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West Geauga Board of Education Meeting July 22, 2025

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YouTube / West Geauga Local Schools
Date
2025-07-22
Location
Geauga County, OH
Material
Transcript
Extent
735 words · about 5 min
Collected
2026-06-29

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001Okay, >> we'll call this meeting to order. Would you call the role, please? >> Dr. Beers, >> here. >> Mrs. >> here. >> Mrs. >> Yes. >> This meeting is a meeting of the West Giaga Local School District of Education in public for the purpose of conducting the West Giaga Local School District's business is not to be considered a public community meeting. There is no public participation at a special board meeting. Would you stand and join me for the pledge? >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The first resolution is resolution 298, a resolution to approve, quote, and authorizes superintendent and treasurer to enter into a contract with Techline Sports

002Lighting LLC for the football stadium retrofit upgrade. >> So move second. >> Is there any discussion? Looks like Scott's here with a whole fist full of papers. We've had No, I've had conversations. I understand. >> I guess the one one thing that I thought about was that um this was not originally in the football turf. >> That's correct. >> Um renovation. >> That is correct. >> But it sort of seems like maybe going forward we should just kind of plan on this kind of expense being part of the football turf renovation. That make sense? You see what I'm saying? If if >> but this was damage from >> Yeah. >> tornado, right? >> Right. >> Yeah. But Scott was telling me that the lifetime on these lamps warranty is like 10 years or something like

003that. >> And that's how often we have to replace the turf, >> right? Something like that. >> So, as we're setting money aside for doing the turf >> in 10 years, my guess is that the lighting is going to change again. quality of the lighting and efficiency and other parts of it. So, >> so for the record, since it was mentioned that it happened during an um a tornado, maybe we could explain why insurance isn't, you know what I mean? I know there's a reason, but I think now that that's >> okay. It see to resetting that whole process. >> And these are these are some individual lights. So the the field for you know those at home um is lit and we have lighting. It's just we believed damage from that tornado storm knocked

004out partial lights and we this will allow us to fully, you know, to make sure that everything is upgraded and operational um to retrofit it. >> So we we did file a claim. Did we receive >> money >> in the process? So you'll let us know because we may get some reimbursement on this. >> Correct. >> Thank you. Any other questions? >> Maybe Dr. Beer, you could just do it for us. >> If if you go to slide number 24 on the lighting, >> it's not that high up there. You'll be fine. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Uh Scott called me yesterday. >> But as I explained to him, my expertise is in the quality of the light, not in the electronics running the PC. But we had a good discussion and and I I think

005we should just replace them all because you don't know what's going to happen next with the rest of the lights. >> Yeah. >> And there are actually issues even with potential issues with uh brightness and color that mixing old lights with new lights may give strange patterns on the field. >> So, and it becomes a safety issue maybe. >> Yeah. And we're appreciative to Mark um and Scott who have trouble been troubleshooting this for quite some time and I know that the insurance claim said that the steps that we've taken would have had to been taken for the claim regardless. So that makes us feel like we're on the right track. >> Okay. >> Would you call the role please? >> Dr. Beers. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Clayool. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Coleman Walsh. >>

006Yes. >> Miss Leworth. >> Yes. Resolution 299 to approve the three-year products and services proposal between Transfinder and Westaga local schools. >> So move second. >> Any discussion questions? >> What is Transfinder? >> Transfinder. >> Oh, that's right. >> Yeah. And this will be the slow roll out where we initiate five at a time um with drivers throughout the year. So we'll have here comes the bus simultaneous with transfinder for this next school year. >> Okay, I remember talking about it last time. Okay, thanks. >> Any other questions? Call the role, please. >> Mrs. Clayool, >> yes. >> Mrs. Coleman Walsh, >> yes. >> Miss Lewin, >> yes. >> Dr. Beers, >> yes. Resolution 300 to approve certified staff appointments for the 2526 school year. >> Move. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> We're getting

007there. We're almost We're almost there. Few more and then we'll be done for the year and all fully staffed. >> How many specifically more? >> I think we have one more. We're down to the lone ranger. [Laughter] >> Okay. Any other questions? Call the role, please. >> Mrs. Coleman Walsh, >> yes. >> Miss Leworth, >> yes. >> Dr. Beers, >> yes. >> Mrs. Clayool, >> yes. >> Resolution 301 to approve classified staff appointments for the 2526 school year. >> So moved. Second. >> Any discussion? >> Call the RO, please. >> Miss Levvenworth, >> yes. >> Dr. Beers, >> yes. >> Mrs. Clayool, >> yes. >> Mrs. Coleman Walsh, >> yes. >> Okay. Uh, next board meeting is a special board meeting on the 22nd. >> No, >> 31st. >> Reading the wrong column. Yes. Okay,

008there it is. Uh, the 31st at 5:30 p.m. in the board office community room and then a regular board meeting on August 11th at 7 p.m. in the board office community room. Do we have a resolution to adjurnn? >> Move. Second. Call the RO, please. >> Dr. Beers. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Clayool? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Coleman Walsh? >> Yes. >> Miss Lemore? >> Yes. >> Okay.

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