001Seeing nobody. All right. Uh presentation of certificates. Okay. We have um several presentations this evening. Um we'll start with our um Ram Pride Award winners for November. And I'd ask that uh Lindseay Frank, 8th grade ELA teacher at the middle school and Mr. Nelson, principal at the middle school, if you would come forward. Uh, I'll start by um reading uh Mr. Nelson's nomination of Miss Mrs. Frank. It is my honor to nominate middle school teacher Lindseay Frank for the Ram Pride Award. Mrs. Frank continues to step up when the building is in need, and this year is no exception. Lindsay took on a new position as an eighth grade ELA teacher, took over the builder club, joined our PBIS committee, and continues to handle the special education coordination in the building. She is also providing
002support for our new intervention specialists here at the middle school. Lindsay is an advocate for kids and not only cares about their academic performance, but also their social and emotional well-being. She is someone that I can count on to be a leader in the building and is always willing to offer a helping hand. Uh, could we recognize Mrs. Lindseay Frank? >> Stand still. Oh, >> thank you very much. >> Um, next, uh, like, uh, Mrs. Lynette Kaiser from East View, an administrative assistant there, and, uh, Mrs. Wigton, the principal of East View, if you would come forward and I will read uh, Mrs. Wigton's nomination. uh information. I am honored to recommend Lynette Kaiser, our administrative assistant for the Ram Pride staff member of the month. She is the heart of our building, greeting every
003student, parent, and staff member with kindness and professionalism. Her attention to detail keeps our school running smoothly, and her willingness to go above and beyond ensures that everyone feels supported. Whether it's solving problems on the spot, keeping us organized, or offering a warm smile on a tough day, Mrs. Kaiser demonstrates dedication and compassion in all that she does. Her hard work and positive attitude make a difference every single day, and we are lucky to have her as the first face of our school. Mrs. Lynette Kaiser, Ram Pride staff member of the month. Congratulations, Okay, next we have um a number of students um who received uh perfect test scores on the Ohio State test last school year and uh our first uh students weren't able to be here tonight. These are um high school students
004who um in their American government class received uh perfect scores on the American government state test. Um Mr. Wade um is their teacher and he would have been their presenter tonight. Um but the two students uh who couldn't make it tonight are Nathan Hoffman and Bryce Tutor. So, I'd still like to recognize them. Um, next are our is our um eighth grade math perfect score. Um, this student was actually a seventh grader who scored a perfect score on the eighth grade math test last year. And, um, coming up to present her is Miss Gretchen Cooper. if she would come forward. And the student with the perfect score was Abigail Christ. >> If you'd like to say anything, feel free to do so. But you do but you do not have to. >> Well, anything ju
005just real quick because I appreciate her so much. She's such a hard worker and we worked together quite a bit like we did not know an answer. We went and found the answer and I have we are very we are like very we have a very close uh teacher student relationship and I'm so proud of her. so proud of her and she was my driving force because I knew she had gotten a perfect score every year and days when I thought, "Oh, how am I going to make them understand this?" I knew I could not could not let her not get a perfect score again. I just knew it. So she she made me a better teacher. A >> congratulations >> for this whole board meeting. We got to stop these awards. >> Um, >>
006thank you. Next uh in the uh sixth grade math um and to present that is Miss Chris Moody and she is on her way forward. And there were three students who had perfect scores in sixth grade math. Haley Hedrickk, >> Milo McCann, and Eleanor Sidwell. It wasn't me. It was all them. They're the brightest in Madison and they prove it every year. So, >> well, you flatter me. You need one more picture. >> Sorry. >> All right. Congratulations Um, next we have a uh two fifth grade math uh perfect score recipients and uh coming forward is Mr. Troy Stimpert and he will be presenting certificates to Lincoln Bay and Joel Robertson. Um, next we have a couple of fourth grade math recipients and they will be presented by Mr. Nelson and Lori Nichols. Uh the
007first student, as I understand it, um received a perfect score, uh I believe outside of the Madison district last year, but we still wanted to recognize him. And that's Leon Couch and the And the second one is Gabriel UT. And last but certainly not least, um our recipients in third grade math, uh our presenters will be Scott Grog and Madison Blandon. And the recipients are Miles Clea and Livia Foot. We'll just go. Could we have one final round of applause for all those students with perfect scores? All right, moving on. Uh G administrative committee reports, legislative, >> No report. Athletic board, >> we meet next month. >> Yep. Uh student representative comments. Do we have a There she is. Come up. Introduce yourself, please. >> Hi, my name is Courtney Cyrus. So, basketball cheerleaders are
008learning new cheers and dances to get the fans excited for the upcoming season. Track has started winter conditioning with one of their new coaches, Joe Stepppa, teaching the athletes exciting new methods. Boys basketball has a scrimmage tomorrow against River Valley and Upper Sandeski and are hoping for a win, while girls basketball played Highland in a scrimmage last night and won 44 to 27. Swim has been practicing for their first meet in December and Skills USA will be attending their annual fall conference this weekend. They have no members competing for regional office, but the whole group is excited to be learning more about leadership. That's all. >> Thank you. facilities. Good evening. Just quick update in regards to the high school boiler project. We're in our closing stages of that right now. Um we're in the
009filling and flushing process as we speak. We're looking at uh Friday or possibly Monday as a first fire just to get everything vetted in, see how things go with that. After that, we are in the process of our um controls side of it. So, we're working with our controllers to get everything put online. We'll go from there, but that's all I got for right now. >> All right. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Board policy. >> nothing. >> Student achievement. >> Um, okay. >> So, at Eastview, they just finished celebrating their first quarter academic awards and PBIS petting zoo. Students are working hard and making growth each and every day. At Madison South, they have increased both their positive leadership referrals and academic shoutouts from this point last year. Both of these awards are presented
010weekly over the announcements and recognize students for being caught being a great leader or making some sort of awesome achievement throughout the week. They have given out 64 more leadership referrals in the first quarter of school as compared to last year and 145 more academic shoutouts. Keep up the good work, kiddos. At Mifflin, ODW recently announced that students and staff earned their silver status for PBIS initiatives for the second year in a row. This is largely in part due to the effective invisible tier 2 interventions for students needing support to stay on task and motivated to learn. Mifflin also recently celebrated veterans and their families by having its annual Veterans Day program with its second graders singing songs and displaying flags in honor of those who serve. Second grade students also earned a grant to
011go on a field trip to the Columbus Zoo, which they enjoyed after the program. At the middle school, they had 72 students in the first quarter with all A's and 181 with all A's and B's. Uh multi-tered systems of support are in full action at the middle school with currently 39 students in math and 56 students in ELA. Students in ELA are using the rewards program with support from our literacy coach from the state. The math students are frontloading math content for more individualized instruction that allows students to access content at their level with more one-on-one support. Perfect attendance. So far this year, they have 78 students. This means they have not had an excused or unexcused absence or tardy so far this year. Middle school is hosting its first military appreciation breakfast on Friday,
012November 21st. The breakfast will be made by the fifth grade cooking club members. They're also hosting their first breakfast with Santa on Saturday, December 6th. The community will be able to come into the building that is decorated for Christmas and have a donut, decorate an ornament, and take their picture with Santa. This is sponsored by the Builder Club and Student Council. The middle school students and staff this year raised about $3,500 to sponsor several families here at the middle school for Mary Madison. At the high school, OCC leadership ran a food drive to support Hope Food Pantry. Over 375 pounds of food was donated. Key Club has been holding crochet parties to create warm clothing items to donate to homeless shelters. On November 10th, the high school held their annual college credit plus information night.
013They hosted presenters from the Ohio State University in Mansfield, Ashlin University, Mount Vernon Nazarene, and North Central State College. It was a great turnout and many students have already started getting things in motion to take college credit plus courses next school year. And lastly, at the career center, uh recent certification achievements, five out of five students passed their welding certifications, one out of one pass the medical assistant certification, and eight out of nine passed phabbotomy certifications. Um recent enrollment achievements are they have 116 students actively enrolled or have completed programs to date in the 2526 school year. 29 of our students are either actively enrolled or have completed the adult diploma program requirements to date in the 2526 school year with 33 students completing the adult diploma program in the 2425 school year. And lastly,
014um the career center partners with Traco for class A CDL training and there are 13 students to begin training on Monday, November 17th. >> All right. Thank you. Superintendent update. Yeah, I have a few updates. Um, we are about halfway through the second grading period with um Thanksgiving break coming up next week. Uh, we'll be off uh Wednesday through Friday next week. Um, we have senior citizen lunchons tomorrow and uh, I would like to just take a minute to um, give a shout out to um, Chef Mo who is our culinary arts instructor and her students um, with those senior citizen lunchons. you know, we're having upwards of over a hundred people come for those two lunchons, and they just do a tremendous job with the food and the service. And uh so I just
015wanted to give a shout out to to Chef Mo and her class for um accommodating uh that and just doing a great job. Um lastly, uh I I just I guess I kind of want to take just a few moments to address um where we are after the defeat of the levy and um moving forward. Uh I I know there is a lot of anxiety out there amongst staff and in our community and uh I I can tell you that um I am working very hard to um get the planning process started for for that. Um I certainly do not have all the answers right now. Um but uh we'll be working with staff, administration, um the board, the treasurer to um implement those reductions. I am certainly not happy to have to to do
016those things. Um certainly I wish the levy would have passed and and we wouldn't be in a position to have to um cut, you know, we're probably looking at cuts and these cuts are just to get through the end of next school year with a positive cash balance. We're not looking to cut more than than what is absolutely necessary. Um but um you know th those cuts are going to have to take place now and and we're talking about approaching $3 million in cuts um with uh health insurance increases much higher than anticipated and with uh what the county commissioners decided most recently which cut our revenue by about $150,000. um you know that that gap between having a positive cash balance and a negative cash balance has grown since the summertime when the initial
017plan was put together um for the reductions. It was about $2 million in the summer and that's grown to about $2.8 million. So um I understand people are anxious. I'm anxious. I'm not sleeping well at night to be honest with you. Um this is a very difficult time. Uh I wish we were not where we're at. I wish the levy would have passed. Um, you know, I I worked very hard at trying to get that levy passed and uh, you know, we are going to look at at, you know, putting the levy back on the ballot and trying to increase our revenue so that we can maintain some some staffing levels. Um, but um, you know, we are in a difficult spot. You know, I feel for everybody out there. I'm going to try and
018develop a plan and and work with others to develop a plan to do it the best way that we can and uh get through this and and get into next school year. Um I I I wish we weren't here, but we are. And um I'm going to do the best that I can for the district to help us get through this. Um, I know that the last time we had to close a building, there was some real difficulty and hard feelings when when people moved. And I've already spoken with our administrators and um we are going to open our buildings up to whoever whatever stand, whatever staff lands in each building and they're going to be welcomed and and that is going to be priority number one. So, um, you know, again, I know people
019are anxious and and this is going to be a challenge. Um, but I can tell you I'm going to give everything I've got to make this challenge the best that it possibly can be for our district. So, um, that that concludes my update. >> Thank you. >> Thanks, Rob. >> Uh, presentation, Mr. Grove. All right. Good evening. Um, thank you for the opportunity to share a little bit about um, career tech and a little bit of an update um, along with some exciting things uh, that we're doing in career tech tonight. Um on the agenda, we're going to cover a little bit of history or kind of where we started um 50 years ago with career tech education, review the report card, um some updates on recruitment and employment, future and focus in career tech,
020and then um one of the new programs that we have this year for the first year, our rise program. I will give you an update with that as well. So the history um like I said we are celebrating 50 years of career tech education uh all the way back from 1975. Um as you notice this is u this picture is taken directly from the dedication uh program uh from 1975. And if you look closely there and notice that word or that phrase uh vocational. Um a little bit of history with that. In 2006 um when the federal level at the federal level um there was a passage of the Carl D. Perkins um improvement act which changed in essence that term vocational to career tech education uh that we know it today. Um like I
021said again celebrating 50 years. Uh and in 1975 uh when the career tech or the vocational programs were uh started uh there were a total of 18 programs. Um and they serviced around 418 students at that time. Uh that was uh 60% of the junior class uh starting in 1975. A little bit of comparison to where we're at today. Uh currently we have 11 programs. Uh we service around 300 students and our junior class uh for this year that's about 74% of our junior class. Um and over a 5-year trend period we've serviced uh typically over 70 at 70% or more of our junior students um within a career tech program. Um from this dedication I took I took this uh this this I guess this information here this um statement um and it states
022it is anticipated that the technological and industrial complexities of the present decade will continue to grow. vocational education can help the present generation to bridge the gap um to bridge the gap between education and entry into the job market. Uh 50 years ago and or I should say 50 years later uh this is so relevant to what we are doing each and every day for with our students. Um and again bridging that gap to entry into the job market is everything that we focus on in career tech education. So I just thought that was really interesting. um that that was in the dedication program and just how relevant it still is today 50 years later. Okay, moving on to our report card. Um I do want to um notice uh the five stars up here
023on the left. Uh for the third consecutive year, we are a fivestar career tech planning district. um which that is um that equates to about uh onethird of the percent of the uh career tech planning districts are able to reach that mark. Uh so you know we are in the top third of the state of Ohio in our career tech planning districts uh with our overall five-star rating. So, I want to congratulate all the staff um every person that went into this uh again this is a career tech planning district. So, um prek through 12 um guidance counselors, bus drivers, u custodial staff, um our food service staff, every single person played a part in this five-star rating. So, I want to congratulate all of them uh for that rating as well. Um I do
024want to take a special moment too to uh recognize my the career tech staff too. There are several components that they have uh their programs have direct impact on these ratings. Uh so I do want to recognize our instructors for their outstanding work that they're doing each and every day as well. Going uh technical skill attainment. We'll just hit these one by one here. I do want to say overall every component on this uh report card did increase. Uh we increased in percentages other than the post-program outcomes down there on the bottom right. Um that is a little bit less uh in our control I would say uh with uh because that that is um looking at the employment two or four year uh if students attend a two or four year university if they
025go to the military and so forth. So, um, you know, we can't force and tell a student, hey, you're going to go to college or, you're going to do this, right? There's a little bit of student choice with that, but, uh, we do have to document where they go. Um, the technical skill attainment, that is our web exams, again, industry, uh, specific to each program. Uh, in essence, that's their end of course exam uh, for each program. And we have 95.6% 6% of our students achieving proficient or better within their technical skill attainment or their web exams. Um performance index we did increase even though um you know we weren't quite to our goal with that four or five stars but we are increasing. Uh performance index does calculate the and include um when students
026become concentrators their end of course exams for English, social studies, science and math. So it's not just particularly how they do within their uh web exams. It does add those end of course exams within that rating as well. So again that's encompassing the CTPD as those students take those exams. Four year four and fiveyear graduation rate are pretty self-explanatory. Uh continuing to to rise in percentages of those as well. Career and postsecary readiness very complex formula. Uh basically it looks at ACT scores um initially recognized credentials uh military readiness um career tech student organization leadership roles um the um technical skill attainment does get involved with that as well and then our work readiness through our hog job readiness again very complex formula um but we are uh we did increase and we were still
027five stars with that as well. So, that's our overall career tech uh plan and district report card. Recruitment and employment. Uh to the left there, our work-based learning hours. These are specifically for our seniors that are out on workplacement. Um currently, we have just a little bit over 70 students participating uh in work-based learning uh placements. Uh we have several I think it's uh over 67 uh local partners and businesses and companies uh that we work with for with our students uh for their placements. Um and they've generated it's probably a little bit more already this week. U but earlier this week um we they've already generated over 5,000 work hours uh from the start of September. So they're they're doing very very well. Industry recognized credentials. These could be uh from our juniors or
028seniors. um the credentials such as OSHA um NCCER when it comes to different levels of construction and electricity, our ASSE certifications, um our CNAs, all of our programs have the capability of earning up to or more uh 12 industry recognized credential. That that is our mark is uh we want every student to earn at least 12 industry recognized credentials. So, as you see there, we're doing very well. Um long way to go. We're not quite even halfway through the school year. So, we have many many more credentials to earn uh our students do. To the right, um if um you were to put every single sophomore in our building, if they were to be able to get their first choice of program, um and again, that's 100% of our students entering into career tech as
029sophomores. We know that's not going to be true. Um but if they were to choose and select their first choice program, that's how it would shake out. So you can see um some of those some of those um numbers there that are very very popular. Um at this level currently six at the junior level with our junior placements uh six of the 10 traditional programs are completely full. Um of the remaining four that we have um one of them is in the 90% uh that is full. Um and the other three are anywhere from uh six between 60 and 75% full. Um so uh again a lot of interest and programs are being uh filled up future and focus. Um bottom line is we need to continue to to be creative with the types of
030career tech education that we are offering across the district. Um there is a lot of push for career tech education to continue to grow at the middle school level as well. Um I've had some conversations with Mr. Nelson um and their counseling department on how we can continue to grow career tech education at the middle school level as well as continue to to grow it at the high school level too. Um you know delivery to all students no matter no matter what their u status is. Um, we're focusing on uh an increase of non-traditional student placement. Again, those programs that are either male or female uh dominant. How do we get uh the opposite enrolled? Um, which is the only federal indicator. Um, I will say that is the only federal indicator that we did
031not meet uh this year. Uh, it's very difficult because we um our placements are um uh when they're full, they're random. We don't we don't select we don't do interview processes. Uh so we can guide and we can um do those types of things but at the end of the day the students get to select the program that they are interested most in and that aligns to their career goals. Um moving on here maybe okay uh wanted to update you on our newest program which is the RISE program. Uh that stands for real independent skills through education. Um Mrs. Vonstein, she is doing an incredible job uh with our students. Right now we have I believe 11 students enrolled uh from our juniors to our seniors. Um and those students are students we're servicing our
032students with low incident disabilities um and giving them a pathway uh a career tech pathway. Um she's done an outstanding job uh with the um engaging the students and getting them involved and engaged and building those work skills um and and work experiences that the ultimate goal is to get them integrated into uh employment, get them integrated into uh something that they can do um to continue for the rest of their lives. So um it it's amazing things. If you ever get a chance to stop in, I I strongly encourage you to stop in and and visit Mrs. Vonstein in that program anywhere from uh learning laundry skills, baking, cooking, cleaning. Um and again our that whole focus is that transition to work. Uh and she's doing an outstanding job. Um some of the supports
033and things uh that uh you know that she has within her program that again it's hard work on her part. She's gone out and and received donations to support the program for students to be able to take different field trips and visit different local businesses. Um, I do want to say um thank you to Chef Mo, to Mr. uh Blankenship and the and the staff um in our kitchen uh at the high school and Mr. Yoast um because those students uh do have experiences within the food service department, also within the Ramble Land and also with transportation, helping clean buses, um windows and those types of things. So, um really a phenomenal job and a really cool program that uh I'm really excited uh to see it continue to grow. >> All right, and that
034is Are there any questions? >> Awesome. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you. All right, I'll entertain a motion on item I donations. So move. >> I'll second Amy. >> Oh, got it. First >> discussion. >> I'd just like to thank all of our partners who have who have made these donations. Um, we certainly recognize that there are many things that we wouldn't be able to do without um businesses and and organizations who are willing to donate funds to our district. So, we certainly appreciate those donations. >> Roll call, please. >> Miss Amy Walker, >> four. >> Mr. Wigton, >> four. Mrs. Melissa Walker, >> four. >> Mrs. Cterman, >> four. >> Mr. Moer, >> four. Entertain a motion for treasure business report. So move >> Second discussion. >> All right. And
035the first thing we'll talk about um I'll integrate them a little bit because we're going to talk about the monthly financial report and then we're going to talk a little bit about the insurance premium renewal rates um which I've already given you. So first thing we'll talk about is revenues. Um, I don't know if you recall last month I said the uh the homestead and roll back reimbursement from the state was a month early. Um, it was given in September. Usually we get it in October. So that's why the month overmonth change for October is a little bit. I know it's small. Um, it's why it's it's uh lower than what it was last month. you know, the uh the overall state foundation, we're just slightly up barely over 1%. It's it's basically flat. Um
036and the one thing that I haven't put in to any of these things yet is the reduction in revenues that is a result of the piggyback that the commissioners did. So, basically, it took $150,000 out of our our revenue. But, um, that being said, that is part of the forecast. Right now, from what was budgeted, we're pretty close. We're we're on target. Um, last year we had about 38% of our revenue collected at this time, and this we're this year we're about the same. um expenditures, you know, yeah, they're down overall. Um but the reductions have been in like purchase services, supplies, and capital outlay benefits and actually health insurance have increased. Health insurance increased more than supplies have decreased, though. Um I'm going to talk a little bit. I'm going to go off off
037track here a little bit. You know, Mr. Mr. Peterson talked about, you know, not being able to sleep at night because, you know, of everything that's going on and he talked about the difference between June, July, the the precautionary written plan and now. So, you know, when we talk about our insurance premiums, they're going to go up 18%. That's $1.8 million. That means before they were $10 million. Well, if I'm 97% accurate on what the insurance premiums are going to be in a year from now, which is what is going to predict what we're going to end up at in the end of next year's school, if I'm 97% accurate, I'm only 3% off. That's $300,000. Okay. So when I'm sitting here trying to figure out, for a lack of a better word, predict, you
038know, where health insurance premiums are going to be in a year from now, like now I know what they're going to be for the next 12 months. I can guess based on historical trends, what our 024 self-funded balance is and what the um insurance trends are nationally. But, you know, 3% off and it's $300,000. That's that's a lot of money. And I didn't know two months ago, three months ago, that the commissioners were going to take $150,000 from us. You ask me in June and July, I wouldn't have anticipated an 18% increase in health insurance. You know, 13 because we went we had 16 last year, but an 18 that's that's ridiculous. So, if I predicted 13 and it went up 18, that's 5%. That's $500,000. That's a lot of money. And I'm sorry, I
039don't there's nobody out here that's going to be able to predict 100% exactly what our insurance premiums are going to be 12 months from now. I mean, I think 97 98% accurate. It's pretty good, but still pretty good is a couple hundred,000 off. So, when Mr. Peterson talked about, you know, things being different now than they were in June. There's why. Um, expenditures, like I said, overall are down, but um, we are actually in most of the line items very very very close to what we what I have budgeted and forecasted. For example, the end of October, we're 33.33% through the end of the fiscal year, right? Well, 33.26 is where we're at in salaries. Right on target. 32.13 is where we're at in benefits. Right on target. 35.66 in purchase services. Even though that
040sounds high, it's right on target because like we paid all of our uh insurance for property and casually upfront. There's there's certain purchase services that we're already at 100% of. So those things make sense, but you know, the difference between 33.33 and 33.26 is very, very slim. So you know, one person coming in, one student coming in that's high needs that ends up costing us 80, 90, $100,000 could completely throw this off. a dozen people going from masters to masters plus 15 or masters plus 30 over a year's time can completely throw this off. So right now from what is budgeted and what is forecasted we're on track. I've I'm currently Mr. Peterson and I are going through things and I'm looking at the forecast and budgets. I've talked to multiple um directors and principles
041about changes in budgets and I'm I'm going through it with a fine tooth comb. Doesn't mean things aren't going to change. It just means that right now what I have budgeted and what I have forecasted are on track, but we're on razor's edge. Um, and when I talked a little bit about being on track, that's that's this, you know, when where we're at compared to last year and where we're at overall in the forecast. The next thing we're going to talk about is the health insurance premium renewal rates. I gave you those rates in the packet. I didn't put them on the board agenda because it would have made it 20 pages long. It's ridiculous. Um because there's wellness, non-wellness, certified, classified, health savings account. There's that. You guys got all of them. Overall, the
042general gist is went from 10 million to 11.8 million of premium increase. It's an 18% increase. We are switching to Jefferson Health Plan. You guys approved that the last meeting. I've signed a whole bunch of paperwork. I've had multiple meetings hoping they're at our next insurance committee meeting which is on December 3rd. Um but the goal is to stabilize this fluctuation and get us at least better off than we are. There's there's multiple things we're doing and going to do to try to stabilize this. But we're health insurance I I don't know how many times that you guys have heard me say it. Health insurance is bankrupting us. It's It's outrageous. So, that is what I have for my treasures report. Do you guys have anything you would like to ask me? >> All right.
043Mrs. Melissa Walker, >> four. >> Mr. Wigton, >> four. >> Miss Amy Walker, >> four. >> Mrs. Cartman, >> four. >> Mr. Moer, >> four. Item K, strategic plan, student learning. Bear's coming. Take her. He He's looking for help. >> You're starting. >> Who's first? >> Yeah. What a way to follow, huh? I get a opportunity to follow Mr. Stevens. Uh you should have in your packet uh some information about our uh strategic plan. Hopefully you have that. Um if not, I can I can hit some of the highlights. One of them is um our performance index. Our goal is three points uh that we want to maintain or continue to grow with that. And what we have done actually identified last year and continuing this year uh we've identified gaps within those scores of
044where we need to zero in and try to improve such things as gifted scores, uh attendance, um few other things. And in order to work with that, we met we've been meeting with the building principles on a quarterly basis just to touch base to make sure we're still moving forward to make sure those things are at the forefront of what they trying to do and how we can support that within the buildings. Uh I think it's been very beneficial and it's something we'll continue on through this year. uh we have identified some areas that we can improve and we're starting to see those things take place at a very concerted effort within the building but also carrying that message across the district. Uh so that is our first uh first piece of our strategic plan.
045>> Uh the second goal that we have um it hasn't changed in the last three years. It's about offering interventions and supports uh to our students and also um gifted education and finding places where we can provide enrichment during the school day. And those are continuing. Um this year we're adding a documentation piece where we are documenting all of our reading improvement monitoring plans, all of our interventions that we're doing. We're using um data map, which is a program we already have access to. Um we're just putting everything there to house it. So when that student moves to the next grade level, we can see things that we've already done, we've already tried, and to um do a better job supporting them. So that's all we have. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. >>
046Thank you. >> All right. Item L, matters related to personnel. I entertain a motion. So >> move. >> I'll second. discussion. >> Uh I'd just like to recognize our uh retirees. Um we'll recognize them more formally at the May meeting um and and invite them to attend. But um Lori Camilillo, Goldie Spencer, and Jim Dylan um have all submitted their retirement paperwork. Um, and between the three of them, I looked it up and, um, they've, uh, provided 85 years of service to our district. So, um, looks like Mr. Dylan is going to apply to retire and be rehired. Uh, but I think the other two are definitely going to retire. So, um, they will be sadly missed. So, just wanted to recognize them briefly. >> All right. Thank you. Vote, please. >> Mr. Richton, >>
047Mrs. Melissa Walker >> four. >> Miss Amy Walker >> four. >> Mrs. Conterman >> or >> Mr. Moer >> four. Superintendent business item in entertain a motion to support this. >> So moved. >> Second. >> I'll second >> and discussion. >> Oh my god. >> Uh just want to comment briefly on a couple of the items. I've I've already um addressed them a little bit in my update, but um item number one um in order to avoid a negative cash balance um recommending the closure of Mifflin Elementary and moving to grade level buildings um with the two remaining elementary buildings. Um and and I know there have been um a couple of questions and concerns surrounding why Mifflin. Um and uh I I guess the the answer the response to that one is there's a
048a portion of that building that's 16 years older than East View. Um which make you know creates some challenges. And then um just the long-term maintenance of that building. I've had conversations with um Mr. Nearon, our operations supervisor, and um there is uh significantly more concern with the long-term maintenance of Mifflin uh as opposed to East View. Um, and then the other piece to that, um, I I know there is a concern with East View and, um, classrooms having steps to all of the classrooms and our students who, um, might be wheelchair bound or have mobility issues. And, um, we do have, um, we are working on a plan for that. Um, Mr. Neon, Mr. Roth, our student services director, um, and Mr. McVicker. Um, we're all uh out in our buildings reviewing those those
049things and uh while we may not have a a an exact plan in place now, we are working towards that, understand that issue and uh will have a plan in place for our students that um need that. Um item number four, um the recommendation of the reduction of staff. Um the reason that that I put in there not less than 26 positions. Um it's it's going to have to be more than that and and that is a result of what Mr. Stevens and I both have been discussing uh tonight where um the deficit um the cash balance uh negative cash balance that we uh thought was going to be $2 million in the summer is now um about $2.8 million. So, um, we're going to be looking at at at everything, uh, outside of staffing
050to try and minimize the staff reductions. Um, but, um, you know, 85% of our budget is in staffing. So, um, that that's where the majority of them cut, but cuts will come, but um, we will be looking at other things, too, to try and minimize what we have to do in staffing reductions. And that's all I have. >> Any other comments, discussion? Roll call, please. >> Mrs. Melissa Walker, >> four. >> Miss Amy Walker, >> four. >> Mrs. Cterman, >> four. >> Mr. Wigton, >> four. >> Mr. Moer, >> four. >> Any visitors comment? Come up the mic and identify yourself. Please identify yourself, where you live and all that. And you got three. >> I That's very loud. Sorry, I didn't using my big voice. Um, I'm Sarah Miller, 958 Fleming Falls Road. Um,
051I know there's been lots of discussion about the closing of Mifflin and um, I just want to keep it short and sweet and all I would have to say is that I would encourage all of you and anybody involved in the planning um, to make East View and South Handicap accessible. I would en encourage you, highly encourage you to come and meet the students that rely on the handicap accessibility of Methlin. So that is all I have to say. >> Thank you very much. >> Good job, Sarah. >> Hi. >> H uh Stewart Road. Um, first of all, >> address your address is >> 1410 Stewart Road. >> Thank you. >> First of all, I'd like to say that I think everybody did the right thing on trying to pass the income tax levy. I
052think eventually you're going to have to go that way anyway because property taxes aren't going to do it. Um, however, at the committee meeting, I mentioned that there were people, you know, that always say levies don't pass because people in Madison don't care about education. And the honest truth of that is that usually comes from employees of the school. We heard it during the campaign from employees of the school. That undermines you. That kind of thing hurts you. Not only do they say that, but those aren't the people that were out there helping to try to pass the levy either. You can't have that. You gota we got to do better. Okay. When they do that, when they're saying complaining about things like that, that's what I call whining. I call it whining because if
053you've got a problem and you try to do something about it, that's one thing. If you've got a problem and all you do is complain about it, that's whining. You're in a position now where we can either whine or we can look at this and say, "What could we have done better?" The reality is anytime a levy doesn't pass, it's because we didn't do something well enough. And I'm saying we because we're all in this, okay? There are a number of things we could have done better. Should have started earlier with the campaign. We didn't get started soon enough for this kind of a thing. There had to be a lot of education going on of the public. We tried to get to the retired people and that was the right thing to do, but
054there was still an awful lot of them that didn't understand it. So, they voted against it. Inadvertently, by not saying what there was in it for the people that are working, we basically pit the retired people against the working people. That's not the way to be successful. At the committee meeting, I mentioned that you had to have something, a reason for the working people to vote for it, too. But that was kind of overlooked. There are a number of reasons why we should get them to vote for it, and I hope we try it again and do a better job. At that meeting, I also asked everybody that was there, many of you were there, um, what kind of vision you had for for Madison schools. And nobody said anything. The problem is that if
055you don't have a vision, you don't know where you're going. And if you don't know where you're going, you're never going to get there. Some of you might have thought, well, what's what has that got to do with trying to pass a levy right now? Well, if you want to get the working people and the people that have kids here to vote for things, you've got to give them something positive, not just negative. Other than this thing for the retirees, I cannot remember a time that Madison ever tried to pass a levy by saying something positive. It's always been, "If you don't give us what we're asking for, we're going to hurt you. We're going to close schools. We're going to stop busing. We're going to cancel sports. We're going to lay off teachers." That's
056a negative. You've got to have a positive, too. Give people a reason to want to vote for it, not try to intimidate them or coers them into voting for it. >> One minute. >> I'm sorry. >> One minute to go. >> Okay, >> you're doing good. >> I I said I'd had a vision, so I'll give you an idea what it is in a minute if I can. In the high school level, I think we should look to using more and more computers. I think everything should be pretty much computerized. You could reduce the number of teachers, maybe do like colleges do and have uh teachers aids helping out. You can standardize things if you have it all have things done on computers. When a student takes a test or anything, they get instant feedback.
057Everybody learns better if they have instant feedback, not if you get the answer a day or two days or a week later. Instant feedback works. If you do that, somebody could take a test and get the grade as they walk out. You can take it a step further to the point that when the quarter ends or your grading period ends, they can get their grade as they walk out of class. You can do that all the way to their graduation where they graduate, you give them a diploma and you give them a thumb drive that has their entire educational history on it. You can do that. It can be done and you can use AI. In the middle school, you would have a blend between the fourth uh the fifth and sixth and seventh and
058eighth. And the seventh and eighth, you started more into the computers. Before that, you're going to need more of the teachers. Okay? Down at the elementary school, you're going to need more teachers and practically no computerized because screen time isn't good for the the little kids. But the teachers can still have everything computerized across the district so that everything is standardized. That would be my vision. You guys have to come up with your own. But whatever it is, you have to have a goal so that you can give something positive. Give people a reason to vote for these things other than we're going to hurt you if you don't. >> That's that's my opinion. Thank you. >> All right. That's time. Thank you. >> Any other visitor comment? Come on up, please. >> Oh my
059god. >> Identify yourself and give them your address, please. >> Sure. Charles Canning Camp, 524 Michigan Avenue. >> Thank you. >> I'm the owner of Pronto Pizza here in Madison. Uh my family and I are longtime members of this community. My parents, myself, and all four of my children went to Madison schools. My roots here run deep, and I take pride in uh supporting Madison. There's been ongoing claims from the athletic office and the athletic boosters that there's a groups or organizations that are running concessions are required to buy pizza from Gianinos. um they're saying it's because there's a contract, whether it's a food trailer outside of a field or one of our publicly owned uh concession stands here in the school. The groups and organizations that take all the proceeds, they pay for all
060their stuff. That's what's happening here. They buy all their food, they buy all their drinks, the athletics have nothing to do with it. They should be able to choose where they buy their food. Um not the athletics. The athletics should have nothing to do with that. In the fall of 23, I had the same issue. Um, when we re researched it, I talked with the school administration and we thought it was smashed and uh there is no such contract with Genanos or between the school or uh any organization for that matter. Um, yet the misinformation persists and uh it's causing me to not have the ability to to do what I want for the schools. Um, and it's cost my business thousands of dollars. Um, I want to acknowledge that Geneos has been very generous
061with the the school system here, but Pronto Pizza and myself uh have been steadfast supporters as well. I spent 15 years fundraising, working concessions for the Madison uh music boosters, dedicated over 70 hours a month, sometimes way more. I ra helped raise thousands of dollars for new uniforms, instruments, upgrades to the concession stand, and uh me personally, I was uh involved with most of the new trailer you guys see outside the high school. Uh that was pretty much me. Um I spent 12 years every Wednesday, every Sunday working bingo. I was the kitchen manager there. I held the food license uh for the safety and helped maintain the building. I did most of the maintenance there. Um, this commitment has, you know, made me miss a lot from my children, uh, from their performances. I
062wasn't in the stands. I was behind the scenes. I was helping these clubs thrive. >> One minute. >> Excuse me. >> One minute. >> Okay. Um, I didn't do this for for recognition, but I did it to help the students. Um, as a business owner, I've provided free meals uh for the sports teams, sponsored clubs, and donated hundreds of gift cards uh for student uh rewards, and purchased ads in every program that I was asked to support. Tonight, I asked you simply for fairness. I am not seeking special treatment. I just want the same opportunity as other local businesses to help support Madison schools. exclusive um arrangements, formal or informal, limit the ability to give back and weaken my comm my community spirit. I respectful respectfully asked the board to clarify the board's policy on
063vendors selection for concessions and all organizations so all organizations can freely choose who they want to purchase food and supplies for resale. Let let's end the misinformation and make sure that every local business gets the chance to help the schools and the students. Thank you for your time. >> Thank you very much. Any other guest speaker? All right, moving on. Uh, president's business. Oh, is there Oh, sorry. You had your hands full a minute ago. >> Yeah, sorry about that. >> Well, how you doing? >> Good. Good. How are you? >> Can identify yourself and tell them where you're >> uh Braden Hayne, 501 Esley Lane. Um I didn't really plan on saying anything. Uh so this is all very off the cuff, but um I wouldn't be able to look myself in the mirror
064if I didn't try to do what's best for my kids. So those are my two back there currently at Mifflin Elementary School, which is the reason I'm here. Um I feel like closing Mifflin is very shortsighted. Uh, I don't feel like it would be. I understand that Madison is in a very financially tough spot right now, but closing Mifflin, I do not feel like that's even an answer that should be considered without it being there being anything else that we could consider. Um, feel like, you know, if we close Mifflin, then what happens to that property? It's just going to become more storage units. And God knows we have plenty of those around here. It's just going to hurt property value around here. It's going to fill the classrooms. Kids aren't going to get the
065education that they need. Education in general will suffer. U I just feel like if there's anything else that we can consider, that should be the last resort. So, thank you. >> All right. Thank you. Anybody else like to speak? All right. Uh moving on. Thank you very much for your time everybody. Uh president's business uh or need to take a motion uh to entertain the president's business. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Discussion. Any what we're going to do is take nominations for item one and appointment of a citizen representative for a complaint review committee for the book of dog man mothering heights. Uh, open nominations for this. >> I'll nominate Sonnie Christ, community member. >> Sanja Christ. >> Sonni S. >> Sonni. S O N I. >> S O N I. Oh, Sonnie. Okay.
066>> C R I S T. Any other nominations? And any other nominations? None. So, signing Chris by Amy Walker on a motion by to entertain a motion to nominate or accept signing Chris. >> I'll move. >> All right. Then there should be a motion to close uh all all them. Sorry about that. >> You need a second on that. >> Uh this this is closed and then second by >> I'll do it. >> Melissa first. >> Okay. Okay. So this is the vote to close >> to close nominations >> nominations. Melissa Walker >> four. >> Tim Wigton >> four. >> Mrs. Cotterman >> four. >> Miss Walker >> four. >> Mr. Moer >> four. >> And it's not necessary to vote since she's the only one. Moving on to we're going into executive session. >>
067Can we have a motion? >> So moved. >> I'll second. >> And there will not be a vote afterwards after we get done. >> And we'll go into executive session. >> Thank you everybody. >> Oh, we need to vote on >> to go. Oh, yeah. Got to vote on >> Sorry. Got to vote on that. I'm okay. Mr. Wigton, >> four. >> Mrs. Melissa. Miss >> Did Miss Amy Walker second it? >> Yes. >> Four. >> Yeah. >> Mrs. Melissa Walker. >> Four. >> Mrs. Conman. >> Four. >> Mr. Moer. Four. >> Now we're on. >> I did that, too. I'm telling you.