001I would like to call to order the meeting, the regular board meeting for February 10th, 2026. Um, let's stand for the pledge of 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. >> Now take a moment for Oh, roll. >> Mrs. Deer, >> present. Mr. Moto >> here. >> Mrs. Walker >> here. >> Okay. And now we will take a moment for silent prayer meditation. Amen. Thank you. Um, can I get a motion to approve the February 10th, 2026 agenda for the Jonathan Alber regular school board meeting? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Roll call. >> Mr. Hulie. >> Yes. Mrs. Delweiler? >> Yes. >> Mr. McCartney? >> Yes. >> Mr. Boto? >> Yes. >>
002Mrs. Walker? >> Yes. >> Motion passes. >> Okay. And I get a motion to approve the minutes from January 13, 2026 organizational and regular board meeting and the January 29th, 2026 special meeting. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Roll call. >> Mr. McCartney. >> Yes. >> Mr. Roto. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Walker. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Dweiler. >> Yes. >> Mr. Hulie. >> Yes. Motion passes. >> Okay. Superintendent report. >> Thank you, Mr. Deweiler. I shared with the board uh back in January January at the special meeting how pleased I was with the um construction manager at risk process, the interview process, uh the proposals, and the selection process. And I wanted to uh thank uh our friends with us here from RIL. It's Tony. If you would just give us a hand. Mike is
003with us >> and Kyle. >> Kyle is with us. Thank you for being with us. I'm really just looking forward to the partnership, um the communication, the relationship, um staying on schedule and staying on budget and you supporting us, uh communicating and that transparency with our community and our taxpayers. It's so important to us over the next several years. I'm really looking forward to that work. Um is there anything that you guys would like to address the the board with? You don't have to, but I wanted to provide that opportunity. >> Now, just on behalf of Verselli, uh Tony Rouscelli, just like to say thank you to the board and the community for the opportunity to serve as your construction manager at risk. We're excited to be an extension of a partnership with you to
004uh make this become a reality. So, uh we're ready to roll up our sleeves and get started. So, thank you for that. >> We're looking forward to it. Thank you. Thanks for being with us this evening as well. Um, I wanted to share with the board that SHP Kyle Miller and Josh Predovich have been very active in our buildings. We've had multiple meetings at each of our buildings uh with regards to designing and planning for Kanan's next steps, the junior high and high school. All of our uh staff have had updates as far as what to expect and what's coming and to discuss the timeline so there's no um surprises for anyone in the district. Our fourth grade parent meetings are underway. This is um you know under coordination of Carla Quick and um principal
005Walter for fourth graders going to Kanan early. You know we're transitioning at least three fourth grade classes next year and then all the fourth grade the following year. Um those meetings we had one last week with Plain City Elementary. I I was estimating probably 60 to 70 adults. Mr. Walter thought there might have been more. You know, it was a we were expecting a challenging meeting, but it was received very well. We gave as much information as we could as far as how this is an opportunity for our rate, our fourth grade students and families. Not a a predicament that they're in, but an opportunity that presents themselves for our families. Very wellreceived. Lots of emails afterwards, lots of conversations. Now we have a new problem. Now the problem is what do we do when
006we have to cut off because we have more than 75 families that want to come over to Cayman. So we have another meeting tomorrow at Monroe and then we have another meeting with our fourth grade families at Cayman for anyone that couldn't make the first four and then I'll report back to the board on what those numbers look like for those three fourth grade classrooms going to Cayman for next year. Any questions from the board on that? So, I'm looking forward to our presentations this evening, this innovation uh course and and presentation by our students. I'm really excited about this because this is a huge lift um by our teaching and and learning department to change what this space looked like for teaching and learning when students were here or you know the board knows
007maker space and some of the other uh buildings. So now we are doing true teaching and learning and it's an innovation space and here at the junior high led by Mrs. Hess. So we're so excited to hear from you guys and um our concession stand u remodel by Landon. Landon, are you here? >> All right. And we're we're really looking forward to hearing uh about this project, seeing some before and after pictures. And I'm going to ask that the board step through that concession stand. Have you been in that concession stand before? Oh, yes. >> You'll be surprised. >> All right, I'm going to hand it over to Principal Melany. >> All right, good evening. I'm Ryan Lane. I have the honor of uh serving as the principal here at the junior high. Um Ford,
008thank you for coming down this evening. Guests, thanks for coming. Parents, thank you for taking time this evening to to share your kids with us. um they've they've got a lot of cool things to share and so um I'll get through uh just a quick update from the building and then turn it over to them to tell their story about uh the work that they've done. Um just a few highlights from our our 25 26 school year here at the junior high. Um couple highlights, our annual Veterans Day assembly was great. Uh Mr. Mike Leia was our guest speaker. Um we've added this year elevate advisory project. So within our advisory program, we have a few days where we do extended advisory schedules. um our students have been working on some real world problems, some
009real world challenges and they're going to create some real world presentations for that um in the next uh month or so. Um we've added weekly manners and mindset lessons in advisory where we cover everything from um how to appropriately clear a table to how we get along or how to take feedback or how to um include others at lunch, things like that. So, we've added that piece this year and then of course our annual student council dances. Um most recent Valentine's dance was Friday night. Great hit with our kids. Um thank you to Mrs. Garner because she's here um for all of her coordination with our student council with that. We've had several musical accomplishments throughout the year um including concerts with our our choirs. We've added a um a third choir this year. So
010we have a baritone choir led by Mr. Mays and then two treble choirs as well. Um we have a number of band students that participated in honor bands. We had a wonderful fall drama presentation. Our student council has been busy in several different community activities and I want to shout out to power the pin. Um we competed again on this past Saturday. Seventh grader Natalie Reese brought home the second place prize for them. We also added this year um Mrs. Brianna Shainer, one of our STEM teachers, um has led teacher tech sparks. So, a few days after school, um each month she will take time and just have like a small nugget of um teacher professional development where she highlights a few tech tools, how to use them in your class, and there's just good
011discussion around uh the tools that you're you that they're using. Uh Mr. Moyer is going to highlight some athletic accomplishments in a second, but we also want to talk about career chats. Um you're going to hear from our students about how career chats um we talked to you last year about how we had all of our students participate in those. Um it was a big group in the gym. Um, and so this year we've kind of restructured things to make it a little more intimate, a little more um, hands-on for our students and and it's gone very well. Uh, lastly, I want to highlight our innovation intervention time and that's what you're going to hear about this evening from Mrs. Hess's group. Annual pumpkin drop went well Christmas store decorating. Uh, we again continue the
012tradition of bringing home the first place in the Madison County uh, spelling be both written and oral bee with Jonathan Walker. So like great traditions going on there. Yeah, it was great. It was great. As we get down to the end of the oral beat, it's nice to see uh so many Jonathan Oliver shirts left up there at the end. And so then when we had first place to um it was outstanding. Our theme is better every day. It's been our theme for several years. Um we try to embrace it in everything from how the principal leads to school, how the teachers teach their classes, how the students learn in the building. Um we we don't care how you come in each day, but we want you to show up and get a little bit
013better at something. So in that we picked four themes for the year that we've worked on as a staff. Connecting students through advisory, celebrating students through PBIS, supporting students through MTSS or multi-tered systems of support, and uh growing students through future ready work, which is what you'll hear about today. I'm going to invite Mr. Moira up to share just a quick overview of some athletic announcements for you. So I'm Scott Moyer. I'm the assistant principal athletic director and I have the privilege to brag about our kids for just a minute here. Um, just to recap some of our athletic accomplishments. Um, starting in the fall, our eighth grade football team went undefeated CBC champions. Um, our eighth grade volleyball team won the CBC championship. Um, both our cross country teams, uh, both boys and girls.
014Girls were CBC champions, boys were runner up. Um, switching into winter, um, we hosted the Madison County Quad again. Um, I think now that's four years in a row. three, four years in a row, we hosted that um where we host West Jefferson, London, and Madison Plains. Um we are champions of that. And just this past weekend, we were runner runners up in the CBC. Um this past Saturday, um seventh grade girls basketball won the CBC championship on Saturday. Um eighth graders played super awesome. Um just came up short against Bud Logan. Um so they were runner up. Um, and currently we're in the middle of our boys basketball tournament. Both seventh and eighth grade boys are currently the number one seeds. Um, they just won here last night and they will play again Thursday
015night where hopefully they'll win and move on to the championships on Saturday. So, a lot to celebrate there. But more importantly than that, um, I can't tell you how great of kids we have in our athletic programs. um our coaches just are blown away with how great our kids are. I hear from opposing teams coaches um how respectful and hardworking our kids are. Um so it's really cool and just a really proud moment. Um it's just a reflection on this community um and our parents and our and our kids. They're just awesome awesome kids. So um that's my humb humble brag. Um thank you to the board for um your support of the athletic program. We got a lot of special kids coming up to high school. >> Great. Great. Great. >> Thank you. Thank
016you to Mr. Moyer. Um being administrator all day long and then we all get to go home. Kids get to go home. Um and then his work continues throughout the night. Um basketball winter season's a lot for him and and time to be away. Um there's snow on the ground, but this week we already started talking about track, passing out the track um signup sheet and giving the information meeting for that. So spring is coming. Um, warmer weather is just around the corner. Um, as we look ahead, things we're continuing to focus on this building in response to enrollment. Um, as our building grows, as our community grows, um, keeping a student centered experience for our kids and all that we do, um, transition into our new building, if I'm doing math right for a
017calendar that you haven't approved yet, um, 925 days from today, um, no pressure, gentlemen, is, uh, is potentially the grand opening of a a new space for us. So, uh, we're excited. We really are. We, um, when we had our first meeting with SHP, um, it's just an exciting energy that that is in the air, um, as we start to countdown down here, but, also, um, just the excitement of of what's ahead for our students. Um, we talked as a staff about the the tens of thousands of kids that are going to go through that building. Um, and so we're we're just a little blimp on that timeline. Um, but we recognize that it's a cool opportunity for our community and the future students. So, we're excited about that. I can talk about that all
018day. Um and then exploratory options and then uh future ready work as we continue to look at how do we get our kids ready for whatever the next step is which then takes us to um we have two presentations tonight. You heard a little bit about it. Um Landon Garner, one of our current eighth graders um and he'll share his his journey, but he he came to me last spring um and just kind of proposed I'd like to do something to make our our school community better as part of my Eagle Scout project. Can you help me come up with a few ideas to to brainstorm? Um it was a tight timeline. He's going to talk about that. Um but he just took it and ran with it. And I I just want to um
019share my appreciation to him and his family and and um all the Boy Scouts that that worked with him on um it they just captivated all that we want kids to do. He's reinvested in our building. He's reinvested in our community. Um and and it's truly a pay it forward project. So in just a second, I'll have Landon come up and and share his journey and then I'm going to turn over to Mrs. has our innovation assistant who's going to talk about something we added this year um called innovation intervention during lunchtime. So we'll talk about that. I'm going to turn it over to Landon and uh let him share HIS name Garner. I'm in the eighth grade and I'm here to speak about my project. to remodel the junior high school concession stand. Part
020of becoming an Eagle Scout is to plan and lead a project benefiting your community. I was most interested in helping my school, the place that has educated me and made me who I am. So, I asked Mr. Melanie for ideas and he brought up fixing the concession stands. I quickly could envision that to be my project and began fundraising. When I asked him when he needed this project done by and he said August 18th back in mid May, I thought it'd be impossible. As you can see, there were many issues with the system back then. These bull points like eyesore of a space, a heavy unsafe window, claustrophobic, just not very good, very ugly, very hard to use. Just got some more pictures on that. people leaving their stuff after volunteering just in the corner
021over there. >> No way. >> So, there were five main stages to carrying out this project. Um, we started with gutting. You can see up in the top left. We gutted it out and just took everything out so that we could fix it up. And then we got the Boy Scouts to paint the walls. You can see some of that in the right side. And then I had Bill Heinig, um, Mrs. Hinneck's husband, help me to build a counter space to put the hot dog roller and popcorn machine and heater on, and it is great for storage. He helped me with that, so shout out to him. Um, and then I assembled shelving and equipment for display purposes. and finally stopped concessions and kind of made some videos and documents to help the leaders uh
022adjust to the new concessions there. Uh volunteers of friends, families or friends, my family, scouts in our community carried these stages out. I couldn't have done it without them. There's just some more pictures of the during. You can see the shelves being put up and the table being made for storage. And then finally, uh, my grandparents at the Hillyard Station Baking Company helped me to kind of get rid of that yellow color that was very ugly and give it all, you know, older red, white, black finish. So after we've received uh great feedback from students, parents, and teachers that concession stands look official and a lot better. And more parents in general just wanted to help volunteer. And then here's some bullet points. We've got painted walls, a new door that actually lines up with
023the hallway. Um a hot dog roller. Uh uh something that's actually been very helpful is the uh square terminal which is you know it helps you to use cards instead of just cash and to uh help with change and just overall logistics. So here's just uh the concessions in our new season of volleyball and basketball wrestling. We received $935 in donations from friends and family, $51127 in donations from Lily's Homes Lumber, Ace Hardware, and Hillard Station Baking Company, and 60 hours in volunteers from scouts, friends, family, and Jonathan Alder School District. So, thank you John Aler schools for a donation towards a new door, community support and appreciation of this project, my supportive family helping me along the way, and my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. >> So, Landon, what what's the status of your
024Eagle Scout scout? Are you applying or what? Uh, >> I still have a few merit badges left to do. Okay. Um, but then yeah, I'll be good for my equal board. >> Great job. >> He thought of everything. >> He's super humbled by this. He he he poured his summer into this while everyone else was hanging out and doing all the fun things. Um, he and his team were here. It wasn't just him. It was his leadership um of his peers that have um designed projects um helped create partnerships and and uh a lot of communication with area businesses on on how to support it. So, he took it and ran with it. Um, shout out to his family as well. It's been an investment for them. Um, Mrs. Garner has helped on the PTO
025side of things to um, kind of take the baton from him and and continue to to move it forward. Um, as we have gotten into volleyball and basketball season for concessions, um, are an incredibly profitable season. Um, which all that money goes back to our students and staff. Um, a lot of it is paid for for Washington DC scholarships for our kids. So, um, thanks to his work and and the team that makes that possible. So, um, after our second presentation, um, we'll kind of take a break if that's all right. And then if you want to go check out the concession stand, Landon will be out there if you have questions or want to want to chat with him. But Landon, thank you again for your or give him a round of applause. Next,
026I'm going to invite Mrs. Hup and some students who are going to share um an opportunity that we've created this year. Um if you um have had students in our building previously, we have a chunk of the time in the middle of our day where half of our kids are at lunch and half of our kids are at an intervention time. And as a staff and as we start to work on some of the future ready and the portrait of pioneer um kind of the the skills that we're trying to um make sure our students have, we talked to the staff to say where can we add some opportunities for our students. And that was uh this is where the the idea was born um to create this innovation intervention time um for students to
027come down and create. Um and so early on in the process, we brought Mrs. pass on board um to a a a blank slate and and said um here's kind of the brainstorm, but but take this and run with it. And she has done just an absolutely tremendous job. So, I'll turn it over to her um and then we'll share the story. >> Thank you, Mr. Melany. Um >> as he said, my name is Megan Hess, and it has been an absolute joy to work with these students this year. Um, I like to call them my guinea pigs because we are figuring it out as we go. But I think it's a really good skill for them to learn that you just kind of have to sometimes work and see what works and what doesn't.
028So, as you can see on the screen, our vision for innovation intervention is to give students hands-on experiences that focus on our JA future ready industries. Um, it wasn't just me. There's a whole team of us, but we got together and we would plan units that highlight each of the seven future ready industries. In planning these units, we really worked hard to make sure that it was handson and collaboration was highlighted for these students because a lot of these kids were spending their intervention or their intervention time just sitting in a classroom. We said, "No, we want to get them out. We really want to get them um working with their hands. So, at the beginning of each unit, what I'll do is I will give them the assignment for the project or the projects
029that they're doing. And then from there, I kind of let it go and I say, "You have to figure this out. Um, you need to use your cohort, which is your team members. You have to use critical thinking. You need to be problem solvers to figure out how are we going to make this project work." Um, I push the kids really hard in this area because it's not a strength that a lot of these kids have and they need to experience that and I don't want them just to give up and ask a teacher for help or just quit on the project. So, I have to give a lot of grace in this space and I do really work hard to make it a safe space so that they can try and if they fail
030it's okay. This isn't a graded class, so if they fail, nothing happens. But more often than not, they actually succeed. And I'm so proud of these kids. Um, some of the activities that we have done, and I can't list them all, but are we made a entire cardboard city. Um, each student had their building to create, and I'll let them talk about that a little bit more. We dissected gummy bears to learn medical terminology, including planes of the body. We used tools to disassemble old appliances that teachers were so gracious to bring in. So, curling irons, um, routers, old keyboards, screens, the most random things. But the kids got to actually disassemble these pieces and see, okay, what's really inside of these pieces? Um, they made paper. They most recently, cohort A, got to make
031ice cream as they began their Aggra business unit. Um, doing all of these projects can be at times a little bit crazy in this space, but the kids have a lot of fun and I think they sometimes forget that they're actually learning some amazing skills and act and they just think that they're having fun down here and I take that as a win. So often they're having too much fun that they forget that this is actually something that's preparing them for the workforce. So once a month we host career chats. We actually have one tomorrow where we have business professionals from the local community come in and talk about a certain topic that we have been studying in class. So tomorrow the topic will be on technology. And so the kids get to come in,
032they get to be in small groups with these presenters. They get to hear about the industries that are local to our community. They get to hear from these people what job skills are they looking for? what is it that they see that they want the people that they hire to have? And the kids are like, "Wait, we're working on those. We we have to have problem solving." And when they say that, it's just like this light bulb moment for them. Something that's really great about this class is there's a lot of flexibility to what I can do in here. So, one of the things I realized is that these students didn't exactly know that they have to prepare to be listeners at a presentation. So what we do now is we spend several or we
033spend a day and we spend a good amount of time where we look at the bios of the people that are coming to present to the students and then we look at the businesses that they're representing. And as a class we come up with some questions that they could ask to the presenters. And what I found is that the kids are now coming into these meetings so much more confident. They're asking questions that really start to engage and they're actually enjoying their time with these speakers. We've heard so much great feedback from our speakers on these students and it's just those kind of skills that they're learning that are really going to benefit them moving forward. I really could talk a lot longer on this, but you guys want to hear the kids. So, I'm
034going to have the students come up shortly, but I just want to highlight how this works. So, we have seven um future ready industries. They spend in a cohort, which is a small group, about four weeks on a particular topic. So, cohort A back in the fall started with construction. When they were done with construction, then cohort B moved in, started construction, they moved healthcare, so on and so forth. Until December, we had four cohorts doing four different projects in this room. Yes. Thank Yes. What you're thinking is exactly what it is. It's chaotic. It's loud. It's really messy. If a teacher has the classroom or the library reserved after innovation, I I say, "Sorry, we're going to get it cleaned up." Um, that's how they work through this. So, there there's a lot of
035moving parts to this. I have a lot of great help. U Mrs. Lindseay Kaufman, she is with me. U Mrs. Megan Bar, she comes down three days a week with the seventh graders. And Mrs. Sally Sugar comes down three days a week with the eighth graders. And the team has just been absolutely amazing. So now I'm going to have the students come up with you. I want them to share their a unit that they want to represent and then just their general thoughts about innovation intervention. As a note, we are cohort A is currently in Agra business and nobody's gotten to service yet. So today we're just going to be highlighting the first five. So at that point, Lizzie, you're up. Hello, my name is Lizzie Miller. I'm an eighth grader and a part of
036cohort B. In the construction unit, each cohort was assigned one part of the city, the city center, the industrial section, the suburbs, or the rural area. Each person was assigned to construct one building in their section. Each cohort had to work together to design the layout, and then all four were put together to create one large city layout connected with the road. My cohort had to build the industrial section of our city. I chose to build a factory. While building, I had to figure out how to get my factory to stay together and also to fit in the space I was given. I had to be creative so that my building was interesting and not just a blank cardboard box. I like how my design turned out and my favorite part was the guardrail I
037created at the top of my building. My cohort collaborated well when figuring out the layout of our of our section and other times when helping each other with gluing or connecting things. For example, when Paxton was having a hard time getting his electric tower to stay standing, we all worked together to make a secure base for it at the center of our base. I really like how the entire city came together with each part combining with the next. It's cool to know that I had a part in the project. I really enjoy my time here as a part of this intervention group because I really didn't do much in my regular intervention. I am enjoying this chance to use my intervention time using all the doing all of the different projects, being creative, and hanging
038out with the other kids. Hello everyone. My name is K Bloom. I'm an eighth grader from CO I'm an eighth grader in cohort A and I'm here to talk about our healthcare unit. In the healthcare unit, we focused on research and small group presentations. We were able to research a healthcare career of our choosing and created a display to highlight our career. I personally chose opthalmology, but what really stood out to me was about about the healthcare unit was the wide variety of jobs available ensuring that everyone finds something they like. A unique experience for me was getting to hear from a real life opthalmologist during our healthcare career track. Meeting opthalmologist Dr. Katie Woodrow really boosted my interest in this career and helped my creativity in making my 3D eye model. She even shared
039her email with me in case I needed any more help. Presenting to my classmates made me feel even more confident about my project and I really enjoyed their questions and reactions. Overall, I find it so much fun to explore all the different job options during innovation intervention. Thank you all so much for your time and hope you enjoy the rest of YOUR >> HI, my name is Callum Crutch and I'm seventh grade. I am in seventh grade. I am a part of cohort C. In the manufacturing unit, we did several week-long projects to learn about the process of manufacturing products from start to finish. One of the projects we did was an appliance dissection. We were given an old appliance that we had to disassemble down to all of its individual parts. We classified the
040parts we found and then compared our findings with other kids in in our cohort. The appliance I was assigned was a blow dryer. While working, I had some struggles, but I was able to persevere. I was asked to look for specific parts like the motor, the heating element, and the circuit board. The challenge I had was I was able to find a motor and heating element, but I couldn't find a circuit board. I worked hard to find one, but learned that my appliance didn't need one in order to function. This class is very fun and makes me feel good because I know I have people around me who can help me every day. I love this class, and it is what I look forward to every day. Hi, my name is Penny Hubert and I'm
041in seventh grade. My name is is Alicia Martinez and I am in seventh grade. We are both in cohort A. The project we were given for the logistics unit was to work in small groups to create a plan for transporting a specific product assigned to us by Mrs. F. We were tasked with identifying the best route to take, calculating the transportation transportation costs and solving any special challenges that we may have also had to go to spear sphere of bolt that could carry a pipe cleaner creation showing the route of transportation we chose. At the end of the project, we were able to present our findings to the entire intervention group. The challenge we were assigned was to trans transport the giraffe from a conservation center in Africa to a zoo in Australia. Because our
042product was a live animal, we had to factor in the safety and health of direct. We also had to add in extra cost of having veterinarian travels with Vidira. I really enjoyed getting to research about giraffes and what their special needs and diet would be for this trip. I learned about health certificates required for animals being transported as well as the need to quarantine animals to ensure their health and the health of the other animals around them. I really like getting to spare to share the flight plane we chose for transporting Jeffrey. I also enjoy researching about giraffes and the process of transporting animals. I would like to work with animals as a career. So, I enjoy learning about a veterinarian's role in helping to safely transport a live animal. I also really like being
043able to get creative and make a giraffe out of pipe cleaners. What I love about innovation intervention is that I'm able to skip intervention and explore careers I've barely heard of before. I also get to caught up on homework whenever I want. I get to code, uncode, create, research, and explore. I love everything I get to do on animation, and I'm very happy I get to be in this group. I also like the fact that I don't have to sit through intervention and read a book every single day. Another thing I like about innovation is if I were to have if I were to have to do homework, it's a very flexible schedule and I can skip out on whatever that day. Lastly, I love that innovation is really fun every single day and we
044get something new thrown at us that we have to figure out. Hi, my name is Blake Kester and I am in cohort A of the seventh grade innovation intervention class. For the technology unit, we had free choice of 12 single day projects highlighting different areas of technology. Each day, we got to choose a project to work on. And for every three projects we complete, we earned a piece of candy. And who doesn't love candy? My favorite activity was the LED and copper wire activity, but they were all fun. I created a circuit on a piece of paper by connecting copper tape from a battery to the to an LED light and back to the battery. I enjoyed being able to help the other kids in my cohort when they did this activity and share with
045them what worked for me when problem solving. Overall, I like that every day I got to come in and choose what I wanted to do. Innovation intervention is an experience that I think all kids should get and I feel very lucky that I am in this program. It teaches me a lot and gives me a lot to think about. Since I am in this since I am in band and choir, I don't have room in my schedule to take a STEM class. So, I'm glad that I get to do all the cool activities during intervention. I also like that Mrs. Hes gives us time to sit down and do our work like a normal intervention if we need it. As we conclude our presentation, we are excited to share our innovation intervention study project. This
046project highlights what we value as a class. As individual learners, we value creativity and a strong work ethic as we complete our tasks. As a cohort, we value collaboration, communication, and problem solving by bringing our individual ideas together. As a whole group, we value community and show that our community is stronger and more complete when everyone works together. While you walk around our city, we encourage you to look at each building individually. Notice how the buildings work together in each section and think about how every section plays an important role in the creation of a complete city. Together they create a unique city that we are very proud of. Thank you. >> Oh my goodness. Outstanding job, guys. really really outstanding job capturing what it is you do every day um and what you're getting
047out of it. That's great for all of us to hear. It really is. Um they speak for themselves. It's been a great opportunity. Um this doesn't just happen. Um lots of planning and a lot of coordination that goes into it. We have a leadership team of um Mrs. Buyers, Mrs. Connley, Mrs. Hess, and Mrs. Shainer that meet um once a month and we try to just brainstorm all the things and all the ideas and and how do we take um each of the industries and and come up with projects for it. And then there's a team that makes it happen and that is um led by Mrs. Hess every day. Mrs. Coffman has joined us and does an outstanding job during during the lunchtime as well um supporting Mrs. Hess and all the students. Uh
048Mrs. Sugar and then Mrs. Ber is here as well this evening. She's over here now. U Mrs. Ber also comes down and helps out um during the seventh grade time. So um kudos to the leadership team, kudos to the the work team that makes it happen. Um proud of all of you. Super proud of all of you. if we want to take a break um and let you explore a few of the the things from the kids. Um Landon, if you want to go out to the concession stand out in the hall and and um I think I think it's open so you can um see the work that he's done out there. Um and then the animation kiddos um if you want to go to the city or over by the table and show
049some of your projects. Um parents, thank you so much for bringing your your students this evening. um feel free to to look around and ask questions of the students and then you're welcome to stay for the rest of the meeting, but you're also welcome to leave um and call it a night and go do your thing. So, thank you again for coming. That's every public speaker. >> That's a good That's a good way to put it. >> I'll see you. How are you? Good. How are you? Good. >> You're gonna love it. >> That's awesome. What says That's awesome. No, not done. catch up with. >> Yeah, that did a great job. That was so good. I really, really did. wrestling. Hi. Can I come through here? I'm sure they'll do like when they tour
050the last time and like walk through the Exactly. super nice guy. Him and I went >> and I know and I know Super nice guy. Yeah. >> Yeah. We got two big classrooms and then a couple three classrooms and then a couple small rooms and stuff. Tony Dublin started the next year. Then they started building all the and all that assemble stuff. >> And that's never The only thing I can tell you >> they've been Get in there. >> And I know that's >> maybe that I was in. >> I mean, I was there. >> I mean, still had the old squares. And then we went to this stuff called wood. I think it's by two foot and it's made out of wood. The way you're find whatever it is you get out a bunch
051of that stuff it down >> but I I haven't left I just put that But I'm not actually a west, >> but I was born and raised here. I tell everybody when I work cattle and dogs and goats But they're pretty close. >> Yeah, we actually have our other But we're not my my co-worker. >> He doesn't. >> Yeah. It's funny that we'll be doing stuff. Go this up. >> This was my high school. >> I walked outside. You guys done a good job. You got to go look at >> Check it out. Great. Yes. Dallas. No, that's >> Are you ready to go home? It's beef and noodles. >> Oh my gosh. Did you see the Go out to the bar and get a noodle. She is these shoes. I heard you guys. >>
052All right, thank you for coming. How are you? >> You did a good job. >> We're here. >> Permanent pictures. Do you want us to take >> you know very good speakers? No, yours. Do you need help? >> Do you guys need help with that? >> Was she on? >> That's what we're hoping. >> She was on HDMI. We decided this is what we're going to call Okay. Um, we're going to move on to 5.02, which is the February forecast update. >> All right. Um, hope you guys are ready for our vibe shift. This is not going to be >> there's going to be a lot going on here and I'm gonna get through this as, you know, quick as I can and indeed I can. If you have any questions from the board, please
053stop me. This can be uh quite a complicated topics here. >> So, the reason why I'm doing this now in February, no one's ever done a forecast update in February unless we're in a fiscal emergency. But what happened was the state changed the deadlines on us. Originally, it was the end of May and uh end of November. Then they changed it to middle of October to end of February. Now, it's going to be changed to end of August and end of February. So that's where we are now. This is why I'm presenting now. We have to file a forecast with the state by the end of this month. It does not line to any budget year cycle or anything. It really makes no sense, but they wanted a forecast at the end of August. So
054they said was 6 months after that, February. Sure, why not? So here I am. Um, so I'm not going to spend too much time on it. It is what it is. We have to comply with it. And I'm more I'm always I constantly update and monitor the forecast anyhow. So this was not a huge lift for us to do. The purposes objectives it remains the same. I need to engage the board and the community with a long range range financial planning. My goal of course is no surprises whatsoever in any of our forecast. Um I also need to be able to say that I can sign a 412 certificate which means we have the legal authority to sign to spend money and enter contracts that last more than a year. So this is what this
055forecast allows us to do and it allows the department of education audify if a district is in trouble and needs some help. Um just showing this graph quick. Um our expenditures are the red line, revenues is a blue line. There is a delta that starts forming because of 75% of our school district income tax due to expired this December. So that's why there is a big there is a little bit of a gap forming there. Um I'll get into this a little bit more. Um but the main crux of this presentation will be about property tax reform. Um the at the end of December um Governor DeWine signed four pieces of legislation that aims to reform property tax which is our largest source of revenue. So obviously that is a big um not hit but
056it's a big change that we have to account for and I just want to that's what I'm going to spend a lot of time on. So in a simple world the property tax is very simple. You take your value times your rate there's your tax. This is what Ohio did. So you got to take your assess rate then times it by their tax rate and the reduction factors they put in the law. Get your gross taxes and then some of those taxes are paid by the state as a tax credit. They took this and made it even more complicated. So, I don't have a a slide that shows how complicated it is now, but just give you an idea of it was complicated before. It's even more complicated now. And there is a reason for
057this legislative change. I'm not going to deny it. Um, our property values have skyrocketed over the last few years. Um, some of this has to do with new construction because we are a growing district. We have people moving in, building houses, building um commercial spaces. That's good. You know, you want to have some kind of growth um in a school district. You want to be stagnant. You don't want to be declining. So, um about 40% of this change in values is from that. The other 60% though is from inflationary factors. Um reappraisals. Um there's a three-year reappraisal cycle um that every piece of property under goes. Um, so and with that change of values, our tax collections also gone up. So as tax bills gone up, so has our revenues. So again, I'm not not
058going to ignore the fact that there was a reason behind this reform effort. Um, you know, we the district certainly has benefited from it. We have seen increased revenues which allowed us to stay off the ballot. We haven't asked for new operating money since 2014. >> 14. Thank you. uh which is a very long cycle. Most school districts which the um new operating requests every seven to 10 years um the fact that we've gone that long is a credit. Um and right now um this is just showing our uh current expense millage. So that is our operating millage doesn't include our PI or our bond. You know, we're at the legal floor, the legal minimum for both our residential properties and our commercial properties because we're able to stay off the ballot, not add new
059millage to our current rates. We're able to live within our means with what is expected of us. So, which is which is good. However, we do know there is pain out there and people are feeling the pinch. So, something had to happen. Um, so enter this guy. He's Dave Thomas. He is a state rep from northeast Ohio County. Um he is the guy who spearheaded most of these reforms. He is a former county auditor. Um he is the vice chairman of the ways and means committee which in the house which means they set tax law and policy. You would think he knows better but no the these laws are they don't make much sense. They will provide some kind of relief but it's complicated. So, I'll go over the the four pieces of legislation that
060um have been passed. Only few of them actually really apply to us. Um so, I'll spend a lot of time HB186, HB35 kind of spent some time because we're in that floor, the minimum that we are allowed to um that we have to levy to receive any state aid. Um so, this this legislation really focuses on school districts like us who's on the floor. HP335 focuses on those who are not on the floor because they see growth through inside millillage. I'll get into that. HB129 is uh does not apply to us at all and I'll explain why. Then HB35 is a big who knows. Um 305 we don't know, no one knows. It's uh I'll explain what that is in a little bit but just give you an idea like it may affect us, it
061may not. um HB129. The reason why it does not affect us is because we do not have any emergency or substitute levies on our books. Emergency levy was a mechanism that came out in the 1980s to allow school districts to raise a certain amount of money that does not count towards the floor. So the floor, what happens is if you say we want five mills of operating money, that gets reduced every year. Um so you can only raise as much money as you did the year before. Emergency levies were designed as a way to circumvent that to allow school districts to raise a certain amount of money. Um, originally for emergency purposes, like we're about to go broke, we're about to close, we need something that's outside of the system. That's what they did. Substitute
062levies operates the same way except for they can see revenue growth from new construction. Um, so what they did was they took those type of levies, applied it to the floor calculations. So my old district, West Jefferson, we were on the 20 mil floor. We also had two emergency levies. So now those count towards the floor. No, now they're no longer on the floor. >> So that's a way that them that allows the u the purpose of that was to slow down the growth of revenue from those school districts. So again, doesn't apply to us. HP86 is the biggest um piece of legislation that comes out of this that does affect us. It tax again those districts are at the 20 mill floor. So we're one of those districts and what it does is that
063it caps property tax growth to inflation using a GDP deflator. And I'll show you example what that looks like. Um if the county is undergoing a reappraisal or update in tax year 2025, which that is us, Union County went through a reappraisal in 2025, but it also um it it also is retroactive. It applies to those school districts who were counties that went through reappraisals in 23 or 24, which that is also us. Madison County went through an update in 23. So essentially what they're trying to do is like spin back time like saying that if this law was in effect three years ago, we want to apply that now. So they're going to try to claw back not try, they are going to claw back money that's already been received um that's been in
064our coffers for years >> and spent and but give it as a form of a tax credit on taxpayers second year second half tax bills in August. So, if you paid your tax bill upfront in January, I don't know if you're going to get it. I don't know how that's going to work for you because it's supposed to be applied on your second half tax bill. >> Yeah. >> If you pay an escro like I do, I don't know how that's going to look either. So, that's something they did not really consider, but it's a way to provide relief. >> So, the dispatch the other day published the story that our district was not one where taxpayers would see any relief. Were they talking about just 186 or were they al or excuse me were
065they talking about um the one that you said doesn't apply to us because we're at 21? >> They were talking mostly about like the Hillyards and the Dublins that are way off the floor. >> Well, they had us listed and they said, you know, did not impact us, but >> No, they do. It does. Okay. >> So, I I I didn't see the article, but this this bill does impact us. >> Is this why we received tax credit on our bill? No, you receive a tax credit because all the property tax levies other than the bond that just passed passed before 2013. So before then, the state picked up 12 and a half% of your tax bill. >> Okay? >> And so what they do then is reimburse the school district for that credit. So
066we still receive 100% was owed to the school district tax receipt relief. John Kasich got rid of it during his term as governor um as a way to balance the budget without raising taxes. So what they did was they reduced state expenditures right by getting rid of that credit for levies going forward. So everyone who's a taxpayer driving job alder you'll see credits for every levy except for the 2025 bond. Um so again it impacts us because we had reappraisals in 2023 and 2025. Um the cap um that's calculated is the sum of the previous three years. So we had a reappraisal here in 2023. So these some of these guys 2025 some of these guys. So we're looking at 13% cap. Our actual um increases were in the 20s. So that is where the
067clawback's going to be hitting us. Um and I want to stress these are estimates. The Ohio Department of Taxation is tasked with calculating the actual amounts, but they're not going to release those until the end of April because these bills don't actually take effect until March 19th. So again, I'm filing a forecast when B bills are not effective and we don't have all the data necessary because the Department of Taxation, they don't they have a couple more months to figure it out. >> You're doing a great job. >> So we uh this is just an estimate based on what we know and uh so we're looking at a total clawback which will show up in August. So the next fiscal year, $1.3 million would be reduced from this district's property tax collection as a credit
068somehow some way. Um again, that's an estimate. I it could be drastically different when ODT decides when they release their numbers. The issue with this, of course, then is the idea was to have, you know, they're not going to then claw back and then, you know, go back to way things were. So I was just trying to figure out, okay, I was anticipating this much in property tax revenue. Now I'm going to protect our revenue forecast by reducing it, keeping it within 5%. So that's below the deflator. So I'm not going to forecast revenue that may not realize and then we can't budget and overspend it. Um, so I'll just take the delta between what I originally forecasted in property tax revenue versus what happened here. So I mean cumulatively we're looking at $6.8 million
069I won't say loss because it hasn't we haven't got money yet but a reduction in forecasted revenues for property taxes compared to October. Luckily uh we are fiscally strong. We can weather this. We're in a lot better shape than a lot of school districts. A lot of that has to come with our long-term planning. Um, our cash reserves, our fiscal uh fis our reserve accounts that we have set aside for major capital projects. So, we are I don't want to say we're unscathed, but it could be a lot worse. Um, thankfully thankfully for us. Um, and about those rollbacks I was talking about the tax credits currently on your bills, they're changing that structure too. So, originally it was an owner occupied credit was 2 and a half%. That means you own you own your
070home and you live in it. >> So, and then there was another credit that was a non-b businessiness credit, which means you own a home, but you're not running a business out of it. But that's but you can own a home and rent it out and still get the credit. So, what they're doing is phasing out the non-b businessiness credit and adding it up to the owner occupy credit to get to eventually a 15.38% owner occupy credit for tax liies pass before 2013 and reducing the non- business credit zero. It's a minimum impact for for $100,000 home. This is just based on school district taxes. Um, so you have township taxes, fire taxes, library. So, the actual credit will be larger. Um, I'm just using school district example. So, that's something they're doing. Um, and
071if I can editorialize for a bit, um, it's great that they're giving more of a credit to taxpayers. It' be better if they apply to all levies and not just ones past 2013, you know, before 2013. Um, because that would be more direct relief. There's been a lot of levies passed since 2013. You had one with a bond. Um, that'll provide direct relief, but they decided not to go that route. Um, any questions on that? I know that was a lot and there's still a lot of unknowns we're trying to shift through. um HB335 that's similar to 186 but it's really targeted towards districts not on the floor because for those districts like Hillier the Dublins um Plum City they see um property tax revenue growth from their inside millillage which is 10 mills total
072that's split between all the different tax jurisdictions schools usually get four to six mills of that um so what they're doing is same thing they're capping that growth to a GDP later. But since our inside millage counts towards or our inside millage counts towards our our 20 mil floor, it doesn't really apply to us because 186 applies. So, we're not going to do both at the same time. Um, so either way, it it kind of affects us, but kind of doesn't. So, this one is kind of weird. If we ever go off the floor for whatever reason, pass a new operating tax levy, then this will come into play. Um 309, that's another that's the one that I don't really know how this is going to look. Um what this does is allows county budget
073commissions to reduce and override any voter approved levy except for debt. So the bond that we just passed is not included in this. It's totally exempt if they find it reasonable and pervoid unnecessary or excessive collections. Um there's somewhat definitions here of what they mean by necessary and excessive, but this is still a subjective measure. And there's 88 counties, ADA, county boards of county budget commissions. There's going to be 88 different interpretations of this. U Madison County is our home county. Um when it comes to our budget commission, um they they're already hands off. They they don't want to mess with any of this. I have colleagues in Butler County who got nine pages worth of document requests from their budget commissions asking for all kinds of financial data before they set their tax rates
074because they're going to utilize this law. >> County budget commission is commissioners, treasurer. >> It is the auditor, treasurer, and county prosecutor. So anyway, that gives them the power to reduce voter approved levies. Um they cannot produce below the 20 mil floor. So we're kind we're we're protected there. Um but it's it's going to lead to headaches and of course Dave Thomas's idea. Um he was a county auditor. Ashabila County or Giaga County which is next door to Ashabila has really been pioneering this whole activist type county budget commission style. Um so that's really where um it was his idea and why uh it made it in. They think it'd be another check on us or or the boards by having another commission to be able to unilaterally lower rates. Um they have to have
075a public hearing if they're going to do that though to give us a chance to make our case. Um again, they cannot reduce below the 20 floor. So it's like why? Anyway, they could have done changes to the floor which also would have provided relief and not avoid all these headaches. um they cannot reduce it below an amount that that would reduce our collections from the preceding year. So essentially keep everyone flat and they cannot mess with debt charges. So they're they're clear there. Um but yeah, I want to stress no one really knows how that's going to look in practice. Um I know Madison County, they don't want to mess with it. Um but we're also three different counties. >> Well, that's the thing. I mean >> right now we only submit to Madison
076County. when I submit my budget and my certificate of estimated resources, it only goes to Madison County, but they this is something where they just didn't they being the legislature didn't consider multi-county jurisdictions. They're used to, you know, counties, townships are all self-contained. So, that's something that we'll see. um and all the changes in in terms of basically having an effective evaluation um about HB186, none of that applies to our state funding formula. They're still going to use the full assessed value, not the cap value to determine our local capacity. So, which means we're going to have reduced state funding. They expect this local uh locals to pick up more of the tab. Um, they also included a piggyback tax exemption that allows county commissioners to give a second tax credit for homestead and the
0772 and a half% credit without reimbursement to the local governments. So, that's something that county commissioners can do. Um, again, we're multi-county, so county passes that I don't know if that would apply here because only portion of our jurisdictions in Union County. Um, I estimated that if it was to be implemented, it would cost about $275,000 in lost revenue. So, it just goes to show the state's really not an equal partner. Um, I understand why they're trying to provide relief. I think there's just a lot of avenues they could have went, they didn't go down that would have provided that direct relief without burdening local governments even further, without causing more confusion for taxpayers. Um because when you see your tax bills in August, if you do get a tax bill in August, it's going
078to look drastically different from what you just saw. There's been a lot of confusion out there why that's different. And then going forward and might be some yo-yo effects. It it's a lot there. Um I want to touch base on our school district income tax levy. Everything's filed with the county audit county board of elections. We're on the ballot for May. Is 0.75% earned income tax. Just to show how important that is to us. without that levy renewal forecasting to be out of money at the end in fiscal year 2030 which means that Dr. Miller and I will have to come up with a plan um to avert that from happening. Um generates about $4 million annually which applies to earned income. So seniors or earn pensions, disability, social security that is not taxed. It's
079only if you earn a living and get a W2 and you have anything in box one. So that is something that helps um you know diversify tax base while not shielding but you know helping out farmers, helping out the seniors in our community. So again that doesn't apply to any of that. Um it's grown drastically over the years because of the new folks coming in. We have a more of a tax base. Some of it's wealthier that also helps as well. So the $4 million that we raised last year from that 0.75% that's equivalent to about 40 teachers. So you factor in salaries and benefits. So about 40 teachers are funded just from that. Just put in perspective of the earned income tax if renewed. We're looking to be completely steady. You know, really no
080concerns whatsoever. We're within our ceiling and our floor for for days operating cash on hand. That's why I support. So, a little longer than I thought, but any questions? >> Great job. >> Um, I do have uh more of a summary that I put together for the property tax reform impacts. It's going to be on our website um later tonight if anyone wants to see it. Our assumptions for the forecast will also be on our website. So, got a lot going on here. >> All right. >> Thank you. You're welcome. >> No, I'm just I'm interested to see how the how the 186 actually does end up applying to like individual tax bills. We'll see that. >> Mhm. >> Um but you said the dispatch said >> No, I have to go back and look
081at the story and see if they were talking about or the other one. Yeah. Well, thank you for putting that in digestible >> information. Kudos, Mark. I just again reiterate, I know we've said it before, but I just value so much your transparency and the ease with which you bring difficult to digest information to those of us that don't have the money minds that you do. So, I really I really thank you for that. Okay. Um, moving on. 6.01. Do we have any public participation? Thank you. 7.01 the financial report. Can I get a motion to approve the January 2026 financial reports as presented? >> So second >> uh who had >> any discussion? >> Um I did want to give a quick update. I know I just gave a 20-minut update but a different
082topic. Um bond financing. So, we have we're had a rating call with Moody's last week. We'll get our rating tomorrow at 10:30, so we'll know where we are creditwise. We're currently at AA3, which is a very good credit rating. We're hoping for an AA2, which is slightly better, and we're difference of 5 to seven basis points, but we're just trying to do everything we can to help with the interest environment. Um, you know, talking to our adviserss, we're right at the cusp, you know, we're right there on the line. So, um, we're hoping for good news tomorrow morning, but if not, A3 still really good, you know. So, bonds go on sale to investors on February 24th. Um, and then we're closing on those on March 17th. So, that's where we are for the bond
083financing. >> Thanks, Mike. All your work on >> again, invaluable. Uh, roll call. >> Uh, Mr. McCartney. >> Yes. >> Mr. Boto, >> yes. >> Mrs. Walker. >> Yes. >> Stweiler. >> Yes. >> Mr. Hulley. Yes. Motion passes. >> Okay. 7.02. Can I get a motion to approve the February update to the financial forecast as presented? >> Second. >> Any discussion? Okay. Roll call, please. >> Mrs. Walker. >> Yes. >> Mr. Boto. Yes. >> M. McCartney? >> Yes. >> Mr. Hulley? Yes. Mrs. Dwire? >> Yes. Motion passes. >> 7.03 grants and donations. Can I get a motion to accept the following grants and donations? $6,141.90 from Napper and Suns. $500 from HairLoft 120 to cover negative lunch accounts. $50 from Network for Good to Plant City Elementary School. $25,751 from the Ohio Department of Education
084bus safety grant and $10,89.12 for the school safety grant. >> So move second. >> Any discussion? >> Yeah. Uh you tell us a little bit more about who did the work on getting these last two in particular? >> The bus safety grant was Mr. Engles and Mr. Lester. And that was because there's been about a year of discussion on keeping our fleet as new as possible and bringing in one or two buses and improving the the safety and security of the buses by um equipping them with camera systems. Um, some older buses just have one or two cameras. The building has a seven camera um system and over the years we've added the seven cameras to existing buses. So Jordan and Mark applied for that grant so that we can apply those to the buses.
085I think what five uh new camera systems, Mr. Buster, I want to see. >> Five, seven camera systems. five seven camera system >> and um I applied for the the safety grant for the $10,000 anytime that we have those opportunities that kind of popped in front of us that uh what I my hope was to the work that we did over the last couple years at each buildings just continue adding to that. And so this oh cameras we did a camera audit across the district and we have maybe 10 cameras out of close to 200 that maybe there's moisture in the lens they need to be adjusted. They need replaced the resolution is not good. So we're going to put that money towards the main cameras. >> Anything else? Roll call, please. >> Uh Mr.
086McCartney. Yes, Mr. Hulley. Yes, Mrs. Stweiler. >> Yes, >> Mr. Rooff. >> Yes, >> Mrs. Walker. >> Yes. >> Motion passes. >> 7.04. Amended appropriations and certificated resources. Um, can I get a motion to approve the amended appropriations and certificate of estimated resources as presented? >> So, moved. >> Very good. >> Uh, the only changes here are to allow the uh spending of the safety grants. that we just discussed and our IDA part B and early childhood education grant reallocations came after the last board meeting. >> So those are the only changes there. >> Okay, please Mr. Engles. >> Mr. Voto, >> yes. >> Mr. McCartney, >> yes. >> Mr. Hul, >> yes. Mrs. Tyler, >> yes. >> Mrs. Walker, >> yes. >> Motion passes. >> All right, moving on. Section eight, personnel consent items.
087to include 8.01 resignations, 8.02 employment, and 8.03. Um, can I get a motion to approve the employment and personnel consent items as presented? >> So, moved. >> Second. >> Any discussion, questions? I told Mrs. Yates that we would not be approving her today and that she should probably tune in tonight to see what your result is. So, if you're listening, Mrs. Yates, >> I was only teasing. We are excited for you. >> Excited for her, but not for us. >> Right. Right. >> Anything else? Okay. Roll call. >> Mrs. Walker, >> yes. >> Mr. Roto, >> yes. >> Mr. McCartney, >> yes. >> Mr. Hulley, >> yes. Mrs. Dwire, >> yes. >> Motion passes. >> Okay. Section 9, new business 9.01. Can I get a motion to approve a resolution for JA's continued membership in
088the Ohio High School Athletic Association? >> Second. >> Questions or anything? be straightforward just the year the renewal roll call Mr. Engles >> Mr. McCartney >> yes Mr. Hulie >> yes Mrs. Walker >> yes >> passes >> thank you 9.02 2 the 202627 JA high school course handbook handbook first reading. This is a discussion only item. Is there anyone who has question or concern regarding the updates? >> I thought it was pretty clear. Yeah, I appreciated the separate changes. >> Yes. >> Rather than having to sit through the whole thing. >> Yes. >> Okay. Wonderful. Moving on 9.03 SHP architect and engineering resolution to proceed. Can I get a motion to approve the enclosed resolution authorizing the contract sum for Steve Hammond Hall for architect and engineering services? >> So move second. Any questions discussion
089call Mr. >> Mrs. Walker? Yes, >> Mr. Roto. >> Yes, >> Mrs. Felwe. >> Yes, >> Mr. Hulie. Yes, Mr. Ricard. >> Yes. Motion passes. >> 9.04 construction firm resolution. Can I get a motion to approve the enclosed resolution ranking the top three construction firms and pursue contract negotiations with >> Circa? Anything to discuss? They did an excellent job. >> Great. >> Excellent job. >> And I appreciate you guys being here tonight. >> Really looking forward to >> everything in the future. >> Yeah. >> One thing I want to point out um just quickly um is the fact that one of the things that really swayed us in their presentation is the communication and transparency commitment. They be working with Mr. uh Chester um soon, very soon to get our communication plan up up and
090running so it could be everything out and be open to our public. So really excited for that. Presented good plan for getting our project up and running, hitting our targets, hitting our target dates. Um so really excited to get to work. >> Thank you. >> Sounds like you align with our vision and our culture. So that sounds like a great partnership. >> I'll piggy back on what Mr. just said Mr. Dester just showed us this morning a new tool that he's using to APG our website so that we can improve our communications to our families. If you guys remember this year we all of our families are just receiving one email with five links for each of the buildings for the newsletters. We're going to even streamline that better with a new tool that Tyler
091has. It's almost works like a a Google doc and we're going to add everything all the updates with the construction process over the next three years as its own individual newsletter as well too. So each of the five buildings and then construction updates as well too. So >> um whatever information you guys give us on a weekly or monthly basis, we're to put it right into the system and they're going to go out with the newsletters with the rest of the building. >> That's amazing. As a parent that would That just sounds great. Like I appreciate that so much. Even though I'm not a student parent anymore, I that's great. >> It'll be great for us to be able to say to people, >> we just go here. >> Yes. >> Well, what's going on
092with building? We'll just go here. >> Well, and the beauty of the new tool is we'll have it's definitely more flexibility to add like subscribers to the community. So, we I can make more distribution list custom. So, like if we have a bunch of community members that are interested, I just need their information. and I can upload like a distribution list file then and they'll be able to subscribe to to any sort of newsletters that they want. >> Is there somewhere on the website that they can go >> to request to be added? >> Currently, no, but we'll we'll get there. >> Go about doing that at the moment. >> We put a form in all of the newsletters that it's a reoccurring. >> Well, if they hear in the newsletter, then they don't then
093they're already on the list. >> They're not apparent. They're not apparent. >> I will say newsletters are newsletters are technically available to the whole community. It's you can look almost every every building in every district e newsletter is available like on the homepage of the website. So if somebody really wanted to find it, they could >> or it's available on social media. We just have to make it more noticeable to I guess be able to click a link and and submit your information if you want more. So, >> but forthcoming. >> Yeah. Yeah, it's coming. Yeah, >> we'll get there. >> Could we put a prompt in the lower right where you have the little Johnny guy? >> We could. Well, it probably wouldn't be there. It' probably be up in the top corner, but
094yeah. So, >> we can get there. >> Thank you for >> We'll just put it on the community forum every day. >> If you start there, I mean, that's a great place to go, right? >> You guys should join the community forum. It's uh >> if you won't understand. >> Okay. Anything else? >> Can I get roll call Mr. Engles, please? >> Yes. Mrs. Delweiler? >> Yes. >> Mr. Hulie? >> Yes. >> Mr. McCartney? >> Yes. >> Mr. Boto? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Walker? >> Yes. >> Motion passes. Congrats. >> Thank you. >> We're still in negotiation, so it's not a done. >> We're locked in for pre-construction. Okay. 10.01. Next regular board meeting Tuesday, March 10th, 2006. And that will be located at Toll's Career and Technical Center at 5:00 p.m. I'm looking forward
095to that again. Did we skip it last year? I >> think so. >> Yeah, >> I'm happy with going back. Okay. 11.01 Executive session. Can I get a motion to enter into an executive session under section 121.22 22 of the Ohio Revised Code to discuss um >> economic development. >> Okay. >> And no further action will be taken after executive session. >> Yeah. So, everyone's allowed to leave. There's no further action going after we come back from regular session. I would like to be able to miss this my team. So, if you guys have any questions for them, >> I do need a motion. So, moved. >> Second. >> Okay. I I would just like to do a shout out to Scott Rule. Um he recognized our 20-y year girls state championship during one of
096the high school girls games and it was phenomenal. He did an outstanding job and we had all 12 girls from the team come back, the parents, it was really, really well done. So shout out to Scott for putting that all together. He does a good job I think recognizing all of our athletes as they sign and I really appreciate everyone. >> Yeah, >> it's great. >> I'll share that with Mr. R. Thank you. >> Anything else? >> Mr. Bo, >> yes. >> Mr. McCartney, >> yes. >> Mrs. Walker, >> yes. >> Mr. Hulie, >> yes. Mrs. Dley, >> yes. >> And we are now in executive session. So, we're not going to start discussing until