001Sorry. Well, I understand that. [Music] All right. You got to get redressed here. Ready, Brad? Brad, you ready? I am. All right. Um, we'll entertain a motion to come out of executive session. So move. I'll second. Sorry. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Mr. Wigton, four. Mrs. Melissa Walker, four. Mrs. Cartman, four. Mr. Moer, four. And then on uh under president, business d uh entertain a motion to uphold the superintendent decision on the grievance at the level three. Level three. So moved. Second. I'll second. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Mr. Wigton, four. Mrs. Cartman, four. Mrs. Melissa Walker, four. Mr. Moer, four. And then moving on to item E. Approval to entertain a motion for approval of previous board minutes March 19th, March 31st, April 2nd, April 11th. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Roll call, please.
002Mrs. Melissa Walker, four. Mr. Wigton, four. Mrs. Cterman, four. Mr. Moer, four. And item F, recognition of visitors. Anybody like to at this time? All right. Uh, item G. Hold on. Oh, sorry about that. I see the visitors, Mr. Grove. Stand over here. Uh, tonight we're here to recognize Jerry Wartz. Um Jerry uh has qualified uh to compete at the national level um for uh his BPA uh chapter in device configuration and troubleshooting. Uh Jerry will get to go down to Orlando, Florida to compete uh for his CTSO and represent the Rams. Uh and also want to congratulate and recognize uh the hard work for Mr. Phillips uh his instructor that he's put him through. um they spent a lot of time together and their dedication uh for Jerry and this opportunity for him. So
003Jerry, congratulations. Thank you. The the other student that was going to be recognized tonight could not be here because of a work commitment. So we're going to recognize her in at the May meeting. All right. Thank you very much. Congratulations. Now to item G, administrative committee reports, legislation. Not here. That's Amy. You got it. Yeah. So, she's now Okay. Amy's absent. Athletic Border Patrol. You want to talk? Okay. Uh, we met April 10th, 2025. And what we did was reviewed the winter seasons uh in their the their monetary and their income and expenditures. And then we approved the 2025 2026 budget for the winter sports of next year and our next meetings in June. So uh student representative committee or get the student rep here. There she is. All right. Hello. My name is Elise
004Huggin, this year's student council president in case you anyone does not know me. Um to start off with our sports, softball has been on a roll with their win streak. They have had an amazing season so far and are showing the Ram pride through their performances. Freshman Kalia Clapper also broke the school record of number of strikeouts in a game which now sits at 17. Baseball has had a great start to their season and recently won against Clyde 11 to zero and run rolled them in five innings. JV got their first conference win last night against Lexington. Boys tennis is three and two and have worked hard together to get their flow right. They play tonight at Worcester. Track hosted the Madison Invitational and brought a lot of talent to the Ram Stadium. Many athletes
005have been leave leaving leaving it all on the track and coming in the top five of many events. Prom is coming up on May 3rd and the theme is Enchanted Lanterns. The drama club host took over the stage last weekend with the play Bad Things H that Hen to Good Actors, which went very good. The next upcoming PBIS event will take place on May 9th, which will have food trucks and different games to play for all of our students. English 10 and geometry state tests are finally over with and we are going to get into the biology, American history and government state test after spring break as well as the Spanish test which is the AAPL where they where students can get their biiteracy seal. Um spring break officially is here and we are we
006will start this Friday. Additionally, academic early releases on Thursday, which will start many students spring break off 2 hours earlier. Career tech text techs are taking their semester web exams covering career related content. Leah Thomas and myself will be competing in the FCCLA, which is the family career and community leaders of America state competition next Thursday and Friday in Columbus. Skills USA had competitions and Jocelyn Barley was state champion for prepared speech and will continue to represent Ram Nation in Atlanta, Georgia at nationals in June. We also want to congratulate the runners up for Skills USA which are Maddie Barry, Courtney Cyrus, Aria Tus, Callie Cook, Jalisia Nelson, Macy Mounds, and Mila Blankenship as a team, as well as Emily Brandt for their amazing and hard work. Next meeting, I will be joined with our
007new uh student council president who will be which will be determined in the next few weeks, making next week my final one as your student council president before I graduate in June. Thank you. Thank you very much. Facilities. Good evening. Evening. Quick update in regards to the high school roofing situation that we're dealing with with the career tech side. Um career tech to ensure machining, welding, and carpentry. We had uh Garland roofing was out on Monday of this week. Uh they did thermal imaging of the roof. We're supposed to have that information back next week and then from there we can determine what we can kind of go without this year versus the entire project. Um they're going to try to break this down into sections for us if it's possible. So, I'll know more
008about that next time around. So, thank you. All right. Thank you. Student achievement. So, at the career center, um, they had four out of four certified nurse aid exams passed, two out of three welding certification tests passed, and eight out of eight Microsoft Office exams passed. Also, um, two out of two students completed the customer and office support technology program with one being an adult diploma student. Five out of five completed the certified nurse aid with four being adult diploma students. Uh, two adult diploma students also completed MIG welding. Seven out of seven students completed the nail tech program with three being adult diploma students and one out of one completed the advanced cosmetology program. At the high school, the Madison Drama Club put uh put on the play When Bad Things Happen to Good
009Actors this past weekend. The cast did a wonderful job, and a special thanks goes to Mr. Ashley for putting the production together. Congratulations to Chris Atkins Tart. He won the Rotary Club's four-way speech competition. Chris was prepared for the competition by Mrs. Brainsteader and Mrs. Meyers. Gage Masters and Sydney Phillips were recognized by the Noon Optimus Club as high quality students at a banquet at DLX this last this past month. And spring testing is off to a great start. High school students completed the ELA exam two weeks ago and finished a geometry exam on Wednesday. We're looking forward looking forward to a relaxing spring break before moving on to American history, government, biology, and algebra 1 exams. At the middle school, they've completed the third nine weeks and had 59 students with all A's and
010130 with all A's and B's. They've completed the ELA testing, and students worked hard to show what they know. Fifth and eighth grade students are completing them, the science tests this week, and the math tests when they return from spring break. The MTSS groups in both math and ELA have shown significant growth this school year with our RAM times dedicated to daily MTSS instruction that focuses on students individual needs. Attendance for the building is around 92% which is an increase of a little over 10% from last school year. At Madison South they just finished the ELA and math testing for third and fourth graders. They asked the students to work hard for a minimum of 45 minutes. read the text before answering the questions, check over their work, and be mindful of their peers. If
011they completed all these things, they were rewarded with extra recess and a candy bar. We're very proud of the efforts put in by all of the students and staff. And at Mifflin, students wrapped up the administration of the spring Ohio State test for language arts and tried their hardest as reported by Mifflin staff. Yes, as sorry, as reported by Mifflin staff. Yesterday, Mifflin hosted a breakfast for its military families for purple update to celebrate the month of the military child. Students are participating in a spirit week all week to honor active servicemen and service women as well. Tomorrow, Mifflin will celebrate student leadership with the quarterly behavior celebration with a down on the farm day where students will egg hunt for prizes including extra recess, a glow stick dance party, and pizza with the principal.
012That's it. All right. Thank you very much. Uh board policy. Uh there are some revisions. They're all due to laws. Um there's a first reading of three of them which I have here if anyone needs to see them. But if anyone ever wants to know any revision to a policy, um please reach out to me or Amy. We have no problem getting it to you. All right. Thank you. Superintendent update. Yeah. A few items. Um, as our student rep uh recognized, um, spring break is almost finally here. Uh, it's been a very long haul getting to spring break this year, uh, with Easter being so late. Um and as uh was stated in the student achievement report and and our student rep um our staff and students have been very busy administering uh beginning the
013administration of our state tests and uh we'll continue to finish those off uh once we get back from spring break. Um very much looking forward to the month of May uh with several awards programs and different uh fun events uh including and there's a couple I want to share with with you. Um we've talked about the elementary Olympics and and I think you have that date but I'll state it again. Um that's Thursday, May 15th at 6 o'clock over at the football stadium uh with a May 19th rain date. And then also as we kind of culminate our 100red years of Madison this year, um we will be having a uh 100 years of Madison carnival that will take place um here at in the back of the middle school uh on Saturday, May 17th.
014from noon to 3:00 p.m. Uh there will be inflatables, uh outdoor uh family games and activities, and uh we'll have some food trucks here for purchase of food. So, uh looking forward to that, uh event kind of culminating the hundred years of Madison. Um lastly um our reduction in force process um with the teachers uh is now complete. Um we uh all all teachers uh minus three uh do have jobs. So we do have three teachers left um who do not have jobs either with us or have accepted jobs in another district. Um, so we are hopeful that uh they might be able to something might open up here that that they could uh stay here uh or we will definitely support them in any way that we can uh to find a job elsewhere.
015And that concludes my update. All right. Thank you. And now item H, presentation. Miss Wigden, East View Elementary. Some of us are a little smaller. Okay. Good evening. Um so we are here tonight um to present. We didn't submit anything because we're here to present oursel to tell you all of the wonderful things happening at Eastview. Um who we have here tonight, we have Mrs. Thomas who is our student council adviser and then um some of our student council members who are here to basically give you the lowdown on East View for this school year. So I will go ahead and turn it over to Mrs. Thomas um for her to get started and then we'll work through our presentation. Good evening Mr. Peterson and board members. Um I'm Mrs. Thomas, student council adviser. Uh
016we would like to present some of the highlights from our year so far at the view as we like to call it over yonder at East View. Um we would like to lead this presentation by sharing our mission statement and using that to work our way through this presentation. We will have Blakeley come up to start us off as she does this every single morning on the announcements. So she will guide us through our mission statement. At East View, we lead to succeed. empower others, achieve our goals, and do what's right. And then I'm going to let Mrs. Wake 10 guide our we lead to succeed part. Okay. Okay. So, my part is very short. So, um I won't bore you through each um individual number, but if you just kind of focus in on
017the green areas, that's always what we are aiming for. Um so you can see where we started at the beginning of the year um and how we were able to grow that green section in reading from um beginning of the year to midyear and then if we go ahead and move forward and that was reading and then this is math. So you can kind of see where we are at to start and then where we are midy year and we are really excited to see at the end of the year where we'll end up and I um pretty confident that um that we are going to have an amazing amazing portion of green um by the end of the year. So, the kids are working hard and doing um doing really well in the classroom.
018So, we're excited to see that growth. Let's see. Let's get this down a little bit, Nicholas. There we go. Right. Empowerment allows others to de develop a sense of confidence, encourages others to take ownership of their actions. We have a forest of kindness trees in our cafeteria where we hang up leaves that shout out students and staff who show kindness to others. Where's your little hearts? Now, these are the blank ones. I will go grab them and come right back. One of our students had to leave to baseball practice, so he took that student's roll real quick. So, Just read it. Read it to them and then you could go pass it out. Go up here. Thank you for all right here. Right here. Thank you for all your behind the scenes hard work. Thank
019you. Thank you. Watch the cords, buddy boy. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Nicholas, is that your entire You have that one? Okay. Where's our candy cane? Oh, yeah. Go ahead, bud. Student council raised money at Christmas through candy cane gram sales in our spirit week to give to senior citizens in our nursing homes and our very own merry Madison Christmas. This is a season of giving and not just for us kids. Let's empower community members of all ages. [Applause] We rallied together to tackle cancer with a jersey day for a fellow Ram over at Mifflin Elementary. Bradston Cole is our local hero. We raised money for his family in this difficult time. [Applause] We raised money through our Valentine's candygram sale to give to the United Way Foundation. Our school benefited greatly from
020the Casey programs in in grades K through 4. Achieving our goals is top priority at school. When we come to school to learn and do our best, we earn PBIS offense. And when we earned enough points to do so, our first quarter was a traveling petu experience, and that was amazing to see a baby kangar plus close in person. Quarter two, we enjoyed glow-in-the-dark disco bowling, which was a very unique experience at school. Quarter three, we had a outside egg hunt to win prizes. Quarter four will be a water party. We can't wait for the warmer weather and our end of the year of fun. [Applause] Doing what's right means being honest, treating others with respect, and following the rules. At our school, we can earn leadership tickets for being caught being a leader. Integrity
021is doing the right thing even when no one is watching you. [Applause] Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Grandparent lunch week. Oh, here. I'll start this real quick. I'm sorry. We take pride in our East View traditions. Traditions give us something to look forward to each year, and it creates wonderful memories for a lifetime for our students. Grandparent lunch week is so special. Seeing your family at school is just exciting as seeing a teacher out in public. Our annual Halloween parade is such a fun way to show off our costumes to your friends at school. Of course, we have rules like no scary costumes and no blood or gore. We invite families to come to our school to watch the parade around the drive our driveway loop in front
022of our school. Teachers have a blast putting together costumes fil with their grade level like the three blind mice and cans of Play-Doh. Come over next year and you won't be disappointed. You can even join if you wish. [Applause] A new tradition this year was born. A new tradition was born this year. Balloons over Broadway. The kindergarten team led the parade through the school. We had our parade before Thanksgiving break to mimic the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. [Applause] After we get the year started, we like to involve our families to encourage literacy at home. This year, to go with our theme, we had a candy lane game board where families and students can go on a little reading adventure like reading with a flashlight and your favorite animal. This empowered our our families to put
023down the screens and pick up a book. [Applause] The Chocolate Touch was our one book, one school chapter book. Every student took home a book to read with their families. We participated in trivia games at lunch, which encouraged kids to read at home so they could win prizes at trivia games. The Jungle Book was absolutely amazing this year. Maybe some of you even came to see it. We have teachers and staff who worked tirelessly to make this play possible every year. Mifflin Elementary students can even try out and be in the play. Thank you to our spec. Thank you specifically to Mrs. Kungleton, Mrs. Walker, Mrs. Kaiser, and other volunteers. This is such a great stepping stone for experiences before us elementary kids reach middle school and high school plays play opportunities. The arts do
024matter. We appreciate all you do for our school behind the scenes. Have a great rest of your year. [Applause] Thank you very much. Thank you. Give one more round of applause. Yeah, they did great. All right, any questions? All right, thank you. All right, thank you very much. All right, item I, approval of donations. Can I get a motion? So moved. Second. Anybody? I'll second. Mary, any discussion? I'd just like to recognize and thank all of our donors. Um they're very helpful to our district and and allow for uh good things to happen for our students that might not be able to be possible otherwise. So, thank you to those donors. Any other discussion? Vote, please. Mrs. Melissa Walker, four. Mrs. Cartman, four. Mr. Wigton four Mr. Motion four. Item J, treasury business. Can we
025get a motion for the treasur? I'll second discussion. All right. Um, okay. You can get past the title page of the table. Gone. All right. Uh, revenues once again for March, that month-to-month comparison is really kind of worthless because um it has to do with timing. In April, we did receive the full real estate. settlement. So, that will at the end of April, this next one will be a lot more accurate. Um, that being said, uh, you know, we're up almost 5%. Which is what was anticipated. The only thing that, uh, is that I'm not happy with being down in is the restricted aid, but, you know, that's overall we're still up for the year for State Foundation. Next expend. Oh, no. Yeah, you were the expenditures. All right. Um, so here, um, we're actually
026pretty good. We're I mean good as in what I predicted. We're 34 of the way through the fiscal year and we're right at the 75% on most things like salaries and benefits, real close on purchase services. [Music] Um the two one one of the things that's up quite a bit more than what I would what I actually anticipated was the supplies. But keep in mind even the the supplies are up but the capital outlay is down. So kind of analyzing it a little bit. What that means to me is some of the things that um were coded on my accounting system as supplies maybe I would have in the beginning budgeted as capital outlay or uh the yeah like capital and basically what that means is it's a threshold of whether or not it can
027be depreciated and if you remember about 6 months ago we upped that limit 5 to $10,000 and that's essentially why you can't depreciate smaller items so they are labeled as supplies. So those two things are off a little bit a skew but even that being said um supplies and capital outlay combiner you know combined are only a third of the expenditures of purchase services and a 12th of the expenditures of benefits and 118th of the expenditures of salaries. So, it's one's up, one's down. It's just a matter of accounting, but it's such a small amount. Um, doesn't really affect too much. Um, go on to the next, not that one, and go to that one. So, we're 3/4 of the way through the year, 75% of the way, and right now we're at 75% of
028what was forecasted. So, even though expenditures are up, I forecasted them to be up. So, we're on track. Um, and as far as the revenue, total revenue for the current fiscal year 67%. Last year was 66. So, we're right on track there. That's just because we even that reason that's not at 75% is because we don't get the real estate settlement until like this month. So, we'll get it more than 3/4 of the way through the year. So you'll see actually next month that'll shoot up higher than the monthly average because the vast majority of our revenues are going going to have been received by the end of April. So that's the monthly financial report. Um then the next thing approval of disadvantage uh impact aid and student wellness. We call it DPIA and SWSF.
029And remember when I said a few minutes ago that our our restricted aid was down. That's our restricted aid. It's it's the state says you've got to spend disadvantaged pupil on certain things. You got to spend student wellness on certain things. And those those things are like we spend it on full day kindergarten instead of half day. We spend it on counselors. We spend it on like attendance officers and resource officers and things like that. And Mr. Peterson and I have meetings with public officials. Um, one is the head of the MOESC and the other, help me out, Mr. Peterson, she's the on the she's the executive director of the mental health board. Mental health board. Yeah. So, we we have meetings with them. We set it and all this is is just a state
030regulation because it's restricted. So, we have to have meetings. We have to report it to the state and have to tell you we're setting it. So, that's Are there uh any questions on any of this before I Okay. Roll call. Do you mind? No. Mr. Wton, four. Mrs. Melissa Walker, four. Mrs. Carter, four. Mr. Moer, four. And then we'll go to item K, matters related to personnel, including addendum. Entertain a motion to accept. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Yeah, I'd just like to take a minute to um you may know this gentleman, but I'd like to introduce him to you in case you don't know him. Um Mr. Roth, would you stand? Um Mr. Roth um is currently an intervention specialist at the high school and has been working there uh in that capacity for
03112 years. Um when I was high school principal, I hired him then. Um as you know, Mr. Turlo um has resigned to uh take a new job at Mid Ohio and uh happy to introduce to you Bill Roth as our new student services director next year. All right, any other discussion? None. Roll call. Mrs. Melissa Walker, four. Mr. Wigton, four. Mrs. Cartman, four. Mr. Moer, four. Moving to item L, including the addendum. Superintendent business. Motion to entertain. I'll move. Second. Discussion. Just uh want to hit on a couple of items. Uh starting with item eight um which is uh seeking competitive bids for renovating the Ramblein uh to upgrade that to ADA requirements. Um we think that project is going to come in right around $75,000 and uh that uh career tech weighted funds will
032be used um for that project and specifically um what we'll be doing there is working in there is a uh boys locker room, a boys restroom and a girls locker room and a girls restroom and basically renovating those um one to bring them up to ADA requirements and two um to upgrade them. They they are they they need upgraded. I'll just leave it at that. And then uh oh and also the um door that comes into the ramble in from the cafeteria um they'll be um putting in a new door there. And then the inner door that goes outside from the ramble in that door is is getting uh renovated as well. Um and then um items nine and 10 um uh bringing in uh a couple of our uh mid Ohio employees back into
033the district. Um I I've still got some more work to do on this. This is uh kind of phase one bringing them in and trying to bring them in at approximately the same cost to the district as uh the cost uh that we paid to Mid Ohio for their services. Um but um there are some inconsistencies with the indices. Um, so I am continuing to look at those and may be coming back to you uh with uh an update on those, but um they're they're good for at this time to go ahead and be voted on. Can I chime in real quick? Yes. Mr. Peterson um alluded to weighted funds. Just so you know, when I had talked about funds that were restricted, weighted funds are also restricted funds. It's a the the state gives
034us career tech education funds and they say you have to spend this percentage of this line item specifically. You cannot spend it on salaries, benefits, insurance. It has to be spent on specific things for career tech. So when he says weighted, that is a restricted item that we have to per OD spend. So you know it we have to spend it that way. So that's I I it it's one of those things that gets glossed over, but it's important to know that, you know, we can't we're not just spending money because we can. It has to be earmarked for that because of the state. Any other discussion? Roll call, please. Mrs. Cutterman, four. Mr. Wiggler, four. Mrs. Melissa Walker, four. Mr. Moer, four. And then item M, visitors comments. That is you. I may be
035the only one. Please, please identify yourself. And yeah. Um, my name is Hello. My name is Darinda Strang and I live over on Woodcrest Drive. Um, I grew up in the Shelley Acres aotment on Ramsey Drive. I attended Madison schools from third grade. um until I graduated in 1973. Uh I have lived within a two-mile radius of Madison High School for 62 years. Um I'm here tonight as a representative of the Richland County Democratic Women's Caucus. One of our missions is to advocate for public school education and we believe in a free, highquality public education. We recently pulled our members and they chose education as the number one area of concern. So um we recognize that the public school systems are facing decreases in funding from the state and the federal government. We have been
036calling, we have been writing, we've been emailing, we have met in person with some of our elected officials to request their actions to support public school budget and legislative issues. And I was so thrilled to see this paper at over there um because we have been doing this and uh we just wanted you to know um that we have been doing it and uh we're growing in numbers. We now have uh over a hundred members, 110 uh Monday night. And um we just wanted to let you know that we're here and that we would like to help. Um and if there's anything more that we can do um we would like you to let us know. Um so I just thank you for your time. Thanks. Thank you. Thank you very much. Any other comments?
037Hello. Um, identify yourself. Oh, my name is Kennedy Klene. Um, I live at 917 Brookfield Drive, Mansfield, Ohio 44907. Um, I have a child who is in the cross category classroom at Madison South. He has an amazing teacher, um, Heather Reynolds. She's incredible with him. Um, and I really wanted I got this really good voicemail from the principal that I just wanted to play for you guys, um, that I received from the principal about my son and how he's been doing this year, if that's okay. Hi Kenny, it's Mr. Gordon over here at Madison South. I was just calling and tell you we've had um different you know interactions. He graces them every day. He's off to a fantastic start. Um he has some of the best manners out of anybody in the school. Extremely
038polite whenever I talk to him. Um and then it cuts off. It was only 16 seconds. Um but that same child was suspended today for 5 days um due to having a behavior that directly correlates with his disability. Um also due to a medication issue. Um so I just wanted to let the board know that um I don't after talking to my child this afternoon I don't feel that his IEP was followed the way that it was supposed to be and I look forward to meeting with the superintendent tomorrow to appeal this. Thank you. Thank you very much. Any other visitors comments? Seeing none, we'll go to item N, president's business, our next regular board of education meeting, May 21st, 2025 and at 6 p.m. here at the middle school. And item O, motion to
039adjurnn. So moved. Second. Discussion. Roll call. Mrs. Meliss Walker. Four. Mr. Won, four. Mrs. Cartman, four. Mr. Mer, four. Thank you very much for coming and be careful and have a good evening.