001I'd like to call meeting to order. Uh, can we stand up and have pledge of allegiance, please? I pledge allegiance 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. Cartman, here. Mr. Moer, here. Miss Amy Walker, here. Mr. Wigton, here. And can I get a motion to adopt the agenda for tonight? So moved. A second. I'll second. Discussion. I'd also like to make a recommendation that we use item N2, the David Connley presentation, and move that to the professional development room upstairs so that it's easier to see what he has to present. Okay. Any other discussion? Miss Amy Walker, four. Mrs. Cartman, four. Mrs. Melissa Walker, four. Mr.
002Wigton, four. Mr. Motion four and approval of previous uh meeting to accept a motion for that. So move second. I'll second. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Mr. Wigton, four. Mrs. Melissa Walker, four. Miss Amy Walker, four. Mrs. Cterman, four. Mr. Moer, four. Uh, item E, presentation of certificates. Mr. Conway, I'll bring those up. Okay. Can I have uh Miss Tracy Burton, Miss Laura Phillips come down. So, I have the honor of talking about both of these ladies as they get ready to embark on their retirement. Um 15 years I've had the opportunity to work with both of them. Um, and when we were deciding, my family was deciding where did we want to live, it was what type of school system did we want our kids to go to? And after working with teachers like
003this, we decided we wanted to build a home in Madison. And I think these two um, teachers are great representatives of why that is. Um, speaking specifically of Tracy, um, I got the opportunity to see her and talk about her at the NHS assembly, but I have not seen, uh, someone who lives the four pillars of NHS like Tracy Burton does, what she does for her students. Um, and not just in a leadership role with our students, but also with our faculty. She is the chair of our math department and has been the driving force there as we've reconfigured our math curriculum to try to improve our state test scores. She is a friend and someone that I absolutely love and I'm so thankful to have the opportunity to work with her. So, we'll start
004by honoring Miss Tracy Burton. [Applause] and to continue glowing remarks. Um, also had an opportunity to work with Miss Laura Phillips and she has been the most caring, understanding, compassionate teacher that I've ever seen and she's been the backbone of our foreign language department for a long time. She has mentored many foreign language teachers as they've come across and they have then gone on to be foreign language teachers themselves because of the influence of Mrs. Phillips. Um, and having had Sydney in school this year and seeing that, I just it was a a joy to see not only one of our retiring teachers, but going out with her daughter as the Valdictorian. So, uh, can't be more happy for her and proud of her. Um, wish her the very best on a well-deserved retirement. Laura
005Phillips. [Applause] Thank you. And then recognition of visitors or in visitors comments. Come on up. Uh please identify yourself, give your address, and you have three minutes to make a statement. Um my name is Betty Sackman. I live at 1639 Englewood Drive um here in the Madison community. I'm here to speak tonight on behalf of my daughter and Eagle Scout Madison Sackman as senior at Madison Comprehensive High School along with her fellow Eagle Scouts from Scout Troop 138, Andrew Parish, Landon Harvey, and Zachary Sander Winters. May 17, I was made aware that during the commencement ceremony, graduation class of 2025, that the students will only be allowed to wear the National Honor Society cord or cords from military branches that are enlisted. This was the first time I've heard of it of any restrictions, and
006I'm a very active parent. Read all emails and final form notices that come through. I went to the handbook and senior page to see if there was any policy in place that stated this and I found nothing. I quick quickly reached out to Mr. Conway um which was he confirmed this restriction. I informed u Mr. Conway that my daughter wanted to wear her Eagle cord as she has earned her Eagle Scout rank December of 2024. Other schools in the surrounding area not only allow these cords, but they also make sure the graduating Eagle Scouts are supplied with these cords to be worn. I was still met with a firm, this is how it is, and in they will let me know if this changes. The Eagle Scout rank is a significant accomplishment that can provide
007a strong foundation for future success in college, business, and other areas in life. It emphasizes leadership development, making a difference in the community, promoting a sense of civic responsibility and commitment to service. Eagle Scouts may receive benefits such as scholarships, u priority consideration for college admissions, and recognization in the United States military, where an Eagle Scout may be advanced to E2 upon graduation from basic training. An Eagle Scout averages over a,000 hours of community service throughout their scouting career. Scout Troop 138 is a proud part of the Madison community and will often find us serving whenever we can. From helping with flag ceremonies to repairing community pools, trail maintenance, and feeding the homeless, building pavilions, and repairing or building, and so much more. This type of commitment often flows um over into their school life.
008You will find them in leadership roles within the school, stepping up, volunteering to do more. These fine young people of Scout Troop 138 are exceptional. We are asking that the school administration and board review their comp their current stance on graduation cords to implement an approval process for graduating students so these Eagle Scouts can proudly wear a symbol of their hard work and dedication and scouting as they walk across the stage and receive their diploma. I may be biased, but I think the school administration and board members would be proud to share this school that a student from their school and community has earned the rank of Eagle Scout and achievement that will follow them no matter where life takes them. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Any other visitors for comments? Uh,
009got one more. Please identify yourself and your address. I'm Charles Sackman, 1639 Anglewood Drive. Come before you as scoutmaster for Troop 138. Did not perform any type of a speech or bother writing it down. Last time I gave a speech so poignant it got erased from all annals of recording here at Madison. It just we had a fluke. So I speak from the heart and start mentioning some names. There's Matthew Failer, noted musher in the Iditeride. There's Billy Link, chief procurement officer for Walmart Industries. Senator Shared Brown, former mayor Tim Vaker. These are all notable Eagles from the Mansfield area. on the grand stage the rest of life. You guys might know Mike Row of Dirty Jobs fame. Neil Armstrong who's been to the moon. All Eagles. We build the leaders of leaders. So they
010are not getting a chance to be able to have their voices heard. I've been with these youth for at least 15 years in this area. And the reason why I joined is because during that time it was working in a prison. And they hear the same thing over and over again. When you ask what they did to get there, their answer was always, "I'm not here for being a Boy Scout." Which means what we do is the antithesis of being in prison. Means that we are practicing good citizenship. We are doing things in the community. We're out there building pavilions where the homeless are served daily. We're offering meals here in Mansfield to do better things. These kids are doing this uh in fourth grade and beyond, joining me in helping us do other things.
011So, I'm not here for myself, but I'm here for them and to have their voices heard. So one little cord that hangs on them that they can look around to all the other military enlistes and feel a little bit better about themselves because they know going in that military enlist will be the boss of the ones around them because they put in their time and they did their work starting as low as fourth grade. So that's all I have for you. Thanks for your time. Thank you. Any other visitor like to make a comment? If not, Mr. Conway, Mr. Grove, Mr. Grove. Good evening. Um, I have Joselyn Barley here uh with us this evening. I would like to recognize Jocelyn and her accomplishments. She uh you are looking at our state champion in Skills
012USA of the prepared speech. Jocelyn will get to go on to represent Madison and our Skills USA chapter in Atlanta, Georgia coming up here in June. Um so I just wanted to present her with this uh certificate of achievement and to recognize all of the hard work and dedication that she has put into uh her speech coming up soon. So Josh. All right. Any other visitors or comments? Seeing none, item G, administrative committee reports. Legislative. No report. Athletic board control. We haven't met. Haven't met. No. Uh, student representative comments. Hello. For those of you who do not know me, my name is Elise Huggin and I am this year's student council president. And today will be my last meeting with you all as I graduate next week. So today with me, I have our new
013student council council officers that are going to introduce themselves. Hi, my name is Courtney Cyrus and I will be your new student council president for the next school year. Hi, my name is Grace Spielman. I'll be your new vice president for student council. Hello, my name is Timothy Ellis. I'm going to be the secretary for next school year um on student council. And not with us is Libby Becklesi, but she is our treasurer. Okay. To start things off, spring break was much needed and relaxing. We are ready to get to the finish line of this school year and get ready for summer. Softball has been outstanding and won the OC conference. They are still going with tournaments starting on Thursday against Ashland. And baseball just ended their season yesterday with a great season and lots
014of memories. Boys tennis placed fourth in OC's and had a killer season. Track started districts yesterday, but it got postponed and will start tomorrow. I know for a fact our team will go strong and far. Prom was very successful with Emily Brandt and Nick Grimes winning prom king and queen. Um the the recent PBIS event was uh rewarding for students and celebrated uh with food trucks, kickball, cornhole, spikeball, and more. Um state testing is now complete and took a lot of stress off of students um and teachers. It went very well and everyone is eager to get their scores. Um NHS, National Honor Society had their um blood drive which is more than successful. Thank you. Um, uh, they collected around 284 units of blood, which is enough to save over 600 lives. Thank you.
015I'll finish it off today. All righty. So, over spring break, Leah Thomas and I, we went to the competed in the FCCLA, which is the Family Career and Community Leaders of America State Competition in Columbus. We both received gold ratings, but unfortunately will not be going to nationals. Um, choir and band finished their final concerts and had a great per time and performance. Additionally, band went to Cedar Point to perform and choir went to Chicago to perform. They were both very successful and are ready for their challenges next year. Last night was the senior recognization awards ceremony where students were rewarded scholarships, awards, and encouraging words. I can say for myself I am very thankful and grateful for all I was awarded last night. This morning was a school assembly which students got awards such
016as their academic letters, academic awards, and more. The senior's last day is this Friday and we will walk through the halls and say our last goodbyes as Madison students and seniors. The senior's breakfast is on Tuesday which will be followed by graduation practice getting ready for our big day. For the first time ever, we are hoping to have the seniors walk at the elementary halls in our caps and gowns for the students to see and experience what will come shortly. Lastly, graduation will take place on June 1st where we will compete complete the goal we started many years ago, walking across the stage. Only this time, it's extra special because we will be the 100th class of Madison Comprehensive High School. I am beyond thankful and that I was chosen to take the role of
017student council president this year. We share many laughs and exciting events and conversations. Thank you for being a part of my senior year and helping me grow as a person and as a speaker even though I can't speak right now. I'm thankful I got to be here with you all and to share each month or be here each month and share everything I could think of for each meeting. As I am sad I am moving up in life, leaving Madison behind. I hope to be a teacher for Madison in just a few short years. I love you all and I know you guys will be in good hands with our new student council officers. Have a great summer facilities. Thank you. Student achievements. Okay. At East View, they're getting ready for the end of year
018carnival and growth celebration. They're proud of the average growth in Ire reading was 128% and I Ready math was 117%. Test scores just came back and they're beyond proud of those scores as well. In third grade math, 79% of the students were proficient with our average score being a 739. In third grade ELA, 85% of our students were proficient with our average being score being a 734. In fourth grade ELA, 71% of the students were proficient with 725 being the average score. In fourth grade math, 80% of the students were proficient with their average score being a 740. A huge thank you to teachers and staff who work so hard to ensure students are prepared. At Mifflin, end of year traditions are in full swing as the school year is coming to a close. They
019hosted it their annual literacy night for the adventures of a South Pole pig where students and their families participated in a transformed mifflin where a barn and Antarctic decorated the school. Matt Faylor, a musher from the area who participated in the Adidar spoke to students while visiting his home. Students participated in a Jeopardy tournament as well as Mifflin's annual trivia bowl. This week, students will have their fourth grade fourth quarter leadership celebration for PBIS with a students versus staff kickball game. Preliminary scores for the math achievement on the Ohio State test and math also show 85% of students proficient or higher in third grade and 95% of students proficient or higher in fourth grade. At Madison South, 80% of our fourth graders were proficient or higher on this year's state math test. This is above
020the state average. Congratulations to the students and staff. For the middle school, the eighth grade students went on the DC trip and had a great time learning about the nation's capital. Mass state test scores have begun to close the gap with the state with two of our grade levels being higher than the state average. Our PTO wrote and received a $1,000 grant for the middle school library. At the high school on Tuesday, May 6th, they held their annual Madison Academic Achievement Recognition Program. The top 30 students from 2025 recognized a Madison educator that had a significant impact on them. Special thanks to Michelle Dylan for putting together such a wonderful emotional program. The National Honors Society organized another community blood drive in honor of London Hamilton on May 8th. They again exceeded all of their
021goals. They collected 138 units which has the possibility of saving 414 lives. A special thanks to Mrs. Burton for taking the lead for such a wonderful event. NHS later held their special recogn rec recognition program on May 14th. The senior awards program was held last night, May 20th. Many students were recognized and awarded scholarships towards postsecary education. State testing has been completed for the year. They're currently analyzing preliminary results and will have a detailed report during our board of education represent or presentation in September. On May 6, Brianna Stutter was honored as Madison's winner of the Rotary McGawan Courage Award. She was recognized along with students from other area high schools at a lunchon at Kingwood Center. Bri was nominated by Mr. Craig Green and Mrs. Mary Meyers. And lastly, at the career center, uh
022they will be celebrating all of their students success for the 2425 school year. And they'd like to invite everyone to attend the upcoming graduation ceremony on Friday, June 13th in the middle school auditori. The ceremony begins at 7 pm. Anything else? All right. Thank you. Board policy. No report and superintendent update. So um we're winding down here. We've got um five days of school left. Uh two days for seniors. And uh as we wind down, I'd like to publicly thank um everybody uh within the school district for a great year. Um this being the 100th year of Madison schools. Um so that includes our students, their families, um our teachers, our non-eing staff, uh as well as the administration and and you as board members. Um it's been a great year and very rewarding. Um
023couple events um that recently took place um were very successful. Last Thursday uh as some of you you were there um we had our uh elementary Olympics and uh I'd just like to take a moment to publicly thank um Mr. Gordon for organizing that. He does a great job and uh that was wellrun uh well attended and it was a very nice night for our community and would also like to thank our uh elementary principles and our elementary fizzed teachers for all of their hard work um on that event. And then um Saturday we had our Hundred Years Carnival um here at the middle school and uh that event went off very well. Um and we had uh pretty good attendance. We were pretty happy with the outcome of that. Um considering the weather wasn't
024great. Um but uh that went very well and I'd also like to do some public uh thank yous um for that. U Mr. Nelson, uh Mrs. pluck. Mr. Gibson and Mrs. Burton uh uh worked on that and and put that together and uh had to switch gears Friday night. Um they had inflatables all set to come and uh the company that was bringing the inflatables due to the high winds forecasted said they weren't going to bring it. Um then there was discussion as to um whether we would go ahead and get those and put them inside. Um the uh superintendent made the poor decision of of not going forward with that. Um and then Saturday morning uh they pushed me a little bit harder and so we we did bring the inflatables in and have
025them in the auxiliary gym and that worked out great. Um, so thank you to uh Mr. Nelson and Mrs. Pluck and Mr. Gibson and uh Mrs. Burton for their hard work on organizing that. And thank you to our all of our principles who went in the dunk tank. Uh that was a very very popular uh event Saturday. Uh there was a line for that um pretty much the whole time. And uh so I'm not sure what that says uh about our principles, but uh um I think uh a lot of those participants were very happy to send send them into the water. So um thank you to all of those people uh for all of their work on the carnival. And then um we've got graduation, as you all know, coming up a week from
026Sunday uh right here at 2 o'clock. And uh lastly um I have placed in your packets um uh several documents related to the um turf project um which is not on the agenda tonight. Um several of those things were finalized in the last few days. Um and there's been a lot of work on that. Um and so that that those documents kind of got finalized in the last couple of days. Um, so my anticipation is um when we schedule a date um uh with Mr. Connley uh in the uh in his presentation later um that we would schedule a special board meeting with um three items related to that on it as well. Uh so that concludes uh my report. Thank you. Uh presentations Mrs. Neon and Mr. McVicker. Mr. Stump will be joining them.
027Uh he will be uh doing his part with the gifted uh he'll have a gifted update. Good evening. I provided all of you with a handout um of my side of the report just dealing with mainly professional development and curriculum and instruction. Um just some highlights under the professional development. Um, one thing that we accomplished this year, we had a Read Ohio grant here at the middle school, which allowed for a literacy coach to come in two days a week and work with our teachers on adolescent literacy and also um, their MTSS programs. Um, you'll see I gave you a brief description of what we did in August, October, February PD. Um, and then we also had a calamity day PD that was a makeup day that we provided for teachers to do at their
028in their homes. Um, so we got that all and I think everybody did a really nice job with that. They had to complete a form of what they did um that day. And then the biggest thing um we implemented wonders um for our K through five um ELA curriculum and we had continued PD on that throughout the school year. The biggest initiative we were working on was our science of reading professional development. Um all teachers and um administrators had to complete science of reading. um they are compensated for that by the state. Um just alone the state had put out two over 200,000 um in reimbursements just to our district alone. They were doing that statewide. Currently um 95% of our staff are completed with that professional development and that is due June 30th. They
029have to have that completed. Um just some things we're looking forward to next school year for PD. Um we're starting to put out the new uh Madison app through a so we'll have some thrillshare um PD also our um IEPs and we uh where we write those through progress book. We're going to a new program called same goal. So that is something that all staff will need to be trained on as well. And then just looking under curriculum and instruction, some of the big things that we um conquered this year with our K through two, we were implementing foundations as well as wonders. Um so we were trying to bridge those two together. So we had a lot of work sessions on getting that um completed and ready to move forward into next year. currently
030just working with teachers on their resources and what they need for the next school year. Um and just monitoring the high quality instructional materials. So that Wonders curriculum that we did implement was part of um a high quality instructional materials mandate by the state. They're also mandating what interventions we can use. Um, so we're just making sure we're compliant in all areas. Also, we did a purchase for the Madison South Preschool that also fell under that. Um, they had to have the high quality instructional materials as well. And just a couple other things, um, we had 54 individuals who are non are temporary substitutes. So, those are our non-bachelors. So quite a few of those are still going strong and helping us out here in the district. Um the dyslexia screening and at risk screening
031is still happening. We're continuing to follow that with best practices. And that's really all in my area. There's a couple more bullet points, but um I'll let you read through those and just thank you for your time. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. McVicker. Yes, sir. Good evening. Uh I've also provided a pack to you and I'll just highlight a few things in there. Um within school improvement is uh we're into the first full year of our edsteps process. And what that is is just taking a more formal more critical look at the data and the information that we receive through test scores through various sources and trying to make good decisions of how we're going to use any funds that we have. Um, and I put in what what I shared with you one example
032and Renee alluded to a little bit to that of the science of reading program. We identified a concern. We're starting to put uh our efforts or our time into that and now we're starting to see some of the results from that and now we're tweaking those things as we move forward. Instead of starting with a whole new process, we've put in a plan in place and now we're seeing how we progress with that. and that will start to expand into other areas as we continue into the edsteps program. Second item is in the heading of assessments and I won't read through all the numbers that I've provided. Uh but I did want to share with you the ACT scores. Uh and in parenthesis you'll see a comparison of where we were last year uh with
033some of those numbers. While we did not have any perfect scores in any of the areas of the ACT, we had students that scored very well. And you'll also see that overall our averages uh have increased have moved up. Um also in that section under the high schools I do want to to highlight and I know Laura Phillips was here. Uh Laura approached us about pushing for uh and really was a driving force between the uh or with the AAPL assessment and that is assessment of performance of of proficiency in foreign languages. uh in our case it would be with Spanish. Uh but it did did give the students an opportunity to take a different test in a different language and if they would score well enough they would earn a bilingual seal that could
034go on their diploma. This being the first year none of us knew exactly what we what to expect. Uh but hopefully it's something that now we've done it the first time. As we move forward we'll continue to prepare students for those and give them the best opportunity. But uh looking back at it, I think uh it was a very good experience for our students. I was a test setting a little bit differently. They had to record themselves. They had to listen. They and they had to write in a foreign language. And that's something that they typically don't see in a standardized test. Um moving on to federal programs. And again, I'm not going to read through all of those. Uh but in parenthesis after each one you see the amount of money that Madison received
035in those federal programs. Um and then the percentages that we broke those out uh in order to meet our needs uh but also to take some of the burden off of our general fund. um depending on the needs of the students especially in title one and also in IDA uh there were additional um supports and supplies that were purchased for those areas and and one of them for example was the parent engagement even and events that we have in the three elementary buildings um and I think they were very successful the feedback that we received have been very positive uh but I've included within the title one and the number of students that we were impacted through our title one services. Federal grants uh the ARP homeless grant is is uh concluded. Um it is
036we we are done with it. Uh we will not receive no more funds with that but it did uh we were able to provide some supports for families. Uh but we also were able to provide um some food and clothing, personal hygiene types things in each of our buildings. Uh there now is a food closet, clothing, clothing clothing closet uh available in the buildings for those students that may have those needs or the families that have those uh those needs. Um mentioned that there were 31 students families identified within Madison as homeless. Uh we reached out to those students and through uh not only the efforts of the ARP homeless but also Mary Madison, I think we had an impact on those families in a very positive way. Um, and I will not mention the
037last one because I don't want to jinx this just as I didn't last year. So, if you have any questions for me, please uh please ask. On the subsequent pages, um, are also the the preliminary, as you've heard, we've gotten some of our preliminary test scores back and I try to give a historical perspective on those um, for the last four years, and I'll continue uh, to include those over time. One thing that I do want to point out as you look at those um the way that they calculate our scores for district uh report card, part of it based on the amount of students that were able to move from basic to proficient to accomplished and advanced. And when we do the math for those and they calculate that, you get a higher multip
038multiplying factor the higher those students score. So, one of the things that we look at as a district, and I mentioned with our ED steps process, is moving those students from the proficient and accomplished level into the advanced level. And if you look through and compare our scores from one year to the next in several places, you'll see improvement in those percentages. So that means that those are students that the the factor that we're multiplying by is much larger, much greater, and we have a bigger impact on what those scores are. By no means are we resting on these. We want to continue pushing uh those students and identifying where those areas are that we need to continue the improvement. Um but some of the efforts that have been put in place through the curriculum,
039through professional development, we're seeing an impact. We're seeing those students moving. So that's what we want to do and we want to continue doing that. So that's an explanation of the last four pages. You'll see ELA, math, science, and social studies scores over the last several years. Um we will break those down even further uh a little later in the in the in the summer. We'll provide more information on what we have once we break them down into subcores and see what kind of impact we we may have on the on those students. So now are there any questions? Thank you. And I any time I have left I've now given to Mr. Mr. Stump. Don't give me time. Your turn. Mr. McVicker is always quite the gentleman. So um good evening board. Um just
040want to give you a quick update on gifted education and what that's looked like this year. We have um some exciting new developments I wanted to share. And I think um hearing the enthusiasm of both our students and our teachers, I think that we're headed in the right direction. Um the first thing that I wanted to show you is just an analysis of our data. And if you look at the total number of written education plans, that's where we make the goal. That's where we set what the students going to work on. This year, we've had 306 documents for written education plans. Um that's an increase of 8.5%. So that's an that's an increase of identification of 8.5% of students in the district that are now identified as gifted in one or more areas. Um
041so that number alone tells me that what we're doing is great and we are recognizing these kids for what they truly deserve. And um so that brought a lot of happiness to me. If you look at the written acceleration plans, that has actually fallen by 45%. And you're like, "Hang on a second. Why is there only why are there only 134 and why did that fall so badly?" It's because we discovered that you don't need to write a WAP every single year. Um, if a student was given a WAP in math in six in compacted math 6, they are set for math until they graduate. They don't need a new one every single year. So teachers were actually doing way too much work. And so we're able to take that off their plate and as
042long as they have that for that subject area they are set until they graduate. So that's why that number has fallen and that is less work for teachers. So we don't want to give them work they don't have to do. And then if you notice the total number of goals that is 475. Um again just because we have 360 written education plans a student can have multiple goals. We have some students in this district with five goals because they're identified in five areas. That's that's a lot. So, but the total number of goals, we did increase from last year by uh 5.7%. So, again, we are trending upwards in gifted education. The state wants to see that. Um, so we're very proud of what we've done there and what we've accomplished. Um, a legal update.
043We were told at the end of last year that for this current school year, the laws would be changing for gifted. Those rules came out last week. So, this is a very fresh legal update um that will then go into effect next school year. And here are just some of the highlights that I took from the document. Um WEPS must include the attempt of parent input. That is something you currently see on an IEP. Um moving forward, we have to do something in this district to make sure we're at least trying to solicit that parent feedback. Um the second thing is that they must be aligned to Ohio's learning standards. The trick with that is we have to know where kids are at. If I have a gifted fourth grader in math, they might not
044need fourth grade math standards. They probably have mastered them already. So, it's very important that we know which set of standards, what grade level standards do we need to really focus on every single student that's identified as gifted so they're getting what they need. So, they're actually learning and not just reiterating what they already know. And then finally for the web, it has to include how the web matches students strengths and their educational needs. That is a box that is currently on the web that has been optional. Next year, it's no longer optional. Teachers will have to write in the student strengths and they'll have to match that to how they're integrating those strengths into the web themselves. That will be probably one of the highlights of the PD that I will be offering in
045August for the staff. So they will be well prepared to hit the ground running once they meet their new students and can start writing their whips. For identification the one big change was uh creative thinking is now optional. We do not have to assess for creative thinking but my thought process why not? Um the assessment itself is very costeffective. It's not expensive to purchase and it's not time consuming. uh to qualify for creative thinking, you have to have a certain um score on the Kogat uh which is a rough measurement of an IQ. They have to take that. So then why not just add a 10 questionnaire, a survey to see if they qualify for creative thinking. Again, it's not that costly to the district either. We can use our gifted funding and still identify
046kids for creative thinking. Even though it's optional, we're going to do it. I think kids deserve that. And then finally for servicing, this is probably the biggest change moving forward is that students next year must be clustered in groups of three or more that are identified in the same area. You can't have one outlying student that's gifted in a class by herself. That's not okay. If they're the only one identified in that grade level, then there should be a waiver in place that I will fill out and submit to the state. But other than that, we should be able to cluster those kids so they can work with each other. the teacher can really hit them as a group of students and target their instruction. So, that's probably a big change. And then finally, this
047is the one we still need some clarification on. Um, it's not going to be required for teachers that provide gifted education service, and that's the model we use at Madison. Um, they have to participate with somebody that has their degree in curriculum and u development and instruction. What does that look like? How often must they meet? We don't know yet. So, I actually have a meeting set up with Mid Ohio actually next week and we're going to kind of compare our notes and see what's going on and how we all feel we should tackle that. Um, the assessments really haven't changed from last year, so there's really nothing new to update there. Again, for reading and math, we use the I Ready Diagnostic in grades 2 through 8. Science and social studies, we use the
048Iowa assessments in grades two and five. And superior cognitive and creative thinking is also grades two and five. However, we do try to get those K1 students in there too for early identification for gifted, but really there's no changes there. If you look at the breakdown of identification, you can see the number of students identified in every building as well as the areas that they are identified. The one thing I want to point out to you is that performing arts and yes, it is at a zero. This was the first year in a long time that we have attempted to have students identified in performing arts. We had four students try. Unfortunately, nobody qualified under the rubric, but we're going to still move forward and try to identify students in that performing arts category. Visual
049arts, last year it was two, now we're up at four. So, we are making those slow gains for visual arts and we hope to see that number continue to increase every year so we can really give our art students what they need. Um, professional development. Mr. Pierce and I had a conversation um back at the end of last school year that we would offer something inhouse that would satisfy that 60hour requirement that teachers would need over the four years. And um one way we decided to to do that was for a weapon writing that that would um count for some of those hours. But in addition, we did have a book study this year where teachers if they needed those hours could opt into this book study um through me and we would spend it
050was November through April in this book and then responding to questions. We did have about 45 staff members participate in that book study to get their hours. We are also going to a gifted institute um at the ESC of central Ohio that is in just a couple of weeks uh June 4th I believe. That one will satisfy all the hours needed for the school year. And this year they'll be learning about social emotional implications um for gifted students. Uh so I appreciate um you guys uh listening to me babble about GA gifted. Know that it's extremely important to me and I know it's important to you guys. So if you have any questions, I'd love to answer them. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Moving on. I uh approval donations. Accept
051a motion to accept the donations. So moved. Second. Any discussion? I'd just like to thank um as we do every month, thank our those who donated to our district. Um those are very valuable donations and very helpful to our district. Um so thank you to all those uh who have made donations this month. Miss Walker, four. Mr. Wton, four. Mrs. Meliss Walker, four. Mrs. Cterman, four. Mr. Moer, four. Entertain a motion for the treasures report. So moved. Second. Second. Discussion. All right. First thing we're going to do is uh talk about the monthly financial report. I think maybe it is not working. There we go. Wrong button. Okay, first thing we'll do is talk about the um revenues. So, we're a little bit over 3% almost 4% increase for this year, which is of growth
052in revenues, which that was expected. That's what was targeted. But that 4% really has to do with the um levy that was passed in November of 2023. You know, the second collection of that for was in 2024, which was August, which was FY25. So, if you see um under the tax revenue, the $1.3 million increase year-over-year, that's what contributed to that almost 4% growth, which means next year we're not going to see 4% growth. I just let you know that now. That 4% was anticipated because of the levy coming in. Um, next thing is the expenditures. um expenditures increased higher than revenues which that is common. Um you know when you have uh averages if you want to average 5% and something increases by 10 then something else is going to have to increase zero
053to get to that 5% average. So you know I I've talked extensively about health insurance and health insurance is increasing exponentially. So if it increases 16%, we have to have something else decrease to get an average growth of 3 or 4%. So the big problem with our expenditures increasing month over month is the increase in health insurance. Um but even that being said, you know, I anticipated that and we are on target and we are on track. So it's not like it's something that's new. It's not like that's the first time anybody been anybody's been hearing this, but our expenditures are on track and they're increasing and it's increasing because of insurance. Those are the same things I put in. I haven't changed those. And you know, we're almost well, we have two according to
054the by the time this came out, we had two months left to go. So, we're 84% of the way through the year and we're right on track with expenditures. And if you look, we're right on track with revenues. So that's where that is. Before I move on to the 5-year forecast, is there any questions on the monthly financial reports? When when you say on track, I think what you mean is for what you anticipated for the year. That's exactly right. Okay. when I when I the budgets are set and the 5-year forecast is set and they match. Okay. So, when at the beginning of the year when we know what our anticipated expenditures are and we know what our anticipated revenue is, I track that. And you are completely correct, Mr. Peterson. So when I
055say we are on track, that means that no no anomalous occurrences happened and we are pretty much where I anticipated we were going to be. We're where we budgeted we were going to be. Even if our budgets were, you know, they were higher than what we would have liked them, we're we are where we are. I mean, it's it's not nothing so crazy has happened to put us off track. So yes, you are right. forecast. So, the forecast is a one-page deal, but what I'm going to do is I'm going to actually go over the assumptions because the assumptions are really um they're what the numbers are based on. And if you don't understand the assumptions, then the numbers really don't mean anything. Um, and the first thing I want to do is talk to
056you a little bit about the forecast because there's been some misunderstanding about how much money the district has or where it is. The forecast is just the general fund which is how we pay vast majority of salaries, benefits, utilities. That's how we operate. There are other funds like the bond retirement fund that have money in it, but that is specifically set aside to pay for this building, the bond payment on this building. Okay? It's like your house payment only it's you pay it twice a year. There is the permanent improvement fund which you'll see a transfer. Mr. Peterson talked about the turf. you know, the board has elected they we know that turf's going to have to be replaced every 11 12 years rather than wait 11 12 years and all of a sudden get
057hit. The board knew that hey we're going to have to put money back every year. So there's something there. That's what that transfer is. So that money has already been set aside. Um there's an 034 fund which is maintenance that's just for this building. The OFCC, which has partnered with the district to build this building, says you have to set aside so much money and can only be used on certain maintenance items for this building. Can't use it on salaries, can't use it on benefits. The 300 fund, which is student athletics, when you when our um community pays for tickets, that goes into the 300 fund, and that is where they pay officials. That's where they buy the helmets, the basketballs. That's not used for salaries and benefits or lighting. 200 fund. We had NHS
058students and they talked about all the things they did. Well, they're basically self-funded. We're not using taxpayer money to do that. They have fundraisers. They have blood drives. They have events. That money goes into their 200 student activity fund and that's what they use to support it. So none of that stuff is in this forecast. This is only general fund which is taxpayer money. What we get from well taxpayer money and interest. That's why it's when I give you that monthly report there's just a few things you know local revenue taxpayer revenue and when it says other that's things like interest Medicaid um abatement payments things like that. Next thing I'm going to point out which is really important is this is a snapshot. Okay. By the by the time this five years are up,
059we're going to have two bienium budgets. We're going to have a trienal update which is property valuation changes. We're going to have another contract negotiation. There's two potential levy renewals in here. And I don't know if you guys have been keeping track of all the different pending legislation that's up there with regards to property taxes and 20 mil floors, any other legislation. I I don't have a crystal ball to tell you what all those things are going to be. So the only thing I can do is take a snapshot of where we are right now and that's where the assumptions come in. So when I talk about things like where I anticipate the funding going, that is a snapshot based on what I assume is going to happen. When I talk about the salaries, that's
060a snapshot of today based on an assumption what I've put in there what's going to happen. Things can definitely change with negotiations and legislation. So, so the first thing I'm going to do, we know I've done this before is broken down into revenues and expenditures. Two two basic areas. The first one is the revenues and 92% of it is either state foundation or local real estate taxes. So that is since 92% of our money coming in is those that's where our meat and potatoes is. That's where I'm going to focus. So I'm also going to talk a little bit about what's changed since November, what has changed with this year and what's changed going out. And I'm not going to um I'm not going to read this to I'm not going to insult your intelligence.
061You can read it. But honestly, since November and even since 12 months ago, revenues are only about 1% different than what I had forecasted. So, you know, there with real estate, I'm sorry, we're going to start with real estate. Real estate's pretty stable. Um, you know, there is still that decrease in 2028 and 2029 because those are levies that I can't put in there. But the dis these didn't change a whole lot. The the one change that did happen that I put in since November is we collected slightly less than what I anticipated. Um I'm 64% less than a less than 1% below. And that can be for two reasons. One delinquencies you know people not paying their taxes. And two there's a split. People pay half in the spring and half in the fall.
062Well, if you pay half in the fall, it goes on the next fiscal year. If you pay all of it in the spring, it goes on this fiscal year. So, that split determines how much is in this fiscal year in collections and how much is next fiscal year. So when you have to judge that split and you have to judge the delinquencies, you know, if I'm I'm within a percent of what I anticipated in November and within a percent of what I anticipated last May, I think that's that's pretty good. Um the growth over the next couple years is just basically on new construction and inside millillage. And you'll notice um in 2027 there is a a a decent chunk. it goes from 13.1 to 13.2 or I'm sorry 13.1 to 13.3. That's because that's
063the year that um trienal update will come in. I'm anticipating just because it historically trending when there's a trienal update, valuations increase. When valuations increase, our inside millillage increases. We're not at the 20 mil floor. So, our overall millage won't our our overall collections won't increase cuz the millage will go down. the inside mills will increase. So that's why that's in there. That didn't change a whole lot since November. Here's where the big changes happened. The state aid. So this year, um, I was pretty good. I was, you know, 6/10 of a below what was I anticipated in November, within 1%. And, um, you know, I was within half a percent of what I anticipated May of last year. So I think that's pretty good. But given um what the legislation is right now, everybody
064that's talking about House Bill 96 and the governor's bienium budget, um it would not be um responsible to assume an increase. So that's where the major change came in. In November, we came off the OASBO confer OSBA conference and during that conference, I was I was pretty confident. And I was optimistic. I thought the fair school funding plan would pass without any trouble. I thought in November after listening to those all those people present, I thought it not only would pass, I kind of figured that they would update the expenditures to 2024 expenditure levels. Along with updating the valuations and income to 2024 expenditure levels. Since then, the governor's proposal came out. They updated the the in income. They said, "Okay, well, you know, the income went up at 2024 levels and they updated the
065valuation, but they kept the base cost, which is how much it cost to educate a kid at 2022 levels." So, that hurt us. And then the next thing, the House Bill 96 has come in and it's just completely blown stuff up. So, the biggest decrease in 26 and 27 is because I took this line and almost flattened it out. I put just a little bit of increase for casino and a little bit of increase in um career tech funding, but I flattened it out. Now, historically, over the past 5 years, we've been getting a 3% increase in state aid. If we got just 2.75 over the next two years, you know, it'll put the bottom line back in the black, we wouldn't be in def we wouldn't have a complete cash deficit in 2027. So
066what I'm trying to say is had I had the anticipation had the assumptions now in May been the same as the assumptions were in November, we would still be in the black at the end of the 3 years. But I had changed my assumptions because a lot has changed legislatively since November. And I it's just like I said, it's not uh it just wouldn't be physically feasibly or fiscally responsible to project the historical trends given what is going on down at the state legislature. I'm hoping by the next forecast it's happy and glowing, but you never know. Here is an unanticipated change since the May forecast if you remember or May November forecast. I'm sorry. If you remember last June I had to do an advance ask for an advance for a self- insurance fund
067and that's because it was in the red and you can't you can't end the year with a negative balance. So, I advanced 300 had you guys approved it in advance, which is a loan, the self- insurance fund of $355,000. Well, I anticipated that loan being paid back this year because in January of 2024, increases in insurance were 8%. And in January 2025, increases were 16%. Which was double. I had there's no rational reason why the self- insurance fund would not have recovered enough to pay that back. Except it didn't. It's actually gotten worse because our health insurance costs because we we have what's $150,000 stop loss. Everything up to $150,000 we pay for. Okay. So, it's just been it it's been going up and up and up and it's crushing us. So, the one change
068in revenues is in November I anticipated to $355,000 more in revenue because I adv had anticipated that advance getting coming back in this year. I'm not doing that this year. I'm hoping with the 16% last January and if we have another huge one this January, it gives it the self- insurance fund enough money to pay the general fund back th this next year. So that was the change there. That being said, overall in revenues, you know, if you look what I I can anticipate, um, you know, the the taxes, state aid, the other things which are like homestead and roll back and our excess costs and Medicaid reimbursements, you know, I was within less than a half a percent off. I mean, 047, that's pretty accurate. If you take the uh if you take the
069put the $350,000 out, which I anticipated, I'm still only 1.45% off. I'm still pretty close, but that that really crushed us big time. Um that that revenue I really anticipated that return that advance. Next thing we're going to talk a little bit about expenditures. um expenditures. There's three things that make up the vast majority of them. Salary, benefits, and p and uh purchase services. Well, it makes sense. We're in the service industry. You know, we pay teachers. We pay their um for their benefits and we have to pay for virtue services. Those things that Mr. Stump was talking about, Miss Neuron were talking about the you know the testing and the all the aids and we have to pay for that. So as far as salaries go, um since the November forecast, there have been
070negotiations settled. So that was a change. There have been reduction in forces for next year that I didn't have in November cuz I didn't know what they were going to be. So that is a change. STRS lowered to their um maximum out to 32 years instead of 33. So that was a change. So with all those changes coming in, FY 26, 27, 28, and 29 were lowered. However, this year FY25, I was within a half a percent. I mean, that's I that makes sense. Those those are known. um with um STRS increasing to 32 years from decreasing the 32 years from 33, you know, that added another couple people that are eligible to retire. So when you put those in, if you have somebody at the very highest level of the pay scale retiring, you
071anticipate you hire a newer teacher which is at the lower end, you can talk about that savings. So that got put it baked in. Um all the reduction in forces that Mr. Peterson had to go through this year, those all got baked in. All the retirements, those wonderful people that were spoken about tonight, those got baked in. So those were things that I didn't know in November, I do know now. And that's why 26 through 29 changed on salaries. But other than that, I mean, we're pretty much on track. Health insurance. Um, well, benefits, benefits are just they're a function of salaries. They're a percentage of salaries with the exception of health insurance. Um, I I don't know if you're aware of this, but 96% of our classified staff, we pay more for a family
072health insurance plan than what they earn in a salary in a year. 96% of them. So that is how bad health insurance is hurting the district. It's it's it's crushing us. I I don't know how many times I can say it. Mr. Peterson and I sat in on a Zoom call with consortium to talk talk about joining consortium. Um we've had multiple insurance committee meetings to talk about different changes that we can make try to implement. We are looking at it on a weekly. I wouldn't say daily, but we're looking at it on a weekly basis. We're trying to do everything we can. Um there are changes we can make and there are things we can't do because our hands are tied because it's, you know, part of an agreement that we can't we can
073only discuss every couple years. Um, that being said, I knew the 16 the 16% coming coming in January. You know, I'm I didn't change the increase over the next couple years above 10, but I may have to in November. We'll see what happens by between May and November with the self-funded plan. Well, since the increase, we did start going we the we did start getting better in the self-unded plan. We went from like 1.2 down to like less than 900,000 in the whole. So, we were getting better and better and better and then last month hit and I have no idea what happened except claims went up obviously. I don't know, somebody got sick, something occurred, claims went up and we're back up to 1.1 million so far in May. claims are still they're down
074a little bit lower than what they were last May. So, I I think that we're we're headed in the right direction, but it's it's just not it's not where it should be. And this isn't something that's new either. We look back mom Carolyn my assistant and I look back that self- insurance fund has been well in 2019 they took like three what's called a premium moratorum which means you take your reserves and you pay your premiums. Well, what that does is it lowers that self-funded balance and artificially boosts general fund. The reason they did it in 2019 is because that's when they refinanced the bonds. And when you refinance bonds, you want to be in the best financial position you can be in general fund to get the lowest bond rating or highest bond rating,
075lowest interest rate, which means it saves the most money. But that when they did that, it's just gone down and down and down ever since. So, we've um we should have had higher increases probably the past five or 6 years than I mean we've had 8%. And 16%, but that just hasn't been enough. And who would have thought 16% isn't even enough to keep up. Purchase services. Um the only major change here, uh Mr. Peterson and I were discussing, I'll give him the credit for doing this. he was able to bring a couple people back into the district next year um as staff. So instead of paying the Mid Ohio Educational Service Center for them for their services, we just decided, you know, why pay them just bring them back here. Um it it had
076it had some it has some positive financial implications but it also has some implications other than financial that benefit the district when we when you have control over those employees. So that was the only change in purchase services where it went down in 2026 compared to what it was in November. Now, I didn't say I was going to go over supplies and capital outlay because they're really only 4% of our expenditures, but I put it in here for two reasons. One, supplies is the one area that increased this year, more than I anticipated, but it's because we've had a lot of things occur with regards to the facilities that we needed different supplies for. Um, on a professional level, I think we've I think we've cut supplies and capital outlay too much actually. I mean,
077it's to the point where we don't have enough. We've got to we've got to replace Chromebooks because, you know, like I do, technology as it increases, it goes from Windows 10 to Windows 11. It takes more memory. It it the things go bad just like that bulb a couple months ago went bad in in the projector. you know, it the buildings are, you know, the high school is 62 years old or yeah, 62. Um, East View and South are both 60 years old. When you have buildings that that are that are that old and Mifflin's even older than that, it was built in 49. You got to have capital outlay and supplies. And by just cutting those so much, we're we're really we're we're just scraping by by the skin of our teeth. And we've
078had to cut them because of you you can you know where our financial position is. It's just it's really it's difficult. Um and you know, we don't have like a permanent improvement levy. Some districts have a permanent improvement levy that actually pays for the maintenance of the facilities. We pay for all this out of general fund. So when a boiler breaks, general fund's got to cover it. And let's face it, you we can't operate fuel for buses is a supply. We got to have fuel for buses. We got to have paper. You got to have that kind of stuff. And when you have a fleet of 23 buses, if you only replace one a year, that means you got a bus that's 23 years old. talked to to Mike Yosten. He said, "We have buses
079that qualify for historic plates." So, I mean, when you don't can't build those into a forecast because you've had to make the things so razor thin and it's it's kind of dangerous. So, unanticipated change was an another advance out. The self- insurance fund is not going to be recovered. I'm going to have to advance another I put 950,000. I hope that's enough. Um, that's a loan to to be able to end the fiscal year in the black for the self- insurance fund. If that self- insurance fund would have recovered like I anticipated, between the advance in not getting repaid and this advance out, that's $1.3 million. That would have put us with our expenditures not exceeding our revenues. our revenues, we would have been in the red this year and we would have been surplus,
080not deficit spending, had those had that not happened with that self- insurance fund. So, that's where we're at and that's why I had to put this in. So, Mr. Stevens, yeah, if I understand this correctly, the uh self- insurance fund owes the general fund or will owe after those advances $1.3 million. That is exactly correct. Now, what I'm going to do a little bit different this year that I didn't do last year, this year, I'm going to take So, we'll do the advance in June. So, we end the fiscal year in the black. July, I'm going to have the board vote on returning the advance. So, we'll just move all the money back in to the general fund and I'll have a very very very negative fund balance in the self- insurance fund going through.
081So, it at least will look right on the forecast for the year. So, what are our options on recovering in that self- insurance fund? um keep increasing the premiums more than 16% because obviously doubling it to 16% didn't do any good. So um some of the things we looked at like that coverage care management that would save the self- insurance fund about a half a million dollars a year. So what that would do it would help the balance in the self- insurance fund. Okay, which means we wouldn't have to take as much out of general fund and put it in there. Um, increasing our premium contributions, but like I said, we're we're spending for a classified employee for a family plan, it's already $50,000 a year. So to increase it another, you know, 15%, it's
082it's it's insane. So that's basically our option. I mean, we'll have to do something. Yeah, we do. I You know as well as I do, we've talked about every We've gone out to bid on stop-loss. We've gone out to bid on our PO character. We've gone out to bid on our on our fixed costs. We've talked to consortiums. We We are looking and looking and looking at I don't know what the silver bullet is. I mean, I'm we're working with the broker. We're trying to figure it out, but it's the the health insurance is is is bankrupting the district basically. And as we increase premiums, that that not only affects our contribution, it affects their employees contribution. Yeah. Because the employee pays 10%. So if you're taking a $50,000 plan, they're paying five grand of
083it. 10% we're paying the 45. If you have to increase that $10,000, they're paying 10% of that a grand and we're paying nine. And when I say we, the district on is paying it. So yeah, it increases it increases the employees cost and it increases the board's cost. And the thing is when we could if we could if we could get some of these things like the continued care management implemented, it would save the employees money because they're saving on what they pay for drugs and if it saves them money, it'll save us money. But getting that getting it implemented, getting over that hurdle is is a major step. Thank you. Thanks. Thank thanks for bringing that up. So, whoops, sorry. Back to the variance. You know, if we look at the variance in expenditures
084just from November, 082%. I'm I'm I'm within 1% of what I said we were going to be. So, that's relatively accurate. Um that $950,000 advance that I didn't anticipate killed the overall, though, because if you put that in, I'm 3% off still. That's you know, 96.37% accurate. I mean, but regardless, that killed us. So, here's what we can expect. Ohio Department of Education Workforce is going to contact us because we will be in fiscal oversight. We have a negative fund balance in year three, which means we're going to have to go through that whole thing we went through um a couple Februaries ago again where we're going to have to submit a written plan to the state um by November. This could be completely different depending on what the state legislature does or it could
085be the same. Um, I I I want to plan for the worst and hope for the best, but this is not like I'm not putting this in here to be doom and gloom. This is I'm kind of trying to be as realistic as I can. So, that's where we're at. Now, I know that number that -4.6 million and the -10.54 million are huge. I cannot include any renewals of any levies and I can't include anticipating any different levies coming in. So that's one reason those are so low. Um I that's basically like I said I'm not going to just read it to you. Um and I told you we're going to be in fiscal oversight with ODW. That's basically where we're at. So before I go on to the other transfers, which a transfer is
086not an advance. A transfer once it's gone, it's gone. An advance is a loan. You get it back. There was this was a lot. Um, do you guys have some questions on the forecast or something else you'd like me to go over? Or is there something other than trying to figure out how to fix the insurance problem that you'd like me to look at or where they at with the House bill about the property tax? Do you know where that's at? they got enough signatures to put on the ballot or I don't know if they have enough signatures to go on the ballot yet, but it it from what I just read two days ago, it looks like it is gaining steam and gaining progress. Here's what I'm going to I'll I'll answer you with
087that the same way I answered somebody else. In in 97, I believe it was, D. Ralph sued the state of Ohio over funding and this the state supreme court said the funding for the the way the state funds education is unconstitutional. They then essentially said we don't have jurisdiction to change it. So nothing got changed. If this does go through and if it gets on the ballot and there's enough votes to try to eliminate property taxes in the constitution, the state still has to fund schools. They're going to have to figure it out somehow. Whether that be with a income tax or whether it be with a sales tax or how they want to do it, they're going to have to figure something out because we have to have police, we have to have firemen,
088we have to have roads, and we have to have schools. And that's constitutional. I don't know how they're going to if it gets put on the ballot. I have no idea how the state's going to, but the ballot language says that as of January 1st of 2026, property taxes will not be collected. That's what the property That's what that ballot's going to say. Yeah. If so, it's going to be bam. But if that happens, the state will have to do something. They'll have to do something because I mean, it's in the constitution. Well, they've already ignored it for a lot of other things. I will agree. Okay, I'll agree with you with that. So, if if it gets to that point, and obviously we're going to be in fiscal oversight. If it gets to that
089point, I guess we'll have to look for look for the state legislature and the high department of education and workforce to tell us how they're going to how we're going to get bailed out. Um, so far, income taxes have not been touched. It's only property taxes. They haven't talked about income taxes, but you know, I I I'll tell you what, if I had a crystal ball and could give you the answer, I wouldn't be sitting here. I'd be on a beach in Tahiti. I'm I'm just just being honest with you. That's I have no idea what's going to happen. And I don't think anybody does. You'd be hitting the lottery, right? I would be hitting the lottery. Yes, exactly. Donating to the schools. Correct. Yes, I would. I'd donate to you. All right. Um can
090we go is every am I okay to go on? Yeah. So, the the next number three, the $25,000 transfer from general fund to adult ed, that has been done every year since I've been here. Adult ed is important to the district. Um, doesn't mean it has to be done. The board could choose not to do it, but they have chosen to do it. So, that's put in there. And the same thing with the transfer from permanent improvement to the O3 turf replacement. you know, it would be silly to knowing that we have to replace it to not keep putting money back. So, that's just that's what that is. And just so you guys know, um what Mr. Peterson talked about, you know, the district themselves are only a small portion of the turf replacement. A
091lot is coming from the athletic boosters. So, um, and some is coming from quite a bit's coming from when I said earlier when I said there's a a 300 athletic fund when you, you know, for ticket sales and stuff like that and it goes to buy uniforms. Well, our athletic directors also had the foresight to say, "Hey, we're going to have to put some money back." So, he's got he's got I shouldn't say he, the athletic department has skin in the game, too. So, it's it's the athletic department, it's the district, and the boosters has a big chunk. I'll just uh add to that. I had Mr. Neon um do some research on what it costs us to maintain the grass baseball and softball in fields. And uh through his research, it was uh between
09212 and $13,000 a year just to maintain the grass. So, um that's money we will save by not doing those things. Um and that's just on the baseball and softball fields, let alone what it would cost to maintain grass on the football field. So, um we're not spending a lot of money by doing that. Um fortunately, we have a great booster club who is assuming uh significant portion of those costs. If there's no more discussion, you don't want to hear any more from me. I'll mind if I call roll or please. Okay. Mrs. Melissa Walker, four. Mr. Wton, four. Miss Amy Walker, four. Mrs. Cartman, four. Mr. Moer, four. Item K. Uh, matters related to personnel. Entertain a motion to accept item K. So moved. Second. Second. Discussion. Roll call, please. Mrs. Melissa Walker, four.
093Miss Amy Walker, four. Mrs. Conman, four. Mr. Rickton, um, I am voting four, except I have to ex uh, abstain on item E because of relative. So, you're abstaining on item E but voting yes on everything else. Correct. Okay, Mr. Moer. Just note there is a moer in there, but that's no relation under one year. Uh Margie Moer, she's no relation. Okay. Okay. Cool. Let you know in case somebody L, superintendent's business. Motion to accept superintendent's business. So move. Second. I'll second discussion. Um just a couple items uh that I'll uh provide discussion on. Item 13 uh which is the high school roofing project. Um Mr. Neon has kept us uh kept the board up to date on that. Um and it is it is time for us to um complete that project over the
094summer. And so um we pay for uh the materials out of fiscal year 25 funds and then uh the uh labor out of the FY26 funds. That particular area of the high school um is the back corner um closest to the baseball and softball fields. that portion of the the building um over the crew tech labs on the back there. And then um item 17 um that is uh the ramble in renovation project to meet ADA requirements and the majority of that is bringing the restrooms and locker rooms um up to ADA standards um a long overdue project there. And then um numbers 18 and 19 um those are the two um administrative positions that we've brought back into the district from Mid Ohio. And uh after I did some some further review on that
095um it's come to my attention that um our goal in that was to bring them back into the district but not um increase the cost to the district by doing that. Um it is going to we are going to have to do that a little bit. What I did find out is um while our administrators um get steps um for each year or each so many years um that increases their pay. Um our mid Ohio employees were not getting any steps like that. So, um I took that into consideration and that's the reason um for the increase uh the slight increases um for both of those uh positions. And that that's all. Okay. Mr. Wton four. Mrs. Conman four. Miss Amy Walker four. Mrs. Melissa Walker four. Mr. Moer four. Any other visitors comments? Like
096anybody else like to make a comment? Seeing none, we'll go to president's business to uh discuss. Yeah, I'm sorry. Discuss number one down here. Uh apparently there's a board policy. We weren't for sure if there's a policy out there or not. How many years it involved in a hiring administrator who retires and come comes back uh rehired and we found out it was two. I I would like to have a discussion amongst the board to increase that to three like the other col or contracts we have with uh the teachers union and the unclassified union just for discussion purposes. The other ones are three because we have a teacher on the agenda that's a one-year. They are three. It says he re No, no, the teachers contract like the teachers contract that we just approved.
097Oh those inclass, but it's not a retire rehire. No, the one is uh in the contract for them is one. So that's what I thought. Yeah, this is really a discussion about individuals rather than a negotiated agreement. Right. I think it's fine the way it is. I think two number. What' you say, Mary? I think two is fine. I like three. It's right. And in checking with other area districts, they're they're pretty standard with two and recommend two. But there's no reason we couldn't increase it to three if we chose to do that. We could do a maximum of three and then it be at the board's discretion they could do one, two, or three. It just gives you the freedom to go up to three. Yeah, I think minimal one. I think it reads
098u not to exceed three years contract. So some would mean you have to do it. Just gives you the freedom if the board wants to do it. Yeah. You want motion for Is are you looking for a motion for that? Uh, does the board policy have to be reviewed and recommended? Well, there has to be two readings. So, yeah, just this is just discussion tonight. Yeah, just have Okay. So, this is just the discussion part, right? Great. Where do we need I think the idea of h have leaving it open to one, two, or three at the board's discretion would be the best way to go about that. Not to exceed. Yeah. Okay. All right. Any other discussion for item one? All right. Uh item two was recommended we uh for Mr. Connley's presentation to
099go up in the room up there. Uh he's going to go up there and present his uh information to update us on the tax policies we've been working on. Uh so the meeting up there and anybody's more than welcome to come up and then we'll conclude it up there also. Correct. Or you want to come back here and conclude it? No, I conclude up there. we can conclude the meeting up there, right? I wouldn't know why not if uh if everybody um that wants to stay joins us. Yeah. Wait. All right. Well, if you want to stay to the bitter end, you got to go upstairs. Otherwise, have a good evening.