001call this meeting to order. Um, this meeting is a meeting of the West Yaga Local School District Board of Education in public for the purpose of conducting the West Yaga Local School District's business and is not to be considered a public community meeting. There is time for public participation during the meeting as indicated in the agenda. Um, I don't know why I'm having a brain issue. We do the pledge before you. You want me to call the role? Call the RO. Call the role, please. Mrs. Sherwood? Yes. Dr. Beers? Yes. Mrs. Clayole. Yes. It's been a long day. Okay. You rise for the pledge, please. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for
002all. Okay. So, do you just want me to read this as it is in there or do you do that? No, you can read. Um, We're going to move on to public hearing. Uh public meeting on the reemployment of Richard Stoic as a custodian to commencing on July 16th, 2025 following his retirement. Um does anybody do we just ask for comments or do we have open it up for public comments? Okay. So now we are open for public comments if anybody has anything to say. Okay. Can I call roll please? No need. No need. Oh, that's right. Okay. So then we're moving on, right? This always confuses me, this kind of thing. I understand. Okay. That throws you out of the um any additions or changes to the agenda? We've modified resolution 202506213 to uh
003we've added an additional person with unpaid days. Okay. So we'll need a motion to approve the adjusted agenda. Okay. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Call the role, please. Dr. Beers? Yes. Mrs. Clayful? Yes. Mrs. Sherwood? Yes. Thank you. Okay. And then you're going to do this beautiful Senate Bill 96 thing, which is not beautiful. It is what we've got. All right. So, right now, the Senate has uh um finalized or not finalized, but put out their proposal for their substitute bill for House Bill 96. And so there's some provisions in there that will impact uh us as a public school that we want to go through and make sure they're raised kind of can ask questions about and kind of just go through that. So the first one when we talk about uh oh no
004good job we tested this so it's there we go. Uh the first thing we're going to talk about is the school funding formula. The good news is as you know in the House bill they had paused the the fair school funding plan. in the Senate bill, they are going to continue that and do the final phase in of the year five and six. Um, however, as we know, they're not going to do the base input increases. So, we're still going to be stuck at the 2021 increase, the base cost, and not increase those. Um, so that'll impact obviously the price of, you know, the salaries for teachers, the price of supplies and goods and things like that will not be updated, but we'll see some increases there because of the continuation of the plan. The
005district guarantee will continue. We'll have the same type of leveling guarantee payments that we've had since 2021. So, those will stay in place. There is additional funding if we have enrollment growth. we would do not, but there's also additional uh funding for performance-based funding linked to the state report card. So, those things that we've done on the state report card um will give us some additional funding. If we look at the House bill versus the Senate bill um under this on 2026, we'd increased by about 400,000 and then in 2027, we'd increased about 600,000 from our uh what we received now is about 5.2 million. So if we look at those um how we would look at the performance-based um funding, it's based upon the number of stars awarded, the performance indicators, the testing performance,
006the attendance, all of those things that we look at on the report card. Those are kind of all melding together to give us additional funding if this go to go through. Now, as you know, when the Senate bill has theirs and the House bill has theirs, they got to get together in conference and move forward. So, do they So, they give money if you have good performance. They don't take money if a school has poor performance. That's correct. It'll just be kind of a bonus. So, um doesn't make sense. It is, but if and then what we typically saw, what they were concerned about on the guarantee was people are losing enrollment and we're still paying, you know, they were still funding at the same level. So they were calling that phantom, you know, seats
007or fan, you know, so what that's what they're trying to get at. So with ours with the state report card being so important and it's doing well on it, that is really um given us some additional funding that we would normally not have. The district cash balances, this is one thing that we've talked about the threshold or the carryover balance would be before they start reducing those taxes would be moving from 30% to 50%. if we do exceed over 50% they could suspend those levies and and get us down to that cash balance. So, however that would mechanically work out and that would be with the the tax budget commission. The districts can reserve funds for capital improvements um and but you must use those within three years. Now, we moved money to our 070
008account uh thinking that we had 10 years to use that funding. So, this is in there uh for a three-year period. after the three years, if we have that money, it goes into the calculation for the 50% cash balance. So, they'll just push that back into the balance. So, we could theoretically, you know, lose funding that way. So, um by not having it exceeding that 50% mark, the boards must submit uh instead of a five-year forecast, we'll be submitting a three-year forecast and budget assumptions. We already do this. We do a five-year forecast and a budget assumption. So, it'll be the current year and then we'll have three projected years. That's kind of what they're looking at. So, and um that's to the state. That's to the state. Not to the county. Not to the
009county, but I would think with this being in there now, um it would give it a little bit more importance to the county. Um so, we feel because they've always said, well, after three years it doesn't matter. So, I'm thinking that's kind of where it is. Well, the county more typically only accounted for one year. That is correct. When they're looking at the tax um they're looking at one year, one year only. Does this change that? Yeah, I was going to say, but would do you think it would though with their added responsibility here? I mean, they're giving a little more teeth to them. They are giving more teeth and then um they're given more responsibility because now they're going to be in charge of that levy cycle. So, be input. They're going to have
010input into our levy cycle. So I would think they have to look at three years but I guess um you know that's to be seen and I think those are discussions. I did call Mr. Walder because we are looking at some changes in we have a new accounting manual and that's moving our 06 our emergency levies into the O1 account. I want to talk to him about that and how it's going to work and mechanically as we look at the tax budget going forward and how we're budgeting because it has to start July 1st. Um he's on vacation now, but he said he would get back with me later on and I would think we could open up some of these other discussions to see kind of where they're falling. Sure. Property tax changes. As
011we noted, we were kind of doing that parallel that, you know, the Senate and the House were doing that parallel kind of here's the budget, here's the tax reform. We're seeing a melding of that. Uh some things that will be will, you know, um problematic for us, let's put it that way. emergency and substitute levies will count towards the 20 mil floor or the 2m floor if you're on the joint um vocational which we're not. So the 20 mil floor. So before you saw the emergency levies outside the 20 mil floor that's why we saw the the big dip and then we saw the increase in taxes. This will eliminate that issue. I don't see that changing that's been in both of them. uh what has come about is the elimination of the replacement fixed
012fees emergency levies and substitute levies effective January 1st 26 26 now we get $6 million through those emergency levies so if those are now eliminated so then replacements are eliminated that's about 25% of our salaries and benefits that means we have to put a brand new operating levy on or collecting at today's rate yes so this costs the taxpayers more money it will cost more money and what we'll is you lose that roll back homestead because it'll be a new levy. It'll be new and it's and it'll be then a continuing, right? It would be a continuing levy. Okay. So, we'd lose that 12 and a half%. So, taxpayers would automatically get, you know, that increase on this 6 million only on that levy. So, as we're looking at that January 1st, 2026, you've got
013one election before that, November 2025, that we may have to consider uh because we do have that renewal coming up for the 3.7 million. and looking at that for a substitute levy. Now, can we do that in light of this? That's still to be determined. Um, they're looking at, our attorneys are looking at this and how we, you know, if we were to choose to do something in November, how that would be impacted by this change. Now, we're not the only people. There's like three or 400 school districts that have emergency levies. Now, these are fixed fee levies. They collect the same amount of money that we've been collecting for 20 years. So these are but again that's 25% of our salaries and benefits. So we would have significant um and again there would be
014a delay. Say you passed it you know you didn't do anything until after 2026 you pass it in May. That thing rolls off in 2026. The emergency levies roll off in 2026. And so you've got a you may have a little gap when before it starts collecting the full amount. Like little gaps. Yes. So, we will be monitoring. This is probably the one that worries us the most, I think, and has the most financial impact to all of school districts that have these emergency levies. And these are fixed fees. Substitute levies are replacing a termed fixed fee levy with a continuing it turns it almost into a continuing levy because in that collects the same amount. Is this just for schools or is this for like the fire department, the like everybody? Anybody? It's just
015for schools. But it um as we look at other restrictions on the levies. Oh, I'm sorry. Go ahead. So, if we want to put something on in November, they're looking to see how that would be impacted. Well, I'm wondering what the dates are that we're going to have to get because August, just one in August. No, you'll have Yeah, you'll start getting those votes in August and then you'll have to turn around. But we don't have to do something in July then. It's 100 day. 100 days before usually hits in August. But I was just thinking when we have when we were looking at the bond for instance, we had to pass something in. Yeah. The two votes. Yeah. And then again in February or whatever to put it on in May. So is August
016then the first vote that we would have to do or that the second vote? I'm just I'll have to look. I have to look and make sure because I believe it's the first vote, but they're pretty close together. So, I will confirm that as we're confirming what this all means, of course. And this we will find out what the real dates are and everything at the end of June. That's correct. Their goal is to hit this by the end of June. Now, we have had a budget go past June. Um, in the past in my 10 years, we've had that happen once, but usually they hit that June 30th. and the Senate wants to get theirs out this week that they they want to have start those discussions. So, but we're going to be working
017on a compressed time schedule to make a decision and then to get and then run the campaign if we have someone run the campaign. That is correct. If you were to have to put something on in November, right? Uh other restrictions on levies, there are no new levies if the carryover cash balance is over 100%. You can't put a levy on. So if you're, you know, let's say you had $10 million in the bank and you wanted to put a levy on and you voted at that point and you had $10 million in the bank, it's a null and void. You can't do that. There is a mandatory disclosure of fund balance that's in the ballot language now. So if you say I want to have a five mil you know levy you have to
018in that language paragraph that we have it now has to say our cash balance and what it would be so that people can look at that cash balance. It doesn't have anything it doesn't say anything compared to the expenditures that you have. It just says if you have you know so let's say that you had a $10 million cash balance but you had a $50 million of expenditures. You know that doesn't seem like a lot but if you know so but they're they're not requiring the expenditure line. They're just requiring the cash line, but we could do it, right? I was going to say, but I would think we could add other language. We just have to edit. We would have to edit that in some way. So, all of these things are there's a
019lot of discussion right now. No combined renewal and increase levies. So, you can't renew one and increase, you know, another at the same time. So, that's not we typically don't do that. Anyway, the other one is the twothirds board vote that's required to place about a ballot issue on the on the ballot. So, right now, if you have five people at the meeting, it's four people have to vote because that's 66%. If you have four people, you can have three vote yes. So, it just depends on who's coming to the table on that vote. Um, used to it used to be three out of five, but it will require a twothirds vote. So, Karen, is that dependent on the people at that particular meeting? It's only at that particular meeting. position of the board. Now,
020again, you have two votes, so I'm not sure if you had four on one and you only had three people show up at the other one, what would happen? So, it is a um because it's a two vote process. I think I mean, I already know the answer to this, but I'm going to ask it just to make myself feel better. This has this has zero impact on public or private schools who are receiving public funds. Like, it nobody's checking how much money they're keeping in the bank. That's correct. Okay. They're not they don't report out a five even though it's public money that are funding those balances. They don't report a five-year forecast. We when we report our five-year forecast, we report our cash balances. They are not required to report a fiveyear forecast
021or four year or threeear forecast order we're now doing. And they don't have to put levies on the ballot or they're not, you know, they don't have the ability to do that. So, um they don't have to report it. the property tax relief provisions, the homestead exemption has now increased. It used to be 28. They're looking to move it to 32 income limits. If you're under 40 to 42.5, so it's not a whole lot of relief there in the homestead. Um again, disabled vets are moving from 56 to 59. And then they would do a statewide screening for exemptions and credits. So they do some now you just apply and it's pretty much given to you, but uh they would do some screening on that. So, we'd have to look at that. One thing uh
022to remember in addition to that, you know, again, we would lose that if we did change the levies up that continuing, don't forget, we'll lose that home that roll back that the state is currently paying now on the $6 million. Um they really have a tough time with superintendents and treasurers. So, this is part of House uh Senate Bill Five when it was if you remember that was way back when there was a provision in there that the district can't play the retirement contributions for STRS for superintendents and STS contributions for the treasurers which we currently have. No other administrators are impacted just those two that we have at the top. Takeaways obviously we have some uncertain funding implications that we're looking at. We've uh written to our senator or we I should say I
023have uh written to our senators and um they are you know it's it's going to take a lot of effort. Now there's been a lot of testimony um and been a lot of letters going a lot of campaigns to do that. So um we're hopeful tighter control over the district's finances and levies by the county budget commission. So you are losing a little bit of your flexibility as a local board. So you are not free to do whatever you want on the levies. They must be approved by the budget commission as well. And then new performancebased funding may widen equity gaps that we may have in place already. So those districts that are doing well and are wealthier districts are going to continue to do well and get more funding whereas those are not doing
024as well will fall a little bit further behind. So, so the budget commission approves a levy request, but but within the parameters established by the bill, right? I mean, they don't have subjective. No, no, no. They won't be doing that, but they would can block that. Yeah. So, in addition, we have a new house bill 335 that was uh put in place by representative Thompson Thomas. Um this limits how schools can shift the inside millillage and includes fixed sum levies and income taxes in the 20 mil floor. That's something the House bill had anyway. You know how where um in the past if you had a permanent improvement fund and you moved that inside millillage over to that area. You can't do that anymore. That's looking to prohibit that change. In addition to it, they're
025look he is looking to um stop funding the four and a half the 4.5 mills. So to eliminate that for all local governments in loving the current inside millillage. So it would be for um villages, cities, any of that but not townships. So um you know how we have the 10 mills are broken out the 10 inside 10 mills and we get 4.5 and the county gets some of it now. So, he's looking at eliminating all of that funding and property taxes, suggesting that we use an income tax to replace that. Um, county budget commission to reduce current voted levies. That's something we're seeing in both bills that they would be able to do. And then offer tax credits if property taxes rise faster than inflation for those at the 20 mil floor. So, he's
026also looking at that in provisions to give those tax credits to those that are impacted by the 20 mil floor. So the local government I mean changing that one mil for us is 1.2 million. So four and a half mills adds up. So if you have no emergency levies and we can't do the inside millage we would lose you know 10 to 12 million. So it's a significant changes for us. So all bad. Well for clarifying well we'd have to consider some other source of income. We'd have to consider some other source of income. An income tax an income tax would be local income tax would be where we would have to look at and to replace those that four and a 4.5 mills. The county has a sales tax and they could do something
027with that. But there would be a local income tax to look at that. Uh next steps, uh Senate's going to finalize their uh bill by June 13th. So Friday the 13th, we'll know kind of where they're at. Encourage outreach to the state senators. uh monitor changes and impact to our district and can uh contact education associations for their supports. I know OEA has already been out um talking with the senators and and lobbying as well. I we've been with the alliance group. We work with them um that they've been lobbying. They've done a lot of their testimony. You've seen that. I've sent a lot of information out to the board. So, just keeping you up to date and as we go along. It's um it's this has been you know we talked about it looking
028a little bit like COVID. I think it's a little you know it's obviously worse than COVID because it's um the uncertainty on the funding is is tremendous for us and very impactful. So um we will monitor it and keep advocating with our local representatives but um it is not always in our hands right now. Good. That's it. Okay. All right. Well, that's depressing. It was depressing in the in the calls I've had, too. Okay. Um All right. So, we're done with that. We're moving on to public remarks, and there are none. Um so, we can move on to routine items. Yes. If we can look at routine items, uh that would be resolution 0619. So move second. Any discussion? Call the role, please. Mrs. Clay, yes. Mrs. Sherwood, yes. Dr. Beers, yes. Resolution 200 to
029accept donations. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Call the role, please. Mrs. Sherwood, yes. Dr. Beers, yes. Mrs. Clay. Yes. Resolution 2011 to approve the fund to fund transfer fiscal year 2025. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Yeah. The uh transfer to food services at the end of the year. Uh if there are any senior balances that haven't been paid, the general fund has to cover those. So we're down to $41 out of the year. So, it doesn't seem too bad considering um we have been um working very hard. Ellen has done a tremendous job in working with the families and getting payment plans and getting those things started early this year. Uh we'll continue that going into next year. Okay. Call the role, please. Dr. Beers, yes. Mrs. Clayool, yes. Mrs. Sherwood, yes. Resolution 202 authorizing
030the correction of the transfer amount to the resolution 20505155 from the first capital projects in 070. So move second. Any discussion? Yeah, this is um we had originally had 4.75. We had made a transfer in April and I want to make sure that we I didn't count that one. So we're adjusting that down. I've already talked to the county um board. We've already modified the appropriations for that. Okay. Call the RO, please. Mrs. Clay, yes. Mrs. Sherwood, yes. Dr. Beers, yes. Resolution 203 to approve student activity, statement of purpose, and budget for the 2025 2026 school year. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Call the RO, please. Mrs. Sherwood, yes. Dr. Beers, yes. Mrs. Clay, yes. Resolution 204 is to approve certified stipens for work outside of the 2024 2025 contractual year. So moved. Second. Any
031discussion? Call the role, please. Dr. Beers, yes. Mr. Skipold, yes. Mr. Sherwood, yes. Resolution 205 is to approve 2025 summer programming stipend. So move. Second. And any discussion? Call the role, please. Mrs. Clayool, yes. Mrs. Sherwood, yes. Dr. Beers, yes. Resolution 206 is to approve a change in certified contract certified salary movement for the 2025 2026 school year. So move. Second. Any discussion? Call the role, please. Mrs. Sherwood, yes. Dr. Beers, yes. Mrs. Clay, yes. for Maline Brown. Braun says from BS plus 150 to BS plus 15. Correct. So that she had a BS 150 undergraduate hours. So now she's moving to a BS plus 15 graduate hours. Okay. I saw the same thing when we went over make that make sense. And then it took me like two times around before I was like,
032"Oh, I get that." Resolution 207 is to approve certified staff appointments for the 2025 2026 school year. And I'm sure that those names will look familiar to the board. So moved. Second. Okay. Um I just like to say welcome back officially Christie. Very excited for you. Christie, for those of you that might not know, for those of you watching is a resident here, so it's always really good to bring someone home. So, I'm super happy to be bringing you home. Call the roll, please. Dr. Beers, yes. Mrs. Clayool, yes. Mrs. Sherwood, yes. Christy, I'd like to thank you for coming tonight. Resolution 208 is to approve certified stipens for work outside of the 2025 2026 contractual year. So moved. Second. Any discussion? seen a lot of stuff about the bees today. We're cleaning up the
033bees tonight. Super excited about the bees. I like this little project. Call the role, please. Sorry, Dr. Beers. Are they going to be selling the honey? That's part of the plan long term. Yes. Yeah. I thought I saw that in part of the writeup, but I didn't see it in the statement of purpose or whatever that there was income. We're waiting to see how much that's going to be. Okay. They're a little hesitant. Here's your little little jar of honey. There it is. Um they feel that they have wax. They're going to be able to get the wax out to do that. So they'll plan on selling that and then perhaps selling it in our new cafe 306 and instead of doing it online. So they they plan to do tables and all that as
034soon as they get it their first uh harvest. I don't know if that's what it is. Uh June. So it's getting that's their first harvest will be in June. Exciting. We are unsure how much honeyp so. What else would you call them? The bee club. That's what it says on this. I will. They've added to it. West GBs. Okay. Okay. Call the role, please. Mrs. Clayole. Yes. Mrs. Sherwood. Yes. Dr. Beers. Yes. Resolution 209 is to approve the appointment of a confidential administrative assistant. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Yeah. Is this is this a new position? No, it's uh Sue Rashar is retiring, so it's her replacement and she would be here tonight, but she's on vacation, so she'll start after she gets back from vacation. So, good. Call the RO, please. Mrs. Sherwood, yes.
035Dr. Beers, yes. Mrs. Clay, yes. Resolution 210 is to accept classified staff resignations. So move. Second. Any discussion? Call the role, please. Dr. Beers, yes. Mrs. Gel, yes. Mrs. Sherwood, yes. Resolution 211 is to approve summer routes for extended school year services. So move. Second. Any discussion? Call the role, please. Mrs. Clayold? Yes. Mrs. Sherwood? Yes. Dr. Beers? Yes. Resolution 212 is to approve unpaid days for the 2024 2025 school year as listed. So moved. Second. Okay. Any discussion? Call the role, please. Mrs. Sherwood? Yes. Dr. Beers? Yes. Mrs. Greyel? Yes. Resolution 213 is to approve casual laborers for the summer 2025. So move. Second. Any discussion? What are casual laborers? people that work on the grounds, etc. that help us with custodial type services. And yes, laborers are spelled correctly. I did not think
036it was because I thought the U was unnecessary, but Karen and I looked it up today. And laborer singular is L A B O R E R. Laborers plural is L A B O R E R S. I did not know that. This is why people don't enjoy English. I would anticipate that you would have noticed that as well. So it is correct here. This is British right there. Yeah, that's what I said. I said I thought it was probably because I went into what are we laborers? I said, is this a British pronunci British pronunciation or spelling? We looked it up and sure enough, this is what Jeff has a U in it. Why people hate it. You can't make it make sense. I presume that Dr. Ben & Kasa knew that. Of course,
037we didn't ask her. We don't ask her those kinds of questions. Ask her. So they'll be working on the grounds and um we have computers that have be we've brought in all the teachers computers so they'll be doing some of that as well. So call a roll please. Dr. Beers. Yes. Mrs. Clay. Yes. Mrs. Sherwood. Yes. Resolution 214 is to approve supplemental contracts. I think there's only one in there though as I'm looking at it for the 2024 2025 school year. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Call the role, please. Mrs. Clay, yes. Mrs. Sherwood, yes. Dr. Beers, yes. Resolution 215 is also a resolution to approve supplemental contracts. This is for the 2025 2026 school year. So moved. Second. Any discussion? This is a partial list. We'll have the remaining list on the next as
038they come through. There's quite a few for now. One big group and then we'll have another group. Okay. Call the RO, please. Mrs. Sherwood, yes. Dr. Beers, yes. Mrs. Clay, yes. Bless you. Okay. Moving on to business resolutions. Resolution 216 is to approve the school program contract between West Local Schools and Two Foundation Incorporated for the 2025 2026 school year. So moved. Second. Excuse me. Any discussion? Is this a is this just a renewal? Do we have We have it every year. This is for placement of some of our special needs students. Call the role, please. Dr. Beers, yes. Mrs. Clayool, yes. Mrs. Sherwood, yes. Resolution 217 is to approve the student service agreement between West Local Schools and Re-Education Services Incorporated for the 2025 2026 school year. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Again, this
039is for specific students, correct? Correct. Call the role, please. Mrs. Clayful. Yes. Mrs. Sherwood. Yes. Dr. Beers. Yes. Resolution 218 is to approve the memorandum of understanding between Ravenwood Health and West Local Schools for the 2025 2026 school year. So move. Second. Any discussion? And this is more general support as opposed to a specific student. It's for mental health services as needed. Yeah. And this is also supported through a portion of our foundation payment must be spent on these things. So it's using those fundings. Call the role, please. Mr. Sherwood. Yes. Dr. Beers. Yes. Mrs. Clay. Yes. Resolution 219 is to approve the preventive service and maintenance agreement between Westiaga Local Schools and Comfort Systems USA. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Have we been with them uh recently, past years, or is this a new
040I'm familiar with them, but I don't think I'm here necessarily. This is new. Yeah, we used a new vendor. We used go green before. I'm sorry. What? Mark. Uh, call the role, please. Dr. Beers. Yes. Mrs. Slate. Yes. Mrs. Sherwood. Yes. Resolution 220 is to approve the quote to purchase Teachtown for the 2025 2026 school year. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Just what is it? They're remedial materials for students. Call the RO please. Mrs. Clay. Yes. Mrs. Sherwood? Yes. Dr. Beers? Yes. 20 resolution 2021 is to approve the purchase of buses in the 2025 2026 school year. So move second. Any discussion? The only question I had was at one time we had talked about we had gathered information from the bus drivers on safety equipment they wanted. Do these come equipped with that kind
041of the stuff they asked for? Right. So, I'm just curious. Yeah, I was going to say, but we're still looking at adding some of that for next year. The grant is under under the Senate bill has been removed. Oh, it was removed. So, it's in the governor's budget. So, we're looking to see um the impact going forward. Okay. So, what the cost is. Okay. Okay. Thanks. Right. Call the role, please. Mrs. Sherwood. Yes. Dr. Beers. Yes. Mrs. Clay. Yes. Resolution 222 is to approve the settlement agreement and release. So move. Second. Any discussion? Call the role, please. Dr. Beers. Yes. Mrs. Clayool. Yes, Mr. Sherwood. Yes. Resolution 223 is to approve the certification of the 2025 West Giaga High School seniors. So moved. Second. Any discussion? It was a lovely graduation ceremony. They did nice
042work on it. Credit goes to Ryan and to the teachers who helped with that. Um, who were the ones in particular? That was Stephanie and Chelsea. Correct. Yes. Awesome. Okay. Call the role, please. Mrs. Clayool, yes. Mrs. Sherwood, yes. Dr. Pearson, yes. Resolution 224 is to approve the memorandum of understanding between the West Local School District Board of Education and the Ohio Association of Public School Employees, OPC Local 255. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Call the RO, please. Mrs. Sherwood, yes. Dr. Beers, yes. Mrs. Scrapel, yes. Resolution 225 is approving the the rank of the top firm that responded to the district's request for qualifications for criteria engineer architect services for the development, design, and construction of a water treatment facility maintenance building and authorizing the treasurer to enter into contract negotiations with this firm.
043So moved. Second. Any discussion? Well, I I do. You probably knew I would. um because we haven't really approved the maintenance building, right? The bid package went out with the maintenance building included. So, this is that criteria. So, they'll they're going to come have that design and then then you would go forward with the bid package for whatever you want to do. So, it would be a modification to this or it would continue on with something. So it's it's you still are in that planning mode uh to prepare the documents for that, but they're going to have to come back with to the board. So this is just selecting the company that will be doing that work for you. Do do we have any time frame about how long it's going to take for them
044to put this together? when it comes to okay because because I'm going to want to know a lot more about yes the financial situation before I would proof and so we'll see those options you know we talked about those options before so we want to get the cost associated with those options and then talk through if that's even you know what the plan is right in case there's option four good call the roll please Dr. Beers yes Mrs. Clay yes Mrs. Sherwood. Yes. Oh, this is me. Um, all right. So, we are moving into discussion of old business and suggestions to be included on the future agenda. Do we have any old business that we need to return to? No. Um, you pushed that off to one, you know, the vouchers heard in Ohio to
045the next meeting on the June 23rd meeting. Right. So, it's really just the library lease and the implications for the water treatment the well and the water treatment center. Okay. Um Okay. Superintendent report. Well, as Mrs. Sherwood already said, graduation was very successful and thanks to Chelsea Talty and Stephanie Myers and Mr. Patty and Miss Moshberger. Uh we had a very good uh ceremony. Um I thank the board for being there. I think it means a lot to the kids to have us there. The ceremony went very well. Um, positive comments have come in to people related to that ceremony. So, I appreciate it. Wasn't Miss Moshberger, actually. It was Carrie Doro. I'm sorry. I gave credit where credit wasn't due. You did nothing. Julie Carrie, we're glad you're back. She was there. I'm used
046to her being up there. Anyway, got the wrong assistant principal there. I apologize. Obviously, we have some projects underway this summer. The middle school roof project is underway now. If any of you have gone past the football field, you've seen that the covering of the field is off and the artificial turf is being replaced. Um and then obviously the the well project uh continues through the summer. And our staffing um is really nearly complete. We're looking at maybe three positions open right now, I believe, last count. So, um our administrative staff is up to full speed for next year and most of the teachers needed have been hired. So hats off and a lot of the credit goes to those who've been interviewing them. I come in on the second round of interviews. I get
047a reprieve when it comes to the first round. So I have been doing just a fraction of the interviewing that Dr. Ben & Casa and some of the others have been have been working on. The principles Megan Bellman and Amy Davis in particular have been very very busy. So hats off to them. And I I you know I'm looking at the candidates we're bringing in next year and I can tell you you're you're getting some really top-notch people. You're getting some really good people. Um, it's interesting to uh to note the the change in uh candidate pools since our rankings have gone as high in the state as they have. It has really opened the door for us to attract people from districts who previously might not have considered WestG and who now are are
048looking at it. And I think a lot of the credit for that is not just the reputation of the district and our students, but it's also the quality of the administrative team that will be in place next year. That means a lot. Um they are anxious to join that team. So that's a good thing. So credit to you um as the board for making sure that that happened. Appreciate it. Any board reports. Okay. We are going to be um moving into adjourn into executive session. Um all of it. Super. Okay. Um, where is the West Yaga local school district board of education is committed to conducting its business in compliance with the Ohio Open Meetings Act set as set forth in the Ohio Revised Code section 121.22 and whereas Ohio Revised Code section 121.22G1 permits
049a public body to enter into executive session to consider the compensation of a public employee or official. And whereas Ohio Revised Code section 121.22 22 G6 permits a public body to enter into executive session to discuss specialized details of security arrangements and emergency response protocols if disclosure could reasonably be expected to jeopardize the security of the public body or public office. Now therefore, be it resolved by the West Yoga Local School District Board of Education that it shall enter into executive session to consider the compensation of public employees and to discuss specialized details of security arrangements and emergency response protocols as permitted under Ohio Revised Code sections 121.22 G1 and 121.22 G6. And I will invite Dr. Markard, Mrs. Pallet and Dr. Ben & Casa. Will there be any action after? That's an excellent question,
050Mrs. Claypole. No, there's no action taken at the end of this. Call the RO, please. Motion. Second. Any discussion? Call the RO, please. Mrs. Clay. Yes. Mrs. Sherwood. Yes. Dr. Beers. Yes. Are we ready? Okay. All right. So, we are reconvening into regular session at 8:39 p.m. Um, our next board meeting is a regular board meeting on Monday, June 23rd, 2025 at 7 p.m. here in the board office community room. Do we have a motion to adjurnn? So, move. Second. Okay. And call the role, please. Mrs. Sherwood? Yes. Dr. Beers? Yes. Mrs. Clayole? Yes. Thank you.