001e e e 2025 Goan Board of Education meeting to order at 6:30 pm Mr shle can you please call the role Mr West Mrs wery here Mr P Rocky here Mr herera here Mrs Gray here thank you for agenda approval I'd actually like to make a motion to amend the proposed March agenda to add Board of Education policy education to Old business Item B second yes do we have a second second discussion what is it I what was it again sorry uh Board of Education policy uh just education about our policy and some things that we received last month okay old business Mr sheno can you please call the role Mr West yes Mr quy yes p Rocky yes yes Mr yes great yes thank you I'd like to call for a moment of silence
002and ask that we consider the importance of unity within our community in the space of safety and peace for our children thank you please stand why marach in The Pledge of Allegiance i al to United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for allce introduce us yes we are very excited to be here we always love coming to spend time with you and we'll try to be really short today because we always are really excited and we like to show what we're doing um thanks for having us tonight and I'm very excited as the building principal to have the opportunity to showcase the wonderful math instruction that's taking place every day at marook elementary I take extreme pride in the fact that
003we have a very caring and dedicated staff who work diligently to learn all of the best ways to instruct our students in math math through the use of our math Fidelity model and also through the use of our uh many opportunities that we have to receive math coaching from our um representative Ann berer from Hamilton County's Educational Service Center I'm very proud to share some data with you tonight um that you will be able to see that highlights our brand new math Target time um this is brand new to our school um schedule this year we're very excited about it we are going to keep working with it next year we've got a lot of great data a lot of growth for kids and they're going to be able to show you today some of
004their work in the Target time and in the core classroom and we want to also highlight one of our kindergarten teachers who's going to be up here in a little bit Mrs Kim HW and her students and we want to give them this opportunity to showcase this Hands-On learning they have 40 minutes every day in their target time for um this instruction and we are so excited for the kind and generous donation from the go Education Foundation um for these math kits so Mrs Kim hos Kim if you'll stand up there for me please has been teaching 27 years all as a kindergarten teacher at Mar Hook Elementary which is absolutely amazing I think that's awesome let [Music] give for the years that she's spent here she is um a wonderful teacher she um she
005has touched so many little lives if you think about that in 27 years it's amazing she grad graduated from Goan she raised her family here and she is so very proud to be a Goan Warrior when I asked her why kindergarten because sometimes teachers change grade levels right she's always been in kindergarten she responded they have such a joy of learning and I love seeing it every single day it makes her happy she's very passionate about math and that today she's finding a lot to do some Hands-On learning for kids so that students at this very small age of and six years old um are able to gain these Concepts and learn those um she states that being able to do interventions in math which is our Target time and small group has been absolutely
006amazing this year and she's very excited to see the difference that we're making as we continue to develop this math Target time so this is what we are very excited to show you today I'll take the next slide so our Target time at math um at Mar Elementry a lot of different things here we have always had um for years Ela target times where it has been um literacy based and it's every single day uh Monday through Friday and after speaking with Ashley Andrews back at Spalding and just talking with her about math in general um we realized that we had a need to add some additional math time for our students um because we had not had targeted intervention so this is brand new to our schedule this year um I'm going to share
007with you some of this great growth that kids are making um the the ELA Target Time BAS basically just says here that they we we take these mtss meetings I'm going to show you a spreadsheet about those but we um use a lot of the data and the benchmarks for map testing and also our arcadians testing and progress monitoring um and in addition to what teachers tell us about students during these these meetings that happen about every six to eight weeks um and then we target these U individual instruction for children and our our students for ELA have been going to title or project more for their tier two targeted intervention um and other students are basically sorted to the other teachers for ELA in order to work on certain skills and so like I
008said we decided that we weren't really touching the math and we needed to and so this year what we decided to do was take our kindergarten students which are here tonight and our first grade students and give them Ela targeted time on Mondays Tuesdays and Wednesdays during the week and then on Thursdays and Fridays they go to a math targeted intervention um and like I said this is brand new this year so um that happens at least for our our kindergarten and our first grade students targeted math intervention two days a week whereas in second grade they team teach there so there's an Ela teacher and a uh math teacher our second grade students are all getting depending on enrichment or what have you um either five days of targeted math or five days of
009targeted Ela intervention and that targeted can be something that students need to really work on we also have a challenge group so we are pushing kids higher and making sure that they're continuously performing at higher levels okay um I want to give this to you it's kind of hard to see but if you will pass that down that gives you kind of a breakdown here I know it's a small print there but this is um our fall data basically from our kindergarten and overall first grade and second grade based on the math and I'm so excited because this is the biggest piece right here we had 316 students in the fall that received math target times whether it was two days a week or five days a week 289 of those students made growth that's
01091% of our students so this is really amazing data we're very excited to share it with you we would absolutely love to have five days a week of math intervention so that we can push these kids forward and get them ready by the time they get to for that third grade reading guarantee so um it just kind of get breaks it down there for you so that you can see in kindergarten we had um 88% of our students make and our targeted times from 110 to 150 and then our second target time was from 150 to 230 we at 86% I mean the numbers don't lie I don't want to read all those to but it's so exciting first grade 93% and in our second targeted group 97% of students were making growth and then
011here in second grade look at those numbers 100% of students made their growth and then 76% or in the enrichment gr 7% so it shows you there that we have an enrichment where we're pushing kids um and those kids that are in that enrichment are the ones that are doing really well at Ela so because they're doing so well at reading why not give them some math so we push them in the math so that they're getting something on that enrichment piece so that they're growing and showing growth this is just a snapshot that's hard to read I know but of what our our spreadsheets look like whenever we have our um five to eight weeks of of mtss data we sit down with teachers we take a look at kids that are in their
012um Top This is Ela title and project more groups and then the bottom is the math intervention group and the teachers really take the autonomy on that piece um to determine what they want to teach so if like if a teacher really is excited about teaching the enrichment part and they really want to go forward with that they're the ones that volunteer to take those kids and we're taking a look at a lot of aadience and um composite scores in order to to group these kids which is their overall whenever we Benchmark kids um in order to place them into these groups are always fluid so every five to eight weeks their kids are moving around right so they're always continually growing so like to tie this back into our portra of graduate which I
013know you've seen this a lot our mission as I said before is to make sure that kids are continuously performing at higher levels which I think you can see there with math that's definitely happening um our model really does just this I think together we make sure that our kids are fearless Learners I mean if you really look at that Fearless learner piece they're they're filling and checking out all of the boxes in that right they're being creative critical thinking they are showing problem solving which I know Mrs hos is going to be showing that with you in these math kits here um here in a few minutes and becoming Fearless Learners at wealth and and they're also incorporating you'll see this as well some other cross-curricular activities so she's got them running some math
014doing writing and journaling and those types of things at this very young age um as five and six years old so very very excited about it all right I am going to stop talking and I'm going to turn this over to the real stars of the show which would be my kindergarten friends you guys have been so patient thank you so much and your teacher Mrs HW let's give them all a round of [Music] applause we talk earlier we should they that's okay um okay before we get started I just want to say um touts again the amazing math toolkits that our Education Foundation provided funding for all of the math materials in the toolkits um we're very fortunate to have them already you know in my classroom I've had these things for years but
015um logistically getting them into the kids hands was very time consuming and so I really wanted to make a kit for them that could just be ready to pull and go um and makes it so much more engaging for them um to do Hands-On learning um they're learning responsibility because they have to keep track of their toolkit it's theirs for the whole year and um lets me do more Hands-On lessons which really um goes a long way in making such abstract Concepts um more meaningful to them so this is a picture of the kids in my class class um one day we just had toolkit free time and so everybody got everybody got to pick out what they wanted to play with and you can see they're all picking different things and they love it
016so uh definitely math toolkit free choice days are big hit all right so you guys just practice this out there with me right in Mrs ha's class we say what do readers do read they read what do writers do so can you guess what Mathers do do math they do math let's do some math so can we switch it to the next slide okay so uh as Mrs Stevens mentioned I try to do some cross-curricular connections and so we have um Adelaide's journal entry up there on the right side so Adelaide with a really loud voice can you read what you said you like about math I like math because I like the numbers a numbers right do you want to tell them a little bit about your picture what about what are all those
017different color boxes up there um they the mats those are the mats in our room that you saw in the picture and then what about this um the that is the number numbers to 10 and what about these numbers our numbers to 100 by 10 counting by tens to 100 yeah okay and um Adela just really quick can you tell us what is your favorite tool in your math toolkit oh my my Cube your do you want to show them which one that is they don't know it's been a long time since they were in kindergarten very long time okay and what do you like about those because we can count numbers with them count numbers with them okay thank you Adie so um Martin is going to show us how we use our math
018toolkits with our team numbers so Martin could you get out your tools that you need and show me number 14 you guys are doing such a good job of w patient thank all right show me 14 so how did you represent 14 on there Martin 10 four 10 plus four 10 plus 4 all right so I don't if I know it's hard for you guys to see it um but he has got a 10 frame two 10 frames and he's got 10 in the top one and four in the bottom one so oh um all right so you show us 16 okay so I don't know you guys could see it you guys couldn't he just added two more to his 14 amazing that right there for uh shelle mentioned our math coach Mrs burger
019from HCC HCC I was just in a class with her last week and learned that's called higher work inclusion when they get that there's a 14 nested inside of 16 or you know an eight nested inside of 10 big fancy word hierarchical inclusion and Martin has [Applause] it I could make it up okay Martin can you put your things back in your CET and I'm going to borrow things eraser real quick all right and then Hadley you have a math game that we play so Hadley's got a number board from zero to 100 our um standard is that they be able to count to 100 and also be able to count on From Any Given number to 100 so not necessarily starting at one all the time so we had this game that we play
020so Hadley can you get out which tool did we need for that all right and can you tell us what would you do next when it's your turn in that game okay go ahead roll the dice and then what do you do okay go ahead so she's just coloring the next four boxes up there and then what do you do okay can you say really loud6 well you think Adel did she get them correct yeah awesome so she so that was a partner a and they just each took turns rolling the dice coloring you know that many boxes and then naming their numbers and they checked one another so tell us Adelaide what was your math thinking in that activity um I mean not Adelaide Hadley I'm sorry I'm looking at the wrong kit Hadley
021what was your math thinking for that act acity saying the numbers yeah all right so these are all kids from my home room class so this is my tier one uh math instruction I get to have Remy in my target time math so I'm going to give you this Remy and I'm GNA tell them real quick about our book that we read is that okay so we read this book called Mouse count and we found out that the mouse was always hungry for more he was a very greedy Mouse so he always wanted snake more very greedy snake he always wanted more and more and more so Remy are you ready to show them some of our math thinking that we did okay so um snake had five mice in the jar so he's representing
022it with little counting Cubes but what did the snake say five's not enough I need one more right can you write an equation to represent for us what snake has in his jar now I'm GNA show he got [Applause] it symbol erase that for me um so we did with my target time group then we made a chart um of what we found how many mice in the jar and when we added one more and we were noticing patterns up there and we noticed that every time we were adding one more and that when we did that this is the kids this is what they told me the pink part down there that we added one more each time and then when that we do that then the sums went in counting order so then
023we figured out that when you're adding plus one it's going to be the next counting uh order number which is an addition strategy so um that was our math thinking there so Remy can I ask you one I know you already put your tools away but could I ask you one more okay what if snake had um seven mice in his jar and he said Seven's not enough I need one more how many would it be eight eight and thaty didn't even need a stuff all right so um thank you so much for letting us come and present our math and our families for bringing the kids to share um I'm excited for all the growth that we are seeing and can't wait to see what else they do I love our math Target time
024and I think it's going to be a very powerful piece of instruction and we're just getting started with that so thank you [Applause] yeah the kids some certificates here but you think about kindergarten go back to kindergarten I can't remember my kindergarten year but I can remember my kindergarten teacher and I'm sure that all those kids that we talked about earlier remember Mrs H and other teachers but you know as you think about they make it look so easy shal puts the chart up there of what the teachers are breaking down kids and looking at kids individually to make sure that we're providing them individual instruction whether it be enrichment or intervention that's what's special about this this group of teachers and to say we've had the push at the state level for early literacy
025and um you know we've done an incredible job with Mark cook with that but they acknowledge and looking at that that we need to push kids in math now and that's what this is and that's you know preparing them so when they jump to Spalding they're ready to go hit the ground running and we can't do it without our teachers and these kids because you guys are awesome that was not easy to do and I do appreciate you doing it we have a certificate for each of you that I'm going to and in the top corner it's got a Goan pen little G Pin for doing extra things that maybe your classmates didn't do like coming in and talking to a big group of adults today so what I'm going to do is I'm going
026to call your name you're G to come get your certificate and then you're going to tell me who you brought with you tonight so I need you to talk one more time so you need to tell me who you brought with you can you guys do that all right so we're going to start with Hadley Hadley come on up shake your hand too [Applause] you got turn around and say thank you for being here and then [Music] Martin certificate your pen and then turn around tell us who you brought with you my mom and dad Thanks for Remington or Remy is that what we man your in the top corner and then bring with you tonight I brought my baby sister my dad and my mom no baby sister mom that's Adel [Applause] cin her
027mommy's on Facebook mom Hospital the hospital with and then we can't do it without you thank you so much hey do you guys know who I was in kindergarten with we have one little one more Community piece that we'd like to cover and then we will sh if you'd like to but feel free to exit if you have little ones as well um we'd like to welcome Chelsea Hornsby from Goan Education Foundation to share an update I don't know how to follow that right there the uh mission of the G Education Foundation is to supplement and enhance and provide educational materials for those of the school district and I think you got to see that firsthand so thanks for that up perfectly Brian that was a great segue um so you'll see our impact report
028here for 2024 and what's really exciting about that is our foundation has gifted nearly $100,000 and we're split into three main buckets one student scholarships the second being uh teacher grants and the third being School initiatives and through that it's pretty exciting to see the growth um since the Inception in 2016 of the foundation what's really exciting and what's to come this year is I had the opportunity to stand up here last year and talk about the growth of the foundation and really excited to talk more about that growth so this year thanks to the Styles and signs we are going to be offering a blue collar scholarship in the amount of $2500 and that could be anybody that's going to cosmet Cosmetology School someone's going to go to school to be mechanic construction you
029know kind of the outside of the box of a traditional kiddo going to college so thank you to Danielle Styles and Brian it's really exciting to have you guys part of the district Dan alumni and also giving back to the Education Foundation so thank you also last year we gifted three $1,000 student scholarships and I'm really excited to share that this year we're gifting three $2,000 scholarships so doubling the amount uh we recognize the expense of college and really want to give back to the kiddos again that's one of our main pillars and uh this school year 2425 we gifted over $6,000 to our teachers so Mrs to is a great example Kim I think that you've probably received a GF scholarship every year since we've been Inception in 2016 three times three okay all
030right so uh if it wasn't for our teachers you know we would not be able to have such in incredible and intelligent Warriors um going out into the community that we have today and I'm telling you I think what our teachers do too is thinking outside the box to be creative and engaging what the what our educators are doing just is beyond words right I think even when I first heard about flexible seating I'm like where was that when little ADHD Chelsea was in class because I really could have used one of those bouncy ball tis um probably still would have help my focus but uh I think our educators are truly the backbone which we all know that um just really helping to bring new ideas to the district so I really appreciate all
031that you guys do uh ways to support the Education Foundation we are teaming up with the alumni on March 29th for a red and gray Sor so we're tracking a little bit behind in ticket Sal so if you're able to attend please attend we also have a grand raffle happening out there as well um so information can be found on the education found education found Foundation Facebook page and alumni um and a golf outing that's pretty awesome it's July 25th and you can't miss that it's an incredible uh event that we have Deborah co-chair Deborah chairs the event and it is a constant salot every single year and we are moving forward this year with our boots Bourbon and Barbecue event so we did have to postpone that from last year it is set for
032October the 4th information will be coming out about that uh Richard lynchb will be there we'll have live music and a great time it'll be at the uh property of uh Mr Kevin maywa so looking forward to that something new that we are introducing this year is the warrior Community award really recognizing a few folks who um you know the foundation wouldn't exist without them so one is Jeff Gar so Jeff is really went to Daryl Edwards and to Todd and the administrative team and talked about bringing an Education Foundation to the district so again we started in 2016 and we would not be here without Jeff's hard work and you know talking to other school districts U and of course Daryl's $100 and Todd's $100 for those initial deposits uh but you know here
033we are um giving back almost over 100 almost $100,000 this year so we should note that Todd's personal $100 not the school sure we have copies of the CHS too so uh yes very important said that um so just some really great highlights from the Education Foundation so really excited for what this year is going to bring um we're really going to be focused on on a launching a campaign in the next coming year also we kicked off The George rise football field initiative as well so that's going well I raised a little under $4,000 so far and um we're tracking on target for that and we'll meet and exceed that goal so happy to answer any questions you guys might have it's really nice outside so I'll be really all right well thank you
034again for your time and allowing us to kind of come in and share about the ocean Education Foundation I know it goes without saying I mean there are huge support teachers take time to write the Grant and really start to think about you know what can I get for my classroom this year that would be new and improved him with the help of the association for the foundation they're able to make that come to life and then you know the scholarships and that are life-changing for kids so and the initiatives on campus the sign board out front you name it the different pieces that they've done and I know if I went with an ask they'll find a way to Do It um just a special group of people working for our community and for
035our kids and staff so we appreciate all you guys do and support the red and gray Suare if you can do it because it is a great night I think something else they do really well is partner with our other organizations so we have a flag in the gym where they partner with PTO and constantly partnering with the Alumni Association so um a lot of great people just doing big work big work and the boosters for the golf outing so great job Education Foundation so this is the time in the meeting that we always say for those who don't want to remain for the rest of the business you are more than welcome to leave but we'd love for you to stay as well thank you guysa right thank you U moving on to Old
036business item a Mr Bailey do you please do you have an update on the master facility I do um so I'm just going to start with kind of we did uh phase one and I sent this to you guys we met with SHP last week and they gave us some of the results if you remember they were at our state of the schools night and had a survey um there that they were doing a U we pushed the survey out a little bit um my newsletter um little bit you know it's it's a one minute survey um it gives us good feedback I think I'll show you here in a minute kind of the feedback we got but it helps us kind of Kickstart that I that thought of we're going to be asking some
037questions of the community because this is again the master facility piece is not what we think education needs to be in the community but what our community thinks of our schools and also how we move forward whether it be growth in the district or just with education evolving so real quick when we have had 122 starts 92 commit submitted the full one minute survey um we had some students take it uh some staff take it some community and some parents so it was kind of a a mixed um bag there these were simple questions just to kind of get some thought going um ask what building they're affiliated with kind of a split there um probably high school and middle school had a little bit more participation that night because of some of the clubs
038and activities that we had at state of our school so a little heavier on the secondary end um we asked them what is your preferred method of communication and this one surprised me a little bit um but it does allow you know us as a school district to think about when we're putting out information uh we're doing it on a on all these platforms and you know 100 or 90 something people say you know their top way of getting information is text and email um so it's you know it's good to see secondly how well do you feel our district communicates and this you know I think you know with that um a majority of the people saying very well or rating scale of one to five um you know 80 something per saying that
039we're guess three would be average but you know 80 80 something perent of the people saying that we're you know communicating effectively or well is good to see how informed are you about the impacts of our growing District uh we had you know quite a few people 50% of the people said they're aware of the impacts down to just a few that were uninformed about you know the impacts of our growing district and then how would you rate the condition of Goan school buildings um and I think each time we've talked we try to upkeep the buildings make sure that they look as new as the day they were built but that gets harder and harder um obviously you know you see a little bit of a difference little swing here in the condition of
040the buildings and a little bit of a concern I would say um still that 3 to five they're in good shape but you know not as many people saying wow these things are incredible a five um and then so we met with them kind of went through this I will say you know a lot of our conversation that day was how do we get more people participating in the survey now state of the schools night was one thing if you were there you were to take take it um you know my kind of thing was I embedded it in a couple of my Friday newsletters to parents wasn't a standalone like I see it I'm going to do it we did not do it that way um but I think what came out of it
041is in this remember we're doing phases here right now in phase one I think they would like to do a larger Community survey that's more forward facing we're going to be working with them to build that um after we do that piece of it we'll set up some listening sessions to gather a little bit more detailed feedback on that survey um and then collect they're kind of collecting some add addition or existing building documentation and then they really talked about branding this process um so that people know when we're talking about it what this branding looks like so a lot of this was getting our input it was the administrative team um Todd myself central office Mr dubs Mark slel Troy um just trying to get an idea with um Linda's assistance as well where
042we're at with some of this thinking um they've already got the job and the one thing that was good to hear you know they looked at and they've been doing a lot of research on this they say people do not know what you guys are accomplishing at Goan Local Schools they have no idea they wanted to start start trying to Brand it the gem of Claremont County or something along those lines I like it that's accurate it's something in there you know it's and our schools are they're we're doing an incredible job with you know however it be State funding um you know the the different um pushes that are put on us at the state level that we put on ourselves to make sure that we're exceeding we're continuing to forward think and I
043think that's the thing that excites them the most about working with us is that we do continue to try to forward think and think what's next how can we improve we just don't sit stagnant you see that today Mark hook talking about m you don't sit stagnant and they I mean they it kind of felt you know I think they I said it at one point they said you need to come you need to show this so people outside of the community know what how you compare to Milford and these other places and you know my answer was I I don't like to compare I don't like to say you know Goan but all public schools in Southwest Ohio are incredible we've got a lot of hard working teachers uh got a lot of hardworking
044administrators that are daily doing the best they can for kids and if you're doing that you're doing the right thing have to work walk County Superintendent meeting I'll talk trash you talk trash we can talk trash yes I do it I just don't put it out on but you know that's kind of that that's the educator in most of us we just want to focus on the kids here and what's going on here and leave that outside world um to other districts to figure out but they are they're truly impressed with what we're doing I don't know you know it was kind of a they said you don't take compliments but well it's like we'll take it but we're going to continue to evolve because we you know we don't have it perfect um so
045the second phase of this is our Retreat um and we started to plan the retreat with them U what the morning's going to look like it's going to be a lot of educational Vision visioning a lot of interactive time with you guys as a board they would like the principles there to join us for that and the central office team so that we can kind of vision together it'll be a mini process of what they're then going to do with our community our student team and our teacher teams right now we're kind of working on setting some dates for that they understand where we're at in the process the spring of a school season is crazy from State Testing to graduation to you know transition of buildings and so we're we're kind of flushing that
046that out where we may do um Community piece here in the spring and then get with our teachers and students and revisit that Community team in the fall of next year uh to do this educational Vision what do we want what does teaching and learning look like so they've got a lot of we're just kind of starting to put the list together of who would do that um from a community side some of the suggestions they gave was parents obviously recent alumni some of our Career Tech and higher ed partners because you've got higher ed uh Career Tech how we're preparing kids for jobs or secondary you know going on to postsecondary and then our business partner so I'm going to be working um probably with some input from you guys as well on trying
047to get that 40 person team together and get some dates that we can get out there I think it's going to consist of a couple two-hour meetings nothing too strenuous just coming in talking through some things um but we'll be putting those dates together in kind of that piece they did ask that you guys as board members The Observers on those three committees where you split up couple of you do the staff couple of you do uh the the community piece couple of you do the the student piece and again I'll flush that all out I'm just kind of giving you the 50,000 foot view because right now it's just kind of lying out what this process looks like the last part that they talked about was capacity and utilization um they requested all of
048our Master schedules for our buildings from our principles to um you know the room the layouts they've got all the floor plans from Mr Smith and they're starting to build their own because you got to think we've got blueprints Blueprints and floor plans that are they're old so they're going to kind of recreate these U to be able to use them to be able to show uh some of the things that they come with a finding again that on-site visit with principles is looking at every period of every day every classroom every day how we're utilizing our space they may have suggestions for us in that we can do temporarily they may you know obviously I think they're going to find that we're using a lot of space um efficiently but there may be others
049they're also gonna a um have a drone and they ask us for our drone policy and I said we do not have a drone policy that some districts have it and talking with Bob Rose kind of the township as long as they' worked it through me we're okay and we were able to alert people that there's stuff going on but they will be flying a drone um several days a pickup drop off um to try to get an understanding of you know we've put some Band-Aids on things and we've moved things around but I'm still not convinced that it's G work long term so they'll they may give us some short-term Solutions um with you know when you've got a civil engineer and they think differently than a a school building administrator it'll be interesting
050to see what they come up with there I know they're going to see heavy traffic they understand that all school campuses have heavy traffic our problem is you've got a thorough fair from one road to the next that's only going to get more increased with the Housing Development on Linton uh and then you also have a main artery you know running down through the middle of Campus that you know when that backs up that's not good either which backs up 28 so lot to look at and think about there what can we do on campus so we will be meeting with them again March 25th with my with the central Office Team and and building administrators to kind of talk through some of this um um and really Kickstart this at our April retreat with
051you guys and the administrative team to talk about that ADV visioning piece and again I'll start to get some dates and we'll start to communicate this as we move forward questions on that um hopefully I've laid that out um enough to kind of give you the big picture 50,000 foot view as a reminder this is a 16 month process we as we've said um not rushing anything we to make sure that we you know look at every option and get the information from community that uh helps us eventually make a decision I don't have any questions you guys have any questions good I the Right the right there they're uh they're impressive they did really well I thought another thing too is they on the community team find people that are know to growth and
052stuff make sure they would love to have them on there as well so that would yeah good conversation well again because we're not you know at the start of this we're not talking about a dollar number we're talking about how do we improve education and Goan continue to look at our space and instructional practices so okay thank you and then the added agenda item um old business B Board of Education policy um education review I'm going to pass this down this is a package for each of you and then I have a packet for the three of you as well so based on our last board meeting and um some things that have taken place over the last month it was recommended by our attorney that we actually do a board of education policy review
053and education session to address a few of the um items that um we navigated so first of all due to uh we've had a state um reported ethical violation uh we received a letter of grievance from our um GAA uh teachers union um that everybody's been provided uh via email before today but it's also in your packet um and then uh we know of two students who had to leave the school day um because of undue stress associated with mental and emotional drain that it's directly related to school business moving from our board meeting to social media um it's important that we consider how our board operates I think overall and everybody would agree to that um so I just wanted to point out some policies that um maybe uh could you know we could
054use a review in to make sure that we are following our own policies as we expect the students staff teachers in our community um to as well well I do think it's important for our community to understand that these are public policies and you can view them as well so um they can be found at https colon double backgo dobard docs.com so um really easy way to find them is Google Goan Board of Education board dos uh and it has all of our policies in place so I put a packet together so that we can review um the the policies that uh suggested so yes um we have nine policies to review and um and then just to start out the GAA um contract uh implication was due to uh our complaint procedure in the
055teachers contract not being followed um so make sure that you review the contract and we understand um what is expected of us moving forward um first policy is bbaa and BBA a-e which is board member Authority uh just to point out a few things um individual members exercise their authorities over District as they votee to take action at a legal meeting um so that's how we should uh be exercising our Authority um I'm not going to read it would take me all night if I read these so I provided in a packet um just wanted to point some things out also on BBA a-e there's Point 239 that I think um are important for us to review avoid uh board members Authority avoid admin ative decisions or attempts to Second guas the administration the superintendent
056is Chief administrator and the board has no administrative function it's um as well acquainted with school policies which these are included um and then nine knows that the reputation of the entire district is a reflection of our behavior and our attitude moving on um policy BBF uh School Board member ethics so um in that it points out um what is unethical for board members to do so see seek special privileges for personal gain personal assume author um un authoritie School Employees publicly uh disclose confidential information um withhold facts from the superintendent particularly about the incompetency of an employee consider complaint s against the teacher that are not first submitted to the superintendent and then announce future action before the proposition has been discussed um by the board um moving on to BBF this is very
057long so um it is the board member code of ethics um there are various in here that uh I think are really important for us to study and be aware of of um as we move forward moving on to BCD um which is also noted in cbni I which is board superintendent relationship the board strives to um procure the best professional leader available as its superintendent um the board as a whole and as individual members and it points out um five specific areas in which um are expect where we are expected um to engage with our superintendent um which I think has been really helpful as well as I've been studying the um policies moving on to K public complaints um this is very straight uh forward about how to handle uh public complaints um
058we actually do appreciate constructive criticism I think we can all grow with constructive criticism um and so uh everybody is welcome definitely to um share um any kind of constructive criticism we definitely love to hear from our community um in both positive and constructive ways um during public participation um please note that uh if it has to do with a complaint involving instruction discipline or learning materials um it first must go to the employee and then move to the principal from there the superintendent before it should come to us as a board of education um matters referred to the superintendent and our board may be asked to be and writing and are expected to be specific in terms of the action desired so those are expectations I actually thought that's really helpful because I as
059a board member I mean I know all of you as well often um people will come to us um thinking our role is something very different than it is um and pointing them back to um the teacher or coach or whatever that might be is to stay there start there um and then moving up the chain of command is is really important to hopefully resolve any concerns that our students um have along the way or parents and then um similar kld D and kld d-r public complaint about District um Personnel very much outlines um how those should be handled and um in the order that they should um be referred uh so those policies are extremely helpful and then the final one and I know this was a little out of order but it's executive
060session executive session can be kind of tricky because as you guys know there's very specific points in which um we're allowed to go into executive session we can't just do public business behind the scenes um which is really important but um one of the things that are attorney recommended is that uh we do look at executive session and if at any point in our board meeting something comes up that should move to Executive session we just make a motion as a board and I ask you guys as individuals um to take personal ownership in that um and if not of course I will try to move in the direction to recommend that we make a motion to go into executive session um if any of those seven areas um come up but uh part of
061that Ed education session will be a response to our teachers union um to let them know that uh we did do an education session and my hope is that we can talk more about these at our um Retreat coming up as well um and talk more about the study of them you guys have any questions good probably policies are long but and they're not necessarily fun but they're um it is good time if you have some downtime uh to read through and just re-educate on uh important policies of the district moving on to uh new business a public participation Mrs sheringer do we have anybody for public participation no one signed up no one all right no one for public participation so moving on to new business B Todd you're up with treasures report okay
062um so on this um there's a lot of things going on the state's now doing their budget and I don't know how much you guys have seen on it but it's uh a lot I mean it's really a great deal going on so and and where we're at and our funding and stuff it's it's very very important you know to reach out to our legislators let them know you know our concerns on this so it's it's a big deal and and I I put our tax rates on there because those just come out I just kind of want to give you know everyone's done our real estate bills and that's one of the things that's going on as well with the state in their budget is they're looking at reforming you know how we're doing
063with taxes so I just want to just show you kind of big picture I mean and just so you know that also like we're tracking about three million a month like we've been doing on our on our rest so I kind of just said just so you guys get a kind of a highlight on this so this is the resolution you guys will be passing in in the financial section about approving our rates and ignore the first and second I just throw that in there I mean like I adjust it when you guys make it on there so that part's on there so that that is the resolution this comes from the county auditor's office and it's attached with the attachments A and B on a if you can look we basically we get try
064to trunk it we get money from two funds we get our general fund and our permanent Improvement inside the 10 10 mil limitation we have 4.6 Ms which is inside here that's what this number is based on the county will go through the it'll say based on the valuation of Goan times 4.6 Mills this is what you can budget in your Pi fund then over here is our 10 mills outside $9 million that's our general fund dollars we're at the 20 mil floor this 21.8 actually comes down here at the bottom these are our two our last two tax levies that were ever on the ballot 1971 we had the board pass at 18.2 Mills at that time 1976 2.6 so we're the total is 218 which is this number here you add those two
065together that's the 9 million so this is kind of our budget for next year this is we're looking looking on real estate taxes and again this 21.8 it rolls to we're at the 20 mil floor so over time it rolls back on House Bill 920 that is 20 Ms not the 21.8 that makes sense on that so that's kind of what we we use like when we get into our real estate taxes we'll put that in on the budget okay so um on the governor's proposal I'll just kind of read this a little bit here um it's we've they put in the uh Fair school funding plan four years ago and it's been phased in for the six years and so now we're looking a