001Okay. Uh, I'm going to go ahead and call this board meeting to order. Um, can we all stand for the pledge of allegiance? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Roll call. Mrs. Dweiler present. Mr. Hulie here. Mr. McCartney here. Mr. Moto here. Mrs. Walker here. Let's all take a moment for silent prayer and meditation. Thank you. Can I get a motion to approve the June 24, 2025 agenda for the Jonathan Auto regular board meeting? So moved. Second. Discussion. Okay. Roll call. Mr. Hulie? Yes. Mr. Deweiler? Yes. Mr. McCartney? Yes. Mr. Roto? Yes. Mrs. Walker? Yes. Motion passes. Thank you. Moving on to section three. Can I get a motion to
002approve the minutes from the May 13th 2025 regular meeting, the June 5th, June 10th special meetings, and the June 17th special meeting? So moved. Second, discussion roll call. Mr. McCartney, yes. Mr. Voto, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. Mrs. Dweiler, yes. Mr. Yes. Motion passes. Thank you. All right. We are now in section four of our agenda and uh this is a presentation that I'm eagerly anticipating. So, Miss Lorenz, we going to let you take it over. So, good evening everyone. Um I have a group of students that has been meeting in my classroom ever since our proc solutions fair in the spring. Um every year over the past couple of years students have talked about this desire to bring agricultural education to Jonathan Alder. And this year they kind of all banded together. the students over
003the past several years that have presented this and I just kind of gave them a space to put their thoughts together and they wanted to kind of share more with you what that could look like and kind of the benefits that students could gain from that. So, I'm going to turn it over to them. Thank you. Good evening. My name is Will Huntington and I'm Max Kingry. We are here to talk about why our school needs an agricultural education program and the opportunities it brings through FFA, the future farmers of America. In today's world where hands-on learning and career readiness are more important than ever, starting an FFA chapter of our school will be a game changer. FFA isn't just about farming. It's about leadership, science, business, and making a real impact to our community.
004Here is why now is the time for to bring agricultural education to and FFA to our school. Hi, I'm Mackenzie Rous. Leadership is a huge part of FFA. Students can take on meaningful ro roles, build confidence, and become role models. They develop essential life skills like communication, teamwork, and problem solving that prepares them for any career. These experiences also build responsibility and a strong sense of commitment to our communities and to agriculture. FFA members can attend events like the National FFA Convention in Indianapolis, the state convention in Columbus, and even the Farm Science Review just 20 minutes from our school. FFA leadership camp along with connect conference and I am conference open doors and minds. My name is Haley Wester. Let's talk about supervised agricultural experiences or SAE. These are personalized hands-on projects where students
005explore areas they are passionate about. There are two types of SAEs, foundational and immersion. Foundational SAEs help students build basic skills and explore interest. Immersion SAEs go deeper. Students can start businesses businesses and work in a related jobs, conduct research, and shadow professionals. For example, I raise market goods. That's my SAE. I'm learning responsibility, animal care, and time management. Real skills that translate into the real world. Hi, I'm Madison Reed. FFA offers career development events or CDEs that help students grow as individuals and professionals. These competitions build critical thinking, communication, and decision making skills. They also help students discover what they love. From public speaking and job interviews to a science and business, CDE prepare students for real careers. And after life of high school in agriculture, things are always changing. New tech, global trade,
006and sustainable practices require a skill. Adaptable workforces. CDE give us the tools to be ready for those changes. Hi, I'm Emmy Web. and I'm FFA is more than just a class. It's a way for students to gain real world experience, build leadership skills, and prepare for life beyond high school. With trips to the state and national conventions, and hands-on SAPE projects like animal care and soil testing, students can connect classroom learning to real careers. Throughout these experiences, students develop time management, accountability, and practical skills that are useful in any career, not just outcome. FFA builds future leaders starting here at our school. [Applause] Um, at this time I want to read a letter that I received um from Donald Swonger, who's a former vocational agricultural instructor and an FFA chapter adviser. And he's currently a
007Plane City resident, and he also is in support of an FFA chapter. And I thought before we ask any questions of you guys, you could just humor me a minute. He was unable to be here today. Um, his letter reads, "Dear Dr. Miller and members of the board, I understand there's a group that would like to reinstate an FFA chapter at Jonathan Alder. I wholeheartedly agree with and support this endeavor. As we all know, students who participate in extracurricular activities perform better. An FFA chapter is intracurricular part of the school's offerings and provides basic skills for living such as recordkeeping, budgeting, leadership, fellowship, mechanical skills, and environmental practices for plants and animals. As a former vocational agricultural instructor and FFA adviser, I would recommend reinstating this program and hiring a proven and qualified instructor. I
008know there are several instructors who have run successful programs who and would love to help reinstate this opportunity for older students. Neither money nor politics should be a consideration in that decision. It is my understanding that past practice was to have students who wanted to be a part of FFA attend tolls as was the case when I was a former representative to the tolls school board for Madison Plains. The tolls program centers on specific areas like a mechanics and covers only skills related to tools, machinery, operation of equipment, etc. A local program covers the areas listed above. But students also get experience in the areas of public speaking and interviewing along with opportunities for attending camps, participating on judging teams, going on field trips in all areas for career exploration in addition to attending the
009state of the national convention to see what the top students are doing in each area. Additionally, some students may be unable to nor want to attend tolls depending on their chosen course of study, future career plans, or extracurricular activities. they may want to be a part of it at the high school. I support and applaud the efforts of these students who would like an FFA chapter vocational agricultural program back brought back to Jonathan Alder. I urge you to consider their appeals seriously and hire an instructor and adviser who would build a top level program for your district. Sincerely, Donald E. Swanganger, former vocational agriculture instructor and FFA chapter adviser. Um, I just want to reiterate the fact that uh we support and applaud all of your efforts being here today. Um, you showed up professional,
010prepared, and you spoke very well, and it really makes me proud to be um part of this district with students like you coming up. What What grades are you all in? We only have juniors. Okay. All of you. All of you juniors sophomores. Okay. So, all across. Okay. Does anybody have any questions for them specifically? That So, your jackets say Fairbanks. So, are you in their chapter now? No. No. Okay. These have good connections over there. They were willing to help us out. Okay. They borrowed them because agriculture being moved into Jonathan Holder's district. Okay. Okay. So what's your sense of the level of interest that there would be if we start a program at all? Would it be U7 or we be more? Can you give me an idea how many more? There's more.
011There was over 40% the average the past two years that would love to be a part of agriculture from our freshman distillation projects. So that would be around six classes. So it would fill pretty much the entire day. Okay. So there is a lot of interest and that's only from the 27 class and the 28 class. So my brother, my oldest brother was in FFA years ago. And he got to a point in his high school where he was able to go to school part of the day and then work part of the day for a farmer. or is that what you're talking about with SAPE and does FFA National like have a program like that where they integrate it into the schools and establish that? Is that is that am I on the right
012track with that in terms of SAPE? Yeah, part of it in school and your teachers helping you um with the education part of it and then the other part is outside of school. Very hands-on. Yeah. Like Okay, that sounds good. You're smiling, Mrs. quick. Do we have a I I've spoken to some of these amazing students at the solutions fair and I think they have a very good case for this work at John. I've spoken with Mayor Carney many times and um I just want the board and the students to know that from the teaching and learning department standpoint we are in full support of looking into this and determining what it would take to bring FFA back to JA. We also have identified agra business as one of our top six industries in this
013area. And so if we were able to bring um this program to the high school, we would really want to focus on the business part integrating the business part of um agriculture into into the work that we're doing. So and I asked Mr. Hayes and he's also in support of the program at the high school. So we just need to figure out what we need to So, Mr. Hayes, yeah, can I I don't think these guys know this, but I'm a proud alum of the FFA at Fort Fry High School in southeastern Ohio. Proud member of the serial judging team as well. Soil and I um I lived in town. I have always lived in town. nothing had nothing to do with with all my friends had animals but the leadership and the other things
014that you get from FFA other than the fellowship and the leadership um like it helped me get to where I am today. Um, and my instructor will still text me once a month, um, and ask me how I'm going and the leadership talked to me about leadership and send me stuff from the national FFA thing. So, I'm fully in support of it. Um it's this is the first time students have actually not these students have the past couple years but before that um it just really hasn't ever been brought up at at Alder and it didn't really make a whole lot of sense when I first got here I'm like we don't have it because I work the only two places I've ever worked for London here in London had one made no sense to
015me that we didn't have one and it was just I was told that they could do they could take it into um I just want to say the freshman solutions job fair is probably one of my favorite things that happens during the schools. And the fact that you guys kind of banded together and came out of that is really impressive. And you got everything together to make a presentation to the board today to reiterate that the interest isn't just a couple kids. Um I'm going to put you on the spot though, Mr. Hayes. What is the likelihood of us starting an FFA program uh as soon as possible? I so I don't know exactly what all you would need but the teacher the biggest honestly the biggest problem right now and I'm thinking about my
016experience in FFA guys is the space and the the the the area for us to be able to do it in um kind of like you know the addition that we talked about where we talked about having open spaces with the new with the new plan like that would be perfect. Yeah. like like the new the new addition, but with the six hallways and they weren't going to be traditional classrooms, that would be a perfect space to house that in. Um even what is known as the wrestling room down at the junior high where you had access to outside and things and and that would be a great space down there too. What's currently the library and the wrestling room I think used to be shop and your the a room it was your FFA
017building. So that that would be the one of the biggest obstacles for me right now would be the space to house it in here at the high school. We could make something work where a lot of the stuff that was done in that's done in the classroom and there's a lot that's done in the classroom. We could we could do that now, but um you know and and SK final schedules like like these guys don't even know that their schedules are done. like they their their schedules are completely filled, but so it would be hard to to turn it around this quickly right now. You mean like for next year? But we could start the steps. We could start some sort of FFA club and you know like get everything lined up for the future.
018Um, so like I would have to look I would have to look at everything um with like how it would work with starting a club or whatever that might be so that we could start a process. So if could you do it with a dedicated classroom and then you would just have multiple class periods? is we could use different spaces like and and it's not ideal, but we could make it work where we would use different classrooms that that would be open and try to block them off throughout the day where some of our traveling teachers actually leave leave the building. And so like for example, Mr. Pston teaches here the first three periods, then he's at Monroe and that is a big open space. The arc, it's an art room, so it's a big
019open space with a lot of area similar to an egg room. Okay. So, you think it could be done? It just be hard to do in by the fall? I don't know that I don't know that we could we could get one started. I don't know that we would get the numbers that we wanted right now with with wanting to market it and get it out there to all the students to have them sign up. I think it would be more realistic. I mean, we're we're in the middle almost the end of almost the beginning of July. So, hire trying to find an instructor. That's the biggest thing. finding a quality candidate at this point. Is that something we could do mid year? You could post a job mid year. I mean, I I personally
020would love to see the staff work together and present a proposal to us. I mean, I am very interested. I think the whole board is very interested. There's a lot of unknowns, but I think the staff could probably put something together and present it to us. What's it going to take? What's the timeline? what's it going to cost? Um, how do how do we start it? I mean, I think an FA FFA club right off the bat would be probably pretty easy to do, but I'd love to see a proposal by from the staff. We can absolutely put that together pretty quickly. Was it timely? I'm just thinking out loud. Uh, at our other schools, we have uh release time religious instruction. Is there a way if we have a space issue, like I know
021they have some needs on here for outside beds and things like that. Is there a way we could do it this fall in another location in our district? I think we're with the club aspect. Absolutely. Um, again, finding that quality instructor, getting it posted this late, um, I it's it would be difficult for this fall, but but there's no reason that we couldn't, you know, work out the logistics of using possibly other spaces in the district. Are we out anything if we try? Somebody falls into your lap or somebody's looking for something like that. I mean, is that a s I don't know. You guys know it much better than I do. Is that a silly is that a silly suggestion? That's a budget question I think we'd have to ask Dr. Miller and Mr.
022Engles as far as like is does that fit into the the forecast? What I think we should do though, Mr. Julie, to your point is when we create like a a plan or a proposal is show like a phased in approach even. What could this look like for 25 26? What could this look like for 26 27 that's realistic? And obviously we would need Mr. Engles to weigh in. um on that proposal that we share with you. But it is possible to start a club this fall and then that club hint hint can help develop the plan too. Absolutely. Mayor, I think the more student voice you have in the proposal and plan, the better they have better ideas. I heard them at the solutions fair. They had way better ideas than what some of
023us would have. So, Mayor Carney, you're a former FFA instructor, correct? I am. I I have a master's degree in teacher leadership and um in agriculture education. Um I taught at Fairbanks 16 years ago. Some of these names on the jackets are very familiar. The rings in the back of one of my students. Um I was a proud member. I a very um we rivaled Fort Fry with Alexander that in I just want to say that I I think the the club idea is a good approach I think for 25 26 and you're right Mr. days having the opportunity to have that plan to go with to the OD and be able to post and say this is like what our teacher because they have the whole department that they would work with the school
024district to create that job posting for a qualified candidate because it's just like um ELA or math we we have I have a four-year degree in agriculture and education FFA so I think that is a fantastic thank you for this is I'm very passionate about this these students have done an amazing job presenting and working. Um, so I think that you can start out with a classroom space. The shop part can come definitely like I think that would be a good enticement with, you know, for future growth of saying we have the classroom. You can do a lot with hydroponics, hatching chicks, um, doing soil testing. um you can use some of the fields around for soil pits because I was a soil judger as well. Um so some of the things that definitely that
025students might get very interested in and can do. So there's a lot of things um I I'm going to work with Mrs. Stro about identifying some agriculture opportunities um in the curriculum. So like you can you can send kids to do a judging um livestock judging without being in an FFA chapter right away. So, but okay, ultimately is you want to have a a dedicated space for that teacher because it would be really hard for teachers to come in and just maybe be moved around. It can it can be done, but I think I like that phased approach and having that timeline. Then that way it gives students Oh, I wanted to like intercept that, but biology like that's a huge part of our curriculum and they do a lot of related which they hatch
026eggs. Like I'm pretty sure they're doing chicken hatching next year. So it wouldn't be impossible to like get those things right off the bat to incorporate some of some FFA stuff into existing curriculum, but a lot of us have already taken biology. So that's the issue. So it might be like an a business where students come to school, they do it and then they go and work in a related job. And I there's they identified several locations that could pro possibly work. Is there value in a club for next year? Does that I Yes, I think they are looking at something that can band them together that gives them purpose and everything. There's lots of opportunities out there around this central Ohio with different leadership activities that I think that you can like share with
027them with the students that are in it and give them the opportunity. But wouldn't the club kind of be the good first step anyway just to judge interest and how many students are really going to participate? Do you guys have think future wise of like not just the students that are currently in high school? It's like um and I would like to take this opportunity to invite our board of education and administration to the Madison County Fair which kicks off July 5th through the 12th and I will be sending a formal invite. Um but to come and see a lot of these members raise your hand if you're in the Madison County Fair and it's not just Livestock. It's special interest. Is anybody in the Union County Fair? So do you do you guys have
028a sense of how many kids are how many high schoolers are in 4? There's over a hundred in my 4 group personally that Miss Carney is the leader of. Is that they're all JA kids? Yeah. Yeah. Well, and there's probably there's probably four or five J or JA 4 group, right? Right. Yeah. I was in 4. I took hogs. Mrs. Mrs. Woody Hall is also a 4 advisor. Oh, yes. In the area. Oh, yes. And Jonathan Alder's name is actually still on the FFA barn at the Madison County School. Oh, really? Every year students walk in and they say, "Jonathan Alder had a They used to do Wow. Okay. Well, well, you guys really got the ball rolling. Would the club be able to help formulate ideas and kind of for the class like kind
029of work towards that end? Okay. Would it also stand to reason that there would be a built-in willingness for advocacy to pass our bond so that we have space and money to build a space for you guys knocking on doors. We need FFA in our school because that would be the next thing you know we need the bond. So this is one a great reason why and a really tangible thing for people you know in our community to see and know. Can I add to your comment? Yes. The last board meeting, if you remember, Fred Jod told you he paid paid $50,000 a year in property taxes. Fred also was a one of the leaders in FFAL and also district number one soul judger go to state because my teacher thought I was too wild
030to get out my jack and I wasn't allowed. But it would go a long way with the farmers. Bring it back. Yeah. Because not only did FFA, but you branched that off. We started out with a 100 bushel corn club and now went to 200 bushel now. So now you're bringing in the old farmers also. Oh. So there's something like that. It's going to lean you guys a little bit better for the farming district. Yeah. Great. Thank you. Is are clubs normally run by a teacher? This I believe I know FCA you have to have a certified teacher. you might you guys might know better than I I don't know as much about FFA um the requirements of a club but as an agriculture club and then like when they future you can yes and
031then it would morph into that in general our club advisors are certified as teachers generally um but that's not to say like Leo club for example has both a teacher and an outside person from the alliance club right so that's not to say that it's only a teacher that I do believe we would have teachers interested in supporting yeah anfa or agricultural club and there may be multiple people in this room who would like to have the job maybe to teach it eventually t I'm looking at a few that I know that could [Music] I just wanted to add to it if we like got a big group of people to go to farm science review Yeah and all the farmers that are in the Jonathan Alder district, see us there. I feel like that
032would also help a lot for the bond. That's a really great idea. When is farm science? October. September. September. Mid September. September 20. That's a very field trip. Very good idea. Could also be a community service. We could go there and help with things for people. Yeah, that's what Tols does. Criminal justice directs parking down there. They do all kinds of stuff. to Mackenzie's point, uh, Mrs. Shrock is already planning and, uh, our future ready committee is already planning on us doing that this year. So, um, to help We heard you. We definitely heard you guys at the to help with parking or to part of going down to the to take a field trip to the farm. Would they be able to speak to people about the bond? Like, is there a format in
033which that would be possible? It's too big of a It's like because of so many people coming from all over Ohio and other states. Other states, right? Um more of like attending PL events and like having a booth set up saying like bringing back Jonathan Alder agriculture education or something that could be like a way to talk. We'll have to get with the village on what the events are and how we can get into those. Okay. Well, any further questions from the board? Thank you. Oh, great job, guys. Thank you very much. Okay, we're going to figure out the next steps and then will Okay. Are you still doing 4? Excellent. No, all right. Well, you guys do not need to stay. Thank you very much. You can if you want. You can if you
034want. Right. Three resolutions. Okay. Okay. So, no public comments. So, we're moving on to uh are there no do you know there's I confirm there are no public comments. Okay. So, moving on to the uh section six the treasurer's report. Um can I get a motion to approve the May 2025 financial reports as presented? So moved. Second. Okay. Um discussion. A really quick update because you know I have a lot on on the agenda for tonight. Um so this is our last May. Um so June is our last year of the fiscal year. Right now we're tracking about um less than half a percent variance between our forecast to our actual which is right on target. Um all our property taxes came in um about 13% increase in previous year. our um school district tax
035also came in 13% over which is just indication of a strong local economy. Um so overall we're on track. Um still monitoring the uh state budget situation. Um they gave themselves into the conference meeting gave themselves into session at 3:00 and then gave themselves into re recess at 3:00 30 seconds. So she they're still in recess right now. It's been over two hours. So, um, anyway, I'll have a more detailed report on how we did in fiscal year 25 at our next meeting once everything's closed out for June and, um, have an S report there. Okay, any questions? Okay, roll call. Mr. Mr. Bo, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. Mrs. Dweiler, yes. Mr. Hulie, yes. Mr. McCartney, yes. Motion passes. Okay. Section 6.02. Um, can I get a motion to accept the following grants and donations?
036$200 to athletics from the Union County Elite FC for field use. 200 to uh Monroe Library from the Plane City Book Club. 1,200 to JA athletics volleyball from McCassen. 1370 to athletics and um Jonathan Alder local school district from Napier Tree Service, $10 to Plane City Elementary from Charities Aid Foundation America, $50.35 from Tabitha Paskkins to Negative Lunch Accounts, and $250 from Lily's to Landon Garner's Eagle Scout project. Can I get a motion? So moved. second. Um, as always, thank you to everyone who is donating money to the school and individual students. We appreciate it. And neg negative lunch accounts getting us there. It's amazing. Thank you very much. Um, I don't have any further comments. Yeah, I just want to speak really quickly on the Eagle Scout project. I was just going to ask.
037So, what what's Landon is doing is redoing our junior high concession stand and replacing the door because right now it's just not safe. It's not functioning. Oh. So, we partnered with them and u with him and said, "Well, the district will pay upfront for the cost and he's raising money on the side to reimburse the district for about half the cost." So, I'm really we really appreciate it. It was on our to-do list, so to speak, to get done and it just kind of worked out great. This young man can get earn an Eagle Scout. um come to Eagle Scout and you know we can get this nice project done. It's great. Thank you, Mr. Landon Garner. Okay. Uh roll call. Mrs. Walker, yes. Mr. Roto, yes. Mr. McCartney, yes. Mr. Hulie, yes. Mrs. Dweiler,
038yes. Motion passes. Okay. Um 6.03. Can I get a motion to approve the following transfers as presented? So moved. Second. Okay, Mr. Angle. So most of these are um standard transfers that we have to make every year. Uh the transfer from the per improvement to the OFCC maintenance fund 034 that was done in lie of having a separate 0.5 mil permanent improvement levy um as part of our 2002 bond project. Um, since we already had a permit improvement levy, we're allowed to just shift money over to a separate fund. So, that's what that is for. Um, I'm estimating an additional 500,000 for um, retirement liabilities for when we pay out severance to our employees. Um, trying to make sure that is topped off and we can meet that obligation as negotiated with our teachers. Um,
039and finally is cap the capital projects fund. We have um I did link to a detailed document of projected projects um for that money. Um the land purchase that we're negotiating right now with Mr. Real at the high school. Um potential land purchase at Plane City, which don't know the exact details yet. And then finally, our water wastewater plants as we have really at this point no idea when we hook up to a municipal system. Four of our buildings are on wells and septics. We we're technically running our own wastewater plants at Monroe and Junior High. Um that since we switch operators, we're discovering those need a lot of additional upkeep to keep going until we can hook up. So we're setting aside money to do those necessary repairs. So I'm sorry, this money will
040also cover the hookup eventually. Um no, just to keep those plants running. Okay. until we can hook up to compliance because we have to be in compliance with EPA and um all that good stuff and address water quality issues and are we talking about putting Monroe on a system or they would stay separate? They will stay separate, right? It like there's not anything coming along that way, but just the three schools along 42. Yeah, three schools along 42. Monroe will have to be his own separate thing unless they somehow put something along 38. Yeah, along 38. That would be a long time coming. Okay. Is it 034 and 035? Are those two different things? Two different things. 034 is the OFCC maintenance fund which could be used for repair costs for our buildings built using
041the OFCC. So that be this building, Plane City, Monroe, and Kanan. Okay. And then 035 is our termination benefits fund. So that pays for the payout of acrewed but unused sick leave vacation when an employee separates from the district. Right. So, which of those line items is the O is the 034? 034 is the 139,256 from PI. Oh, okay. So, it's not on that little chart. Okay. No, that little chart was just showing um the estimated liabilities. Okay. Gotcha. You know, kind of showing that breakdown that it's not a number pulled out of a hat. It's right there something to it. Yeah. Okay. That's the only one I was confused about. Okay, roll call. Mr. McCartney, yes. Mr. Votto, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. Mrs. Deweiler, yes. Mr. Hulie, yes. Passes. Can I get a motion
042to approve the final appropriations and certificate of estimated resources for financial year 25 as presented fiscal year? Some moved. Second. Okay, discussion. So, this will just get us to next week essentially. That's when the fiscal year ends. Um, additional um appropriations for the general fund for covering those additional transfers that we just discussed. Um, the permanent improvement. Um, I neglected to budget for the transfer that's required every year. It's oversight on my part. Um, and then finally, classroom facilities maintenance. We had um more than expected costs coming out of there and termination benefits um with um some surprise retirements. Okay. Roll call. Mr. Hulie? Yes. Mr. McCartney? Yes. Mr. Roto? Yes. Mrs. Walker? Yes. Mrs. Deweiler? Yes. Motion passes. Can I get a motion to approve the permanent appropriations and certificate of estimated resources for
043fiscal year 26 as presented? So moved. Second. And this will allow us to spend money come July 1. So this is set our budget for July 1. Um right now for the general fund, we're looking about a 5% increase compared to the current fiscal year. uh majority of that is with uh salaries and benefits with a new uh teachers contract starting July 1. Um I do want to point out that about 60% of our expected expenditures is targeted to the classroom. You know regular educa regular instruction, special instruction, student support, staff support. Um again that's where it should be um targeted to and then facilities taking up an extra 11% um and transportation of uh 6%. So that's what we're looking at. Um I will have to come back for um an amendment next meeting
044because the um state budget well the state hasn't received it full allocations for federal grants yet. Now typically we know by now how much to expect for title one two three four IDA. So far we only know title one and the reason for that is for cuts at the federal level is delaying the allocations to the states which is delaying us. So, um, just give me a heads up. There's going to be an amendment most just for federal funds next month. Um, I estimated um, flat for next year. That way, just get started. Over the just get started, but that's another thing we're dealing with. Could it possibly be less? Yes. Okay. Yeah. But I'm anticipating some of those grants to be substantially less. Oh, okay. Okay. Roll call. Mr. Hulley. Yes. Mrs. Stweiler. Yes.
045Mr. McCartney. Yes. Mr. Roto. Yes. Mrs. Walker. Yes. Motion passes. Okay. Moving on to 6.06. Can I get a motion to approve the insurance renewal policies for fiscal year 2026? So moved. Second. Okay. Mr. Angel. These are the same policies as last year. And um that's correct. The main difference is is the in property insurance just because the cost of replacement has been going up. Um so that's the main main difference there. Auto as we've been replacing our fleet. Um the replacement cost of the bus has also gone up a little bit and we've also had more claims than typical last year but overall um same policies of last year. Um, I'm hoping the following year we kind of be more even compared to year to year. Inflation going down a bit, but overall this
046is protect us. Why did our cyber go down? Cyber went down. It's a new policy um that is a different third party um that we're able to it's actually a better policy overall. It's a lower deductible um but it's a bigger pool so they can spread the cost over more. Oh yeah. And so that's how our liability able our premium is able to go down. Good. Okay. Roll call. Mrs. Dweiler. Yes. Mrs. Walker. Yes. Mr. Ra. Yes. Mr. McCartney. Yes. Mr. Hulie. Yes. Much passes. I'm done for a while. A lot. You're end. Okay. Moving on to section seven. Personnel consent items. Um, can I get a motion to approve the employment and personnel consent items as presented in sections 7.01 through 7.04, which includes resignations, employment um, job description, and the treasurer and superintendent
047contract adjustments. So moved. Second. Okay. Um, any discussion? We talked to Emily before the meeting and the job descriptions for the uh, innovation coach. Is that it? Yeah, it's it's the tech committee. Those delegates to the tech committee that are there for each building. It's the same job, same supplemental. They're just making a newer description for that job job title. Um, and the treasurer and superintendent contract adjustments don't uh change anything about the actual rate of pay. It just changes how we pay if the state law um prohibits prohibits retirement pickup benefits. So, which we'll find out hopefully tonight. Okay. So this is sort of a catch-all coverall if that becomes yeah it's a trigger language. So if this happens then this happens and it's something that fortunately the state is putting a lot of
048boards into this position um trying to protect negotiated benefits. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Any other comments, questions? Okay. Roll call. Mrs. Deweiler. Yes. Mr. Hulie. Yes. Mr. McCartney. Yes. Mr. Ro. Yes, Mrs. Walker. Yes. Motion passes. Thank you. Okay. Moving on to section eight, new business. Can I get a motion to review and approve the memorandum of understanding um which includes replacement of the supplemental program advisory committee with the supplemental and stipen review committee? Second. Okay. So the acronym may change um but the actual committee itself will also be changing. So this is a result of you remember we we approved the supplemental program advisory committee last year and they had a year to do their work and there was a the committee had six members. Yes. Six members and then I would take the committee's
049recommendations and meet with Dr. and we would kind of talk through them. Um, but as time went on, it looked it it appeared that it wasn't really there wasn't there wasn't a whole lot of value to having six members meet um regularly on this issue. So, they're sort of revising the way they do it. They're basically wasting less time and being more efficient with it while still including the building level administ right the building level administrators have kind of been cut out of the conversations and so this pulls them back into the conver like somebody can still submit a request they need to have the conversation with their building administrator and then it would be like my then responsibility to check in and say hey before I present this to Dr. Miller, are you on
050board with this and give them some say in that conversation as well? So, kind of making sure that all of the stakeholders have a part and we're not just wasting people's time on a committee just to have a committee. So, thisou is an example of living, learning, and becoming more efficient. Good. Like it. I can get behind it. Yeah. I was reading over it and wondering what was different, but I didn't have the original. I didn't take the time to look up the original to see. Is it mostly just a name change or are there other nuances like you're meeting less? I saw that meeting less frequently. Um, but really it puts the just procedural. I think the biggest challenge we ran into, right, you had six people in the room who didn't actually have
051the ability to say yes, right? And so this kind of turns it into a conversation between myself, Mr. Engles, Dr. Miller, the people who can actually have the information to say yes, this is something that can be approved or no, it's cannot and kind of cutting out the committee which really just became a middleman. Gotcha. Okay. While also we're roping in the building principles to determine what the level of need is based on the request. Six requests come from one building. It allows the building administrator then to prioritize like this is what we need the most. if we can't make all six of these happen, this is what needs to happen first. Um, things like that. So, okay, great. Well, great work on this. Thank you. Um, any other questions? Okay, roll call. Mrs. Stweiler,
052yes. Mr. Hulie, yes. Mr. McCartney, yes. Mr. Voto, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. Motion passes. Moving on to section 8.02. Can I get a motion to approve the enclosed memorandum of understanding with Tol's Career and Technical Center for the placement of satellite programs within Jonathan Alder High School? So moved. Second. Okay. Any questions or comments? I must have missed this when I was looking over I didn't notice this when I was reading the minutes. I must have just seen and thought I already read it. I can kind of go over this quickly and then Miss McCartney can speak on it as well. So right now we have three satellite programs within JA between the junior high and high school. Um we had anou in place with tolls. Um and this is a way of updating that
053language. Um also the previous had a math problem that didn't calculate correctly. So we caught that fixed it. Um I do want to say that um you know under this agreement you know if we don't fill in the classes all the way we will owe to some money but based on just scenarios and simulations of of that you know if we pay them $50,000 for three classes as a bargain compared to hiring three teachers hiring three teachers. Um and these are in demand courses career awareness one and two um with career awareness being at the middle school. So starting them early in seventh and eighth grade or I can't remember which grade exactly but junior high and then career rangers too at the high school getting kids thinking about what they want to do so
054they can focus on their studies. Yeah. And the engineering academy as well um for that's always been a popular program to get kids into you know robotics and programming computer science. Um do you have anything you want to add? No, I mean this is just a a slight shift in how the tolls board is uh the direction of the tolls board is moving. Um we have there are a number of programs throughout the uh the career tech planning district and so uh some programs losing significant amounts of money and so we're trying to align all all of theus to be similar in nature so that we can um to be equitable in terms of making sure that some districts don't unfairly benefit. fit. Okay. All righty. Roll call. Mr. Vot, yes. Mr. McCartney, yes. Mr.
055Hulie, yes. Mrs. Dweiler, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. Motion passes. Section 8.03. Can I get a motion to approve the sixth grade camp dates as May 6th through 8th, 2026? So move. Second. Um if by the way, this reminds me I I have these thank you notes um which were in addition to other thank you notes written from the student from the sixth grade camp. If anyone didn't get a chance to look at these, they're pretty they're pretty awesome. Um, also thank you to whatever teacher had them write the notes, too. I mean, it's really it's really nice to see personal experiences from these kids, and it's really nice to see kids writing thank you notes. So, so thank you. Okay. Um, roll call. Mrs. Dweiler, yes. Mr. Hulie, yes. Mr. Voto, yes. Mrs. Walker. Yes.
056Mr. McCartney. Yes. Motion passes. Okay. Uh section 8.04. Can I get a motion to approve the online day plan for the 2526 uh years as presented? So moved. Second. I can do you want to share a little bit about please just renewing it. So the online day plan is a requirement of the And it's a collaboration between JA and our administrative team. And it really just outlines if we were to if a if another pandemic were to happen or if something catastrophic happened in one of our buildings, what would we do in order to continue providing instruction to our students and that could mean virtually um through like like what we had to do back during um COVID when we when we had to go online. Um it just outlines the steps we would take
057in order to ensure that we're working together collaboratively with our teaching um union to make sure that um we have a plan in place. There's a low likelihood that we Jonathan Aler would ever need to use an online day plan unless there was something catastrophic because we've built in so many additional hours into our school day that allow us to on a snow day to miss or if we have a fall delay to miss. we are not really at risk until many many many days missed. Um, but this plan allows us to have something in place just in case. It's just it's an insurance policy for to make sure we're working collaboratively with our teachers. Thank you for thinking ahead on this one. Hopefully, we won't have to use it. Okay. Uh, roll call. M.
058McCartney? Yes. Mr. Boto? Yes. Mrs. Walker? Yes. Mr. Hulie? Yes. Mrs. Dweiler? Yes. Motion passes. Okay, moving on to 8.05. Can I get a motion to approve the resolution declaring necessity of bond issue of 70,625,000 and to submit certification to the county auditor? Some moved. Second. Okay. So, um, before we go forward, I just want to make sure that we are all on the same page and also explain to the community how we got here. And so, if I miss anything, please jump in or feel free to add at the end. Um, as you know, we did a community forum and then this was followed up by a work session in order for this board to work together and to take into account all the feedback and to reexamine our plans and really take a
059eagle eye to everything and make sure that um we are doing the best for our students and our taxpayers. And what we all came to the realization, I mean, we kind of knew this beforehand, but it's more pressing now, is that there's really six things we talked about and six things we we learned about. Um, first, we must we must act to address growth. Um, we are at or quickly approaching capacity in all five of our buildings. Now, as Mr. Mr. Julie said during the community forum, we can't put up a no vacancy sign. Um we've got Plain City Elementary and the high school are the most pressing um capacity issues, but they're all almost there. So, we sat down and we considered redistricting um Plane City Elementary students to Monroe. We considered trailers both
060as a temporary and a permanent fix. Um this is really costly and not safe. Um we considered the impact of rising building costs which are approximately 5% year-over-year and we considered sort of peacemealing our plan. Um but at the back of our brains everybody here we don't want to keep going back to the voters. We want to wait as long as possible to go back to the voters in the future. So our desire is to come up to with a plan that addresses what we need now. Not what we need in four years, what we need now and hopefully will last 10 years for the projections, but 15 to 20 years into the future. Um, so one of the problems are the rising costs, uh, building costs. So there's no question that there is no
061way for us to build in the future at the price we can pay to build now. The prices will only go up. Um, by by putting this bond back on the ballot in November, we are allowing residents who live here now to commit all the people who move here in the future. We're not giving them a choice. You want to move here, you're coming in and you're paying for our new schools. Okay. Um, we considered reconsidered the master's facility plan. Um, some of this is going to be a repeat for for some of you, but we've got five school buildings. If we knew that everyone moving into the district was going to bring a kindergartener, we could build a one elementary school and then wait until those kids need to move on to another school.
062But eventually, even that's not going to work. So our goal was to look at every single building and say, "How can we do this one time and impact every single building?" So the plan, the master's facility plan first takes the fourth grade and the preschools out of Plane City Elementary and Monroe. You're freeing up space in both of those two buildings. Then you take um you convert Kanan to a four five building and you add four additional classrooms. Now you're expanding the space at Kanan. We've got expanded space at Plane City Elementary, expanded place space at Monroe and also Kanan. Well, expanded capacity at Plane City Elementary capacity, not space, not right. Right. Because we're not actually adding to those buildings at this time, but we are freeing up space. So, thank you for um
063correcting my language. Then you build a junior high big enough to accommodate six through eight. And you add eight classrooms to the high school and you also remove central office from the high school and use the current junior high building. You don't demolish the whole thing. You use it. You renovate that current junior high building. You put central office in there with the preschools that we have pulled out of Plane City Elementary and Monroe. So when somebody comes and says, "Why don't you just do one piece of this?" It's missing the entire plan that expands space everywhere and capacity and capacity in every single one of our buildings. So we sat down, we talked about making cuts to the plan. Um we already did that. We took out the high school auditorium. We took out
064the bus garage. Um, we are at we are at bare bones on this plan. We talked about remodeling the junior high, but because the cost to remodel that junior high building is greater than 87% of the cost to rebuild, we would not get our state funding if we did that. If we merely remodeled the junior high, 54%. At right. So, so how it works is after a bond is approved by voters, we get in line for 54% reimbursement of the construction costs of the junior high from the state. The only way that happens is once we get a bond approved by voters and then we get 54% of the cost to construct a junior high back from the state. We take that money then and we build the auditorium potentially the bus garage. We we
065consider other things but this board is committed to building an auditorium at that time. So we also discussed community concerns about a 6 through8 building and a campus model. I'll address those two separately. Um some of the concerns we heard about a 6 through 8 building were having sixth graders on a bus with high schoolers. They're already there. I hated when my fifth grader got on a bus with high schoolers. We're taking the fifth graders off. So, it's a non-issue. The sixth graders are already on the bus with high schoolers. Um, curriculum design. Curriculum in the state of Ohio is designed for K through 5 and 6 through 12. Having the six through eight building with the high school allows the teachers and the administrators to work together on curriculum for the entire grade band
0666 through 12. Okay, simplifies that process. Also, we talked about building design. What's going to happen to these sixth graders? Um, how about this? We have one hallway for the sixth graders. They have a separate lunch. They have a uh they have basically no co-mingling unless there are kids who are specifically taking high school classes in which case there will be a um divi divider between the high school and the junior high and those kids will be escorted into the high school spaces. So um we also reviewed literature that was provided to us by our expert consulting firm Dynamics and Dr. Tom Fry and um there is a growing body of research that supports the six through eight model. It leads to higher student achievement leads to stronger peer and teacher relationships. It leads to
067greater social and emotional stability and stronger continuity in curriculum and school culture. Those studies also support that the greatest factor on students success is staff and administration in the building. And we this board has the utmost confidence in our staff and our administration. So let's talk about the campus model. This has benefits because it reduces cost and increases safety. First, you've got one safety person at one building versus having your safety person travel between the high school and a different location to the junior high. You also have one nurse serving seven grade levels instead of traveling between two separate buildings. You can also share staff, increasing efficiency of taxpayer dollars. Then there's busing implications. Um, the overcrowding in the current 5 through 12 bus plan can be alleviated. The busing junior high students to the
068high school for classes can be eliminated. They're already here. The campus model also provides students a smoother transition to high school. Junior high students would have a greater access to high school classes. Plus, there would be a much greater collaboration between athletics and music programs between 6 through 12. So, adding classrooms to the high school under the campus model that we have also allows us to increase the electives. It gives us way more flexibility to handle things like FFA at our building. Um, and you know, when I wrote down the word electives to in my notes about today, I wasn't even thinking of FFA. And it's not just a class. It's a lifestyle. Like, we have the ability to train these kids on so many aspects of of becoming an adult, responsible adult, and we
069don't have the space for it right now, but we can. We can get there. Um, we discussed tax options because we heard a lot of people say, "Why not do an income tax?" And so when you take a bond based on property tax to the market, you can get 37 years of financing. When you take a bond based on income tax to the market, you are capped at 20 years of financing. So consider that like a a mortgage. you have a much shorter time to be able to finance this. You're going to be making much higher payments on it. Interest rate will also be higher. Pardon me? Interest rates will also be higher because it's not a stable source of revenue. You're talking about income tax versus property tax. So, we're we're also we're actually
070wasting taxpayer dollars because of the higher interest rates. Okay. Currently, we did the numbers. Currently, we we have um 1.25% 25% income tax on the books to support our operating expenses and we it's been working great. Um we are able to operate very efficiently. If we were to fund this bond with a income tax, we are talking about over 5% in income tax. It's a lot of money. Um we also looked at impact fees on new builders and we don't have authority the school district does not have authority to impose impact fees on new builders. Now, a lot of people said wait, but the problem with waiting is the higher costs due to inflation. And just as an example, um the difference between a bond approved in May versus a bond approved in November increases
071this current plan by $2 million, approximately $2 million. Just that delay. So, we built in inflation protection. So, we're not raising the ask by $2 million, but every year that we wait, every six months that we wait, it's just increasing the cost. Then there's overcrowding and redistricting. So, um I don't you don't have to be a rocket science to know that increasing class sizes does not lead to um improved learning outcomes. and asking asking families of children who can walk to Plane City Elementary to instead be bus to Monroe is not ideal and can be prevented. So the most important thing is waiting doesn't stop the growth. It doesn't change our need. It only creates equates to higher taxpayer investment in the future and we want to avoid that. So, I feel like I summarized
072everything we talked about. You did an amazing job. Very thorough. Um, thank you. I I just I want the community to understand this is not easy. Every person on this board is is looking at the numbers and trying to make it work and figure it out and come up with a plan. But our guiding principle has always been taxpayer responsibility and the best interest of our students. So, anything else? Very well said. Get out of here. Okay. Um, roll call. Okay. Mrs. Deweiler, yes. Mr. Hulie, yes. Mr. McCartney, yes. Mr. Vot, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. Motion passes. Okay. Can I get a motion to approve a resolution requesting state consent and special needs approval to issue bonds of the school district in an amount not to exceed 70,625,000 and to submit the question of such
073bond issued to the electors. So moved. Second. Okay. I just want to reiterate that this board will be out in the public. We will be available to answer your questions. We always invite your questions and we are very familiar with the plan, with the how, with the why, why we got here. Please come to us. Okay. May I say something? Mhm. I have the uh opportunity to offer you the senior citizen home there in Plane City for any meetings you want to hold. You've already talked about doing that. I get a key and get you in. We can place anywhere between 30 to 60 people in there. Great. Great. If you That's excellent center. Yeah, we would love to do that. We've already talked about making that happen. Can I get your information after the
074meeting, too? No, I went to Steve and talked to Steve and he said no problem. Not you. Oh, okay. Steve there. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Frank. Yeah. Thanks. Okay. Roll call. Mrs. Stweiler. Yes. Mr. Hulie. Yes. Mr. McCartney? Yes. Mr. Ro? Yes. Mrs. Walker? Yes. Motion passes. Okay. 8.07. Can I get a motion to approve the enclosed resolution opposing House Bill 335 as presented? So moved second. Okay. I just want to go over quickly u there was communication sent out to our families via text, email, on our website, uh social media about this proposal. Um for those of you who are not aware out here in the crowd, um right now the state is debating it next two-year budget. They have until Monday to pass something, go to the governor. Um,
075House Bill 335 was an um, basically a catch-all bill to have what's what they're calling property tax relief. However, how they're going about this is going to lead to a host of problems, not just for the schools, but also for every municipality, county, um, every taxing, libraries, anyone who actually collects property tax. So the what the way that they're going about this or proposing to go about this is to eliminate the ability for schools, municipalities, and counties and libraries to levy what's known as inside millillage. Inside millage has been around since the 30s, you know, um where every parcel property is levied um up to 10 mills of unvoted millillage that is split among all the taxing entities within that parcel. So Jonathan Alder local gets 5 mills, plane city, village, plane city gets one
076mill, the rest is split up between the townships that are made up of Jonathan Alder. Um but ultimately what that would lead to if we cannot levy that five mills due to this bill uh reduction in our operating revenues of $3.5 million which is roughly 30 teachers. Um so that is be a major hit to our revenues and our ability to operate. It has nothing to do with the bonds. Bonds are separate. Um that's not impacted at all by by this proposal. But the idea is come January 2026 to have some kind of measure of what they're calling proper tax relief in for homeowners. The issues that we're running into though, of course, is that if you're someone like me who pays in escrow, you're not going to see it until your escrow resets, whatever
077month that is. So, for instance, mine's in June. So, come January, I'm not going to see a difference in my payments. It's going to be the same. Um, the banks who run the escro accounts, they're counting on that revenue coming in. um and the doing their calculations in terms of how much is at the escrow payments. They're going to be impacted by this. Um the village um I said they have one mil of inside millillage. They're going to lose about $200,000. They're using that towards their pool operations helping fund their police. Um so essentially what they're trying to do is shift the tax responsibilities from property tax to other kinds of tax. They seem to think that we can flip a switch and go all income tax. um if you're a village or a city,
078you can do an additional sales tax. If you're a county, you can do additional sales tax. They somehow think that's easy to do and that could just easily replace the revenue. Um without ignoring the fact that one, it requires a vote. And two, it's just shifting the burden away from those who, you know, if you own a million dollar house, your tax bill is going to go way down compared to if you own a $50,000 house. But your portion of like say sales tax because that's highly regressive. your your percentage of income tax that's going to take a more of a hit of your budget than some of the wealthier and also it will impact the business owners um developers coming in you know they're also going to be benefiting from this as well mark
079does house bill 335 have a proposed um solution or uh alternative no okay so so it's just going to cut out the inside millillage yes with no with no replacing it. Okay. But no replacement. So that you know that's um you know statewide we're talking one half billion dollars of schools. That's about 20,000 teachers. Um there's other provisions in this bill which is problematic um such as giving the county budget commission authority to unilaterally lower our millillage collections. So right now we have our per uh permanent improvement levy. Um the gross collection is 0.5 mills. It's a lot less than that now, but they in their they can get the authority to say you do not need that levy, therefore we're not going to collect it for you. So, we're going to reduce it down
080to zero. Um, so the county budget commission is made up of the county auditor, treasurer, and the county prosecutor. So, they're giving them additional authority to do that. Um, proposing capping our uncommon fund balances at 30% of projected expenditures. Um, which that would be a huge hit as well. Um, we're projecting to be about 45%. So that's additional 15% that they could withhold. And something that's new is that um new as in they amended this just a couple days ago uh where they suspend the 20 mil floor. So right now we're operating at the lowest legal millage rates. Um but they added language where originally it would we would be protected in a way because we don't have substitute levies, we don't have emergency levies. Uh our income tax won't be included in the calculations.
081So we're naturally at the floor. We're just haven't The last time we passed property tax operating levy was 1979. We've been managing our resources ex very well since then. Um, but because of HB the tax reduction factors, which I can I'm not going to get into the weeds, I promise. Um, originally we're going to be actually held harmless. But now they added language where no, we'll drop below the floor and still be able to participate in the state foundation. So, it's it's overall a mess. They're just throwing everything they possibly can at the wall here. Not thinking it through. This is 50 years of tax law being rewritten without a hearing or public testimony. Um this was introduced two weeks ago for instance. So um we're not the only ones passing resol or proposing resolutions
082and opposition. Um I do want to stress to our community that you know we're not opposed to property tax reform. I do think there is some room there for reform. It's just don't rush it and don't do it one way that doesn't offer replacements, doesn't offer uh reasonable alternatives. Um or the very least, you know, give us time to plan. Right now, we don't have time to plan. We're tune our budgets now. Um and without with the uncertainty of knowing how much our revenue is actually going to be for next year. So, well, not to mention everybody in the community, well, not everybody, lots of people in the community want developers and businesses to pay their fair share. And they're going to be one of the largest benefactors of this. You Everybody out there that's
083upset that Amazon's not paying, guess what? This is a gift to every big corporation in America. Well, at least in Ohio. State. State. Yeah. So, yeah, there's a whole host of issues with this. This is why there's a proposed resolution. Um, we're monitoring the state budget bill, which hopefully by tonight we'll know if any parts of this monstrosity makes it into the final budget. Um if so we are prepared to issue a joint statement with the village of Plane City um to in opposition in the hopes that um you know the both houses are expected to vote on the budget tomorrow but then Governor DeWine could do a line item veto. So that's our hope. You know it's something that we don't feel like we don't say you know we've had to say something to
084kind of get on record um about this issue. So fun stuff. Thanks for all your efforts informing us as a board. I know called our legislators and so we really appreciate your leadership in this and uh keeping us on on top of this issue. Did Representative Stewart respond to your email today? No. No, he's been u not communive. So that's where we are. I got a call back from Zade. Did you? We did vote for what's it? Yeah. Roll call. Mr. McCartney. Absolutely. Mr. Roto. Yes. Mrs. Walker. Yes. Mr. Hulie. Yes. Mrs. Dweiler. Yes. Motion passes. So, I'll get the signed resolution off to representatives probably later tonight. Thank you. They're working. Thanks. I think I don't know. On break. Okay. Um, can I get a motion to approve the disposal and donation of old
085tracker equipment? Second. Um, roll call. I do really quick before roll call point out that because we talked about the freshman's solutions fair. Uhhuh. Um part of this is redoing the wait room. That was something that most not many um yes quite a few students brought up very many as a pro as a pro as a project. So I just wanted the community to know that is something that we're taking on this summer where that involves disposing of old broken equipment. We are selling what we can. Um the rest is being disposed of properly. Um and then we're in the process of installing new equipment over the summer. Okay. So, that's another win that came out of the freshman student fair. So, thank you for the students for bringing that to our attention. Yeah. Vault
086mats, too. That's been one in the past. What's that? The pole vault mats. Yeah. Also been one in the past. Yeah. Yep. It's great. Love that. Solutions fair. Me, too. And we fixed a skylight. Also solutions fair. Yeah. There was no no leaks after the rain last week. Hallelujah. For all this time. Okay. Roll call. Mrs. Dweiler? Yes. Mrs. Walker? Yes. Mr. Vot? Yes. Mr. McCartney? Yes. Mr. Hulie? Yes. Motion passes. Okay. Um, last one. Can I get a motion to approve the enclosed easement and rightaway agreement with Madison Energy Cooperative Association? So moved. Second. Okay. This is an easement for a natural gas pipeline in front of the property at 161 in Butler. Um, in exchange is a dollar and a free tap if we were to build onto that property. That's a really
087good deal. Okay. So, that's usually a couple hundred grand. True. That's great. Okay. Roll call. Mr. Hulie? Yes. Mr. McCartney? Yes. Mr. Boto? Yes. Mrs. Walker? Yes. Mrs. Dweiler? Yes. Motion passes. Our next regular board meeting is set for July 5th, Tuesday, July 15th at uh Jonathan Alder High School at 5:00 p.m. And we are also considering holding uh community forums after the board meetings to give us a chance to speak to the community. So, we'll we'll communicate about that in the future, too. Um but July 15th may be our first one. I know five o'clock is early for people to get here, but Maybe afterwards. So, okay. Can I get a motion to adjurnn? Some moved. Second. Roll call. Mrs. Dweiler. Yes. Mr. Hulley? Yes. Mr. McCartney? Yes. Mr. Ro? Yes. Mrs. Walker? Yes.
088Motion passes. Thank you everybody.