001Um, the time is 6:31. Miss Rosia, can you please call the role? Mrs. Egan, here. Mrs. Hamilton, here. Mrs. Travis, here. Mrs. Davis, here. Mrs. Crawford, here. If you're able, um, can you please stand for the pledge of allegiance? I pledge algiance 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. All right, we do have an addendum um F, administration reports, removal of the following administrative report. Um traffic impact study with the TM S engineers. Um and then item I action item, personnel removal of Mark Bendis recommendation for retirement as this retirement was already approved on August 21st, 2024. Do I have a motion? So moved. So moved by Mrs. Hamilton. Second. Second by Mrs. Davis.
002Miss Any discussion? Most. Mrs. Hamilton. Yes. Mrs. Davis. Yes. Mrs. Egan. Here. Yes. Mrs. Travis. Yes. Mrs. Crawford. Yes. Thank you. All right. All right. So, good evening to our Good evening to our community, family, staff, and students. Tonight, we proudly celebrate the achievements of our students of the month from Willox Primary School, George G. Dodge Intermediate School, and Twinsburg High School. Your dedication and hard work continue to make us proud. So, congratulations. Um, we are also honored to recognize our Lady Tigers varsity basketball team for the 2024 2025 OSAA Division 2 district champions in regional qualifiers. These outstanding student athletes were recognized as one of the top five academic girls basketball team in the state of Ohio, earning a team GPA of 4.0. Not only are they fierce competitors on the court, but they
003are truly excelling in the classroom. So that is something to be incredibly proud of. And we can we can clap it up for [Applause] this. Thank you. So last night, our community made their voices heard in the May 2025 election for issue 11. Over 5,400 residents voted representing a 14% turnout. While 1,868 residents, which is 34.5% voted in favor, and 3,552, 65.5% voted against. This outcome is not what we hoped for. Still, I want to express my sincere gratitude to everyone who worked so hard on this campaign. To our superintendent Kathy Powers, business manager Matt Strickland, and our treasurer, Julia Rose Nia, thank you for your tireless effort in leading presentations and community conversations. To our blue ribbon committee, our many volunteers, my board members, and dedicated Tinsburg school staff, thank you. You've shown incredible
004resilience and commitment while juggling full-time jobs, families, activities, and other responsibilities. The time, passion, and energy you gave to this work does not go unnoticed. Whether you knocked on doors, passed out flyers, attended meetings, or simply shared information online, your efforts matter, and I see you. You represent the best of this community. We will take the time to pause, reflect, and regroup. Our next step before moving forward with anything else will be to gather feedback from our staff and our community. We plan to use surveys and host forums to ensure your voices are heard. Please make it a priority to participate. Your input is vital in helping us shape the path ahead. If you're looking for ways to get more involved, consider joining the Blue Ribbon Committee or one of our school-based advisory groups. While
005we may never have the perfect plan, together we can work toward a solution that truly meets the needs of our students and our community. This month also brings many reasons to celebrate. So, first I want to say a huge thank you to our PTAs for organizing thank thought thoughtful activities across our schools. To our um staff, amazing staff. Your dedication, compassion, and commitment to excellence inspires us daily. You're the reason our schools shine. Thank you for being the heart of our district. So, happy staff appreciation week this week. Um, so if you get a chance, parents, please make sure you send a thoughtful note um to our staff to thank them for going above and beyond in what they do each and every day. Um, last weekend our students did a joy of magical night
006at prom, which was held at a new venue, the Hilton Garden Inn. Everyone looked incredible and had a great time dancing to the music of DJ Ry. after prom was ex um exciting at roll house. So I want to thank our after prom committee who helped organize such a fun event and who also provided the seniors some awesome gifts. I also had a great time working the event. So thanks to all who volunteered. Um as we move into the final stretch of the school year, we have so many wonderful events to look forward to. Cedar Point trips, visits to the Cleveland Zoo, build days, senior scholarship night, and of course graduation. Let's cherish these mem memories. Um, finish strong and continue celebrating the amazing students, staff, and families that make Twinsburg such a special place.
007Thank you. All right. Thank you, Mrs. Crawford. That's hard to follow. Well, good evening, Board of Education. Good evening, everybody who is here and those who may be watching us live stream tonight. Welcome to our board of education meeting. this meeting uh we are going to be celebrating students from Wilcox Primary School, George G. Dodge Intermediate School, and Twinsburg High School. And this is the last time this school year that we're going to have students to celebrate at our board meeting because pretty soon within the next maybe three weeks, guess what? Summer vacation's here. So, this is the last night to really celebrate it up, guys. Um for being uh students of the month um in our school district at Bissell, I'm sorry, at Wilcox Dodge and the high school. Um, board of education, this
008is staff appreciation week as Mrs. Crawford just uh mentioned and we are so appreciative to our PTAs who have just treated us so well this week and all of our parents who've reached out as well. Board of Education, thank you for recognizing the central office staff um with your treat this morning. That was very kind of you and uh we just are so um indebted to the kindness that we received for supporting uh the students here in the school district. Board of Education. Tomorrow's a pretty big day because tomorrow is our state of the schools address at the Twinsburg Chamber of Commerce uh lunchon. It is also their scholarship event for Twinsburg High School seniors in the class of 2025. And uh as part of our uh state of the schools address tomorrow, we are
009celebrating a lot of staff members. So, lots and lots of staff members will be recognized tomorrow morning at our state of the schools address. and you'll be able to watch that um on my my community focus app um following tomorrow's um state of the uh school address. So, we we appreciate community focus for uh taping that and sharing that with our community as well. Um, just a reminder to our families that kindergarten registration is underway and if you happen to have a child who will be entering kindergarten, now is the time to go on the district website under the four parents uh registration and enrollment dropdown. And um on that page is a lot of information that you will need to fill out to be able to register for an appointment for uh kindergarten screening
010which is um on June 2nd and 3rd at Willox Primary School. So, we look forward to greeting all of our students, our incoming kindergarteners who are going to be the class of 2038 and uh looking forward uh to meeting them and their families here in the next couple of weeks over at Willox Primary School. Board of Education, this evening we have two administrative reports. The first will be our pre our treasurer uh Mrs. Razna who will present an updated five-year forecast and then I'll be presenting information about student fees for next school year. And of course, um it is very very busy in the district right now. So please take a look at the district calendar to stay up to date with all of the latest activities. Um as Mrs. um Crawford mentioned, last weekend
011was prom. I was there. It was wonderful. It's so fun to see the seniors and their dates and they're so grown up looking and they looked so beautiful and so handsome. So congratulations uh to the class of 2025. And we want to say a special shout out to Mrs. Candace Wolf who is the senior class adviser. She put a lot of time and effort into the the prom and it was just absolutely beautiful. Um also uh senior awards of the senior awards program is scheduled for Thursday May 15th which is next Thursday. A balora and the senior march is on Thursday May 22nd. And Mrs. um Davis that's a change in date. So just so you know it's Thursday the march not Friday. So you might want to mark that down. And then of course
012um commencement for our class of 2025 is Tuesday, May 27th at EJ Thomas Hall at the University of Akran. It's going to be here in a minute. Always a great event. We can hardly wait to get there. And so um tonight we're celebrating a lot of students and so I want to ask Mrs. Turner to come forward as we celebrate our students of the month from Willox Primary School. Good evening, Mrs. Turner. Good evening everyone. Thank you so much for being here. Help us out today. So, um we are so excited that every day at school cox our students start the day with our Willox pledge. So, they've been spending the year learning what it means to be responsible, respectful, caring, and safe throughout our school building, on our school buses, and in the community.
013And today, I have five children that are here to be recognized for being awesome Willox Rock students. Um, so, boys and girls, when we call you up, we're going to come on up and I'll help you. Um, if your teachers are here, which I think they all are, um, they'll join you up here on stage. Um, Mrs. Mrs. Powers is going to give you your certificate and then Mrs. Hamilton has a pin for you and we're going to line up here for some acknowledgement, clapping, and photos. Okay, sound good? We'll help you. No worries. Okay, so I would like to start. Our first student, um, our first Wilcox Rock student is Nicholas Treehouse. And Nicholas is in Mrs. Pllo's class. So, Mr. Pella, do you want to join us? So, um, Nico is very deserving
014of the Will Cox Rocks Award. Nico is always smiling and ready to learn each day. Nico is nicknamed the dad of the classroom because he's always making sure everyone and everything is taken care of. He helps organize the classroom and tidies up each day without being asked. When we go out for recess, you will find Nico checking to make sure all the preschoolers are accounted for when we line up to go in. Nico is an excellent role model and he makes Mrs. Barello so proud of him every day. Keep being awesome. So, congratulations, [Applause] Nico. Joining Nico on stage is our next first grader, uh, Warus Benipal from Miss Bard's class. [Applause] So, let me tell you a little bit about Wars. And for this one, I need my glasses. It's a smaller print. Warris
015is the perfect example of a great role model and a caring person. In class, he always works his hardest and encourages others to do their best. Orus is always the first to help out his teachers and classmates when something needs to be picked up or when someone needs help with something. He is also a great friend to all of his classmates and he has the ability to improve anyone's mood just by being his funny and caring self. Warris lives the Willox pledge each and every day and Willox rocks because of him. So congratulations. Next up, we have another first grader. This is Autumn Wooten. And Autumn is from Mrs. Nicely's class. So, welcome, [Applause] ladies. Every day in first grade, Autumn comes to school with a big smile and a kind heart. She is always
016ready to help her friends, with encouraging words, and a caring spirit. Autumn works hard in all of her classwork and never gives up, even when something is difficult. She always tries to do the right thing in and out of the classroom and helps others when they need it the most. She serves respect to adults and treats everyone with care. We are so lucky to have Autumn in our classroom this year. So, congratulations. Joining our first graders on stage, we have two kindergarten students. So, the first one is Joanna. I'm gonna do my best. Her mom just told me. Oh, yolo. Is that good? Joanna, come on. And Joanna is in Miss Charlotte's class. So, Miss Charlotte's gonna join her. Okay, there she is. Adorable. This is Mrs. Hamilton. Will you shake her hand? Yeah. Joanna
017is an exceptional student. Whether she's offering to help a classmate clean up, including others during group activities, or greeting peers and adults with a smile, Joanna's thoughtful actions create a welcoming and respectful classroom environment. She's a role model in our school community, showing empathy, responsibility, and respect. Joanna's quiet leadership and compassionate heart make her truly deserving of this great recognition. Wonderful job, Joanna. We're so proud of [Applause] you. And our last Will Cox Rock student is William Badget. And William is in Miss Mary's class. Oh, and he's over there. Welcome to the stage, William. William is caring, helpful, and hardworking. He is always the first to lend a helping hand and include a classmate. He is a great friend to each and every student in his class. William is kind and respectful to all students
018and teachers. We can always count on William to make us smile throughout the day. Will Cox rocks because of William. [Applause] Congratulations, boys and girls. You um are doing a great job holding up your certificates right in front of your tummies. We want to see your big smiles. And our grown-ups, now is your chance to take a photo. I'm sorry. Thank you so much. Back in your seats. We're super proud of all of them. They've been doing so much and they've grown so much this year. So, um, and thank you families for being here to celebrate with us. Um, next up we have the administrators from George G. Dodge. Sorry, from the high school. Oh, okay. Um, so family, Willox families, if you would like to stay, you're certainly welcome to, but this is a
019good opportunity if you would like to go home and then let the families come on in and take some seats. So, it is completely up to you. We are so grateful for you to join us tonight while we make this transition. I was myself. All right, guys. Don't be shy. You're going have to come over here. So, good evening everyone. It's an exciting time for us to recognize our Dodge students of the month. We got a little special treat for you right now because we're in the students of the month a little bit different this time because we got so much going on. As you know, our sixth grade is over preparing to go to Camp Bueno next week. We got the second half of fifth grade going to Greenfield tomorrow morning bright and early.
020So, the our students are very busy and they've got a lot going on. So, we're going to have a special treat and do our students of the month a little bit differently as I turn this over to Miss Deville. Well, Mr. Holland actually just stole what I was going to say. So, I'm going to pass it over to Mrs. PA to get us started for tonight. Hello everyone. I'm Mrs. Pa. I'm a fourth grade teacher at Dodge and I have the pleasure of um introducing our first fourth grade student. Her name is Ariana Valor. She's in my home room and I nominated her. [Applause] Ariana is a very bright student who always come to school with a positive attitude. She's a hard worker and can always be counted on to participate in social studies and
021science class. She's very thoughtful and helpful to her co classmates. I can count on her to have a smile on her face every morning. She's just a little nervous right now. She's always got a smile on her face. Next up, [Applause] oh uh next I'll be produ uh announcing Mrs. King, another fourth grade teacher uh on the same team as I am, is nominating Manav [Applause] Dali. Manav loves school. He is always happy to be at school and enjoys learning. Manav is an excellent role model in class. He follows the expectations, participates in class, and always has his homework completed. In addition, Manav is kind and respectful to [Applause] everyone. Mrs. Bush, another fourth grade teacher on the same team as I am, is nominating Ariana Nas. [Applause] Ariana has done an outstanding job in
022fourth grade. She gives 110% effort in the classroom. Ariana always has a smile on her face when she arrives to school and is excited to learn each and every day. She is an amazing role model to her peers. She is continually following all Dodge expectations, including respect, responsibility, and safety. Her fourth grade teachers are extremely proud proud of her accomplishments. Way to go, Ariana. Keep up the amazing [Applause] work. All right, so Mrs. Bell, our technology teacher, nominates Evelyn, Evan, or E Donatelli. [Applause] Evelyn has improved so much over the year. I am always in awe when she shows me her creativity. I know she can continue to do great things as long as she stays positive and communicates what she needs. E, you have so much support and I'm so proud of you. When
023things get tough, just breathe. You got this. [Applause] All right. Hello. I am Mrs. Jar Music. I'm the orchestra teacher at Dodge. Um, and I nominated Michael Curry. Um, so I nominated Michael. So, you can go ahead and come up [Applause] here. All right. And I chose uh Michael because he has really shown a passion and love for the violin. He comes excited each day to learn and play and is a strong leader in his section to those around him. He's always prepared for class and is eager to strive for excellence. I have loved watching him grow as a musician over the last three years with all of his violin solos and fiddle tunes. Can't forget those. And I look forward to his continued journey at RBC next year. So, congratulations, [Applause] Michael. I'm Mrs.
024Lette. I'm one of the art teachers at Dodge and I nominated Maggie Royer. Maggie, from the first class, I knew that um you were going to be an artsy student. Uh she has a creative ideas and takes off with them to make unique projects. For example, she did a project twice the size of the other students and instead of coloring the whole background, she did all the Hamilton lyrics in color to fill the space. And that one is when I knew I was going to choose her. She is helpful and um willing to create art that is beyond the art class. She is a role model to her peers. She creates art outside of school time and will talk about art because she loves it. I hope that she will continue creating art and she
025will have an artistic career and be helping others. She loves to do that, too. So, at this time, that concludes our student of the month nominations, but we'll get together for a quick picture. So, if you guys want to get into [Applause] Okay. Well, thank you, Dodge Intermediate School. And as soon as you get your Tiger tickets, if you'd like to stay for our high school presentation, you're welcome to do that. If you'd prefer to leave, maybe it's ice cream night because it's sunny. Maybe that's the time to leave now for your family. Thank you for being here tonight. Thank you so much. Have a nice summer. Oh, thank you. We'll get there. Thank you. Hey, good Uh good evening. This is uh I am Mike Silverthorn from the high school and tonight we'd like
026to honor four very special individuals for our high school students of the month this month. Um we do have a couple staff members that also nominated these students. So, uh, I'll call them up when their student is is ready to go. So, Mrs. Demanio, come on up. Mrs. Demanio nominated Addison Schula. Addison, come on up. Mrs. Statio says Addison as a media center student assistant fulfills a versatile role supporting tasks such as book and Chromebook circulation, shelving, engaging in various maker space activities including sewing, vinyl cutting, heat pressing. She always comes with a sunny disposition and is willing to learn new tasks and make the media center and maker space run smoothly. She'll be taking over the role of maker space club vice president next school year. And Mrs. Demand is very thankful for all
027she does. So, congratulations, [Applause] Addison. Next, I'd like to call up Dwan Scott. Dwan was nominated by Mrs. Fritzen. Uh, Mrs. Fritzen says, "Dwan is an exemplary student in her class. He is very bright. not only completes his work also helps other students in his blocks to work through problems they are struggling with. He is a great leader and also a great student. Congratulations Dwan. Um our next student is JD Okuma. He couldn't show up tonight because he has baseball. Uh Mrs. Hopson who is a IIA in with Mr. Socrates task unit says JD volunteers in our classroom as a mentor to our students. JD displays maturity beyond his years when working with our students, works with them on schoolwork, plays with them, eats lunch with them, has brought uh several students of ours to
028baseball team games. He even picks up one student in the classroom, takes to baseball practice. JD always leads with respect, responsibility, and makes right choices. It's obvious he he lives and he's the best person he could be. His character is always shining. Whether he's being watched or not, he is always caught doing the right thing. Congratulations to JD Okuma. Last, I'd like to call on Mrs. Kurt. Mrs. Kurt nominated Matt Dunny. Matt, come on up. Mrs. Kurt says, "Matt has gone above and beyond in helping out and volunteering at events outside of school. He is a big help with all aspects of the events. Interacts great with the community. He will do great things before he even has to ask him to do them." Congratulations, Matt Dunny. [Applause] There we go. At this time, I'd
029like to continue with the high school awards or recognitions. Call Mr. Brian Phantom, our athletic director. Thank you, Mr. Silverthorn. Uh, as you can see, I I've been doing athletic directing with money shoes all afternoon, rushing over here at baseball and stuff. So, uh, really honored tonight to be here, uh, to be able to recognize this fantastic, talented group of young ladies, our girls varsity basketball team from Twinsburg High School. This year, our varsity girls basketball team had an absolutely incredible season. They were co-suburban league national division champions. They were OSAA Division 2 district champions defeating Warren Harding in an extremely exciting game at Madina High School and we were one of the final 16 teams in the entire state of Ohio as regional qualifiers uh in the Sweet 16 uh for the entire state.
030So congratulations to our Lady Tiger basketball team on a truly historic season uh at Twinsburg High School. And at this time, I'd like to call each of them up individually. Jana Anderson, [Applause] Tama Andrews, Kayla Salura, Taylor Dye, [Applause] Christian Fletcher, Lena Gayosh, unable to be here tonight. Jada Gilmore, JC Hutton, unable to be here tonight. Charlie Johnson unable to be here tonight because of her varsity softball game. Mackenzie Sweeney, Gianna Taylor, Juliana [Music] Tanelli, unable to be here tonight because of her varsity softball game. Riley Velican, Libby Wolf, Lola Young, our assistant coaches, unable to be here tonight, Allison Lemieux and Michael Sweeney, and our head coach of the Lady Tigers, Mr. Spencer [Applause] Jennis. Again, I just want to say it was truly a joy and a pleasure for me to have a
031front row seat all season to what these girls did. Uh, an incredible group. Every single one of these girls standing up here right now is back again next year. So, it's going to be another big year for us next year that I'm really looking forward to and I know all of these parents in the audience are also looking forward to. So, congratulations, Lady Tigers. [Applause] some tall young ladies. Um, you all weren't in here for my president's report, but I do want to give a special shout out to this team. Not only did they have the talent on the court, but this team excelled in the classroom. They were one out of five teams in Ohio to for a 2024 2025 school year to get a team GPA of a 4.0, which is just amazing.
032So truly proud of you all. Congratulations and thank you for all your hard work. We appreciate it. You don't want me in the front. Thank you. Okay. girls are still too nice. It's a lot of energy. All right. Um, we have a I know you have business. Do you want to be business advisory? Sure thing. Absolutely. Okay, so business advisory met on April 29th. Um had a handful of items that went through. So with Willox, they had their animal careers for students. Um the Bissell the vet clinic was uh traveled over to Bissell and worked with the students with there as well as the CBCC had their digital design team and they created and read to the students and had kind of an autograph session afterwards which was kind of fun. They also got to
033do the explore of work, the world of work program for their and um so they were able to walk through that particular item which was fun. And then their career day is on May 22nd. Dodge already had their career day that was in December. As the spring they kind of concentrate more on the uh state testing that's happening over at RBC. They continued with their speaker series and this year they had two alumni Eric Moore and Garrett Critulo that spoke. Uh they had their college week which was lots of fun and filled with college trivia. They had the um scavenger hunt and they had a whole bunch of activities and stuff that they had for those kids as well as they had their CBCC field trip. Uh the seventh graders will have the opportunity to
034work with the learning kids and talk through multiple careers such as sports, medicines, uh arts, robotics, um what's the other word I'm looking for? Cosmetics. And then finally at our high school, our uh efair that was held on March 5th was a success. We had over 35 vendors and there was a lot of great feedback from both students and the vendors. Next year it will be held on March 18th. The 10th graders had their field trip to the CBCC and we have about 75 of our current 10th graders that are going to be heading over um to CBCC in the fall. So they're very excited for that amount of students this year. As far as our seniors, their resumes have been uploaded into Aviance and then the seniors will receive them when they get their
035packages on May 21st as they're heading out um of the high school. May 6, which was yesterday, they had their exploration fair over at Liberty Natural Park. They looked like they had a good time with that. And also, we had a group of students that have been working with senior citizens on their life books. So, on May 16th, they'll be able to present those to them. So, they've had a good time um working with the senior citizens on that. Finally, our connections program, it's having highest enrollment. Um so next year they're looking to have over 80 students plus um that are interested and for our connections program. So the the team there is very excited um for that program to continue to grow. Um we had a really great year with our business advisory and
036we are looking forward to next year and the programs that we have set up. So thank you um and thanks to that uh committee for who helped with the efair. We thank you to the vendors and everyone who was involved on that team. Any other coming to reports? Um just at we met the policy committee meeting met. Let me look my old fashioned paper calendar. We met on the 28th. It was just about a week ago. Um there were a few revised bylaws. Uh three new policies and then um mostly revised policies that were polished up. I don't have my notes with me, but this is just a first reading so I can get into more details at another time and they will be posted. Any others? I will move it over to Mrs. Pard.
037Thank you, Mrs. Crawford. This evening we have two administrative reports and the first is um our May 5-year forecast update by our treasur CFO, Mrs. Julia Rosnaya. Good evening, Mrs. Rosnaya. Board of Education and Community. Um it is my pleasure to go over uh the PowerPoint presentation that I have prepared and shared with you and um also uh provided a copy of the forecast numbers with all the details to the assumptions that went into the numbers. Um the information will be shared tomorrow on the school district website. um both the PowerPoint presentation and the forecast as well as submitted to uh Ohio Department of Education as required by the law uh twice a year. As we all know by now uh each May and November um by the end of the month uh each public
038school district in Ohio is required to submit a forecast. um what goes into the forecast is um just certain specific funds which I have listed on my presentation and it's uh basically those that are uh related to the district's operations. Um the purpose of the forecast is to engage the um planning uh for the board of education, administration and the community for financial discussions uh for uh any uh issues that the districts might have be might be facing and to serve as a basis for um the district leadership to sign the 412 certificate for um contracts. uh the district enters in uh agreements for and to provide a method for department of education uh and workforce and the auditor of state to identify um schools with potential uh financial hardships coming up. Uh before we
039get to the numbers um as I just shared a forecast is a visual representation of the future uh grounded in the realities of today. So we only know what we know at this point in time and that's the information that goes into the forecast. Basically that's why we are required by law to update it at least twice a year. Uh because things are changing ongoing. um the fiveyear forecast in particular um is requirement for the public schools in Ohio. I'm not aware that it is a requirement uh for other institutions but um I do also believe that it is helpful in long-term discussions for planning purposes. Um so again as I mentioned before the notes and assumptions must be read and understood with the details for the numbers that go into the forecast otherwise the
040numbers could be misinterpreted by someone um and that's why I always provide uh them together. Uh the forecast has two major categories um ex um revenues and expenditures. Um the district resources for revenues is made up of uh mainly local funding as we all know by now and some state funding and I will talk more about that and the expenditures cost mostly salary, benefits, purchase services, supplies and materials. Um there has been a lot of um communication and uh back and forth uh with department of education with uh different meetings regarding the legislation that is being discussed um this spring um by um basically the house and the senate. The governor's budget this spring called for $13 million less for public school districts and $448 million more for vouchers for private schools. Um I will
041just share a few highlights from all the information that's coming my and superintendent powers way. We are keeping um up to date with it. Um however everything at this point in time is still um and I do have a timeline here in a upcoming slide as well is up for debate and nothing is finalized but just as a heads up um there is there is a lot that's uh being uh talked about regarding public school funding. Um there are 14 um proposed laws, nine in the House and five at the Senate level to impact local property taxes and valuations that could reduce local funding to our public schools in Ohio. So this is completely new. In the past we always talk about the state foundation that's being changed ongoing. Um this is um first time
042that to this detail there is a lot of discussion going in uh regarding local um revenues for the school district. House Bill 96 is amongst the most egregious and most serious concerns to all public schools. It would eliminate the fair school funding plan calling it temporary foundation funding suspending fifth and sixth year phase end. It would limit school district carryover cash balances to 30% of the prior fiscal year expenditures. And on this note, I would like to share that last year um prior fiscal year is what they're talking about. Our district closed at 30.9 um cash reserves um to this comparable 30% that they're looking at basically. So, um we'll see where it goes. Um at this point in time, um my last update was that House Bill 96 was returned to the House for
043further review uh by the Senate. Um empower uh the county budget commission to suspend voter approved levies and disregard the 20 mil floor. So this is a first time uh type of discussion again that we have not seen before in the past. Um so basically what this says if the school district has um over 30% in cash reserves in a prior fiscal year um which our cash reserves annually tend to be less and less. So that wouldn't be the case for the current fiscal year yet. the county uh budget commission would still um have the power to reduce our tax collections uh to get us to that 30%. If in in fact it's going to happen, uh the property tax implications of House Bill 96 would be devastating to public school districts across the entire
044state. Um there are lots of school districts um in the states currently uh mostly the ones that had large s funds um in the last uh few years they have basically building uh have been building their cash reserves and those are the districts that would get hit uh the most right now. So we're right on that um 0.9% difference. Uh we're right at level. So we'll see what happens. Uh the Senate is now deliberating state foundation funding and property taxation for schools. Um the Senate has five pending pieces of legislation concerning property taxation. uh besides uh House Bill 96, the state budgets process will not be finalized until end of June. Our five-year forecast yet has to be submitted in May. So again, the information we are aware is the only information that can go
045in the forecast and that's why they ongoingly change. Um we will file the forecast uh with our current state funding level and property tax laws as to what is available the knowledge that we have at this point in time because there's nothing else that we can do better. Um any changes which could be significant to state funding and property taxes will need to be accounted for in the November in the upcoming November forecast. So here's kind of a timeline of the state budget and to where we are with that yellow little little star at this point in time for the forecast to be submitted. But yet um um this is before we know what happens with our state foundation for the next year. Uh our district finance fi financial story quick overview. Uh house bill
04633 continued the phase out of the fair uh funding uh uh fair school funding plan for fiscal year 24 and 25 funds that helped us provide additional student support uh ended in uh September 2024 for our district. Future funding is uncertain still for 26 to 29 as fair school funding plan is not funded beyond 25. We are on the foundation formula and current current legislative proposals freeze the funding at uh fiscal year 22 levels. um yet um I will go over um some information that are affecting significantly our uh expenditures. Um there are several property tax reforms being proposed by the legislature that could impact our local revenues in the future. We will not know what these are until uh later this year. If the state of Ohio cuts or reduces our state funding and
047severely impacts our ability to lay raise local funding, our district will need to make uh significant changes um cuts past new levies in response to the severe revenue challenges. If we want to maintain our instructional programs, which we have been striving over all these years to maintain what is the best for our students, under current laws and state funding, we are projecting a negative cash balance in fiscal year 28 of this current forecast and a very low cash balance for closing fiscal year 27. Here I have a graph of those revenues and expenditures and the ending cash balances. Um with a strong support from our community, uh the $6.2 million levy that was passed in November 23 uh has significantly um boosted our revenues for fiscal year 24 and 25. um for state foundation the
048March 2nd uh payment uh formula is included and I'm saying that because it's changing. So the state foundation if you look it up the last July comparing it to December to this March some numbers in there and overall numbers might might be significantly changed. I will just share one example, a student wellness fund. Um that used to be a separate fund 467 um back a few years ago, three, four, five years ago and then the state decided to include them in our general funds. In the beginning, the district has received about $230,000 each year for about three years. And this year all of a sudden we have um $183,000. So um it's a significant basically we're only getting 75% of what we've been receiving the prior year. So that's why I'm saying which exactly which
049numbers are included here because it might change again by May or June. In fact expenditures still exceed our revenues in each fiscal year uh of the forecast. So for revenues even in my uh three years with the district I remember at first presenting that uh we were receiving very little help from the state was at 20 uh 21% about and as we can see year over year it just keeps on decreasing. So right now we are at 707.58% and all of the rest is local support. Um challenges to our uh other challenges to our operating revenues over the year. the years have been um the state reimbursement for tangible personal property which I have talked in details about in my prior presentations um which have um ended in fiscal year 22 when we received our
050fa final payment of $633,000 and as a recap in fiscal year 19 the district received over $3 million in that category and in 15 we received It's $6.6 million. Ju just as a comparison as a as a reminder to why uh we might be struggling um different areas are getting hit um ongoing at different times but um it's just getting harder. Department of Education and Workforce dropped our revenue significantly also due to property uh value um and income level increases. Um as superintendent power shares sometimes um the state says that we are a wealthy district. We might not agree with that but um that's where we are and therefore our state um monies are getting less and less. And then inflation has a very large is a very large factor uh with our expenditures. So
051I have pulled um a comparison here um for different categories. I thought this would be interesting for all of us to look at and those uh in the community that would be interested and are asking why is the school district um deficit spending or still you know um year after year. So this might be also a slight um explanation next to everything else that I shared um where we getting hit with our uh revenues we also getting hit with our um expenditures but the other way they're not decreasing they're increasing so um how do you balance them? So um first chart I have four little charts in here shows um January 21 to 22 um inflation rates uh throughout the Midwest which our state falls into that uh Midwest uh category uh for different um
052categories of um items and services and then I have the same for uh three more years. So 22 to 23, 23 to 24, and 24-2. So um if we just look together at one of these categories that um our school district um is using ongoing um would be um the fuel and utilities. We do have some large buildings. We do have a lot of square footage to host all of our students and uh uh staff every day uh throughout the Ohio weather. And um so if we look in the first year 21 to 22, the fuel and utilities uh in the Midwest reflect an 11.2% increase inflation rate. Then the next year they have a 10% increase. then they had a negative 1.7 and then a 3.5. So just as an idea um that totals
053to a 23% increase inflation rate over 40 years um and the feds have an ideal inflation rate set at 2% annual annually. So I just wanted to show and share and underline to um why are our costs increasing? Why our purchase services, our um supplies the different things are increasing. Um, and also I would like to um mention that when you have a large amount of money, when you have a large budget, for example, let's take a $10 million expense and factor the 23% increase over four years in, you get to $12.3 million. So the increase is very significant. It's not like when you're looking at small numbers then that percentage is not as large but we have a very large $60 million budget. So every percentage of increase is going to be larger. Um
054so I wanted to share that information. this chart here, um it's also the same uh inflation across the different categories, but um I did it this way so I added them up over the four years so we can see how um how high they're getting and how they're increasing. And now if we want to imagine between that 0% and 5% at the bottom, a 2% right in between that zero and five and we can see where everything else is beyond that 2%. So I think it it it just shows a visual to where the inflation is with with the last four years um in our region and that that again includes our school district too because it affects everything that we're getting um for our students yet our funding is decreasing. Correct. Yes. Okay. So,
055I will move on to our uh estimated general fund expenditures for the fiscal year will be about 62 million uh $550,000. Um and I'm saying that we're estimating because the fiscal year is not closed yet. So I still do we do see what we have from last July to this end of April at this point in time. However, we still have May and June. So we estimate what our payroll cost, what our benefits are going to be in uh the month of May. We have uh two pays each month. So that's two pays in May, two pays in June. We have to estimate them. We have a large supplemental payout in June. I have to look at last year and um basically add up all the contracts and compare and come up with that estimate.
056Also, uh we have a large amount of encumbrances on purchase orders for the district and items that have been ordered, services, third parties that are not yet paid. So, um, that's why I'm saying it's it's an estimate at this point still because we won't know the exact number until everything is paid out or if some services are not completed by the time we have to cut off the issuing the last check in mid June, then it's going to have to be paid next year, that's not ideal. We usually have around $1 million in incumbrances on July one when we close the fiscal year, but we have to do a district-wide effort in order to get to around that $1 million and nothing to be open going into the new fiscal year um unless it really
057needs to be open. So, um that's where we estimate to be uh with our um expenditures, wages and benefits. um we managed to come down to 81% to what I remember last time we were at about 85% total. Um so it was a a common effort. Um however uh the purchase services and uh supplies have increased in the meantime. Okay. So, here I just have a general overview of where we are with the uh payroll. A 2 and a half% increase based on the board of educations uh and uh um teaching staff last uh agreement uh for the upcoming two more fiscal years each year. And then um classified staff uh last year was a $1 per hour increase and this year um we are at 2% increase and then next year at 2 and
058a half% and here I would also like to mention that another um moving factor usually is the step increases for the teaching step because they get uh on the pay schedule at the higher step each year that they're that they're teaching um unless they are kept at the highest number of years and then they're not moving anymore. Um, our fringe benefits came in from our consortium for health insurance and um it's 4.97%. So I have a review on the next slide of where uh this falls over the last 20 years. So we can see back about 20 years ago uh 2003 4 5 6 7 um the health insurance increases 2002 to three was extraordinarily high. they were um higher than right now and then they went down in the 2010 years later 15 16
05917 18 to about the two plus% which was great. Um and then we had a three around 3 4% in 1920 2122 and then since 22 23 um this uh category has increased uh again. So I just wanted for us to have that visual as well. Maybe I want to mention here with um with that increase though that um I have experience and I worked in different school districts and uh I am happy to see us with the insurance consortium. Uh it is the best deal that the district can get. So there's nothing for us to consider to separate from such or other districts would be happy to be able to be accepted in such um consortium uh for agreements as such because the larger the group is uh our star county has numerous large
060score districts and that's why they're able to get better rates for us. When you're a small entity on your own the rates are significantly higher. So while they are increasing every year, yet I I do have to say that I think Superintendent Powers will agree with me that really there's not much in this area that we could change to lower um that cost. So our ending cash balances um 30 to 60 day cash balance is a responsible and recommended target for ending each fiscal year. Um last year we again were at um slightly over a 60-day cash balance. This year we probably going to end up um about uh 26% of that uh cash balance which which is um good. So um even if that house bill 96 passes we will be safe if it
061passes at 30% because the first discussion was 25%. So that's not certain yet either but um we're right there on in a good position for this fiscal year. Um however in the upcoming um two or three years uh 27 with a very low cash balances and 28 going negative is a concern. I will also mention here that um during all these calls and uh conferences that uh I have attended and some of them are superintendent powers and the administrative team we have attended uh all together. Um they there also a discussion um about school districts not having to submit a five-year forecast only do a three-year forecast because it's um up for debate that year four and five it's so far out that we have so many variables and we don't know what's going to
062happen. Um however um there was another thought also that most of the public schools in the state in 28 and 29 are going negative. So the threeear suggestion might have been just basically to not have that out there to not have that in the foreseeable future available. So um I would also um still uh they would like to say that um with the current state foundation formula and house bill um not having any effect on the numbers as they are right now the negative cash balance for 28 is projected to happen regardless of any other changes. that we might be seeing coming through. So our expenses uh in the next five years are expected to grow um at 2 and a half% um at this point in time. Our revenues will be slightly decreasing almost
063a percent every year. Um so our expenses will still uh continue to exceed our revenues. And as a summary, um the district continues to face rising uh rising operational costs. The board of education finance committee, the district leadership will remain focused on identifying strategies to curb the renewed upward trend in deficit spending uh which if unadressed will deplete our cash reserves by fiscal year 28. So, thank you for listening. Um, again, I'll be posting all the information out there and I'm available anytime for anybody having any questions. Thank you. Appreciate it. Oh, we're going to just change over the uh PowerPoint slides here, board, and uh focus next on the uh student fees for next school year, the 2526 school year. This is the board of education meeting. Actually, last year it was two weeks
064later. Um but um we'd like to get these uh proposed fees in front of you so that we can post for supplemental contracts sooner than later. So, thank you for allowing us to present this this evening uh for your consideration. Um this evening we're going to be talking about uh the proposed academic fees and pay to participate fees as well as breakfast and lunch prices uh for the 2526 school year which is just around the corner. And we're going to begin tonight by talking about preschool tuition uh board. As you know, we have an amazing preschool program over at Willcox that continues to grow. We have um two separate kind of programs. our integrated preparatory program, I'm sorry, our integrated preschool program, which is known as IP and our kindergarten preparatory program, which is our
065KP uh program. And um for next school year, we are recommending a $350 increase in tuition for both of the preschool programs. Um the difference between the IP and the KP program is that KP is five days a week and IP is uh only four days a week. Um, IP uh was established many many many years ago to support students with disabilities and peer mentor or peer models rather and our KPPP program has only really been here I want to say 8 to 10 years if that time um and it supports kiddos who are not quite ready to start kindergarten um still in preschool and our staff over at Wilcox continues to do an amazing job. Again, we are a gold-rated preschool program, uh, which means they're doing all the right things to support our
066youngest learners, and we thank Mrs. Turner for her leadership in the preschool program. Um, the other thing that is a change, um, for your consideration this evening is, uh, the payment of preschool tuition. Uh, we are going to ask that preschool tuition be paid in full on m or by Monday, August 4th. um and that if parents do that, if they pay their preschool tuition by Monday, August 4th, they will receive a $100 discount off of their tuition uh costs. It's really um important for us to know which children are going to be with us in our preschool programs. A lot of what happens in preschool uh for the rating is based on ratios. And so when you're talking about programs that have um students with disabilities and peer models, uh you want to make
067sure that those kiddos are going to be with you for the duration of the school year. And so we're asking parents uh for this slight adjustment in the fact that preschool tuition will be due on Monday, August 4th. Um and if anybody has a concern with respect to payment uh to give my office a call or that of Miss uh Turner and uh we can um have a conversation. But I think the $100 discount is a pretty nice incentive and I thank the finance committee for considering and allowing that to be the case for next year. Um the next uh fee slide here talks about all of the um academic fees and board. Just for your information, this is the same cost as associated with the current school year. These do not increase. Same cost
068across the board from uh preschool through grade 12. And the preschool uh fee that you see here is not the tuition fee. It is for their academics. Uh it is for their snacks. It's for things that we purchase to support our preschool children uh through the year. So, uh, we are not recommending an increase in academic fees for next year. It stays the same as for the current school year. Uh, just a a word here that students who are eligible to participate in our federal meal program and who would be authorized to receive free and or reduced price lunches will have their academic fees, including their course fees waved. Uh, that's a recommendation for your consideration this evening. We've done this for several years now. Um, additionally, just a reminder to our parents that if
069you um do fall in the category of a child who is um eligible for the federal meal program, you must submit a waiver uh to uh it it's actually goes through final forms now through the online portal. But uh doing that allows us to share that information with people inside the organization who need to know uh folks who are working through the feast structure, Mr. Fanton and athletics and our building principal. So, just a reminder that we're asking you to sign off on your uh fee waiver in final forms if this is uh something that's uh important to you for consideration. Uh the next slide uh board you asked us to do this last year and thank you Mr. uh Strickland, Mr. Fanton and Mr. Desmond who pulled the numbers together here. Just letting you
070know the collection um what the board has generated in revenue because of these fees. Um this year, uh the fee percentage was 30% of the total cost of whatever program we're talking about. Athletics, uh raised $27,000. Twinsburg High School clubs and activities about $25,000. RBC clubs and activities uh almost $8,000. and Dodge and Bissell clubs and activities uh just a little bit more than $8,000 for a total uh revenue generation of $248,000. And as Mrs. Raznia indicated earlier, um we're paying attention to the bottom line and these fees help to balance some of the expenditures out. So this is a you know fees charged at 30% of a program but when you're talking about this kind of revenue stream generated generated it goes a long way in supporting what we are um supporting students in
071doing here in the school district. Also this year board of education we're recommending the family cap that you started a few years ago. Um, the family cap for the current year is supporting 57 families and the family cap for the current year was $500. And that family cap saved those families almost $13,000 in fees. So imagine if you have a couple of students at the high school and they're all athletes and they're playing football and basketball and track in the spring. Uh, this goes a long way um in saving our families some money. And so, uh, we thank you for your consideration about the family cap moving forward tonight as well. Also, um, families who request payment plans, uh, we're able to help support that request. And currently, we have seven families who requested to
072be placed on payment plans. And this was before the start of the uh, spring sports uh, season. So, what we find is that families are reaching the family cap pretty soon. And so in the spring sports season, we're we're not having families request um payment plans because they've reached the cap already. Our students are very busy with all kinds of activities and that family cap is really helping families out with uh their fee payments. And then the other thing I wanted to just mention here this evening that um as you know we have free and reduced federal meal plan waiverss. And um this is an amazing number. I asked Matt actually to double check it because I couldn't believe it was real. Um, but 272 of our um families uh saved um almost 8 thou
073or a little bit more than $8,000 in pay to participate fees because of their waiverss. And so uh this is a huge service uh to our families who may have some challenges economically. And so uh 272 families were able to save some money uh with the waiverss that you present at uh presented this current school year for pay to participate fees. So thank you for that board. So moving forward uh for the 2526 school year again uh we are not recommending an increase in the percentage uh just like this year our pay to participate fees are based on 30% of the total cost of any of our programs and this is trended over four years and that includes such things as transportation personnel uniforms um entry fees all those things are are placed into a
074very very very complicated spread spreadsheet that is um overseen by Mr. Strickland with the assistance of Mr. Fanton and Mr. Desmond and uh through those calculations we're able to set the fees uh this evening for your consideration but again all of our fees for pay to participate are 30% of the total costs of the program. So the board is picking up 70% of all the costs of all the pay participate activities in the district. Again, with respect to students who are participating in the federal meal program and who qualify for a reduction in pay to participate fees, um pay to participate fees are are recommended to be reduced by 50% for students who would be eligible to participate in the federal meal program and who would be authorized to receive free or reduced meals. And
075again, a parent would have to submit their online application uh in order to be able to uh be qualifying for for this reduction in their pay to participate fees. So, a couple of an examples here. Um the fee recommendation for this evening for swimming um is $155. If I'm a parent whose child is eligible uh for the reduction because of the federal meal program, um I'm only paying 77.50 instead of the $155 for my child to participate in swimming at Twinsburg High School. And then the second recommendation or the second sample I should say on the next slide, um it's $35, uh to participate in middle school student council. uh if the child is participating in the federal meal program and qualifies, the cost to the family is $17.50. So, a good savings for families
076who are financially strapped and uh we appreciate your consideration uh to do the same for the coming school year. So board of education on this uh agenda this evening, one of the resolutions is once again to request uh that you allow for the cap uh for families uh in their pay to participate fees at $500 uh for the 2526 school year. And then just a reminder for parents, if your child is participating in fall sports or activities in the coming year, um we would look back to the current school year, the 2425 year. Um with respect to participation in the federal mail program, again, you have to sign off on a waiver. If you're a parent would like it who would like us to consider that um federal mail program application, uh without the signed
077waiver, Mr. Bendis is not able to share that information with anybody. And then advancing the slides to Mrs. Farthing. Um for winter sports and spring sports for next year, um we would be then of course looking for the 2526 federal meal program. A reminder to parents, we no longer have paper applications. Everything runs through our My School apps. And so parents would be uh going to my school apps to fill out their federal mail program um application. And then in final forms is the location online where you would be indicating your permission for Mr. Bendis to release that information to internal staff so that we can use those waiverss to support reductions and pay to participate fees. Uh several ways that parents can pay. Of course, you can pay by check or online uh via
078pay schools. Um if you are parents are going to do that there is a service charge at this point it's four uh 4.5% for credit and debit cards. Um an electronic check is charged $1.95 uh per transaction. Those are the uh rates that we know of as of today. So they they may be subject to change. We don't um charge that. It is through pay schools. And if they've changed their rates we would have to then oblige by that too. And then of course if a parent is paying by cash or check there is obviously no service charge associated with that. Um the pay schools link is found on our district website and of course the person to contact with any questions with respect to pay to participate is our athletic director of K12 student
079activities Mr. Fanto. Any questions about the academic fees or pay to participate fees being recommended for the coming school year? Um I just want to say that um when it comes to us increasing the preschool fee um one thing that we did look at um as a finance committee and the staff did um was spend their um looked at all the different um daycarees and other schools that are um like other like programs that are in churches and um things like that that charge. Um, and I can say we are still significantly lower. Um, with us increasing that fee, we're still lower than what you would pay. Um, and so, um, we felt like, um, it would still be, um, affordable for our families compared to others. Um, and then, um, we we know, um,
080we wanted to get this out so that we could give families time to, um, pay and still get that discount if they want to. You and I agree with that because um when my kids were going to preschool, I think at that I think when they were going um their first year, they think they went three days a week. Next, no, it was two days then three days. And with three days a week, it was still a lot more expensive than our four days a week here. So, um it just I mean it is significantly lower than any of the schools around here, any of the preschools. The other thing to mention too is that we provide transportation to preschool. Yeah. And a lot of places don't do that. So that's an added service for
081our families too. Yes. Exactly. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Uh moving on to uh breakfast and lunch. Um we're uh pleased to inform the board tonight that the prices for breakfast and lunch will remain the same as the current year. Mr. business has done an amazing job uh with balancing the books and always looking for ways to make reductions where he can. So those uh costs for breakfast and lunch will remain the same as noted on the screen. The one thing I do want to mention the milk prices are are rising as you know if you go to the grocery store yourself and so unfortunately a carton of milk is going to increase next year from 50 cents to 75 cents. So that is the only um increase with respect to our food services
082program that that we have for you this evening. But the meal programs uh meal prices rather will stay the same uh in the coming school year. Any questions about our food services prices? That concludes our report tonight about fees for the coming school year. Thank you. Thank you. And we do not have any remarks. All right. Item eight, treasures report recommendations. Number one, resolve that the Twinsburg Board of Education approves the following meeting minutes. Regular meeting of April 16th, 2025 and special meeting and work session of April 16, 2025 as sent to the board under separate cover. Two, resolve that the Twinsburg Board of Education accepts the following financial reports for the month of March 2025. Bank reconciliation, cast summary report by fund, cash summary report by fund and special cost center, dispersement summary report
083and investment portfolio review as sent to the board under separate cover. Three, resolve that the Twinsburg Board of Education approves all expenditures for the month of March 2025 as reflected in the above name reports. and four resolved that the Twinsburg Board of Education approves and adopts Twinsburg City School District's updated 5-year forecast and assumptions for school years 2025 through 2029 as prescribed by OC 5705.391 and 5705.412 for the attack. Do I have a motion? So moved. So moved by Mrs. Hamilton. Second. Second by Mrs. Egan. Any discussion? Miss Mrs. Hamilton, yes. Mrs. Egan, yes. Mrs. Travis, yes. Mrs. Davis, yes. Mrs. Crawford, yes. And that motion passes 5-0. Item I, action items, personnel number one, resolved that the Twinsburg Board of Education accepts the certified and licensed personnel and/or contract recommendations detailed in the attached
084exhibit as per the dates, terms, and other ethical conditions specified pending satisfactory OC background checks. to resolve that the Twinsburg of Education accepts the classified personnel and or contract recommendations detailed in need tax specific as per the dates terms and other ethical conditions specified pending satisfactory OC background checks and for results of board of education accepts the supplement contract recommendations detailed in the attachments as per the dates terms and other ethical conditions specified pending satisfactory OC background checks. Do I have a motion? So moved by Miss Davis, second by Miss Travis. Any discussion? Um I just want to thank um we have a couple of um retirements. Um so I wanted to um I mean it's further back. It's like um Amy Bennett um at the high school for over 20 years service to the
085district. that's gonna be a huge plus for us. Um um she also did the senior awards and everything like that. So we definitely um will um miss her for our district. Um Willie All right. Um then we have Amy Fargo um who has u who's our payroll administrator who had 10 years to the district um and so that's definitely um she's helped us a lot um in our district um very knowledgeable um with with our stuff and so that she definitely will be missed as well but we wish her good luck in her new role. Um, anything else? And then congratulations to um some of our new um employees who are being hired as well. Mr. Rosia, can you please call the Mrs. Davis? Yes. Mrs. Travis, yes. Mrs. Egan, yes. Mrs. Hamilton, yes. Mrs.
086Crawford, yes. And that motion passes 5. Item J, action items and new business. Number one, resolve that the Twinsburg Board of Education approves the attached listing of media center items to be deleted from inventory for the attached exhibit. Two, resolve that the Twinsburg Board of Education approves the following list of books to be deleted from inventory. They are listed on the agenda. Three, resolve that the trans board of education approves the first reading of the revised rescended or new board education policies and bylaws as noted below. Um four resolve that the Twinsburg Board of Education approves the agreement with Learnwell to provide educational services to one student while hospitalized. The cost is not to exceed $1,775 and is a general fund expenditure as sent to the board under separate cover. Five, resolve the Bber board
087of education approves a service agreement with education alternatives for two students to attend for the remainder of the 2425 school year. Tuition cost is 8,525 total for both students and is a general fund expenditure as sent to the board under sector cover. Six resolved that the Twinsburg Board of Education approves the adoption of the summer reading requirements for 2025. The adoption was approved on April 7, 2025 by the district curriculum and technology committee. Seven, resolved that the Twinsburg Board of Education accepts a donation from American Industrial Technology of a CNC machine to Twinsburg High School. The donation is valued at approximately $2,000 as per the attack exhibit. Does not miss a beat. Our superintendent goes to work every day, meets probably 98% of every activity in the evenings and weekends. Our business manager drives a
088bus when it's needed. He sweeps floors, he cleans up water spills, and he helps when roofs are leaking. And they don't complain. And they don't stop. And we have a district that is very unique in those two features because we have a lot of districts where we don't have that type of leadership that works 247 no matter what the call may be. And so again, it's it's it's a lot that we do as a district, a lot of things that are not noticed. Um, we I agree. We thank the people who came out both in November and now again in May to support, to listen, and even if you couldn't vote for your own personal reasons that yes, vote. I understand that. I completely understand that. Um, the negativity on social media is very sad.
089Um, but that that's that's the way things are going right now with the world. But again, I just want to say um as As an educator, I know how much it takes. I know how much you give. And so, I just want to say thank you to both of you for everything that you have done. Um, it's thankless sometimes, but it's recognized. Thank you. Thank you. And and also I want to point out we have administrators here who put in so much time in this as well meeting at these blue ribbon committees and we have our treasurer who spends an unusual amount of time within the district at activities that I haven't seen sometimes in other districts just because she really likes to she likes to be involved with our kids our students and our
090families and genuinely enjoys it. So, your presence is is I more than I've seen in, you know, is is unusual and appreciated. So, just wanted to throw that out there to um some of you who are still here and to all of you who are sitting here. Thank you. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. I don't think we can thank you enough for everything you do. I know it's hard. So, and we want to get home, so we'll wrap this up. Um there's so uh um that was miscellaneous. Okay, so I'm like what are we wrapping up? Okay, executive session that the board of education enters into executive session at 8:13 p.m. to consider the employment, discipline, and compensation of public employees as per the board of education policy number 0166A. Do I have a motion?
091So moved. So moved by Mrs. Egan. Second. Second by Mr. Hamilton. Mr. Rosa, please call. No. Mrs. Egan, yes. Mrs. Hamilton, yes. Mrs. Travis, yes. Mrs. Davis, yes. Mrs. Crawford, yes. Yes. Yes. And I do not see a reason for us to come back. So, um, enjoy your weekend and again, um, happy Mother's Day to all the mothers out there. Thank you.