001allegiance. On that note, it say 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. >> Roll call, please. >> Mrs. Melissa Walker, >> here. >> Mrs. Conman, >> here. >> Mr. Moer, >> here. Miss Amy Walker's absent. Mr. Wton here. >> And can I get a motion to adopt the tonight's agenda including the addendum? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Discussion. >> Uh yeah, I need to remove item J, section E, Jesse Walker for a line item vote. Any other discussion? Roll call, please. >> Mrs. Melissa Walker, >> four. >> Mrs. Cterman, >> four. >> Mr. Wigton, >> four. >> Mr. Moer, >> four. And entertain a motion for previous board men meeting minutes. >> So
002moved. >> Second. >> I'll second. >> Discussion. Okay. I think Melissa Tim second. >> Yeah, Tim already. >> Sorry. Okay. Mrs. Melissa Walker, >> four. >> Mr. Won, >> four. Mr. or Mrs. Conman? >> Four. >> Mr. Moer. >> Four. And presentation of certificates. Anyone? >> Nope. And recognition of visitors. Anybody like to come up and speak? bring them all up, identify yourself. And >> um my name is Christopher Free. I am now now teaching Spanish uh up at the high school. Um but along with Miss Jessica Coons and Miss Laura Phillips, this summer we took our trip to Costa Rica. So I know we've been talking about it for a while. And yeah, the slides are getting kind of funny, but there they are behind you if you want to follow along. Um, obviously
003we're missing some of our kids today, but teenagers in the summer working on different trips, um, is why they're not all here. Um, Mrs. Phillips, we tried to convince her to come incognito to things, but she's at that period of retirement, she's not allowed back on property for a while. Um, oh no, it was just there. Um, while we're waiting for that to come back up, um, I would like to introduce the twins. Uh this is Anthony and this is Claudia. Um they just graduated from Gowian in May. Um and they were fortunate enough to take trips with us both to Peru and Costa Rica. And they're really terrified to talk in front of you, but I brought them along to say something. Here you go. >> I would like to thank you all for
004giving us the opportunity to go on both of the trips. Uh we greatly appreciate it. What was your favorite thing about the Costa Rica trip, Claudia? >> I really like the hot springs and the ziplining. It was super pretty. And seeing the beach on both sides, the Pacific and Atlant Pacific and Caribbean Sea was super pretty. >> Anthony, what was your favorite thing to eat in Peru? >> The seafood. >> Really? The seafood. >> Particularly the fish. All right, now we got our slides back. Um, we um went June 9th to June 18th. Uh, the phrase that you hear the kids say a lot was the phrase puravida. Um, which means pure life, but it's just kind of like that Hawaiian aloha that it's like a hello, goodbye, how are you? It's just kind of
005like have a great time. So, it's really positive phrase. Um, this was Sydney's message because she didn't make it with us today. Um, her favorite thing was uh seeing all the wildlife um because she is going off to study marine biology. So, she liked the reptiles, aquatic animals. Uh, anytime we saw an animal, um, between Anthony and Sydney, they were like the first ones up there touching them. Um, and here, I think we have a picture of Anthony, too. So, this was a female rhinoceros beetle. Um, that was pretty much the size of the palm of your hand. I did not touch it, but the kids were like, "Oh, let me cut." Anony's like trying to get one out of a tree. And, you know, our guide was really fun about it. So, iguana. And
006then the food, of course, was fantastic. Fresh fruit, you know, all kinds of different things that the kids tried. So, some of them were super brave. Some of them kind of stuck to the stuck to the normal. Um, this was our departure one. And when I first sent that out to parents when we left, um, Mrs. Johnson's like, "Where's my daughter?" I was like, "What?" So, in a panic, I was went back through and like, "There's Kayn, just her eyeball behind Mrs. Phillips." But we took another group picture once we got to the airport once I realized that she was in the picture. She was just kind of hidden away. Um, a couple of the kids, it was their first time flying, really going anywhere. So, it was a big thing. It was very exciting.
007They were nervous about going through uh through customs and security. Um, we did discover on the way back that you can't take certain things home through customs. You may be able to take it anywhere else, but coming back through, we had a student buy one of those rain sticks made out of bamboo where you turn it upside down and move it and it makes a really soft sound. Well, that's a compact powdery substance that triggers the TSA to take it, swipe for explosives, and then take the kit. It was a bit of a panic because I was afraid we were going to miss our next flight, but we did make it finally. So, but we learned a lesson there, too. Um, this was Tortugo on the north coast. This is where the green sea turtles
008typically do their nesting and hatching in the in the fall. Um, we are about 3 weeks too early to see the nesting. So, we know next time if we take a trip there to kind of go a little later. But, um, we did get to see a lot most of the wildlife up close here. So, we had a spider monkey there. Um, these were the white-faced capitude monkeys. Um, the place we stayed was Petira Lodge. This is a flower in the upper right hand corner that it's named after. Nice little bungalows about 80 85 degrees with no air conditioning, just screens outside. So, every morning I'll let you listen to our natural alarm clocks. We had about 4:45 5:00 a.m. every day. So, um, our means of transportation was boat. Um, it was fantastic, a
009lot of fun. We got to see a lot of fish and, you know, a lot of different things. So, these are little crabs that lived outside of our lodge there. So this is the one that had this sea turtle shaped swimming pool which was fantastic. Um in downtime we played a lot of games. This is uh Mrs. Coon's teaching the kids how to play skipo and the other ones were playing uker in the back. And then of course waterproof uno at the pool. So um animals. Um one of the most interesting one was this little red frog. Um is a strawberry poison dart frog only about the size of your thumbnail. Um, but his legs are blue. So, he looks like he's also wearing blue jeans. So, that's his little nickname. So, and then Sydney
010with a giant cricket, which is about once again the size of your palm, like 500 times the normal size of the crickets we were used to. So, and this was the only little seat only turtle we saw, a little box turtle. So, iguanas, different kinds of birds, uh, crocodiles, um, breakfast, lunch, and dinner were provided by this company. So, we got to try all kinds of different foods every day. U one of the scarier things that we saw was this um caterpillar that was beside our cafeteria and he looks terrifying with his little spikes, but he turns into an owl butterfly. So it's once it gets big about the size of your hand, each wing they have little eyes on them. Um was really interesting. Um try to go Oh, and then the beetles again.
011Um, the closest we got, and evidently this was a once in a-lifetime experience for us once we finally got a hold of the guide and told us and I explained to him what the sloth did, but we had a two-toed sloth climb down the tree and then it I thought was doing a little dance. I wasn't quite sure what he was doing and then it walked off and climbed up another tree. Um, evidently it was using the bathroom which sounds really odd. Um, but they only do that about once a month. And our guide when he told us he's like, "That's amazing." He's like, I'm not going to be able to beat anything else from now because they only do it once a month. He's only seen it happen about three times in all his
012tours. So, that was kind of exciting. I felt now that we were encroaching on the poor little guy. Um, but that's what they look like. They're not exactly as cute as you think. Um, he was covered with moss. Um, and he was Yeah, kind that's interesting. So, trying to go faster. Um, the kids had a blast at the school that we visited, which is a lot like Madison High School. It was a um school designed for um it had a STEM program. It had a hospitality program um where the kids were learning about being tour guides um using technology, opening a restaurant. Um they were doing farming. There was all kinds of really neat things that the kids got to do. So they loved interacting with other students. You know, most of them didn't speak
013much English, so that made our kids speak in Spanish. And then the other kids got to try to speak English back to them. So, we did get to visit their English classroom and they thought it was hilarious because the same activities we asked them to do in Spanish, they did with us, like practicing ordering food and, you know, that kind of stuff. So, it was a lot of fun. They learned a lot. It was nice to connect and I think some of the kids are still kind of like Snapchatting back and forth with them. Um, but the background of the the school was Ainal Volcano was the background of it. And you it was really cloudy that day. Unfortunately, you could only see it for a second at a time. Um, but the kids got
014to sit around and talk and visit with a lot of the students. It was a lot of fun. Um, this is the hotel that we stayed at. It was like a little bungalow type place um at the base of the volcano. Um, but it was dark and cloudy that time, so we didn't get to see the volcano. Great. Um, these are the hot springs that Claudia was talking about. Um, we went there at nighttime. Um, and of course being in the water, not a lot of great pictures, but Isabelle had brought um her little pouch for taking pictures. So, this is what we had. So, I could have just stayed there the whole time. Like, I would live there. It was amazing. Um, ziplining in the cloud forest, the canopy walk. Um, just all kinds
015of fun things. Some of us were a little scared of height, so the zip lining was a bit intimidating, but we still had a great time. Um, where Miss Phillips and I are on the left, that's the Pacific Ocean in the background that we were high enough to be able to see all the way to the coast. So, it was really exciting. Sorry. We had a cooking lesson and a dance lesson. Anthony learning to cook rice, which will be an important skill here when he joins the military here in a couple months. Learn how to cook for himself. Um, but it was a chicken and rice dish and making homemade tortillas. Uh, animals, another scary one. Uh, a scorpion that was you could use a blue light or a black light to see them, but
016it blended right into the tree and we didn't even see it until he had the light on it. The guide. Um, probably the kid's favorite hotel was this last one in uh, Capos was on the Pacific side. Uh, the pool was really cool. We were about a two-minute walk from this beach. Uh, they were trying to spell Ohio twice. Um, and the photo bomber are clear in the back waving along with the rest of the group. But it was absolutely beautiful. The sunsets, uh, sunrise. Um, there's another picture here we've got somewhere of what it looked like from our hotel room windows. Um, this is one of their favorite treats was called a um, Churchill from Winston Churchill. It was kind of a slushie milkshake mix, but it was interesting because it also had canned
017fruit in it, like mixed fruit cups. It was like ice cream, mixed fruit cup, and then more ice cream and a slushie over top of it. It was a weird combination, but the kids were so excited about trying it. So, yeah, Hannah, Emily saw the little stand and made the driver pull over, and we all had one. a lot of little candids of the kids. Um, I did learn what a 0.5 was. We think I had at least a hundred or so of everybody's foreheads where the kids were all playing. So, of our closeup, but they sent a lot of fun pictures to us. Uh, that was the view from our hotel room. This was the the peacock that joined us for lunch and he loved French fries. So, the kids would literally feed him
018anything. um animals in Mount Antonio. Their national animal is a green um redeyed tree frog. So, we just happened to see them on the last day. And uh the toucan, which they're very scary looking animals. They're very serious, but they're predators, which I did not know that they were carnivorous, but yeah. Um San Jose the last night before we left, another uh dance lesson for them. I was the photographer during those, so you don't see me dancing, but Mrs. Phillips and Mrs. Coons are in there, you know, having a good time. Uh, hammocks. That was at the pool. And okay, so he's going to help me. So, these were the sounds of the animals that woke us up. And the first one is a gray necked wood rail is what it's called, but it's a
019bird. I just called it the turn signal bird cuz I didn't know what it was. And now you get to understand why. about 5:15 in the morning for a solid 30 minutes. Uh, next is the howler monkeys. How monkey. This one was hard to hear. And that was the the lodge without windows. So, it was green. It was extremely loud. Once again about 5:15, 5:30 in the morning. So, and it was hard to get them all on the mountain, but the middle one is what and I sat straight up and done the first time it worked cuz I say, do I just keep clicking? But it's the males that make that noise and they kind of argue back and forth about territories. So, that was our alarm clock in the morning. So, and finally home
020to Cleveland. So Claudia has a little treat for you that we brought. Um is milk chocolate flavored guava. >> Thank you. >> So if you'd like to try some. >> They were all about the snacks and all the different foods that they got to try. But we had a great time. >> Did you say guava? >> Guava. >> Okay. Just making sure it's not a bug or >> No. No. That's mostly Mexico and the the little crickets that they have during Day of the Dead. So, >> well, my husband's brought home um cricket suckers before, so I'm like, no. >> Yeah, I think that's more of a Mexican thing. I've seen the ones with scorpions, too, inside. I pass on those. >> Yeah. >> So, yeah. I've even seen tarantulas. Like, there was one in
021the woods and I did not take a picture of him cuz I was freaking out cuz the his little paws were like this big. Like, as you could see it sticking out along the edge of the dirt. So, I just walked really fast past him. So, thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> It's a great trip for the kids. >> All right. Administrative committee reports. Uh anything from legislative? >> Amy's not here. >> She's not here. >> Oh, yeah. I thought there was two of you. Athletic board. >> Uh we met last month and just finalized budgets for um spring sports and looked at last spring sports stuff. So, I don't There's a couple copies up here if anybody wants any. uh student representative anybody okay uh facilities >> I'll
022go over that >> your report board policy >> uh there is a few there's three policies under superintendent's business um and if anyone has any questions about them let me know I have the redline versions too in my email if anyone needs to see what changed >> thank you welcome >> student achievement >> um so with school not being in we only have uh something to report from in the career center. Um, so they're excited to announce the following student achievements. 11 of 12 certified nurse aid graduates earned their CNA certification. Five of those graduates also earned their adult high school diploma. Two of two welding students earned their welding certifications and one of one phabbotomy graduate passed a certification exam to become a registered phabbotomy technician. They're also very excited to announce their partnership
023with Traco Driving Truck Driving School to bring CDL training to Mansfield. They launched their first class this week. The plans are to offer CDL class A training on a monthly basis. CDL drivers are in large demand and the closest training provider to Mansfield was over an hour away. We're happy that Mansfield is part of bringing this training to our comm. I'm sorry that Madison is part of bringing this training to our community and helping to meet the demand for our local area. And that's it. >> Thank you. Thank you. Superintendent update. >> Uh just a few things. Um, boy, summer is really flying by quickly. Um, I looked at the calendar today and I'm usually reporting to you guys how many days of school are left. Well, tonight I am reporting that there are 36
024calendar days left before school starts. >> Wow. >> So, um, we are moving quickly through the summer. Um, I just want to um thank our custodial maintenance and IT crews for all of their work in um getting our uh buildings ready, getting our classrooms ready, as well as um the folks over in the bus garage um working hard to get the buses ready and be able to pass their inspections um for next school year. Um just wanted to give you an update on um open positions that we have at this time. Um we have a uh STEM position here at the middle school open. Um we had it filled and the person who uh we filled it with uh ended up backing out this week. So um we're going to have to refill that one.
025Um, we have a an itinerant preschool position open over at South. Um, we have at least one uh really quality candidate for that position. So, we're hopeful that that that will work out. Um, three intervention specialist openings here at the middle school. um we have long-term subs set to go in those positions in the case that um we don't end up filling those. Um uh same with one intervention specialist at Madison South and we have uh one preschool uh specialed paraprofessional position open that that was formerly called an aid. Um it's called par we we uh the term is paraprofessional. Now um so those are the openings that we have um currently. Um the last thing that I have um I've provided you with a couple handouts um regarding our district support organizations um which
026would be like our booster clubs and our parent teacher organizations and um this is something that uh I've been trying to get time to work on and I've been able to do that um this summer and the the ultimate goal of This is to um for transparency for the district support organizations with uh administration in the board. Um there's we have a board policy um 9211 which I gave you a copy of that um kind of addresses this that um I I know I was not aware of and I'm not sure any of us were aware of um until recently. So what I did tried to do is take that board policy um build a framework and a document for um what we we are going to require of our district support organizations to provide
027to us to make sure that they're doing everything right and uh you as a board and we as administration are um doing what we're supposed to be doing in um overseeing that and and making sure that that those um partnerships are in line and appropriate. So, um nothing adversarial. Um just want to be want them to be transparent. Um and then uh what I I one of the things that you'll see in the list I'm going to ask of of each of those organizations is to come to a board meeting during the year and present to you all um how they're doing financially um what plans they've completed prior to that and then what projects they might have um upcoming. So, um, if you want to give me any feedback on the document that I've
028created, feel free to do so. Um, this is just a draft, but, um, that's that's kind of the game plan for moving forward with that. >> Might be nice if they could show up the same night that their principal does. Uh, >> that Yeah, I I haven't really formalized that, but we do want to definitely get them here. >> Yeah. >> At least for one meeting a year. And back to the um open positions. Everybody that was on the riff list has either moved to another position somewhere else or taken something here. >> That's correct. We still have some teachers on the recall list. However, those that are on there have taken a job in another district. So, we don't have any teachers whose jobs were cut who are unemployed. Okay. Anything else? Anybody? All
029right. Going to item H, presentation. Mr. Yoast. How you doing, Mike? >> Good morning, everyone. Or afternoon. Um, like Rob said, we did do all our inspections and everything passed, so we're all good there. Um, school buses continue to be the safest mode of transportation to and from school. the design of this of the bus um through state construction standards make it very um very safer. It's almost like a semi that they that they drive. It's a very big vehicle that is really safe. Um last year we transported about 1300 students daily and we traveled our district is about 50 square miles. Um we traveled about 209,000 miles for the year doing that. Um we also uh transported to five of our buildings as well as eight other schools in the uh in the area.
030Um last week last year we we transported our student and student athletes approximately 31,000 miles on top of that for field trips for going to KOI and whatnot. Um this year due to student enrollment we'll be reducing one route this year. Our routes have changed somewhat because of this and uh we're working hard to assign the students their routes this year. We ask that parents every year give us, you know, let us know what they want because we don't want to be sent them to a a grandma that moved to Florida or something. So, they have to request transportation each and every year. And we and they do that through final forms. And I've been working on getting all those students um routed. should have that done in another week and a half. Um, this
031year we will be like in past we we we usually send out a postcard, but we I'm also going to try to check with uh tech and see if we can't do it email, send them email and try to do it that way. It should save us a considerable amount of money. We may do both this year. Then if it works out, we'll go with the the email only. Um, last year we started to update our camera systems. We put cameras, new cameras on four buses. This is a much needed upgrade as some of the systems were 12 years old and they say they really only last about five. So, we've got quite a bit beyond that. But uh we're very excited about that and we're hoping through grants and other funding available that we
032can replace all our route bus cameras within about four years. Um again like in past years we're asking any student it's open enrolled that they figure out other transportation for that first month and then we'll just have to see def depending on how many kids we have and whether or not we can transport them whether we can do that. So probably in the first middle of September we we'll have them call us. That's about all I have. Any questions? Nope. Thank you, Mike. >> Okay. Thanks, >> Mr. Neon. >> Good evening, everyone. So, just a quick update here. Uh, all the schools are on track to be finished first second week in August for all interior work. Um, the only the only one school that's a little bit lacking behind right now is the high
033school. I've implemented that. We're going to on a 5-year schedule, we're going to be stripping out one wing of the school every year on top of scrubbing and recotating the rest of the floors. It's taking a little bit longer because they probably got about 15 years worth of wax on these floors. So, things are going a little bit slower. Um, after that, everybody's going to be outside groundskeeping, fixing up the schools as far as beautifification process. high school roof project that's actually going to be starting the first week or I'm sorry, excuse me, the second week in August. It's not going to interfere with school. It's over the career tech um wings, the machining lab, carpentry, welding. So, as far as their vehicles, equipment, dumpsters, things of that nature, they'll all be behind the school.
034It shouldn't affect anything with students. They're expecting it to be about a 45 to 50day process start to finish. Um, we had a south parking lot. We had an extension about a 20 to 25 ft extension put on the east side. So, the Illinois Avenue side of the parking lot. We were running into the same situation that we had at Mifflin in the past. Cars are not able to get off of Illinois Avenue and buses are not able to leave the school. uh just the abundance of people that are driving their kids and picking them up now. So, we've extended that parking lot. They were supposed to start today with sealing of the entire lot. Rain held that up. So, it's going to be moved till tomorrow. Go from there. Um we are also on
035page two of this, there's a there's a picture here. We are rearranging how the traffic pattern is going to be held. There will be four pickup lines or drop off lines and a one dedicated kindergarten line. That'll be the most interior line goes around, comes down the center section. It's going to help streamline the pickup and drop off process as well as maximizing the amount of cars that we can actually fit in there. U we will be losing a few parking spots due to that addition of the parking lot and the the rearrangement. However, we're going to add more to the south end of the parking lot um to make up for that. East View, we're actually going to be sealing their parking lot as well. There should be there Friday and again repaving or
036re uh line striping those for pickup and drop off. The high school threw on a project kind of late on me. They wanted to restripe the parking lot, but colorcoding parking spots. So faculty will be orange, students parking will be white. They want to be able to break this up because they're having a lot of problems with students that are parking right up on the front row, not allowing the staff to have ample parking for themselves. So that's something that's uh going to be addressed next week. They'll be out to re to redo those. The following year when we do our next section of parking lot, they'll come back and reseal the entire parking lot and then restripe once again. We had a career a career tech adult ed hallway. So the old Dur Rock
037paneling that was on the walls there that the kids have been breaking for the last 20 years, you know, putting holes in, so on and so forth, we have eliminated all that. They're in the middle of a project. It's about a six-day project. They are going to be the adult ed side of the hallway, office side of the hallway, like so the north side of the hallway. It's going to be a new product. Um, it's kind of what you see on the exterior of most modern buildings. It's kind of a a rough textured kind of almost sandpapery type textured, but it's about a six layer process. So, there's a hardy bore backer, which is much stronger than drywall to help eliminate the whole issues. >> So, we be busting knuckles. the side wall >> that
038that's more what they'll be breaking versus the walls. So, you'll know the person that's been messing with it. Um, and then on the library side of the hallway, we have tore that dura rock out and through the 20 ft that we opened up was all block wall that had been painted once before. We tore out the next 20 ft and we've come into the old entrance to the library from the exterior of the building. So, we've had to do some creative design work on that. So, we have actually painted walls on each end. The brick section has been covered up with basically like columns right and left. And then it's going to be a smooth surface over the bricks that we're then going to have CT and career tech design. Um, whatever they would like
039for a wrap to go over that section of the wall. It can be changed out as often as they'd like, but something just kind of spruce it up and modernize the hallway. middle school gym and high school gym all have been resurfaced. Um, Ohio Floors came out and redid those. Last year, we ran into some situations where they didn't do as well of a job as what we would expect them to do. There was a lot of uh scuff marks, black shoe marks that were actually waxed into the floor or sealed into the floor. they have corrected that situation for us and they actually gave us a little bit of a discount to make up for it. Um, room 213, this is another project that uh, Mr. Conway had thrown on us kind of late
040in the in the summer. We are converting that room into a conference room now. So, stripped out all the walls. Um, we refinished the floors. We're adding some more electric to add some air conditioning for that room. That's one thing that they had not had in the past. Um, it's going to take some time. We probably won't be ready for the start of school. We need to paint and do some other work in there as well. But he's also ordering new furniture. Again, we got to wait till that arrives. And then high school boiler. So, we have talked in the past, we lost two more boilers this winter at the high school. We have sat down with Lockinvar, the company that we purchased these boilers through, as well as Campbell, their distributor. They are working
041us a deal that's kind of too good to be true. Um, we are able to purchase four new boilers for the price of two and revamp our system at the school to make the new boilers in a closed loop system. The problem that we've run into that's leading to these boilers failing is they are part of the old cast iron boiler system which is full of iron, things of that nature. These new systems don't like that and it's causing um uh what is it called? Electrolysis inside the heat exchangers which are then creating holes. We tried to replace or not sorry we haven't tried to replace we've tried to repair these heat exchangers and unfortunately it's not something that's repairable. We were kind of their test mule for this. So we are working out um
042Campbell who is who we purchase equipment through. they are not part of an an consortium. So now we're going out to a three bid process on this. So we're in the middle of getting scopes of work um full blanket of you know what's going to be needed so that we can then put it out to to be bid on. Um the total price for the project is $135,000. The total price for four brand new boilers is almost $140,000. So they're selling us the boilers at $19,000 a piece which is a huge savings. It's 47% savings over cost. So um so that is something that we are looking to do. Then we have our turf project softball baseball fields. They're going to be starting in September. They're looking at taking well they should be finished by
043the end of October. So roughly month and a half, two months to complete. Then they'll be transitioning over to the football fields. um time timeline on the football field they're saying is only about a month. So the big work's already been done. It's just more of a replacement for it. That's all I've got to add right now. Any questions? All right. Thank you very much. >> Thank you, gentlemen, very much. >> Thank you. >> All right. Moving on. Item I, treasures business. Entertain a motion to accept. >> So move. >> I'll second. >> Discussion. >> Um first thing before I go on to mine, I'll just I'm going to springboard a little bit. One Mr. Neuron said the turf project um paid for from permanent improvement funds and booster donations and private donations. So it's
044not general fund. Um yes, the the transfers over the years were from general fund, but that was purposeful. The thing he was talking about with uh the conference room is a principal's fund money, not general fund. He gets money from doing other things throughout the year, fundraisers, whatever. it's it's not taxpayer money. So, I just wanted to point that out that there's those things that he's talking about. Quite a quite a few of the big projects are are not taxpayer money, the boilers. Um, however, we have to have heat to have school. You can't have a school without heat and they've just they failed. So, we're kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place. And Mr. Neon did a lot of leg work. Um, I pushed him pretty hard. So did Mr. Peterson.
045Pushed him pretty hard to, you know, just every way possible to get the best savings we could. That's why when he said we were a test guinea pig for the the welding, he went above and beyond to try to make sure that there was no way these could be repaired before we had to go the route we did. So, I just want to talk about that before I went on stuff. Uh, first thing we'll do is the financial report. And I called it the financial/anual report because if you look at this, I changed it around a little bit. Pages um 5, six, and seven all have to do with the end of the year financial because June was the end of the fiscal year. So rather than just do a monthly report, I put the
046annual parts in there as well. I'll just start at the beginning. uh revenues. You know, we we were up 4% for the fiscal year, but of that 4% more than three and a half of it was the complete collection of the first initial levy we had in 2023. So, if we took that out of the mix, we really were only up about half a percent. Um, which is relatively flat. Um, if you go on to the next page, expenditures, expenditures are up um, over 7 and a2%. So, if your revenues are flat and your expenditures go up, that means your deficit spending. It's just it's all there is to it. It's same in your own household. If you make $40,000 a year and all of a sudden your expenses go up two grand, well, you're
047deficit spending that year. You're going to have to got to cut something somewhere. Um the problem I'll just I'll just keep going through this because I've said it over and over again that the expenditure is going up so much as insurance. I mean if you look at the benefit increase year-over-year from 24 to 25 that was almost a million dollars which is like three time almost three times more than the purchase services went up and almost three times more than supplies went up and almost seven times more than the capital outlay went up and just about double what salaries went up. It's just insurance is outrageously expensive and it just keeps getting worse and worse and worse. Um, we are implementing some newer things. Um, and we're going to talk a little bit more in
048the coming months about other things we can work on to try to mitigate the costs, but that's it's a kind of a double-edged sword. You have to have insurance. People have to have insurance. and we're kind of stuck. Um like I said, the last few pages just were where we ended the um fiscal year, how much our um general fund revenues are and what percentage each category came from like real estate and property taxes, state foundation, um homestead and rollback. That's what the state reimbures for parts of the property tax that are built in the code that they reimburse for. And other operating revenues are things like interest in Medicaid reimbursements and things like that. Um so half of our money comes from state foundations. So, anytime the legislature decides to play with um what
049they're going going to do either for us or against us in the state in the in the budget, you know, 50% of our funds come from that. So, it really affects us big time. Um we did get a preliminary um what's the word I'm looking for? a preliminary um >> Simulation. Thank you. Thank you. Preliminary simulation. And we the first year we're going to gain somewhere around $250,000 and the second year they're going to take 115 from us or something like that. So it's they take it in one hand and give it away in the other. So we're basically going to end up close to flat over the next two years with the budget. And um the other thing part of the budget, I believe I said it a couple months ago, what they did
050um what the governor did and and is still in there, the way the funding works, they have two components. They have a component that says how wealthy the district is and getting and they updated that with FY24 property valuations and FY23 federally adjusted gross income valuations. And the other part of the budget o of that is how much does it cost to educate a kid? So how much do we have paying salaries? How much does insurance cost? How much does it cost to operate a building? Well, they didn't update that. They left it at 2022 values. So when the state plays around and does things like that, essentially what it does is over the course of the two years, it shifts more of the burden from the state to the local. So that's what the
051governor did. And then in the other two parts of the um legislature down there, the Senate and the House, they are doing everything they can to try to reduce income taxes. So they're saying, "Well, now you can't try to get it in the in you can't try to get it in property taxes." So the governor's pushing it the one way, the other two are pushing it the other, and we're unfortunately caught in the middle. um general fund expenditures were up, but the vast majority of that was the advance to um the self- insurance fund. Had we not had that advance, we would have been just about flat this year in operating. And then then the last page is la well the second to last page is all the other funds other than like per uh
052bond fund which pays for the building the adult ed fund um all the other funds combined. I pulled those out and then the grant funds. So I did there's a brief synopsis on that and then the last page is just a um comparison of where we ended up in end of June where I said we should be in November where I said we should be in May and where we actually ended up and the variances. >> So >> can you explain the difference between the property tax revenue and the personal property tax revenue? >> Yeah, property tax revenue is all the residents. Personal property tax is basically um public utility. >> Okay. Um, >> so what was your question? I didn't hear it. >> Oh, sorry. I had asked if he could explain the difference
053on the last page between the property tax revenue and the personal property. >> The reason the reason it's broken out separate is because property tax revenue is broken down into class one and class 2 and there's millage rates and they vary. public utility is full voted millage not broken down and public utility pays there's no delinquencies or well I shouldn't say no there was one but by a couple days um two years ago but it's it's broken out separate because it is it is very separate for example we're not fortunate enough to have a pipeline but all those other districts that have pipeline go in that >> okay >> and the reason they call it personal property tax revenue revenue. Um it's it there used to be a uh used to we used to get
054collect tax on businesses inventory and stuff like that and that went in that line. Well, these things basically are dictated by the state of Ohio and they just didn't happen to change that line. So that's what it's called. >> Okay. Thank you. >> No problem. The next thing I'm going to talk to you a little bit about um the second thing is the resolution. Uh this is a culmination of all the hard work that you all have put in over the past four months on trying to on on doing a tax policy and trying to figure out, you know, the most fair way to fund the schools and how to come up with a a good solution that would be, you know, benefit senior citizens, benefit the school, just be an equitable people could you
055you guys sat in on all the meetings. This what you decided for the income tax and the and conversion takes two resolutions. This is the first resolution and it's called the resolution of necessity which I have to send this part of one of the lines in there says the treasur has to send this to high department taxation. I send this resolution to high department taxation. High department taxation. Then over the next hopefully week, they're pretty quick. I'll probably even send it tonight will send us, okay, if this is what your resolution of necessity is, then you need to go on the ballot for this kind of an income tax, this percent. And then the board then over the next like hopefully the week of the 28th of July sometime around then we're going to have
056to have another resolution to pass that we can submit to the county so then we can be put on the ballot. So this kind of a a thing takes more hoops to jump through. So this is the first resolution. It's called the resolution of necessity to tell the high department taxation we need the m need this kind of money. Can you tell me what kind of what percentage it's going to be? The next [Music] Okay. The next one is called the resolution declaring intent to cease collections of the 7.5 mil levy. This um will only take place if if an income tax passes. But this resolution says in there if proposed income tax is approved. What this would do then by by passing this resolution is January 1st the county auditor then would stop collecting
057the 7.5 mil on the 7.5 mil levy. So the income tax would start January 1st and your property tax or somebody's property tax would stop January 1st if they passed this. Okay. But one at this second resolution the only way it will go into effect is if if you look down at section one if the proposed income tax is approved by the voters. So this was just a resolution that you could that we had you had discussed to make sure got put on so the public was well aware that it's not the intent to double tax people. The intent is to replace what we had passed with something else that would be more equitable because that's what you guys had all discussed. And the last resolution, which is the recommendation to return the advance, um
058there's still a negative fund balance in the O24 fund, but I would rather run the and the the auditors are going to have a problem with me anyway because it's a negative fund balance. You're not supposed to. But I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place. I'd rather have a negative fund balance in the self- insurance fund than I would the general fund because the general fund pays their salaries and self- insurance fund pays medical mutual. And if I'm going to if I'm going to have a negative fund balance, I'd rather have it in the fund that pays medical mutual than the one that pays our our teacher salaries. So, are there any questions on any of uh my resolutions? >> No. Um, Miss Amy Walker couldn't be here tonight, so she did send
059me a statement that she wanted me to read on her behalf. Um, so it just says, "I would like to extend my gratitude to my fellow board members, Mr. Peterson and Mr. Stevens, for showing up to every lengthy work session as we explored tax structures, specifically one that is appropriate and fair for our community. Mr. Connley's guidance and patience as he put up with our many questions is much appreciated. The intense deliberation that took place at these work sessions reflects a commitment to long-term financial stability for Madison as well as to a shared investment in the future of our community. I am excited that we are moving away from a philosophy that unfairly taxes property owners and toward a more just system based on one's ability to pay while giving relief to senior citizens on
060a fixed income. It is with deep regret that I'm unable to be included in the vote on this resolution, but I would like to publicly express my support as it is grounded in the best interest of our entire community. >> Second that. >> Good. >> Uh earned income. Uh can you give a quick explanation? Earned income. >> An earned income is anything that is reported on your W2. So if you have social security, that's not earned income. If you're on disability or welfare, that's not earned income. It it is has to be something that is reported on a W2 to the state of Ohio. >> That that's something the board worked hard and talked about, had many many discussions. >> Yes. >> So it um for those of you sitting in the audience that they
061they did deliberate a lot on that point and um because there are a couple different types of taxes that you could do. You could do a traditional which would do estates and everybody else and then there's the earned which just only taxes on W2 earnings wages and that wasn't is the way they had discussed and what they ultimately chose um because it was the most equitable and fair especially to the population of Madison that is on a fixed income. >> And I do have one last question. I know I already asked you earlier, but just so that it's kind of publicly stated, I have um I've seen a couple of employees concerned that they're going to be taxed because they work in the district, even if they don't live in the district. So, just to
062be clear, the income tax would be for anybody who resides in the district, regardless of what county they work in. >> That is true. >> And people who work in the district or in the county, but live outside of the district, would not be subject to the tax. >> That is true. So if you work here but live in Mansfield, you don't pay the tax. If you live here but work in Cleveland, you do pay the tax. >> I'm a perfect example. I live in Clear Fork. I pay an income tax to school district income tax for Fork, but I work here. >> Okay. >> So, >> okay. I just wanted to clarify. Thank you. >> Okay. >> Anything else? Anybody? >> All right. Go ahead with roll call. >> Mr. Wickman, >> four. >>
063Mrs. Melissa Walker, >> four. Mrs. Codin >> four. >> Mr. Moer >> four. All right. Item J, matters related personnel. Entertain a motion to accept. >> So moved. >> I'll second >> discussion. I I can't vote for Jenna Hendershot, Brian Moer on under C. Just let you know. >> Under C. >> Yep. >> So you're going to be abstaining from letter C? >> Yeah. Well, just for those two people. Okay. Discussion. Anybody >> All right. And this includes the addendum, right? >> Yes. >> Yep. >> Okay. Mrs. Melissa Walker. >> Four. >> Mrs. Conterman. >> Four. >> Mr. Wton. >> Four. >> Mr. Moer. >> Uh, four. Except noted. >> Except that addendum is K. Okay. >> Superintendent's business. So that would not include the addendum. Oh, okay. >> Oh, that's right. Sorry. >> Well,
064that's my fault. >> Do we have to do Jesse separate? >> Yes. >> Yeah, we have to have a motion. >> You need a motion for that? >> Motion to accept. >> So, >> recommendation. >> Okay, >> I'll second. >> Discussion of it. >> Okay. So, I'm assuming Melissa Walker. >> Mr. Won, >> four. >> Mrs. Cartman, >> four. >> Mr. Motion >> four >> and moving on to K with the addendum. Entertain a motion for superintendent B business to include the addendum. >> So moved. >> Second >> discussion. Uh just want to um comment on one of the uh items. Um most of these are um contracts, annual contracts and different things. Um but I did want to comment on the one board policy that um we are going to do one and only
065reading on and uh that's regarding our attendance policy and um just want to have that in order um prior to the school year starting and I don't think our August board meeting would um be before the school year starts. So I just wanted to have that in place in time. Um that that's all any other discussion. >> Mrs. Melissa Walker >> four. >> Mr. Wton >> four. >> Mr. Con >> four. >> Mr. Moer >> four. And then him. President's business. Entertain a motion. >> All visitors comments. You >> did I miss it? >> That was over down at the bottom. >> All right. Sorry about that. Visitors comment. Oh, it is. Any visitor comments? >> Thank you all. Yep. Now to item M, president's business. Entertain a motion to accept. >> So moved. >>
066Second. >> Any discussion? >> There be no voting after. >> We we need to come up with a time for our next meeting. Hopefully last week in July. >> Oh, so we So when he needs to meet before end of July >> has to be before July 31st. >> Okay. I can't do the 31st, but I should be able to do any other day. The 30th works better for me. Wednesday. >> Yeah. And that's fine with me. >> Are you available the 30th? >> Hopefully, long as I'm not on jury duty. >> Do we want to do that at >> is like I could do like 4:15. >> Yeah. Does it say 4:15 for >> I You can't. >> Well, I'm pending because I'm assigned to jury duty, but it's canceled these two weeks. So,
067I got to call back in on the 28th. So, I don't know how long jury duty would be. >> Okay. >> Hopefully, >> the whole week would be >> Well, it's Well, he needs three. >> We only need three. >> Yeah. So, 4:15. >> Yeah. >> You're expendable. >> Thank you. >> Anytime. 4:15 works. So, >> okay. We'll just hope that it's canceled then. >> July. Hey, man. >> July 30th at 41. >> July 30th, 4:15. here at the board office or here. >> It could be at the board office cuz it's just um passing that resolution to go to the county auditor and approving the um corrective action plan that ODEW needs because we're basically in fiscal caution. I mean, we have it's a precautionary plan that has to be submitted to the state.
068>> All right. And then so we got that set. Do we uh >> we need to vote? >> Vote and then go into executive session. Uh motion. Any other discussion? >> Roll call. >> Mrs. Melissa Walker >> four. >> Mr. Wigton. >> Four. >> Mrs. Cterman. >> Fourth. >> Mr. Moer. >> Fourth. >> And then we are going in executive session and there'll be no voting afterwards. So, thank you all for attending and appreciate it. >> Uh is that that's the motion to go into executive session? >> Yes. Okay.