised us they would look into it. Um, there are some other ticket providers out there um and we we talked to them. um they may have a little bit less of a fee, but in terms of friendliness to use the platform and what people are familiar with and then just our fans going to, you know, other games, everybody in our league is on hometown who does digital tickets. So, we still will offer cash at the gate, uh but hometown ticketing is

029the is the smoothest way to go. Um, another company uh dropped us and we were able to pick up that same person in a different light. So Pro Force had us as a uh as an athletic training provider or a sports performance provider. Um they're just downsizing their school outreach division and so it left us without an athletic performance coach that we've grown to really like and he does a great job. So Eastan Kindle uh got out there and uh he's he's going to make it work with us and again Mr. Bailey headed that up to get a contract in place with him. Um he knows things that our coaches don't. I mean, he's an educated professional in this. I say that our coaches have to know so much about their sport and so much

030about their kids, and now we're asking them to be experts in the weight room. At some point, something's got to give for them. And so, we felt like the sports performance was probably the best way to go to alleviate some of their education. And, you know, you get a lot of coaches that are uneasy in the weight room because it could be an unsafe place if things aren't being taught correctly. So, um, Eastston does a great job. The kids all love him. Uh from my observations, we've increased our athletic uh or our weight room attendance in terms of all of our sports, you know, getting involved. I can't say we're at 100%, but we are more this year than we were last year than we were the year before in terms of teams getting their

031athletes in there. I think that's going to pay off in health of our athletes and performance of our athletes. So again, we appreciate that. And then just for me, like I'm going to continue to explore everything that I can with OSAA and hosting tournament games here for various sports. Um I don't know enough to say why we don't or why we, you know, haven't in the past. Um OSAA has a little bit different model. You don't, you know, get to keep all the gate money or all the parking money or anything anymore. Uh, but I just want to see where we can help now that there's expanded divisions and like, you know, soccer and volleyball, um, you know, football, baseball, softball, stuff like that. And then what it's going to take on our end because

032I don't want to host a tournament game when we're supposed to play away. I don't think we're there yet. Um, and I also want to make sure that we have the appropriate venue for it. Like want things to go well when we do it. So, I'll uh continue to be involved with that. Uh, and I'm learning about it. First Southwest Ohio meeting is coming up at the end of this month and I'll be there and you know I'll still be involved with OITAA and NILA and everything I can. So >> I have a cool question. Yeah. The uh East and Kendall is there like does our like does Gabriella interact with them like Okay, >> they do a really nice job of working together. That was one of the things that I liked about we

033haven't we we haven't had a sports performant coach athletic trainer conflict. Um, it's really nice when she is right there by the wait room to be able to say, "Hey, this is what this kid can do and can't do today." And Eastston is also willing to supervise their rehab. You know, the kid learns how to do it, but Eastston can say, "Gabriella's at the stadium. I know you're supposed to be doing shoulder shoulder work or you need, you know, you need to make sure you get your sets done on the machines." And so they they have a good partnership and they um you know they collaborate behind the scenes and Eastston's ready and loaded with our team builder program to go with those kids. So works out well. >> Okay. Good. Because I like sometimes

034when when a kid gets injured, >> they just kind of just shut everything down or the kid does like they're like they're really missing out. >> Well, this injury, but if they know they can do some things. >> Yeah, absolutely. Eva Eva worked with Eston and Gabriella through her like as she was >> entering back into being allowed to be cleared with some stuff. So >> yeah, >> he like when he she was doing training through sports and she was able to do certain kind of like jumps and things like that. So she was able to work but >> she would do it with the team but he knew what she was allowed to. >> Okay. That's awesome. >> Yeah. And I think it, you know, keeps our athletes mentally engaged, but also, you know,

035if you got an upper body body injury, your lower body doesn't have to doesn't have to wait to train and vice versa. And I think them, they have a great relationship from what I've seen, and I hope it continues with both of them because we we they have been both really nice additions to the athletic department here. So, I think one of the reasons sometimes we get dropped a little bit is because people assess like how much we're using their p, you know, how much we're using their company on the side of things. >> Um, probably won't be an issue necessarily uh with Eston because I think he created the company to get this thing started. >> He did. He wanted to stay here. interested in is he interested in working with individual athletes to

036like on the side or do we know yet? >> That has not been something that we've talked about yet. Um I mean he's gone as far as to like when he's got this you know this planned or he's you know sick. Uh he is working with us right now to get somebody who's already certified but board approved here to be a substitute for him. Nice. Um so he because he doesn't want our athletes to go without um definitely something that we can explore in the future. Um you know Eastston doesn't have a home facility right now. Uh but yeah I think to your point of why we were dropped. I think that is part of it but I also think part of it you know is like we're providing a good service here. You know

037it's what we tried to explain to the sports medicine people who didn't want to stay here is like well we we've got somebody trying to prevent injuries and it's not that our injured kids aren't coming to you. It's just that we have less injured kids right now. >> I also think it has to do with our zip code being primarily not go necessarily, but >> yeah. >> So, are we also encouraging now that Sense A Children's has picked us up, are we primarily encouraging our athletes to use their service? >> We talked to I mean, when I do my parent meetings, I always tell them like it's a great avenue. I try not to be too one-sided with it, but I think Children's is a great option. And of course, Gabriella will, you know, give

038referrals when when she's asked to go. That was the one nice thing with Children's is they're not they weren't as big on that side of being driven by >> claims. Yeah. >> So, I mean, >> it's part of it, but I think you know, like Greg said, when that Eastgate opens, that's hard going to pass up. Got all >> I mean, Mason's pretty convenient, too. >> Yeah. And I think for them, like this is they are growing their sports medicine department right now. And we haven't I mean, it worked out for a reason, right? we had a need and they had an opening. And so they're, you know, I've I've witnessed them, you know, every time we have a big event, they send a second athletic trainer. When we had track meets, we always had

039two ATS here. When we had a wrestling event, we at one point we had two ATS and a physician. So right now, I don't think we're locked with a physician, kind of like we were with Beacon, somebody coming out, but we will always have somebody here from the Children's Network. And if Gabriella can't be here or it's an event that she can't manage alone, Children's is more than willing to send somebody else out to support her and our athletes, right? >> Which is, you know, which is great because you get track me, 400, 500 kids running around. It's a lot. >> Y >> So >> I have a question on shoes. It may not even be relevant, but because I know times have changed and you know, we used to all wear the same shoes

040and on the court and obviously that's not the case anymore. So, but is there any like discount with with Under Armour or would do kids not want to wear Under Armour shoes or are they supposed to be separate? >> Yeah, it's No, there that we do have an option to put together a website which I'm working with Capital Varsity right now on on sporting goods. When we first adopted the Under Armour brand, I think it's nine years ago now, um we offer shoes. We what we found out was Under Armour offers pretty basic footwear in these discounted situations. Kids didn't jump all over it. Um and the other thing was it never the kids got an opportunity to try on that shoe. So when they would say they're a 10 and a half and they

041needed an 11, that process was so long it was really hard for me to look at a family and say they're come like the cleats are coming. Like we had to send them back and then they had to send a new pair. So I we have not done that in a while just because I felt like it was an inconvenience to the people who wanted to do that the first time. But it is an option for kids. Um and we have gone through them for like some of our sporting goods packs. Um we do access that discount for our kids to get you know a lower cost on on some of the some of the underarm gear. >> Thank you. >> No problem. Anything else? I would say just a kind of a reminder this

042year in the union agreement we made it uh employees plus one as opposed to family to come to games. So that's going to be a little bit of adjustment and that yep >> was one thing that really impacted our athletic department too. There were so many people got in free. >> Yeah, it was a little bit little bit of a difference. Um, we'll still have the coaches and administrators passes and um, coaches and their families, we're going to get them a pass. And then for staff, uh, rather than just saying, "Hey, you pay full price," we're offering them uh, 50% discount on passes. So, they can always bring that plus one person, which applies to most of the staff, it'll work out. But if they have a, let's say they have a high school kid

043who likes to come to events without them, because the staff member does need to be present for the plus one to get in for free. Um, we're going to offer everybody a 50% off pass for the first month of school. And if you're a staff member and you or a bus driver and you want to take advantage of that, it's 25 bucks for a kid and 60 for an adult for the whole year, all middle school and high school events minus postseason and stuff. But I thought that's that's a pretty fair deal to get kids in. Um, and part of it was it's it's very hard to regulate when it when somebody just walks in and be like, "Oh, my my dad works here or my mom works here." And it's like, whoa, whoa, wait

044a minute. >> Yeah. I can't I know a lot of people, but I don't know everybody. And so we we kind of looked at some other agreements and felt like that was the avenue that would still make everybody happy. And then giving them a discounted pass for kids that want to come to all those games, it was the right thing to do. >> Yeah. >> So 25 bucks for a kid to see every sporting event. >> Yeah. For a staff member's kid. Yes. We still keep our Listen, we still keep our st our student passes at 50 bucks for the whole season. And that's a good deal. >> I think it's great, you know. Yeah, >> it keeps them it keeps every I mean I say every kid, we want every kid to come, but

045it also gives them some accountability like they're not just going to show up and cause some issues. We also know who's in the game at that point, too. Like if we have to identify tickets for whatever reason, so I think it's good. >> Thank you. >> All right. Well, thank you guys. I appreciate it. If you guys ever need anything, please reach out and if it's okay with everybody, I'm going to head home, put my little ones to bed. You guys take care. >> Thank you. >> All right. Moving on to um old business agenda item A. Uh master facility preparing for growth. Mr. Bailey. >> Yep. Going to take us through where we've been, where we're at, all the things we've been talking about since >> I don't know. I feel like since I've

046been here, but >> um since I last showed you this, there's been a couple more items that I've added. seven and eight. Um, long 48 looks like it's got a new neighborhood popping up. And then I think the Smith Road apartment project, there's still a moratorum and things going on at the township, but as you see these things kind of signs coming up and um semi- approvals being made, it's continuing. Obviously, Eagles's Nest being under contract, still working out the deals on that, but we're not seeing the end of growth. Just a reminder, back last year, October, November, we signed, we did an RFQ for master facilities planning, chose SHP, and we started that process of looking at our facilities. Um, they've done the assessment, looked at all the buildings, looked at the capacities, and

047have started to identify short-term planning opportunities that we've discussed a little bit. Still several things to do on that. Long range planning, engaging the community, that's coming up this spring. um developing a financial projection for that long-term plan and then creating documents for that master facility plan to use as we go through the future of the district. With that said, we've talked about this slide a number of times. Um no is not an answer. We just can't wait because if we wait, class sizes get bigger. We fail to provide the right 21st century resources sources and learning spaces. We have the danger of losing programs. um if we don't have space that means we've got to you know make tough decisions. Those up there we've talked about obviously this would be through a long process

048but we have said not doing something is not our option. We talked as a board about you know a few of these were our goal would be to minimize the disruption to student learning in our current facilities. We talked about the board of education office was not me was meant to be a temporary solution even though we've been there I've been 15 years I'm not sure how many years we've been in there maybe 20 um I think somewhere there somewhere in there uh you know the space is now a commodity here in the district um so we had talked about examining space in the community looking for other options to absorb the board office um add more modulars which you guys will see in financials Tonight we do sign an extension, a one-year extension for

049$50,000 for the modulars out at Spalding. We remember those, you know, those come with a hefty price when you set them up because you've got to get them infrastructure sound. You got to pour the peers and we signed a 5-year lease on those, which 600 700,000 at that time. So the five years is up and now we're just doing a year-to-year lease. Um and then obviously with SHP recommendations to building to our buildings to fulfill immediate educational spaces and continue to provide efficient um efficient and cost-effective use of staffing, transportation, and our current district assets. So with that said, at the May June meeting, I kind of ask you guys these questions as we go through this process as a ballot issue at this time an option. Pretty much heard resounding no. Finding space within

050the community for the BOE offices. Answer was yes. Looking for swing space on campus for ungra unknown grade level impacts. The answer was yes. Add modulars. The answer was no. Unless it was, you know, our last option. Um and then examine SHP recommendations to buildings to fulfill immediate educational spaces. We had discussed that and it was yes. and then continue engagement long-term master plan which that answer was yes back in November when we chose that right so with that said we had opportunity knock in the community um a property listed for sale um or lease in Gan Township came available um had discussions we listened um kind of had discussions with you guys we had the building and land appraised to make sure that the value was in line um it was you know was

051appraised for right around 640. So we began to investigate what options it presented to help us with our growth under the guidelines that it needed to be financially responsible and provide the opportunity for additional academic space options here on campus. We tooured it with SHP as part of our master planning. And I think you know as I've shown this to you guys um and sometimes as we were looking at that building we first looked at it and said could we do anything with kids there like before and after school um the answer was our before and after school program was too large already to do anything with that. Um as well as look at it for office space. Um we then shifted to okay can this help us with our central office staff. Um they've

052kind of diagrammed that space out. It's 8200 square feet. You can fit um almost all of our board office in there. The room there on the left and I'll talk to you guys a little bit about that later in my u superintendent presentation. But that could be a adult ed program 22 plus diploma program. that could be a PD option for our staff. So, the building offered us options. At that point, the board discussed what vacating the court current board office could do for our academic space needs. SHP looked at the board office and looked at really Mark Cook in general and said vacating the space will allow us to recapture five to six classrooms in that space. Um, so essentially either you chunk it up or you kind of divide it, do some design

053work with whatever and you're going to get five to six classrooms back. Um, so through the architectural and design process, there will be options that we will review with staff and our facilities committee come that come that time. The board also discussed an estimated construction and renovation budget uh for that Patricia Lane property and our current board office. um SHP provided an estimate of about 1.3 um to renovate up there and the board office. For comparison, we discussed what that would cost to build new. So, if we were to build a new standalone 8,200 square foot office space, whatever, it's about 4 million. If we were to add five classrooms to a building, the estimate was about three plus million. So again, that's based on new construction cost and you know what those rates are

054going at now. So you know we made the decision taking all that into account um that we would present an offer um knowing that we had the green property that was sold for $625,000 in 2016 and the dollars were invested over 10 years at 5% there's been a good return on investment in that with the market the way it's been. Um, so we presented an offer and the offer was accepted. So tonight, um, we'll be asking in Todd's section for the board to approve a resolution to purchase the Patricia Boulevard property and then to approve an A&E RFQ to move forward with design and construction process for renovating the new building to house the board office and repurpose the current board office into academic space. With that said, I'm going to give you timeline and

055then take some questions. This was kind of the estimated timeline that we're working on. Um once the purchase goes through, once we get through this process, essentially we would design, bid, and then build on the admin office with a goal of April completion. Now, don't know the construction world. Um that would be ideal. And in the same time, same breath, we would be designing and bidding um the Maruk court office rena. And then once we get out and probably when we're still in there, there's some pre-construction stuff they could do with them beginning construction as soon as we're out um to then have that building and space ready for the 20 I can't believe I'm saying that 26 27 school year. So that is kind of the estimates of you know once we close and

056we start moving on this the timeline that that can be done. Um so you know with that said I think that was it on my slides. Um questions you guys have >> slide two or three backwards. One more. Okay. thoughts, questions? I mean, >> we've talked a lot about this, right? Um, as a board and, you know, I think overall it was important for us to keep kids on campus. I know that that we talked a lot about that. um making sure that there's some type of administrative board office presence on campus um throughout the day and and that connection. I know that there's a plan for that. Um, we need more academic space and >> I think we've all been on the same page of uh adding more academic space in existing buildings and

057being able to get rid of the cost of the trailers because it's just kind of throwing that money away, right? um is the best thing we can do right now as we continue to save and try to at least add on to buildings, as we can make it happen, as we grow. Um and then hopefully a future, you know, bond when we're ready, when the community is ready, and when finances are ready. Um I think right now what we're getting in property taxes and stuff is allowing us to put some away to continue to be able to add without asking for more money right now. >> Yeah. And for us to I mean renovate both Patricia property and this for 1.3 million which is >> less than half >> of just five classrooms alone add

058onto a building. I think is >> this is the most cost effective way for us to increase educational space. >> We say that it's five to six classrooms. I think it gives us some breathing room. I think if you go back to one of those slides where we get some swing space on campus, I wish I had a crystal ball to know what grade levels these movements were going to come at. But if we've got some flexibility um with some classroom space, I think that is paramount right now. doing that. I think we've got a long process to what does that look like between now and next August. Um but um because I think there needs to be some community discussion as part of this some community engagement. Not necessarily the purchase piece, but what

059does this look like? What do we want long term? You know, when we reach X number of kids, I think, >> you know, this gives us a little bit more. We can add some more kids. You think about five to six classrooms. Well, it's 25 kids. It's, you know, you've got a little bit of initial growth here that it'll help you with. It's not going to help you with all of it. If all of them come in at one grade level, not a problem. So, I just think it, you know, it gives us a little time here to continue to engage our community, to have a instead of, you know, I'd like to see with SHP, we're going to do a lot of community engagement, some surveys. I'd like to see in this perfect world

060where we hit a student enrollment number and the community knows we're on the ballot and that is where we're at, right? Because that is the number that dictate dictates that and drives it to keep programs. Um but again that's got to come from engagement. That may not be what the community says. Um, but we're going to get a lot of time to go through that and think about that as you know this again I think as this said opportunity knocked and you can't not not too often in your community are you going to find space that meets you know our needs up there. I think Teresa was most excited. We don't even have a place really to PD our teachers. >> Um unless we're reserving this room and this room is becoming harder and harder

061to to get during the day because I got so many things going on at the high school. So, you know, I I wouldn't have made that recommendation to you guys early on and Todd uh if it wasn't the right option. So, I appreciate you guys talking through this and obviously, you know, we'll take a vote on it here in a few minutes in the financial section, but really wanted to, you know, review where we've been at to get to this point. So, questions next uh month's meeting, can we get update on enrollment for grade level? >> Well, how about September? Okay, >> let's get some people in like the 11th hour, right? >> That'll give Donna time to settle it out to know because it >> well because that next board meeting which we'll discuss

062will be before we're even start pretty quick. >> The other thing we discuss is the building we're buying has a great future. Even if we just if we can move back to campus in the future, >> it's a great like we'll be able to resell it, right? Um, and I think that that's important that we look at that. >> Yeah. >> Uh, so if anything, right, and that it's a future investment for our school district, um, and community, we're going to create a nice space in our community. >> I was going to say a great point, too, is the the sale on the corner and we haven't done anything with that money. We've let it grow, >> right? So, we're not just taking money out of the account, right? You know, so >> one property

063for the next and then moving out. >> Yep. Agree. Any other questions? All right. Moving on. Um, new business. Agenda item A, public participation. Mrs. Sherzinger, do we have anyone signed up for public participation? >> We do not. >> All right. Thank you. Moving on from that, uh, new business B, treasures report. Mr. Shinkle. >> So, um just gonna just real quick just recap. Last year, um was under budget again for the 13th year. I mean, you know, I I think that's it's such a team effort because everyone looks at all of our programs and looks at our budget and we, you know, to really to do what we do and maintain that. So, I mean, it's a thank you for the whole district and, you know, for your guys' support on everything that we

064do. um the C pro C program it was a huge success and the big thing there is you know originally when we're asking all the questions how's our national school lunch program going to be and etc etc how they had us code every student as DPIA really increased our amount of money and um that was um a great program and you know and all the kids got free uh breakfast and lunch throughout the year so that was a a win-win all the way you know financially and for the kids um you know we got clean audit again for 24. That was our 10th year in a row. Again, that goes hats off to everyone. Like, you know, when you hear our ads that they handle the money they do, they bring money over the cafeteria,

065every building secretary, everyone handles a lot of money. So, a lot of people are doing a lot of good things to keep us in line with that. So, I just want to thank everyone for that. Um, item four, facilities are being updated, maintained. You know, it's one of those things for for years was trying to pass that bond issue to get the new roofs, to get the new windows, to get everything that we wanted to do. And unfortunately, it, you know, that didn't happen. So now we're at the point where we do have to break fix a lot of the stuff going on, which is great for Mr. Smith when he's out there. I mean, you know, we had to set aside again money in our PI fund to help out for, you know, if

066our chiller or boiler breaks down, you don't have the option of like, oh, we're going to fix it or not. We had to fix it. So, it's nice to have some cash there to do that. So, >> which we have had three freezers go down this >> getting I mean those equipment 20 something year old equipment. I mean it's gonna happen. >> Yeah. So, I mean a lot of that stuff's being done which is great. And um for item five there negotiations, you know, to work with the with our union and come up with, you know, a good package for all them because, you know, you you look at our our location around here. We're competing with the Sycamores and the Kings and the Masons because it's a 20-minute drive and, you know, to be

067able to go out there, maintain great staff, and take care of them. And I think they appreciate the support that you guys give and that our admin gives to them. So, that's another great thing. And then uh for this year looking at everything um we are projected to have a be under budget again with with all of our numbers. So we're excited with that. I I can tell you we get into this um a little more discussion here what went on with the state this year in school funding is just an unheard of unreal thing that's happen. I mean it's really um it's still happening. Not sure where it's >> Yeah. So I put that number six up there with a little bit of caution because I mean there's still time for the >> for

068them to get together and you know go back to the governor's veto. So >> stay tuned. Um so the what kind the kind of the big things that did come out is the fair school funding plan. Um when when they went out there they have funded that I I'm back on there. It's item that number two where they're going to phase it into 100%. The problem is is they did not change any of the cost that goes into the equation. So for us, they ended up using the Senate version, which then we've lost money for these next two years. So that that's a little bit of a disappointment. Again, kind of a nice thing that we do have a little bit of cash in the bank because when we do have something like this, we're

069not wholesale cutting programs or services or anything of that nature. We're, you know, we've been blessed in that respect. One of the things they talked about uh if you see on there the cash balance is under 40%. Our current what we have in the bank is 34%. So we would be under that. We wouldn't have had that that impact. But the governor went through and he did veto that. So that's a big plus in my opinion that that got rid of that rest, you know, that order that if if you know who doesn't want to save up for the rainy day or the bumpy road hit. So I mean I'm glad to see that the governor did that. And then the non-charter educational savings plan, he got rid of that. And you know, just for

070all the private schools, the funding that they're looking at on that is really it's it's tough to look at sometimes when you sit there and see like how much money they're giving to those programs taking away from public schools. But fortunately, the governor veto that one. And then there was there's a ton of stuff I mean like going on in regards to the tax levies. The biggest thing there, we're at the 20 mil floor and fortunately we're not out there running any of those levies to operate. So we're we're blessed in that respect. But for a lot of districts, if they're at the floor and they have to pay us, they're counting that those numbers together. And it's just uh that's a very very tough thing right there for school districts, that will be a

071really difficult item. I do believe there will be some movement on these July 21st. I think the House and Senate are reconvening to take a look at some of these some some type of property tax vetos. I it's always hard for us because as Todd said, we don't have any of those. We've got an operating levy that was passed 76 and a bond issue that's paid off. So, we don't have combined or conversions or incremental or any of those substitute pieces. So, the impact on us is not there right now because don't go to the ballot. tells me the 1% works. We live within it. When you know the economyy's down, we have to make decisions based on that. Um, and that's a year-to-year thing. So, I I feel a little selfish saying that, but

072to you guys as a board, the outcomes of that, unless it's something different coming out of that, I don't know that these will have impacts to us, but it will have huge impacts to schools around us. So, I think we've all said from the start of time something with property taxes, whether it's the elderly or, you know, fixed income folks, whatever it might be, um, or, you know, fund schools in a constitutional way because it's been unconstitutional or said to be for a long time. But, um, our hope is to continue to work, you know, with our reps and talk through it and find a common sense way to, you know, that we can do both things. educate our kids and you know look at tax taxes for all of us. We all pay it.

073We're not immune to it. So, >> but there will be some stuff still happening at the state level. >> I think that's one of the most things that it just blows me away is that we're at the 20 mil floor. We got almost a 40% increase. We knew it was going to be bad and terrible that I mean I feel bad for everyone had to pay that that amount of money in taxes. I mean it's totally unfair. My disappointment comes with the state is that why didn't they increase the homestead roll back number? I mean, you know, we're at 10 and two and a half. Why didn't you do something there? And it was and you never seen anything discussed about that at all, but that would be something. It's nice just that tax relief

074this year because they're all trying to fix this problem, but it was a I mean, to me, a 40% increase is not going to happen every year. There's no way, you know, it's just let's fix it now and move on. But, um, >> I don't know. It's >> it's a big issue. It really really is. So, so on the current >> Can I make a quick comment there, >> Todd? We are blessed, but you said we're blessed because um it doesn't impact us. But the re because we have a savings plan. So, I want just want to point out the reason we are in okay shape is because you guys have been financially responsible and had a savings plan over the last, you know, 15 years. And that is why we're okay when this happens.

075We were prepared for a time like this in our state and that's important, right? Um so we don't have to take on big cuts right now. So while I do agree that we're blessed, it's we were also very financially responsible. >> It's been 20 years of the district doing the right thing with the taxpayer dollar. >> Yeah. Well, I can tell you I mean I live in go. I mean I look at it like my checklist to be honest with you. So, I mean, I I want, you know, my expectation this is what we want to be. So, I mean, if we're not, I'll be myself. So, >> um, this right here, the state sends out simulations. We went ahead and just printed off all of Claremont County and we're highlighted in red and for

076fiscal year 25, it shows us that 215, that estimate, we did not get that amount of money. I mean, it's it's off. So, but they just they put out estimates up there anyway. Um so again they went with the the Senate version. So you can see right here for 26 they show us losing right at a half million almost 600,000 for next year. That's going to less and then the following year in 2027 we're going to drop down another 864,000. So you know if you can look on the revenue that that's $1.3 million that we're going to be losing from the state from the state on that right there on our forecast. So I try to highlight those numbers and put in the thing you got to remember on this right here. I apologize. I

077don't want to stand up. It's to total these two because we got the unrestricted which is our foundation dollar and the restricted are more of those DPIA funds that we got in student wellness. We have to spend those on intervention services and that sort of thing. So the total of those together that's what brings up the state totals and then it's just a projection. And you can see it goes out here and we you can see where we drop down the river. Big part of that is our DPIA funds and I'll show you a little bit of that later. They're dropping the percentage down because what happened was is a lot of the more poverty schools were already on the CC CP program and then once everyone found out that you could get a lot

078more money, everyone went to it. So the but the pot of money didn't change it just got spread out more. So that's kind of what >> go back to what we said though. They decreased the percentage for us to be approved for C. So we went for it because we were at that percentage not knowing that there were DPIA dollars behind it. We simply asked are we going to lose any title dollars? Are we going to lose any money doing this? You know that they were going to code every kid DPIA. So but they're adjusting. So add up 800 add up 800 to 9 or whatever it was 500 900 and >> basically you're at the 1.5 >> that not getting this year and I think if you look at those county numbers that would

079tell you look we're the only school district in the county that lost money the only CB district >> that would be that's my 50,000 foot of the impact. Well, and this is the DPI piece that >> Yeah. So, you can look you can look at the the five year for I mean like right now I mean I'm not putting tons and tons of stock in there because it could change you know what I mean up there. But here this is the weighted amount right here for the DPIA coming across there. What is it 100% and they're phasing down to 75 and then you see 65s out there. So that's that's really what is transpiring with that. our DPIA funds, they're going to be going down and um but we was blessed and took again and

080took advantage of it the last year. But that is why our numbers are dropping. We're going all the way down like 35% on those deep. >> We anticipated those would go down, right? >> Yes. Because we know a lot of people would get in there. >> Um this right here, our federal funds, which is our title one, title 2A, IDA, all these funds here, we're still waiting on a couple of those. I mean, so like you can see for last year, we've got 442,000 in title one. It went down to 433. Not a huge decrease, but we didn't get more money. Our title one neglected, we got 35,000, and now we're down to 20. So, we're taking a little bit of a hit on on most of our grants. And you can see in total

081we have almost $1.4 million, which that was I was kind of putting out there that we could be losing. And it's down to like 1.2. Now, we don't have those two items there for title 2A. So, we're waiting on those. These are anticipated. Those funds still aren't released. They're in our one needs plan, but I, you know, the federal government is looking at allocated funds and making decisions on that. I will say tonight we will, there's a ton of staff that we approve on our support staff. >> A majority of our dollars from our federal funds go to people. So, we're approving a lot of people tonight, but we don't know if we're getting these dollars. In the past, we've known July 1 that we've got that even if it was a $10,000 cut, we

082can make a decision and say we can make that up someplace else or maybe we didn't need that position if it was vacant if somebody had left it. But this we are approving a ton of support staff tonight that fall into this budget with an unknown number on it. Worst case is if we don't get, you know, that amount, the general fund's going to pick it up and then we will have to make decisions on that support staff in a lot of those positions. >> We'll keep on keep on. Okay. >> Yeah. >> So, we we h we we can't we can't wait until August to hire people. So tonight, we're kind of blindly trusting that we'll get a similar because the anticipated budgets we've seen come out are similar, not huge cuts, but we'll

083wait and see what happens there. >> But no matter what, we're going to hit the whole spot this year. >> Yes. No. Yeah. We're hiring people tonight. >> So if someone would maybe leave in the middle of the year and we did, >> it depends on if it's a needed position with a student or if it's Yes. Or we have to look at a budgetary decision. >> Yeah. But otherwise we right next we have that answer >> and that's why we do I mean a lot of this agenda where we have you know we hire folks and then they resign. It's because it is dependent >> on those dollars. >> Yeah. >> And then a lot of times what happens is we may have a move in of a kid that is a high need

084student. So then all of a sudden we're you know now we're stuck over the general fund. You're going to get an aid or a nurse and you know depending on all their services. So I mean it can go like that pretty quickly in some cases. So >> yeah. >> Okay. >> So is there any questions on I mean I know that's kind of just I mean we we had a great year you know this year coming up is um I can't say >> the projecting balance but we don't know. >> We have questions for the federal and state government but not for you. >> That's right. Sorry. So we'll see how it goes on down the road. >> Right. Okay, >> moving on um to new business C financials. Um adopt the consent motion to

085approve items 1 through eight. Do I have a motion? >> Yes. Second. >> Corey made the motion. Bill second. Any discussion? The Claremont County inter agency is just the agreement that we signed for shared services with all Claremont County schools. And then from that is where they kind of build their array of services. And we're all in agreement that we're using ESC for those services. And then I talked about that mobile modular contract for an additional year is what number eight is. >> Get us through next school that please. Yeah. >> All right. Any further discussion? Mr. Shankle, can you please call the role? >> Mrs. Wing, >> yes. >> Mrs. Paproy, >> yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Gray, >> yes. >> Mr. West, >> yes. >> All right, moving on to um

086we're still in item C, financials. Uh do we have a motion to approve um new business C financials, which is the resolution to approve the real estate purchase and sale agreement? Senate >> second. >> Lisa made the motion. Bill second. Any discussion? >> This is strictly just for the purchase. We're not talking like uh improvements and all that. Second. Okay. >> Any further discussion? Mr. Shinkle, can you please call the role? >> Mrs. Paproy? >> Yes. >> Mr. Raer? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Gray? >> Yes. >> Mr. West? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Wy? >> Yes. Um, moving on, we're still in financials. Uh, do we have a motion to approve new business C, um, which is the resolution to authorize the solicitation of a request for qualification for architecture and professional engineering design services for

087goal school district. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Bill made the motion. Melissa, was that you? >> Yes. >> Second. Melissa second. Any discussion? >> What's this for? >> So we will I mean essentially we did we did a RFQ for master facility planning but under that it is not for the design and architectural. So this is to we'll post it there'll be an RFQ out tomorrow morning um for interested firms to submit their qualifications to enter into architecture professional. So essentially after that is selected then we get into the design bid. >> Yeah. >> How long is that? >> Uh two weeks. So I would say by the August meeting we would have a contract for paying. >> Okay. >> Any further questions or discussion? >> Mr. Shenko, can you please call the role?

088>> Mr. Rare? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Gray? >> Yes. >> Mr. West? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Wy? >> Yes. >> Mrs. that rock. >> Yes. >> All right. Moving on to personnel. Um, new business in item eight D. Do we have a motion for personnel items 1 through nine? >> Cory made the motion. >> I'll second. Lisa a second. Any discussion? Mr. Shinkle, can you please call the role? >> Mrs. Gray? >> Yes. >> Mr. West? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Wy? >> Yes. >> Rocky? >> Yes. >> Mr. Rare? >> Yes. >> Okay. Move on to new business. Um E, athletic personnel items one through three. We have a motion to move. >> Second. >> Bill made the motion. Corey second. Thank you. Any further disc any discussion? >> All right. Um, Mr. Shingle, can

089you please call the role? >> Mr. West. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Wy. >> Yes. Mr. Troy. >> Yes. >> Mr. Rare. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Greg. >> Yes. Moving on to item F, miscellaneous, going new business. Um, three items. Do we have a motion to approve? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Melissa made the motion. Lisa second. Um, any discussion? So just on those the PTO articles of association, we approve those each year so that they can have their 501c3 process and kind of legal process that we review it. Um donations were blessed to have the athletic booster supporting us and that they continue to grow and do great things for us. Um and then the handbooks, we did go through an extensive process with OSBA after the policy revision to make sure all of

090our handbooks, our student handbooks, building handbooks. Um met all the policy updates, made some revisions and that too. So a lot of work on Mrs. Sherzinger and assistant principles and principles part, but it's good time. I mean, it's good time like you said with the policies. It's it's good to not a good it is a good time. It >> is not a good time. It was a good time to review. Yes, >> every once in a while. I wouldn't recommend it for about another five to six years, but yes. >> So, those are all in our email. Um, and all the changes are in red, which is really nice. >> Yes. >> And also, >> yeah, thanks for >> clot tracking. >> Yeah. And I just want to give um a shout out to our

091PTO for their continued partnership and all that they do for our school um and our students and teachers. So any further discussion? >> Mr. Shenko, can you please call the role? >> Mrs. Warkey, >> yes. >> Mrs. Prai, >> yes. >> Mr. Rar, >> yes. >> Mrs. Gray, >> yes. >> Mr. West, >> yes. So, moving on, new business. Um, G, policy motions. Do we have a motion to we have a motion to adopt a motion to approve the resolution for a waiver of the first reading of revised forward policy? >> Bill made the motion. >> I'll second. >> Melissa second. discussion. >> It's the policy I sent you guys in email. It's a it's a legal change that we are required to adopt and basically I think revised code changed. There was a couple

092numbers that changed on here and then it took out some >> it was recommended we do it by July 1st but >> we had to do it the next board meeting and because you want that for the start of the year it really falls into the promoting parent parental involvement piece. So, it's we made the changes. >> Good. >> Any further discussion or questions? Mr. Shenko, can you please call the role? >> Mrs. Papari, >> yes. >> Mr. Rar, >> yes. >> Mrs. Gray, >> yes. >> Mr. West, >> yes. Mrs. W. >> Yes. And then moving on from that in the same section, do we have a motion to approve the revised board policy which was the policy IGBLA as recommended by O SBA per the July 1 legal changes. >> So moved. >>

093Second. >> Asa made the motion. Cory second. Any discussion? I think we just had that discussion. So that's what I was going to ask. Um, >> Mr. Shingle, can you please call the role? >> Mr. Rivera, >> yes. >> Mrs. Gray, >> yes. >> Mr. West, >> yes. >> Mrs. Quarantine, >> yes. >> Mrs. Peppy, >> yes. >> All right, moving on to um new business H board of education reports for board committee roles and leaisonship. So Melissa, >> um I just haven't I I think I don't recommend that we change, but at the BL I was called the BLT, but it's the board leadership institute and um I went to one of the sessions and um they talked about the benefits of having a student board member. Um, so some boards have that. Um,

094and if we would want to have a student board member, you do need a board policy to have a student board member. >> But um, so they it's really like a high school student, a senior typically who um has a name plate and sits here with us and talks about um, feedback um, from the students. Um however in listening to that I think what we do of having each building represented um you know um per month is a much better opportunity. So I feel like we should continue with what we're doing and I've never heard of anyone else mention that um that anybody else ever does that. So I I think what we do is a great >> a great way policy. >> I thought we did. Did we have a policy? We have a

095board policy. Yeah, we do. >> Um, if we could, >> you know, want to look at that, I I would probably say, "Let me do a little research to see how that's set up in other districts." I do have that ultimate goal this year, the superintendent advisory council starting. >> Oh, yes. We talked about that. >> I think that could be a springboard. >> Yes. >> And then see where it goes from there because I think you want to kind of a process in place, but I I'm happy to look into >> Yeah. >> what that looks like. Um I will find out um because there was there um >> Lovelin has one. I know that. So I can read and see how Lovelin does it. Yeah. >> Um I have a note and I'll

096find it. There's um someone else who had a student advisory council. Um so I feel like that I I personally like that I did better like a group of students that you meet with versus you know just one student coming and representing. So, um, I just thought I'd never heard of it before, so, um, I just thought I would bring the idea. But I love hearing from each of our different buildings and all the different students each month. So, um, and I think they do a great job giving my report every time. So, >> yeah, I definitely wouldn't want to lose out on the rotating different highlighting of buildings. I really like that. I also >> think it's great to hear from our principles and >> and the different schools throughout. So, but I do

097like the superintendent advisory board. >> Yeah. Plus, that that hits all buildings, too, >> right? >> Yeah. As opposed to the student represented on the board, you said the high school might not really be connected with the other builders. >> And your advisory board would >> It's 5 through 12 is what I'm looking >> Oh, I like that. >> So, it's every building except for Mar, which >> Yeah. talk to them and yeah, read some books and talk to them. >> Yeah, >> but that would also be I mean wouldn't do it as part of the advisory board but doing that I think. >> Yeah. Yeah. So I you know what I do have a note actually there was um so that board member she actually sat on a student advisory group they called it

098and they have a um anyone can come to the group they had some special hour um it's like the and one hour on Fridays I'm not sure how it exactly worked in their schedule but the students you could come in an hour late um if you had all your work done, it was somehow in their in their schedule. Um and so it was just a good way to get opinions from anybody. Um and they worked on different things like one they decided um they wanted to do some work on the bathroom and so anybody it was just a good I feel like that's >> opportunity. >> Yes. >> So >> um I feel like that's kind of what student council maybe should do. I don't know. But >> anyhow, just an idea. So, >> thank

099you, Bill. >> Uh, we had our great oak meeting last week and they gave us the start this year. It's amazing how many programs are weight listed at the oaks. They have really gone through. It's so popular. And they also showed uh Harry showed us size. Great Oaks is the largest career tech district in Ohio. As far as ranking nationwide, we're one of the top as well. Pretty amazing. I think uh they said New Jersey had Jersey Maryland had a couple ranked up there. They put a lot of money into their career tech campuses. But uh yes, our programs are real popular including our new ones. We have a new one at Live Oaks that's aviation exploration and I think that one's weight listed now as well and the uh programs at local be expanded

100are also great. >> Do you in that do you see like a percentage of or like how many students from each district go to great oaks? Like is like do more students from go get accepted versus another school or >> it's a lottery. >> Yeah. Yeah. It's a lottery. It's a lottery. Yeah. >> Do they try to keep it even or is it >> I think it's just a discussion on >> No, I think I think it's you discussed that one time a while back. I have to I have to follow up with that. >> But do we feel like a good number of our students get accepted? >> Oh, yeah. >> Are we happy with the number of our >> It's increased our numbers. Yeah. Good. >> Anything else? >> Um, right, Lisa? >>

101Uh, so Todd um covered a lot of my legislative stuff. Good. Um, I did want to um just point out if you hadn't looked at the email that came from the OSBA to all of us um after Governor um DeWine signed his budget um and all of the vetos and that they did a really great job of listing out all of that um information. So, if you haven't had a chance yet, just go back and review that because you you could see how much he changed and um vetoed things and that and >> and I was impressed that a lot of it was I mean, not everything was in favor of public education, but a lot of it was. And it was it was good to know that the voice of the um teachers um

102in public education, their uh efficacy at the state level and that um was really heard by him. Um which I think that speaks volumes. Um not necessarily by the Senate, but um but he but he listened and that was great. He noticed. So >> it has to it's still not quite overright because they can come together and they can if it's a like vote they can override. Okay. >> So there's still some things we need >> and that's what >> that's when they come back on it's July 21st is it when they when they come back together. Yeah. So >> that's what it is right now. >> Yeah. So >> there there will be some >> there will be some changes still. So it's it's fluid. It's a fluid document. >> Keep an eye on

103it. Yes. >> Any questions for Lisa? >> Corey? >> Uh, no. I talked to to Dan and u Bob uh Howerman. They haven't had a meeting in a month or so, but they did set the last beam for the new station >> and so they're ahead of schedule right now. Um, they also did vote to purchase a new ladder pump fire truck to reach higher buildings in the township. They did vote to, you know, put a halt to the building right now for at least 12 months while they work on some new language for zoning codes and then um they're going to have a a zoning meeting to update and bring changes uh when they get for the once they have that meeting for the public. So >> that 12 months >> it can be

104up to 12. I don't know their ultimate >> Oh yeah, project's up to Sorry. >> Oh no, I just didn't realize they told that long. >> I know. I thought it was six months. So I was like >> I think that was a lease up for themselves >> because when they put a moratorum on I mean that >> there's still things coming in people want to get done. I think it's just that zoning structure. >> I think someone came to the town they were ready to sell their land and >> yeah they can't yet >> it's only holding developer it's hurting it's holding up sellers too. >> Yeah they're getting it from both sides. Yes. >> Difficult place to be. >> Yes. Yeah. >> Um and then for myself and uh educ well first audit

105finance we had our June meeting so our next or semianual meeting won't be till January. Um so no updates for a while from that committee unless something comes up. And then public relations committee um we have a meeting on August 6 and uh just to mark your calendars now. So, there will be the veterans recogn recognition dinner and football game on September 5th. Um, and then the veterans diploma program on November 10th. >> November 10th. >> That was the veterans >> diploma program. And then the first one was the veterans recognition dinner and football game which is September 5th. >> We have a veteran that is >> I think that's where we put it out to see if there's anybody in the community that wants to honor a veteran that did not graduate. So we'll

106kind of solicit and if there are we work through the process >> in that date >> one other to put on and I didn't have it on my superintendent item while you're on upcoming dates national night out is Tuesday August 5th so we will have a a booth there for board and whatever. folks. Usually starts around 5:30, goes to 7:30, 8:00. I just caught that. >> September 10th date. Will that be an evening or will that be um >> wait September 5th? >> No. Um sorry, September 10th. The >> November 10th. Sorry, I totally wrote that down wrong. November 10th. >> It's typically during the school day. >> Yeah. >> Oh, that's veterans day. The >> It's the veterans diploma program. >> Diploma program. That's during the day. Okay. Yeah. Great. Okay. >> And then

107the spring events, um, just as a reminder to have on our radar is the business partnership, um, recognition breakfast, the spring senior citizens center, and then every year we participate in the Gan Chamber of Commerce Bowling event. There's also a volunteer appreciation breakfast. So, those are all the things that our public relations committee uh, will begin planning on. calendar and plan on the events right now. >> Yep. But I always like to keep on everybody's rad. >> Thank you. >> And then Gian Education Foundation, we're just under two weeks away from our golf outing. Um it's always a big success. It's been sold out. Um some reminders will be sent out to our golfers. Um we've had a lot of success um in sponsorships this year, so really excited about that. Um and just looking

108forward to hopefully another beautiful day. Uh and then secondary is um right after we wrap up that we'll be kicking off the Boots, Bourbon, and Barbecue. Um and that will be October 4th. So soon just look for tickets um and sponsorship opportunities to go live on the Gush Education Foundation Facebook group, I mean page. Um, but that those tickets will be limited. That will that will sell out. So I I'll send out something to everybody in their email once that goes live. >> October 4th. It's a newer um fundraising event that I think they're hoping to have some success this year. Pretty neat little event. Um so that's it. Any questions for you're not moving enough back there. >> Any questions for each other? >> Right. Moving on to um new business I superintendent report.

109Mr. Bailey, >> I did have number one a request that remember we moved the August meeting because it had always fallen on that first day back for inservice with teachers and I begged you guys not to if we could move that we did and I think there's some conflict because many of you have schedules that you've set so kind of talked the sixth or the 13th. So it was the seventh. >> So is there an option? And I know that and couple the 13th was not an option. So the sixth, but does anybody have a conflict with the sixth? Let's start there. It's >> on a Wednesday. >> It was going to be that was at one that was >> going to be on Thursday the 7th. Yeah. >> Initially in January scheduled for the

1107th. That Thursday >> I'm open for sixth. >> Everybody I have a work thing on the 7th in the evening. So six is much better to me. >> Six is fine. >> I'm fine with the six. six it is. I will get that communicated as a board as a board date change. Make sure we communicate it accordingly. But I do appreciate that because that first week back and we can do it. >> Is it still 6:30? >> Yes. Still 6:30. >> I think I mentioned this but can we see if next year >> if it you don't know the >> open house always falls on Monday at the high school. Can like high school middle school? like because >> okay yeah either one of those yeah >> um >> August 7th is still the open

111house is that right or >> well the new teacher reception is what we normally had so I was going to talk about that next and I don't have that I do so normally we brought them to the evening of the August meeting to introduce new staff with us switching that board meeting's already set her new teacher orientation I'd like to invite you guys to a reception with all of our administrators. We do a who's who the morning of the 7th from like 7:45 to 8:15 where we talk to new teachers, introduce ourselves, talk about why we are here and why we do what we do with them, kind of give them a little understanding. So instead of having and we don't have many this year, so it wasn't going to be a big group, but

112I think if you guys Yeah. If you guys want to come that morning, um >> Okay. after the August 6 board meeting, we'd love to have you here. If not, I'm sure as we go, we'll introduce you guys to the new staff at the opening day and we'll get that opportunity, but it's not a large group right now. >> That's a good thing. >> So, that's AM. >> That's am correct. >> Okay. >> And that so be here at >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> And then August 6, the board meeting will be August 6:30 p.m. like normal. Okay. >> And we'll get that change out the size. Thank you. >> We were going to overpublicize it anyways because it is off of our normal Monday pattern. >> So, um I do want to cover just

113three pieces of information. I did sign a memorandum of understanding for an adult education 22 plus high school program. So, I've signed a an agreement with a third party that will basically administer the program this year. We are the financial conduit to the state of educ or we did an application with the state. the application was approved. So then I signed theou with that third party. Essentially Todd is the funding mechanism. We get the money. 80% goes to the third party to do the teaching, the administration, the assessment. We keep 20% for our financial process. So it's up to $50,000 year one. Um so we'll see how it goes. We're going to promote it. It'll be online at this point and um we'll see where the interest is, but I thought this was a good

114step to kind of see where the interest lies in our community or surrounding communities for that. Um and we'll work with that third party to communicate it out. Again, no cost on us, just a little bit of labor on top side. The 20% from that covers those administrative costs. We also signed a newou with great oaks for our satellite programs. So, anytime we have teacher changes, uh, which we did in our business program and we did in our engineering program, we've I signed it. We signed a newou. Um, which again, those programs that we have here, as Bill said, not every one of our kids get in. So, we try to have satellite programs of interest here to our kids. And I think those two programs are ready to take off with with two new

115staff members. So, excited about that. Lastly, Grub Bus update. We're going to end it a week early. Um, I told you three freezers down. Got some work to do internally, but also in talking to Brooke and her staff, it's not as widely used right now as it was last year. Um, and I'm trying to understand it. We may look at our schedule for the following summer and uh maybe Monday, Wednesday, Friday or three days a week type of thing or split the routes up. Just want to see where the interest is. I'm not really sure, you know, and kind, as I told Brooke, if you're feeding 150 kids a day, you're feeding that's 150 kids that are getting it. Um, but we have to look at, again, like anything else, the expense on that, you

116don't want to take a wash on it. So, take a >> So, we're going to end it the last day would be July 24th. Um, instead of going through that last week of July, am I saying that right? July 24th would be the last day instead of the 31st. >> If we do any surveying this year, could we add some questions about that? >> Um just for families to give some feedback of like who's using it, who's not? If people aren't, why would they be interested? like what's the I mean I think it 100 like you said 150 kids regardless if there's an opportunity if >> 150 kids need fed >> um we'd love to make sure that that happens >> exactly >> in some way shape or form but um >> how much is

117that down like what was that last year >> oh I think she was at 215 or so a day so it's Yeah, >> we've had some really good days on different days. So, I guess those those ladies probably pour their heart >> cost down there every day. And I just think they you know at some points I think they just want to see a line where they're leaning on it. Um and you know >> feels like there's got >> not as much of a need. There's not as much of a need. So, we just have to look at it and see what we do with it. Again, that bus and everything was all through donation and sponsorship. So, it's not like we're we just want to make sure that through that food service that we're

118we're not going in the red on that. >> Stay in the black and do it the right way. So, >> we did say the cicas scared a lot of kids away. >> Yeah. I mean, legit really. They're like, man, >> so >> because they don't play outside a >> They say promise we're not friends. Yeah, >> that's all I had. >> Is that adult ed just for people in our community or anybody in surrounding? >> Anybody in surrounding? There's a >> Yeah, there's a wait list about a hundred according to our third party. There's about 100 people on the wait list right now for our program for space. >> Oh wow. >> So I mean you think >> that's really cool. >> Reminder, the way that that works is we'll get an aotment of like

11925,000 and that's meant for 5,000 an adult. Some adults only need a thousand because they only need one credit and one test. Some need full 5,000. And again, that's the administration of it. The the educator to tutor the online learning platform that they'll use. So that's where those dollars go. >> But we're not necessarily managing that. >> We're not managing that right now. Correct. At all. So we'll promote it. They would be go for graduates regardless where they >> when they get. Okay. >> Okay. >> So current like we don't even have to like I would imagine be it would be hard to have maybe access to a computer or something like that. But >> so that'd be the future. I want to see what that see how this go see how it goes. Yeah.

120So, I mean, I think I think third party relies a lot on libraries and spaces like that for students to access and there's paper packets that they meet provide them. >> If this one's online, >> correct? >> They're doing everything. >> Well, when I say online, it is it's a virtual program, but they meet them at the library. >> Oh. >> And do some tutoring, but the plat the learning platform is online. Yeah. Any further questions for Mr. Bailey? >> Yeah. Did you guys coordinate? Great. Great. >> Look at this here. >> That's all that's in my I've been waiting for this meeting. >> Burning question at night. >> Yeah. >> Monday's black shirt. >> Any further questions? >> Tops. One question. >> Do I have a motion to adjourn the meeting? >> So move.

121>> Second. >> Made the motion. Second. Any discussion? >> Mr. Sle, can you please call the role? >> Mrs. >> Yes. >> Mr. West. >> Yes. Mr. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Papy. >> Mr. Mrs. Peppy. >> Oh, yes. >> Mr. Yes. Meeting adjourns at 8:02 Yeah.