0012 and the Hiring County's parcel number 33-004N-01-00003- 010 0. The county proposes to the school district a net gain of approximately 13.0112 acres of real property for the school district through both a sale and exchange. The sale and exchange of the property shall result in a 33.01 0112 acre parcel for the school district following both the sale and exchange of property between the county and the school district. The school district's new parcel shall be adjacent to the residents of Southgate Drive and Norwood Path. Concurrently, the school district shall title to the county 10 acres from parcel number 33-00-01-003-0112. The 10 acres shall be adjacent to what is known as the Hiring County Auto Title Department and the services of agent Inc. Building or what is commonly known as a senior center. The terms of this
002offer to sell, including restrictions, shall be fully outlined in a forthcoming proposed purchase agreement with attached legal descriptions to be prepared by Herin County and provided to council of the Norwok City School District. This offer will be non-negotiable and exclusive. Like to make a motion to discuss uh the offer to sell an exchange. Second discussion. I think it's great that we have an offer. Um I do think there's some things that we need to consider before voting on this. Um our appraisal is for 11 whereas this is 2000. Um I don't know of any other appraisals that have no um so that would be some good information to have. Um I'm also concerned about the acreage not being up toC standards. I agree. Uh the OFCC said in order for us to do what we
003needed to do and do it properly to not have a traffic obstruction on Shady Lane or Norwood Norwood or even up here at the stoplight. It would be best to have the acreage that we requested 37 37 acres. So we're being for short that would be 4 acres total which would be what we need to do the traffic in order to do that. I agree. There's definitely some safety concerns if we don't have enough land to get the cars off of Shane Lane being so close to the hospital and Karen County Sheriff's Office. I don't not having that enough land to make sure that traffic makes sense. Part of the reason we wanted to one building is, you know, the traffic and the parking drop offs in all the buildings that we have. I I
004tend to agree with you. I'm also curious on, you know, like you said, no no appraisal came with this. There was nothing that I'm aware of anything with that attachment to that number. So, I just I I guess I'm curious on how we got to from the appraisal that we purchased to make sure we had accurate numbers. Um and then we had Commissioner um Dunlap offered 20,000 at that was a public meeting. Yeah. 20,000 per acre for all of it. I know it wasn't second, but I'm just wondering what process we got to 30,000. Yeah. How that happens? That's what I question too. Yeah. 20,000 to 30,000 in a month. Yeah. I guess I'm just in and less acreage and then we would have to I'm not sure about the parcel numbers, but I think
005we would have to give up the 10 that's right across from us. Correct. Which kind of directly across from this school. So, if you don't know, we own currently 20 acres exactly across from this high school. It essentially extends the uh parking lot where a baseball field is. That's our 20 acres. And then the 23.36 acres that is that pie toward the residential side. um that is what's owned by the county commissioner. So that's what we are seeking. Um and clearly so we're based on this uh offer to us in those terms. We are short an acreage and 19,000 per acre over the appraised price. So for those that don't know, we did pay for Tim Winslow who has been in this business for a long time. He did an appraisal of this property. What
006does he look at? He does comps like all people that look at real estate. He looked at a comp here in Norwok, one in Tiffen and one in Fremont. So he got to the number of 11,000. So that's what that's based on. That was what was presented to the county commissioners. And then all we've had since then is we've had 40,000 stated to a someone who was on our bond campaign. So our prosecutor mentioned 40,000 firm. So we heard that number that that was never in a terms that was never an offer. And twice as mentioned here in a public session, Tom Dunlap said 20,000 per acre for all 23.36. So to stomach that that's something the board could look at because if you're saying is there a number can we have come upon between
00711,000 appraisal per acre and what's being said now. But so we've had a county prosecutor saying 40,000. We've been presented with 30,000 per acre and we've heard Tom Dunlap again in two public sessions say 20,000 for the entire acreage. It is very critical that we have all that acreage and a minimum 17 acres of the 23.36. That is critical because what the county commissioners are wanting is us to exchange the land directly across from the high school and then move us over. 17 is at a minimum. So, not only are we shorted here on land and acreage to do the project that's in the best interest of the city, of the school, of this county, we're also getting more than over inflated on that price. Um, we did check with legal and I to mention
008that when you look at best practice, we have multiple appraisals. You can do that. If people are far off on their terms, you can have multiple appraisals that are done, but I can tell you those comps don't get anywhere close to the 30,000 figure. So that's where it's difficult to stomach what's been presented to us. I guess I just the last line of non-negotiable is my biggest concern. I mean I don't know why we're not just sitting at a table and figuring out what's best for everybody. I like you said we came to 11,000 but you know 20,000 that uh Commissioner Dunlap suggested was definitely still a rather large increase but at least it was somewhere where I feel like we could have probably found the comps to support it. Um, I also appreciate the
009fact that he understood why we needed all of it. So, many years ago when we first started this project, we thought that we would be able to use part of the middle school. Uh, but OFCC said, "No, you know, with your student numbers, you are two school building. That's what they think we should have. They're not going to support or pay for any other school to be upgraded so we could use more of that school and use less here." So, we truly need to put prek through eight. That's a lot of kids in one school and also have the land to support uh you know, sports and recess and parking and getting the roads off. I mean, we're not being selfish. We're following OFCC who does this all day long, telling us what we need
010to make the best school possible and not waste taxpayer dollars where in a couple years, why did we build something that didn't make sense? that's on us. So, yeah, I I appreciate like Kayla said, I appreciate that there's some conversation that there's some kind of offer. I'm just not sure what everyone else thinks right now. Well, I I'm in agreeance. Um I think one thing that we have to look at is we're trying to be good stewards of the taxpayers of not just city school district, but of the Hiron County voters totally. And what we have to remember is $53 million of taxes that have already been paid by the voters of Hiron County, not just city school district, but Hiron County as a total. $53 million is being returned to this county and state,
011all voters throughout the state. But $53 million is coming back to Kiron County to help build this school. Those are your tax dollars that you've already paid. Also, if we're going to do it for the the the voters of the county, we also need to look at we average about 225 open enrolled students uh K through eight. If you're looking at 37 years over the time that it takes to pay off this this uh the bond that we have, that's 8,325 open enroll students throughout the county. Not just Milwauke City School District. That's students throughout the county that will be attending this school. It could go up and build a nice school. We might have more open enrollment. Those are the things that we have to look at. and we're just trying to be good
012stewards of our money, your money, the voters money throughout the state and the county. And it's it's something that this is a huge decision. This isn't this isn't small change. It's hund00 million that we're looking at that we need to ensure that every single penny is being spent properly. And to Mrs. Crawford's point um when we had the agreement several years ago so some of you are savvy some of you we have reporters here I know that you can click back what several years ago so we had handshakes we had agreed um on basically swapping 10 and buying 12 so if you're saying if you were content with that years ago why is that not fine now so I think that was the point was made is at that point of having 32 acres in
013total if you go back several years that intent was keeping a middle school in play for students so we have three buildings as part of Norwok City School District instruction. Once it was clear and OFCC says based on enrollment, based on calculations, you should really be at two buildings. This being one, that being one, we knew the middle school is not in play. So based on that, that's why the acreage is more. So when people look back like why was 32 fine years ago and now you're wanting at least 37 or hopefully the entire 23.36. That is why because we are talking a massive number of kids that you have to have competitive fields, recess because you have different age groups. So this is smart for the school. This is smart for the city. This
014is smart for the county. This is smart for everyone. And as public elected officials, we have a board here. We have a board that represents us for the county. And when I look at Tim Winslow's last line that he says the income approach was not developed due to the subject not being an income property producing area. So that's why those calculations are not in effect. This is government to government. We look at best use of land. It would tough to argue what's better use of land than what we're doing here right now for a school district that will serve kids for multiple years and we could say a hundred years potentially. That's what we're talking. So like that's the argument of best use of land. And why are we not trying to get top dollar?
015I'm not trying to sell it to who's going to pay me the most for for private. We're not trying to make money on this. we know what the intent of this land is for. So that's why to me as a public official when you say a number of a value of property, it better be based on something. Not that I compare that to what someone might buy a private lot for when we know we can go to multiple places in Norwok and you may spend 30 or 40,000 for a lot to build your future home. That is not even the comparative that we're looking at when you look at analytics and what's being looked at in his appraisal. So, I would like to see multiple appraisals and that's being looked at because I'm very familiar
016with farm ground. That's my background and I can tell you there is no land getting to that point unless you're trying to make top dollar and go into a private developer or one who's going to build their future home. I don't I wasn't at a lot of the recent meetings that you guys went to, but I believe that in a public session I I thought Mr. Brady mentioned that even he Commissioner Brady would like to see a sprawling ranch and not a buildup because it's not great for students. It's not great for handicap. Uh elevators are expensive. So even I feel like every commissioner seems to have a grasp of what we're trying to do, what we're trying to build here. So to me, I'm just really disheartened that there's not more discussion here. Um
017I'm not understanding where they got to these terms. This was not delivered to us even directly. This was given between attorneys um who we have on staff because of the building project who we have to have for bond and everything else. We are hiring attorneys just to deal with other elected officials because I don't think we should have to do that. So, uh any other discussion right now? Anything that we left out? I just would like to see the cooperation with the city and the county and the school district because to me we're pulling different directions. This is not a contentious matter. This should be simple. All groups at the local from the board level to the city to the county. We should be smiling and be excited that we have a hundred million dollar
018project that's going to explode this economy of people who live and work in this area that'll be invested in that because I don't know how many people in our lifetime we can say we're connected to a hund00 million project that's going to impact thousands and thousands of lives going forward. Make a better case than that for that use of land, please. This hundred million dollar project was voted on the first time. Voted in the first time. I don't recall how many schools got that voters. It's very difficult on the first time to get something like this. And the people know this is a great thing to happen. Fantastic building we can have across the street. All we need is cooperation. If there's no more discussion, I'd like to table this issue here and see if
019we can get with the county commissioners and and also I want to because of public participation, you know, get the people involved here that have questions more. So, I like to table it. I will second that. Uh there's no other motion. Any other motion? Okay, then roll call for that please to table it. Mr. Bat. Yes. Mrs. Crawford. Yes. Mr. Norris. Yes. Mr. Wendeller. Yes. Great. Public participation. Each person who wishes to address the board will be asked to give his or her name and address. Remarks should be limited to 3 minutes in length. If after everyone who wishes to do so has had an opportunity to speak, additional comments can be made up to a lot of time of 30 minutes. All right. Special presentation. There you go. Okay. This evening, I'm very excited
020to to make a presentation about some great news that we received a week ago. And before we do that, I want to go back to, you know, um November, middle of November, as you know, uh the Norwalk City School District and all of our buildings. Um we take pride in um offering um Veterans Day programs for our veterans and um if you've been to any of those they're awesome ceremonies um programs you know so at that time um you know we got to talking and said you know we like to do those things for our veterans um for their families. So we started looking into this thing called the Purple Star. Okay. And you may have seen this before because we have some local schools and local uh districts that have earned the designation of
021Purple Star. So we began to talk. We said, you know what, you know, we do a lot um for our veterans and for their families, but we would like to do more. So we decided that we were going to um pursue the uh purple star which again is a designation that is given to a school that shows a high level of of commitment to military connected families. That is the the parents you know that are serving in the military the kids you know of military parents. Um, and again, as I started to look into this, I did not realize because I did not I do not come from a strong military family. I mean, we've had, you know, some relatives there. Um, I will be a parent of a military person here in a week,
022you know, but, you know, to see all the you unique needs of our kids that are coming through our schools that are connected to military families. Um, you know, you talk about, you know, with people that are in active duty, the reser, the National Guard, you know, you think, you know, we recognize them on Veterans Day, but all of the things that come with that, the unique challenges of having to move, um, you know, moving schools, um, you know, you talk about the military families that you're moving schools constantly, you know, those, uh, are unique challenges for those families and for the kids. So we decided, okay, all of our our uh building administrators and our uh liaison is that we would like to raise our commitment to do more for military connected families. So
023thus we pursued the purple star which is an application process because we want to do more for military families. So last week we were informed that we are six all six of our district buildings received the purple star designation which is six schools out of 115 that are new to the class of 2025. So we are very fortunate we're very proud of that and we look forward to um you know raising that commitment to our military connected families. Um, so out of I think in the state of Ohio there are 367 okay this year that were either new or newly designated or they received the renewal. So um you know like to thank our our building principles and our liaison um Mrs. Gerber put up over on the uh the clever touch um of all
024the schools it shows in the state of Ohio that have earned the designation of Purple Star. And as you can see, you know, there's a very high concentration and we are very proud, you know, to be a part of that. for everybody. Here we go. So to get you know to thank you know those of you are standing up here um you know not just going through the process of applying you know to be designated but for what they do not just on Veterans Day but throughout the year. Um, you know, we I was I was very surprised, I guess, when you see when I saw the number of students in our district that belong to military connected families, you know, um, you know, just like, wow, you know, you think from around here, we're
025not close to a large military base, you know, but we do have a lot of people that are serving in the military and we do have a very big need to be able to serve and to provide supports for our our students that are coming through. Hey Jay, can you uh Okay. On our website, um we have created a specific part of our website that uh talks about the supports that we offer. Okay. Or we could direct you know students to um and has our our military liaison there. Um but the resources underneath it's amazing of how many resources are out there for our mil military connected families. Um so you know if someone says you know I really I have this need you know feel free to go to our website or contact you
026know our liaison that can lead you to those resources. Okay. Okay. One last [Music] thing. Okay. Each one of our six building or each one will have a banner um that will be visible to all as a reminder of our commitment to our military connected families. Okay. and each building will have their own designated that has the name on there for um the class of 2025. Okay, one last thing also the month of April and again I was I had to last week I was waiting please be able to make the announcement before school board meeting. Um, so it was right down to the wire of being able to put some things together, but the month of April is also um the month of the military child. Okay. So, I'd like to quickly read a
027proclamation of letter of support for the month of the military child. Tonight, April 23rd, 2025, Norwok City School District joins the Military Child Education Coalition in celebrating the month of the Military Child. Nearly two million children in military families face unique challenges, including frequent moves and family separations. These remarkable young people demonstrate incredible strength and courage while adapting to new schools, making new friends, and supporting their family service to our nation. Military children are essential members of our community who deserve recognition for their strength and sacrifices. And if you want to learn more about that, you can go to visit militarychild.org org for more information on that. So we are very proud and we will display our banners with pride and stay committed. [Applause] I would like to just again I really would like the
028opportunity to all of us to thank you for your leadership in this and in a few weeks dad. So thank you. That's really nice. Great. Okay, let's take a quick picture here. Dan, you got to get in there, too. You did a lot of work for this. Ken, pull your corner, illustrator. There you go. Perfect. Down a little bit. Perfect. Ready? One, two, three. Thank you. Okay. I do have to say that uh as a veteran myself, I'm very proud of our district and how every every year for Veterans Day um the buildings all come through and have just such wonderful programs. I've I've been lucky enough to attend just about every single one of them. I've been honored at a few of them. I speak in some classes during the Veterans Day celebration. Um,
029and just the support that everybody gives to veterans, to the first responders in our district, it's just so proud and so humbling uh to us that that we do this. And I just think this is this is awesome. Um, and I'm glad we have the building administrators here. Um, one thing that uh we do in the military community um is on every Friday, and this is something that you can implement in your building if you wish. Every Friday we uh is red. Remember everyone deployed. So you would wear a red shirt, red tie, red something on uh you know for the students. So that's just something that we could support because we do have a lot of students whose parents are actually deployed right now uh from the National Guard unit and then there's another
030one up in Perkins uh a lot of our students whose parents are overseas. again, humbling, honored, and uh thank you for everything that you all do and especially for Veterans Day and everything else. We're continue with Mr. B tonight. Okay. Several years ago, um the state of Ohio introduced a strategic plan called Future Forward Ohio. and it was introduced um as a response uh to help students recover from the CO 19 pandemic and a part of it's called the student wellness and success funds and disadvantaged pupil impact aid plan and it was intended again to provide services for our students you know coming out of that tough time period to be able to recover to be able to uh to get back to somewhat of some normaly and as a part of that um a
031a good chunk of that those funds had to be spent on student wellness again and more importantly you know programs that have the highest impact on kids. So as a part of uh of our our plan to meet these the high impact is that we spent money um and to to reach the most number of kids and as a part of that um we've used these funds um to help fund the Boys and Girls Club that uh that we have at the middle school. Um through Fisher Titus um we for providing school nursing and therapy services. Um the family children first council and providing wraparound services um and again not only for the students of Norwok City School District but for the county. Um they do a wonderful job and such a valuable service um
032with through the Hering County Health Department providing screening and physical health services and through the Norwok City School District um helping us to um keep our literacy initiative going um by having literacy specialists that will that help um collect data to provide support and guidance in that. We also have the assistance of our mental health the counseling services in particular with Jackie White um who is our uh I have to get this right I always yeah our family and children liaison family community liaison okay so again I mean it's she does a lot of what a social worker does she's out in the community um she's a great asset to our families so that is what you know what the student wellness This is a success plan that we report on and unfortunately that is
033starting to dwindle and supposed to be going away. It's required to be completely expended by the end of the school year. So we expect that um additional funding and like all this great news and yeah I mean so many of those programs have made a huge difference and you don't have to be up here to know that you could be anybody in the district any parent any student and feel the difference that those things have made and personally I have been so impressed with the literacy program and the coordinators and everything they're doing in every part of that. But I think when we talk about learning loss and COVID and things that happened, having that put in place by administration and having them address that did set us apart from other districts and having the
034district recognize the things that we had to do to help burden the loss on our students was amazing. So, let's hope that some uh other elected officials hear us and maybe give us something else to continue these programs that are making a difference in our children's lives. But there's [Music] great discussion. All right. Treasury reports. All right. Well, not to be a damp on that, but we'll start right off with the um the resolution in support of the fair school funding plan and ade adequate and equable public school funding in the state banium budget. So, it's that time again where the state is looking at their two-year budget. Um unfortunately, it started out with the it starts out with the governor, it went to the house, now it's at the Senate. Senate will make changes.
035to go back to the house and do some things like conference committee and go the governor. So, we're about halfway through the process, but um the governor's plan at least continued the fair school funding plan. This was the formula, the the methodology to fund schools based on what it takes to actually educate a student. It looked at the costs that went into educating a student, your teacher salaries, your building, your electric, everything. All of your costs gave a certain amount for every student. It looked at how many you would need per number of students, you know, like one kindergarten for every 25 students. I mean, looked at all the AI. So, it came up with this really good methodology and then it looked at implementing the state and a local share. So, your local share
036was on your valuation, property valuation, and your income model. So, it brought both of those things into play. We were supposed to next year start year five of a six-year phase in because when they brought this about, they said, "Well, there isn't enough money for it." And at the time districts had esser money. So there was a thought that we didn't need to fully fund it in the beginning. So we'll phase it in over six years. So we were year four. We're finishing year four. Um the next state budget the governor did propose continuing the fair school funding plan but he did not um keep the inputs with inflation. So the inputs were back on fiscal 22 which next year of course will be fiscal 26. But he kept the updated revenue part. So, the
037updated property valuation and the updated wealth part. So, it made every district look wealthier than what they were, but it did show the increasing expenses, the inflation that we've seen since, you know, 20. Um, so districts, we under the under the governor's even with his not updated inputs, we were still looking to receive um additional funding. Now, what we should have with the inputs updated, but we're still looking at it. Unfortunately, when it went to the House, they completely got rid of it. They they left it in law, but said it odo OW can't fund it, and instead they're going to do a temporary transitional bridge funding, which we have heard so many times. Every time we get a funding plan, maybe it work, but then we hear, no, we're going to do something different,
038which is just residual budgeting. It's really just the state coming up with a number. This is what we think we should fund. So, they're basing at fiscal 25, which is this year, which this with the we were at 38% which is like the lowest amount of state funding in probably 50 years um compared to what anyhow um so that wasn't good. They took that out and they just gave us basically what we're getting this year with a small increase for if you're um head in enrollment growth. So under the house plan you're looking at maybe a $100,000 increase in 26 and about $30,000 in 27, which on a $32 million budget is not much, especially when you look at over the years since fair school funding plan has started, we have been shorted almost $8
039million due to the caps and the phasing because we are a formula district. We're not a district that has so much property wealth that we're only getting the 10%. We are we are in the formula, not a guarantee. Um, so we've lost millions of dollars over the years and now we're at even less. Another big change that the House did is they put in what's called a cash balance carryover. So, this is what they were looking at for a way to do property tax reform, even though it was never ever mentioned before. We had hearings last year. I watched them all the time. Um, where they looked at property tax and what to do and how to how to make it more equitable. Not once was this ever mentioned, but what they're doing is they're
040saying that any school district that has more than 30% carryover cash balance compared to their operating expenditures, the county budget commission is able to take those funds and credit them back to the taxpayers on the next tax bill. So, they're allowing another elected group to override the board's elected status as how to run your school district, what to do with that money. doesn't matter at Norwok because we're only at 18% and we've been dropping because we don't have extra money. We're one of the lowest tax districts in here in county. We don't have a high tax rate. We don't have even with the increase in valuations, we don't have a lot of property tax. So, that's actually not a concern for us. The the big problem is it's taken so much of the focus off
041the fair school funding plan and the fact that they're not doing that because now all these are looking to lose millions of dollars immediately and then have to go right on it and put a levy on because then they're not going to have the money to do it because it doesn't get put back later. There's just I know I can get in the weed sorry but there's so many things with this property tax return that not even thought of. It hasn't been vetted. It was just thrown in at the last minute. Um, so that's why we have a resolution asking everyone to support the fair school funding plan, continue the adequate equitable method that we have, and Ben passed out everybody's um, state, Rob, and senator. There's a phone number on there. So even if
042you don't want to write an email to him, you can just call and all you have to say is please implement the fair school funding plan and continue that in years in five and six. You don't have to go into this whole big discussion. just there's no money plan. Please keep it. Um, we did meet with Representative Deer. She was um very understanding when we met with her, but I feel like she's very new and there's just so much to learn about how schools are funded. There's so much to try to understand about cash balances, districts. Think of it kind of like your paycheck, right? The day you get paid, you're rich. You've got all this money in your account. Well, you know, by the day before payday, you're not so rich. You don't have
043any money. And it's really the same thing with school districts. You pass a levy, you have money, but then that money has got to last you till the next levy cycle, which in our case, our last new money was 2015 for operating. That was the last time we had new money. So that's had to last us over the years, which is why we've been slowly deed spending, but we're still okay. We haven't had to pass the levy. So that's how it works. There's reasons. Um, a lot of the districts around us have Nexus pipeline money. So, they've been Nexus as soon as it went in immediately contested their valuations. So, they had only been paying a partial amount of their tax bill. They finally settled. It went to um there was court hearings. Well, districts
044just received six years worth of their nexus money all at once. So, their cash balances look a lot higher because they've got six years worth of taxes that should have been over the years. Um, we also because we are majority state funded, our money comes in a little bit every month. But if you're a district that is getting the majority of your money for property taxes, it comes in twice a year and the second part of the year is when they're looking at the June 30th balance when you have a lot more um cash carryover. Then what you do before that hits, like in January, you'll know when I was not renewing our CDs and I said, "Well, we're short on money, cash bals." So, anyhow, it's really important that we that we um ask
045the state to adequately equitably fund public education. Um I'm not I understand choice. I'm not going to go down that road, but there are additional things in the budget, additional funding for um private schools without any accountability. So, that's always a concern. The House added more which is called the educational savings account, which gives money to groups that are they're called non-charter, non- tax schools because they less regulations than like a a chartered private school. So, there's that. Moving on. But remember, we're one of the lowest tax school districts in the county, but it shows up. We don't we don't have the cash either, unfortunately. So, all right. Next, we have the minutes. We've had two meetings. We have our regular meeting March 12th. We had our special meeting April 15th, next day. Um, then
046we have our March 2025 financial reports. So, big changes on the financial reports. Our $48 million of bond money is now in the bank. So, when you look at the cash reconciliation, you'll see a very large number that we're not used to. So, I did add the bottom underneath it, there's a line item that says non CFAP balance. That's our actual number um that we have available. So that way we still have it for comparison over the years instead of looking at that and thinking we have 69,000. No way we have. So we did do four new CDs. They're ranging between 4.05% and 4.1%. The big thing for March is property taxes. The final settlement is in. So, when we're compared to last fiscal year, we're at a positive $827,000 and we're $227,000 over the
047estimated amount for property taxes. So, you have to remember this is only the first half of the collection and tax years and fiscal year split differently. So, this is the end of the fiscal year, but the first of the tax year. So, the second half will come in um in August, which will be 26. So, this is kind of what was going to be our saving grace was the increase in taxes. Unfortunately, the cash bail isn't going to hit us, but there's other um proposals out there that may pass too, whether they get thrown into the budget at the last minute or they pass separately. One of them is the 20 mil floor um eliminating the 20 mil floor, which would make the rest of our millillage continue to roll back. So, like right now,
048our mill rolls back on the bond in a permanent improvement levy. So, the bond that we were It probably cost 5.4 mills. When it came in, it was only 4.35. So that mill always rolls back. But the rest of the mill is 20 mil floor. It doesn't. What some of this the legislators are proposing is to eliminate the 20 mil floor. So that means there's never any additional revenue except for your inside mill. So that means there would be no increase and what we received would be given back at a later collection as a credit. So they wouldn't take our money out of the bank. I don't think they would take it out of the next collection. So it would be half as much as what it should be and then they would give it
049credit. Um so that's a concern because it's not really there to spend until we find out what happens. Um on top of that, next month is the forecast month, right? So we need to be able to project where we're headed for the next five years. Um, we don't know what our state funding is going to be. We don't know what's going to happen in property tax. We are just starting negotiations with our staff. So, that's going to be an interesting one. I did give you this book that was put out. I thought this was really good. Talks a little bit about fiveyear forecast. Um, different ways of guidance, what's involved in, and I just thought it was really good reading. And it talks about how it's a joint effort. It's not just my fiveyear forecast.
050I need to know what everybody thinks. I mean, Brett and I talk about things all the time, what we're looking to do, you know, going forward, programs and all of that, but it does need to be what the board thinks too. Um, what the community wants. What do we want? And, you know, with this decrease in revenue, what do we want? We've done a lot of new things for our parents and our kids. I mean, driver's ed, that was a new program, but it's an expensive program. We were lucky to get both of our vehicles donated, but it's still an expensive program because of the staff. You know, are we going to be that the after school club we won't have the money for that anymore. Is that something we can do or not? I
051mean these are all the services we'll have to talk about together. It's not just my work yet. So you're right. We all have to look at the things that we have and decide you know what we're going to do that we can't afford everything just like anybody else. You're right. And you know it is it's tough because we did a lot of things over the last I mean I'm sure even before but me being here sort of this is my fourth year we've done a lot there's been a lot of programs the administration has started that all benefit our families our kids and we didn't do it because we wanted to spend money but we had co money we had to use and we started all these things and I don't want the wrong impression
052that we're taking it back. We're just we're going to have to make some tough decisions. we don't have that state funding and we don't know what state funding is going to be and we need to pay our educators and make sure that we have our doors open because that's why we're here but it is really unfortunate to consider losing programs or you know uh some of the discussions we're having I mean we haven't charged for uh paytoplay um I really don't want to start doing that either uh school fees things like that so you know I think that we need to look at all options uh consider what we can do to keep some of this stuff alive and we're going to need to have a lot of support, community support, booster support, uh, and
053parents supporting the boosters so the boosters can support us. So, just a lot of things we're going to have to do to to support our kids because I don't want to see us take steps back when we've made so much progress, but at the same time, we can always spend what we have to go towards our kids. So, yeah, I agree. This can't just be our forecast really. a tough decision. So it's unfortunate about the state funding. I know I heard uh Kim Marc, she's the state budget um director had done a presentation and the state is still in a very good position. They have a huge rainy day balance and what she said was they have the funds to do whatever initiatives the legislature wants to do. It's not a question of the money,
054it's a question of the priorities and making public education a priority. So that's what we're people to make public education the priority, fully fund it, fully fund the state. Great idea. So, if you want to feel better about ourselves, like we're not alone in this. You go to superintendent and you talk to like what you like beautiful school districts like Philly and Parisburg that you think they're strong, they have everything. They're those metropolitan places that everyone wants to live and they are struggling financially. All of these places down to the smallest. So, everyone's got their version of that and we're all having to face it now. There's a lot of unknowns that we're having to tack right now. So, but as far as like waste and abuse of money, I would say we are running
055a very tight ship and we uh make sure we get the very best and spend our money wisely. And if it wasn't for this administration, and a lot of that goes to who's in this room right now, and I I know Dan is being pointed out, but Mr. Balman getting so many different uh grants and uh to let us start these programs and let us fund these programs. I mean, we've never had anyone in a position to do that. I don't think that many people do. Um and that's why Dan's never let so note that, put that in the minutes. Uh I'm going to say his name a little bit later here. So, okay. But I mean, so I'm just saying I I mean, uh, we're really lucky that we have the people that are
056in our school district dedicated to do things above and beyond just coming into work every day where a lot of people don't have that. So, I can't thank everybody enough that sits up here. And I really hope that we can continue to find ways to do all the great things that we're doing. And I don't know, yeah, like it's a sad it's a sad story, but it's everybody's story. And I don't think that it's different. And I don't think there's anything we can do. And I know that it's tight for everybody and our taxpayers. I don't want anyone to think that we don't know that everyone's struggling. So, we just I agree. I think that some people in the state budget may not be struggling and I wish that public education would be um more
057of a priority for a lot of people making decisions. I'm not sure why it's not and I'm not sure what their plan is if if they stop funding public education. Great. So, carrying on with the next part which is the 24 audited financial statement. I do have a copy and it will be posted on our website if anybody wants to check it out. But I will point out that we receive once again the star certificate for the highest achievement in both and transparent government from auditor favor. Four out of four stars. So that kind of goes to the fact that we do run a leadership and we are transparent and very careful. So good job. Good job choice. Unfortunately, we don't receive the auditor's award because we are um cash basis. Yes. Which kind of
058irks me because that would get a picture in the paper, but it is a way to save the district money being on cash instead of gap statements. And that is how everything else is prepared. That is how our five year forecast is done and you know it it it definitely saves the money for the district. So, but we did get stars report for highest achievement. Um, next we have uh old outdated books for disposal from Main Street and Lake Elementary as they're making their changes. Um, Terry Snyder has been going through and getting rid of books that haven't been used or are extremely outdated. She's offering those to students and staff first and then um we'll dispose of the rest. And finally, we have a request for proposals for athletic groundskeeping. Um, we're looking at
059every year we do this. We touch up the fields and oversee them and that. So, we're um looking for proposals from local um lawn care for um bike fields. And that is all I have for you this month. Joyce, you did have a mention that the bond issue that we had, that's the building of the new school. They voted on 5.4 mills, but actually is now 4.35. Yes. So, what kind of savings would people see roughly? How many? I feel like it was $38 less per 100,000. Okay. So, we were able to do that. I would have to I'm pretty sure that's what it was. I would have to check. I just thought it No, it would. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it would be because one bill collects $35 per 100,000 and it was slightly over
060one. So, yeah, it' be about 38. A little bit more if your homestead savings. So, they'll find that on their tax. It was It was on this last one. Yes. Okay. So, that's savings. Yeah. Right. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, thanks for We have a motion to approve items one through six under treasur reports. Second. Second. Any more discussion? Good job, Joyce. Pat on the back. You're awesome. Thanks, Mr. Norris. Yes. Mat, yes. Mr. Crawford, yes. Mr. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Personnel. Yeah. resignations for this month. We have Suanne Miller. A lot of individuals in this room know her. Top quality person. We are definitely going to miss her. She's got a utility player. You see cleaning and cooking. Um she does it all. She's in virtually every building. Like everyone knows her. Um
061she is high quality. We look to honor her um next month when we uh have several of our employees that will be retiring. So um we look to recognize her at that point. Beth Osborne, another top quality person, library aid. Um just got that yesterday. So, um, that's effective here at the end of August. So, it'll be nice that we can work with and train the future librarian or the aid in that position. So, um, obviously to make that work in each of the elementary buildings. Beth Springer is a custodian. She's been primarily at the high school. She's also been a Main Street custodian. She is actually taking a position closer to where she lives. Um, and then Dan Darovich is a van driver. So, van driver position is currently posted. So, if anyone out
062there is interested in driving a van early in the morning, uh, we have that posted currently. So, uh, consider it. It won't be me. It'll be Dan. I'll run the PM ship, but clearly employment number two, we have Kylie Bogle, who is here today. So, Kylie, if you want to wave to the the group here. First year contract with us. So she is a Belleview alum and she has been an Anthony Wayne, correct? Yes. Anthony Wayne for six years. So it's kind of the best of both worlds. Like she's got all the like the things that she's learned. She's got all the things like first year teaching that's all gone now. We're hiring the very best. So I said, "What do we look for at Norwok?" Like you want smart and you want high character
063people and that's what we're getting with Kylie. um first round interview Dan and Jennifer King, myself in the second round. I have friends that are admin in Belleview that know her and the family and said like top quality across the board educators. So like we knew this was a slam dunk and we were just hoping she said yes because she was offered and she stalled us like three days I started sweating a little bit but then she said yes. So thank you for coming tonight. We look forward to working with you and having you for next year. A Belleview person wearing blue. We love man. Yeah, she she'll probably be taking Mr. Norris's advice and wearing red on Fridays for other reasons when we're supposed to wear trucker on Fridays, but uh she'll say, "No,
064I'll be doing with the military." So, thank you for being So, she is going to be on the power team. So, her colleagues who she's working with is Allison Dowy, Lindseayman, Mir, sorry, I started saying Miranda Lambert. Carrie Lambert. Make that Carrie Lambert. That's another person. another person we know. So that is who she's working. So as far as like being a new staff and working with quality people like that is the team that she has. So we are very excited on that front and excited for Miranda Lambert too. I'm sure she's new things as well. Uh the next group we have Brad Craft here. So we have several new cook hires. Uh Kimberly Cunningham, Kelly Jones, Kennedy O'Brien, and April Van Go as a custodian. So, those are all new hires. Anything Brad Craft
065you'd like to mention with those three? Excited. Solid. They have experience. They do. They do. They're excited. Um Kim Kim is at the uh Main Street and Kelly is at the middle school and Kennedy is at the high school. So, it's going to be really exciting, but they're fun. They're enjoying the kids and chatting away. So, three, we have a change of classification. over Stillman who's been our school site. She is going to be replacing Jennifer the irreplaceable uh the Jennifer King as people service director. So I will advertise once again. So we have psychologist posted and we are looking for that position. That is tough because there are not too many um individuals available. So Kylie, I'll lean on you. If you have good people from Anthony Wayne, talk to them, bring them back
066this direction. Um but we have psychologist posted but we are excited for Aiva. Um we interview two in-house and two from outside and uh we know her and know what she brings to the table and are excited for and that promotion into a new job and that is an admin level position rather than on the MTA CBA. Four is additional pay through title 2A grants for classified preschool employees and member rate and certified preschool staff up to 10 hours for the coming year. The administrator contracts that are um for the next three years 25 26 26 27 27 28 three are contracts Dan Bowman Ken Moore and we have everyone here and and Tim Shiel in the room. So, the three administrators here um locking them down. In six, we have the remployment of Valerie
067J. Janice Smith at Pleasant Elementary for another one-year contract as a retired rehire. Number seven, we have one-year contracts listed for teaching contracts for the coming year. On 7B, you'll see the list of those earning a two-year contract. Three, we have several names on three-year contracts and then a healthy list as D under continuing contracts. Eight, we have substitutes, both classified and certified. And again, it's nice to add to that pool because they are very much needed. Um, understanding that some of those individuals aren't strictly with us. So, there may be multiple, they may be a Belleview, Western, Edison, so they're going different places. So the more people you get in that pool, it's great to have that because we're definitely needing that in both the classified and certified worlds. Um nine is a correction
068and that is because we have x number of we have a head coach and x number of assistant coaches. This is actually going to be a split contract. So Carson Balman especially pull and then Jacob McFersonson who has been filling for Nancy Fel in social studies. He is a thrower. So, we have a thrower and a pull baller and that's a split contract for track at the high school level. Uh 10, we have uh and I'm very appreciative volunteer coaches um put in the time and uh obviously not taking any money from the district. Dale Snyder softball, Dave Remberg um boys tennis and then Harry Love boys tennis. Great name for a tennis coach. So, that is all I have for personnel. Thank you, Mr. We have a motion to approve items one through 10
069other personnel. Make a motion. Second. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Mr. Wooden. Yes. Mr. Norris. Yes. Mrs. Bquette. Yes. Mrs. Crawford. Yes. We have several new adoptions of curriculums. I'm gonna actually turn these over to Mr. Moore on the first one. So, preschool curriculum and then the second one to Mrs. Gerber for our math adoption. So, Mr. floor. Yeah, we um are looking at our preschool is looking at adopting a curriculum moving from creative curriculum into uh prek on my way is the curriculum they've selected to review. It's a researchbased uh uh curriculum. It um is a multi- themed curriculum as well. So, our preschool have been meeting to look at that. Some of the big components that they're looking at uh as well as it's in our present curriculum, but it's addressed in more
070detail in this prek on the way is the social emotional aspect of it. Um too, as I was here a month ago talking with you about our changing our kindergarten screening to try to get a grip on a grasp on seeing our kids in more detail than just for 15 minute interval part of time instead of going about 45 minutes. But it's very similar to the program we're doing now except that it does focus on that. It's very thematically based. Um, some of the themes that they have are me and you, all about me and feelings, friends and families, our community, let's investigate the five sens senses, discovering animals, healthy me, let's create our earth and ready, set, go. So, that's those are the main themes that they have for the school. So, I want
071to thank Mr. Moore, Rosley Smith, especially Jennifer King. We have had meetings, Dan, Joyce, and myself, looking at the PK curriculum and what we're doing going forward with that because we've always argued if we can get more kids access to more kids, like that's the game changer for our district, we want kids to have that because some kids do not have that opportunity. Some are having, you know, we have a lot of options in this neighborhood in in in Norwok and in the county, but even those you run out of spots for kids and they they do come at a cost. So we clearly like if we can find a way that is where I'd like to increase where every kid has that opportunity because Mr. Moore and every every teacher knows they can see
072the difference in the kids that walk the hallways of those that had it and those that have not. It is a big benefit of just being in the same building that are kindergarten transitioning is. I mean they they tell me want to come and see these young individuals and today I was sitting on the carpet. I think I was on a brown leaf while a couple of kids were doing some things and Mr. Puly was speaking with a couple of our staff and just that relationship building and support just having that number in the building is very important. All right. Thank you. Second one is our K12 math curriculum and I will thank Jen, Mrs. Gerber before we even begin and before she talks because she has put an inordinate amount of work to make
073this happen. Working obviously districtwide we're not talking several grades. This is everybody departments across the district to make this happen to come up with a good decision. So I will thank her before she presents but uh we are looking at a curriculum that is expensive but we obviously see the value in that and that's why we're pushing forward. Say you're welcome before I even explain anything. Um thank you very much for that. Um so obviously when we looked at a at curriculums our goal was to select a very sound program that was researchbased that was standards aligned that had user-friendly materials for our staff and also provided an engaging learning experience that built math math confidence with our kids. So we created this initial list of programs primarily using something called ed reports reviews and
074this is like the gold standard that Ohio uses. This is an independent company um unbiased and they do very thorough reviews of these programs not only in math but ELA and science and Ohio has used these very um heavily. They used the reports from this group to formulate their approved list of ELA curriculums. Um there's also rumors out there that they might do the same thing with math. So that was the assumption that we went on that this would be a good move to keep everything in the green as we called it and only use those programs that fell into that category. So after that initial list was created, I also created rubrics um for each grade level and those rubrics had criteria that included items from our teachers that they had identified last year
075and this year as being important to them, things like having a scope and sequence that made sense, that the online platforms were easy to use, that the materials were engaging, um and that they didn't have to do a lot of supplementing. They could use the majority of basically as is, you know, the box. We also looked at what Ohio's they have some pretty extensive rubrics of their own that they use for evaluating high quality materials. So we pulled items from that and also had grade specific content standards built into those rubrics as well. All of our teachers, our administrators had the opportunity to review all the print materials, the digital materials that the company sent us credentials for, use those rubrics during PDA planning time over a couple months um and share that feedback that
076they wanted to if they were willing to either digitally through surveys, they could complete the rubrics and turn those in. They could obviously share that feedback directly with me. They could go through our committee members um at any time that they wanted to. We put together a math committee and that math committee was made up of not only myself, one of the building principles, but there was also a teacher or multiple teachers from every grade level along with special education teachers to represent that area as well. So that committee primarily was responsible for reviewing all the materials just like the rest of the teachers did, but they also reviewed the feedback from the teachers um and they also helped to narrow down that initial list down to two companies and two programs which were invision.
077And once we had those two companies, we invited those two companies in to present to us in person. And we gave each of those companies a list of questions that had primarily come from the teachers and said, "These are the questions we want you to answer about your programs and these are the areas that we want you to focus on the things that we want to see in those presentations. So once we had met and we saw those presentations from both companies, we had a discussion afterwards and based on all of the feedback, all the reviews that we went through, our discussions, the presentations from both companies, looking at what the needs of our staff was, what the needs of our students are, the recommendation that you can see there is that we move forward
078as a district with into math from Mland Horport in grades K to 12. Their reps did an outstanding job of presenting to us, explaining the components of these programs, how they could benefit our kids and our staff, and they actually walked through a lesson with us where we got to be the students with the materials that they brought. And so that really gave us a good idea of what this could look like in our classroom. And that was something that was very important to our teachers was to be able to actually see this and how it would work in our classrooms. They also demonstrated how it could include more developmentally appropriate um kid-friendly hands-on materials, especially in our lower grades. And since that's where we start teaching these kids these concepts, that was a very
079important factor with this along with all the other things with that decision. It's important also to know a couple things. This is not going to be a magic, you know, one-sizefits-all perfect program. That doesn't exist. If that did exist, everybody would be using the same thing and we know that's not the case. So with that being said, it's also going to cover K to 12. It's very important to have our core materials, our strategies, the vocabulary that we use be consistent across our grade levels. That's very important. It benefits our students and it benefits them to see the same language being used and things like that from grade level to grade level. The goal of this though is not to turn our teachers into these mindless little robots that are just standing up in the
080front of the classroom reading from a script while our students sit there mindlessly in their rows flipping through pages of worksheets and textbook. one after page two, after page three, things like that. That's definitely not the goal. As we've mentioned before, we have excellent teachers in our district and this curriculum is just one tool that is a big one obviously that we can provide to them as a district for teaching and learning so that they don't have to spend all their time and their energy trying to create all this stuff from scratch. Trying to create all the assessments, the lesson plans, the differentiation, the scaffolding, the practice questions, all the stuff that obviously takes a lot of work and effort. Nobody has time to do that except for the people being paid to do it
081by the company of course. So they can focus on the kids instead. And that's what we're trying to do is try to give them that good tool, that good foundation that they can use in the classrooms. We need to pair this program though most importantly with ongoing training and support and very clear expectations of how it should be used in the classrooms and how this can benefit the great people that we have. And that was something that was expressed by the committee that's very important to them that we don't just hand this to them and say, "Here you go. Good luck. We'll talk to you at the end of the school year. I hope it works out for you." This needs to be something that they're supported with. Even though it is a very good
082program, they need to have the good training and stuff that they need to actually use it. So, with your approval of this program tonight, our next steps are going to be that we move forward creating a solid implementation plan with our administrators, um, including myself, obviously, and our teachers that will make this program a success. That's our goal and I'd be happy to answer any questions that you might have about that. I'll tell you as a former teacher there is a lot of work here. I want to thank you and everybody else involved in this board feels the same way. I'm sure thank you for all all you've done. I mean, I was involved in a reading curriculum adoption and boy, I'll tell you what, it's not a few days, a few months. It's almost
083a year we had that. And I know the work that was involved with with just what I went through and just thank you and pass that along to the rest of that involved with this, but I know it's hard to get the right fit. You want the right fit for our district and it's hard. It's a lot of work, a lot of time. I will say, you know, with Jim's office beside mine, you know, I spent a lot of time, a lot of effort fighting for, you know, what the district needs. And I joked last week, I said, if I ever, you know, the next time I go to buy a vehicle or buy something that needs negotiations, the person you go to purchase a new car, you might walk away without paying you to
084take it. Now, she did, you know, she fought for everything that the needs of the kids, the teachers. So, yeah, I was pretty impressed the And those companies like to negotiate, don't they? I mean, at times sometimes. Sometimes. Yes, I noticed that, too. I was surprised if I was involved with it. We'll throw this in. Yes. So, I'm Thank you for that. I appreciate that. Dan is a very good sounding board, which is another reason why he's not allowed to retire ever because I told him multiple times, so I'm all for that. Um, but like said, we have very good teachers here. the all the members of the committee definitely want to thank them because they showed up to the meetings. They put a lot of work in themselves. Obviously, they heard a lot of
085feedback from their colleagues um good and bad sometimes. So, I appreciate all their efforts and I appreciate all your support. Thanks. Just the level of detail detail of what you just told us just shows how much you put into it and everybody else that went, you know, through this. And like you said, nothing's ever perfect, but I have a feeling it's the best thing because of your team and you putting all that energy into it. Thank you. Thanks. Thanks. Continuing on here, uh the next is a kind of standard fair for this time of year. It's the agreements we have with the uh different outside agencies. So three is the Hering County Board of D that is effective through next year. Agreement with uh the education service center, Lorraine County um for 2526 school year.
086Five is the agreement with our local hospital here for therapy services for that's a two-year contract. Um six, this is offered to our students, so guaranteed trust life insurance. um if that's um selected by our students and their families. And then seven, the last one which is the large one um is the shared services that we have that agreement with our North Point which is our ESC that we use. So uh if you look at that that many things that we service our kids and whether it be staffing or program based is tied primarily through North Point ESC. So that is a healthy contract for sure. So that is all I have for superintendent reports. Mr. Is there a motion to approve items one through seven under superintendent reports? Second. Second. Any more discussion? Roll
087call, please. Mr. Norris. Yes. Mrs. Bquette. Yes. Mrs. Crawford. Yes. Mr. Mer. Yes. Or discussion and comments. I wanted to just quickly touch on uh Pleasant Elementary's glow-in-the-dark literacy night. So, uh I know that uh Mrs. Drenin had a very big impact on that and I just want to say it was so fun. Uh the turnout was amazing. I got there a little late. I was worried but the that you know I got there late and maybe people would be gone but no parking lot was full plus some. Um they had glow dark themed literacy stations. Uh it was so amazing to see all the volunteers that helped with it. It was Amazing to see the students that helped with it. The students, you know, the athletes and their football stuff, too. And I I
088don't know, just helping the kids playing the games with them. I don't know. I just you can't go to something like that and not feel moved at just everyone coming together and the kids having fun and what it means. And I don't know. I just want to say I was awesome. So, take that to the team. And but I also let Becky Dren know because I know she a lot her was there, her kids. I just it was awesome. Yes, she was a big help in in the high school. Like you said, the football team, the girls basketball team was there, some of the track players were there, our staff and her staff, both of our families were there. It's definitely going to be an annual. So, we do it every year. Awesome. I just
089want to second that. Um, I was able to take my little one and then it was really cool because she like sat and listened to somebody. She doesn't let me read for her. She has to hold the book herself, but she sat and listened to somebody else read and it was cool to see the community come together to like to read use those skills and like you know rally behind literacy. So it was it was super cool. It was super fun to see and I love being able to go. So we have to expand it too because we needed more room like even that the bowling one with the globe wall. What is that? two of those. And in the face painting, the lady did the face painting. She did glow in the dark face
090painting. Yeah. Like she was doing two kids at once. It took her like one minute to do that. So she'll be back. She said anytime. She had a really good time. She volunteered to do that, too. So that was Yeah, I have several. Oh, sorry. I'm sorry. I just started talking. Yeah. So my first one, so everyone knows, we had eight firms, architectural design firms that had put in their application for our new build. So eight firms um we got together with OFCC and there's basically a rubric where the school district gets two votes of that rubric, OFCC gets two. All those numbers are compiled and then we get to our top three. So a of the eight firms that have put in their name for we are now shortlisted down to three. So, next
091Wednesday, the 30th, we are going to have the pre-in. So, we basically talk about what Norwok is about, what we're looking for. So, give them the opportunity to prepare for the actual interview. So, next Wednesday is the pre-in shortlisted three firms that remain, our top three, and all three that the school district wanted is actually what we landed. So, you never know because OFCC, they were 50% of that as well. So, you never know how those numbers are going to shake out. But I'm happy to report as of today, the three that we wanted are the three that are coming back. So Wednesday we'll explain what Norwok is about, what we'd like to see, give them the ideas. They come back May 8th for the actual interview. A week later, we are selecting the architect
092who actually do the project across the street. So that's exciting. That's the first part of it. Um the flow after that, um hopefully we can secure a land deal and then we can move on to the construction manager at risk, which is the next large part of that. But that can only happen knowing the footprint that we need to have across the street. So that's a critical time frame that we're looking at. But we are definitely moving on because we don't want to get stalled by anything. And the exciting part principles heard have heard this from me already. We are starting editioning in June and July. So as a board we contemplated we want to wait till the fall. Wait till everyone's back in the groove in the school. And we were like no people
093are excited now. If you're on vacation you have to miss a week. Fine. But we're going to get on buses. is we're going to drive to schools that are new builds and say this is what we want. departments across the board principles are coming they're selecting and actually teachers in each building that want to be a part of this are saying I want to be part of this editioning that's the design part that is the fun part because we get to dream big of what this place can look like how should these things be designed you only get to do that once of like the best case and I think we all enjoy that aspect so once that's done then we hand our ideas to the architect and then we say all right start putting
094this on paper and make it happen. So that's the time frame. So for all of you to know and that's community as well. We'll be having community meetings as to what this building looks like because the building is not necessarily going to mirror Norwok High School. We might not have massive hallways because you're paying for square footage. So like how can rooms be situated where you're not massive hallways because you're paying for that square footage. So what are new designs that you can do podbased, stackbased? That's smart designs that these architects know how to do. So that's the time frame. So June, July, if that's of interest to you, you'll be seeing the dates and the times of when you can get involved because I know plenty of teachers have said, "I'm ready." And we
095have excited principles as well. So yeah, things are still moving for sure. Um, Mrs. Dupont will mention this. We had started negotiations with the Norwok Teacher Association that has gone well. So we have about a day and a half in. We have one more day on the books and we think we'll be pretty close um at that point. So yeah, things are working well. And then after the NTA we'll move to the OPS and then the administrative group will be that third and final is typically in our sequencing of how things go. All right. So the fun thing schoolhouse rock live is everyone aware of that's happening tomorrow and Friday 7 o'clock Main Street is awesome. If you saw the picture we have close to 80 kids 80 kids involved in that. So it's only
096$5 and you will have an awesome show. So, I saw a little preview yesterday when I was there at Main Street and I was walking out. So, I stayed for 10 15 minutes to watch. So, yeah, if you have time tomorrow night, Friday, make sure you uh stop at Main Street Auditorium. That'll be fun for you. Today is administrative professionals day. We have two. We have Sharon Linda, Brena Krauss in the room. And so, Secretaries Day, now we administrative professionals day. So, hopefully you guys had great meals today. I know Mr. Katy wasn't here today, but hopefully you got flowers, trucker gear, or something because we definitely appreciate what you do because here. Thank you. Yeah, we have quality as you know like they run point. We have principles but you think about who actually
097runs point it's it's those it's those individuals and we are thankful to have at every building hardworking administrative professionals. So thank you. Today's your special day. Appreciate you. That's all I have. I have one more thing. Sorry. I know everybody's ready to go. The girls 4x400 relay is heading in the morning to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to compete in the world renowned pen relays. So, we have a team that qualified uh very well and they're they're ranked pretty high in the nation right now. So, be thinking about them. They'll be competing Saturday morning. I'll be there myself. Hopefully we'll do some have some good responses to come back with, but they're a little upset because they're running against the Jamaican girls team, right? A little worried, but keep them in your thoughts. Um, another thing I want
098to mention next, uh, our board meeting in May, uh, Mr. Speedle will send out an invitation. Happens to fall on our board meeting night for the middle school boards, but I believe they're being held here, correct? So wanted to know if the board would be okay with having a little pause so we can go over and celebrate middle school kids. That would be a good idea. I told that reset. So So we're recognizing right now we believe two of our staff members. So we can start that at 6:30 time. We do recognition of those two staff members. That'll be perfect for recess and then the entire board can move next door and then shake hands with all the middle school students. So that is agreeable. Let's plan on that for May 14th. We'll be there.
099Sounds good. Any other discussion? Motion to second. Second. Roll, please. Mr. Norris, Mrs. Bquette. Yes. Mrs. Crawford. Yes. Mr. Ritzeller. Thanks, everybody. I don't know. Come look at these. Congratulations.