001Hi. Okay. Are you good? Mhm. Okay. All right. Good evening everybody. Welcome to the Independence Board of Education June 5th regular meeting. Um, we just came out of executive session, so we are not going to call roll. Is that okay, Miss Snap? Okay, very good. Um, could we please stand for the pledge of allegiance? I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. I hopefully everybody got in here before it started to pour. Okay. All right. Um, our meeting statement. This meeting is a meeting of the board of education in public for the purpose of conducting the school district's business and it is not to be considered a public community meeting.
002There's a time for public participation during the meeting as indicated in the agenda. Um, do we have any updates from Mrs. O'Neal? No, because we switched our board meeting from um the regular to the special. She had it on her calendar to attend the second meeting in June, which we moved to a work session. Not actually a work session, but a special meeting. Great. Um, so I texted her. I let her know. I'm going to make sure that Dye um includes her on our updates when we change meetings. Very good. So that doesn't happen to her again. Thank you. Um Mrs. Nap, I have plenty to update. So I'll take Mrs. O'Neal's time for uh so a couple things that is happening in the finance world. One, I we've done a lot to try to
003communicate with parents, but Easy Pay has been acquired by Pay Schools. Um and now it's going to be called Pay Schools uh Central. And I have experience with Pay School centrals. That's what we used in our previous district. It is really user friendly. All parents when they log in, they'll be connected into another link to set up a new account and there once they set up that account, all money that they have on their current students account will transfer over with no loss of funds or anything of that nature. And it shuts down tomorrow um at tomorrow at 4 p.m. And then uh the new one will start July 1st. That gives us time for any reconciling items to transfer through. So, it's pretty exciting because I know there's been some this year there's been
004some unpleasantries with easy pay not communicating and doing everything we wanted to do. So, um it might have been part of the acquisition going on. I don't know. But pretty exciting stuff that that will be switching and we did try to make sure parents are aware of it. Um on the agenda tonight, you'll have two things to be aware of under my section. the um adoption of the state retire state teachers retirement system of Ohio and the STRS um of Ohio which is school employer system. So I was notified this week actually from STRS that we were um our documentation in place is outdated and needs updated. So this is a formality of just um getting a new resolution in place to send down to Columbus to those two entities. It's not changing anything we're
005doing. It's just simply I think the first one for SCS was 1995 and the last time it was renewed was 2005. So it's been 20 years in time to do that. So that's what that is for. And then under board business, we have the resolution supporting the fair school funding plan. Um, I'm sure some of you are aware that I think it was Tuesday the the 3, the Senate released their version of their bienium bill. And I'm going to talk a little bit about that in a second, but there's so much coming out of Columbus, it's hard to keep track of it. But one of the things that um all the associations, OASBO, OSBA which is for board of board members association, the superintendent association of Ohio, school business which is where treasures and business
006managers all the associations are asking for support to support fair school funding to try to make sure that we protect any dollars that are coming to public education. So tonight, um, we do have on there just a resolution to support that and a copy of that goes down to Columbus just to show our unity with all the other districts and many, many, many are doing them, um, across Ohio. Many of them are have been done and so we might even be a little late to coming to the table to do that, but it's important to show it coming out of there. Then when we look at what's happening down in Columbus, um the Senate's version, a couple things that are very concerning to schools and other entities too, but um there's a proposal to have
007a flat income tax of 2 and a half%. So um that does impact overall what what will happen with homestead exemptions to us. So um we want to see what what that will do. Most importantly is they have in that provision to eliminate the ability to authorize an emergency levy and a substitute levy. So if we no longer can can levy a emergency or substitute levy, the only other option we have is to go as a continuing. So it would force us to be on the ballot pretty early. Um the renewal, the earliest we could have renewed the emergency levy that we spoke about, which brings in 4.2 million, would have been November of 26. So, um, and I it's effective as written for January 1st, 2026. So, it'll be interesting to see how that
008writing actually comes out and if it sticks in there. So, we really want to watch that carefully. Um, because it may be putting us on the ballot much much sooner than I've ever spoke about or thought about because of a change coming out of there. Um, I I really didn't see that one coming. So, and they're doing that as a type of property tax reform, which is one of their um overall missions uh for this bienium, but um that would impact a lot of schools across Ohio. So, and they also want the emergency levy to count towards the 20 mil floor right now for tax year 25. So, um that would impact us also because one of the reasons districts get to them is they're excluded at the 20 mil floor currently as language rights.
009So the the bright spot is they took the 30% carryover balance to 50 and allows some provisions for capital planning purposes which we've already been discussing. So that was a bright spot coming out of there. But um we really need to keep our eye on it. I believe testimony for the Senate ends tomorrow. Um and a lot of treasurer superintendent and different um school officials have been down in Columbus lobbying and um testifying. So we'll see where this all comes. But I just want to keep everyone updated as to the activity in Columbus. It's a flurry. And additionally, not not in connected at all with the bienium, but one of the House bills that went out yesterday was that um that you would I'm sorry I had to remember because there are so many going
010on. That one might have been where the levy is contained that you cannot do emergency levies. Um but so there's so many things I have them all written down. I might find it for in my part, but I I just want to make sure everyone's aware so many things coming out. Thank you for that explanation because I think sometimes people think that it's a decision that we make as a board and it's really just our hands are tied that we've got to follow the laws of the state. So, thank you for that explanation, John. Helpful. It's ch I mean, it's it's a lot going on. And I'm going to look up the what um what I got yesterday because I want to make sure I bring that up, too. It's just escaping me. I'm sorry.
011People are upset. they have to look and pay attention to who they're voting for because that's that's what's really um I knew somebody that did testify in just last week and it was very obvious who was that several of the members are absolutely at Anti Public Schools. Yeah. So, we'll keep we'll keep uh we'll keep our eyes and ears open. Thank you. Thank you, Jen. Um Mrs. Kogan. So, I'm going to give most of my time over to um Miss Knap and I'm going to ask um Miss Keen to join us at the table so we can hear her when she's speaking as we as they talk about transportation. Um but prior to that, I do want to let the board know that um I'm hoping that by the end of June, we can talk
012a little bit about putting out a request for proposals for an architecture an architecture firm to come and, you know, do some proposals and and come to bid for our um our project. So, I think it's important that we get a firm and then we do the due diligence of bringing in community members, getting some feedback from them. We talked also about a community survey. So, I'd also like to look at that. Those are usually two different um RFPs. So, um you know, or two different companies, I should say. You don't have to do an RFP for them. So, I'm hoping at the June meeting I can share some information and we can move forward with that. Sorry, Mr. I feel like I'm sitting with my back to you. And real quick before it goes
013to the busing, I knew I knew I'd find it. Um the House bill yesterday was the um elimination of inside millillage. So that's 6.3 mills for us. I unfortunately today was a little bit um busy and I didn't get it I didn't calculate that for tonight's meeting so I apologize in front but um I certainly can get that for us. So if they eliminate inside millillage that would also then have to go to the voters to continue the same funding level to districts. So um a lot of things a lot of things. Okay. So, for for busing, Fran and I, we're um we have been working together to discuss what our staffing levels are, what transportation services we currently offer, have offered, can continue to offer. And as everybody's aware, there's a shortage of drivers
014in every district everywhere. And we see the campaigning everywhere for buses parked and asking, pleading and begging for people to take interest in becoming bus drivers. Um, and we're we've not been immune to that at all. And with mixed emotions this week, we said goodbye to one of our full-time drivers to retirement. So, we're excited for her and sad for us because she gets to go on to a wonderful adventure and we're trying to figure out our daily adventure at 6:00 a.m. through 400 pm. So, um we're getting we're also having a shortage of drivers from some employments that or um retirements that happened this year. Um, we also have two more individuals who are very much on the fence about retiring and likely will retire in some fashion. And when I say that, one
015thing that many people don't know or realize is that we blend a lot of a lot of um hours and people together to get our routes to go. So, back uh I don't know how many years and Fran can speak to it, you used to have the same driver in the morning as you did in the afternoon and that was their route and it worked really well. And as time has evolved um we're kind of peacemailing, right? like we have this person can do mornings and this person can can do afternoons but they can't do the full right com full route combined. So that becomes harder and harder to get consistency in the routes. Um, we've been using our custodial staff as drivers, I think, every day, but Fran can correct me. Um, or just
016about and we also have pulled our maintenance staff to do routes and parents have felt pain with having at times when all of that's not working, doing double up routing. So, we've really um worked as hard as we could. And please know that we've done a lot of efforts to recruit drivers um for this this year specifically. We have um we did the bus at the community events. We did the really cool t-shirt and the sign and all the drivers were at the one Friday night football game and it was kind of exciting. And then at the business expo, I sat in the bus which was super cool. I would encourage everybody when the bus is out there. It brings a whole new perspective to what we ask of these drivers. Um Fran told me
017I wouldn't make it as a driver by the way. So I'll just take that and accept it. Um we've looked at social media. We've engaged the efforts of a recruiter, too. And we've had some success with that. Uh, a couple people came in, they started training, and found out it wasn't for them, which is which is totally acceptable. And we have one that should be ready to go in the fall, um, if all goes well. But there's a lot of variability to that still. So, the time it's super time intense to train a driver. It's two to three months. It's on the road. It's in classwork. It's getting CDLs. And it's our onour board instructors spend a lot of time with them and um the understanding that you have to be on time and everything
018about transportation is time driven and by o'clock and everything operates to that. So with this staffing issue, we're trying to figure out how do we bring consistency to families for the fall and how do we continue to provide transportation at a level our community and parents expect and it's it's been a struggle very honestly. So, one of the things that we're looking at um doing is how do we cover the routes? And I would ask Fran to speak to maybe how many routes we have, how many are not covered. So, this year we had nine routes. There were two out of district and seven in district. We had 11 drivers. Five of them were part-time, so could only do a morning or an afternoon. And the other one, the maintenance, our maintenance guy, drove every
019afternoon. Um, our custodians were driving every week and I was driving every afternoon and um, so those part-time drivers, only one's coming back. So, right now I have six contracted drivers and one's on the fence. So, um, we might only have five drivers next year, which Wow. is huge a huge problem. Yeah. Okay. So with our with this in mind, what I mean there are more avenues for us to continue to look at. Please know this is not the only thing we're looking at, but one of our recommendations is to um look at discontinuation of the high school busing for grades 9 through 12. And that why that is and why did we come up with that as the start of this is it will allow us to bring that driver into in district routes
020to help cover our current routing. So we're trying to find ways to continue to provide busing services. If we don't bus our students, we don't bus out of district high school students. So it would save us one whole route at least. And number wise for our high school, how many students would that there's a there's I according to the report we did in the fall, we had 53 high school students that ride that ride. They don't ride consistently. They don't ride every, you know, a lot of them are in sports and after, so they're not on the bus every day, but 53 of them, that's what we reported. Could be siblings. They could be siblings. It's really one stop. But that was my next question is how often do we check like the families that
021sign up at the beginning of the year that stay riding? They if they don't ride, the driver if they don't ride for a couple weeks, the drivers come in and tell me, okay? And then I make a call to them and I just say, "We're taking you off the route for now. If you need it later, you know, give us a call and let us know because we do have them. I think in case of emergency, they sign up." But we don't we drivers know that within a couple weeks if no one's riding to let me know. Kelly, off the top of your head, what's what was our student population in high school? Oh, um 80 times 300 and 350. 350. Probably between 320 350. So 50 out of 350 you're using that's one 17th
022one. Sure. It's not a lot. Small percentage. Yeah. Did did the 53 um that just was our independence high school students. And then what is the number for parochial or outside? So that so the number there's like 32 St. Ignatius students. Uh they don't all right same thing you know. And then um Padawa I don't I didn't get their roster yet but last year only two rode. Okay. And holy name nobody rode last year. Okay. So um they didn't need to When you say two out of district, do you mean one morning, one in the afternoon? So that's two. No. Or do you mean two in the morning and two in the evening? Two in the morning, two in the afternoon. Because the other bus takes our K through eight out of district students. Okay.
023St. Albert, St. Kill, Incarnate Word. Gotcha. Okay. Those kids we will continue to bus because we're going to be busing K to 8. Yes. That's how would be the the elementary parochial and private will still be served. A couple other things that we've been that we were just starting to investigate though or research is there's um walk distances that maybe there's some areas that if you're you know within a half mile and I don't we have to we have to look at that though right what does the map look like certainly we don't want kids crossing 21 to come to the middle school kind of thing so that is just an option that we just learned of today and a couple other ones so um perhaps over the summer months we might be able to
024bring even more thoughts and suggestions of improvements to if we can't get the ultimate hope is that over the summer months we get more people to pass the tests, get through and become drivers, right? Um that is our ultimate goal here. But in the event that that doesn't work, we just don't want parents to not have any information or idea what what we're facing as a district. So great. And I will say that uh M uh Mr. Young, Matt Young, the superintendent of Kyoga Heights. We're going to meet to discuss um some op opportunities maybe with our elementary busing like if they're busing their private is that something that we could maybe, you know, go up like double up on that particular situation. CVCC. I'm also going to reach out to Parma. Um it might
025be a situation where some students who live I'm sorry, not Parma, Brexville. Might be that some students who live towards Brexville could maybe get on the Brexville bus for their private run. students who live on the other side could get on the Kyhoga Heights bus run. So, we are going to explore some of those options over the summer to see if that could alleviate that a full route for us out of district because I mean basically if we have nine now and we take one away for the high school busing, we're at eight and we have six contracted employees, right? So, we're still two in the hole. Um, you know, depending on whether or not we can fill those two positions. Um, you know, and then again, if you don't, then you're looking at taking,
026you know, our mechanic, not our mechanic, I'm sorry, our maintenance maintenance guy away every day. Um, Joe, and taking him and pulling him from his job, so he's driving buses. And then also our custodians, um, which, you know, can be a problem. And if we decide to go eliminate the high school busing, can we bring it back at some point if we recoup? Yeah. The numbers? We could always go back, you know, we could always add. We can always improve services. Yes. Yeah. And I I know there's been conversations. I mean, districts have done it. Um Nordonia is currently doing it where they have outsourced all of their busing to I don't know if it's Peterson or one of them. That's also an option. Usually you have to start thinking about that two years out
027to get on their weight list. Um but you know, it it's this is not a independence issue. You're seeing this everywhere. Um we're just trying to be um you know think kind of create creatively but also at the same time recognizing we need to give parents enough notice to let them know and we're actually bound by law to tell parents prior to a certain date whether or not we'll be busing their students. So that's why we're having this conversation tonight. Does Nardonia also do their extracurriculars as well? I don't know. I can ask them. So besides this meeting, are we sending communication to all families, just bus riding families? How is that going to be after tonight so they get enough notice? There's I mean I'm I'm our understanding is we're going to put forth
028a resolution to say that we're no longer going to be busing high school students. We would get that communication out tomorrow. Okay. And we would explain a lot of the data points. Okay. We'll bullet point it so people read it. Amen. So when as far as the resolution specifically is concerned, this attachment, do we have to give a reason legally why we're discontinuing the service? I mean, there's only two reasons or we just say we're just not providing. No, you can just you don't have to provide the reason for that. There's no reason. I noticed there was a reason in here, but I didn't know if that was We just wanted to be forward and transparent like we don't have drivers. So right now, this is not something we can do because we need to
029get Yeah. in and in our communication like and please make it clear that it's because we don't have gosh. Yes. You know, it's not because we don't want to provide it to people outside that like I want people to choose where they go to school. Um but you know, it's truly because we don't we don't have the drivers. And we'll share with families, you know, if they say like, well, why are you making the decision now when you're going to try to actively recruit or think creatively over the summer? And it's because we are bound by a date requirement. Now, if over the summer we do end up getting three or four bus drivers, right, or something creative happens and I'm like, "Oh, we don't have to do that on a district run because we've
030figured that out." Then we would absolutely communicate with families and let them know that we figured it out and now you have busing. And there some companies are even coming up with a business plan to provide drivers to districts and let them, you know. So, I mean, there's lots of things. It's just we just need to find the right mixture for us. Yeah. And what works for us. Yeah. And like Francie, I just want to take a second and like thank you like publicly. Like I know like we talk about it as a board, but like I see you when I'm picking up my kids like being on that bus and I know like you've had a full day and like also our custodians too. Like I mean that's I mean not really in their
031job description to like drive a bus full of kids like every day. And it also stinks for our our our buildings, our principles, like our staff like to not have their custodians, right? Um, you know, and unfortunately I get calls from people saying that they don't like how our landscaping looks and it's because they're driving our children, you know, so unfortunately there's like a domino effect. I don't think everybody sees it. But thank you for Thank you. Appreciate you. Yeah. And Katie, to your point as well, I know in our cabinet meeting on Monday, we did discuss with Francine, you know, she's the only one who knows how to do her job. Yeah. Yeah. That's so true. And so, you know, if she has to take time, I mean, I she's taken vacation days before
032and then there's no drivers and so she has to come back. Um, you know, and so that makes for a very stressful work life and very limited work life balance. So, you know, we're also thinking about, you know, she was brought up from the ranks back in the day, right, as a bus driver, then to the transportation director. So, we need to also start thinking about who's taking that role over because if you can promote and train someone internally, um that works best. So, we are thinking about that as well. Not that she's leaving anytime soon. I'm just saying yeah, if she needs to get No, I'm not asking to be negotiable. I'm just saying if if um she decides or even just wants to take a vacation, like she puts in for vacation and
033I hold my breath the entire like five days. Please make every day go away. Yeah. Any questions for us though that we didn't discuss or anything of I mean it's obviously of concern in general, but is there any other specific things we can either get data for you or answer this evening while France's here other than the going private? I would just like obviously was we have a a neighbor doing it. So just to see what how long they've been doing it, do they like it, not like it? And so actually the funny thing is is um it's their business director who happens to be Steve Marlo. Cool. So, I reached out to Steve. So, we're going to do a conference call next week. Um, and he's going to give me some information on that.
034Okay. That's good. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for sharing all that. Thank you. Well, thanks for joining us at the table. You can stay if you want. You can stay. You're welcome. Okay. We're moving into public participation. It's the policy of the Independence Board of Education to hear public comment at board meetings. The public is invited to speak to any of the agenda items and other school topics at this time. Comments should be limited to three minutes. If anybody wants to speak, I I have a microphone here so I can come to you. No. Okay. Moving on from that and we will move on to approval of our minutes from May 6 special meeting. May 9th also a special meeting and May 20th our regular board meeting. Do we need a
035a motion? No, it's in consent. Okay. Sorry guys. It's okay. But it is my turn again. It's your turn again. I know. Two months in a row that you guys get to hear a lot from me. So this is wonderful. uh the treasur's report. Um the finances are very straightforward as you know. Um sorry this I wanted that on the table so I didn't write um very straightforward but we close Monday and they're here. So I forgot to send out my my um narrative. So I'll do that today too this evening yet. So I apologize for that. Then we talk about the adoption of the school employee retirement and the state teachers one which is a compliance issue. And then that is it for me. And just a reminder, uh, Thursday, June 26 at 8:30,
036we'll be going over going over our final appropes and our beginning appropes for next year. Thank you. And superintendent recommendations for um, is there any questions on there for I I think that's pretty self-explanatory. Yeah. Um, so can I move to personnel? Um so if you click on um certified uh personnel, you'll see quite a lot of movement in there. So as I told the staff um at our um you know kind of closing day yesterday, there's just been um you know a lot of changes and I know sometimes change can be hard but I think you know it can also be good. Um and so I'm excited about having a fairly large incoming group of new um teachers, administrators into our district. So really excited about that. Um any questions on anyone on the
037list or are we good? Um you'll see Brooke Gradard on there twice. Um and and for her extended days, it was to give her some two additional days in June to work with the new IPS principal and then an additional two in August. They get three. She gets three for the year. So we wanted to give her a couple so she could work with um with Jodie Hughes. And then Caroline Quinn is the new hire at the high school. Mike has asked for her to have some transition days so she can come now in June and work with Kyle and Connie before they go home on some of the closeout stuff and communication for next year. Um and then uh personnel classified again pretty straightforward. There's some amendments on there. Nothing major. We just forgot
038to put the levels. Uh supplemental contracts. Um you will see here we have the um actually you know what? Let me go back to Sorry. They're pulled out. They're pulled out. H they're pulled out. Oh, thank you. I'm like where are the supplemental? Okay. Um, let me we'll go through this other per well the for us tonight the supplemental makes sense to also do with my other personnel. So if you want to go down a little bit to item L uh we pulled out supplementals because um Carrie will abstain because of um somebody that is a relation when voting. But you'll notice on the supplemental contracts, um, this looks a little bit different than it did last year. And it's because we've decided to not pro approve all supplementals for the year here in June.
039You will see just the fall supplementals on there. Those are the ones we've secured. Um, and then you'll see um, probably around August, you'll see then the winter and then in the winter, you'll see the spring. Um, it allows us to control more when somebody says they want to do something now and we've board approved it and then they end up not doing it in the winter and they give it to somebody else. Then we have to resend. We then have to put it back on the board for who's going to take it. So, just gets really messy. So, we've decided to kind of clean it up a little bit. Um, but I did want to say um boys basketball is winter though. Just boys basketball is No, I know. But we added it on
040because just wanted I just wanted to clarify that. So, um you'll see boys basketball um on here. And the reason it's added, although not a fall sport, is because we just hired um our varsity boys ba basketball coach, which is Matt Grundell. And Matt happens to be in the audience tonight. Um so really excited to have him here. Um, and so I'm going to talk a little bit about Matt, but I'm going to jump right up into the other personnel because Matt is not only going to be our um, varsity boys basketball coach, he is also going to be our dean of students for our 5 through 12th grade. So, he'll be working closely with Mr. Janitovich and um, as well as um, um, Miss Hughes, I'm sorry, um, Miss Mueller, the middle school principal,
041the new middle school principal. So really excited to have Matt here in that capacity. Matt comes to us from Riverside uh since 2013. He's been there uh working as an intervention specialist. So a teacher there in the district. He has his administrative certificate as well as his intervention specialist license. Um you know he's been their basketball co coach. I think something to note is he set the school record for the most wins during a season in 22 and 23 with you know 21 wins. Um, and I think probably he also played uh college basketball at Lake Erie College. And I think probably even more exciting than that is he is and I I have 2008 2008 graduate of Independence High School. Um, so full circle for Matt to come back and work here. Um, I
042think he set some records here in Independence as well. So, um, a lot for our boys to be excited about and our, um, community to be excited about. Um, I happen to be watching the Twitter feed and the Facebook feed and the comments in there. Um, so really excited to have Matt here. Uh, Matt, um, is with his wife. He's got his two little little boys here. One of them is starting, um, our preschool program in the in the fall. So, as the wife of a coach, I recognize how distance is amazing, right? When you can just pop up and you're not like, where are you? Um, so, um, I'm happy and excited for you. Um, it's our win. Uh, so thank you for, you know, putting your name out there and, um, and accepting
043the position. So really excited about that. And his family's here with him, mom and dad. Um, and his dad, if Dave shared with me, he was on the school board. So, um, yeah. So, just really a full circle moment. So, I did I forgot about how many years How many years were you on school board? Nine years. Nine years. And I served for Joan Zach last year. Oh. from 83 to 913. Oh, I was able to my first year for chance coach last years. Oh, yeah. I was in school then. So that's Don't tell anything about me. But yeah, so Matt really excited. So Matt, yeah, I don't know if you want to say anything. Say anything. I'm really excited to be back here. We got already started some things this week. We're looking forward
044to trying to build program. Thank you, Matt. We have no doubt. So, thank you. Yep. Excited. Thanks for coming, Heather. Thanks, man. Thank you. Congratulations. Yeah. Congrats. Almost. Yeah. Almost. I'm sure you'll be fine. Um, do you want me to jump back to number four? Is there any other questions on the um and then we consent? Personnel J, personnel K or sorry, personnel J. Um, anything else in here? You can speak to it if you want. Okay. No. Um I am sorry. Can we We're going to jump back to four in section I really fast before we approve the consent agenda just for the transportation recommendation. So yeah, I'm sorry. Thank you for pointing that out because it was under the superintendent. I'm going to have Jen speak to that a little bit. No, it's
045fine. That's fine. I'm sorry. So the declaration of impractical to transport for the current school year and I say current because in my world we're still in this school year of 2425. Um so these are the students that we will be issuing in le of payments to so these um are the and I forget how many exactly I think there was seven students eight. Okay. So what this is is just declaring them impractical to transport so that we can issue their payment to them for them applying for um payment in lie of instead of transporting. Ouch my just fell. So um and just so you know in the fall we're going to be seeing this coming back again because uh once they apply for it then we should be approving it. So we realize that
046um how we're doing it is not incorrect. It's just we could do it better. So we're going to look at improving that process for next year. So, you're going to see it kind of quickly and you're going to think, "Didn't we just do that?" And it's going to be for the upcoming school year that we will be in at that time. And I'm going to I know I didn't talk about the fee structure. You You're like, "I thought we approved the fee structure last last board meeting." We did. This is just some clarification on some other pieces that were still out there. Um so, we wanted to make sure those are in. Uh Charlene has worked on a communication that will go out to families. Um, so we're just confirming that, making sure everything's right
047before we send that out, sharing with them that the new fees will be on the um final forms for when they start registering in July. Uh, so just letting you know that. Um, and then also too, I think I shared with a couple of you, Charlene um has created I asked her to kind of create a survey um, and we talked about like just getting some feedback from our residents about our communication this year. So a communication survey went out I believe either today or yesterday. Yesterday. Yeah. To all the families. So um I will once that data comes back in from those who participate um you know I'll share that data with you just to see what the suggestions were or how people felt about our communication this year. Thank you. Now I'm good.
048Okay. All right. And go to section K. Yes, please. Yes. Very good. Um, we'll approve consent agenda from items G1 through J4 as present presented, including any amendments that are presented. Can I have a motion, please? So move. Second. Carry and then Tony. Call please. Mr. Aila. Yes. Mr. Bernstein. Yes. Mrs. Laskkey. Yes. Mrs. Sears. Yes. Mrs. Hill. Yes. Letter L. Jumping down to L. Supplemental contracts. Um, I have a motion to approve the supplementals. Second. Lynn and Tony. Roll please. Mr. Aila. Yes. Mr. Bernstein. Yes. Mrs. Laskkey. Mrs. Sears. Mrs. Hill. Yes. Thank you. Okay. And then we have our third grade. Oh, this is the reduction in new in the new business. Uh, one of the policies in our pol, as you all know, we're doing a policy audit and every um month
049we're bringing first and second reads as we continue to go through some of our policies we found to be pretty outdated. So, um, this this, uh, 4131 is one that is in the HR section. So, um, this has just been updated. The last time it was updated was prior to the law changing. So, this is updating to be in compliance with current law. Okay. Okay. And there's no action on that at this time. It's first reading. Very good. Along with the third grade reading guarantee. Very good. Um upcoming events, Thursday, June 26, we have our finance meeting um at the board office at 8:30 a.m. and then our regular board meeting Tuesday, July 15th at 6 p.m. here at the high school media center. And we'll do the um approval for board resolution in support
050of the fair school funding plan. Are we going to talk about um meeting in executive session now about that 26th meeting? Do we have to talk talk about that? Oh, that the time's going to change. We'll we'll change that time on Yes. So, you can meet in executive session prior to that 26. Thank you. Okay. Yeah. Jen will send that out. 8:30 or 9 or whatever's best for everybody. Yeah. Yeah. Once you guys let me know. Okay. There'll be an adjust essentially there'll be an adjustment to time to the June 26 riveting financial meeting. Yeah. Riveting. And because we are still hiring a lot, there may be me sending out a text saying like, "Hey, can I get three of you at least to come to um approve approval contracts?" Okay, very good. All right.
051Um can we have a motion, please, for the um fair school funding plan? So move second. Tony and Lynn, roll please. Mr. Aila, yes. Mr. Bernstein, yes. Mrs. Mrs. Sears, Mrs. Hill, yes. Um, do any of the board members have any comments on anything? Just congratulations to all the graduates. Um, it looked like this year there was lot more graduates that were going straight to work program, which is great. Um, where's that? and it's it's just funny sometimes how year after year graduates seem to u gear towards a certain career as opposed to the previous year. Um, so I just Yep. thought it was a lot of a lot of kids again are going towards the uh biology premed programs which is for a school our size I think is is awesome. So good luck
052to all them and we'll see how they do. There are a tremendous amount of compliments on the video. Yeah, the video the video. So, I don't I know next year's not a milestone year, but I don't know if there's a some way or shape or form you can incorporate another video. Um, but I don't know. Yeah, it was actually it was Ella. It was Ella's and um and Joe's. Oh, wow. Came up with it. Yeah, it was professional. Mr. McInness doing I know. I told him I'm like, you have a really good um radio voice, Morgan Freeman. Um I do need to work with Charlene because we do want to put that out. I know it's in the graduation thing, but we'd like to have the the link out so other people could see it.
053Yeah. Yeah. And I think the community would really love it. The council, I think everybody would really love it. I I do want to say just real quick, I want to thank Kelly like the changes that you brought this year. Um I was able to stop by the teacher honorary years of service and retirement recognition and they showed the video to the teachers that weren't able to make graduation. I wasn't actually able to make it myself, so I got to see it. Um I just it was a great great vibe, great energy. I just want to thank you. I think the teachers really appreciated the coffee and the donuts and just the time together to kind of wrap up the school year. So, I just want to say thank you for all those new changes
054and exciting way to end end the school year. So, I did get a really nice email from Mark Corpus and he he did say he's like in I think he's been here 26 years. He's like in 26 years we've never been together on the last day. Yeah. And he's like and so it kind of was like you just kind of went your own way. He's like it was great to be together and celebrate a successful school year and honor those people. So, yeah, certainly it was a good thing. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you for doing that. Um, we do need to just go back to O section two for discontinuation of the high school busing. Um, for approval the attached resolution discontinuing high school busing services. So, we need a motion for that. Ron first.
055One second. And again, it can be added back. It just can't be taken away. So, just wanted to make sure we highlight that. Call roll, please. Mr. Aila, yes. Mr. Bernstein, yes. Mrs. Laskkey, yes. Mrs. Sears, Mrs. Hill, yes. Um, section P, executive session. Um, motion to approve to enter an executive session for the purpose of employment. We will be going through the evaluation for Mrs. Kogan after this. Um, so there is no further action after our executive session. So if I could have a motion to go into executive session. So move. Second. Carrie and Ron. Enroll please. Mr. Reveal. Yes. Mr. Bernstein. Yes. Mrs. Laskkey. Yes. Mrs. Sears. Mrs. Hill. Yes. And you're inviting um We are inviting Kelly Kogan in. Thank you. Thank you everybody for being here tonight. Thank you. Congratulations. Yeah.
056Thanks for coming, Francie. Appreciate it. Um before Yes. So, we're looking for the high school for the for the bond issue. We'd like to put a request out for an architect to help us with that as we begin to prepare for what it will look like. Yes. Okay. What? I'm sorry. Yeah. Did I say I didn't mean high school. I'm sorry. Did I say high school? Yes. I'm sorry. I did not mean high school. I'm so sorry. They mean Easter. Yes. The elementary middle school plans. We don't know what those are going to be. We have an idea, but we want to get an architect to help us. It's been a long year for really has to sign this. Give it back to John. Yes. Perfect. Thanks, Laura. Thank you. You just Yeah. Hey. Yeah.
057No, I'm good. I'm going to go in the side room for my Yeah. Oh. Oh, yeah. And then