June 2025 Goshen Local School District Board of Education Meeting

001I call the June 9th, 2025 Gian Board of Education meeting to order at 6:30 p.m. Mr. Shinkle, can you please call the role? Mr. West, here. Mrs. Wy, present. Mrs. Papy, Mr. Rare, here. Mrs. Gray here. Do I have a motion to approve this evening's agenda? So move. I'll second. Made the motion. Release a second. Any discussion? Right. Mr. Shinkle, can you please call the role? Mr. West? Yes. Mrs. Wy? Yes. Mr. Rare? Yes. Mrs. Gray? Yes. All right. And I'd like to call for a moment of silence and ask that we think about those alumni warriors and warriors who who've lost their loved one over the last month. [Music] Thank you. Um, please stand as you join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of

002America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Kick off tonight's meeting, we'll hear from Mr. Troy Smith. Um, and the capital facilities plan update. Okay. And I just wanted to take a moment and update our board on our three-year capital facility plan. As you're aware, we are currently in year two of that facility plan. This this plan includes obviously some of our large um expenditures through over the three-ear span as well as um some in-house smaller projects that are being completed as well. As you're aware last year, um, some of the some of work that occurred was a new stage curtain that it was placed at Spalding. Our regular MOEs field maintenance that occurred. We added our shot and our uh,

003disc back stop out on the uh, track and field area there. A lot of drainage, as you're aware, that uh, happened around the pond there and our continuous cleanup of the pond area. um GMS floor got resurfaced as well as our printers that were installed, large printer that was installed here at GHS. And then looking at the onset of our bigger three-year projects, um an ongoing one is our assignment with MCOR, which is a replacement upgrade of all our HBAC controls. So basically in a nutshell this is taking out all of the controllers in every single room this room included that are the touch points for our software to read. So um last uh Christmas breaking was our first building uh to undergo uh that change out as well as three servers in that building

004and brought that on with the old software. uh this summer, as I'll mention here in a minute as well, we're currently working on the high school and middle school to get those controllers installed and then to bring that those two on to um our current old software and then once all the buildings are completed in year three, we'll switch over to new software which will give us a plethora of new touch points in our HBAC, giving us access to control whole campus at a time, building at a time as to where there were individual touch points. Currently, we also added security measures last year uh with our door entry contacts. Uh basically those notify all of our administration as well as myself if any door is left u a jar or a broad for too

005long. Um roofing uh we did our skylight right here in the main foyer of the high school as well as did infrared scans on the building. Those infrared scans are done basically to determine where wet spots are located in buildings roofs and determine those needed repairs. Blacktop repairs last year basically included uh Mark Cook and uh around back to the middle schooling and resurfacing there as well as uh seal coating that lot. We also replaced all of our uh outdoor fixtures. Not all of them, there's 111. We replaced 32 of them, uh, which got us up to, um, having all of ours within the 10-year warranty cycle. Uh, GHS, we did take a lot of carpet out of the band room, fly floor tile replacement. Our Chromebook replacement was included in that as well as

006our GMS bleachers or ghs bleachers. Those are the auxiliary bleachers that were replaced. And then we use those to those caps to recap our main bleachers which are currently um not available anymore. So hopefully those will get us another five years before needing replacement. And then baseball and softball score boards were repainted in house and are looking very dapper. Just the the one thing on that the GMS floor that was still out of tornado dollars. So probably because we had to wait and get that done that that was covered from the tornado claim. Moving into this year, as I mentioned earlier, we are still on with import and they are working um here at GH GHS as well as Mark Cook installing those controllers and our forecast to be finished within the next month. Um,

007our roofing here at uh a high school, our original roof that was put on was done with state dollars and which did not really account for the need of snow rails. And we've been very fortunate up until this past winter when we realized how we do need snow rails uh with that about a foot of snow that we had and ended up ripping off a lot of gutters and everything else. So, uh, we have contracted with Garland to install those, uh, snow rails here at the high school as well as doing infrared scans on Mark Hook and Middle School. Black top patchwork. Uh, you've probably seen if you've been through campus, all that is occurring uh, from the stadium back through Spalding will all be sealed. A lot of milling. About half of the Spalding

008parking lot has been milaved as we are here this evening. um GH sound system and projector upgrades. This is quite interesting because we do need a need there. Uh there is a need there and there are a lot of people that use that sound system and projector projector in the auditorium for different reasons uh from musical uh to uh presentations etc. And Mark Sleggo and his infinite wisdom is using AI to acquire a need summary to kind of get all of our players who use that sound system involved and determine the best type of sound system that is um needed in that facil in that facility. You also see that a little bit low lower there as far as the stadium sound um because you think of stadium sounds and I just need to announce

009a football game but there are a lot of other things going on out there when the choir performs etc. So that facility or that acquiring need summary is being acquired as well. Signage for the crosswalk at the tennis courts. If you've been out on Linton Road, uh you will notice there that Goan Township Pro Department has installed uh the the signage for our crosswalk. They've still uh need to actually painted across the sidewalk, but that is uh the new crosswalk that extends from the uh facility across the street into our campus area, allowing walk-on access there safely. Our new playground uh structure is on order and is scheduled to be uh installed in mid July. That is the main structure that is 25 years old at Mark Hook there. Main thing with playground structures is

010once they start deteriorating, no one will touch them because of liability. So you can't really they're really hard to upgrade and once they start deteriorating it's almost a need for replacement. GMS uh new flex furniture. We did purchase three classrooms worth of flex furniture and basically what that means is they are classroom sets but they are flexible meaning you can make different seating arrangements with the kids. They can uh be obtained in small group settings. The cool thing about them is they are also a set. So they can be moved from a room to a room if need desires and that does complete uh the middle school with our furniture update. So all those rooms and classrooms in that building are upgraded with furniture. Our stadium lead lighting that those are scheduled to be here

011on campus the first or the last week of this month June or the first week of July with installation following right after that. And that will give us the We were shocked to find out that the candle light um which basically is what they figure how much light you're putting on your field was absolutely horrible. Um so not only was there a need for upgrading those, but this is also going to give us the capacity to have a lot of different programming that goes into those lights. So touchdown occurs, you've got a certain light sequence that goes off. It's very, very cool. um stadium security and perimeter lighting. We're also adding perimeter lighting uh for security needs on the back side of the home stadium. There is some there now. It is very poor lighting

012as well as adding uh lighting that will shine over toward the shot and disc area which will light that field up a lot of times uh people and pedestrians over in that area during those football games. Installation of new endmats at GM GHS. These are just simply uh through the years worn um and in need of replacement. So those are scheduled to be replaced next month. Track drains, if you've ever out track, uh that is the curtain drain that runs around the interior of the track. And throughout the years, they have suffered uh quite a bit of damage just from gator traffic and everything else. They don't support the gates or the grates that are on top of them. And they're right off the inside of the first lane. So during track season it is

013quite worrisome. So those are scheduled to be replaced. I should say scheduled to be repaired next month. Uh we'll also be adding a sidewalk installation stadium GMS flag pole. This will be a uh sidewalk that is basically from the shopoot disc area up through that gate and into the uh stadium area. basically trying in a goal to get a visitor um approach to the stadium on that side. There'll also be a small pad there to set up obviously for a table etc. And there'll be a sidewalk that will extend from um the old tennis courts up to um that corner right there with a crosswalk so that they can parking will be that way. pedestrians can stay off this uh warrior way as they're walking up toward that uh MC4 rooms tiling of from carpet

014the carpet uh usually about three or four rooms a year we are converting from carpet to tile um and I need to say much more as 25 year old carpet in a kindergarten classroom is probably past due for replacement questions on that yeah the uh sound system in the auditori that definitely needs to be I mean it sounds fine when we have our you know scholarship night that kind of thing or any other but for like the play the musical this spring grease the kids busted their butt they did great but the sound was still just not good I know supposedly that system's not very old but I don't know if the system's old we've tried to upgrade the board and the different things but you're upgrading a 1999 which was an incred incredibly intense

015system at the time. Yeah. Uh and I should say intense and cumbersome. Um meaning that you there's a lot of hands that go in on there unless you know what you're doing. A lot of different settings get changed. And then we've upgraded through the years which has helped but also made it a little more cumbersome and trying you're still working on the root amp part of that. Stage mics better stage mics. That's what they're I think Mark's trying to acquire all those different pieces of what we need. The projector I mean itself and you're talking it's a 20 25 year old technology projector. So I mean there's just it's at that point we say this is a new high school but we all know it's not. It's reaching its point of needing some new things

016added or you know upgrades to it. But we'll see what comes out of that. I don't that I don't think that's ready day one of but we're just trying to take a a big look at what needs to be done and make sure we cover it all if there is that you know and the budget's to do that it like to I said it before it like to have the senior citizen dinner theater again sometime last time it was great but the a lot of a hard time hearing but the on stage agree on the just a couple things the crosswalk is is there going to lights. It's going to be a lit crosswalk, a lit road. Yeah. No, that's uh that's something that goes through the county and they determine that a lot of

017times. Um those are all based on speed control out there. That is deemed from the county that they it's not needed. So, it's all signage that's set up out there. Then the speed bumps are looking good in the on campus. Those are coming up. Oh, and around the lake. super wet. Is there plans around the lake? What What What are your So, as you've seen, there's a lot of top soil that was acquired from um another project that happened that's going around there as well. Okay. Um the drainage should not be an issue once that's that's my only bad spot. Yeah. It's good. So, a couple things that we are doing as Mr. West just mentioned, the continued uh pond cleanup restoration. Um, also the installation of signage, uh, lighting at the pond. You, if

018you've been past the pond at night, hopefully you've noticed the new G that's illuminated out there. There's also some other uplighting that we're installing to try and accent that a little bit in the back there. Uh, that was a donation by John Scaffes one-stop sign. So, I'm very appreciative class of 1985 graduate that donated that back to us for that installation. um installation of gates to baseball fields. Uh the two poles are there. We are currently fabricating um some nice Gates that will be that will be able to close there, close access back to the baseball area when needed. Um Lyn Road Warrior, I think a picture's worth a thousand words and we'll see that on the next slide here and I'll explain that. uh lockers at GMS. There are a lot of if you've

019been in that building lately, there's a lot of filler panels that have simply been pushed in and it's quite a feat to take those out, restraighten, and get those reinforced so it doesn't happen again. But our guys are working diligently to try and get that accomplished over the summer. and relocation of signage. GHS entrance right out here uh will be located the alumni monitor which will replace the alumni board which is down to your right all the alumni boards and then it'll be a a very large don't quote me I think 80 inch monitor out there that uh those will be displayed on and you I I believe Margie Hadley is behind this I believe you will be able to navigate through that as well I don't have a lot of details on I'm just

020getting prepared electric wise and everything for the monitor. Uh and then finally year three we will complete our HVAC and have everything um finished as far as software. The new software will then be implemented once all buildings are ready for it. Uh we have roofing that will continue uh depending on some of those infrared scans that I uh mentioned earlier. our GHS black topping. Our black topping is basically set up in four different zones. So, we have covered Mark Hook, we've covered middle school, we're back at Spalding. Really, our best lot condition wise right now. And as you walk across it, you'll see there are some issues, but it is here at the high school. So, next year ceiling along with I believe some minimum milling will occur here at the high school. uh movement

021of grade levels and SHP recommendations. I do have those on here because as you will see and uh just a short bit there will be recommendations that will come through for improving our facilities, improving capacity in our facilities and obviously when anything happens of that nature, there are some costs that will be incurred there. And finally, a picture's worth a thousand words. Here's just a few shots around. top left, that's your G at night. On the pond, there's those infamous uh speed bumps being installed that Mr. West talked about. There are four installed across the campus. Uh those are speed humps, not bumps. So, they're a little bit more gradual, and I think that they're working out very, very well in place very well as I observe traffic going through the campus. I think it's

022doing a nice job of slowing down. Uh that third picture up there in the middle at the top, that is a a footer drain. Not footer drain. Had gone it. It's a um it's a drain. Think of the word. Uh that was placed right there. We have a lot of under black top water in Spalding lot. So that drain was placed to relieve that water and dispense it out in the ditch prior to the black topping curtain drain. Thank you. That's a curtain drain that was placed there. That curtain drain absorbs the water and hopefully defers it out from under the parking lot. If you were ever back there, you would see that that lot is constantly wet and that's also the freezing and thawing that made us lose a lot of that black top

023right there. So hopefully that will suffice and get rid of a lot of that water there. Is that the edge of the parking lot? that is uh standing at the restroom looking toward the parking lot because they expanded that parking lot. Yes. And that curtain drain runs right out to that large ditch in front of Spalding. What I mentioned earlier, uh I did have Mark uh fab a little bit of a picture here way on Linton Road. I just want to do a little bit of beautifification coming in there. I I think that it's desperately in need of um Wait, so those are not out there yet? Come in. I was like, I just drove that. I swear I did not see this. Okay, so that's a future look. That's just a future look just

024to try and give that just to give that entrance a little bit of branding as you come onto campus. Uh and to clean that chain link fence up look a little bit there. Uh bottom left, that is a recently installed black top pathway that connects our back of our Spald or back of our middle school parking lot to the concrete walk that goes out to the stadium on the back side of the um back side of the uh locker rooms there. A lot of visiting teams walk through that and that's an extremely wet area. So, that was something that was definitely needed to connect that uh to that sidewalk that does go from the stadium locker rooms up to the stadium. That curtain drain is that's the bottom picture there that you can actually see

025where that was placed uh to defer that water. And then finally, the G in the pond uh during the daytime. So those are just some ideas uh not ideas those are projects that are smaller projects that are forecasted uh that we will be doing in-house a lot of them over the summer as well as our larger projects that are ongoing and continuing. Um obviously HBAC and black top are your yearly big ones. I do want to thank our maintenance because they do a lot of this inhouse the fabricating I think of G's and that'll be just materials and so we've got a good team that can do some of that. We do have an excellent team come up with some crazy ideas and they fabricate not crazy but they they fabricate a lot and they

026do a nice job. Thank you. Any questions? Looks good. Okay. All right. Moving on to old business. A um the master planning update. Mr. Bailey. Yeah. So, I've asked SHP to be here tonight. Charlie's going to talk here for a minute, but I think this this whole process leads to what we've been trying to do here on campus is make sure we upkeep our current um we know that we have to because this is what we have, but then also we've got a plan for the future. And as you guys know, SHP, we, you know, contracted with them to do a master facility planning process that is a year and a half long. Um, the first step of that Charlie's going to talk about tonight was the assessment and really capacity utilization of our current

027buildings. Uh, where do we see, you know, us? Is there room for any changes in those? Uh, he's going to kind of talk through that tonight. by no means what he you know what what he talks about tonight and I'm sure he'll share that some of this is going to need to we'll take it through community engagement but we've got to start getting some ideas of what can we do um here on campus how are we utilizing it so Charlie's going to walk through kind of each building and some suggestions uh that they've seen from their initial time here looking at campus is all right if I sit here or do you want me to present at the podium I thought you join us okay all right I didn't know for recording purposes. All right.

028So, um, so Carrie, uh, who is our head interior designer, walked, um, all your buildings with with Mr. Smith, uh, and we put these diagrams together to share utilization. Um, a simple way of looking at this is that in each room we identify if it's used uh all day, half day. It's a little half moon or a full circle, a piece of pie basically. And then we have a capacity and this is the student capacity in the space. So looks like a battery of your phone. It's under it's at has a full barge means it's it's over capacity. It's fully charged. Um and then the colors delineate um the use. So blue, this blue, as you can see, is a majority here is academic. Purple visual arts. Green is media center. Um there is another

029darker blue which is special ed. You can see it's kind of spread out here at Maruk. Um student dining is purple, gymnasium is yellow, music is orange, and then administration is green. And then lastly is building services is gray. And I forward I'll send this these slides to you guys so you have them. Charlie and I are finishing up. So overall kind of high level is uh that intervention support and small group spaces are are challenged at your current buildings. Uh some of these spaces are in less than desirable locations. There's closets, small spaces, no windows. They probably weren't really designed to be used for intervention. It's just the district has kind of morphed into it. So there's other amenities as far as technology, even air. I mean, it's allowed to be to use that

030layout, but it could be done in a little bit better manner. Even even a window goes a long way being able to see outside. Um, libraries at each school have space to capture. It potentially could be reprogrammed to use the space more efficiently. It provides some additional uh small group space. Um, you guys are one to one district wide and so that tends to reduce book count. So, that means your libraries just have some capacity that could be repurposed. Um, and with the changing number of special ed units, it's as we see more and more special ed offerings throughout many districts, including you guys, um, there's a lot of amenities that that are not that could be provided as far as sensory rooms, calm down rooms, rooms that are close or adjacent to the current

031special ed rooms, um, make it easier for daily operations. So um for Mark Cook um the first thing was really security. Um there we go. So exploring entrances exploring options for secured entrances. This is a kind of a key thing that we're doing at all buildings. It's making sure it's similar to the entry sequence here when schools in operation that visitors or mom and dad can't just go run into the school. So there's a way to put a second level of to make vestibules more secure. Number two is that there are double and connected classrooms. So you've got some really large kindergarten classrooms larger than the state standard. You see OFCC square footage. Maybe potentially we could explore options to capture that space to accommodate either more classrooms, teaching spaces or intervention spaces because you

032have basically two rooms that serve as your kindergarten classrooms. And then the last thing at Mark Cook is the board office. Um we this diagram right here shows how the current footprint of the board office could be repurposed and could be five classrooms. Um, and that would be a very cost-e effective way of adding five classrooms to to bar Cook. Anything else on that? Okay. All right. So, next is Spalding. Uh, same color scheme, blue being academic, kind of the darker blue is special ed. Um, you kind of see the distribution. Uh, for the most part, you know, many, you know, either at capacity and and, you know, used heavily. We did not we did not draw the modulars on this either. So those are used for intervention. Um so next uh so the media

033center at at Spalding could be reprogrammed or renovated to provide a more flexible space and then capture the unused space for additional small small group spaces. Uh the trailers that are there are currently being utilized for intervention specialists potentially explore options to capture that space within a building. you know, trailers sometimes we take them for granted that, oh yeah, they're used, you know, but there's a lot of hurdles with those as far as kids going outside, even when a tornado drill comes occurs, you got to get those kids inside the building. So, there's a lot of hurdles once you have trailers. Um, and lastly is the cafeteria has some accessibility uh challenges. There's a real small corridor and the capacity of the cafeteria is smaller, creating more lunch periods. Um, and when you really do

034the math on that, that really means less time uh, teaching because they're they're dissecting bells to get kids fed. Um, so usually when bigger cafeterias are there, you see more academic time. Next is the middle school. Uh, again, same color schemes where you've got um kind of your general academic classroom spread throughout. You've got about three special ed rooms here. um this starts to show periods or bells because you start to have a little more flexibility within middle school and high schools. Um but again, if you look at the capacity, majority of your spaces are at the capacity that they've been designed for. So you're utilizing these buildings effectively. Um, next. So, in the media center, again, an opportunity similar to the other ones that I presented. Uh, intervention and support spaces. We could explore

035modifications to access small group rooms within classrooms off the hallway or to provide more small group spaces. Uh, the stage in the gym capture that space for potentially additional academic spaces. So, you you have a stage, it's it's not used. So, we see a lot of stages become other uh teaching zones, sometimes music. Uh there's things that we can do to make sure that that it can still be a performing arts space when it needs to be. Um stage in the gym and then there also the stage in the cafeteria. So, that could also be renovated. So, you've got two stages within within that. Next, so here's the building we're in now. Um we are sitting in right here this green room again. Blue is kind of spread throughout just a couple of special ed

036rooms. Um you see more offices obviously with or some of these unique spaces that are are colored. Next and then there's your there's your second floor. Um again this is set up with with the periods throughout the day. So you can see a lot of those pies are very folder. you use your buildings spaces in an efficient manner. So at the high school um the media center same opportunity for flexible spaces um intervention and support spaces um remove building casework and make the rooms a little more usable again kind of modernizing some of the functionality. Um the corridor lockers that was kind of a trend when when this building was was built um potentially to remove and explore opportunities for incorporating small and informal group areas. Um most kids we could query the audience if

037they're a high schooler they generally wear a hoodie to school. They don't bring jackets and and with with being on a Chromebook or a device everything's in in their backpack so they're not carrying as many books and needing needing to locker storage. um throughout the day. So that's a lot of square footage that in the buildings that you can utilize. Next is me questions from Charlie before I come. This this is basically the initial you know um it's a picture in time. It's the current status that we had in the spring. If you see enrollment that's there's no changes made. It's just we're just putting more children within your buildings. And so um this was from spring spring of 24 and as we know with the next few slides of pole permits some more bodies

038will be showing up at the doors. So so I just kind of want to kind of talk about that and just because I think Charlie gives a lot you know SHP gives us a lot to think about short term. Um what can we do on campus short term? I've talked I mean I talked to Bob Rose a lot. Um there can they've put a moratorum on for 6 months. I'm not sure how long it'll be for new developments. So they can adjust their zoning a little bit, but they can only adjust it so much. Um but right now, new developments are on hold. That's not stopping from developers from knocking on the door down there asking. But currently um we know that we've got and I've started instead of the number that those neighborhoods take

039I've put on the number of permits or houses that are under construction. So Barklay are at 98. Wood all crossing is the new one behind the cemetery on short 48 that they haven't pulled permits for that but that's scheduled for 225 homes. I believe they're going to begin once this is lifted to start pulling permits for that. show it on the wrong side of there. Um, Lake Field off of 132 is at 113 and I don't know if you've driven by there, but they've already started groundbreaking on that additional farm they bought. Um, so you can see they're putting up the black netting or fencing that helps with those. Yeah. Um, villages of Belmont, that was the addition there. That's 47 of those packed. You know, those are, you know, two family patios there that

040they're building on those. There's 47 of those stone pillars. That's 17. Remember that was meant for 38. That's Homeramama. The other half is on the other half of that. They're the big 5 to 10 acre houses that I think have been sold. They just haven't started building yet. Um, Pebble Grove is at um that's off of Linton. There are 60 and that's only been going for two or three months. So, there are 60 and if you drive back through there, they're coming out of the ground. And then there's some unknown here with Eagle's Nest, but it is under contract. Um, what best I can understand on that is that was a county tiff, 30-year-old county tiff. So, there is some money for the developer to help with infrastructure, but there's only 10 years left on

041that tiff. Um, but they're trying to understand the plan that was put in 30 years ago. Obviously, the person that's purchasing that is working with the developer to meet the scope of that and the township's request. We know it'll have homes. We know it'll have some commercial. Um, it'll probably have some patios and something else, but um, and that's not the end of the list of several other things that are on there, but that's enough to talk about right now. The homes are coming. the growth is continuing. So, as I look at that from our standpoint, I say this, is there a do nothing option? And I think that's kind of a rhetorical question. Um, no. Our facility situation is not going to get any better as we look at capacity and utilization. We're using

042it. We're using them as effectively as we can. We're using a lot of areas that weren't meant to be 21st century classrooms. Charlie said, no windows and, you know, closed off rooms. and we're doing the best that we can and we're providing one heck of an education doing that. But you can only do that for so long. Um I think if if we do nothing, we're in danger of losing programs. All day kindergarten, high school electives, ascend academy, steam labs, Kate electives. As you start having more kids come in and you need um academic space for core academics, you have to start looking at, okay, what do we do? I would say all day kindergarten would be last on my list because it's a heck of a service for our families. But when you start

043looking at that, we have to be honest with ourselves as we grow and we have no addition to our facilities. We have to make tough decisions. I do not think and I think conversations with you guys. A return to the ballot right now is not recommended at this time. We need to work through this process with the community through this community engagement through some of these short-term pieces. have a short-term vision and a long-term vision. When we reach x amount of students, something has to be done in the meantime, what can we do here on campus to try to bandaid the growth. Um, so with that said, thinking through that, I think some next steps for us to think about and probably get some engagement with and for you guys to talk about uh as

044a board uh and with us administration. Um, as Charlie said, our current board office, it was meant to be a temporary solution. For all those historians out there, our board office was on the green property up on the corner um, across from Sprinkles kind of. There used to be a board office and Green Elementary was there. The board office was on the back side. That building got condemned. The board office moved into at that time what was best currently where it sits sits at the end of Mark Cook. not meant to be a long-term solution, but at that time space was there to do it. Right now, that space is a commodity. So, I think there's some options that we can look at. Um, and talking to Charlie and and SHP and kind of looking,

045we can examine space within the community to lease or purchase to gain back that usable space. We could look at options on campus to absorb the current board office, possibly add more modulars. Not a great piece. Um, but I think there needs to be something thought about there with that board of ed because as you saw, five classrooms for relatively cheap in there gives us a lot of academic space in Mark Cook that right now we do a lot of great work in there, but it's not education. It's educational space that needs to be given back to the kids. Um, I think we need to probably examine SHP's recommendations to buildings to fulfill immediate educational spaces and I think that would come through some community engagement because there are going to have to be some

046shifts and some shifts in mindset of what this looks like and we need to get the community's input on that. So we number one they understand uh what needs to be done and can explain it but also get some feedback from them long range moving forward. And then I, you know, anything we do is with fiscal accountability. We've got to do all this and do it efficiently to where we're not adding a bunch of staff. We're not adding money to transportation. We're not adding uh anything to our current assets. So, we've got to do this within a budget. And as we'll share later on, the state's making that even more interesting. But, you know, I think those are kind of the short-term steps we have to take. So, I'd ask you guys just, you know,

047quick thoughts. I know, you know, um, we'll continue this. I know that we've got a lot more work to do with SHP on the long range. We've done a little visioning and I would say some of these spaces that we did at the the board retreat aren't our vision and we're not, you know, we're not really using them the way that we want kids to have that academic space where we're making do. So, first one, am I correct in saying right now about ask is probably not an option at this time. That's correct. Yeah. finding space within the community for BOE offices, something that we can explore, look at. Um, looking at swing space on campus. When I say swing space, uh, kind of that is giving you some classrooms depending on how you move

048some grade levels on campus to give you some growth. As we see grade level numbers come in, we can add more modulars. Um, but then also I would recommend, you know, continuing to talk about these SHP recommendations as we look at libraries, as we look at those corridors, as we look at the stages, as we look at, you know, some bigger classrooms and maybe able to threequarters to have some intervention space, but getting some community engagement. So, I'll stop talking. You guys can ask questions or provide some feedback. Two questions that I have is I know the modulars are expensive, right? And we rent them so it's like earning away money. Um, roughly how much are modulars? Like that? They're pretty expensive. I actually just because our lease is coming up. I mean, just got

049a the company had had our ours got bought out by a different company. So, I'm getting repricing for extension. That's just standard too is no plumbing. No. The current one we have. Yes. There's no plumbing in. There's no bathroom for Yeah, we got electric. That's about it. Electric and technology. Yeah. And SHP's recommendations. Uh also, and I can't remember the scope of it. Um possibility like adding on to buildings, how much that would cost per square foot or per classroom as well. like let's say adding on to spings. We have I know when originally when they designed that school to make it easier to just extend those in this one those and then in here with the uh they put the uh we've got substation up there. It's ready to add on to if we

050have room for that road. So it' be like which building we could add to uh and then maybe move move great or whatever. I think that's part of those short terms that if you look at I mean fulfill the space that we have already make the best use of our space we have already right I would say and financially I would say if you're going to add right classrooms you're probably have to do a ballot. I just don't because it's probably $500 a square foot to add on, right? And and to to renovate um Mark Cook into five classrooms could be done for more than half half $500 square half that half the cost, even less probably you have done all the pricing exercises. But you're utilizing your in existing square footage is the most

051cost effective way of doing it. adding a hunt starts to get some real money. And then the other thing that we haven't even explored on any of those are the other downstream things that have to happen. So sometimes we add on and we realize the entire fire alarm for a building is out of date. So then you got to do the entire fire alarm for the whole building just to put on six classrooms or eight classrooms, whatever. So there's a lot of other stuff we haven't explored in that. So part of this was really looking at the how you're utilizing space which you're doing it very well. We find there's some districts that use spaces like this one bell a day, you know. So, you guys are very effective, but there's some options really with

052the the larger kindergarten classrooms, the media centers, the board office space, the stages. You have some options to reprogram those. Might get some push back on the kindergarten classrooms. That's not true. That's a tough one. And we know that once you live in that, it's kind of hard to go smaller, but maybe there's some ways that they can get I think you Yeah. Yeah, you're right. You're right. It's none of it's ideal. No, it's I agree. I just I do like Bill's idea though, the add-on because I mean I think we designed some of it and we put stuff at the end with thoughts of that on. I get the cost, but So, in the presentation it said the board office space could be five classrooms um on Demar Book. What would it be to

053call to build like an independent board office right on our campus roughly? Um it's a good question. Same kind of Yeah, about the same area. Um probably in the ballpark of you know with you know utilities, parking um be four to five million. So it's board offices are not inexpensive because they they're generally done to the same standard that we have here where it's brick would not be cheaper than pitch roofs. You know there's Did you say are not inexpensive or not? They're not inexpensive. Yeah, we've we've done a handful of board offices and we find it's more cost effective to renovate those. We did Milfords. Milford's is an old grocery store that was a library after the grocery store. Now it's a board office. It's third life. That's the most cost effective way to

054do it. Which of our buildings do you think um requires the um the focus the most at going forward from the Yeah. Yeah. From the four buildings like which one do you think Mark Cook has the most opportunity and then I would say probably Spalding is that space-wise would you say like at that it's at most capacity like if we if we're looking at more kids coming in then we're thinking there's no way those kids could fit in that space comfortably. Correct. Spalding is the one where if we did some work at Mark Cook you potentially could change some grades. Okay. Third grade from Spalding could go to Mark Cook. Okay. Spalding's the most utilized. Yeah. And it's why you have those trailers there chased closely if you look at those diagrams by the middle

055school. Yeah. Chase there after by the high school. How many classrooms do we currently have in third grade? Eight or nine. Charlie, I was going to ask when when you're looking at that at building space. I mean, there's one thing a brick and mortar, but like in Spalding, the boilers and chillers are all the way up by the dumpsters. I mean, what kind of capacity? I mean, you guys look at that, you know, you'd hate to build them and are like, man, well, they're like correct. That's one my that's similar to the example I gave with a fire alarm. You know, tell two of the buildings the cases with fire alarm. Yeah. fire alarm, boilers, chillers, uh even electric capacity. You got to look at all those things starting on. Sometimes it's it spirals out

056of control where you have to start going in the building, water pressure, fire suppression. So there's a lot of interconnectivity uh that you rely on the existing building and sometimes the existing building was sized for x amount of square footage and now that it's Y, you got to do a lot of other stuff. I think one thing keeping in mind even if we do split classrooms and whatnot they were designed a certain way for certain air flow and different things so we may have to look at that as well if you split something duct work may be on this side nothing gets on this side type thing a lot there's a lot of code yeah just changes in code there's code required for many air changes we get ADA code you hear heard me talk

057about corridors being narrow so there's having some dated infrastructure like you guys have they're wellmaintained they're in shape, but there's some there's a lot of things we've got to comply with. Yeah. So, I mean, these are all short-term solutions I think that we agree we need to look at. Um, the next steps with SHP, we'll start getting into some of that and if you know, as we go through that community engagement piece and you know, we hear that looking for some of the swing space on campus or different options is what we want to explore. Then we'll get down to the nickel and dime side of what can we do. Correct. Um, so but I, you know, I I don't think this is, as that first one says, a lot of that adding on the

058buildings if it's not interior is is probably a valid issue because you're just not, we're not we don't have the capacity in the budget to add on six classrooms. You just don't. you have a little bit to renovate and do some different interior things possibly, but I think that's something that we've got to work through and understand those costs and then be able to say, is this a good return on investment and is this stop gap the growth? I mean, I think one thing we have to think too is at what point do we as a board decide before it's too late to put it on the ballot though too because it's going to I mean, it takes, you know, it takes three years, two, three years to build. Yep. Yeah. We got 1,200 homes

059coming plus more. I just think financially where we are. Oh, I don't think we're ready. Oh, we're not ready. I'm just want to keep that in mind. So, looking downstream and thinking ahead of Well, and that's where I think you probably out of this would have a recommendation for some short term by the end of this process. Remember, this goes through like next Januaryish where we'll have a shortterm and we'll have a long term. Long-term is probably ballot issue type of choices. Uh and then when we hit that, depending on the cost of those, then we'll know. But hopefully that's engaged to the community and we have an idea of what we want long term for this district. When we get to a certain number, I mean, that's our numbers already been there. We know

060that we could utilize, we could use more space now, but without, you know, trying that three times and it not being successful, we just have to look at some short term And what are you thinking about um the first community engagement? I know like we had one we're going to start it with some survey early on the community that we're going to start gathering people that want to do community engagement. It'll probably be September. Okay. Um we'll announce it kind of that month of August to get people engaged and then begin some of those opportunities September, Octoberish. Um yes. So the the survey will go out early fall. Okay. when you get back return to school and then from there we will be asking folks you want to give us your phone and email if

061you want to continue to participate and then from there October November we're going to continue to um meet with interested folks and then also get beyond your network and try to get within the general community and solicit feedback so that's all fall not just school community gre any other questions All right. Thank you, Charlie. Thank you. Thank you. Um, moving on to new business. Item A, public participation headed. We do. Yes. Okay. While you get settled, I'll read. Um, so for public participation, each person addressing the board will give his or her name and address. Unless you are a student, please do not provide your address. If several people wish to speak, each person will be allotted two minutes until a total time Oh, sorry. That's a new I think we did we did get

062rid of the address as well. Yeah, three minutes until a total time of 30 minutes is used during the that period. No person may speak twice until all who desire to speak have had the opportunity to do so. person desiring more time to follow the procedure of the board to be placed on a regular agenda. The period of public participation may be extended by the vote of the majority of the board of education. As a board, we listen and take notes. Please know all subject matter that require follow-up will receive followup from someone on our administrative team. In addition, please note if information is shared in violation of any policy or requires us to move into executive session, we'll ask you to pause and the board will take action as it requires us to move

063into executive session. Teresa, sure. Um, Braxton. Good evening. My name is Braxton Hayden and I'm 12 years old. I attend Gan Middle School and I am here today because I want to share something that's been really hard for me. At school, I've been verbally harassed and humiliated by other students. They have called me names and made and made fun of me and said things that made me feel small, embarrassed, and really alone. When this first started happening, I thought if I just ignored it, it would go away. But it didn't. It got worse. Instead of feeling safe and supported, I got in trouble before anyone even tried to understand what I was going through. what I was going through. I was disciplined before I had a chance to build any safe relationships with adults at

064school before anyone really got to know me or hear my side. I'm not saying rules aren't important, but when a kid is hurting and acting out because they're being hurt by others, punishing punishing them first doesn't solve the problem. It just makes them feel more invisible, more more angry, and lose trust. What I needed was someone to ask me what's going on, someone to listen before judging, someone who made me feel safe. Luckily, I had a supportive family who saw signs signs of my declining mental health and got me outside help. My parents then had to get the principal involved and she helped me find my safe people. Unfortunately, this wasn't until February. I had struggled for more than half a year with situations increasing. School is supposed to be a place where we learn

065and grow. Not just in math or reading, but in how we treat each other. I'm asking you to please make students feel seen and heard, especially when they're struggling before we get punished. Can someone ask, "Are you okay? What's really going on?" I want our schools to be places where every kid feels safe, supported, and understood. Thank you for listening to what I had to say. Sorry, that was emotional for me. So now I'm going to speak after. My name is Katie Hayden and I live at 6997 Greenstone Trace, Loveland, Ohio. And my main concern concern is student mental health focusing especially on middle school age. Good evening. Thank you for the opportunity to speak tonight. I'm here to raise a concern that impacts every student, educator, and family, the mental health and emotional safety

066specifically of our middle school students. My family was directly affected by the concerns I'm going to speak about this evening and hope this will bring needed change to help all of our goal school students. Middle school is a critical time of transition. These years are filled with emotional, social, and academic changes. Many students begin to struggle silently with anxiety, depression, identity questions, or trauma, often without the tools or safe spaces to speak up. If we want students to succeed, we must make their mental health a top priority. To address this, I respectfully urge the board to consider implementing the following goals. One, train all staff and deescalation and trauma-informed strategies. Middle school staff specifically are often on the front lines of student conflict. They need more than classroom management tools. They need training that helps

067them respond calmly, avoid escalation, and support students in crisis. This reduces harmful disciplinary cycles and builds trust. Two, provide mental health check-ins for students. Every student should have a way of safely of how to safely share their feeling whether through digital surveys, mentoring programs, or counselor dropins. It's not just about identifying students in crisis. It's about making sure every student feels heard and supported before things reach a breaking point. Ensure student concerns are acknowledged and followed up on. We've heard from students who speak up about bullying, safety, or emotional struggles and then hear nothing back from administration. That silence is damaging. We need systems in place where students receive followup. Let them know we heard you. We're taking it seriously. That small act builds connection, safety, and trust. Four, promote transparency and accountability in all

068student staff interactions. Every student and parent should understand how concerns are reported, how decisions are made, and what actions follow. That transparency helps rebuild trust and shows that the district is accountable to everyone. This isn't just about policy. It's about rebuilding faith in the system. Five, requires staff to act without bias, even in close-knit communities. We recognize that districts like ours where many staff and students are related or have personal connections, it's especially important to guard against favoritism, selective enforcement, or looking the other way. Policy should be followed by staff and students. Every student, regardless of who they are related to, or if they are a longtime local family, deserves equal treatment and respect. Staff must be expected to act with integrity free from bias or personal ties. We owe our middle schoolers more than

069just academics or reducing referrals. We owe them emotional safety, consistent support, and adults who listen without judgment. Let's show them we're ready to meet them where they are and help them thrive. Let's lead with empathy. Let's be proactive. And most importantly, let's listen. Thank you. [Applause] Holly Hoffman. My name is Holly Hoffman at 112 Julie Lane, Loveland, Ohio. Good evening, members of the board. I'm here tonight not just as a parent, but as a voice for many families in our community who are silently enduring the harmful impacts of bullying in our schools. This year, I watched my daughter began the school year as a confident, bright, and happy student. Today, she's a completely different person, withdrawn, anxious, and carrying the weight of something no child should have to face. Her transformation is not just heartbreaking,

070it's unacceptable. I want to be very clear. Fighting for our students rights and mental health is not tearing our community apart. What tears a community apart is leaving kids to handle this alone. Allowing the generational cycle of bullying to continue. The cycle has already divided us into two groups. Those who will tolerate bullying and those who will not stand for it. Sorry. Go is an amazing school district with many dedicated and caring people. But there are also those who threaten to punish children for simply reporting the trauma they are enduring. That is not acceptable and we cannot expect our children to heal when they are afraid to speak up. That's why I fully support bringing in an external company to handle bullying investigations. This would relieve the burden on our school staff and provide students

071with fair, neutral, and consistent process, something they deserve, desperately need, and deserve. We have a choice. We can either protect the status quo or we can protect our children. I urge you to choose the children. Break the cycle. Bring in hope. Prove to our kids this district will stand for them, not against them. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you all for speaking this evening. All right, moving on into the next agenda item. Agenda item eight, new business, executive session. We have a motion to go into executive session for the following two items. to consider the purchase of property for public purposes because premature disclosure of information would give an unfair competitive or bargaining advantage to a person whose personal private interest is adverse to the general public interest. and preparing for item two is preparing

072for conducting or reviewing negotiations or bargaining sessions with public employees concerning their compensation or other terms and conditions of their employment. Also the one up there consider the appointment employment dispensal it's the because that was negotiations considering so the second is a continuation of um consider the appointment appointment employment dismissal discipline promotion demotion or compensation of public employee or official sorry I said that incorrectly we have a motion so moved second made the motion Cory second. Um, part of discussion, I just want to let people know that we will take action following executive session. So, feel free to remain in this room as we remove ourselves to a room for executive session. Yes. Mr. Yes. Gray. Yes. West. Yes. Teresa, thank you. Um, moving on to um, still in new business, agenda item 8 C,

073treasure report. Mr. Shinkle just want to share or really um we had our audit finance committee meeting the other day and kind of going through just on the final budget that's going on the state. This is u huge what's happening right now. So um just a quick little time frame here is the governor submitted the budget in February which they refer to that as executive budget and then the house has had that for February and April and they went through and they came up with all their changes. Then it rolled over to the Senate who is currently in in there and they're getting all their stuff together. And then once these are done, they take the House and the Senate, they kind of put a conference committee together and they go through and come up

074with all the changes which then is eventually signed by the governor. And just a quick little note there is that when we were going through on our five-year forecast, it's due in May. So, we don't really have all of our numbers that I'm I basically used the house numbers on that just so that we we turned ours in. So, on this uh this is kind of the time frame that's coming up that we still have. The Senate vote on the floor is going to be 611 and then you can see the conference committee when they get the final budget 624 House and Senate and you can see all that right there. So this is kind of a huge undertaking right now at the state because there is a lot of ch I mean there has

075never been this many changes ever. I was at FASA today which is valley area superintendent so it's all southwest Ohio down this way together and um we should know a lot Wednesday morning coming out of the house or the senate floor vote um to know where the senate's landing at on a lot of their pieces but thought's going to cover a few key ones that see that have an impact yes an that's a good way to put it yeah so the funding for me. Um, you know, we're rolling in, we're in the year four of a six-year cycle, and this, uh, basically right now they did continue to do the phase in for the next two years. The only problem really that is is makes it so difficult. The formula works that we're doing dealing

076with current cost, but they're going with cost back in 202 right now. I might be off there a little bit, but they're using old cost and so that's what they're funding it on. So the districts aren't really getting their fair share of what they really should be. Um there's a guarantee still that's in there where like if you're declining enrollment or anything you're going to get at least the amount that was from fiscal year 21 I believe on that one. They do have they're providing funding for enrollment growth. I think that was like how many dollars a kid? There's a slide here in a minute. We'll go through it. Yeah, it's not I mean there's money there, but it's not like anything huge when you when you really get that going. And then there's going

077to be uh funding for districts on performance and progress measures on the state report card. So, we do see some money there because of our four and a half stars have gotten last time. There's a lot of conversation on all these pieces, especially that performance piece because that just dings low so economic districts and there's a lot of research out there. So that will be a conversation based one but that you know this is that piece of for growing district or I'm sorry this is DPIA which we had talked to you guys about when we went CH we didn't know that 100% of our students became economically dis or seemed economically disadvantaged and we received EPIA dollars for 100%. So what that did was that took say you know we have 40% somewhere in there

078that directly certify for that. It's been as high as 50 since I've been here. Um but that was taken away from districts that were 100% was taking that DPA dollar and splitting it out among more districts that went C. So essentially in this budget what they're saying is they're going to go back to the um the number that are directly certified. but not to hurt you too bad. 75% and then 65% um for that from that side of it. So, and then the direct which is us would be 25% and 35%. So, they're going to multiply whatever our percentage is. So, when we solve some of this, and you'll see in a minute, a decrease in state funds, some of that's DPIA related based on this formula. So, just full transparency there. That was not

079a dollar that when we went into this, that's not the dollar we were chasing. We're trying to get kids fed and make sure that all kids had, you know, sufficient breakfast and lunch. So, but there will be some impacts on that budget. And again, this is the Senate version. So, we're strictly talking Senate here right now. Senate version also calculates in for growing districts um some money if you grow by 5% and if you grow by 3% um based on 27. So just quickly do the math on us. If we go up 80 kids that's 3%. So you could see $250 more dollars a kid to help you with that enrollment growth. Not sure what that'll look like after your after this bannual budget but that's kind of built in for a growing district. um

0805% would be probably about 120 kids for us. So, I don't know that we'll reach either one of those, but it's in there should we quickly see that that growth. $250 per kid. Yes. I think that calculates the payment as the product of the district. Yeah. And you know, current year cost this year is like 5,000 and something. They're going to give you 225 bucks. So, something that's something. Thanks. So, I know this is small and Todd's gonna go through this. I'll try. And if you want to walk up to the screen, walk up. There is no easy way to do this. Yeah. So, there is Yeah, there's too much. Um, but on this, I'll just share this com right here for fiscal year 25, we're pulling in 21,500,000 for this current year. what the

081governor first put out on his back in February what he first put out there he said for goan schools 214 in and uh 26 and then in the next year will be 2933 so we're taking a little bit of dip there on that one then we come into the house's version for that next year fiscal year 26 it's 216 so the following year on 27 the house came back with almost the same right there 21687. So it's basically 216 216. If you look at our 5-year forecast, what I submitted to the state, I used the house's version at the time. I mean, because you know, it's all speculation on that. So then what happens? Here comes the sentence numbers and this one is 2179 and then for next year and then fiscal year 27, it's

08220,182. Well, if you get over here, the difference between these is significant. What? Huge huge numbers. So, you're talking the the executive to the Senate. So, that's the governor's proposed to the Senate. We're down 343,000. If you're the uh governor's proposal in the following year, it's 751,000. So, we're taking a hit of a million dollars there. But the Senate, if we if the Senate version comes through, we're down a half million dollars next year and $1.5 million in 27. Hu I mean, so those are just huge huge implications that's going on right now. Tons of letters been flying to the senators and all that kind of stuff, but this is, you know, we've never seen so much come out right now that's been this bad for public schools. I'm looking at West Claremont's getting three

083million there. They're from the governor to the Senate, they're getting over three 3.1 million more. I mean, in 2.7 million more. The biggest impact really for us is that DPIA. I mean, because we went up so much the prior year. Basically, they're robbing Peter to pay Paul with that one, right? So, we got it now and they're saying we're taking it back. It's kind of what it feels like. That's what Yeah. I mean, that's a good way to put it in year two. Yeah. Um and I So, we were up this thing's got a formula, right? And I I I've tried to figure it out. It's like a matrix. But as you go through this, my only the only other thought I have is is our residents with the property increase. Remember once we can

084afford more state's going to give you less. Yeah. So there's some of that 20 mil floor pieces and which they're talking I think there's some more everybody's property. They did. Yeah. But with us having no bonds, no other operating levies out there, taking no millage down, ours just and they see us being able to afford more because we don't have all those things on the ballot. It's only reasoning without getting into a thousand equations of how this is done. The DPIA and then our increase in valuation without having any other effective bonds or levies on. Uh this was the So when they say performance um it did give us about 600,000 back in those we got we were four and a half stars which got us 117,000 per pupil which was 296. So we basically

085got 600,000 back on that. I don't know. This one will be pushed pretty hard because it essentially this is it's going to kill rural Appalachian districts, not high performing and need the money because you see those those are the ones that are to an extent. Yeah. Got less money and then probably aren't performing. I mean, we're not typical with, you know, 40% free and reduced to be as high achieving as we are, but um kudos to our staff and the hard work we do. But I don't know if this one will make it, but if if it does, I just I don't see it being fair across the state of Ohio to do that. Talk about we don't want this. No, in a in a two in a two week decision to throw this in

086and do this. I don't there's got to be studies out there about how where the impacts are just besides stars. Yeah. So, well, that's that's the problem that's going on right now is they've put out basically what they're saying they're going to do and then someone else will come out with another house bill or oh, let's do this and then, you know, one thing kind of piggybacks, you know, domino effect on the other on how that all works. And it's just really, it's amazing how much they're sending out right now. It really is. Okay. So, one of the things uh on House Bill 96 and lot of talk on this one here for for the longest time is that they're taking I mean it was like setting up your uh good your budget policy. So,

087how much do you keep or how how much in the bank can you keep and for us for originally what they put out there so you'd their their number was 30%. So they would go through take your expenditures times 30% and that was basically your cash balance you was allowed to have. If you went over that amount then they take it to the to the county and reduce your taxes. Original was lower than that. It was so it was 30. It was 30 to start and it moved to 50 with the senate. Everything I heard today the house isn't in agreement. You're just going to see I don't it's going to land someplace. I don't think it's going to be 30. I don't know if it's going to be 50. But the clause that they

088put in there, which allows districts to adopt a resolution reserving a portion of the carryover balance for current future permanent improvement expenses, which is what we've been talking about, um, at least they put that clause in there that if you were to say you're using that money for improvement, whatever else it might be, and you you have three years to do it, I don't know what it'll land at. Let's say it lands at 45% and we're over 45% or I don't know what we're at but at least you have an option as a board to say that is dollars we've been you're marking to improve our campus whatever it might be roofs new buildings whatever it might be you've at least got that opportunity to say that so or for state funding times like this

089right correct correct correct that's that's what really makes it I mean it's really really difficult on because the budget's looking bad and you know these we're right on the threshold of having too much money that they'll take. So then in the next couple years we'll just plummet. You know what I mean? Because one our cash balance will be so low and then they're not funding us and I mean it's got the potential to be really bad. I mean it's just hard to tell what's going to come out of that. It's tricky trick. Okay, this this one here is um all these are talking about in inside millillage and every county state has inside millillage. It's of 10 mills and it's divided between like the county and the schools and the townships. I mean that whatever

090your makeup of your entities are. So for us, we're in there our in most portions for schools is 4.6 mills. They're talking about getting rid of of that bill except for townships. And if that would be the case, that's our O3 fund. I mean, we're we're looking at about $2.1 million that we would lose if they get those things Troy talked about in year three of our PI. You don't have the money to do it. You don't upkeep parking lots. You don't upkeep the roofs. You don't That That's what that inside millage is used for. That's our PI dollars, the permanent improvement that we base a capital plan off of each year. So if they just come out and cart blanch say inside millillage goes away. Again, that's not something that we've gone out and

091said to the voters, you know, vote this in or we've got operating levies, whatever else it might be. This is how we've been told to do business for 20 years. Yeah. Um, so if that if something like this happens with inside millillage, I don't know how we keep up with facility upgrades. I don't I mean that's got that's got the ability for some salaries in it. You're probably reducing some staff. There's some scary stuff in this. This is finalized though. This is not finalized. There's pieces that are out there. But but this I mean this really just recently hit the hit the table of coming out and and really I think the big thing is and we totally agree and we have tried to talk to like our cohorts that go up there and talk

092on behalf of schools and that sort of thing of what's going on that this will hurt us this will help us you know so we're trying to put you know get that out there that everyone knows but I mean it's I haven't seen anything in the S senate version that helps us go back to the house flat funding and we can deal with flat funding. But so yeah, I'd like to know the percentage of those those people making decisions who send their kids to public schools. Yeah, it's just I bet it's pretty low. It's a piece and I you know and then and plus the percentage of the ones that are supporting this from Appalachian. I mean I mean I can imagine you know Southeast Ohio they're just gonna get decimated with all this nonsense.

093It's crazy. And and the thing, you know, we're all for it. We There needs to be some sort of reform. We understand that 100% because that last time we were at I mean, you know, we're at the point floor and we got that increase. That was a lot. I mean, I get it. I mean, I didn't put all we didn't put all the other pieces in there. There is some homestead roll back, some increase in disability salaries where somebody could get their the homestead and roll back exemption. So, they changed a little bit of that, but it was like by $2,000. I mean, it wasn't creating that disparaging gap in that. So, there's a lot of reform out there. And I what pieces of this through this process make it, we just have to continue

094to monitor. And I know that Todd, you know, as we think about this, and I've said this a thousand times, we get half of our funding from the state. you start messing with the funding from the state or any of this, it can only be on locals. And that, you know, when we look at it and we start dipping into cash, which Todd will share with with the current five-year, you only have another op. You only have a couple options. Start removing programs and staff services or you're on the ballot for operating. I just don't know if the growth and one in our income tax and if they start taking state dollars and all these other pieces. I don't know what we'll be able to keep up with, but we'll have to make tough decisions

095throughout this two-year budget depending on where it lands. So, I mean, I don't I don't know that, you know, as we sit and talk about not going to the ballot for buildings at this time, I know that operating is going to be key. So, we're just going to have to make tough decisions at these land. We're going to continue to advocate, talk to our legislators, um talk to local districts and try to have conversations and see where this comes out. But here's the thing. Two weeks from now, this is happening, right? Okay. So, there's not a whole lot of time to and this Senate version came out way different than the House. So, we just got this on Friday. And I'm not gonna lie to you. I told Todd at one o'clock I gotta leave

096for a little while because it was frustrating to sit and listen to to this and where it was coming and how do we overcome this? So with that said, oh the wrong keyboard that's the fiveyear and it's small. You've got one. Todd's got one. I got I got a hard Can you go back to that prior slide? I I want to bore you guys with something else on that is like for that local share where it shows that $12 million that is our income tax and our real estate taxes and so you can see that we get locally almost $13 million and and so it's 30% of our budgets. Yeah. I I do want to say the state average and I mean because I know a lot of times people think that you know our

097our taxes are so high. I mean we're 11% under the state average. I mean, so I just want you guys to remember that. And it's just one of those things that, you know, sometimes you get caught up. And then for the state share, you know, here's here's our 51% and the average for most schools out there was 38. So I mean, we depend on it. We depend on the state. I mean, and our local people. I mean, we we still our taxes are low in comparison to the state. And I know last time was a huge hit for anybody. So, I'm not I'm not saying that, but I just kind of wanted to point that out that even with our income tax and our property tax, we're both we're below. So, trying to get a

098new uh printer in your budget with some of this I think it was on the copy. It was on the copy. Is that what it was? Yeah. Yeah. So, okay. on the fiveyear forecast. The only thing I want to kind of point out and I know I've showed just to you guys a hundred times, but in 26 and 27 on those numbers, you can see coming down to line 10 uh 1.04 04 the restricted aid is 18708 and then the uh restricted number is 2.9 and the restricted the restricted funds are student wellness center DPI aid because you have to spend them on uh remediation and you know helping kids intervention we use the ascend academy and that sort of stuff out of that but that's basically our our 216 and then the following year

099so those are the numbers I got in our forecast which comes off those simulations there. But if you come down the line, 6.010, it's the gray number after this year. And I know it's just forecasted numbers out here, but you can see we're depending on if that happens, we're still going to go down 1.9 million and the following year 3.8 million. So our cash balance from those years is going to go from basically 22 to 166 million in a two-year span. Now, we will of course get the budgets out. We'll look at everything, but just projecting on that trend, that's what that equates to. So everything that's going on right now is just it's so so important. And and I think what Bill said earlier about like I'd love to know how many people's kids

100are going to pro school, that's where a lot of the money right now is going to schools and it's coming from the public schools. And I hate saying it, but it's the truth. I have to say kudos to the district for having a savings because we we're going to need that to survive. That's the reality. We can survive long term. That's why I said if this stays in this trend, you have to make decisions. Right. Right. Yeah. It's kind of I think the thing that's frustrating more than anything on it is that we have worked so dang on hard to be under budget and be there for pay for the rainy day stuff or have a nice facility, you know, for our kids or whatever and then they want to do this. It's like it

101just very very frustrating. So yeah, questions on that. There's a lot to I think it's just you guys stay informed and as you sure put stuff out and just continue to read and I I think you know be up to date because if these do come true we'll have to make some adjustments. Yeah, the only other thing that really we shared in the audit finance committee was um we went through the audit kind of briefly and we did talk a little bit about the funding of of projects which Brian talked we talked about that earlier. Yeah. So, and I think that's one thing that Mr. Smith when he went through his list. A lot of those items, if you remember, were things that we were hoping if the bond issue passed, we were going to

102spend it on that. You know, was going to get new HBAC and update our controls. And we're just at the point now where it's either fix it or park it. I mean, really. So, a lot of that stuff, I mean, especially the technology, there's just no choice for that one. So, any questions for Mr. go on the treasury report. Thank you, Todd. Thank you. Moving on, new business item 8, financials 1 through nine. We have a motion. I'll make motion, Lisa. Do we have a second? Second. Cory Cory second. Any discussion? just 7, eight, and nine are are the non-typical on there. So that is the approval of our supplemental scales. Um, appendix 1A and 1B. Um, after negotiations, our supplemental review committee got together, looked at our supplemental scales, which are part of the

103contract now. Uh, and we gave $200 to each position um of an increase. So uh across the board um again that committee is made up of teachers and men to go through and study this. We agreed at the end of this three-year we will do a re-evaluation of the entire scale based on league schools surrounding schools and make sure we're staying competitive with those scales. So you're approving those. We did make a couple of adjustments in there and I think huge um not having in front of me I think we moved uh wrestling and band to a new tier uh because of the level of number of kids and that but nothing else. The rest of them just got the increase. And then the substitute student substitute teacher student worker as needed aids and substitute

104scales just we just increased subs by five daily subs by $5 a day. Building subs by $5 a day as needed workers up to the start with salary of an aid. Y and then student workers stayed the same. And then the approval of the HCC contract is just what um that's our technology infrastructure HCC for the year. Any further discussion or questions? Mr. Shel, can you please call the role? Mr. Herrera? Yes. Mrs. Greg? Yes. Mr. West? Yes. Mrs. Wy? Yes. Moving on. New business E. Personnel 1 through nine. We have a motion move. Bill motion. Do we have a second? I'll second. Second. Uh, any discussion? Just kind of going through the normal hiring at this time of the year. We've got um resignations and um new contracts for the year for new teachers,

105stipens um for year-long um stipen programs, and then supplemental contracts that are year-long. Those would be mostly academic that run the full school year. And then student teachers excited Mrs. Sherzinger's been working hard at Xavier UC to Mount St. Joe. That's a big list of student teachers and that's a great way to hire new teachers when you need it. And they're also willing to sub which you see a couple of them student teaching and subbing. And then we have our summer intern. He's out there working hard every day. That's it for E. Any further discussion or questions? Mr. Shinkle, can you please call the role? Mr. Yes. Mrs. Greg. Yes. Mr. West. Mrs. Wy. Yes. Mrs. Greg. Can I just real quick just I want to thank the board for hiring backing and she's not

106only you know my first hire. Hopefully this will be the last hire. I have to make two. So she'll be over there. But I appreciate that. And Ann's like just a rock star. So thank you for that. Thank you, Ann. Thank you. Thank you, Todd. And thank you, Ann. Moving on to new business F, athletic personnel one through four. Have a motion. So move. Second. We made the motion. Bill second. Discussion. Um really wrapping up most of your fall, rest of your fall coaches there. Um, couple volunteers. I will say there's an odd volunteer on there, Mattie Bailey. Not related. Um, but we do have a student that is in a gymnastics club and the club coach coaches at Anderson High School. We do not offer gymnastics. So, under OSAa rules, she can compete on

107Anderson's team as a goan student athlete. So, if we don't have a program, you can find a school. So essentially through HSA guidelines, we have to approve the coach as a volunteer. I will have a personnel file that she's had the proper background checks and that. But it's just exciting to see, you know, one of our students get to do something else to another school. Love to build that program. We'll see. You never know. Love that. And wish her good luck. Yeah. Any other discussion or questions? All right. Mr. Shinkle, can you please call the role? Mrs. Gray? Yes. Mr. West. Yes. Mrs. Warren. Yes. Mr. Rar. Yes. Moving on. New business G. Personnel one. Do we have a motion? I'll make a motion. Second. Made the [Music] motion. Second. Any discussion? Any questions? Mr.

108Shinkle, can you please call the role? Mr. West, yes. Mrs. Marky, yes. Mr. Rare. Mrs. Gray. Yes. Moving on. New business. H. We have a motion to accept miscellaneous donations. So move. Second. The motion. Bill. Second discussion. I'd like to thank Gian Church of God for donating $2,200 to cover school lunch accounts um and unpaid accounts that are out there. And then um whole crew stepped up after last board meeting hearing all about the cafeteria. So Tugs Autoworks, Towing, Josh Pines, um Styles and Sons, and Wage War. Uh, thank you for your donations to help with the renovations of our middle school cafeteria. It is looking amazing. So, I will say because that and I do thank all of those that um go church of God taught. Correct me if I'm wrong. We did not

109have negative balances because free and reduced lunch. So, those dollars went to the ground bus to do breakfast. Oh, good. Thanks for Yeah, they're getting they're putting their name on it and everything. I love that. Thank you. local churches step up in big ways. Yes. Um, any further discussion? All right, Mr. Shinkle, can you please call the role? Mrs. Marky, yes. Rera, yes. Gray, yes. Mr. West, yes. Moving on to new business. I, um, Board of Education reports. Uh Lisa is not here this evening. Um dealing with the family matter. Uh Bill, uh we got my Oaks meeting this week, but I want to speak a bit about our senior ceremonies. Um our Oaks graduation ceremonies, our go graduation. Everything was amazing. Uh, you know, we had a busy couple weeks there with scholarship nights

110and the graduations and the uh teacher recogn recognition, excuse me, breakfast and but uh and also one thing about go mentioned band and uh increasing that excitement. We got a lot more kids and the band when I had the graduation, man, they play I mean it took uh what 25 minutes to get all those kids in there and they played. I mean the band sounded great. And the Memorial Day parade and a Memorial Day parade. Yes. Yes. Yes. But they they did a fantastic job. Um scholarship night up here have a suggestion. You know, each year we get more and more scholarships handed out to these kids and they all deserve it. Um, and our people that uh that uh you know donate through scholarships, they deserve better seating. So, we're going to have padded

111seats next year for the on stage. Yeah. Because that was uh how long was it? Hour and a half or two hours. And that was uh and I did I come to this after I had live oaks graduation. I had live oaks graduation at KU before that. So that was yeah added seats for scholarship next year. Um yeah that was yeah everything was it was just my my favorite time of year with all these graduations everything um that's it on enough Lisa um so Todd gave my legislative update in the treasures report. Thank you Todd. I appreciate that. You're very welcome. Um, so I mean the majority of what I was going to talk about was the House Bill 96 um and such and that um I think as Brian mentioned also or the fiscal

112year ends on June 30th. So House Bill 96 needs to be to DeWine before then so that he can um sign into law hopefully with the House. We always play with the house. Go with the house, not with the senate, the house. Um, so yeah, so we will know more by the end of June, which hopefully better news than what we're expecting. But, uh, business advisory, I don't have anything to report for that since, right, Corey? Not a lot. We've highlighted, you know, a lot of that already, the buildings, but non-buildings. And so the Memorial Day parade was really good. A really fun time. A lot of folks came over. That was great. So yeah. And then um for myself, the audit and finance, we met um June 5th, so just last week. uh our

113I want to thank our community members um who are on that committee as well who attended. Uh a lot of the what we went over was the financial update of tonight. Um but then just um reviewing the audit feedback together and celebrating 10 years of the clean audit. I know we say this often, but kudos to you and your team and all that you do. Um, so we met, we plan to not meet again for a year because um, things are going well. If something comes up, we're going to pull the team together if we feel there's a need for a review. they kind of said like once we kind of possibly get all the legislation that comes into play and then also once we get uh SHP's recommendation just to try to see like

114what our options once we start getting maybe some costs just what are we looking at so it was actually a good conversation I really like you said our community members were very active and questions yeah that's great and then go education foundation our golf outing is on July 25th it is actually full. Um so not accepting any additional golfers. We are seeking um always taking large sponsorships if anyone's interested in that. Uh whole sponsorships and donations for the event. So volunteers we volunteers that will come out at our next meeting which is next week. Okay. So a sign up will come out. It's coming to Virginia. Um she's been asking for it. So that will come out. Um, absolutely. We always need a group of volunteers. But thanks for everybody who signs up. Um, honestly,

115that's just a great partnership event between Athletic Boosters, Alumni Association, and Ocean Education Foundation. All right. Anybody have any questions for any of the board members? All right. Moving on to new business J. superintendent report. Yes, sir. So, yes, I have some items here. Just a reminder for you guys, we do have the June 20th special, which is Todd's financial closeout at 7 a.m. Um, and then our July meeting is the 14th. Um, we will hold a records commission, which we do once a year. um following and we'll post this because it is a public meeting but it's essentially Deb it's the president superintendent and treasur go through the records commission process um so we will hold that after the special meeting um I think 7:30 will suffice to start that should not last too

116long but again that all that is is really the schedule of things that fall out of record retention then go to the Ohio history connection used to be the history society and they have 60 days to say if it's historical value or not. So it's really your consolidating records to the commission. We say which ones were purging and moving on send that list to the historical connection and then from there once that's done it it goes schedules forwarded to the auditor of state for final approval. So it's a record we do it once a year. Um capital conference dates are out. Um, if you guys want to mark those into your calendar, November 16, 17, 18. And then Mrs. Sherzinger is going to give our semianual bullying report. Thank you. So, we um report on

117bullying two times a year and June is our our second one of the school year. Just a reminder that um the definition of bullying is causes mental or physical harm to the other student and is sufficiently severe, persistent or pervasive. Um creates intimidating, threatening or abusive educational environment for students. I think the the thing with um bullying is it's repeated and over time there's an imbalance of power um etc. So this portion of the school year um second semester we do have five recorded incidents of discipline that was identified as bullying where um our administrators went through the full investigation process and students were disciplined for bullying. Um I think it's important to know that um there were five incidents of discipline identified as bullying. doesn't mean that there weren't other things such as name

118calling or other rules that were broken along the way, but there were five incidents identified as bullying um in the second semester. So, I think what we like to talk about or something that we've been examining a lot is our continued proactive approach. Um, obviously, you know, we want to continue to support all of our students and some of the things that we've been doing this school year. We have PBIS, which is positive behavior intervention supports. A lot of PBIS is teaching students how to be good citizens, teaching students how to do school. Um, you know, when students come into kindergarten, they don't know how to sit in the cafeteria. Some of them maybe have never gone out to eat. So, our kindergarten teachers teach them literally how you line up, how you sit down,

119how you open your milk, how you talk with your friends around you. So, positive behavior support is us teaching our students proper behavior, whether it be, you know, name calling or anything like that. That's where we teach them the rights and wrongs. We have facility dogs, um, Roland, Artis, and Meg, and you see them in the buildings. That's another mental health support we have for students and honestly for staff. Um, those dogs will go to staff meetings and the teachers are all over them. They bring them through the board office and all of us are loving on the dogs too. So, even me who, you know, I'm not always a big fan of of animals, but they they something about those dogs that tend to calm people down. Um, so that's a building level support.

120We have a a huge district mental health team and that is ran by John Turpining. We we pay John as our mental health expert. He's housed at the high school. Not that he doesn't see students in other buildings, but he works with that team to create and offer mental health support for students. And then you can see um on that slide, every school has child focus and catalyst in addition to our counselors. So you if you look at Mark Cook, you have a child focused person there Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. Um a catalyst person there Mondays and Wednesdays in addition to our building counselor. So we offer a a great deal of um mental health and behavior support. And something we don't have on here is we also have a contract with a Hamilton County

121behavior expert who works with our staff. she will go in and do observations and then give feedback to teachers on how to handle some of the behaviors that they might see in the classroom. Um, and that's we've had that for the last couple years is contracted through Hamilton County. So, that's not really listed up there as well. Um, you know, mental health wise, you can see the number of student meetings that um the mental health team had this school year in addition to child focus. And that's in addition to families seeking out their own um mental health care for students. So if you look at we also do surveys and screeners through signs of suicide. And so those happen at both middle school and high school buildings. We have a family engagement team. Shelley Dazzio

122um and her staff worked with 202 different referrals this school year with families in addition to the mobile vision mobile dentist um helping students get to the health source. If you look there, I think Brian alluded to that earlier. From July of 24 to December of 24, um there were several visits. And we do more than just care for students, teaching them math, reading, writing, you know, arithmetic. We're providing dental services for them. We're providing um vision for them. And then also some of their physical concerns, too. I know I take advantage of it. If my child at home's complaining about a sore throat, I make her go to health source first. So then she can go back to school or back to home based on what they say. Um, we also have our school

123guidance counselors and resource officers. Our resource officers go in I know at least in fifth grade and middle school during their tribe time and they do a lot of um conflict resolution um description of bullying. They they talk with our students about different scenarios and have conversations about um you know if you're a bystander with bullying, how do you handle that? If you are a victim, how do you handle that? So those are just some of the things that we do and as I said as of April this year to help support our students. Um I think the the biggest thing to to take away from this is we're educators and we try to teach people. So the first time there's an incident, we try to intervene and teach students how to advocate for themselves

124and teach um students how to stand up and then also proper behavior. So we may have had five disciplined bullying incidents, but our approach to bullying is way broader than just discipline. Um we try to teach and we try to be proactive. And so I think that's the biggest thing as we're looking at, you know, moving forward through our bullying process is just teaching kids how to treat each other. And maybe sometimes we have to think as adults that we're the best example for that. Um, and so that's something that, you know, I talked to parents a lot this school year about these devices, too. Bullying happens a lot through technology that we don't provide for students. Um, but we're intervening on that when they come back to school because something did happen over the

125phone. So, I think we just have to continue our partnership with parents as we work through um bullying. One more. We'll do that one. So, I Oh, can I ask a quick question on that last one? That's 408. That was as of December. I I know. What was that? Are that is that students? Yeah. Well, yes, that's because they see other people, right? So, students that's incredible. Okay. And that could have been anything from sports physicals. Well, that's and I have one more question. Sorry. Go back. I'm sorry. What is um so like from a parent experience I kind of know a little bit but what is the difference in what like our school counselors do verse like the mental health team, right? So at the high school I know our school counselors are doing

126a lot of like class transcripts preparation stuff, right? like academic where um I think it's kind of like chain of command of anything. It starts with the building counselor. If there's a referral from a teacher, hey, this kid's struggling counselor come in or the parent calls. It starts there and then it's referred out if there's mental health therapy needed. Um plans put in place. Counselor is kind of that between them and building principles and admin. kind of starting point to then find the right supports at every school like at Mark through how quick can parents expect to get follow up to their concerns as far as contact with I would say it's in within the day if there's you know if parent if parents bring referrals to us like hey so and so's struggling we're

127going to find the right resources we've got all those parent resources on top of it that are a free grant this year for parent help with students mental health. Um, if it's something that happens within the day where it's referred through a student, um, just depends on the time of the day it happens and when we can get to investigating it. Say within 24 hours, there's generally some type of contact. Um, you know, there but I've said this to you guys all the time. We don't know what we don't know. So, if we don't know about it, it's hard for us to take care of it. The next slide and are you speaking at your continue to speak on? Yes, I am. So these are kind of the directions that I'm working with that mental

128health team. Um Tom Turner, director of student services, our building admin. Um trying to do some outreach because I think at times when you present that data that we just talked about, the number of mental health and referrals and pieces that we try to take care of kids, that's an unknown number a lot of times unless you're one of those families that's receiving those supports. Um but it's really trying to engage parents and parent resource nights is what we're starting with. like after parent teacher conferences we might hold a night and I'm not putting dates on this but the night might be about bullying prevention special education family engagement resources food service school safety technology but it's after parent teacher conferences we can offer an informal or formal opportunity for parents to stay and learn

129about if they have a question about these things we'll have the right people there to support conversations for them I think parent teacher conference nights are a nice night to do I think on top of that, you'll probably see some, you know, working with us, some designated nights on a few of the topics that have been prevalent right now. Um, but we're also going to look at our website presence and where this is easy for parents to find because, you know, websites are as good as the cookie trail that you can follow. Where do I get this stuff? But how do we make sure that some of this if you're worried about your child's mental health or or that that we've got the right um web presence for them to find this the resources because

130you're only looking for it when you need it, right? Um so we need to make sure that those are easy to do as well. So right now that's just you know listening to feedback. I always say public participation if I don't know about it I can't can't help. Um, but I think, you know, obviously conversations that we've had throughout the year with our mental health team and the struggles they see, what they try to, you know, make sure that they're being proactive with. I think these were all things that we were already kind of talking about doing some parent night, some engagement night with parents. Um, and we can add in, you know, pretty much anything to that that would be top of mind at that time. But really looking at how do we structure

131those parent teacher conference nights before or after depending on where it fits but to say hey in the gym you can find information on these and we'll have the right staff there to talk about that. So so the our administrators I mean I'm assuming they probably get more exposure to this as far as additional training whatever than probably the rest our staff goes through yearly training through public school work. So, in identifying bullying, on deescalation, the pot or the behavior coach that we talked about works with our staff on deescalation strategies, um you know, how to identify things, how to watch for things. That's part of our yearly training as staff members. It's through public school works. It's classes that we have to take every year that some are two hours, some are 10 minutes

132depending on, you know, the level of it. But there are ones that were mandated through the state for all of our staff to take every year. Um, some of them are on a every other year basis, but most of those that deal with student safety and reporting concerns. It's a yearly training that our staff in their free time go through and take. I'd like to see again. I mean, we talked we spoke about it before. I know um we have a new athletic director now and I know how just conversations that I like to see them really involved because I mean a lot of people assume that our athletes, you know, h they've man that they're they're an all-star out there on the court or in the field, you know, they they got it all

133together and they just some of those kids are hurting just as they put a lot of pressure on. Yeah, a lot of pressure. A lot of pressure on these on these. I know that Greg started working on that. Our new child focus, our new catalyst um high school counselor, a former division one athlete has talked about that how she could meet with teams. It's again, we've got to put some processes in place and Greg's going to work through that. How we support kids academically. I mean, being a student athlete is a student athlete. You got a lot on you always. Whether it's going home to do AP homework or you know and it's so much more pressure than when we you know you hear so many people blow it off like ah I did it

134when I was a kid. No, I mean these kids year round two or three sports year round whatever then plus their course loads it's nothing. It's so much more pressure than when we were kids. I don't care what anybody says. No firstand then then again yeah that the whole that's good. So just wanted to update you. I think that fits you know really fully with uh the whole piece of it. My last part of it summer camps they're going great. Learning Academy had 103 kids registered. That's our, you know, 12-h hour days there. 6 hour, 6 hour. They depend on what shifts they're taking, but it's 6 am to 6 p.m. we have 103 kids taking advantage of that several days a week depending on the hours. Uh summer camps, that's the academic camps that

135our teachers offered, 52 students involved in those. uh high school, summer school. We've got about 50 kids that have completed um a lot of credits recouped here after about two weeks of getting in getting uh credit recovery done. And then the Grub Bus week one totals 501 lunches, 501 breakfast served on the bus. And then at the Mark Cook cafeteria line, 381 lunches and 309 breakfast. So, um, you know, I continue to say that those ladies, thank you for, uh, working with, you know, those two projects over the summer cuz it it's a lot of sweat. They got a lot to load those buses and get everything ready, but they're great. And then lastly, you guys have seen this, but I Bill, it's that favorite time of the year. I just wanted to kind of

136remind us why we do what we do. Uh, 209 kids graduate. 32 of our 32 atrisisk seniors through the send graduated. That's great. So, talk about a program that does a lot for kids. And then just by the numbers, 181 college credit hours. You do the math. I'm about to figure that out as a parent. That's a lot of money saved. Um 3.62 million in scholarships offered. 3,900 community service hours. honors, diplomas, 44 academic, two career tech honors, and then that career readiness piece. I will say we do it better. That's why we got the fourstar. And at Hamilton County BAC, they recognized us for all the steps we're taking outside of, you know, those academic ala accolades getting kids um readiness seals, Ohio means jobs, industry credentials so that they can work out, walk

137out into the workplace and be contributing. Um, so I have one quick thing to add. I think I spoke to you about this and Mr. Dubs. Um, I'm on a uh business industry advisory committee for uh at Scarlett Oaks and we met with uh I'm there as a skilled trades uh team leader Ford Motor Company. So, I'm working with the their engineering program there and and there were a lot of people in the in the meeting in the field, you know, and they were talking about kids uh just about everybody said kids need to learn these golf skills, you know, just kids shaking hands, making eye contact, showing up to work on time, showing up to work every day. And uh when I introduced myself, I introduced myself as uh working for Ford Motor Company.

138And so the people most people in the room didn't know that I was also on Great Oaks board of directors, right? And that I was on Goan School Board. So uh I mentioned that I was on Goan School Board. I said my I said hey I said on top of forward you know my side hustle was a a board member at go schools you know and uh and this guy spoke up that he works and you know that I can't remember the the uh his website we spoke about that Pat and I did um but they prepare kids for the the um connection with recruiters and everything and piece and that yeah yeah and they he said uh this this this guy he said uh man I'm really glad to hear from Goan because you

139guys have cracked the code. You get you get it right. He said these kids people out there in Cincinnati want go kids because the kids are are prepared for that these careers. I mean like I said those soft skills are a big thing that everybody said. I mean that's that's a thing you know that that's really like between developing good work ethic and and he said that uh and he spoke highly of uh Mr. dubs, you know, and uh yeah, I thought that was great to hear that proud moment. That guy lit up when he heard us go. He's really Yeah, that was that was cool. We're trying to prepare him for everything and I I do appreciate that and I'll let Pat know because that staff that's all of our teachers buying in though

140too. So, yeah, you know, you're preparing them for a lot of things. There's a lot of state mandates that we're preparing them for, whether it's testing, graduation, lambda after graduation. And that is this year's their plans right now as we went through the survey had 62 going on to fouryear 23 to twoyear eight trade school kids 10 kids have an apprenticeship walking out which is huge 51 entering the workforce 37 gap year is what the kids say I don't know what you know that is becoming did have auge a good friend's kid that did that now he's headed to West Virginia next year figured out what he wanted to do sometimes you got to do that and and sixth to the military as we said there graduation. So it's a lot of work from kindergarten

141or preschool sometimes to 12th grade and I think we do it well and we've got a lot of people working hard to do it. So it's good to acknowledge that end of the year accolades. That's all I had. Thank you. Any questions? All right. Do I have a motion to adjourn the meeting? Lisa made the motion. Cory second. Any discussion? Mr. Shinkle, can you please call the role? Mr. Herrera? Yes. Mr. Gray? Yes. Mr. West? Yes. Mrs. Wy? Yes. Meeting adjourned at 9:22