West Geauga Board of Education Meeting , April 20,2026

001Two is an addition to the agenda as in as is 7.09 the addition of Stephanie Wright for the overnight trip to Washington. And then we have the removal of Mr. Levine in resolution 120. He's duplicated. Move we approve the agenda as amended. Second. Any discussion? Call the roll, please. Dr. Beers. >> Yes. Mrs. Claypoole. Yes. Ms. Leavenworth. Yes. Ms. Naylor. Yes. Mr. Bidmar. Yes. Program reports and Thank you, Madam President. Um tonight I'm happy to welcome to West Geauga Leanne Sedley um from the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce. Uh Leanne is an area coordinator of region eight um and uh a near and dear member of the West Geauga family by um association with uh Cheryl Fowler who I saw here somewhere. Um but Leanne is here to present us with a banner. So,

002Leanne. Yep. Good evening, everyone, and thank you for giving me this opportunity to recognize the West Geauga Local School District, Board of Education, administrators, staff, students, and community as being named a five-star district. This achievement is to be commended as only 47 out of over 600 districts in the state are receiving this honor today. The overall five-star district is awarded to districts that exceeded state standards by earning an overall five stars on the traditional report card for their performance across six rated components. Achievement component, progress component, gap closing component, early literacy component, graduation component, and college career workforce and military readiness component. For more information on district and school report card rewards and the components that make up the star ratings, you can find those on our Department of Education and Workforce website. On behalf

003of Director Steven Dackin, Deputy Director Diane Allen, and the entire Ohio Department of Education and Workforce, I would like to present you with your five-star district banner in hopes that you will display it prominently. I see your wall of fame here. And with the pride that comes from this accomplishment. Accomplishment. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you so much. And I'm we're going to get maybe a picture really quick. Sure. >> With you, of course, and our board. So, I'm going to have our board come around. >> Sure. Um with William and I'd actually like our principals to be in the photo as well. So. Principals. Do what you're told. Always. Yeah. So, William, I think I'm going to have you stand above our board and then we'll get a photo back there. You got them. What's

004the deal? Yeah. Thank you. So, obviously the award is a culmination of the efforts of a lot of people. And it's something that we are exceedingly proud of because it is the culminating efforts of our children and our staff. So, not only are we one of 47 that had a five stars in terms of district work, we're one of only 10 districts in the state out of 608 to achieve the five-star rating and the five-star rating in each of the subcategories as well. So, we are super proud of that accomplishment and proud, obviously, of work of the people who are here um and our children. And um always time to celebrate. And of course, we're in the midst of testing now, so we shall see. >> [laughter] >> We shall see. Um with that, I

005would turn over the microphone to Ryan Patty, our high school principal. Thank you. You seemed reluctant for a second. >> Mhm. I was. >> [laughter] >> It's totally appropriate. I mean, we're talking about five stars and excellence. I mean, why not just have the high school go up next? That's fine. Um Hence my hesitation. >> Uh-huh. I You got it. You know I got to throw them in. So, um I always love coming up here and getting to brag on our students and our staff. So, tonight that's what we're going to do a little bit more on. Um so, I'm going to start off if I get it on. All right. So, um we're going to go over some some art awards, student award, and then a nice presentation from one of our staff members

006to talk about some changes that we did at the high school recently. And I'll talk more about that in a second. So, to start off, could I have Tessa come on up? So, Tessa was among she is our winner of our spirit shop graphics t-shirt design contest. You're going to see her on another slide too in a second for something different. But, this was our from Mrs. Vidmar we had uh had kind of championed this idea of running um a a design contest for all of our students in the high school. They submitted designs and it was this it's all geared around West Geauga. It's geared around um putting something out for what we're going to look to then start producing in our spirit shop. So, this year the spirit shop's kind of taken off.

007Right now they're doing snacks, drinks, products, but ultimately what we want to do is have it be a full-fledged shop where there's clothes and so so Tessa is our first winner of the whole design. So, um as you can see it right up here. I love it cuz makes me feel like it's like nostalgic to me when I look at it. Feels like what what what I had when I was here. Um so, congratulations, but stay up here. Don't leave yet. So, before I let Tessa go sit down, um Tessa's also in our art awards and competitions that they're kind of all throughout the Geauga Parks District. So, I'm going to spread some others first. Um but, here is Tessa's that's in there. It's being displayed so you can get out into the park district

008and see um the different student art that's displayed throughout. So, it's pretty awesome. So, congratulations. Great job, OKAY? >> [applause] >> UM SO, YOU CAN SEE THE REST OF IT. I'M JUST going to go through it briefly. Um but, we have Sasha's. So, in it it kind of shows um where it's at throughout the park district. And then, I I have the the piece as well. Um we got Sophia's. Um and I put little bits of information. So, it's from March 20th through July 26th. You can see it at each of the park districts the different um works of art from our students. Here's Rocco's and then um E.J., Morgan, Elijah, Cole, and Dominica. So, these are ours that's represented. So, it's pretty awesome. It's It's fun getting to really see the student artwork not

009just in the school, which if you walk in, you can see it in the display cases. You can kind of see it out in there. But, to see it out in the community and have the kids see their pieces out there is pretty fun. We like it. I don't think I could do a paint-by-numbers that well. That's awesome. >> [laughter] >> That's crazy good. >> [laughter] >> Yeah, it's crazy good. So, last week I had the the privilege of if I can have Jacob come on up. So, one student in all of Geauga County gets awarded the and There it is. The Franklin B. Walter's Award. Um so, this is to me probably the most prestigious award that a senior can get awarded because it's not just amongst all the WestG students. It's It's Geauga

010County, right? So, um I got to go down to Columbus uh and and watch Jacob get celebrated with all the other um recipients. And um I Someone was asking, you know, how was it, you know, and I was like, there was Jacob did amazing, obviously. And if you look at my social media, I did a little clip of it so you could see it. Um the one that stood out to me is the one that the presenter was clowning on who um they were asking, you know, if you want to donate to his future campaign. He was there. So, every other award winner, right, goes up. They talk about their school, talk about where they're going to go, where they're from. It's quick. It's beautiful. He gives the the award recipients a second to to

011talk amongst everyone. One individual went down and he talked for 5 minutes. And it was it was it was very strange. But um Jacob did amazing and it's so great. Like the the work he does in the high school um being a not just an academic scholar, but he's is also a student athlete. He's he's incredibly well-rounded and we're very proud. Yeah, and I was going to I was just going to add, I think what makes the Frank H. Kenan B. Weaver Awards so special is it is um uh a picture of a whole student. It is civic um responsibility, it's leadership, it is community service, and also clearly the academics, which Jacob we know have um represents. But I think the the nature of the whole child and also of high character separates this

012in a in a very unique way. And obviously being the recipient from our county makes us very proud. So, congrats. >> [applause] [applause] >> Yeah. Please. >> Okay, it's a very great honor. This is what I do sit in the car. >> [laughter] >> Come on, mama. >> [laughter] >> Awesome job. Thank you both very much. >> [applause] >> Great job. Do you want to tell who Franklin B. Walter I don't He's a former state chief superintendent. Yes. Just um Franklin B. Walter is a long-time standing uh former state superintendent chief of of the Ohio education Board of Education, the state board. Uh very well-respected, long-time serving gentleman. So, that's quite a distinction for Jacob to receive that award. And Dr. Marquart used to always say, "I knew him, but Jacob, I did not know

013him. Franklin and I were not close, but >> [laughter] >> I do know that he is highly respected across the state, for sure. And if I may add just real quick about Jacob, so Jacob you work at rec camp in the summertime, right? Yeah, so I one of the things I just I I sit on the board of the West Geauga Recreation Council as well. Uh I wanted to share just real quick about when we were look looking to get our counselors together, uh you know, there's nothing but great feedback for you. They're like, "Oh, good glad Jacob's coming back this year." Further that, that you know, another Williams is joining the counseling crew, right? And so, I guess the point is is that, you know, you're you're you're setting an example, you're doing good

014stuff. Uh people are following in your footsteps, mom and dad, fantastic work. And Tessa, just to call you out, too. She can kick a heck of a soccer ball, and I don't want to ever try and run away from her. So, yeah. >> And then next for our next portion of it, I'm going to ask Kathleen to come on up and do it. Now, I got to say one thing and this is I won't talk about how long I've known Kathleen. But I I have to say that in in being an education for I think I'm going on in total a few few years. Working with teachers is is always incredible, right? You never know kind of where a department stands or where a PLC stands or where a particular teacher stands. Coming back to

015West G, I was at least blessed in the fact I had I had had some I knew I was going to have some incredible teachers just you know, being so familiar with them. When when a when a principal asks a team to completely revamp how you're teaching it's it's it's incredibly challenging to say the least to take a style of teaching, to throw it out the window and then to make it completely fresh and new having never done it before all gearing up because the the whole point of it is is to keep allowing students to expand on their depth of the curriculum. Kathleen's done that tenfold over and I I can't thank her enough and Brian as well for jumping on this and and hearing me out and my my passion for for this,

016but I'm going to turn it over to Kathleen now. Well, thanks. Did I get the clicker? You get the clicker. Okay, and I'm short. So, there we go. Um so, Ryan asked me to come today to talk about how we have uh changed our grading system in teaching Algebra 1. Uh it's it's been a long journey. It was kind of a pet project that Brian Spots and I have been really working on for six, maybe seven or eight years even. Um where we had the desire to grade differently, but we didn't know how to tackle it. Uh we had a couple false starts where we got together over the summer and just got so overwhelmed with how much change was involved, [clears throat] we didn't really know what to do after that. So, when Ryan

017got the job here, and I'll do it for you. Uh I called him and said, "Listen, former student. Uh now we have a different relationship. So, [laughter] uh let's get the awkwardness out of the way, but here's this idea that we've had for Algebra 1 for years and years and we just we don't know how to get started." And when I told him that we wanted to go to a mastery-based grading system, he was like, "Oh my gosh, I wanted you to do the same thing." So, we knew we had the support to do it, not just a desire to do it, and that's what made all the difference. Um but the reason it was so difficult to start is if anybody's looked at the Algebra 1 standards, it's pages and pages and pages of

018Algebra 1 standards. Um and just one in particular that we always come back to, one standard asks Algebra students to create either a linear, quadratic, or exponential function. Well, welcome to our whole year of Algebra 1. That's what we do. Um one quarter is linear, one quarter is exponential and quadratic, so we can't teach a standard in one sitting. Um so, along the way that's where we kept getting tripped up. How do we break this up so that we can actually do what we would like to do instead of one-and-done tests and kids feeling defeated every single time. So, along the way when Ryan came in that helped and then when Barb Samanski was our math coach for several years, she did this also and was pretty critical in like pushing us to where we

019needed to go. Um but the the big realization that we had to have was that we shouldn't grade on standards, we should grade on skills. And that's when things really changed for us that we realized we didn't have to do everything all at once. So, just to give you an example, this was our previous chapter. This is the skill list that our students get. So, for example, in the first one compare and contrast arithmetic and geometric sequences. That is not a standard per se, but it's a skill to be able to tell the difference between the two. And all of these skills eventually will lead into the standards that go with arithmetic and geometric sequences on the way. Um and you'll notice across the top that they get three chances to demonstrate mastery of each

020skill. Uh so, each little task that we list there, they get three opportunities to to prove that they know how to do that particular skill. Um so, what we do is we give a lot of checkpoints. Um checkpoints typically take about half a standard class period. So, 15 to 20 minutes with maybe two or three skills on a checkpoint at a time, but a lot of times it's one or two. And each skill is entered as its own grade in Infinite Campus so that not only teachers, but students and parents can see exactly what skills their students need more work on and what skills they've already mastered. Um which is totally different than what it used to be where you took a test at the end of the chapter and you got an 80% on

021chapter three, but no one would knows what that means. Like, what skill did they learn in chapter three? I have no idea. But now when a parent for algebra one in the high school looks at Infinite Campus, they can see exactly what that skill is that their student was working on and how they're doing on it. Um so, it's a little bit laborious in terms of grading, but it it's been worth it so far. And we don't grade on a a traditional scale anymore. Their skills are given grades from zero to five. Um and again, it kind of translates into their grade that they get on the end of course test, too. And but we do convert that into Infinite Campus, like 70%, 80%, depending on what mastery level they've shown us. Um we don't

022put a grade in until we've had two chances, and then the third chance, all the pressure's off. Their grade can only go up from there. If they do worse on the third one, we don't count it against them. Um and then our final checkpoints at the end of a traditional chapter are where we can actually add in the standards for the particular unit that we're working on. Um and then we can translate that back into the skills that they've been working on. So, this really was a change in mindset, not only for us, but for the students as well. Um what I think some people don't realize is that students that are in algebra one in high school at West Geauga, um traditionally have felt defeated already because they see their classmates being told that

023they're accelerated in math. And when you're in algebra one at the high school, you have not been told that. So, we have a cohort that comes to us not loving our subject most of the time. And this was one way that we could really say, "Hey, you're good at math. Watch this. Like, you might not get it on the first try, but by the second or the try, when you see a 10% or 20% improvement, kids get it. They're like, oh, first try, yeah, I stunk at it, but the second try, I kind of know what I'm doing, and by the third try, I can actually do the whole thing. So, it's kind of nice to see them like realize, oh, it's not a one and done anymore. We don't have to do it on

024one test. Um, we used to try to do test corrections. We used to try to have requirements to do test corrections, and that was really frustrating trying to get kids to take advantage of that, um, and finding the time to do retakes and individual one-on-one help with that was very cumbersome, um, but now our retakes are built in. Everybody takes a retake on every skill. Uh, so if they're having a bad day, okay, you've got one or two more chances to have a better day next time. Uh, and it it really takes all the pressure off, I think, for the kids as they realize that they they have a second or third chance. Um, and as Ryan once said, and this this was what really resonated with us early, who cares when they get it

025as long as they get it. So, if they don't get it the first try, but they can do it by the third one, that's what we're interested in. Um, so that that has been a huge mind- mindset shift for for us, both teachers and students. Um, so you're probably wondering, all this talk, show us why it's working. So, if Ryan Spasser here, he this is where he'd be embarrassed because he is not the like sparkly, let's have fun type person, and he got so annoyed with me with this next slide cuz I had to put fireworks in. But, there's some fireworks in the background, but these are this is the trajectory of our scores over the last several years. Um, so, if you notice the average end-of-course test score, the passing is 700. So, it's

026not like we were doing horrible before, uh, but we realized a little downturn from 2019 into 2020, and we we're really trying to rack our brains like why is this happening? Obviously 2020 had something to do with it, but what can we do to turn this back around? And we kind of did a a test run of this in 2003 and then the last 2 years we've really been full out let's go for it and you can see what it's done for our overall average score. Um but the part that we're more proud of really is it's working for everyone. It's it's not just your motivated kids who want to be in our Algebra 1 classes. >> [laughter] >> Maybe two or three kids. It's everybody, right? It's it's kids that have struggled in the

027past. It's kids that are on 504s and IEPs. We're we're getting them to where they need to be and that's what's super exciting about it. So just wanted to share. >> Thank you. You're welcome. >> [applause] >> So when people ask, "What do your teachers do in the summer?" >> [laughter] >> Um exemplary teachers think about their content area and ways to push students uh to achieve um in different ways. And I think that one of the things that makes me the most proud of this staff is um they are constantly thinking of ways. It is very the most difficult thing a teacher can do, particularly high school guilty is charged, um is to up end the manner in which they have traditionally given instruction and um done assessment work. It is very difficult to

028stop, see flaws in the system, up end the way, and make something new and different and better for kids. And I have seen it done in several levels here. I've seen it done over several content areas, and Kathleen has certainly been a leader in this um in mathematics for us particularly at the high school level, but certainly um it it bears standing that she is making a name for herself across the um area um because uh um a person that we looked to uh years ago when Kathleen and I were working closely together when I was more in an academic world um to provide professional development for us and for West Geauga has um reached out to Kathleen in the hopes of understanding what is happening, and I think that's a quote, "What is happening

029at West Geauga Local Schools?" So, she is garnering attention, our student achievement is garnering attention, but um what makes me particularly proud is the hard work outside of the classroom that went in for this particular change that is serving our kids, and that is something that she should be very proud of, and Brian should be very proud of, and I am on their behalf, so we're grateful. Nice job. >> [applause] >> Well, Samantha, we're ready. All right. Okay. So, I'm sure she's bringing them in. Oh. Oh, right on cue. I know, right? Right, yeah. I can try to stall. Who are we ready Okay. Hey guys. All right. I'll clear Dan out. You guys come with Yeah, why don't you guys go on up? Oh my gosh, they just keep on coming. Just brought the

030whole crew. So, today if we would have had if we would have done that All right. So, I have the pleasure of having some of our wonderfully talented Lindsay students here tonight to do a little bit kind of a mini show of Nursery Crimes. So, Nursery Crimes was the fifth grade musical this year at Lindsay and I know some of you had the chance to attend and everybody was like just wait till you see it just wait till you see it and yeah, just wait till you see it. It is it was incredible. Um I was like beaming with joy. I even got like a little teary. There's my emotional mom side of how proud I am and how truly talented the students are at Lindsay. Not only um are they just academically talented, but

031they have all these other talents um that I truly didn't know was in some of them. Um so, it was an amazing experience. We had so many fifth graders participate. Um three sold out shows. I mean like packed by rearranging chairs. Someone could take my chair. Um no central office. Everyone has to come to the daytime show because we don't have any tickets. Um because it was a huge production. Um we were featured in you know, various newspapers and so we are just so proud of all of our students and just when I thought I was getting the songs out of my head, they're going to come back cuz the kids around Lindsay were singing them for days and days and days on end and so it's really just such an amazing production. Um not

032only were really proud of the kids. It's a true community effort. I think I didn't really realize um and I've been so gracious to realize how amazing the West G community is, but when you see the musical and you look at the parents and the teachers and the staff and the way that they all coming together to put this on for our students, it's incredible. So, thank you to everybody who was involved and thank you to Mr. Rich and Mrs. Milner and Mrs. Brundage for all the work that you and Mrs. Harrison for all the work you guys do to help prepare kids and give them this amazing experience. So, I know that Mr. Rich would like them to introduce themselves as well as their character that they played. So, I'm going to let them

033do that. So, we took our 2-hour show that we wrote and we brought it down to about 12 minutes here. So, these are some of our main characters. So, they're going to introduce themselves, tell us their character, and then we'll give you a little 10- to 12-minute show. I'm Suzy Creamcheese and I play the character of Jill. Um so, I'm going to be Alan and I'm Goldie Locks. I'm Xander Milner and I'm Jack. I'm Henry Nickolay I'm Simple Simon and I'm the police officer. I'm Bo Wharkin and I'm Fearless Piper, the police officer. Um I'm Quigley Quagmire and I'm Chief Wiggum, the chief. I'm Milhouse Van Houten and I'm Maggie Simpson. I'm Milhouse Van Houten and I'm the big bad wolf or Benjamin. I'm Lenny Leonard and I'm Little Red Riding Hood. I'm Milhouse Van

034Houten and I'm Humpty Dumpty. I'm Little Red Riding Hood. I'm Giant or Pixie Dust Small on behalf of our Little Red Riding Hood. We're presenting a a presentation of our play. It's a Limerick followed by a nursery rhyme. Who's on first to which drink your cider? By Rhineland's intrepid police detective. And if crimes are unsolved by the snappy collector turn to Mary Contrary, our courageous detective. We rely on these characters to protect our fair town from devious villains and keep them down. >> [music] >> Rhineland, Rhineland, [singing and music] we welcome you to Rhineland. We Rhineland >> [music] >> Good morning to the >> [music] >> Good morning to the sun and to all the pretty >> [music] >> things I love everyone. >> [music] >> I still believe >> [music] >> that you could

035be >> [singing] >> anything if you're wild and free. I >> [music] >> had a dream that you could be anything. >> [music] >> Just follow >> [singing] >> me. Rhymeland, [music and singing] Rhymeland, we welcome you to Rhymeland. Rhymeland, we [music and singing] welcome you to Rhymeland, we welcome you to Rhymeland. We hope you'll sing along. >> [applause] >> Did you hear old MacDonald is very sick? I know, that's horrible. What will we do? Oh, don't worry. American fairies are on it. That is precisely why we need to tail Mary and well, see if she can find MacDonald's stuff with her so she can. Imagine how our reputation will be restored when you find the farmer's things. But, won't she want us following her around? No, we'll just slime stealthily like a fox. But,

036how will we keep up our cover? Just look like you're you're moving along. >> [music] >> Up, up, up, up, up, up, >> [music] >> moving along. Up, up, up, moving along. We're only friends and there's no use for us. >> [music] [singing] [music] [singing] [music and singing] [singing] [applause] >> My sister Jill said she saw something with four legs creeping around the other night. It's just got to be the big bad wolf. Hurry, let's go tell the king's main man, Humpty Dumpty. Hey, you guys are just in time to see my new dance. >> My sister's dead. >> [applause] >> I don't think these men can help us. Can you two and Mary find the wolf and solve the case? Hey Dad, may I speak with you? Where were you, Mary? Just as she

037started moving around in her help. How do I admit anything you'll allege? She saw me running through the field and I'm getting quite good at it now. Oh, well. I can't be expected to address my carnival without thinking about some kind of distraction. Are your carnivores the same carnivores that have come? They really are. >> [music] >> To all [music and singing] these fatties, special soft ladies cheese, but just don't hold those [music] juicy legs, please [singing] give us more. Give us more those juicy legs. Yes, it's true. [music] We'll live with it. >> [singing] >> Sometimes we eat the ones that make me sick. Sometimes we hug. [music] Sometimes we club. But loving a little makes it [singing] just not enough. I like eggs [music] and I don't mind toes, >> [singing] >> but

038we all know we all love them most. To [music] all these [singing] fatties, special soft ladies cheese, but just don't hold those legs, please. Give us more. Give us more of [music and singing] those juicy legs. >> [applause] >> I told you what he did, Lola. Now we have proof. This is great. I knew it. What? You were the one who twisted the light bulb. No, I wasn't. Yes, you were. You're the one who wanted to do a wrestling match. Only because you were so convinced. I should have just listened to my gut instead of listening to something like you. Now a whole person's gone. Oh, Mr. Pickle Pepper's here because he has all the answers. Well then, why don't you tell us who did it? All right, you have no clue, as usual. Police,

039I'm the only one who has ideas on this team. Enough, you two. Stop fighting. We need to find the thief, and quickly. We can't give up. I'm not giving up on this case, but I am giving up on you. >> [bell] >> Say something, I'm giving up on Now we are home, but I'm not Anytime I Say something, I'm giving up >> [music] >> Say something, >> [music] >> I'm giving up on you. And I'm [music and singing] sorry, but I can't work with you. >> [music] >> Any crime [singing] I'll commit with you. Say something, [music and singing] I'm giving up on you. Say something, I'm giving >> [applause] >> Okay, what do we have here? Do you have it? Yes, it's right here. And it's not broken? No, it just got it fixed

040yesterday and we haven't been back up to the store since. Good. Okay, everything is here. I said. Are you sure? Then how long is the magic? I don't know. Well, it has to be quick cuz they're going to start wondering why I haven't had any pixie dust on me yet. Well, I can't wait to get out of the house now. These comfortable chairs, a cozy bed, and a huge kitchen are making my dreams come true. And now we can finally give the friend what he deserves. That would be good to know. I just want to be free. Our family used to be in charge and then I don't know what happened, but things are going to change. We are still friends. >> [music] >> I used to love my life, finally doing what I dreamed

041of as a [music] child. People are so good to me. I just wanted [music] to call on the stage. Remember the gift >> [music] >> that I stole from Anna and I discovered that it was fake. >> [singing] [music] [singing] [music] [music and singing] [music] [applause] >> Aha! Caught you red-handed. Of course she's red-handed. She stole my writing. She's They're the ones stealing parts of our nursery rhyme. I have something here right now. I'm sorry, Jack. It was stupid. Let me do our story. I forgive you. And also, you need more time to do other things. You're way more than just one story or one thing. We all are. Well, Mary, it seems like you solved the case. Maybe we can join forces. We'd be unstoppable with your talent. I'm not sure if you actually

042solved it, but let's do it. I'm happy on my own. Aw, come on. You're so bad. Yeah, I think we're growing up. Just like a field of beans. You said that we'd be unstoppable. >> [music] >> Just a rambling boy raising his voice [music] nursery story. I take my crown and >> [singing] >> pillow most everywhere. [music] >> [music] >> For our time, we are proud to [singing] fight. We go on and on and on [music] and on. Rhymeland waiting. Racing [music] through the crooked [singing] town. We're jumping like owls on the moon >> [singing] [music] >> Rhymeland people Standing strong [music and singing] and fast together. Finding our story shining through. >> [music] >> Don't stop [music and singing] believing. Hold on to that [singing] feeling. Rhymeland >> [music] >> people Don't [music and

043singing] stop believing. Hold on to that feeling. Rhymeland >> [music] >> people >> [singing] [music] >> Don't stop. >> [applause] >> I [music] still believe. Rhymeland people >> [music and singing] [music and singing] [music] [singing] [music] [applause] >> Thank you very much. They only practice this one time, so pretty impressive. And they memorized it too. I don't know how they did it. Thank you for indulging us and thank you for all your support as always. We'd love to get a picture kids if you come up this way. We'll get a picture of everybody. And obviously I just wanted to say Dan, how many children participated? >> We had around 80 kids this year just 5th graders. So Oh my gosh. How wonderful. >> [clears throat] >> Look at Mrs. Frank. >> All right, look up

044here everybody. 1 2 3. Stay there let any parents get shots if they want. One more, huh? All right, great job, guys. >> [applause] [laughter] >> Good job. Good job. I know, I was there. I was going to thank our parents because >> [laughter] >> if you weren't able to obviously, and what Dan didn't say is Dan wrote the play. Um, right? So. I'm sorry. Yeah, please get that right. So, and you've done the first time you did it was, remind me? >> 11 years ago at Westwood with second through fifth graders, and then we kind of rewrote it a little bit and turned it into something for the fifth graders this year. They did an incredible job, so we were very lucky. It was fabulous. Thank you so Thank you so much for being

045with us. We appreciate it. >> [laughter] >> Thanks. Thank you. Perfect. Okay. Uh, public remarks. Uh, Michael Kilroy, 9465 Marsh Hawk Run. That is a tough one to follow. They Oh, yeah. I can remember my daughter being in it. I was waiting for Dan to see how many years of fabulous performances and every year you say it can't get any better and it does. I just want to say the other day we had an opportunity I'm part of Kaluanui where Nancy came with her team to talk to us and and do some I'll call it a pep rally. She did a very good job of that and but that's her job to do that and we appreciated it. You know, it's it's very important for the district cuz we all do want to have a

046successful district. We just want to have checks and balances and do do things as best as possible as efficiently as possible. So, we appreciated that and I just want to say those efforts are not forgotten. I've been able to get a hold of Karen. She responds which is very nice and Scott wherever he is is thank you very much for being able to ask questions. Um it doesn't mean you have to agree and or whatever. Um but it's important for the district I guess to keep working on the communications at all levels. And probably needs to put out a note or a memo or something that says you only get one chance sometimes to make that impression and to try to um you know represent the district as best as possible. And I have had

047a situation unfortunately with a number of phone calls and emails that not a response just ignored and that's that's not right. That's not very professional. Say it's either not my area or relay to somebody else. Excuse me or I don't care to talk to you. That's all fine. But at least acknowledge that cuz you never can tell where it's coming from or why it's coming from and and we don't need to have you know, a bad attitude at a time when so many changes are happening for the good. And sometimes the only way to improve on things is to hear on things that need to be improved but uh as I said it was very nice for Nancy and her team to come forward and to to to us and to uh try to educate.

048There is much to be proud of and there's unfortunately some tough times ahead which will be different discussions at different times but it was a delight to see the the children again uh as I said I've been to far too many of those but they're all they're all fun and you never realize just how small they are till they actually come in because on stage they they look like professional performers and you never can tell when the bug gets gets uh you know the seed gets planted. Uh once upon a time my mother was a had the tap dancing. Mhm. And uh I'm going to date myself here but her teacher was somebody who used to come in and his name was Gene Kelly. So you never can tell just where and when it can

049happen. Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Gene Kelly started Wow. You you just don't know but anyway thank you again Nancy and for everybody who came to do to talk to us we appreciate it. There's always a time for improvement and uh hopefully you will get something out of the staff. You only get one shot to make a good impression. Thanks. Appreciate it. Thank you. And Michael [snorts] stole my thunder so I'll just say I won't I'll take Kiwanis out of my superintendent's report and just say thank you. Um Kiwanis was so welcoming and we're so appreciative and I know [clears throat] that members of my team have already had a follow-up meeting with um the president of Kiwanis so we're hoping that we can do lots of things um collegially alongside Kiwanis cuz they're such a wonderful support

050organization and we have some great ideas so that thank you goes right back at you Mr. Kilroy. Thanks so much for having us. We appreciate it. Thank you. And we have another that we had brought this in and she didn't get to sign in so I don't you'll have to give us your name and address. Carolee Sear. Yeah you can give it in the microphone so Karen can read it and read it. >> Carolee Sear, Karen. >> [laughter] >> 14686 Dora Drive, Newbury. Do you need my zip? Okay. Good evening. This is I Do you guys have entertainment every time for these cuz I'm going to come more often so tough tough act to follow. So I'm Newbury Township trustee. I just got elected in November. It's nice to meet you guys. You're kind of

051like many celebrities cuz I just see names and you know what I mean pictures on the websites. But I just wanted to see if I we can propose to get on the docket. The lease is expiring for the property the old school property. It's expiring this year and see we're hoping to get on your guys's docket or your next meeting. So I don't know how to do that. So I'm trying to propose if you guys can it could be a special meeting. We were hoping to kind of introduce ourselves and then discuss the next steps for the acquisition or whatever it may be just to kind of support whatever you guys are looking for from us. Get it ready to go and have something in your guys's hands when you need it. So That's it.

052Thanks so much. >> Thank you. >> Yeah, we'll get back to you. Thank you. >> [snorts] [clears throat] >> Routine items. Great. Resolution 501 to resolution to approve routine matters of the West Geauga Local School Board. So moved. Second. One thing as we look at that one, this is where our financials are located and one item of interest that I I sent out to the board earlier is the um reappraisal or the revision that First Energy is seeking for a number of properties in Geauga County and we are one of the largest hit. So as we look at those this is a revision that doesn't come through the county. It goes through the state. So it goes through the Department of Taxation. Right now it is a request. Um once they're requesting a change or

053evaluation with the Department of Taxation. I think it's $98 million of lowering valuation in Geauga County. And then that if that is not granted or something's not granted, then they'll go to the Board of Tax Appeals. And for us, that is approximately We have a delinquency of about $700,000. So, we're about $400,000 from our forecast cuz we had forecasted some delinquencies anyway. But, so it's about $700,000 for us. We're the largest in the in the county. But, Chagrin Falls is being hit, Berkshire, uh Kirtland, Cardinal. So, it's kind of going up that corridor there. Um but, we are um we we have an attorney that works with revisions, but we don't have any say in this one since we're not the party uh that they're requesting the the reappraisal from. So, it's Department of Taxation,

054and they take it at the state because it's a public utility. So. So, it's 700 just for us? Yeah. Yeah. So, 787, right? >> 787. 787. >> part of the Newbury property. The Newbury property is about 300 of it, and the rest is coming out of Russell. So, if it's granted, if the the revaluation granted or we would not receive that those funds anymore. So, what we're trying to decipher with the county, and the county doesn't have they have some records of a public utility, so they're trying to kind of distinguish what is past and what's really related to this appeal. So, they're trying to find that out. So, they're still digging on those cuz they don't get a lot of stuff from the Department of Taxation. It comes down. The decision will be coming

055down, and they'll make the adjustments to their property values, but that's it. So, public utilities have a unique um appeal process in that they don't have to pay for the full tax bill. So, that's why we were short this this year on our first um payment for tax year 2025. And so, when we did our forecast, we didn't know about it. No, we received it in Well, we didn't we didn't receive it until we started asking the question when we were short. So I called and said, "Why are we short $400,000?" And then the treasurer for Berkshire who used to work in the county auditor's was able to get the case number and some of that information. So she was able to track it down and then we were notified the county had received a

056letter from Department of Taxation in December. So >> In December they received it? It looks like the letter is dated December. Mhm. And so what we're, you know, at that point our tax budget was in process, you know, and already submitted to the to the county. Would've been nice, huh? Mhm. Um so now we have to When when is our next forecast due? Our next forecast isn't due until August. And we're going to we're going to do a budget update in May. So we have some other items that we're looking at from retirements and things. And then what we'll do is do a true up of the revenue just so from our standpoint, but the actual forecast next forecast isn't until August. Okay. Mhm. So just this is there's a grander thing happening here too,

057right? Like we have a little impact to this and just maybe as stewards of our you know, little piece that we could talk a little bit about it. So First Energy has property that they have power lines on or underground wires or whatever and that's what they owe tax on, right? >> Right. And so they pay based on the valuation of said property, right? And so they're asserting that their property value has gone down in the last 2 years or whatever. >> Correct. And is that and this is rhetorical, so you don't have to answer. Whose property value has gone down in the last 2 years, right? And so So I'm struggling with this in general like and I realize this isn't a question you can answer, but this is a First Energy First Energy

058who's doing all the power distribution, right? They're seeking tax relief against something that has appreciated, right? Well, I mean, I think when you look at lines and things like that, that those do depreciate in value at sometimes. >> and the personal property does, not the real property. And the real property is what's at in question here. Well. >> And so, and I and I don't believe that they're like, you know, there's not this isn't like part of a program to lower power rates or anything like that, right? So, and I'm again, another rhetorical question. And so, I guess when we think about this, right? Cuz this is having a direct impact on our, you know, on our, like, we're going to have to fill this gap. >> Right. So, if we if they are granted,

059right? If the if they do receive a reduction, this is a permanent reduction. It doesn't come back to us unless the in the property the public utilities increase in value just like your home would or something to that effect, but they would receive a a relief of taxes. Did they get Did they experience the same increases that like we did on our Not to the same extent, no. >> they want to have a decrease. Yeah. And this doesn't just impact the schools. This impacts the county. Anyone who's receiving a >> So, that's really I mean, the taxpayers eventually will Right. have to absorb this. W- without, you know, any anything on the power side. It just seems like it should have been shared sooner. That part is a little frustrating to me. Well, it we

060would have made an adjustment in our We could have made an adjustment in the tax budget hearing at that time cuz we had new information, you know, cuz that would be something significant for us. And well, and the taxpayer should know. Well, we'll need to, you know, we've submitted not only this year's, we submitted next year's tax budget already. So, we were short this year, and so next year we're even, you know, we don't have that amount as well. So, we would have made that correction, but we have a I mean, we talked about um working with the tax um budget commission to talk when we have the new uh rates coming from House Bill 186 as well. So, we want to look at those and see if they have that information. We have not

061received that yet, but um we'll hopefully get that soon. Okay. May I ask you a question? >> getting a a ruling from the state on this revision? Um I have David Seed. He's He's following up to let me know kind of what I said, I need to know the process. I don't understand the process. So, he was uh he's able to He was looking into it and he would tell me he'd give me a call later this weekend. Okay. >> just think that hopefully you get it before the May uh update that you get Yes. So, that would be nice. So, I don't know how long it takes, you know, it was filed in December, so they already have, you know, 3 or more months under their belt, so we'll see. Where did you say

062it is currently? It's with the tax commission, the state tax commission. >> commission. first. And then if they don't get the reduction they're seeking, then it would go to the Board of Tax Appeals, and that's also at the state. So, this is for the whole state, and 98 million is for just Tioga? It's 98 million was filed. Yeah, for the whole state, so. Okay. So, we'll see. It's a It's a lot of money. Well, and the fact that, you know, when they file the appeal, they they can take that reduction right off their their bill. So, we don't And that's a for the reason that we, you know, if we got it and spent it, we would have, you know, we wouldn't be able to to return it. So, that's why they take that off.

063Sure. Okay. Thanks for the update. Yeah. Right. Any further discussion? I'm sorry. When does that go back to? When are they asking it? >> That's only for tax year 25. Okay. Mhm. Any other discussion? Call the roll, please. Mrs. Claypole? Yes. Ms. Loveworth? Yes. Ms. Naylor? Yes. Mr. Vidmar? Yes. Dr. Beers? Yes. Financial resolution 111 to approve the warrants for March 2026. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Call the roll please. Ms. Loveworth? Yes. Ms. Naylor? Yes. Mr. Vidmar? Yes. Dr. Beers? >> Yes. Mrs. Claypole? Yes. Resolution 112 to accept donations as listed. I move. Second. Is there any discussion? Call the roll please. Ms. Naylor? Yes. Mr. Vidmar? Yes. Dr. Beers? Yes. Mrs. Claypole? >> Yes. Ms. Loveworth? Yes. Dr. Benincasa? >> [clears throat] >> Resolution 113 is a resolution to approve a substitute administrator

064for the 25-26 school year. So moved. Second. So this is for the >> Any the remaining of the remainder of the school year? Uh yes. Any further discussion? Call the roll please. Mr. Vidmar? Yes. Dr. Beers? >> Yes. Mrs. Claypole? Yes. Ms. Loveworth? Yes. Ms. Naylor? Yes. Resolution 113A is a resolution to accept a resignation of a school psychologist. So moved. Second. Any discussion? What's building DW? Yeah. District wide? District wide? Yes. Thank you. >> [laughter] >> I was wondering that, too. We're I know the middle school. I know where the >> [laughter] >> We're We're starting a new building, DW. >> [laughter] >> That's start a rumor. Okay. Any further discussion? Call the roll, please. Dr. Beers. Yes. Mrs. Claypool. >> Yes. Ms. Ledworth. >> Yes. Ms. Naylor. Yes. Mr. Vidmar. Yes. Resolution 114

065is a resolution to approve certified stipend for work outside of the 25-26 contractual year. So moved. Second. Any discussion? I have a couple of questions here. Uh so, help me understand child find a little bit. I got I guess multi-part. Uh help me understand child find a little bit and then help me understand one that's going to be a jerky question and one that might be, you know, really uh generous, right? So, uh the jerky question is why why aren't these folks doing this in their day job? Sure. Uh this the the optimistic question is like do we need a person to be doing this, right? So, yeah, if you can walk me through those three things, that'd be awesome. So, some of this is um typically at the end of the school year, we

066have summer work that we need to do because it's impossible to do it within the confines of a PLC time, which is 30 minutes, give or take, um a couple times a week and it's just substantive in terms of the changes in curriculum or state standards or depending on a number of reason. So, we usually have uh a handful of staff members that we um work with to give them curriculum days of writing and sit with them and and to get the work done to get ready for the new school year. So, you see a little bit of that. Um the So, there are different reasons for different content. The test proctoring um is when we give AP, um typically a lot of school districts have people come from outside because it's um there's so

067many AP exams to give and there's extended time associated with advanced placement exams. And so, we do all of ours in-house, but for some of the extended time that we need to cover. So, this is that is uh for the proctoring, that is what the proctoring is covering and we're grateful for our own people to do it because we prefer our own people to that. So that's actually great news for us. And then for child find, um I'll throw that to Amy to talk with you about. Okay. Okay. And so that like I notice like up to 15 days. So it might be one, it might be a half a day, whatever. It might be 15 days. Whatever that takes is what it takes, right? Right now we have it scheduled for two. >> Sure.

068Very optimistically. Um but it just depends on what calls we get. >> Understood. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. And these are budgeted, right? I mean this is something you you budget every year. You know that so it's part of the >> We anticipate that some conglomeration of these things happening. And so often times and you'll start seeing this as we get towards summer up to so many days, not knowing how long the work will take. We want to do it quickly. And frankly, staff, you know, doesn't want to give up summer days either. So we try to do it as And you know what I would add, Mark, is that we don't plan we don't need evaluations to bleed into the summer, but parents can ask for an evaluation of their child anytime. >> Sure. Makes

069sense. Like the daycares could reach out and say hey I have a kid or something like that, right? Like the parents, okay. Through yeah, yeah, I'm sorry. But I think the daycares may point on one to you, right? Maybe? I don't know. Anyway. All right. Parents. Parents, got it. So do these tend to be uh elementary students or is all all levels? Okay. So that's what you're saying child find is is the assessment of of additional students that might have special needs? No? Okay. It's when somebody calls us and says, "I want my child tested for an evaluation." And so that starts our clock. Okay. >> must respond within 30 days, and then our team will get together and take a look at it. And that's for anybody who's in the West Geauga school district

070or the West Geauga Geauga boundaries. So it might not even be a student who's in our schools, but anybody who's in these boundaries we're required to >> Mhm. Oh, okay. Cool. Thank you. Any other discussion? No. Call the roll, please. Mrs. Claypoole? Yes. Ms. Leavenworth? >> Yes. Ms. Naylor? Yes. Mr. Vidmar? >> Yes. Dr. Beers? >> Yes. Resolution 115 is a resolution to accept a confidential administrative assistant staff right resignation. So move. Second. Any discussion? Call the roll, please. Ms. Leavenworth? Yes. Ms. Naylor? Yes. Mr. Vidmar? Yes. Dr. Beers? Yes. Mrs. Claypoole? Yes. And we love Jade and we're happy for Jade. Yeah. Resolution 116 is a resolution to approve classified staff appointments for the 2026-2027 school year. So move. Second. Any discussion? Call the roll, please. Ms. Naylor? Yes. Mr. Vidmar? Yes. Dr. Beers?

071Yes. Mrs. Claypoole? Yes. Ms. Leavenworth? Yes. Resolution 117 is a resolution to approve the rehire of classified staff for the 2026-2027 school year. So move. Second. Any discussion? Call the roll, please. Mr. Vidmar? Yes. Dr. Beers? >> Yes. Mrs. Claypool? Yes. Ms. Leavenworth? >> Yes. Ms. Naylor? Yes. Resolution 118 is a resolution to approve changes in classified staff contracts for the 25-26 school year. So moved. Second. Any discussion? So what's happening? So when I move from probationary to one year limited, what's happening? So each of these particular staff members, pardon me, in classified, you start on a probationary contract, so you have a certain number of days, 90 days, on a probationary contract. At any time, if it's not working out, it's not working out, and then we go from that to a one year

072limited contract, and from that you can get a multiple year contract >> as as it moves forward in the process. Thank you. So what's the one year then? From It's a these they have effective dates one year from >> From that. Okay. That from that date. That's right. >> Why are they off? Because they're hired at different at different points in time. >> Okay. Any further discussion? Call the roll, please. Dr. Beers? Yes. Mrs. Claypool? >> Yes. Ms. Leavenworth? >> Yes. Ms. Naylor? Yes. >> Mr. Vidmar? Yes. And Mrs. Naylor, just to better answer your question, these are contractually bound, so this is a part of that contractual agreement with Oopsy, and all of this is spelled out in that, so we follow that process. Okay. Yeah, thank you. >> Sure. Resolution 119 is a

073resolution to approve paid days outside of contractual days. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Call the roll, please. Mrs. Claypool? Yes. Ms. Leavenworth? >> Yes. Ms. Naylor? Yes. Mr. Vidmar? Yes. Dr. Beers? Yes. Resolution 120 is a resolution to approve supplemental contracts for the 25-26 school year. So moved. Second. Any discussion? It's a bargain at twice the price. >> [laughter] >> This is the This is the folks going overnight with eighth graders to Washington D.C. >> [laughter] >> Certainly not money enough perhaps, but we are glad to do it. Yes. I was just there >> [laughter] >> and I mean seeing the groups of students going through the buildings and everything. Quite something for sure. >> is. It's why I can remember I can only remember when I was an [laughter] eighth grader. >> [snorts] >>

074Any other discussion? I think that was before I was on the board officially, so is there somewhere back in the minutes the presentation of the agenda? Yes. Yes. >> So just look. Does anybody have a Yes, Ms. Kasorek. Is there a Do you have an agenda for the Washington D.C. trip? We do. I don't have it with me. That's okay. Would you share it with the board members? Sure. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, some of these things I'm coming in late on but just just because I'm interested to to see. They are busy. Yeah, it's usually the agenda is unbelievable. >> and you're going. Yeah. Yeah. No. >> [laughter] >> You're going to be tired and then you're going to stay in that room. >> [laughter] >> That's right. That's right. I I had a meeting

075at the Department of Agriculture. I walked across the mall and down. I couldn't believe the number of buses that were there. I mean they couldn't even get down past the museums. It was just bumper to bumper buses. We'll make sure that the board has a copy of the agenda. Okay. Any other discussion? Call the roll, please. Ms. Lamorte? Yes. Ms. Naylor? Yes. Mr. Bidmar? Yes. Dr. Beers? Yes. Mrs. Claypole? Yes. Resolution 121 is a resolution to approve 2026 summer programming statements. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Call the roll, please. >> I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I

076I I I I I I I >> that others may. What is ESY? ESY stands for extended school year. Okay. Um and we offer that to students um that uh we hope to make gains to get ready for the next school year based in um achievement over the course of the year. So, that is something that the that the district works with families to determine and as um an IEP team decision. So, checkpoint four and five, basically. Yeah. Mhm. Yes. And then summer school is good old-fashioned summer school. Yes. And if you are taking credits and you want to be earning credits in the summer, um we have content area specialists that work with children because this is typically an online venture. So, we have our own staff members that check in with students and

077help them as they move through content. Great. So, what we got in board update about assessing the summer needs, then this is a staff to fill it. Yes. Okay. Yes. Any further discussion? Call the roll, please. Ms. Naylor? Yes. Mr. Bidmar? Yes. Dr. Beers? >> Yes. Mrs. Claypole? Yes. Ms. Lamorte? Yes. Resolution 122 is a resolution to approve service contracts, pardon me, for the 25-26 school year. So moved. Second. Any discussion? I I was just wondering what the difference is between people that are paid and the a volunteer. Um in terms of I know. >> [laughter] >> VERY GOOD. THE THREE ARE SOME teachers or something? Some are parents. Some are parents. Okay. And and some are teachers and some are classified staff. So each of them are on a different pool of people. Yes.

078The volunteers are all parents who are volunteers. Yes. Yeah. Thank you. Bless their hearts. >> Any further discussion? Call the roll, please. Mr. Vidmar? Yes. Dr. Beers? Yes. Mrs. Claypole? Yes. Ms. Loveworth? Yes. Ms. Naylor? Yes. Resolution 123 is a resolution to accept the non-renewal of all 25 26 long-term substitute contracts. So move. Second. Any discussion? Yeah, I had a question. Mr. Chaffee apparently has been in science long-term. Yes. If there's a role, he will fill it. No, I'm kidding. Yes, he has helped us that way this school year and then he he's helping in the administrative seat as well. >> going to be the assistant principal. Yes. Or is he doing both at the same time? No, he is not doing both at the same time. I believe he did one and now he's

079doing the other. Okay. Any further discussion? Call the roll, please. Dr. Beers? Yes. Mrs. Claypole? Yes. Ms. Loveworth? Yes. Ms. Naylor? Yes. Mr. Vidmar? Yes. Resolution 124 is a resolution to accept the non-renewal of all 25 26 supplemental and service contracts. So move. Second. Any discussion? And that's just a closing mo- motion cuz we don't have any services or anything. >> as a way to tidy up um every every one of these service contracts is a one-year contract, and so we just uh the board commemorates that, and then we will notify those staff members, too. And it's in their contract. >> Mhm. Any further discussion? Call the roll, please. Mrs. Claypoole? Yes. Ms. Leavenworth? Yes. Ms. Naylor? Yes. Mr. Bidmar? Yes. Dr. Beers? Yes. Resolution 125 is a resolution to approve student teaching placements and

080agreements for the 2026-2027 school year. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Um Nancy, would you Is it just Can you just do a quick like do we take them from This is just Hiram College. These are Hiram College placements, but we taken placements from John Carroll to Baldwin Wallace. Sometimes um the student teacher themselves request West Geauga because they're close in proximity, or they have a desire to be with us, and um we try to be measured about how many we take on. Um these are, you know, two will happen in the spring and two in the fall, and so >> different grade levels? Yes. >> Okay. >> Yeah. We've We've taken them in all content areas, grade levels. Um it's a great way for us to meet um prospective young people coming into the field.

081Um and obviously, we have a very talented pool of teachers um where they can learn a lot, so it's it's a good partnership typically for us. >> Does it Do you feel like on the balance it's advantage for us as well? Like obviously, it's a great thing to train future teachers in the things you said, but I think our teachers are very kind, and they're always willing. I have found them to always be willing to take a student teacher on. It's actually a lot of work if you're a general education teacher, but I do think it's a way to give back, and I think, you know, most of our history staff are wonderful, and they're so strong, and they have such knowledge bank that they they are typically very happy to move along if I

082throw it out there and just ask if there's interest. We typically hear back from folks, yes, I'm happy to do that. >> in the contract, you know, you're not allowed to like pay a teacher, you know, or at least Hiram's not allowed to or something. >> Yeah, they'll receive a stipend only and it covers approximately one zillionth of the time that they will expend working with the teacher, but there's there's a very tiny stipend that the teacher will get in hosting, but it's nominal in terms of the time spent. >> that's a great Yeah, great thing for them to offer to do. We're I'm always happy when our staff are willing to do it. It's it is really a way to give back to the profession and I have found our staff always very willing

083and and happy to do so, so. Any further discussion? Call the roll, please. Mrs. Claypole? Yes. Miss Lavoyn? Yes. Miss Naylor? Yes. >> Mr. Bidmar? >> Yes. Dr. Beers? >> Yes. Resolution 126 is a resolution to approve a senior project student placement. So, this young lady is coming to us from Mentor High School and interested in a career of education. So, she'll spend some of her senior project with teachers at Westwood and at Lindsay. So, moved. Second. Any discussion? Call the roll, please. Miss Lavoyn? Yes. Miss Naylor? Yes. Mr. Bidmar? Yes. Dr. Beers? >> Yes. Mrs. Claypole? >> Yes. Resolution 127 is a resolution to approve unpaid days. So, moved. Second. Any discussion? Call the roll, please. Miss Naylor? Yes. Mr. Bidmar? Yes. Dr. Beers? >> Yes. Mrs. Claypole? Yes. Miss Lavoyn? Yes. Resolution 128

084is a resolution to approve the purchase of 400 Acer Chromebooks. So moved. Second. Any discussion? I'm on the proposal. This is the It says yearly fifth and ninth grade and the students have them for four years. So this is just the regular cycle of things. >> That's regular cycle. That's correct. Thank you. And then that to exceed is 131, but I think it was like 82. Or or no, that was the laptops that we're talking about. Yeah, that's the laptops. >> is what? Okay, I got you. Yeah, this is the uh The Chromebooks, I'm sorry. >> I noticed a couple of the bids had 390 and this one had 400. Is Yeah, it when we look at all that pricing, we look at gigs also. And some of the higher priced ones were what they

085had in stock, what they gave you versus Oh. Yeah, so we can take either one. Mhm. [clears throat] We can our the one we picked the 104 4 gigs in the storage is perfectly fine for our needs at this point. Okay. >> does depend on what they have in stock. This year was very erratic Mhm. the process of getting everything trying to find like as close, but this is a a group that Edutech and I we bought from or they bought from. We have it and this is a good a good device for our students. Mhm. I realized probably the best for this computer. Oh, good. I see these notes in the school newsletters all the time. [laughter] Any >> About charging your Chromebook. >> [laughter] >> Any further discussion? Call the roll, please. Mr.

086Bidmar? Yes. Dr. Beers? Yes. Mrs. Claypole? Yes. Ms. Leverworth? Yes. Ms. Naylor? Yes. Resolution 129 is a resolution to approve the purchase of 88 Lenovo laptops from CDW. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Those were also end of life, but I don't know how often that happens. For the staff. Mhm. Our goal this [clears throat] year is to continue to evaluate our fleet cuz we would like to push the bridges of our staff devices a little bit longer. The ones we purchased several years ago, we have a lot of hinge breaking, things that we can't We actually can't replace it. It's just pretty much done. So, we did a a little study on battery life, all the components, and ThinkPads have been the best. So, with the pool and the the past ones that we have,

087we want to be able to extend our our staff devices a little bit more. That's our goal. Okay. Thanks. Any further discussion? Call the roll, please. Dr. Beers. Yes. Mrs. Claypool. Yes. Ms. Lovemore. Yes. Ms. Naylor. Yes. >> Mr. Vidmar. Yes. Resolution 130 is a resolution to approve the purchase of a Destroit plow truck snow plow from Valley Truck Centers. So moved. Second. And this um It was a hard winter on everyone, um but in particular our snow plow truck, um we had and Karen can talk to us about the the one that we had we bought used and it's approximately how many years? It was bought early 2000s. So, um this is 20 I think We bought it used. Yes. So, it is 2,000 years old. >> [laughter] >> In the early 2000s. 2008.

088Not 2,000 years old, but No. No. >> [laughter] >> We bought it We bought it used before I got here. So, it's been at least a decade. And then I believe it's a 2005 or 2008. Okay. So, it's like 20 years old. Correct. It has a lot of miles. It has a lot of snow. It has a lot of salt is the real problem. And we do our own plowing and everything. I believe we bought it from the county. Do we buy it from the county? Yeah. Oh, that's right. I read that. Yeah. And this new? Yes. >> [snorts] >> And we do all the parking all our parking no contracts, right? Just just Arsenal plow. Okay, just checking on that. I think this was a This was on our list anyway. I mean this

089is not a surprise. We had planned this. Yes. It was put in our original plan. Mhm. Any further discussion? Call the roll, please. Mrs. Claypole? Yes. Ms. Leverworth? >> Yes. Ms. Staley? Yes. Mr. Vidmar? >> Yes. Dr. Beers? Yes. Resolution 131 is a resolution to approve the high school gym door replacement project proposal from Capital Aluminum and Glass. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Yeah, I need a pitch on this. And I'll tell you why, right? So uh So we have 167,000, you know, for the glass, right? And I know that we're getting together and I know we haven't talked about our retreat. We're talking a little bit about the strategic direction uh that our board and our district are taking. My preference would be to wait until we have some of those conversations before we

090do a large capital deployment for uh like this. And I know we I know this came up in the finance discussion. It's again, I'm sorry. I'm looking at this guy. Sorry. Uh you know the I think the discussion at that time was the if we do nothing, what do we do? We keep fixing the doors that keep breaking, right? Uh I think that that's a small task for a short amount of time until we can have some better direction uh from a strategic perspective. Uh so for me, uh you know, I we can continue to have some discussion, but I would make a I would uh forecast my motion to table this until uh the meeting at a minimum. Ms. calendar? >> Yeah, but like we haven't discussed this before I make a motion for

091I see his point, but I thought when we looked through it that it's actually a security as as you know, like keeping the building safe and locked. So, So, are we stuck there? I don't know. Yeah, I think we need to hear cuz that was be my question as well cuz I think if it's a safety / security issue. Yeah, that's what I That's what I >> That's my one thing cuz I also had the question cuz this wasn't in our plan, I don't think, right? >> That's correct. And that that makes me, you know, sort of like why not, you know what I mean? If if it's that big of a deal. The incident we got was there was a group of kids that got into the school on a Sunday to play basketball.

092Um, the doors were actually unlocked, but that's because of the uh, alarm swipe card and it's also because when the power goes off the mag locks unlock. The doors open because that that particular door or set of doors you can't lock. We have to come in and chain them closed. So, um, when I replace doors I use strike electronic strikes Mhm. so that eliminates that problem. The the door is always locked and you need power to unlock the door. The other problem we have with those doors is they then need to be replaced in the past 8 years. They We about every 3 or 4 months we have to resecure the door pull to the ground because they're worn out. So, I mean, probably the next step will be plywood. Would be what? I'm sorry.

093Would be plywood to secure the door. That's about where they're at at this point. We can't adjust them anymore. The hinges are continuous hinges and they need adjustment to the point where there's no adjustment left on them. So And you have to replace the whole wall. You can't replace just the doors. Because the whole glass wall is integral to the door frame. So when this you said every 3 to 4 months you have to reset it, whatever you said. Is that and then they don't stay locked if you don't? >> Correct. And At that point it's easy for the kids to pull on the door or anybody. It doesn't matter if it's a kid or an adult. You can easily pull on the door and open the door because they're not secure. So the whole

094wall moves. So So So do you check every I mean cuz you know, I'm I'm thinking more about I don't you know, the kids coming in and playing basketball. Okay, you know, that's something. I'm more worried about uh somebody we don't know If we check >> coming into the school Exactly. un- unannounced, un- unwanted. Usually it's it's discovered by a multitude of ways, either like I do a building round or custodians find it or they can't lock the door. Then I get a phone call at 11:00 at night, what do I do? Same with the other Um or the head custodian finds it or Brandon will find it cuz he'll be locked out or a coach because that's the way all the coaches and the athletes the AD Everybody goes out that door because there's

095a key pad on it so they're wanting to be at the athletic center. So that door gets used a lot. So Why Why wasn't it in our plan then? I mean if it's been bad for 8 years and did we miss it? Did we No, it's it's one of those things that you You it's a an expensive door. Yeah. So, we just kind of pushed it off, pushed it off. And it's got to the point where everybody had a 5-year plan or what for replacement that's in its ninth year. >> [snorts] >> So, it's just got pushed off. It's It's I had planned on replacing some of the doors, like the weight room door and the locker room door. There's a couple other doors I plan on replacing that are not $120,000, $130,000. But the

096gym door this last time we we took us >> [clears throat] >> I don't know. I think I got a phone call like three weeks in a row, well, two or three times in the middle of the week where the door was not working. The door didn't last. And then the door mechanism is just it's just gone. The lock the system came parts don't work right. So. And what's the lead time on does these doors when you know, the whole I know it's probably special, right? Cuz it's Right now, it's um the last time I talked to Capital it's possible they're looking for some building work. They got jobs going. It's possible July is is what they're talking about, but that may change. Right. >> There's been a couple times that I've been able to

097replace doors where they found another job to replace windows in another school. They run into an asbestos problem. They need someplace to send their crew. They come over here and put doors in. There's about a week Yeah. time frame. It would be a little different than what we did the last time. Typically. So, it's not just the doors. It's the whole It's the whole wall. Yeah. Mhm. Similar to the middle school when we replaced the middle school doors. Yeah. It's It's the whole window, the whole wall. Yeah. Anything else I can The whole entrance. Yeah. I get Mark's point. You know, we're having a retreat this weekend, which is in part to come up with a strategy, which would include capital, of course, and but on the other hand, are we going to come out

098of that with the same conclusion that we should replace the doors? And and perhaps, right? And but I I think in and that's kind of the point, right? I'm not saying like this is not something we should do. I just we have a pool of capital that we can employ, right? And there's seemingly no more, right? And so, we need to be judicious in our approach, right? Maybe plywood's the answer, I don't know, right? And that's silly, right? But, you know, and but you know what I'm saying? I'm The point I'm trying to make is that we need to think about uh the capstone of our district's facilities. We only have X amount of dollars, right? As we pick these off. And And I like So, my kids go in and out of those doors

099every day. You know, they're doing workouts and basketball and the whole thing. I've also seen the doors locked and them trying to get in, like they do work, right? I mean, to some you know, not And I realize they can be beat, it sounds like, right? But, I often see three or four kids doing the you know, pull, knock, stare at the door, right? Like I mean, it it is like you know, Yeah. So, like I I don't know I don't know that like So, I guess from is this emergence? In my In my eyes? >> Yeah. Okay. Because it's a security breach. It's the most used built section of any building we have. Um I have a hard enough time getting coaches to remember to lock the doors. I don't need you know, phone

100calls at 10:00 or 11:00 at night. What do I do? I can't lock the door. Sometimes I've had to call the maintenance crew in. Mhm. And it's it's simply because the doors are worn out. So, I mean, it's up to you guys. Your choice. Well, I did look at them and they don't look so good. I wasn't impressed. >> Couple questions for you, Mark. You said you had some other doors that you were planning to replace. Uh have they been replaced yet? Can Can we think about this as a you were going to replace door A, but door C is more important, so therefore I will delay door A and take that money and slide it over into door C. And what's behind door D? Oh, never mind. Well, you're just funny, aren't you? >>

101I'm a game show. There's like one or two doors. I think there's only one door at Westwood that needs to be replaced. There's two or three doors at Lindsy. One of them is the front door. This is another big expense. Um the high school has one There's like three three other doors other than what we're talking about tonight that need to be replaced. My plan was to try to do like three or four of those less expensive doors to try to get the high school gym to be the last major door to replace. And it's it's It's had its It's had its had its limit, so to speak. Okay, my other question is thank you for providing us a drawing to where the door is at. And my question is what are these other two

102red circles on here? That's the the weight room hallway door. And the locker room door. Okay, so those are other doors that >> Those are two other doors on the short list. No, those are two doors that are included in the So this this 167,000 really covers three doors. Well, actually four doors. >> Four. Four doors. It's like the inside doors at front entrance. Okay. So it's not just the front door that that you've been primarily talking about. You've got some other doors that are included in this whole package as well. Yeah. Okay. These other doors are steel doors, right? I mean Taking all the mag lock doors out of the system and the automatic cycle so I can put electronic latches in so they can use swipe cards to get in the building and

103that kind of stuff. It's it's The gym entrance is security and aids. The locker room door is a security thing. It's the least expensive, but the weight room door is a it's Here's the reason why I don't like that door. The the the hardware on the door doesn't work and you get locked out sometimes and it just Can you get locked in? No. Oh, well that's good. >> Just locked out. >> [laughter] >> I think it'd be good to get locked in. You'll be bought. That's not We'll just lock you in and you'll be here to fix all the doors. >> [laughter] [snorts] >> So Any is any more discussion? So so with that that would for the high school this would this would cure all of the perimeter door problems? There's there's a there's

104There's one door on the south side of the building. Um in the southwest corner. There's one door there that needs to be replaced. And there's um There's is entrance door going out by the band room. But that door doesn't get much use. Yeah, that partly because Jason has that door going out of his classroom. And he uses that a lot. So. Well, right now, I think because we are in the midst of planning and for the future that I know me, I'm most interested in whether it's a security issue. >> Yes. Okay, that's that's >> Sure. that's my concern because I don't want to be the one where we have a breach and it's because we had a door that was broken and we knew it. You know what I mean? So, so I'm concerned

105about those. I mean, the other doors are fine, I guess. I don't I don't really know which ones you're talking about, but what is just the door that we're talking about, the the main door? It What how much is that of this cost? I think it's like 140, I think. Oh, so it's most of it. It's It's the largest part. >> thing we haven't talked about at all is that these doors are going to have openers on them. So, they'll have ADA openers on one set of the doors. Which we have none in the entire building. Mhm. So. Well, I think Yeah, thank you for I think any other questions? Yeah, one other question. So, we have one quote from Capital. Do we have any other quotes for this work? So, this is a consortium

106price. So, what they do is like it's through House Bill Council. They'll go out, do the bid for us. So, and then we will take advantage and piggyback on that, same way we do the bus bids. Okay. Well, but haven't we experienced where we find better price in the market? It depends. We did Capital. We used Capital before. They did all the middle school and they did the high school when the door fell off the high school. Um they are typically the only bidder. Okay. We might have one bidder that may come out, but the last two bids they've been the only bidder. Okay. Okay. Any other discussion? Any questions? Call the roll. Ms. Livermore? Yes. Ms. Naylor? Yes. Mr. Vidmar? No. Dr. Beers? Yes. Mrs. Claypole? Yes. Resolution 132 is a resolution to approve

107the independent contractor district agreement between Empire Academy and West Geauga Local Schools for the 25-26 school year. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Call the roll, please. Ms. Naylor? Yes. Mr. Vidmar? Yes. Dr. Beers? >> Yes. Mrs. Claypole? Yes. Ms. Livermore? >> Yes. Resolution 133 is a resolution to approve the independent contractor district agreement between Thrive Early Learning Center and West Geauga Schools for the 25-26 school year. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Call the roll, please. Mr. Vidmar? Yes. Dr. Beers? Yes. Mrs. Claypole? Yes. Ms. Livermore? >> Yes. Ms. Naylor? Yes. Resolution 134 is a resolution to approve the independent contractor district agreement between Thrive Early Learning Center and West G Schools for the 26-27 school year. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Call the roll, please. Dr. Beers? Yes. Mrs. Claypole? Yes. Ms. Livermore? Yes. Ms.

108Naylor? Yes. Mr. Vidmar? Yes. Resolution 135 is a resolution to approve the addendum to the 24-26 Alliance School District Service Agreement between West G Schools and the ESC of the Western Reserve. So moved. Second. Call the Oh, wait. Any discussion? Is this is the addendum just a change in the cost? The other the contract is the same. There's >> Yeah. So, we have an addendum where we list out all the services. So, this is a new service. So, we had to amend that overall contract that we have. We have a 2-year contract with the ESC. And then after this in the next resolution is approving the cost to that contract. Okay. So, we're just kind of allowing the contract to be, you know, added to the list. And then the second one is Okay. It's

109It's the cost and how we pay it and everything. I was wondering if they were connected. Okay. >> Yeah. And one requires the board approval and one doesn't. So, we put them all together. Okay. Okay. Any further discussion? Call the roll, please. Mrs. Claypoole? Yes. Ms. Loveworth? >> Yes. Ms. Taylor? Yes. Mr. Vidmar? Yes. Dr. Beers? Yes. Resolution 136 is a resolution to approve the payment agreement for services between Crossroads Health and West Geauga School District for the 2025-2026 school year. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Call the roll, please. Ms. Loveworth? Yes. Ms. Taylor? Yes. Mr. Vidmar? Yes. Dr. Beers? Yes. Mrs. Claypoole? Yes. Resolution 137 is a resolution to approve a receptionist internship job description. And if you second it, I'll tell you a little bit more about it. >> So moved. Second. Um

110We have some great people working for us, as you well know, cuz you've hired them, but um this one is particularly special to me. Um and this is the machinations of Amy's brain. And so, I want Amy to tell us about it. Um but it really is through um the relationship that Amy has cultivated with um Two and Company to best serve our students. And I think um it's a tribute to her and her work. And I think it is so special. So, I want her to tell you about it. It's your idea. No, it wasn't. Amy Stoddard. Got it. Got the job description. So, we have a very um strong partnership with Two and Company um which you're involved in. Um a number of our students um have very successfully found um occupations and

111um just a wonderful life through their mentorships. So, um what we are hoping to do uh with your approval is create a position um at the board office and kind of this campus. It could include the middle school, too, where um we would hire um either a current student who's working at Two and Company or a former student, um maybe a recent grad, um who may need uh and benefit from an internship here with us. Um so, Two and Company um would come in um and do some training about creating a culture of belonging for um the student. They would do some job coaching um right here. And then we would um work to make sure that we would have meaningful tasks um and relationships and um mentorship. That's That's great. >> Any further discussion?

112So, is this like replacement for Diane? No, it would be um it would be temporary. No. Um this would be uh an internship for our students. Um Yeah. Okay. Um and it would it would not be forever. Um but we would hope that it would be for a decent amount of time, a flexible amount of time, in order to grow the skills that we like to see. So, that's good. That person could be working with any of us. >> [clears throat] >> So, while we utilize Two And Company for our students in job placements throughout Northeast Ohio in this area, um we thought in talking how ridiculous when we certainly could provide a professional placement for a student. And if we um were the beneficiaries of all of this great placements for our students that

113Two And Company have done, why shouldn't we also walk the walk and talk the talk? And this position in a part-time nature would fulfill that for West Geauga schools, and we would provide the professional placement and train our staff in providing a culture of belonging and developing job training on on the job here at WestG. So, is this this is for an ongoing position? >> It would be It could It would likely be part It's very part-time, um and it would likely be for a a period of time, and it would depend on the child and the student, the placement, and the skills and the development. So, it really isn't necessarily a compartmentalized timeframe. It would be based in need and working with Two And Company and the benefit you know, the beneficiary of the

114child and how But we're we're creating a spot for the internship. There's not It's not a person right now. This is the spot for the internship. But the hopes would be that we would keep this. So, then another >> That another student might be another student. That would be the hope of ours. >> ask. I was having a hard time getting it out. Sorry. And And it has to be the right fit, right? So, Two And Company and um our staff would work to make sure that it's the right fit and that we would be having this ongoing relationship as we, you know, I you know, I always say, um, as we provide an an environment for the child, but frankly, oftentimes the child is providing greater benefit to the placement where they are. So,

115what we are excited about the opportunity, and I think it's one that we are really proud to develop. Any further discussion? Call the roll, please. Ms. Stahler. Yes. Mr. Vidmar. Yes. Dr. Beers. >> Yes. Mrs. Claypool. >> Yes. Ms. Leavenworth. >> Yes. Great. And thank you to Amy. Um, for the superintendent report. So, should we Is there any Oh, pardon me. Yeah, is there any discussion of old business or suggestions to be included? >> have anything from the last meeting. Yeah, I So, for a future agenda item, so I It's It occurred to me while we were approving Crossroads and all all of our external, you know, support. I don't feel like I have a good idea of what we're what we're spending there. And so, I'd like to try to understand like who our

116vendors are a little bit more clearly, and what our expenses and how many students we're serving in that exercise. Certainly anonymized. I don't want to know about kids in, you know, like I like grade breakdown might be helpful, but enough, you know, width of grades, so I can't like pick out a family or something like You know what I mean? Do you understand kind of what I'm talking about? Like the spread of the people. So, I'm They're like Don't tell me eight third first graders cuz I might figure it out, right? You know, just if I can have a general idea if they're elementary or, you know, middle second or middle through high school or something like that. And then the groups that they belong to. Not that I'm saying anything individually is wrong with

117any one of these. I just don't have a good feel for It's kind of like in the sauce, right? In terms of budgeting from a budgeting perspective. So, I kind of like to understand what that is a little bit better, and I think, you know, it'd be good to talk about, too. I think there are two pieces that I think you that could be beneficial. Understanding the continuum and what gets us to the placement. >> Yeah. Um and a little bit about the background of the process because I think that is difficult to understand. We who have looked at over and over it seems like oh what? Um but I think an understanding of that and then I think there's a way to do it with generalizations to give you an idea of this is

118what it looks like at West G. Yeah. We can do that for sure. >> going to request that too cuz I said something to PM but I don't know if that was like you know, for a board agenda thing cuz I also know that you know, we had talked before about the cost of of trying you know, it seems logical do it in house but the cost and and you know, expensive using staff and everything to do to provide that service in and sort of so that we would understand the the whole the whole picture of that. Um cuz at this point we have you know, the the description you know, it seems like a lot of money for one student and like it just looks that way and I know there's a lot more

119to it than that. So I Yeah. I need that I need that information, you know, so that I also can you know, explain it or Absolutely. >> you know, not at your level but to just have a better than just the sort of dollar sign Absolutely. >> picture of it cuz I know it's much more um comprehensive than that and what goes into it. So I I I I agree I would appreciate that but whether it's that we meet with somebody to explain that or whether that's a board Sure. And I think it could be probably a combination of the two things. Honestly, Alan and maybe for next school board meeting in new business, I won't skip it uh next time but we'll do something that would be more talking of process and then we'll

120take a look at um the way that we might present some generalized, you know, 30,000 foot information so you can um, try understand it and then as we get more granular, um, we could individually meet with you, certainly. But I think for the benefit of everybody hearing the same thing, um, certainly the team is um, more than happy to uh, walk you through process and it is a process that's confusing and complicated often times so we we'd be happy to do that. >> Yeah, I think it's not It's not very well understood by anybody outside of you experts and it is our fastest growing expense. So I think it's worth, you know, we do an awesome job I think understanding the whole picture. >> Yeah, that's an commentary by the way. Yeah, I know. That's

121okay. I feel like we go 40 grand and I don't want to know the kids name. I don't know any need to know the scenario. I don't really need any of that, right? Well, but But you won't worry about that cuz you won't >> [laughter] >> But what I do but what I do need to understand is like, you know, is this the appropriate expe- like, you know, is this the is the logic being applied, right? Is and then there's this bucket of money, is this appropriate and then and that's okay and and I'm counting on you and team to explain that, right? You know. >> Yeah. And the legalities. I mean, there [snorts] are there are often times legalities and then best interest of child. I mean, that would be number one best interest.

122Legalities would be a close second, right? But I mean, there are there are pieces of the puzzle that you would have no way of knowing as um, somebody not in education. So we're happy to do that. And I think you need to include our what our obligations are, too. Mhm. That's a good one. I mean, you say we spend this money and and often times we don't have a choice. Yeah, that's totally fair. I mean, it doesn't matter. That's why I think it's important what we say we're going to do. It's got to be done. >> I should probably characterize that a little bit, too. Like I'm not saying like we have to spend it like it like I I want us to, you know, do what's right by these children, absolutely. It's got and

123you can have a pot of money there, but you know, when the state says that we've got to provide this, sure, we have to and we can't necessarily provide everything here because we don't have we either don't have the the skills to do it or um, it's it's less expensive Mhm. to do it elsewhere. >> And I think that that's but that's part of like I I as a I need to kind of feel comfortable that that's you know and I can they can certainly explain that to me, right? Like >> Sure, yeah. What I'm trying to say to you is that I mean whether I don't feel comfortable with spending X number of dollars for one student but we don't have the choice. >> I'm not saying that I'm not saying that that's the

124inappropriate thing to do at all. I'm not I'm not but I have no like No, I'm just saying it's not inappropriate or not. It's we don't have a choice. But I think that to understand to understand the why behind that so that you can explain it to people when people ask you. Yeah, definitely obligations. certainly could call out like I like I had no idea that we were on the hook like prior to my interest in the word I had no idea we were on the hook. Well, that's what I mean. The public doesn't know and I think as we have the discussions I'm not questioning doing it. I'm just saying we need to understand and understand that. Yeah, because everybody will get educated. So anyway, you know what we want. >> We do. Yes,

125we can do it. I think we can also add the breadth of services that are provided. I think the types the types of services that are provided that we we provide in and out placement would be informative. Yeah, not just what we're doing right now. Correct. >> What we've done historically. Right. Because some years we may have a couple [clears throat] of students with um, visual issues and then another couple years later we don't. Yeah. I think I've mentioned it before but I'll say it again. I remember one year when we had two blind students move into the district a week before school started. Wow. And all of a sudden we had over a, I don't know, over $100,000 dropped in our lap as an expense. Just like that, in 1 week. You didn't have

126a choice. Yeah, you got to do what's the right thing to do. >> [snorts] >> In general, the community is not going to know that. They don't understand where the why that money has to be spent that way. No, good good example, Bill. And I think, yeah, you never know. Sure, it could be somebody moves in in August. Sure. And we've got $90,000 cost. >> Sure. Yeah. But Mhm. Reduced. It's like you're inside my brain, Amy. >> [laughter] >> Yeah, and I think that's part of your Yeah, part of your process, Amy. Right? Amy, I think that's part of the process because I know that's your goal. I mean, so I think all that that whole story, that whole is important. That whole picture together I think the public needs. Yeah. And it's Yeah. She

127can do it. That this team, this crackpot team over here can do it, no problem. They will be able to answer lots of questions. And I do think it is hard to understand, and it's hard to understand all of the things. I think what people, you know, public-facing people don't understand is the myriad of things that have gone in before it gets to your your desk, right? That you would not know about. And so we're happy to and proud of our work and proud of our work to bring students back and to serve them best cuz we do a great job of that. So happy to talk about that. They'll be They'll be giving you information, I'll call it bragging cuz I'm proud of them cuz they do a good job of that. So no

128problem. Are we ready? Okay. So um you have beside you, I hope, a list of dates. So if you guys want to know what the Baden Castles are going to be doing in May, here we go. Every [laughter] day there's lots to see. Um so, we just wanted to make sure that you had the dates. Um lots of band concerts and choir concerts. Um obviously, we still have lots of spring sports uh events happening. Um lots of things to do. So, if you are wanting to pick and choose and select some of the things that you're interested in, we wanted you to have that um all together. Yeah, Sarah put put that together for us. So, thank you, Sarah Healey, for making that available for everybody. Thank you. Thanks, Sarah. Thanks. Sure. Um Sarah, could

129you maybe like send this to the papers so that they know what's coming up because there've been a couple of times when things have been uh put in not your fault put in the papers as to an upcoming event That's it. that actually occurred the week before. Oh, got you. Yes, we'll look at that and maybe we'll have them for a weekly. We give we give things weekly to our papers and you know, it's never know if Yeah, sure. get things in more timely. Yeah, even if it's redundant, put it in and you can put it in again if >> [snorts] >> Perfect. >> closer. Yeah, sure. We will we'll work on that. Sarah and I will look at that tomorrow. Um then of course, Charlie Brown was um not the past weekend, the weekend

130before last. Um so, if you were able to see it, it was so great. It was so great. We laughed and laughed and I aged myself with my Charlie Brown knowledge, but um don't worry cuz you're going to get a little free next month. So, if you weren't able to be there, I know that the high school students are going to come and share a song or two and and talk to you a little bit about Charlie Brown. So, they'll be here with us next month. >> [laughter] >> Good grief. You're a good grief. You're welcome, giraffe. Um and then last but not least, um I just want uh my staff to tell you a little bit about a new program that we are doing in partnership with the ESC of the Western Reserve um

131supporting families in transition years. We haven't done it before and I think it's a really great opportunity for our students um and uh Megan Watson, if you'd tell them a little bit about that. Um so, uh Beth uh who is our consultant with the ESC, they come up came up with these parent cafe nights um or daytime events that they're we've chosen three days sporadically at different times to try to be able to connect with as many families and uh child care is provided through the grant, food is provided through the grant, and it's an opportunity for our families to get together that are all have similar things that their families going through right now, and then with facilitators go through a conversation of how to help um their child go through that or their

132families go through that. Um so, for our initial uh round of it, we are planning on attempting to continue it into next year, but our official round focus was um through our preschool lines of those families who are starting to transition either um from um preschool to kindergarten or even just over from the ESC program to our program, um and then we expanded it out to all incoming kindergarten families, and then we thought, well, you know, that's that's not a big transition, but it's not the only big transition that happens even within our West Chicago family. So, then we uh want to do include second grade families that are having their students transition down into third grade um down away at Lindsey cuz we know that that's a kind of a big shift for them

133during that early elementary years. So, for this round of the first three ones, we are going to focus on our elementary students, but we're already um have Erica and the uh Julie joining us to see how the program works and how we can continue to facilitate up into our middle school potentially moving forward. Great. Thank you, Megan. And I think it's valuable for our parents, so we're excited about that. And obviously, I spend a lot of time calling on our administrative team, and I think it's keeping you a little bit on your toes tonight, so I'll be doing that moving forward. I've noticed you were paying a lot more attention all of a sudden, all of you out there, so consider that a done deal. That's my superintendent's report. Thank you. Are there any board

134reports? None. Okay. All right. Executive session. All right. We are going to adjourn to executive session. Whereas the West Geauga Local School District Board of Education is committed to conducting its business in compliance with the Ohio Open Meetings Act as set forth in Ohio Revised Code Section 121.22, and whereas Ohio Revised Code Section 121.22G1 permits a public body to enter into executive session to consider the employment and compensation of a public employee or official, and whereas Ohio Revised Code Section 121.22G5 permits a public body to enter into executive session to discuss matters required to be kept confidential by federal law, federal rules, or state statutes. And now therefore, be it resolved by the West Geauga Local School District Board of Education that it shall enter into executive session at 8:05 to consider the employment and

135compensation of public employees as permitted under Ohio Revised Code Section 121.22G1, and to discuss matters required to be kept confidential by federal law, federal rules, or state statutes under Ohio Revised Code Section 121.22G5. Be it further resolved that no formal actions, final votes, or business will be conducted by the Board of Education following the conclusion of this executive session. Um Eric Kazerrick, Samantha Prince, Amy Davis, and Megan Watson. >> and Megan Watson, and Dr. Benincasa and Karen will be joining us. Or may not be bigger. >> Is Amy? >> [snorts] >> Amy, too. But >> Amy. Oh, I did say did Yeah, got you. >> perfect. All right. Thank you. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Call the roll. Mr. Vidmar? Yes. Dr. Beers? Yes. Mrs. Claypole? Yes. Ms. Leverworth? Yes. Ms. Naylor? Yes. All right.

136Okay. We'll meet you in >> And I think Meet you Karen, are we going in this way? Uh I have it set up that way. I've added some chairs. Okay, perfect. >> Cuz they'll Cuz they will be dismissed afterwards. Oh, I sent you a message. Oh, that Yeah. He He actually hasn't given it to me yet. Okay. I spoke with him this morning. I thought conference room. So Bye. Yeah, I'll Yeah, might not be a bad idea. Right. Cool. Thanks. I'm not picking on you anymore, I promise. Yes, you are. That's okay. I know you're kidding. I pick on him all the time. I like That's fun. Everybody picks on me. Believe me. I I did tell him the the last story is all about him. If we didn't talk before and I knew you

137The first time I would pick on you. I'll tell you something. I'll scratch your back tonight. All right. I'm not I'm not picking I swear I'm not picking on you. Oh. Okay. Good seeing you. Goodnight. You too. Bye, you guys. Barb, we're going this way. Karen, I left the window open. It's freezing. Yeah. Yeah. So I realized I had no So I know it's a I mean, that's why There's a Goodnight. Goodnight. Goodbye. Okay. See you actually Goodnight. I'm carrying it to talk to Eileen. Oh, so that's not permanent, huh? It's like We need Eileen to be What was that? Yeah, let's go. We need Eileen to be able to get in her drawer. Oh. Oh. I guess I'll set up the other room. It's rolled. >> [laughter] >> Sarah, I have a funny dealer

138story for you. She goes, "Either I'm giving a presentation to the entire team or and I put the logo up on the board. She's like >> [laughter] >> Feel like I have to come up to me at the end and ask a question. >> I'm really special. She I mean He's awesome in that. I've only got a few more years left of that. Those two though look so good. What? Really nice. Now I lean can come to work in the morning. I thought this was going to collapse with it. He said it's better to take them off. Oh. I thought so too. Sorry. All right. >> I don't see anything like that. That's exactly what I said. >> [snorts] >> Cold. I watched the door. >> Mhm. >> The board is reconvening into regular session

139at 9:23 p.m. Our next board meeting will be a board retreat this Saturday, April 25th at 9:00 in the morning here at the board office community room 8615 Cedar Road in Chesterland, Ohio. It may be in the PD room. It will be in the PD room, yeah. Okay. So, we're going to In the PD room. >> PD room. Mhm. Is that where we just were? >> This would be a special meeting, correct? Correct, yes. So, I'll send out a notice tomorrow indicating it's a board retreat, it'll be in the PD room, the time starting at 9:00. Okay. >> Okay. Great. Do I have a resolution to adjourn? So moved. Second. Any discussion? All right, call the roll, please. Dr. Beers? Yes. Mrs. Claypole? Yes. Ms. Loveworth? Yes. Ms. Taylor? Yes. Mr. Bittner? Yes.