001So, I'd like to call this meeting of the Madison Local School Board to order. And we'll start with the Pledge of Allegiance. I >> aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Hey, roll call. >> Miss Amy Walker, >> here. >> Mrs. Melissa Walker here. Miss Conterman >> here. >> Mr. Wigton >> here. >> Mr. Moer is absent. >> Item C, adoption of the agenda. Can I get a motion? >> So moved. >> Second. >> No discussion. >> Discussion. Sorry. >> Mrs. Melissa Walker. >> Four. >> Mr. Wton. >> Four. >> Mrs. Conman. >> Four. >> Miss Amy Walker. >> Four. >> And then item D, approval of previous board meeting minutes. Can
002I get a motion? >> So moved. Second. I'll second discussion. >> I uh I just I'll let you know I made a mistake on the July minutes. I left something out. So that's why this is a revised and it was under the president's business. >> Okay. The roll call. >> Mr. Wton. >> Four. >> Mrs. Melissa Walker. >> Four. >> Mrs. Codman. >> Four. >> Miss Amy Walker. >> Four. Item E, presentation of certificates. >> Yeah, I do have a couple presentations to make um this evening and uh this is uh something new that uh we are instituting this year to recognize um excellence um in both our teaching staff and our staff that that are not teachers. And I've titled it the Ram Pride Award. So this will be the inaugural one this month.
003Um so at this time if we could uh Mrs. Porter would you please come forward? Uh Mr. Stump um nominated Mrs. Porter and uh he could not be here tonight. Um uh otherwise he would he would be up here with her. Um but uh how this worked um I I accepted nominations from all of our principles and supervisors and uh with those nominations um Mr. McVicker, Mrs. Neon, and myself um came to a collective decision on um who we decided um as the uh Ram Pride Award award winner for September. And um so I want to read um what Mr. Stump wrote about Mrs. Porter and then uh I'll recognize her with a certificate. Mrs. Porter is a teacher who understands that being a teacher is more than what happens in the classroom. Often she
004is the first to arrive in at an event and the last to leave, providing help and support for a school event as she seeks to serve others. Mrs. Porter helped establish and continues to chair a tier two a tier one and tier 2 PBIS committee resulting in Mifflin being awarded the silver award for its efforts. Mrs. Porter even leads a directed paint for the entire school every year as one of our leadership celebrations, courageously standing in front of over 250 students um as a reward for positive behavior choices. Mrs. supporter is the Mifflin math department chair and actively shapes building procedures by lending her wisdom to the building leadership team. It is her energy and drive which often takes the ideas of the team and creates a system that appeals to the interests of both
005students and staff. Mrs. Porter is also part of the literacy committee transporting transforming Mifflin once a year into scenes from a book from Mifflin's one school one book initiative with her own children attending Madison and being involved in numerous clubs and sports. It is a wonder to see where Mrs. Porter finds a time to be so involved with all of the happenings at Mifflin. Aside from being involved with committees outside of the regular school day, Mrs. Porter exemplifies the district vision of creating a culture of learning for everyone and empowering students to reach their full potential. Her classroom is one that is centered around holistic, high expectations for her students, stemming from her belief that every child has their own genius and can excel in ways that are unique to them. Mrs. supporter offers her
006wisdom to both her students and her colleagues to encourage and uplift the school community. And it is truly an honor to work alongside someone of such outstanding character, strength, and dedication, and dedication to others as her servant's heart is visible to all. Join me in a round of applause for Mrs. Porter. And then next, I'd like to invite Dave Brown, uh, one of our custodians at Madison South and uh his supervisors, Mrs. Cox, the south principal, and Mr. Neon, operations supervisor. And I will read um Mr. Brown's nomination comments. Dave Brown is a true team player within the operations department. Whenever unforeseen events or staffing shortages arise, Dave is always willing to step in and provide support across different buildings. He consistently goes above and beyond, taking on extra work when needed and covering for
007absent team members without hesitation. His strong work ethic, adaptability, and willingness to help in any situation are deeply appreciated by both administrators and colleagues. In addition to his reliability, Dave has built a remarkable rapport with the students at Madison South. Fondly known as Mr. Dave, his presence brings smiles to both students and staff. He takes the time to sing happy birthday to every student in the cafeteria on their special day. And he has even partnered with the Lions Club to ensure a student received a new pair of glasses. These small yet meaningful acts reflect his compassion and commitment to the well-being of our school community. Dave's positive attitude, dedication, and genuine care make him an invaluable member of Madison local schools. We are truly fortunate to have him on our team, Mr. Dave Brown. Thank
008you. I'd just like to say one thing. Okay. Um um I was in this building when I first started here in the middle school and Mr. Peterson uh me and him were both walking in the um to a basketball game together and he says uh hey Dave uh you know you're going downhill and I thought what's this about? And I said um what's that about Rob? He says, "Well," he says, "you go from the high school to the middle school." He said, "Now you're at South Elementary." He said, "You can't go any lower." But you know what? I'm where I need to be right now. Um because there's I'm It's hard for me to do. Um there's a lot of kids out there that struggling. Um if I can be a bright spot in their
009day, you know, I tell people I get a raise every day and they say, "How do you get a raise every day to people I know?" I said, "I get 50 hugs a day. You can't get you can't put a value on that. Um, so I'd just like to thank everybody. >> All right. [Applause] >> Item F, recognition of visitor. Oops. >> I'd just like to say that we're truly blessed to have Dave a part of the Madison community. So, thank you all. >> If I could have 26 of Dave's, there you go. Not saying I don't have a good crew. If I could have 26. >> Thank you guys. And congratulations. >> Sorry. >> That's okay. Item F, recognition of visitors. Do we have any visitors today that would like to address the board?
010>> Item G, administrative committee reports. Legislative. There's no report. And then um athletic board of control. >> We have not met. Student representatives comments. >> Hi, I'm Courtney. I'm going to be the student representative today. So, for sports updates, volleyball, their first game for the second half of the conference season was played against Dover, but unfortunately both teams fell after battling hard. For football, they just won a game against Worcester last Friday and are now gearing up to play West Holmes for the homecoming game this Friday. Um, tennis's new record for girls is 11-2 for dual matches and have OC's next Friday. Cross country boys and girls both have been amazing with their PRs coming in every single meet. Girls golf have their third round of OC's tomorrow and are currently seated fifth in the
011conference as a team. Boys soccer last night beat West Holmes 6 to0 with a lot of new things being tried on the field. Girls soccer most recently beat Norwok, New Philly, Mansfield, and Dover and beat more and more teams as they get closer to OC times. Cheer girls are starting practices for the competition season and band is hosting a cleanup this Saturday morning and will be having other students help as well for the stadium. Hokco theme for this year is a night in Rio de Janeiro where which will be this Saturday. Student council is excited to see how their hard work has turned out and the king and queen will be announced this Friday at the assembly for the king in the football game for the queen. >> Thank you. >> Facilities just a quick
012couple updates. Um roofing project at the high school was finished up uh record time. They had between 14 16 people up on the roof at one point getting everything wrapped up for us. Punch list has been completed 100% complete. uh boiler project for the high school is on the docket for today for approvals. Um once that's approved, we're looking at about a six to eight week time frame from start to finish on the project. Um standards already starting to get things rolling, so as soon as it's approved, we'll we'll get going on that. Thanks. >> Thank you. >> Board policy. Uh yes, we met on the third. There's multiple policies. Um, it's all a result of federal and state law. I have them here if anyone have any questions. The only one I want to
013comment on is the personal communication devices. Um, that that won't start until after winter break. Um, and all the administrators will work with the students and uh communicate with the parents and we have plenty of time. They're going to prepare everybody for that. >> That's it. All right. Student achievement at East View. They just announced the student council team which is being led by Mrs. Drake. Students are also working on their beginning of year diagnostics at Mifflin. Students are tackling the summer slide by diving into content after learningwide school expectations and classroom rules and procedures. For PBIS tier 1 support, students were sorted into team north or team west to go along with our one school, one book initiative of reading the wonderful Wizard of Oz, where they will earn points for their houses and
014build a yellow brick road through achievement in the classroom. Students also completed their math ready diagnostics and are currently taking their reading assessments that will help to create supports for both daily enrichment and intervention. At Madison South, the first through fourth graders are off to a great start. They already have had 190 positive leadership referrals put in. Students get their names called on the announcements and get a prize each time they receive a leadership referral. Keep up the great work, kiddos. At the middle school, the school year has started and students are following the building theme of leveling up to be better students and people. All students have completed the diagnostic test for I Ready and the staff is working to provide support for students to show growth in the winter diagnostic. They increased their
015building report card by two stars on the gap closing component and all four grade levels showed an increase in the achievement component in math. At the high school, uh the National Honor Society hosted their Red Cross blood drive today. Um congratulations to these business management seniors who have received their RiseUp retail industry fundamentals certification. Great job. The seniors are Julius Walker, Nick McGlott, Evan Cyrus Taylor Steffy, Kaziah Thornley, AJ Stutter, Jalan Maize, Liv Penrod, and Morgan Stewart. And for career tech, uh they would like to share that they currently have 26 students approved for senior work release as of today. One of those students in particular has earned the opportunity to partner with the district within the IT department and has been working and interning with them for several weeks now and it's going very
016well. They're preparing for sophomore manufacturing tours across our area for October 3rd in partnership with the Richland County Manufacturing Coalition as they continue to work towards the goal of career exposure and career opportunity for our students. And lastly, at the career center, uh they're pleased to share that the 2425 dental assisting graduates have a related placement rate of 100%. Recent graduations are 81% with 10 out of 12 students completing the certified nurses aid, six out of eight completing dental assisting, six out of eight completing the industrial electrical maintenance, five out of six completing the nail technician, and seven out of eight completing precision machining and CNC technology. and recent certifications uh with 80% one out of one student passed registered medical assistant certification two out of two passed the certified nursing assistant certification and five
017out of seven pass the national institute for metalworking skills certification exam >> okay thank you superintendent's update >> yeah just a few things to update you on um our first uh senior citizen lunch or lunchins of the year will be tomorrow. Um those will start uh the first one is at 11 o'clock. Um the second one at 12:30 and I think we have um slightly over a hundred uh senior citizens registered between those two lunchons. So um very excited um to um meet with them tomorrow. Um the second uh item to update you on um a couple years ago um the state um now allows districts to um develop and use their own uh principal evaluation system. Um the the the one that um was in place and that we are currently using is the
018Ohio principal evaluation system which was um designed at the state level and and most districts across the state are using. Um it is very labor intensive, very laborious. Um I don't know how effective it is under those circumstances. So, um just making you aware that um between myself and the principles, we are going to be uh investigating the possibility of developing our own um evaluation system um for principles. Um so, I may be reporting back on that and uh bringing potentially um a new system to the board to approve um at some point. uh it would be for next school year. Um want to share with you some enrollment data. Um I know that's kind of a a hot topic in the district right now. And um so what I what I looked at um
019our EMIS coordinator was able to provide me with data today for and it this is up tod date as of today. And what I looked at was what are our numbers today as compared to on this exact date one year ago. And uh as I looked at those um across the district, we're down about 53 students from this time last year. Um but when I broke it down a little bit further, um if you look at last year's senior class, which was a large class, one of the largest for us, um that was 226 students, um was last year's senior class. So they're now gone. And the new um group of kindergarteners, incoming kindergarteners this year, um is 170. So that's a 56 student difference. So right there is basically the difference is the large
020outgoing senior class and then a smaller incoming group of kindergarteners. >> How many kindergarters? >> 170. >> I thought you said 107 at first. >> No. No. Um and then uh the the other piece of enrollment that I did want to share with you is while overall enrollment numbers are down um the one area where they are up is in the area of special education um which we know is very expensive um to educate those students. Uh, our numbers from last year to this year went from last year, which was about 17% of our student population, to 430 this year, which is about 18% of our student. So, it went up 1% in a year. And, uh, I think for a long time for our district, it hovered right around 14 15%. Um so you
021can see we're we're up from that. So um the percentage of our student population um as far as students with disabilities is growing and uh especially growing is that um the the severe autism and and those types of students um that is just kind of exploding um in our district. So, um just wanted to share with you um those those numbers. And then lastly, um uh report cards were released um this week by the state department of education. And uh I just want to share some data with you. Um meant to distribute these packets to you uh beforehand. Um, we're not going to go through the entire packet, but I did want to, um, share some highlights with you. Um, in totality, um, we are very pleased with our report card. Um, however, we are
022not satisfied with it. We know there are still some areas that there's a lot of room for growth and, uh, we are working diligently to improve in all areas. um uh Tuesday, uh met with all of our principles, um as well as uh curriculum, um our assessment, uh administrator and our uh uh student services director. And uh we are are looking into our successes and what are the root causes for those the areas where we're struggling and what are the root causes to for those and um working to put some strategies in place to improve in all of those areas. So um you can see there the kind of the highlights are on that front page of that packet. Um our district graduation rate um was five stars that which five stars is the the
023highest rating you can get. Um for the first year college career workforce and military readiness was rated and we got a fivestar rating um there um and and you'll see those both at the district level and at the high school level because those are measuring high school students. Um, and then at at East View, their overall rating was four and a half stars, a five-star gap closing rating, a four-star early literacy rating. uh Mifflin their overall rating was four stars gap closing five stars and I should say that um anything anywhere where we received five stars it's listed here and four stars if the four star rating was up at least a star from last year um uh at South um five stars for progress which shows growth student growth Um, gap closing four stars.
024Uh, middle school overall rating of four stars, progress four stars. Um, I already shared with you the high school and then our career technical programs get a completely separate report card and uh there were uh so they got a five as an overall rating. um achievement, career and post-secary readiness and graduation were all five stars. There was only other one one other rating uh for them and uh postsecary outcomes. They didn't get fivear on that. They got a fourstar and uh so that's uh I think says a lot about our career tech program and the success that that they're having. Um so I'm not going to go through all this with you. Um you can see it. Um the one glaring area that we are are we're we're focused on a lot of different areas
025but a a real focus on early literacy. We know that that's the foundation for everything uh that we do and and preparing students for future school success as well as success in life. So um we we are definitely zeroed in on our early literacy and improving there. So, um, that concludes my update. >> Okay. Thank you. Item H, we have our high school presenting this evening. Mr. Conway is up first. Okay. Hello everybody and congratulations to those who were honored tonight. That's amazing. Um because we are the first presentation of the school year, we kind of do a little overview of how last year went and then just talk about some things we're looking forward to this year. You're going to hear from me, uh Coach Ricker, and then also Mr. Ditson. Um one thing
026I'm just very proud of is the team that we have at the high school, including Mr. Grove. Uh feel really good about it. I feel like we have a lot of people that bleed green, uh and care about our kids. Um, if you look up there, that picture, I just picked that for the start of the uh of the presentation just cuz I thought it was an awesome representation of Ram Pride. Our kids were so excited. Went out on the field after a big win and and just showed how much they cared about each other. Uh, it was a very nice moment. Uh, I might have cried a little bit when it happened, but uh, ready to move on here as always. Let's see what I got to do here. I promise this is okay.
027Try one more time. Okay, there we go. All right, let's head to will it to victory there. Um, just talking quickly about the class of 2025. As you can see, it was a very high achieving class as well. um you know with with 30% being above 35, 54% over half being above a 3 0 um and you can see they were awarded $4 billion in scholarships. The one thing I do want to talk about is there were 12 valadictorians. This is the last time we will have that large group of validictorians because starting with the class of 2026 they will be under the quality point system. So we will go back to having one maybe two valadictorian saludiatorans and also um we now have instituted the kumla magnakumlad sumakumlad so that'll be the first year
028for that uh we also talking about last year's seniors I don't remember a class that had this much representation in the armed forces um just want to say one last time uh to these individuals just how proud we are of them I mean it's amazing um I can't go through and read them all because we'd be here too long. But just to kind of see uh those students and and how well represented the class of 2025 was uh in the armed forces just goes to their character. Uh Merry Madison Christmas is always something we hang our hat on. Um I again I'd like to just highlight that we were able to help 12 Madison families which included 39 children. Uh the one thing I also would like to say is is that it is growing
029and it's not becoming just a high school thing. It might originate at the high school but every building was adopting uh families uh and even outside partners like the Lions Club were adopting families. So I mean it has been um really really cool to see this grow and it's even moving on to other districts because of the inspiration that that that's happened here at Madison. So just very proud of it. Um the next slide just quickly just talks about different groups that got involved and and what they were donating because even if groups weren't adopting families, they were raising money or they were uh donating items to give to those families. Quickly talk about our test results from last year. As Mr. Peterson said, we are proud but not satisfied. Um couple things you can
030see on the right hand side. The highlighted in yellow are um the tests where we were above the state average which was the majority. Um biology we were one point below the state average at 63 when the state average was 64. But as you can see we grew five percentage points from the previous year. Uh geometry is still kind of been the thing that we are working at. We are growing. We're trending in the right direction, but still not where we need to get to. Um, but as you can see, some things to be really proud of. English being 10 percentage points above uh the state average. Uh, American history six points. Um, government eight points. I think our kids are scoring very very well. Uh and this is including all students and that that
031is uh including the online academy and alternative program who are not getting their um their education in a face-to-face setting. Uh and those students going to they're going to struggle a little bit on state tests. Um so very proud of what our kids are doing. Um however, we're not satisfied. One thing I will talk about briefly is an initiative that we started this year is going to assessment authoring which we think will help us with our report card. Mr. McVicker was instrumental in helping us get set up with uh assessment authoring. That is something that I think will help our end of course exam scores. So I hope even though I'm happy with what you see, I think you're going to be even more excited next year. Uh the next slide is just you can
032kind of see how we progressed uh all the way back to uh fiscal year 18. Um so again not going to spend a lot of time on it now but you can kind of go through and and look at that in your leisure. Uh we are very proud of our choir and our band. Um our choir for the what seventh year in a row? Yeah. seventh straight year our corral has earned state recognition and for the fourth year in a row um our women's chorus won state recognition and just want to say I don't know of a finer choir director than Craig Green um we are extremely lucky to have him and he has done so much for the arts also um even though Miss Carlson has left us Fanning is still here and she's
033taken over leadership of the band they also earned an excellent rating at the Ohio Music Education Association large group competition. So very proud of them as well. Um, don't know what happened. So the next slide, uh, I'm sure it'll come back. I promise it'll come back. >> No, it's okay. Well, I I know it. All right. So the next slide, we talked about the honors breakfast. Oh, there it is. I knew it. Uh, and all we did was I I try to give you some statistics. Obviously, the winter because of um the the numbers of sports has the lowest number of scholar athletes, but uh we try to recognize our um our honor roll breakfast every uh quarter, first, second, and third quarter. We we obviously don't do it in the fourth quarter. Finally, before
034we kind of move on and uh turn over to Coach Rickert, I just want to give you some information from the alternative program. Uh there were 44 high school students and 12 middle school students that were there last year. Um but I am proud of how these students have turned it around and take whatever situation they had and and made the absolute most of it. You can see there were 22 students last year that graduated. Um, and those students probably when they entered into the alternative program didn't have much hope of graduating. We had 22 turn it around and graduate, which is amazing. Eight of them even graduated early. So, that's a real that's a really cool stat I think for our kids in the alternative program. Uh, also the attendance rate being 92%. That's
035also something we're very proud of. >> Um, now I'm going to turn it over to Coach Rickard. He's going to talk a little bit about athletics. You got to make sure it works there. >> Okay, let me talk a little bit about last year first and how we finished up. Uh this we actually just got these uh we we got six wall of fame photos uh back this week. Normally we're not putting up six wall of fame photos. So it was a very outstanding year for us. Uh first of all, that's our OC champion soccer team. Um we're hoping for another one this year. big game next week against uh uh Worcester uh who's also undefeated in the league, but they're off to a fantastic start. Uh state ranked and uh have only lost one
036game. So, uh leading the league right now, us and Worcester, both undefeated in the league. It'll be a good one next week. Our softball team also was uh um OC champions last year, district champions, and lost in an unbelievable walk-off grand slam uh that beat us in the regional finals last year. Just heartbreaking, you know, with two outs. Having that thing won and that girl hit the home run, but uh a lot of the girls back next year. So, uh or this year, I should say. So, really excited about uh where our softball program is heading right now. And these are um our all Ohio kids that were put on there last year. Randy Jameson, you see he was um also uh North Central Ohio player of the year, district player of the year. He
037was first team all Ohio. Um we had also go ahead uh Aiden Proctor. Aiden is also back this year. He finished eighth at state in wrestling. His picture was also on the wall. Had a fantastic year having a really nice football season for us also this year. and Jackson stake them. You can see that Jackson has already won 102 matches in his career, which is quite an accomplishment. Finished six of state last year and again back this year. So, we're really excited about what he can do and having a great football season also. And Kalia Clapper was a second team all Ohioan as a freshman. That does not happen very often. Uh, of course, she was OC pitcher of the year. you see uh what she did uh striking out 202 girls 146 innings was
038pretty impressive and also batting 535. So uh you know she's going to be on the on the bump the next three years. We'll be pretty excited to see her still pitching for us and also a soccer player and basketball player. Our athletic hall of fame um many of you know these names. Uh Ed Chelsky, Jeff Jenkins, George Keane, Corey Roupert, Mike Seawwick, Obie Stillwell, and Dana Wooding uh were the third class inducted uh into the athletic hall of fame. Another wonderful ceremony. I had a couple people that it was their first time they went and they were from out of town and uh got a couple great emails on how classy it was and how wonderful that presentation was. So really excited about all the hard work everyone put into that. Um, let me just
039talk a little bit about this year so far. Uh, it was talked about a little bit by Miss Cyrus there, but uh, the football season is off to a two and two start. Um, it's the first two and two start we've had in the last 10 years. So excited about that. Uh, the freshman football team's having a nice year. The JV football team's having a nice year. I got a text on the way in here that our seventh grade football team was up 30 to nothing on Lexington tonight at halftime. So excited about uh what's going on right now with our with our program. I think I told you about what soccer's doing. Um we hope we make another run. Lost a tough one last year in a district final. Uh hoping to get over
040that hump and um you know, win that conference for the second year in a row. That's not easy to win our league and and and in in any sport and that's why it's so big to to to win a conference championship around here. Uh our girls soccer has struggled a bit, but they've played a pretty crazy schedule. They've played four state ranked teams already uh including one the other night in Amherst Steel, but lost two to nothing. Played really hard. Um our volleyball team, I I've watch got to watch them a couple times and uh uh went out at some of the other games and haven't been winning a lot of games, but but they fight like crazy. Uh have played pretty well. Just not a lot of height there. and played Dover last night
041and Dover's 5'11 61 across the board. Makes it tough on us, but uh but playing playing pretty well. Um our boys golf team uh we don't get a lot of talk a lot about golf a lot of time. If they they play in the OC tournament tomorrow, if they win that tournament, they have a chance to win the league. Uh them, Ash, Lexington are all battling that out. Uh they've won uh three tournaments already this year and finished second twice in other tournaments. So having a great year. Our tennis team was talked about a little bit. Um they've they've only lost one dual match all season. Um the U Emma Reynolds is undefeated as a uh player this year in the first singles which is fantastic. The other day she got a she got bowling
042or Balden Wallace actually called her up and would like her to be part of the Balden Wallace team which is fantastic for us. We haven't had a lot of tennis players uh move on in a while to play. So that's been exciting. So there's some really good things um um happening right now and and I think we're you know very excited about uh where we're heading. So thank you very much. I talked briefly about uh our team and the team I don't know what's happening. Okay. Well, anyway, the next few slides we're going to be uh talking about what we're doing this year. Um, first thing I was going to do, and you'll see it, is welcome the new members of the high school. Uh, we are very excited about them. This was the first
043year we didn't have to hire a ton. We only had two new teachers uh hired. Um, they'll they'll just see them. Um, so I went through um these are all uh some of our new teachers and new staff members. Everything from paraprofessionals to our school nurse. We're very we're very excited about them. We think they're going to have a great year. Um moving on, uh I wanted to tell you kind of what our focus is going to be for this year. Obviously, we've already talked about our academic achievement initiatives. Uh so we kind of broke it down for our staff. Hey, this is what we have done in the past. Um, but I want to talk about what we're going to do. Uh, I talked briefly about we're adding assessment authoring and we're going to
044also evaluate those things that you see up there. The CAP meetings, which stands for critical academic team, senior tracking meetings, academic assist. We're going to keep evaluating those forms of assessment to see what kind of impact are they having. Um, one thing Mr. Ditson will talk about briefly will be our family engagement team. That is something that we're moving forward uh this year. Last couple years our focus has been student engagement. We're trying to branch that out now to family engagement. So I'm not going to steal his thunder. He'll talk about that very briefly. Um I also uh um the next slide was going to be about um there we go. Team goals for the 25 26 team. Team is just always something I talk about. Um, I just talked about a lot of them,
045so I won't kind of take your time up, but this is something that we share with our staff saying, "Hey, as a team, admin, uh, support staff, teaching staff, this is what we're all working for in our building." And as you can see, number four always stays the same. And number four is Ram Pride in all aspects of the Madison experience. That's our academics, our programs, our athletics, the arts, and clubs. We want Ram Pride in everything we do. um our MSI. I'll turn it over to Mr. Deak because he'll have the last few slides here. >> Push that one. >> Well, guess try. Yeah. All righty. So, I'll be sharing some things related to culture and climate um around the high school as well as some special projects. So, uh the first thing I
046want to share about is uh our MSI team. That stands for Madison Student Initiative. That is one of our several student leadership teams. Um that student leadership team did a lot of good work this last year such as raising funds for Merry Madison Christmas. We kind of almost ran that like a tellathon if you will. Um attended the fall regional student leadership conference at Mid Ohio. Um we um spearheaded the Black History Month celebrations which included visiting East View Elementary. Um, we also facilitated eighth grade tours and orientation meetings as well as piloting some goal setting tools uh which helped inform our uh staff uh leadership team uh in terms of next steps for goal setting uh schoolwide. Um also wanted to give some shoutouts to um all of the grants that have been raised
047to help support different programs and uh classrooms at our school. I think even this evening you might have seen some grants coming through for approval. A lot of that work is Amy O'Connell um one of our intervention specialist uh teachers. I'm not going to read all of these but this lists all of the work that she's done totaling in the amount of $14,370. Um, another grant that we've had renewed this year was a $14,000 grant uh called the Teach Arts Ohio grant, which is through the Ohio Arts Council, which has provided funding for a visiting artist. Um much of the work of the visiting artists has included um co-eing um with our um full-time art teaching staff as well as providing enrichment opportunities for advanced level art students and even uh working on some collaborative
048pieces that are displayed in our cafeteria that represent our core values. He's pulling some of the themes and ideas from our mission and vision vision statements for these um panels that he's put up. All righty. Uh some PBIS updates. Not going to go over our matrix. That's in there if you want to peruse that later. Um student recognition. Uh we're still staying on it with our weekly shoutouts to students that are getting positive referrals. We do that over the announcements. We put it on Facebook, Instagram, our TV. So that's important to us. And we're also recognizing teachers as they um are doing things that uh are above and beyond. U this year we're continuing to partner with some of our community partners um getting donations for our weekly uh awards. Mrs. Stephy, she's helped a
049lot with that. So, the movie theater, Wendy's, the state reformatory, the trampoline park, and many other businesses and faith-based organ organizations have helped us out tremendously. Little bit of discipline data. Um, it looks like a pile of spaghetti right there, but um that is the last one, two, three, four, five years I think of discipline data. Um, we are starting the year lower than we have in the past, but the way we talk about things at our school is that we're not super sacred about a number being higher or lower. We just respond to the data and meet students needs based on uh data informed decisions. So, it's always good to be going down, but sometimes it goes up if you're holding students accountable, which is a good thing. Um that's just an overall breakdown
050trending down. Um and again context, yes, enrollment is down. So that can bring your office discipline referrals down as well. But we're trending in the right direction. A little bit about family engagement. We'll see if that what what's the trick, Mr. Conway? Do you just >> I just have to think and then it comes back. Okay. We'll we'll hope we'll hope it comes back online in a second, but I'll just talk a little bit. So this last year we started a family engagement team um which uh the goal of the family engagement team was to bridge that gap between the world going on at school and at home. Um and in terms of tracking metrics in terms of the success of the team, the main thing that we looked at last year was improving our
051attendance um in chronically absent numbers. this year based on some funding kind of logistics at um the state support teams locally. State support teams, if you don't know what that is, that's like the regional branches of ODW. That's a good way to explain that. But we are looking at now family engagement to improve chronic absenteeism and truency with the purpose of improving student achievement among students with disabilities. So that there's like another dot that we're connecting there. So a lot of that work this year has already included making uh preliminary phone calls to students that have been identified at risk for one reason or another. So we made 175 plus phone calls to welcome students back to school. Talk with them about um you know the families in terms of what what are your needs?
052You know do you know when the open house days are? Do you know where to get your Chromebook? Just making sure everyone's ready to go. um last semester, last spring semester, um and into the beginning of this school year, we've been doing home visits to check on students that have been gone going missing in action, so to speak. Um and then we've also been talking to our staff about how we talk to parents and families and using a framework that we call best practice language. Um and then we also did some surveying and data collection last year that informed our team as well. All righty. Questions? >> All right. Thank you so much. >> Thank you very much. >> Okay. Next up is item I, approval of donations. Can I get a motion? >> So
053moved. Second. >> Second. >> Discussion. Okay. Item J, treasures business. Can I get a motion? >> What? Oh, wait. >> Need a vote. >> Oh, sorry. Backwards. So I motioned and it got up and left. I thought I could just >> Mrs. Melissa Walker >> four. >> Mr. Won, >> four. >> Mrs. Scotman, >> four. >> Miss Amy Walker, >> four. >> Now treasur's business. Can I get a motion? >> So move. >> I'll second. Tim motion. I second. >> All right. Well, first thing we're going to talk about is a monthly financial report. Maybe Um, so the revenues, I'm not going to read that to you, but I will tell you the uh tax revenues are up about 2% which is what I forecasted. So that's right on track. 2% increase over last year.
054Um, state foundation is under 1% less than 1% increase over last year, which is exactly what I've got forecast. It's what has been anticipated. Um, but I do want to point out that that local and other revenue generated for that line, neither the month-to-month comparison nor the fiscal year-to- date revenue comparison are a the numbers are right, but they're very inappropriate way to do a comparison as of last year. And here's why. Last year in August, we got a pretty large Medicaid reimbursement, which was out of character for the time of year. So that's why last year August's revenues were $39,000 in that a line and this year they're only 58. 309 is way more than what they typically are. They're usually in between the 60 and 105,000. So we're actually pretty close to in
055line to the other fiscal years. And the reason the fiscal year to date is a bad measurement is because this year in August we returned the advance >> and we usually don't typically have not had an advance to return. So that's why that line is you know that 930,000 over last year. Well, yeah, it is because we had an advance and that's not a typical thing. But other than that, you know, the revenues, they are accurate and they're on track. Um, and we ended the month with 42 days cash on hand. We look at the expenditures. So, I said the revenues were up 2%, expenditures are up 4 and a.5%. Unfortunately, that's also what has been predicted. Um, the huge thing that you that I'm gonna I pointed it out over and over again and
056I'm going to continue to point out is the driving force is our health insurance. Our benefits, if you look, the benefits year to date are up to 100 $153,000 more by the end of August than they were the previous year. That is, you know, significantly more than anything else up there. So, health insurance is, and I'm going to talk a little bit more about this in the forecast, it's it's killing us. Um, that being said, I don't want to say it's killing us and not tell you we're not we're not doing anything about it. Um, we've got an insurance committee meeting on the 24th. Mr. Peterson and I have had several meetings with a consortium called Jefferson Health Plan. In that insurance committee meeting, we're are going to talk about some other um enhancements to
057our plan that should save us that will save us some money. Um we're doing an insurance audit this year as well. We are doing some things, but you know, it's hard to you can't turn a train on a dime and you know, it's a this is a big train. The unfortunate thing is there are a lot of things that are um not we're not able to just change because we want to change. They have to be agreed upon. So, you know, we're going to have to continue to look at, you know, how to go about making the changes that we need to make. Um I put this up last month. I decided not to take it down. I will eventually take it off, but this is just just so you guys it's the how we
058spend. So you can see how last year I mean it is is pretty detailed of how where the money goes. And the last slide that I did just add to this one that I didn't have on um the July report is the comparison for the to the forecast. It's uh this page, right? Yeah, you got it. So, believe it or not, August was 16.6% of the way through the fiscal year. This at the end of September, we're going to be a quarter of the way. Um, but last year we uh had 27% of the revenues that we I had projected forecasted to come in. This year we're 26%. I mean, these could be off by decimals cuz I just put them to 26. I didn't put it to 26.293 or whatever. So, that being said,
059we're close. The reason the revenues aren't at 16% is because we only get re real estate twice a year, August and February. So, we get a huge hit. We got to wait 6 months and then we get another huge hit. So, that's why it's at 26. But, if you look down at the expenditures, we're, you know, 17. Last year, we're at 16. We're at 16.66% of the way through. So that tells me we are on track com as to what is forecasted and I'm telling you we're on track as what is forecasted. All right. Um before I move on to the uh anything else, are you guys okay with this monthly report? You want me elaborate on anything? >> All right. Next is the permanent appropriations. I don't know if that's Oh, there it is.
060So listen, permanent appropriations are just it's a fancy way to say the budgets and I have to submit this to the county auditor. I submit it as a permanent appropriations which is what we are officially telling the county auditor we're going to receive in estimated revenues what we had at the end of the fiscal year. So our total amount that we can spend and then what we are budgeting to spend this year. And the far column on the right, which is blue, cannot be negative. You have to have have to be positive. So the amount you have at the beginning of the year, your your unencumbered cash balance plus what you're anticipating to receive must be greater than your budget, what you're telling them to spend. So that is important because that's going to tie
061in a little bit when I talk about the forecast. I give it to you in fe in the September for the permanent appropriations. We update it multiple times throughout the year in appropriation adjustments and then you vote on the final in June which says here's what we actually received and what we actually spent and gives you the same amount and this has to be submitted to the county auditor. So any questions on the per appropriations for FY26? Okay, now I'm going to move on to oh the student activity budgets. Student activity budgets. Um I don't have those up there, but basically um in order for somebody like uh National Honor Society or Key Club or any student activity to spend money, they have to have a purpose statement. So what is the purpose of their
062club or activity? And they have to have a budget. How much are they going to bring in? How much are they going to spend? Those budgets are just approved by the board and they they like anything else budgets can change because you don't know exactly how much you're going to bring in. For example, maybe later on in the year somebody decides to do a bake sale and they didn't have it on their original budget, we can update it. Okay, but still it has to be those those activity budgets have to be voted on and passed. Um, next thing we're going to talk a little bit more about is the fall submission of the five-year forecast. So, this is going to be what you're going to see is very well, it's exactly like what you've seen
063before as a five-year forecast, but it's technically no longer a 5-year forecast. This House Bill 96, the last bianium budget that went through, made some changes. Now, that being said, the changes didn't affect us much because the one doesn't make sense why they even put it in. And here's what I mean. One of the things they said is this next year, the the year you're forecasting has to match your appropriations. Well, I've always done that as treasurer. That's what you're supposed to do. You have a budget. You have an estimated resources. That's your revenues and your 5-year forecast. you have expenditures, your budgets, that's the expenses on your 5-year forecast. I've always done that, but apparently there must have been other treasures that haven't. So now the state saying they have to match. So the
064board is aware, as long as I've been here, they've always matched. They match in the fall. They when I did the May submission, they match in the spring. So that's not a change for you. M maybe it is somewhere else. Um the other change that is being that will be different when I submit it to the state is they're only asking for a um this year plus a three-year forecast or prediction rather than a total of five. In my personal and professional opinion, the per the objective of a five-year forecast is for you to plan, for you to um see what how things are being affected and what the long-term goal is. And if I shorten it up, it just makes the tool that you guys get to make decisions less valuable. So, I'm just
065going to continue to do five years, but I'll submit the four to the state like they want, but you guys will continue to see all five. So, you can use it for its objective. Um, it's still broken up into revenues and expenditures. And that's pretty much it for that. So, um, revenues, the first thing I'm going to talk about, 90% of our revenues come from property taxes and state foundation. So, um, I'm going to focus on the the big rocks, not the little marbles. The other 8% comes from things like Medicaid reimbursements and interest and abatement payments, homestead and roll back fees, donations, miscellaneous stuff. So, we'll focus on the the 92%. So, the first thing I'm going to focus on is real estate. So, um, August is the first collection. August is technically in
066this fiscal year. Okay? because fiscal year starts July 1st. So since we already have the first real estate collection for the fiscal year, the real estate revenue for the fiscal year is based on that. um it did decrease slightly over last year and then the slight decrease was due to um actually an increase in delinquencies and uh some increases in like owner occupied and business credits and things like that. uh the it's based on historical trends and if you look some of times the numbers are a little bit they're not at 2% they're different and that's because there's trienal updates and reappraisals. Um this year I use the 2% because we're not in a triannual update now and we're not in a reappraisal now. Um the next update though trienal update is 2026. The growth
067in here for real estate is 2%. I re I talked about that in the monthly report. That was 2% was what was projected when I gave it to the state for the precautionary written plan. It's a historical trend. That's based on that 2% growth is based on inside millage and new construction. We do not get when it when everybody's property value goes up, our millage rate drops because we are not at the 20 mil floor. We only see increases in this on new construction and inside millillage. Okay. Um, next thing we're going to talk about state aid and that is um that is flat and it's it's unfortunate and I'm going to go a little bit in talk to you a little bit about this. So, here's what happens in in the calculations the state
068uses. They updated our property values, okay, and income to determine what a community's capacity is to pay. So, what the state did is they said, "Okay, let's look at 2024 data to see what your valuation is and look at your 2024 data to see what the adjusted gross income is." And that is the district's community's ability to pay. They use 2024 data. Then they looked at what's it cost to educate a kid. They use 2022 data, not 2024. So what does that do? Well, that shifts the burden from the state to the local. Um I I' I've written some things down. It's uh right off I I I it thought I wrote it on the top here because I just Okay. Yeah. homeowners. Now, I know this is going back quite a bit, but homeowners
069and farmers used to carry like 67% of the school's tax revenue or and um they carries um it's up from 46% in 1975. It it was 67.5 now it's uh 67.5 now it was 46.1. Sorry, I apologize guys and get that right. So when House Bill 920 was enacted, they basically I'm trying to say is these taxpayers were paying 46% of the bill to fund the schools. Now they're paying 67%. And why? It's because the state is pulling shenanigans like this shifting the burden from the locals or from the state to the locals. Um I don't Mr. Peterson might be able to help me with this cuz he he heard the statistic when the Ralph sued the state that said and the state said the way you fund schools is unconstitutional. That was 1997. That
070was I think 42 >> 40 44% >> the state was funding schools 44% then even when that was determined to be unconstitutional and not enough. >> Yeah. In 1997. Now it's what 36 at the end of this next 2-year bienium um it'll be down from 44% to 32% 32 >> and they're giving money to private schools. they are giving money accountability >> and that the reason I wanted to to talk about this is because on one hand they're shifting they are literally shifting the burden from the state to the public taxpayers and then if you remember all the scuttlebutt about all the things they wanted to cut and do in the last benium budget then they're saying well we don't want to burden the taxpayers anymore so we're going to make it more difficult for
071you to do this this this and this so they are literally shifting the burden on on with one branch of it and then trying to handcuff us on the other. It's it's scary. Back to this forecast. Basically, we are going to be flat. We're less than a percent over the next two years. Okay. So, we can't count on much if anything. >> Less than half a percent. Yeah. So, state funding is not helping us out at all. So, now we're going to go to expenditures and I'm going to focus on three of them. Salaries, benefits, and purchase services because that's 95% of where we spend our money. So, salaries, salaries are usually around half of what we spend. Um, so you you guys on you're I'm sure you're all aware that teachers they all have
072steps. So even if there's no base rate wage increase, the average step increase over the entire salary schedule is 3%. Average for the whole thing is 3%. So even with no base wage increase, there's a 3% bump on average for the steps. So, if you give a 2% base wage increase and there's a 3% bump in steps, there are people that are getting a 5% raise. Some are getting less, some are getting more because each step is a little bit different, but the average is 5%. So, if our revenues are increasing 2%. And salaries are increasing five, next thing you're going to have to cut if you want to balance that out. And I find it interesting that two people have said something about um about enrollment because since this is a four-year part of
073a forecast, I did four years. So I did kindergarten through grade three, there's 682 kids. Grades 9 through 12, there's 779. So there's 97 more kids in the top grades than there are in the bottom. So that means those four grades graduate, there's 100 less kids coming up. So enrollment is declining. So when salaries are increasing more than revenues alone and enrollment is declining, there's only really one option and that is you have to reduce staff. So unfortunately staffing does, you know, it it is going to be affected because that's half of our budget. So, and I do want to point out that uh you know, Mr. Peterson's talked quite a bit about you know, we've cut 41 jobs over the last 5 years, but even though we've cut 41 jobs over the last 5
074years, our our salary has they've increased. So, it it's just it it's exponential. If I give you a 1% this year and a 1% next year, I know it sounds like it's two, but it's actually three because the 1% this year you get this year and next year. So there's two of them and you get the 1% the next year. So that's three. So it's it's a exponential growth on salaries. Benefits. Well, part of the benefits retirement, they're tied to salaries. So if salaries go up, your insurance your your retirement is going to go up. That's an easy predictor. The killer is health insurance. If you look at that bottom graph on the right hand side, the red are benefits. The blue line is salaries. We are on track for salaries to be overpassed by
075benefits. Meaning we are going to be spending more on benefits than we are on salaries. And actually for our noncertified staff, the vast majority of them, we already do spend more for them to have health insurance than we actually give them in a salary. So it's it's um we have got to get that under control. Um then that is my single biggest concern is the insurance. So you can see the health insurance is just going through the roof. purchase services are everything from our utilities to repair costs, nursing services, liabilities. Um, you heard somebody say that our our special needs population is the one part of the population that's increasing. Well, those special needs populations require OT, PT, speech, one-on-one nurses, one-on-one aids. Those are purchase services. And since they're purchase services, we don't determine
076what they make. We have to pay whatever companies paid. Now, the bad thing is there are some things that we can go out to bid on, right? Which means we want to know how much it's going to put a roof on. We can go to five different contractors and get the bids. There are certain purchase services that there's one contractor within a 40 mile radius of here that has that kind of therapy. You're kind of stuck then you and you you can't not do it. It's a legal obligation for the student. You have to offer it. So unfortunately purchase services are stuck. And you know I'm sure you all have noticed your property insurance go up. Well, if your property insurance goes up, what do you think happened to ours? I'm sure you've all noticed
077your utilities go up. I mean, I know mine have. If yours have gone up, what do you think happens to ours? If you guys if you have to hire somebody to fix your furnace or repair a roof or a plumber to come fix something. Yes, we have maintenance people that do that, but that there are times that things are so specialized, like we remember we had something before school start with East View, so specialized we couldn't do that ourselves. We had to have an outside company come in that was certified to do certain things. Well, that service costs a lot more now than it did 5 years ago. So, that's just it's inflation and there's not a whole lot we can do about that. And when there is something we can do about it, which
078means going out for bid, we go out for bid. He goes I mean, Mr. Grove and you know, Mr. Neuron are constantly saying, "Well, hey, let's let's get this RFP request for proposal out for bid. put it in the paper so we get the cheapest we can get. So that is 11%. The other two things which are the 5% or capital outlay um and supplies that's only 5% of our budget. And in my personal and professional opinion, I think we've already cut that well beyond what can be cut. And the reason I'm saying that is we have a we have schedules meaning Mr. on has a schedule is when can we replace this roof then this roof and this roof and this roof. Mr. McVicker has a schedule. When do we replace this set of
079Chromebooks and this set of Chromebooks and this set of Chromebooks. Miss Neon has a schedule. When do we replace this bit of curriculum, this bit of curriculum? Well, our budget is so tight. things are so tight that those things those schedules we've had conversations painful conversations like I know it's on the schedule but we can't afford to do that this year we don't have the money if we do that we aren't going to be able to pay payroll at the end of the year so I I personally think supplies and capital outlay have been cut to the point where I mean we are razor thin and I have I think I have some principles here that are probably agree with on that. So what is the conclusion and the bottom line? Well, the conclusion and
080the bottom line is our revenues are increasing minimal 2% at best. Every time we turn around the state slapping us down and we are not at the 20 mil floor. So even though people are feeling pain at with property taxes, we are not getting an exponential amount cuz when they're appraised value goes up, our millage rate goes down. We're not collecting a lot more money. So 2% increase on revenues and much higher than 2% increase on all of our expenditures. So what does that mean? That means we have to cut and we have to continue to cut. The unfortunate thing is in my experience you cannot cut your way continue to cut your way because there is a point at which we can't cut anymore. And the other reason you can't cut your way is
081every time you make a cut you're reducing the service that we are providing for an education. You know the class sizes have to go up. Well, if the class sizes have to go up, that's reducing the level of service we are providing to the students. Um, it's just it's just a a function of life. Unfortunately, we are in a a tough position and I'm sorry to be the the bearer of bad news after those wonderful presentations. And we do have wonderful employees and that's, you know, I'm looking out at you. You two won that award and I I really feel bad. I mean, there's nothing I can do about it. It's not I didn't get us into this situation, but I feel bad because, you know, it it is affecting you, unfortunately. So, I'm sorry
082about the bad news, but it's I'd rather tell you the truth than sugarcoat it and not have you know what's going on. Are there any questions before I move on? Okay. The last few I'm going to do five, six, and seven together. Those are grants um that you know Mr. Ditson has talked about. We have teachers that have been wonderful and gone out and sought grants to do specific things. This is just the board to approve those those grants. So, that concludes the treasur's presentation. Do you guys have any questions? >> Roll call. >> All right. Roll call. >> Okay. Mr. Wigton, >> four. Mrs. Melissa Walker, >> four. >> Mrs. Cartman, >> four. >> Miss Amy Walker, >> four. >> Okay. On to item K, matters related to personnel. Can I get a motion?
083>> So moved. >> Second. I'll second. Discussion. >> Just quickly, um, just want to recognize Holly North. Um, she will be retiring at the end of the school year. here. She'd been a longtime uh teacher at the high school and we'll recognize her at um a meeting uh probably in May at the end of the year. But um just want to call everybody's attention to that and congratulate her on a fine career here at Madison. >> Item L, superintendent's business. >> I have a roll call. >> Sorry, >> Mrs. Melissa Walker. >> Four. >> Mrs. Conman, >> four. >> Mr. Wton, >> four. >> Miss Amy Walker, >> four. Item L, superintendent's business. Can I get a motion? >> So move. >> I'll second. >> Discussion. >> Uh just uh comment on a couple of
084those items. Number one uh about going out to bid uh for school bus. Uh just want to be very clear about that. Just because that resolution passes does not ob obligate us to purchase a bus, but it does give us that opportunity to do so in the case that somehow financially there would be a grant out there or something um that would would uh give us the opportunity to purchase a bus that there would be one set aside for us to actually purchase. Um but it we are not obligated to to purchase a bus by doing so. And then number five um that is our cyber security incident response plan. Um that is also connected to um the board policy number or item number seven which is a board policy that um I'm recommending we
085approve in one reading. Um those two are connected and those have to be in place by the end of this month. That's the rationale for the one reading. But essentially that is a plan in place. If we would ever have a breach um where ransom was um asked for and demanded um we've got a plan in place of exactly who is doing what and we can react immediately to that situation um and re react appropriately um that we would be prepared for that scenario. So that's what those are. Roll call. >> Mr. Wigton, >> four. Mrs. Cartman, >> four. >> Mrs. Melissa Walker, >> four. >> Miss Amy Walker, >> four. Then item M, visitor comments. >> My name is Miles Hayne. Uh, live on Steuart Road. Um, I saw on your website that you
086have u an issue. who you're proposing uh frequently asked questions on putting in u 1 and a half% income tax which I think is a good idea. Should have done it years ago when the state first allowed it but I haven't seen anything on it other than on the website frequently asked questions. Do you have any intention to promote that in any way? >> Do you want to >> Yeah. Um our we have a levy committee um and um that levy committee is working on um strategies to promote that and I think you'll start seeing some things. >> Is that going to be in this election November? >> Yes. >> So you're really running out of time. >> Little bit of advice. I work at the the election polls. I've done that for about the
087last 10 years and I can tell you when people go in to vote and they are surprised by any kind of a money loving, no matter who it's for, they vote against it without fail. They vote against it. They want to know why am I why are you asking for it? What's it going to benefit me? How is it going to affect me? All those kinds of questions. They want to know that before they vote. If they don't know that, they vote against it. Madison Fire Department, Madison Township Fire Department had never failed a levy. They failed two in a row now and they're going to put another one on and they're still not talking about it. It'll probably fail again. Little bit of information. Madison Township all by itself populationwise, if it were a
088city, it would be the second largest city in Richland County. Bigger than Ontario, bigger than Shelby. There's a lot of retired people here. this proposal will benefit retired people and so far they're being ignored. Nobody's saying anything to them. You need to get out to where they are. I gave the same advice to the trustees. If you want people to vote for something, you have to go to where they are. You can't expect them to come to you. They're not looking at your website. Most of the people aren't. I I doubt that more than half of the people that have kids in Madison are looking at the website because people don't do that much. But the people that don't, they're the ones that you need their vote. Madison Township all by itself can pass or
089fail anything you put on the ballot. I would recommend that you do not re ignore them. Get out to them. Put papers in their hands. You can't just talk on a radio or something like that. You have to put information on their hands. Maybe have people talk to them face to face. Go out with voter registration cards because if you got retired people who are not registered to vote, get them registered. This will benefit them. But they don't know that right now. I've talked with retired people who say, "I'm not voting for that." I'm saying, "Why not? This is money in your pocket. You don't pay that." And you get a cut on your property taxes. If you don't inform them, my guess is you're not going to have a chance. That's all. Thank you.
090>> Thank you. >> Ju just to respond, um uh the levy committee does intend to um go knocking on their doors. >> Yes. >> Well, there's a cut off on when you can register voters and that's coming up pretty soon. >> Yeah. I think the the committee's focus will be more on those who are registered to vote and um who would benefit from this actually passing. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> Item n president's business. Can I get a motion? >> So >> Well, there's Well, you don't have to do that. It's justformational. >> Oh, yep. Okay. So, the next regular board of education meeting is October 15th at 6 PM. And can I get a motion to adjurnn? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Roll call. >> Mrs. Melissa Walker, >> four. >> Mr.
091Wigton, >> four. Mrs. Ctderman, >> four. Miss Amy Walker, >> four. Good.