001[Music] Okay, it's 5:00. Welcome everybody. Uh, thank you very much for coming. It's a beautiful night, so we really appreciate you being here. I'm going to go ahead and call the meeting to order. Can we all stand for 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. Roll call. >> Mrs. Dweiler >> present. >> Mr. Hulie >> here. Mr. McCartney is not here. Mr. Vot >> here. >> Mrs. Walker >> here. Let's all take a moment for silent prayer and meditation. [Music] Thank you. >> You know, I wonder if the treasur responsibility the bill had last time was just a little too much. >> It overt taxed him. >> He's
002still recovering. >> Yes. We did miss you. It's good to have you back. >> Thank you. >> Yes. >> All right, moving on. Superintendent's report. >> We had to do the agenda. >> No, I'm I skipped a whole page. So, can you tell I'm excited about the weather? Okay. I'm sorry. Uh, we have a motion to approve the September 9th agenda. So, move. Second. Okay. Mrs. Walker, >> yes. >> Mr. Vot, >> yes. >> Mr. Hulley, >> yes. >> Mr. Mrs. Deweiler, >> yes. >> Motion passes. >> May I have a motion to approve the minutes from the August 12th, 2025 regular meeting? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Roll call. >> Mrs. Stweiler, >> yes. >> Mr. Voto, >> yes. >> Mr. Hulley, >> yes. Mrs. Walker, >> yes. >> Motion passes. >> Great.
003Now, superintendent's report. >> Thank you, Mrs. Walker. Well, we had an outstanding start to the 2526 school year um at all five buildings. My team, the entire district, uh central office was um rotating through the different buildings for the first several days u rotating so everyone could be in all the buildings and really we were just there to uh listen um provide support, greet our students, greet our staff. And I just can't tell you enough how really overwhelmed we were with hearing back from our building leaders, our secretaries, custodians, and teachers, and our students about how great the start of the school year was for them. So, I think there are many factors that play into this. Um, last year there were I just want to remind the board a lot of moving parts. Uh,
004Mrs. Quick had some really high priority teaching and learning initiatives that were going on that that had to be prioritized and go on throughout the school year. I was making some significant changes with the operations. We had some big shifts in technology and our college and career readiness work. You know, uh Emily Buyers and Dr. Shrock, uh they didn't start their new contracts and work on August 1st when their contract started. When the board authorized me to hire them in their new roles, they started collaborating right away and really building the foundation for the work of how they wanted to look August 1st and August 18th when teachers return in August 21st. So, I want to commend them. But now, our technology is at a higher standard and our college and career readiness work. Um,
005we already have uh multiple students placed with different uh partnerships. I'm going to have Nicole report that to you, not today, but we're just getting a few more things settled, but she'll report that to you early this school year, but we're really excited with uh that work. Um I haven't done this in my three years of being a superintendent. This is my fourth start, but this is the first time I said I can finally feel confident that we are operating at super high standards in the district. And I'm really proud. So, thank you to the board for your support. And I wanted to just uh thank our, you know, district leaders, our supervisors, uh all of our principles, and all of our teachers. And because we're operating at this high standard now, our students and
006our families are benefiting from it. So, I'm really excited. Even our athletic programs, I know that a lot of you have been to the games, but uh all of our students and coaches are performing at high levels. Uh boys golf, uh they're at an 8 8-0 record. Girls golf 11 and three. Boys soccer uh 2 and 0 on the in the conference and 5- one overall. Girls soccer two 0 and one in the CBC. Volleyball 8-1 and football 3 and zero. So we're just off to a great start. The I guess the morale and climate and culture in the buildings is just um high energy. So I'm really excited about that. I wanted to encourage the board this evening if we happen to get out of this meeting a little bit early. There's a home
007volleyball game going on against Urbana. If you haven't been down to see the entrance and the hallways, at least pop in, take a look at the nice work that Mr. Rule and Mr. Lester put together. We have the uh glowing older a on the wall behind a real wooden floor on the wall. I didn't I never did send you a picture of that. You got to see that in person. Now, we have the signage up on the paint. We're only waiting for the uh glass over the uh trophy cases. So, if you have a few minutes on your way out, I encourage you to pop down to the athletic area. Uh, last board meeting I communicated that these uh postcards were supposed to hit every mailbox. Um, I am a little bit disappointed because I
008I was telling Mr. Jester and a couple of my team members. This is the first time that these hit mailboxes and then we're having a board uh meeting and we are announcing that we're having this board meeting and and providing a designated 30-minut time to talk about any questions or concerns we have for the bond and there only might be one person here that's to do that. So, we have two uh one more meeting and then the community forum. So, I'm excited about that. Mr. Jester and I will continue to get information out. Um, I'm also pleased to announce I feel like we're on track with all the district communications back in June and July when we, you know, were, I guess, processing about what took place at that May election. I announced to the
009board that we're going to stay on this timeline with district communications, get through the start of the school year, then hand off the communications and the work to our levy committee for them to land that plane. But I really feel like we're right on track. Um even uh today after school hours, the pack chairs were meeting in the building at Kanan after their regular work hours just engaging with teachers about how to get involved if they want to get involved. They'll be at the junior high uh tomorrow and then making their way around to the other building. So one area that we missed the mark in May was teacher involvement. We've already we're already hitting that mark right now and I just want to commend that uh Levy volunteers for the work that they're doing.
010Mrs. Walker and Mr. Hulie's video messages are now playing at the home football games. If you haven't seen those, make sure you get to the football game about 40 minutes uh before kickoff so you can see their message. Um so anyone else that wants to do that video message, just let me know. And what we're doing is going through Mrs. Kurzy and she just does a phenomenal job putting that together for us. Um, I know that I believe each of you have sent a um bond issue uh statement regarding your support for the plan and I'm forwarding that off to the pack and they're using that to communicate to the community about uh your messaging. So, thank you for those comments and statements. And then um I also wanted to thank Mrs. Nicole Loren's JA
011president. She's been instrumental in being the point person between the levy uh committee and the teachers and making sure that we are protecting our employees by not doing any campaigning during the regular workday but you know using personal emails doing things after hours and Nicole's been great uh guiding those teachers and staff members. So I wanted to thank you. Um couple more pieces. I uh I guess I'm I'm really excited and you have this in front of you. I used Bill McCartney as an example last board meeting cuz he has multiple students in multiple buildings. Um but this was and you should have you should have received this. This is every family is going to receive one email on every other Friday with access to every building newsletter. So whether you have a student at
012Kanan or not, you can click on whatever newsletter you want for a bi-weekly update. And then the opposite Friday, board members are going to receive updates from my office and our directors on progress, initiatives, and just keeping you informed. We're really excited how that went out um this past couple weeks. I feel like we improved the communication, streamlined it, and not bombarded our families with all the emails. So um it was August 18th. It was a convocation. Most of you were with us. I was able to announce our one word focus and that's connect. Mrs. Deweiler did an outstanding job really um closing out and tying all the loose ends together with what connect means to us. I did not do a a staff survey this year and I explained to the teachers that, you
013know, if I put five power words out there that could possibly be our focus and, you know, 35 or 45% select one word like family and then 25% select elevate, you still have multiple people not able to um I guess connect with the word that they wanted. So this year I chose uh connect after a summerlong conversations with my administrative team. It just really spoke to me because I feel like we did all the you know there was all the moving parts last year, all the shifts, all the elevating and now this year the expectation is no new initiatives. Let's just connect all the dots. Let's connect the learning. Let's connect um how we streamline so that Monroe and Plane City and and Kanan are not doing things independently or sightbased. everything is aligned K12.
014So that was uh the reasoning for this uh focus word connect but it's also about connecting with our students more than we ever have connecting with our families and going into this bond most importantly is connecting with our community. So I'm really excited about this work. I'm excited about the communications that are going out. Tyler's done a great job of getting that one word out uh about connect and connect connecting with the community. And I know the board has just really stepped up here u being visible um being vocal and supportive of the master facility plan and the b and the bond. So I wanted to thank you. That's all for my report. [Music] >> Well that's awesome. There's a lot of good stuff and I on behalf of the board I just I want
015to thank you. I know that every time I give you a compliment, you pass it on to other people. But culture starts at the top and your energy is infectious and that's obvious by how everything is going in the district from um the grounds to the bus drivers to I I mean it the students I mean the student section at the football game Friday night was amazing. I mean, it was amazing. And I sat there and I watched our principal and vice principal keep an eye on them the entire game. So, nobody stepped out of line. I mean, everything ran so smoothly. And um I just want to thank you and of course, we always appreciate every single person who's working in this district. >> Thank you, Mrs. >> Anybody else? >> I agree. >>
016That's on the record, right? >> Just record it there. reported there. >> Okay, moving on. Uh, public comments. Okay, now uh time for the treasurer's report. Can I have a motion to approve the August 2025 financial reports as presented? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Okay. Um, just the quick updates here. Uh, so we're two months into the fiscal year, so we're just getting started. uh mut county our real estate settlement um we didn't actually receive the cash until um September 2nd so we it's not included in the August financials which is why there is such a pretty big discrepancy between this year and last year um it's in the our bank account now but I couldn't record it in in August because we didn't get it until September um reading science of reading we
017got our final stipen reimbursement or reimbursement for the stipens we paid our staff um that came last month so our restricted funds are a little bit higher than usual. Um but overall we're on track for revenues. Um our expenditures are um everything is kind of flipping over to the new contract year. So in July some most some of our classified staff received new contracts. Administrator received new contracts in August. And this coming Monday our teachers are getting their first pay on their new contracts. Plus the bus drivers, aids, cafeteria workers. So our largest groups are getting paid for the first time for this current contract year. So um we also are having some additional capital outlay. So as furniture um to furnish our new classrooms as we're adding new teachers, we have to give them
018furniture to operate with and also a lot of um licensing subscriptions for our that falls in our supplies. So as everything is more digital, that's what we have to be spending our money on. I do want to point out this is for the end of the our your packet. Our general fund cash flow. Our 2026 line is lower than it has been the last couple years and that's just because of the fiscal year and transfers that I did to help comply with what could have been in the new state budget which turned out that got vetoed. But so we ended up moving funds off the general fund to our reserve accounts which are being used to fund building repairs that we have at this building. Um the parking lot ceiling land purchase which you can
019see up there. So it's money that's set aside for um projects we know is coming coming down the road, but we have the money set aside now so we don't have to scramble and find sources of the cash. So I just want to point that out. That looks a little lower than than it has been the last couple years, but that's just because of what's going on in the state level. So that's what's going on right now. Um, so you can say budget. I have I am working on the uh what is now called the budget plus 3 years forecasted or I'd like to call it the forecast cuz it's four years now. Um, so that is due October 15th at the latest. Um, I'm working to get it done and out to the board
020by the end of this month for review and comments so we can hopefully get it passed and submitted in time. Um, things are looking on track. Nothing no real major changes for May that I'm seeing. Um, so should be nothing too controversial there, but once we get finalized, I got a meeting with Dr. Miller, Mr. Quick to kind of to go over and tighten things up and we'll share it out with the board. So that's what's going on. >> Great. Thank you. Any questions? >> Okay, appreciate that. Roll call. >> Mrs. Mr. Hulie, >> yes. >> Mrs. Stweiler, >> yes. >> Mr. Vot, >> yes. >> Mrs. Walker, >> yes. >> The motion pass. >> May I have a motion to accept the following grants and donations um listed in section 6.02? >> So moved.
021second. >> I I'd like to uh thank Cypress Church for their breakfast donation from >> for the convocation. And um from the Pleasant Valley Senior citizens and two anonymous donors, thank you very much for donating money to cover unpaid lunch balances. Uh, thank you to Smiles to Love for donating money to assist with the Kanan Middle School sixth grade shirts and also thank you to Memorial Hospital um for donating 13,750 um as part of an agreement to assist with the athletic department and supplies to the students athletes. Now, um I was looking at the federal grants >> and I noticed that under title one, first of all, these were frozen. So, it's good they've been unfrozen. >> Yeah, titles 2, three, and four were all frozen. They were um being reviewed by the Trump administration
022for, you know, alignment with their priorities. And then the end of July, they announced that they're done reviewing them. They're good to go. got them released. >> Okay, great news. And so the the there's some some went up, couple went up, couple went down. Yeah. >> Uh but the major difference was Title One. >> Uh I was talking to Dr. Miller about this before the meeting and that is largely based on the percentage of students in our district that fall in the lower income range. And then is reimbursement for lunch? So, Title One um that supports our um efforts at Monroe Elementary. That's our only Title One building for lower income students. >> Okay. >> Um and that helps provide additional supports. We're paying some teachers out of that to provide the small um small
023support. Um Mrs. Crawl and MUI can kind of give more details of those programming. Um it's not just our demographic numbers though. It's statewide because these are passed through by the federal government. So, you know, as Ohio's student age population continues to decline, we're going to expect to see fewer federal dollars because of that. So, Ohio as a whole gets a large grant u large block of money based on their formula looking at all the state. So, Congress appropriates millions of dollars, look at all the states and their data and their student populations and demographics. They then distribute it to the states and the states have distribute to the local educational agencies which is we are. So, um, it's not just >> So, as they're distributing more money amongst more schools with lower income students,
024>> Yeah. So, Florida might have gotten more, Texas might have gotten more, but then Ohio is getting less because our student population is going down overall as a state. >> So, we're not the only district that's going to see a decline just because the state of Ohio as a whole got fewer funds. >> Okay. >> Mark, let me ask you, if our student population goes up >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, cuz it's a per student calculation. Yeah, >> it's by pupil, right? The formula is based on the number of pupils, right? >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> But it also could be because if you look at like the districts were declining enrollment. >> Yes. >> They're proportion of student economic disadvantage students tends to be higher. >> That's true. >> So you're talking about northeast Ohio,
025southeast Ohio, you know. >> Okay. >> They'll probably get more federal support because that's what it's targeted for. >> Oh, gotcha. Gotcha. Gotcha. Yeah. Can I just bring up one other thing since we're on this topic? I I really think it's probably important that we touch on this every board meeting. Mark, is there any way or maybe Carla helped me um explain to the board this overflow plan that I've been working on as more students move into the Plane City area? It's just not as easy to to fill up every seat at Monroe because of the the how the these grants support Monroe. So, we've talked about the CBA uh cap with 25 students and 28 students. Could you speak to that? >> Yeah. So, um Title One has um as part of me and
026Title One building, we have to have reduced class sizes. So, if we were to in um go over that cap, then it jeopardizes our title one funding because we're not having that 16 to1 I believe is the number. Is that right? >> 17 to1. All right. >> So, if we start overflowing and then we're at 1801 1901, then it starts violating the plan that we put together for title one. How close are we to that right now? >> It's in the report that I sent you last month, but I can resend it to you. It basically had a breakdown of how many seats we had available at Plane City Elementary and Monroe. Okay. >> Okay. So yeah, most of these grants are going to personnel and that is to provide the additional supports and supplement
027NASA plan. Um so that's that's where the funds are going. Um they're going to fluctuate a little bit um as um other school districts submit their budgets and their plans. There might be some reallocation um if Congress allocates appropriates more funds too. That's always a possibility that we can get additional funds throughout the year. >> Okay. Any other questions? Great. Roll call. >> Mrs. Dweiler. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Walker. >> Yes. >> Mr. Voto. >> Yes. >> Mr. Hulie. >> Yes. >> Motion passes. [Music] Okay. Um, the board needs to approve the amending appropriations. >> Yeah. Okay. So, may I have a motion to amend the appropriations for the federal grants carryover encumbrances and by annual updates to the financial forecast? >> So, moved. >> Second. >> Okay. And um so yeah, so updates are
028for those in July. I did not appropriate the federal grants because I was told that they weren't coming. Now they're here. So changing the appropriations because of that. Um we're also just have what's known as carryover encumbrances. So that is obligations we made last fiscal year that's being paid this year. Make sure those are covered. And um we have there's some small changes to our um forecast that um I'm updating our general fund appropriations to match. So that's what's going on there. Um I can answer any questions. >> I don't have any. It was >> I didn't have anyone else. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> All right. Mr. Hulie, >> yes. >> Mrs. Deweiler, >> yes. >> Mr. McCartney is not here. Mr. Ro, >> yes. >> Mrs. Walker. >> Yes. >> Motion passes. >>
029Okay. Under section 7.04, may I have a motion to approve the employment and personnel consent items as presented in 7.01 through 7.03. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Okay. So, um, the bus driver incentives. Do you want to talk about that for a minute? Thank you. >> First of all, I want to thank all of the board members for taking a, you know, having a conversation with me last week about this before this went on the agenda, but we are having extremely hard time having any backups or subs or or full-time drivers um in the transportation department. Misty, our supervisor, who is I mean, she is u scheduled to be in the office to take phone calls, answer emails from parents. She's driving every single day since the first day of school. If we have
030one driver right now that can't make it tomorrow because of an emergency or they're ill, we are doubling up on on routes. And this is going to be a a a headache for families and the district. And so we're trying to do everything we can to incentivize uh anyone to come on board and at least apply and test drive a bus. um what we would have to do because our buses are full, we wouldn't be able to just absorb like this driver take 15 and this driver take 15 and get everyone to school on time because there's not 15 open seats. We would need to take a route and get them to school or get them to home and then go back and get the next route if a driver is out right now. Um
031so what we've been doing is sending email blasts out. Tyler has been doing social media post uh really all summer long through the fall. Um, I contacted every superintendent that I know and I asked them, "If you have at least one extra sub that you don't need driving right now, let us pay you to pay them to drive for us on a daily basis." And no superintendent um had one available or maybe they didn't want to give them up, but we didn't get one name from that. Um, we had um if you're at the football game, Mr. Lester did a great job with this, but we had a table set up with our drivers, a nice banner, and um you saw probably a dozen announcements that were um you know, announced and went across the
032scoreboard. If you have any interest or have questions, go see the drivers at uh the table. We had one person show up that evening. Um, we are getting getting creative and we're going to set a a bus down at 340 West Main and we're going to put a banner there how to uh apply. And so that's why we're almost, you know, taking desperate measures now because we have to make sure that we get our students here and they're here for the entire day. We're not doubling up. But this would be if someone applies, they have paid training, and if they drive for at least 90 days, then it would be a 500, a one-time $500 incentive. And any JA employee, if they refer a driver that drives for a year, that would be a $500
033incentive as well, too. So, um, Mr. Lesard, I forget anything that we're trying to do here, but we we've exhausted everything that we know. And um so if you know anyone or if you guys want to get your CDLs and volunteer and drive, we'll take you up on that offer. >> How long from point of interest to uh licensing them to pick up kids does it take? >> Has Misty told you that it is extensive process? >> Yeah. >> And if they pass it >> months >> or if they have to take it numerous times, >> right? A month or three months or >> I mean it depends on how many hours they commit to driving. If they drive, you know, 4 hours a day with our driver supervising them, then they can get it
034done a lot faster. But it comes down to the schedule, too. And if they're working another job or depends on if they have a CDL already, what what type of license they have, what things they're approved to drive with. So, >> we'll just assume no CDL and they have no job currently. >> It's months. >> Months. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Months. >> Thank you. and and we had a um retired Kota bus driver who has a CDL apply and we're going to try to get him on within the next week and he's got to go through the whole training because it's a school bus. >> Okay. >> So, nothing is simple about this process. >> Yeah. >> But we haven't been starting this now and scrambling. This has been going on for six months.
035>> Y >> Okay. Well, >> have you reached out to Kota to see if they have like a retired >> group that meets on a regular basis or anything like I mean >> No, but we're reaching out to there are some companies that um offer drivers. Um I I can't remember the name of it. Mr. Lester, did you reach out to anyone or did we was this where we learned that um >> they would have to go through the same application process and their uh background >> process for hiring is a different standard than what we would have, you know, being alone on a bus with children. >> Yeah. Right. Background checks and all that. Yeah. >> Okay. Um, is there any questions about the um employment items or the resignations? No. Okay. Roll call.
036>> Mr. Vot, >> yes. >> Mrs. Walker, >> yes. >> Stweiler, >> yes. >> Mr. Hulie, >> yes. >> Motion passes. May I have a motion to declare transportation impractical and offer payment in lie of transportation for the 2526 school year for the students listed below. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Any discussion? Okay. >> Roll call. >> Mr. Ro. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Walker. Yes, >> Mr. Hulley. >> Yes, Mr. Stweiler. >> Yes. >> Motion passes. [Music] >> Moving on to section 8.02, the adult meal prices. Um, may I have a motion to approve the changes. Um, recommending a [Music] 25 cents increase for breakfast and a 10% increase for lunch. 10 >> 10 cent Did I say percent? >> Yeah. >> 25 cent 10 cent breakfast and lunch. >> Can I get a
037motion? >> Yes, I'll move. >> Second. >> Okay. Okay. I don't I mean it's based off a USDA formula that we have to update each year. So, um we'll have a message out to the staff uh tomorrow, you know, letting them know of the price increases and the requirement to have money in their accounts. >> Okay. Immediately. >> Yeah. [Music] >> Roll call. >> Mrs. Deweiler? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Walker? >> Yes. >> Mr. Roto? >> Yes. >> Mr. Hulie? >> Yes. Motion passes. Okay, we are now at in section nine of our board meeting, which is um to have a public discussion if anyone has questions about the bond issue, the upcoming bond issue. [Music] I I will say that the title one funding and the impact on the student toteer ratio in Monroe
038was a consideration that I didn't realize. Um I think a lot of the right it seems very logical to just move kids from Plain City to Monroe and that's way that's more difficult than it appears as as are a whole lot of things. um seems like an easy fix, but it can't be done for other reasons. And in this case, it's because we have restrictions on how many kids are in the classrooms at Monroe. So, that's interesting. Anyone have anything else they want to talk about? >> Yeah, I mean, I know that the levy committee is is working. We have some I some things are a little bit different this year that are exciting that hopefully will result in some some more yes votes, but um you know I think it's just getting that's just
039getting started. So um hopefully you know we can get you know another or so yes votes or whatever we need to to pass that this time. But I know the levy committee is working really pretty hard and has some pretty cool ideas. And um we we were at a meeting Sunday night um just about mapping and so when we get ready to knock on doors and stuff like that, we're going to have some good maps that we can use to um identify folks. So it's it's good. >> Okay, great. Any nobody? No. All the people who are here, >> nobody has a question. >> Carla, can you ask us a question? >> She like left cards on everybody's shirt. Please ask this. >> I can share with the board at second grade Plain City Elementary.
040We are at 100% max. And so, um, we were going to try this year to not overflow anyone to Monroe. The board approved that letter of understanding last month that authorizes me to provide or mark to Mr. Engles to provide the stipen to a teacher if they take over 25 students. >> And so we're right at that that cut off right now. So >> just in second grade, but we have a couple other grades that are creeping up too. >> Sure. >> Okay. >> And and our total new enrollment this year ended up around 100. Is that correct? >> So, it was about a hundred more students this year in August than last year in August. Um, but the document that you have in front of you with the highlight, you'll see that we're pretty
041close on uh pace with the alignment of future think. So, we're 12 over students this year compared to the projections. So they projected >> that's 88 >> for this one year or an average and we actually ended up having a hundred for example. >> Oh yeah. >> Yeah. And that's preschool through um >> pres including preschool. >> So we're close we're close on projections. It's not like we're blowing projections out of the water. >> No we use a projections help us budget for the current year. So the fact that we're that close is a good sign. And and what in the projection is it at 19% now? Is it what is their projection growth? >> Uh 19 over 19%. >> 19%. >> Okay. Well, 100 new students in a district of 2300 students is significant.
042>> Mhm. Oh yeah. >> So um it easily explains why we are at capacity in some of our buildings and very quickly approaching capacity. Well, I think we're in great shape this year, but next year we probably won't be in great shape. >> So, are we starting the planning process now for I mean, are we going to I mean, obviously we're probably going to need some temporary >> temporary classrooms. Um, >> so I I've had conversations with board members on that and I think I just need to do a better job of educating the board that just sending students, overflow students to Monroe is not that easy. It can happen and it can provide some more space, but it's not going to get the job done for three more years until we have more space.
043So, we would need to talk about modular classrooms. >> Yeah. >> And I think it's important that we uh talk about that to our community and taxpayers that if do you want those tax dollars going towards modular classrooms that are temporary and very expensive or tax dollars going to a new building? And what's the annual cost of a modular classroom and the life of a modular classroom? >> We went towards Shakina. They had a brand new modular put in. Was it four or eight classroom? >> Four classrooms. It was gorgeous. I think it was around $400 or $500,000 to buy, but there's there's other hundreds of thousands of dollars for utilities, water, electric hookup, setup, and cement pad and sidewalks. And so 400,000 for four classrooms seem seems manageable, but it's still temporary. And then
044everything else that comes with it to to get it here and get it set up. >> Would it double the cost? >> Probably. And the shelf life is >> um we didn't I didn't learn what the shelf life is, but I was pleasantly u impressed with the quality. Um, I mean, when you're inside, you really can't tell that you're not in a regular classroom. It was It's new and it smells new and it seems safe. Um, but we might have families that say, "I don't want my child in the module classroom." >> How did they integrate it with their building or existing building? >> Um, it is detached in the back with sidewalks. >> So, the students are leaving the building and going to the modular, >> but there's multiple modulars in the back. houses
045their elementary. So that's their new elementary. So they have two modulars. One that's much older and one that's newer. The newer one is going to be for their um their like their primary grades. And I talked to them today. I was actually met with Shaka today and they're from the safety standpoint. It has like buzzer to get in, you know, the the corridor that you would expect in a school. Um, it's got its own fire system so that if there's a fire, you know, if there's a fire, it has its own system that it operates off of. So, they do their own fire drills and things like that. Um, but like Dr. Miller said, you know, there's the the sidewalk, but they're only using the main school for uh PE class and lunch. >> So,
046that's my question is those students are in that modular all day. >> Correct. That's >> that would not be the case. If we were to use that at Plant City Elementary, we would not have students that are in a modular all day, would we? Couldn't they be? >> Um, probably for the most part, but they would have like shared playground and they might go in for the gym. >> I'm talking about like in winter time, would they have to leave the main building to go out into their >> their modular classroom? >> We did it at the Oklahoma City >> years ago. Yeah, >> the kids go out when it's 25 degrees for recess anyway, so the exchange is is doable, but they're >> we would prefer not to have to do that. >> What
047was your experience with it? >> It was in the back of the old building um right off of the preschool building to the old old bus garage. >> Yeah. >> Was to the right hand side. Um sorry, I mean it was fine. it, you know, the teachers that were out there, even back then, they felt a little disconnected, you know, with the staff, but I think the kids liked it. >> We How about members walk through? It takes 15, 20 minutes to walk through the ones at Shakayina, and that really will give you a good understanding of the feeling. >> I guess I guess my thinking is, Jim, even if the bottom levy passes, >> we're not going to solve this problem in three years. I mean, it's going to take three years to build
048it. And so, we're going to have to take some steps to do something. >> If the board gives Mr. Engles and I authority to to start getting that in place, at least two or four at Plane City Elementary for next school year, I think that would really >> I'd love to see a plan, Jim, of what you think um it would be, what the cost would be. Um just just to share it with us what you think. Okay. I mean, it does have to be done by October, but I think we need to start looking at at something for >> I think it'd be helpful to have the number before the vote. >> Well, >> there's an option to lease these. >> There is there is also an option to lease. So, even, you know,
049if the bond is successful in November, >> you know, as Dr. Miller mentioned, it's 3 years for us to build and, you know, get that relieve the congestion we have at Plane City. So it might have be a short-term solution for those 3 years to lease instead of buying a whole modular unit. >> Um so that's an option be a lease cost to it. The when we're looking at the central office option for a modular I mean that was much bigger and we're talking about for a classroom it was about 9 grand a month. Um, so I assume it' be uh less of a cost for a smaller classroom unit, >> but we'll still have to pay for the utility hookups and um you know getting the site ready. >> So there is going to
050be a cost involved even with just leasing. Um but it depending on our needs that could be a temporary solution if the bond passes of you know until we get these new buildings up and we get the preschool and fourth grade out of Plane City. you know, we may have to do it. Well, we don't know. >> Provides some options. Let's say that we have the modulars and then we move into the building, >> take the fourth grade out of the elementaryaries, but now we're we need to be out of the high school. Instead of having a central office, we could move into the >> to the modulars. There's practicality to have it to purchase it. So, long term, you could use it for >> office space. >> Well, or class. I mean, again, we're
051not sure how fast our district's going to grow. It might be nice to have this. I mean, you think about, you know, 100 new students this year over 10 years, that's a thousand new students. Um, we might need it for something else at at some point. I would almost think that looking at the growth of our district, it'd be probably wise to look at purchasing some of them anyway. >> Yeah, maybe some. >> Yeah, I don't know that we would want to purchase a whole slew of them, but I think there'd be some value in the flexibility that purchasing some would have. >> I'll have a plan to the board within the month. >> Well, Jim, here's here's the thing, Jim. >> We I love it. I love it. But we want a good plan.
052And so, take your time. Make sure it's good. >> Yeah. Don't rush. >> It'll be a draft plan this first. >> Okay. >> Just a ball. Just a ball. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Yeah. Right. Right. >> So, do you think possibly next year at Plane City, fourth grade, we have to move about one of these modulars? >> Um, I don't I don't think we've discussed that yet. Um, >> I have a granddaughter that I think is going to be in fourth grade next year and I talked to my daughter who's against a bomb. I said, "Well, you know, you may have to go to a modular and then this might wake her up a little bit." >> It's a possibility. It's a possibility for you the wrong or your daughter will have a good make
053her really mad. >> We don't want to make her mad, but >> Oh, yes, I do. >> It's reality. >> Well, we don't. Maybe you do, but we don't. >> Yeah. Well, it sounds like it's a real possibility and somebody's going to >> temporarily. She's also a child that is going to Plane City. She's one of them that you let go to Plane City because at that time all her friends were in Plane City. >> But now that she's in sports a lot more, she has a lot of friends in Monroe. So it probably wouldn't bother her. She went back to Monroe. >> But she is one that transfers should be in Monroe instead of Plane City. >> Gotcha. Okay. >> We have a handle on all the intrad district um open enrollment. >> Okay.
054>> Gotcha. I actually h Oh, where' Becky go? >> She's >> She had to sneak out. She had babies her baby trying to enjoy. >> Gotcha. I was just wondering if there are some talking points that if and maybe there is no way to convince private school parents in the district that it benefits them to vote yes for this. But are there resources and reasons for Shakina and Plain View students and parents to benefit from Jonathan Alder? Like are there services? Are there other things that that they stand to gain? Thanks. >> Yeah. >> By supporting this. >> What kind of work are you doing? I mean, you're meeting with Shakina. >> So, right now, the work we're doing with Shakina is based on our federal grant dollars because they are taking a share of
055those dollars. This is the first time Shakina has ever participated in taking um federal grant dollars. Now, that would not have impact as far as like our facilities, but we are actually partnering pretty closely with them on some teaching and learning initiatives. Um we've formed a really strong partnership with them this year and gotten to know them really well. Um I think like like Nicole said, some athletic reasons maybe that that we would >> that it would be beneficial to to our non-publiclix. um their comm it's their community and you know house values and things like that >> and >> we are we do have a really strong positive relationship right now especially with Shakina but all of our nonpubliclix >> right >> I know that >> we just ask this is >> changed a
056lot since they moved a lot of the old people out I mean they even did away with the festival the young ones said we just donate more money instead of you know putting the tents up >> you know putting that a little late on. >> So now it sounds like they're even changing more. >> I I mean Shakina is in our district and the majority of kids from Chakina live in our district. Is that a fair statement? Majority. >> Yeah, >> majority. But it's becoming less. >> But if our levy passed, would it be hard to make that a bus stop where we pick up those kids? And >> if we have buses bus drivers, >> if we have bus drivers. Yeah. I just wonder if it's an added benefit if there's something we could
057provide an added benefit. >> All of plain view students live in the district, >> but for Shakina, I mean, for the most part, I would say that probably most of Plain View students live in the district. For Shakina, it's getting to be less and less, but there is still a majority, I would think. >> I just wonder if we could be an incentive of something like that since >> we're driving throughout the district anyway, >> right? Would it be something that we could do to >> I guess >> that's another >> we don't have bus drivers now so it wouldn't be possible. >> Right. Well, and I know that I had a Plain View board member call me to talk to Becky about special services for some special needs and I also had him ask
058about athletic stuff and I knew that there's some stuff that you guys were doing. From the student services side, we um any any um of our nonpubliclix that are within our boundaries, we would be the ones that would evaluate students if there's a suspected disability. Um we would be the ones evaluating and helping write those individualized plans for students. Um we would do that for any no matter what. And that's a that's a law that we that we have to partner with them. >> Even homeschooled children students. If a if there was a student who is homeschooled that suspects there's a susceptive disability that um Becky's department would take care of like all the evaluation process for that. >> Okay. Okay. That's helpful. >> On on your school bus drivers, how many are reaching retirement
059age other than maybe Linda? >> Some are over retirement age. >> Yeah, quite a few. Yeah, there's a couple are over retirement age. And I know Linda, she just keeps coming back every year. >> Where's your CDLs? >> I was mine. >> Yeah. >> I never had one, honey. >> You didn't need one cuz you're a farmer. >> I drove illegally for a while. >> No, you didn't need it. If you're recording truck once in a while, >> you you got time, man. >> Take that test. We need you. [Music] >> I'm running one eye. How can seriously am I 30 shots in this high although in a state of Ohio you're legally legal having to drive a car blind in one eye I don't know >> Mr. Lester, can you find that out? >>
060Although I did know a guy that did that and when he would take his eye test, he said, "Well, you know, cover your your left eye." He'd go like that and he said, "I cover your right eye and he go like that. You use that arm and he passed every year." >> But that was in Columbus. >> We're sharper out here. >> Yeah, I know. Okay. Well, um that's it for tonight. Uh can I have a motion to adjourn? >> Yeah. What? >> Oh, the next regular board meeting is September 9th. >> Nope. >> No. October 14th at 5:00 p.m. at the Plane City Elementary School. >> It is going to be at Plane City. >> Yeah. >> Want a motion to >> Yes. I'd like to >> I second that. >> Okay. Roll call.
061>> Mrs. Dweiler. >> Yes. >> Mr. Hulie. Yes. Mr. Voto. Yes. >> Mrs. Walker. >> Yes. Where joint?