001Good evening. Welcome. >> All right. Um, we would like to call the meeting to order at 6:32 p.m. Miss, can you please call the role? >> Mrs. Ean, >> yes, here. >> Mrs. Hamilton, >> here. >> Mrs. Travis, >> here. >> Mrs. Davis, >> here. >> Mrs. Crawford, >> here. If you're able and willing, can you please stand for the pledge of allegiance? I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> I just love when our students bring me the energy I need to get through the day. >> All right. We do not have any addendums, right? Okay. So, good evening. Thank you all for joining us tonight. Um, as we move through
002a busy October, I want to thank all of our families, our staff, and our community members for your continued partnership each week. Um, I see firsthand the dedication it takes from the parents volunteering at events to our students giving their best every day in class. And, um, I remain incredibly proud of what you do each and every day. Uh we had a wonderful homecoming homecoming weekend this past weekend. Um from the parade and football game to the dance, it was a true celebration of school spirit and community pride. I want to congratulate our homecoming court as well as our queen and king. Um and to all the students who helped make the weekend one to remember. Um, safety always remains our number one priority and I want to extend a special thanks to our administrators,
003our staff and safety partners who helped ensure that the weekend events were both fun and secure. Um, through our safety school grant, we invested in metal detectors which were successfully used at the football game for the first time on Friday. Um, thank you to everyone who worked hard to make the process as efficient and seamless as possible. um we will continue to explore different ways that we can make um our schools safe um with our events as well. So, thank you with that. Um want to let you know October marks National Bully Bullying Prevention Month um which is a time to stand strong, stay well, and be kind with your mind. Um so we want to to continue encouraging our students and one another to reach out um when you see something doesn't feel right.
004Speak up when you see or hear something unkind. And then fuel confidence by celebrating what makes each person unique. And then show empathy and kindness in words, actions, and online behavior. Together, we can help foster an environment where every student feels valued, respected, and supported. Also, we have mental health awareness this week. Um on Friday is mental health awareness day, which you all have off the students do. So, that's wonderful. great way to take a break and um celebrate with that day. So, just want to remind us that our words and actions, especially online and social media, matter. Um as adults, we set the tone on how our students navigate challenges, how they resolve conflicts, and treat one another. So, let's continue to model empathy, truth, and compassion both in person and online. Um this
005month, we have a lot to celebrate. Um last week we had CBCC day, college fair night. I think we had 75 colleges that were presented there that night. Also Kent State University, thank you to them. They were there to um present a financial aid presentation. And then today was for our high school students was National Assessment Day. So, um, some students were off, but 10th grade took the preacat preac, while 11th graders and nth graders, uh, took the PSAT and M, um, NMSQT. So, they're both important steps towards college readiness and scholarship opportunities. Um, a reminder that fill the bus is still going on until October 17th. So, we do encourage all our families and students to fill the bus with non-p perishable food items and hygiene items um to help support your neighbors in
006need. Um students um at the high school, they actually can earn community service hours by collecting and turning in 10 items. So, if you know any high school students um at the high school, let them know that that's perfect way to give back and earn community service hours. Um also for our high school students, um we have some great student opportunity. um leadership opportunities for them. Um they have the opportunity to uh join our curriculum committee as well as this Twinsburg schools foundation. So the high school just put a notice out there for any high school students who are looking to be representatives for that. Um some important dates that are coming up is again I mentioned Friday we have off um there's a fall choir concert on the 14th um for the high school.
007There's parent teacher conferences and then the end of end of the quarter ends on the 17th and then on the 21st there's a fall festival orchestra concert if anyone is interested and then on the 30th is the tiger marching band showcase. Um there was a parent square that went out um about hearing from your board candidates. So that will be actually tomorrow hosted at the high school. It is an opportunity to hear um from all the seven candidates that are running. Um it is in partnership with the Twinsburg Council PTA as well as with League of Women Voters. It's at 7 PM in the high school auditorium here. Um doors open at 6:15. So um if you are able to come, please make sure that you're there to hear all um everyone's opinions. And then
008just remember to com commit to kindness, connection, and collaboration. Whether it's standing against bullying, supporting mental health, or cheering at a Friday night's game, we all share the same goal, which is to make Twinsburg the best place for our students to learn and thrive. So, thank you and have a good night. I'll turn it over to Superintendent Superar. >> Thank you, President Crawford. >> Thank you, board members. Thank you all for coming as well. Um, welcome to the board meeting and and it's an honor to be able to recognize students because at the end of the day, that's why we're here, right? So, I appreciate you coming. And we're going to start with Miss Johnson, who is going to recognize our students of the month. And what we'd like you to do is Mr. Crow's
009name. Come on up. We're going to have you stand right here. And I'm going to get out of the way. I'm going to stay out of the way. >> No, you can. I'll take a picture. >> Mrs. Davis will help. >> Okay. Awesome. Awesome. Um before I get started, just to uh I just want to say thank you to the to the board of education as well members as well as Superintendent um Marlo. Um it's always nice to be here to recognize our students for doing some outstanding things at the school. And so tonight you're going to hear a little bit about each one of our students of the month. And I tell you, they are they just stand out in their classrooms. And so at this time I'm going to ask our teachers if
010they can join us up front here. And then students when I call your name I'm going to read a little bit about you and then you're going to go all the way down the line and stand by Mrs. Davis who is who has her hand raised down there and you're going to stay up there because we're going to get a nice picture at hand. So I would like to welcome Mrs. Dewel [Music] and Mrs. Bucknell [Applause] content. [Applause] Without further ado, I'm going to start with let me stay here. >> Okay. I'm going to start with Evelyn David or excuse me, Evelyn Adams. Evelyn, [Applause] I'm going to tell you a little bit about Evelyn. Evelyn is a great addition to my class and this is written by Mrs. Bronson. She's a second grader. She's
011a great addition to my class this year. She comes to school each day with a positive attitude. She is kind and caring to everyone in her classroom. She is an avid reader and she works hard and does her best work each and every day. Please congratulate Emily. [Applause] Our next student is Cruz Cruz Gonzalez. [Applause] A little bit about Cruz. Cruz is someone who brings so much joy to our classroom family. He comes into school each day with a smile on his face and he is always ready to learn. He loves math. Is that right? He loves math and he enjoys sharing his thinking with the class. He is an amazing risktaker in his reading and he is working super hard to build up his confidence. Can we congratulate [Applause] >> he is a second
012grader in Mrs. Bucknell's class. I don't know if I said that. All right. Our next student of the month is Sydney Gr. [Music] [Applause] Sydney is a second grader in Mrs. Buckmail's class as well. And Mrs. Buckmail writes, "Sydney is such a sweet girl who loves to help anyone in need. She is a fantastic student and absolutely loves to share her thinking with the class. She is creative, loves math. There's another math lover. And takes great pride in her work. I can always count on her to participate in class. Congratulations. [Applause] >> All right, our next student of the month goes out to Sam Meyer. [Applause] >> Sam is a second grader in Mrs. Bruntton's class and Mrs. Bruntton writes, "Sam is a great addition to our class this year. Sam comes to school each
013day with a positive attitude. He is a hard worker and is kind and caring to everyone in the classroom. He too loves math, but he also loves reading and he works so hard uh and he works so hard. He does his very best work each and every day and he follows directions that sets a great example. Congratulations. [Applause] All right, we would like to congratulate Ethan Bernard, [Applause] a third grader in Miss Bolinsk's class. And uh Miss Bolinsky writes that Ethan shows exiliary behavior each and every day in and out of the classroom. He shows kindness, sensitivity, and compassion to all of his classmates. He also helps everyone who needs it and he doesn't even have to be asked to do that. He is punctual, organized, and respectful. Can we congratulate you? >> Our next
014one is McKenna Dwin. [Applause] >> A third grade student in Mrs. Dw's class of Mrs. Dw writes, "She is a pleasure to have in class. She constantly works towards improving her abilities. She really does try her best each and every day. She is ready to learn at all times. She is sweet, kind, caring, and funny. McKenna is always willing to help her peers, other adults, and teachers in the building as well as helping myself. She is an overall great kid and every teacher's dream student. That's so awesome. All right, Matteline Junstrom, come on down. Good job. [Applause] Meline is a third grader for Mrs. Duke's class, and she writes, "She's constantly working towards improving her already impressive abilities. She really does always try her best. She is ready to learn at all times. She is
015sweet, kind, and caring. She's always willing to help her peers and she is a she is she is very proud to have her as to be her teacher. So congratulations to Maline [Applause] and welcome Melody Pay. Come on down. [Applause] Melody is a third grade student and this is the excuse me the Lakes class. I'm sorry. Um, and it says that Melody is student of the month because she shows amazing behavior every single day. She is consistently participating in class and she's always helping others. She's very respectful. She's very impressive and she's organized each and every day. It says that she continues to strive and uh strive to excel in her academics and she says she is extremely proud of Melanie. [Applause] You can just stand there so I can get a picture. at this
016time and get a picture as well. >> Hold on. >> Okay, over here first. Ready? Ready? There we get these guys over here. All right. Good. Wait. Over here. All right. Right here. Right here. Right here. Right here. All right. Got it. Okay. I'll send you guys. >> Good job, guys. You guys are awesome. Great job. [Applause] >> Great job. >> Congratulations again, students. Congratulations, friends. >> Oh, yeah. Yeah. teachers, >> thank you very much for your support. >> It's so often that we continue to see these students over and over again, whether it be on uh on the stage performing the orchestra, on the field, whether it's baseball, soccer, softball, what have you. We will see them over and over again as they as they uh finish their high school or their careers here
017in Twinsburg. So, they couldn't do it without all of your support. So, thank you very much. Whether you're a teacher, a family member, a friend, we really do appreciate it. So, thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> Your excuse to leave. You don't have to You don't have to unless you safety. [Applause] I don't I [Laughter] don't [Applause] Your people and the new question. >> She did awesome. All right, see you guys. >> All right, let's go ice cream. >> I know, right? Thanks again. We had a great night last Friday at Tiger Stadium with, as you mentioned, we had homecoming alumni, we had alumni cheerleaders, alumni band members. It was just a great evening. Um, a lot of activities and unfortunately the game didn't go our way, but but it was it was
018a great evening. >> I also thought our safety measures were wellreceived. Um, and I and hopefully everyone else did as well. I'd like to thank Chief Mason and the Twinsburg Police and Fire for all the work at our games. They really do a great job. I also want to thank our administrative team, Mr. Slack, Mr. Strickland, Miss Farthing really uh did a great job of helping assist with uh with our safety measures. So, I truly appreciate their efforts. Um, as we as we walk in here and we see the plow out front, we we are approaching winter and I know it's not something that I look forward to, but um, we we do have to worry about, you know, the closing of school and things of that nature. And, you know, there'll be information on
019our website, but the decision is very difficult. We obviously look at a lot of measures, whether it be the amount of snow, the cold, the forecast, the road conditions. Um, so I just encourage our parents to continue to be um observant of what we're doing. The the you know, we'll do a parent square notifications. We'll have phone calls in the mornings. We'll try to make the decision as early as possible. But um that time is coming. So I want to make sure that people are prepared. So I'll I'll give you more information as we progress, but I just wanted to make sure we're all ready for the the winter. >> Okay. >> I know we're not looking forward to it. Um, again, there no school on Friday for the students as it's any OOA day.
020Miss Crawford talked about fill the bus campaign that continues to through the 17th. Um, as as a reminder, we're going to continue to utilize our metal detection equipment at games and and we will continue to expand on that. But I thought it was a great night Friday night. I thought our people did a great job of of facilitating that. Uh, as she mentioned, tomorrow is our schoolboard candidate forum. and it's hosted by the PTA and the League of Women Voters. Uh it should be a great night that starts at 7 o'clock. And then we also have tons of activities going on. Art orchestra concerts, band concerts. Um just it's a great time to be here and the fall brings a lot of good things out. So I encourage you to look at our website and
021and come and visit. We'd love to have you. We'd love to have you support our kids. They put in a lot of hard work and they do an outstanding job. So, please uh come to and attend one of our events. And with that, that completes my report. >> Awesome. Thank you. >> Um and then I know we me and Beth had business advisory committee and Beth will do the report. >> Sure. Thank you. So, yeah, last week we had our business advisory um meeting committee meeting and so just to go over some of the different highlights that we talked through um for Dodge uh the first week of December is going to be their career week. As we move over to RBC, they had a new course this year for the seventh and eighth graders
022called the career exploration. It comes from CBCC and um according to the reps there, we are we're the only district that's taking advantage of this particular course and so it's pretty exciting um to be a part of that. Their theme this year for RBC is dream big. So they have a calendar that's packed full of activities including a college prep week. Uh they have student panels on career paths. Their Veterans Day panel is on November 13th. Um they do another live session. I think they did this last year with Cleveland Clinic and the Browns. So they do kind of a um I think it's a a live stream with them to talk through different uh careers through there. And then they also have their headset careers with their um their um VR goggles that they're
023able to like go through and see all the different careers that are um out there to offer. Um over at THS the year October is their career readiness month um in their connections class. So, it's real exciting for them. This year they have 81 students in the career um connections class. So, they had to end up breaking it up into two sections, which is awesome. So, now they're able to do more activities. Um they're having a progressive recruiter come in to talk about the IT and networking. Um and then in January and February, they're having somebody come in to talk about their LinkedIn profiles and talk through that process. They also started at the high school this year was the cyber security class, um which is it kicked off with a huge success. There's lots
024of students that are learning a lot with the cyber security. They also have a new system called PASS. And so this is a new resource for ths. Uh they're providing students to upload their hours of experience. There's library that uh libraries of networking. They're learning how to do mock interviews. And uh it also links in with the common app. So they're really excited to kick that off this year. This past Monday and Tuesday, they had about 35 students go to the Summit County Expo um to learn about different careers. They went there last year and it was a big success and so they were able to go again this year and I think that they were able to take a couple of more students. Um and then they have in January and February their resume
025clinics that they've currently already been filled. So they're working for that for those juniors and seniors. And then finally save the date for their e exploration fair which will happen on March 18th. So a lot of good things are happening with all of the different schools and we're excited. So our next meeting will be I believe at the end of November. Um and that's all I have. Thank you. Any other committee updates? >> All right. Um the board to move action to do. >> Thank you. >> Move on here too. Good evening, Board of Education. >> Everyone uh that's paying attention to us. Thank you for being with us tonight. Um it's that time of the year again. Uh it is slightly different time of the year though than what we had in the past.
026Um the five-year forecast which now it has been changed to basically a four-year forecast and I will highlight some legislators as we go along. um and changes um House Bill 96 um uh or our current state budget uh changes change the dates and years of a district requirements for a forecast submission. Um so now we have compared to the prior end of November deadline this year we the forecast is due to department of education on October 15th for submission and uh an update instead of May like usually it will be due in February end of February and then next following fiscal year the dates change again. So um this current October 15 date is being moved on to August 31st and then the update to end of February each year. Uh so that change has
027been implemented just recently and it is um big. Uh it doesn't give us that much information in the current folio that we just started but uh we definitely need to uh go by and meet our deadlines. Um so uh the required funds to be reported have not been changed. They're same as before and our district has general funds. Um on the note of the requirement changed from five to four years. Uh we have um talked uh with the board and we will continue. It is my suggestion to go on with still a five-year forecast because it just gives us a little bit of better perspective down the line of what's basically what we're facing and what's coming our way. So that's what we have. Um the purpose and objective of the forecast is to uh
028for long long range planning for uh district finances. Um and the ability to sign the certificate required by ORC code of certificate code 412 um which basically is to um certify that we do have the fund to cover our expenditures that we um engage into our contracts and our expenses uh to pro and to provide a method for the Ohio Department of Education and monitor of state to identify school districts with potential financial problems coming up. Financial forecast overview um again serves as a vital management tool for administration and the board of education. it does need to be updated regularly. Um so that's twice a year and then uh each forecast has a number section and then it has a lot a lot of discussion. So set notes that go into to be read with
029the numbers because otherwise the numbers really don't mean much if we don't know what was considered at the time when the forecast is done. Um I always post the notes with the forecast on our school web page and we have numerous years there already uh from each year. My presentations along with the notes and the numbers are available on the district website. Three line items in a forecast. Uh basically uh the forecast has two sections revenues and expenditures. The revenues are made of two main sources uh state funding and local. And then the expenditures are mainly just as for any other public school district in the state salaries uh and wages, benefits, purchase services, supplies and materials. Legislative concerns. Um, House Bill 96, the current state budget, provided no increase in the foundation funding, uh,
030only small amounts outside the formula. Uh, go governor vetoed four four key provisions of the House Bill 96 that would have heavily impacted uh, right away uh, local school district revenues and cash balances. Um, there are still 14, nine at the House level and five at the Senate level proposed laws to impact local property taxes and or valuations that could reduce local funding for all public schools across Ohio. Uh the governor's tax reform work group currently reviews ways to stop property tax increases primarily for school districts. Um proposals from the work group and all future legislative actions seem imminent that would impact property taxes which are 65% of our revenue. And then uh House Bill 96 included um a piggyback tax exemption law that allows county commissioners to give a second tax credit for homestead
031and homeowners two and a half credit without reimbursement. This could cost our district close to a million dollars if approved by our commissioners. Um the timeline for fiscal year 2627 state budget line um is basically still ongoing due to the veto overrides. Um the house vetoed in July to override the governor's veto on levy types. The Senate has not considered this veto yet and the Senate can act all the way to December 31st, 2026. I would just like to underline, I'm not wrong here. I didn't oversee a date. It is not 25 December, it is 26. Um, in essence, portions of House Bill 96 may not be final until more than a year a year out from this point in time. The Taxpayers Freedom Trilogy Act was introduced in August uh by House Bill 420,
032421, and 422. These bills, if passed into law, would eliminate continuing levies, potentially set aside millage, and create more than 50% uh year margin for new levy approval. Um all would be devastating to our local revenues. we count on to educate our students. Um any changes which could be which could be significant to state funding and property taxes we will need to keep our eyes out and evaluate carefully um and plan for in our forecast as the time goes on and as we do more updates to the forecast. Our district's financial overview. House Bill 96 continue the phase in of the fair school funding plan for fiscal year 2627. Future funding is uncertain still for 28 and after as the fair school funding plan is not funded beyond 27 and state legislature may change property
033tax laws. Um we receive 17.9% of our revenues from the state of Ohio and 82.1% from local sources. Um I remember when I started three years ago the percentage was just a little bit like over 20% for state and then over every single year it just decreases just a little bit and we get higher and higher. we have to rely more and more on local revenues opposed to the state helping our district. Um so um I don't really want to read everything line by line. Um but we we do definitely need to try and match our expenses to our revenues if we are to sustain our ending cash balance for long term which we are not at that stage as of this point in time and I will talk more about that. So basically it's
034not too promising or too bright what's being sent the public school for districts way unfortunately. Um so um as at this point in time as I just mentioned 17.9% of our revenues are derived from state foundation and 82.1% is reliance of our local property taxes. So these are our actual um and projected revenues um numbers. So the three past years 23 24 25 they are the actual numbers from the fiscal year and closings and 26 and further out they are our best projections based on the information that we have at at this point in time. So you can see our revenues um this year are going to be right around 60,200,000 or close to it for general funds. Our challenges to the operating revenue. Um we cannot talk about our revenues and not mention and
035I have mentioned this over and over in my presentations. Uh the district has lost um basically over the last 10 or so years about $24 million in total from tangible prop uh personal property revenues. And in in to be truthful, it's it's still affecting us. It is a huge loss. Every year we received less and less. I have some examples of that. Fiscal year 19, we received $3.1 million. And then fiscal year 15, the district had $6.6 million. As time went by, it got cut more and more. And um yes, we we were told and yes, we knew about it. But how really how do you how do you plan for such loss when the the needs are increasing for our students? So um it it's just hard. It's it's tough. Then the Department of
036Education and Workforce dropped our revenue significantly due to rising property values and income levels. And that was last year. Um if you remember, we lost about $1.4 million last year in state foundation. Um House Bill 33, the fair school funding plan, um helped us in 24 and 25 a little bit. The foundation program had us on formula in 24 and 25. And this year our district was changed to guaranteed instead of formula based um funding for the state part of our allocations. Um what does that mean? But basically we are guaranteed to receive what we're receiving now even if our student population decreases. So that's kind of good. um we should not be receive receiving less uh going forward unless again something changes but for the formula by itself on how they calculate on what
037the school school districts receive is uh what I'm referring to on that line and our total revenue is estimated to grow by less than 1% annually over the next five years while our expenses are estimated to grow at least at least double that. So obviously by then we know we have a financial problem. Um on the expenditure side our wages consist of 57.4% and our benefits about close to 25%. So the two total about 82% of our budget. But I would like to add to that that we also have other payroll um salary um expenses under the purchase services as we have third parties contracted with our district to provide certain services to us such as um uh the education service center of northeast Ohio, the city of Twinsburg for security leaison um Ren Hill
038is paying our substit itude. So we don't pay them in house. Just just some of those examples. Um so basically what I'm saying is that our wages and benefits are actually higher than 82% of our total cost but we have them shown in a different um um object line in purchase services. Fringe benefits follow wages and they are the second highest cost and the fastest growing category. So these are our actual and projected expenditure numbers for the last three years and the upcoming five. Um we are projected to spend close to $64 million this year. our top expenditures as I was just talking about it. Um payroll I have here lined out the increases um with our um um TEA and TSSA uh agreements. Uh the agreements go out to fiscal year 27. So that's
039the reason why in fiscal year 28 the current forecast does not show any wage increase percentage because we don't know we don't have an agreement. So once that happens uh down the line then our expenditures expenditures would be um increased by that number. So actions affecting this forecast positively uh this fall compared to what we projected in May are um some of the steps that the board of education and administration has taken. So um we have not replaced five teachers as we know um of those that we hired. So that's reduction through attrition. um average teacher salary is about $26,000. So that brought us some savings and then 14 teachers hired to replace the 14 people who left or retired were hired at step five per the board's directions or below that. And that brought
040us um some significant savings as well, which the two of them if we add them together. Um and then we need to offset the severances paid to our third party for the early retirement incentive which we have an agreement with them for the upcoming three years and this is the first year and all of those three payments are reflected in the forecast. So basically higher savings in the salaries as a result of those decisions we'll be seeing three years out from now. Okay. But I did want to talk about it because there was a significant consideration um that we implemented in order to try to uh reduce our salaries and benefit expenditures. Okay. um our fringe benefits. I have here our premium increases from the council of the store council county school council of governments
041uh which we are affiliated with for our benefits medical vision dental life insurance. Um so um so far basically in my time in the district as we look back on this um table we can see that um finally we're back in the green zone which is under 5% increase on this line which is affecting the boards and employees contributions and expenditures. But I am happy to see because in the prior three years just recently as you can see we had around seven or eight% increases and this year we had slightly under 5%. So um that's a little bit of to think even though it's still increasing 5% but at least it's increasing at a somewhat somewhat smaller rate. Um, and we still get a premium holiday which the district takes in December, which means that
042we don't need to pay a contribution for our insurance benefits to the COG. So neither do employees. We don't deduct from their paycheck in December and neither does the board need to pay. So um, that's that's good. We're still grateful for that. Even though in the past we used to receive two or three premium holidays some years, but at least we still have one. So we're we're going to take it. Oops. So I have here by object line. Red is wages. Um blue is benefits and then orange is purchase services. We can all see quickly even here without looking at the numbers that what is our highest cost and how we're looking. That's just for a visual expenditure. Um the 2023 levy has helped the district financials but expenses continue to exceed our revenues um
043unfortunately each year. So the main budget concept basically we analyze revenues then I talked about expenses and the forecast line 601 is the one that deduct the two from each other. So we have been um basically spending more um annually in the last few years and we are still projected we're still on that path. um which eventually it will deplete our cash reserves in fiscal year 28 and I have a note then regarding that fiscal year 28 the forecast again doesn't include any base salary increases uh because we don't know what that is. So once we have such information and we have a new agreement then that $730,000 negative would be even a higher negative. Okay, revenue versus expenditures. I have a graph here. The red shows our expenditures. The blue shows our revenues. And
044then the green shows our ending balance. And then our ending cash balance um as we have talked about it before 30 to 60 day is a responsible and recommended target to have for a lift rate. Basically that means two functions for us to be able to pay our bills for a month or two basically. So we spend a month about five million average let's say between 5.2 to $6 million depending on what we're paying in certain month. Um so if we're thinking on on those lines it would be around $11 million. there would be a recommended target for each end of the fiscal year. But as we know in fiscal year 27, what was I just add? In fiscal year 27 even our cash reserves are $7 million which means basically would cover us for
04530 days, one month um and then in 28 um we're going negative. So um once this forecast to uh department of education and workforce uh I will expect a letter of fiscal precaution for our district again unfortunately. [Applause] to some action steps for us to um think about is to continue reallocating operating expenses wherever possible to permanent improvement money um funds which we have $2.2 2 million of and we're trying to stretch those funds basically to help um with curriculum um technology costs different things. So we're not just using them for our buildings. We're trying to use them for any other allowed expenditures in order to save our general funds um monies. And then um I think we will continue talking about then evaluating um strategies to ensure the development of a balance budget. So
046thank you for your attention. Any questions? >> Go ahead. Um, for people that are listening, just so they understand the weight of what you're saying, Julia, on your slide where it says Indian cash balance, that very last line, can you just explain obviously we know, but to people that are listening that might not know what this means when you say we expect the letter of fiscal precaution from OD and W after submission of this forecast, like what does that letter mean? What does it imply? >> So basically that letter uh what departments or education does they watch every district forecast twice a year after the submission and if they see a negative cash balance in year one two or three then they will send the district a letter to basically help the board and administration
047to give a heads up. Hey, you have a problem here coming up in a year or two or three. So that's what's going to happen um with it. So because we're showing that negative $730,000 there on line 1001, they will ask us basically you cannot have zero balance as I was showing it here. no less than zero as required by Ohio law because if you have zero balance it means we don't have money to pay payroll and to pay our uh invoices basically so we cannot have a zero balance so department of um education and workforce will send a letter to the board president superintendent and myself bring that $730,000 to our attention and ask us to implement something to not be a negative and then we're going to have a deadline. We went through
048the same exercise a couple years ago. >> Yeah. >> And I think it's important too to notate >> um if the last time we did this forecast um in 2028 it was projecting that we would be negative about around $8 million. And so the this is not a surprise to the board that we saw that we were going to be in a deficit come 2028. It's been showing on our forecast and that's why the board has taken the steps this year needed to uh that we needed to start taking these steps to start getting out out of this negative. And so as Julia had showed in one of those previous this slide that she was you just um no go back to the the teacher one where >> that's what I'm looking >> Yeah. Yes.
049So we that's why we as a board discussed about um looking at when we we discussed doing the retirement buyout. We knew that um we could have a lot of teachers who were looking to retire and as a board we thought that could be the best decision for us to be able to save some funds and so we um had conversations with our staff for about a year now. Um we we were having those conversations, seeing who was interested in taking that buyout. And because of that, we were able to um do the when we decided to for those teachers to retire, we were able to um not hire um any new teachers at um a step five or higher. We went a step five or below. most of those were below step five which
050um we appreciate our administration team helping us do that as well as we decided as a board that it was the best decision decision. We looked at what made sense for the classrooms. Um what could we afford to do and what you know for our students as well as financially and that's why we decided to not replace those five positions which put us when you go to 2028 you see that's a lot of funds that it did cut down. Um we have proactively started when you look um looking at other things we've um I mean even back a couple years ago we started look at stuff u when we did the first reduction there's been different things that we were cutting two years ago but um we're continuing to keep cutting and looking at stuff
051as we go cuz this is not a surprise we knew this and we're trying to think of other ways that we can start cutting >> and we are in much better position than We thought in May that we would be again as uh Miss um Crockford said the negative8 million projected in May. However, I would also like to underline that the forecast nature is a compounding for expenditures. So when let's say in May fiscal year 28 was year four in the forecast because we were in fiscal year 25 and 26 7 and 8. So a million dollar expenditure that we're able to save in fiscal year 25 basically adds up to 2 million in 26 20 3 million in 27 4 million. So it compounds extremely fast. So anything that we were able we have
052reduced our negatives a lot. So we went from negative about $8 million to $730,000 negative. That's great progress and it took a lot of team effort and a lot of meetings and a lot of discussion. Um but we are seeing some results and that's why um I said that I think we will continue to come up with ideas and try to think about um as a team all together about how we can balance our budget. I think we also need to um put it out to to everyone our community everyone. Um, we have districts now around us contacting their vendors and telling them about the situation in Ohio. Um, when you look at back at the beginning of your of your PowerPoint where we're talking about all of the overrides of vetos, um, the changes
053with the opportunities for levies, um, the stopping of us having the ability, the changes with property tax, everything that that's being talked about right now has a negative effect on our school districts, not just us. I mean, it's it's it's not good. And some of that deficit is is partly because we're not being fully funded. So, you know, the only way that's going to stop is if we get the voices of as many out there as possible into Columbus to say it's got to stop. It has to stop. And and we can talk about eliminating property tax, but then how will schools be funded? How we what And it's not just schools now. I mean, people need to stop to think and read the fine print because that involves fire departments that, you know, what
054are you going to do when you when you have somebody having a heart attack at your house and there's no emergency squad coming because they're not funded. So, it's a there's a huge problem in what's happening in the legislature in trying to figure out A plus B and it's not coming out to C. So, I I think that again voices need to be heard, people need to be speaking out. um reforms need to take place and the governor tried to veto some of those things to help the districts and they're all being they're they're potentially being you know over overridden whatever is English corrected I they're they're coming right back at you and saying no we're putting it back in and sometimes with changes that make it even worse. >> So I just think that
055the voices need to be heard and it can't just be five board members and superintendent treasury that's doing that. We have to have our community members out there speaking out, >> speaking out, writing in and >> writing in talking about >> going to the you have to go and and advocate because it was just if you check the Ohio School Board Association OSBA website, they just released information saying that Ohio the school boards aren't to blame. It's it's these um lawmakers. So um when it comes to these property taxes and everything going up. So, um, they're taking a lot of the funds from the schools and so this is why we continue to stress this and advocate. So, it really takes everyone having that passion. >> Exactly. And and I'm going to piggy back on
056what you all are saying and Leah, what you were saying. Um we have um we have a an excellent community here and um we've always had a great reputation for our schools and as Leah said this is not just a Twinsburg thing. This is a statewide thing and we have a lot of community members who spend a lot of time, energy, and effort bashing the schools and not being sometimes very supportive of schools and spending a lot of energy on things like social media, talking um just bashing the schools. I would love to see that energy put into contacting your state representatives, contacting the people at state level and making a difference because you if if you've got that energy and you've got that drive, put it to good use and get out there and
057and and just contact the people who can make a difference and instead of maybe being apathetic or um negative or bashing because that's not going to get you anywhere. that's not going to advance the schools and it does take more than your school board members and your school administrators to make a difference. So we we need um some you know we need you to back us up and back your children up and back our staff up, our schools up and make your time use or your you know your energy productive because they do need to hear from from parents and residents and community members. I I'm telling you, we I was on a meeting this past week, last week with a bunch of curriculum directors from the area and they have started a phone call
058to vendors, book companies, paper companies, every they're starting in districts because they're what we project that we're going to lose. There are districts around us that are going to be well into high millions in about three years to four years. They're they're just they're already reaching out to them because some of these companies aren't in Ohio. They don't know what's happening in Ohio and they're just coming straight out telling them we're supposed to be doing book reisions and book purchases three years from now. We're telling you now we need your voice in Columbus because we won't have the money to buy them. So, I mean it's it's huge. It's not just Twinsburg is not the problem. The problem is a huge state issue that we're all dealing with and yeah, voices need to be heard
059and and they need to be heard loud and clear. >> Definitely. We are not the only school district that's going to zoom into forecast with negative balances three years out. It's going to be a lot of public schools across the state. >> Thank you so much. Sorry. All right. H one through four. Resolve that the Tinsburg Board of Education approves the following meeting minutes regular board meeting of August 20th 25 and September 3rd 2025 as sent to the board under separate cover to resolve that the Twinsburg Board of Education accepts the following financial reports for the month of August 2025. Bank reconciliation, cash summary report by fund, cash summary report by fund and special cost center, dispersement summary report and investments portfolio review as sent to the board under separate cover. Three, read off that
060the Twinsburg Board of Education approves all expenditures for the month of August 2025 as reflected in the above name reports. and four. Resolve that the Twinsburg Board of Education approves and adopts the Twinsburg City School District's 5-year forecast and exceptions for school years 2026 through 2030 as prescribed by OC 5705.391 and 5705.412. Do I have a motion? >> So moved by Mrs. Egan. >> Second by Mrs. Hamilton. Any discussion? M. Rosia, can you please call the role? >> Mrs. Egan? Yes, >> Mrs. Hamilton. >> Yes, >> Mrs. Travis. >> Yes, >> Mrs. Davis. >> Yes, >> Mrs. Crawford. >> Yes. >> All right. And that passes 5. Action items. Personnel I 1 through 4 one. Result that the board of education accepts the certified staff recommendations detailed in the attached exhibit as per the date's
061terms and other applicable conditions specified for the satisfactory orc background checks. Two, resolve that the transport board of education accepts the classified staff recommendations detailed in the attached exhibit as per the days, terms, and other applicable conditions specified satisfactory OC background checks. Three, resolve that the Twinsburg Board of Education accepts the supplement contract recommendations. Detailed any attached to zippid as per the date, terms, and other applicable conditions. Specified penny satisfactory OC background checks. And for result that the Twinsburg Board of Education accepts the people activity contract recommendations detailed in the attached exhibit as per the dates, terms, and other applicable conditions specified pending satisfactory OC background checks. Do I have a motion? So move. So moved by Mrs. Davis. >> Second by M. Travis. Any discussion? M. >> Mrs. Davis. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Travis.
062>> Yes. >> Mrs. Egan. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Hamilton. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Crawford. >> Yes. I don't even know my name. Okay. Five. Resolve that the TW board of education accepts the certified staff recommendations. is detailed in the attached exhibit as for the dates, terms and other applicable conditions specified pending satisfactory RC background checks. Do I have a motion? >> So moved by Mrs. Hamilton, second by Mrs. Egan. Any discussion? >> Yes. Quick discussion. Um I will be abstainating. My um husband Brian Davis is um being recommended for LPDC building rep at RBC. So obviously I will abstain. Okay. >> Thank you. I'm sorry. Mrs. Hamilton, >> yes. >> Mrs. Egan, >> yes. Mrs. Travis, >> yes. >> Mrs. Davis, same. >> Mrs. Crown for >> Yes. And that passes 41 with one extension.
063Six. It's resolved that the terms board of education accepts the OSAA tournament workers recommendations detailed in the attached exhibit as per the dates terms and other applicable conditions specified. >> So second >> yes Mrs. Davis >> yes >> Mrs. Hamilton >> yes >> Mrs. Travis >> yes >> Mrs. from board. >> Yes. And that passes 5-0. >> Items J1 through 14. >> Bear with us. One, resolved that the Twinsburg Board of Education approves the attached listing of media center items to be deleted from inventory for the attached exhibit. to resolve that the Tunesburg Board of Education approves the amendment to the school health service agreement with Aken Children's Hospital to provide nursing services for the RBC Chamberlain Middle School Washington DC trip October 7th through October 9th. The additional cost to the current contract is
064$2,358 and will be paid from funds that are included with the students cost for the trip as sent to the board under separate cover. Three, resolve that the Twinsburg Board of Education approves the agreement for contracted services with ExpressYou Yourself Speech Therapy LLC for professional development services on Tuesday, November 4th. The cost is $750 and is a general fund expense as sent to the board under separate cover. This is a title 2A expenditure. Four resolved that the Twinsburg Board of Education approves the contract for services for argumentative and alternative communication professional development for staff at Willcox for two days at a cost of $1,600 for consultant fees, travel cost of $200 and a processing and fiscal fee total of $180. Total cost is $1,980 and is a general fund expenses set to the board under
065separate cover. Five, resolve that the Twins Board of Education approves a contract with learn well to provide educational services for student while being hospitalized. The number of days is not to exceed 40 with an additional 33% administrative cost. Total tuition costs 28.99 and is a general fund expense assessed to the board under separate cover. Six resol board of education approves the revised salary schedule for central office support staff effective July 1st 25 for the attachment. Seven, resolve that the Tal Board of Education approves the revised salary schedule for administrative personnel effective August 1st per the attached exhibit. Eight, resolve that the TW board of education approves the salary schedule for psychologist for the 2526 school year. Pay for the each step and level remain the same as last year per the attached exhibit. Nine, resolve
066that the Twinsburg Board of Education approves the second reading of the revised new and rescended board of education policies as noted below. hadn't resolved that the twins board of education approves the salary increase based on education levels per the attached exhibit. A lot of resolve that the transport board of education approves the affiliation agreement with Capella University to place university students in the Tunber city school district for practis practition exper I can't even talk today as sent to the border under separate cover 12 board education approves the extended overnight trip proposal for twinsburg high school boys and girls cross country teams to travel to participate in the cross country championship meet from the 31st of October through November 1st. It'll be paid by the boosters, athletic boosters. Um 13 resolved transport of education approves the
067extended overnight trip um for the high school wrestling team to travel to Michigan um to wrestle on the 9th um through the 10th and it's paid by athletic boosters. and 14 resolved that the transport board of education approves the extended overnight proposal for the high school girls basketball team to travel to Tampa, Florida to compete against other basketball teams across the country from Friday, December 26 to Thursday, January 1st of 26 is paid by the athletic boosters. Do I have a motion? I just want to make a note that for those two trips for the wrestling and the girls the athletic boosters their basketball their accounts of those kids that were fundraising. So not the >> the actual general fund but it's their basketball account and their wrestling account. >> Yeah. Thank you. >> Um
068we also need to before we vote number 13 should be 2026. Okay. >> January 9th of 2026 through January 10th of 2026. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> All right, >> I'll make a motion. >> Miss Travis second. >> Second. >> Miss Davis. Any discussion? >> Was it Miss Travis first? >> Yes. >> And Miss Davis second? >> Yes. >> Thank you. Miss Travis? >> Yes. >> Miss Davis? >> Yes. >> Miss Egan? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Hamilton? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Crawford? >> Abstain. That passes with four and one abstension. 15. Resolve that the TW board of education approves the revised new and rescended board of education policies and bylaws as noted in J9 above. Do I have a motion? >> So moved by Miss Hamilton. >> Second by Miss Egan. Any discussion? >>
069Mrs. Hamilton. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Eager. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Travis. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Davis. Yes, >> Mrs. Crawford. >> Yes. And that passes 5 16 resolved that the Tunbury Board of Education approves a 2% increase from 2526 school year for employees who are hired by the Educational Service Center of Northeast Ohio and assigned to the TW City School District. Do I have a motion? >> So moved by Miss Hamilton, >> Second by Mrs. Egan. Any discussion? >> Mrs. Hamilton? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Egan? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Travis >> abstain. >> Mrs. Davis, >> yes. >> Mrs. Crownfor, >> abstain. And that passes three with two extensions. >> Um, I am abstaining only because I also work at the Educational Service Center of Northeast Ohio. I have absolutely nothing to do with any
070of these employees, but they um all work here and do a good job for us. Um, again, I'm not abstaining for a no vote. I'm abstaining simply because um I actually work there even though I don't work in any of those departments. Thank you. >> Any miscellaneous? >> Uh I have one. I just want to um mentioned on Monday we had our first ever uh all fall athletes um dinner if you will. So we um Mr. Vanton, the athletic director, came to uh the athletic boosters and said that, you know, let's try like do this some something fun for the kids looking to potentially do it for fall, spring, and winter. And it was a huge success. Um, Elchie Bravo was able to cater for us. And we had over 350 kids that we fed
071>> and the coaches and volunteers served. And it was funny because all the kids came in and they all sat in their sports and Mr. Van Tone said, "Okay, here's what's going to happen is that you have to go find a table with three different sports at each table because we wanted to, you know, to mingle with the kids and the first table that does it will be able to get, you know, fed first." Wow. It was mayhem and so much fun because they're like, "You come sit with us. You come sit with us." Like, we have three sports. And so, you know, Coach Bird was then, you know, making sure all the kids were getting organized. But, you know, it was really great. It was a great community formed. You know, other kids got
072to mingle. um huge success. Uh we look to plan to do it for winter and spring. So um I I'm really excited that we're able to to do that for the kids. So that was wanted to share that with everybody. >> Great. Can I just have a two quick comments? As Rhonda mentioned earlier, um October is bully prevention and awareness month. So um I urge um starting with our parents to be that example to model respect in even when you don't agree with somebody else's viewpoints. You can respectfully agree to disagree and um you know we don't want to be examples of bullies and negativity um around people in our social media and social circles. So be that example for your children and our community. And it I'll mention this as it's been mentioned twice,
073but tomorrow is a candidates forum for board of education. We have seven people running for three open seats. And it will not be televised or filmed. So, I I really urge you to get there and listen to what the candidates have to say, what they have to share, um why they're running and, you know, you can dig deep and do your homework after, but get to um get to know what they're about and uh and not be complacent and just, you know, hear from what your friends have to say on social media or hear what people who don't even live in a community have to say on social media. come show up and really, you know, listen to what our candidates have to say because um, you know, they it's it's a tough job getting
074out there and doing this and I commend each and every one of them for for doing so. And but come out and see what they're all about tomorrow and starts at 7 o'clock. But you do want to come early because if you want questions to submit um you won't be able to do it if show up, you know, as it's starting. So come on early and come join us. All right. Um, there is no need to go into executive session. So, we will adjourn. Uh, do I have a motion to adjurnn the meeting at 7:45? So, moved by Mrs. Davis. >> Second by Miss Hamilton. >> You can call it. >> Mrs. Davis. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Mrs. Hamilton, >> yes. >> Mrs. Egan, >> yes. >> Mrs. Travis, >> yes. >> Mrs. Croport, >>
075yes. And that passes 5-0. >> All right, that ends. Thank you.