Jonathan Alder Local Schools Board of Education Meeting - May 13, 2025

001[Music] Okay, I'm going to go ahead and call the meeting to order. Thank you everybody for coming. Um, we got a whole front row here. I swear that we've all bathed. You're welcome to come up. Nobody still, even as grown-ups, nobody wants to sit in the front row. Thank you, Michael. Thank you. He's always our standby. All right, let's stand for a pledge of allegiance, please. 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. Mr. Engles, roll call. Mrs. Deweiler, present. Mr. Hulie, yes. Here. Mr. Mr. McCartney present. Mr. Vot here. Mrs. Walker here. Can we take a moment for silent prayer and meditation? Thank you. Okay. Can I get a motion to

002approve the May 13th, 2025 agenda? So moved. Second. Roll call. Mr. McCartney? Yes. Mr. Vot? Yes. Mrs. Walker? Yes. Mrs. Dweiler? Yes. Mr. Hulie? Yes. Motion passes. Thank you. Can I get a motion to approve the minutes from the April 8th, 2025 regular meeting and April 17th, 2025 work session? So moved. Second. Any discussion? Right. Roll call. Mrs. Dweiler? Yes. Mr. Hulie? Yes. Mr. McCartney? Yes. Mr. Vot? Yes. Mrs. Walker? Yes. Motion passes. Thank you. Okay. Moving on to section four. It's time for the superintendent report. We have Are we recording? Tyler, did you turn the recording on? Okay. Thank you, Mrs. Walker. Um, thank you to our board. We have a full agenda tonight. Um, lots of progress to report, several exciting recognitions and and presentations and one presentation from our high school and

003one presentation from our treasur. So, I know that you're excited to see and and hear about the great things that are going on. Last week we had our teacher appreciation week and it was really special to be in front of our teachers on Tuesday, May 6 for that professional development day and thank our teaching staff for uh you know just the daily work that they do impacting our students lives. I wanted to commend Mrs. Quick in the teaching and learning department. They put in a significant and relentless uh planning and and purpose for this day and all of it was about elevating our teaching and learning across the district. So I wanted to thank you Mrs. Quick and your team. The work that w was the focus on Tuesday was our multi-layered approach meeting the

004students where they are. And so I feel that this was setting the tone going into next year so that everyone feels a little bit more prepared so they can reach our students and we can continue elevating our teaching and learning across the district. So last Tuesday was a a high emotion day with this professional development. Um there was a there was an outstanding uh band concert. We hosted our first track meet in in several years and then the results of the bond issue. So, a lot of emotions there. Um, it's been a week since those results. You know, after much processing and reflecting, I feel like, you know, our central office is in a a better place to understand that we need to do a little bit or a lot more work engaging and communicating

005with our community because we heard the community and it was a, you know, a split decision on this. So, we have some more work to do. There is this uh bond issue agenda item later in our agenda, but since we have such a great audience with us this evening, I I wanted to provide an opportunity for the board if anyone just wanted to make a comment now because I'm worried that we'll have 90% of everyone leave. Then we're going to have this discussion. We can do that, but you don't have to. Then I also just wanted to mention we received from Steve Hammond and Paul about an hour and a half ago our ELP numbers and whi which is it's on the agenda tonight even though the figures just came in. This is that state

006credit that we also want our community to know that in order to be able to take advantage of this we do need to get this bond passed. So I didn't know if we wanted to have a short comments from the board about that at this point. Um but we don't have to. So I'll leave it up to you and then I'll continue on with my report. Well, since there are a lot of people here, I do have something I'd like to say. Um, we we had discussed potentially having an open forum where we the community can come in and ask questions directly of the board members and we are planning on setting that up soon. So, I would ask for you to pay attention. We will do our best. If we do this, when we

007do this, um, we're going to communicate with the entire community, not just the school district. and we'll post it on social media so that everybody can know when it is and show up. Um, and it pro likely we can do this early June or and do it again before the next election whenever the board decides to put this on the ballot again. And really it's just an effort for us as a board to hear what the comments are and learn from the community. Um uh and and if there's simple things or or things that we can directly answer, we will answer. Um if we have to go back and get more information, we'll just say we need to research that a little more. But we want to have a dialogue. We want to hear you.

008So if you could spread the word on that to be looking for that, that would be great. Um I'm hoping to have a date by the end of tonight. Okay. Okay. Thank you, Mrs. Walker. Anyone else want to comment or would you like to just discuss that state credit quickly before I move on? I think it's crucial to I would just like to say real quick that how impressed I was with our committee and the work of this district. I mean really when you look at how the other bond levies in our central Ohio did they were beat two to one. We needed if we had 16 more no votes who voted yes we passed that. You know, that was an enormous amount of work that our pack did and our our board did, our

009staff did, and so, you know, it might not have got the result that we wanted, but it was a heck of an effort and I'm really proud of our group and what they did. Thank you. Yeah. And as far as the state credit goes, there was I did see some comments on social media and um heard some things about like the auditorium, for example, which we desperately do need. Um but this board had decided if we pass the bond issue, we then get a credit from the state based on prior agreements that were made and that money does comes from the state once we pass the bond issue. So that money is going to be used for an auditorium. We as a board decided rather than to add an additional $12 million to the bond

010levy, we will take the money, the refund money from the state and ear market for an auditorium. Otherwise, the bond itself ask would have been higher than it was and we didn't want the community to shoulder that additional tax money. So, um I think that kind of got a little bit lost in the messaging, but it's really hard. No, from our perspective, I read the comments. I know what people are saying. It's hard to respond to a social media post that makes a one-s sentence claim in one sentence in return. And it's a lot of the stuff just takes it takes back and forth. It takes dialogue to explain things in detail. So, um, that's why we want to have an open forum and be able to have a conversation with people so they can

011understand these things. We want to build an auditorium. That is a priority and we're hoping to do it with the state money which we will get when we pass this bond levy. Just for clarity, it wouldn't nec it's not when we pass. We're entering into an agreement. It's called a expedited local partnership. So what that means is the district, our community funds the construction. We partner with OFCC, which is the Ohio Facilities Construction Commission, and through a prior agreement from 2002, the district uh the state funds 54% of the project and right 54% 54% junior high um of the junior high project and locally we fund 46%. But the way that OFCC works, it's on a cycle and so you have to get in line. We won't be in line for probably somewhere between two

012and well to to enter into the ELP agreement, you have to be at least two years away. So we're at least two years away from getting into the program right now, but somewhere between probably two and six years is when our number would be up that we would be eligible for to take advantage of state credit if we built at the time that they were ready. And so instead, what we've decided to do is to move forward with funding the entire project with lo with local 100% local dollars. And then once our number comes up for the ELP agreement, then we would have the option to receive a state credit in a as a percentage that uh the state calculates which it when we did this two year when we did this started this 8

013months ago, 12 months ago, it was going to be 14 million based on current construction cost and current enrollment growth. The number has grown to 17 million. that number will just continue to grow over time as c because every um as we delay construction costs go up our enrollment goes up all of which drives up that state credit. Um, and then also the, you know, since we're saying comments here, the if I know I know a concern is cost, uh, but we're talking $70 million. If you even fig historically construction costs go up 5% a year. Okay? So even a delay from May until November, just rough numbers, you're talking 2 and a.5% right in 6 months. 2 and a half% on $70 million. That makes this same project go from $70 million to 72.

014It's a $2 million increase in inflation just in 6 months if we pass it in November. My point to the community is we're not stopping growth. Costs are going up. Enrollment is going up. I mean I we have to come up with some sort of I don't know what the solution is but we have to come up with the solution and this by even if we vote it down again the district has no means to stop the growth. Homes are coming kids are coming we have to have a place to educate the students that are coming into our community. So, this board is committed to working with the community to figure out what that looks like. But stopping this board is not in a position to stop growth. That is not an option. 100%. I

015um my regret is that we didn't do as good a job as we could have done to inform the community about some of the things that I think were deeply misunderstood. Uh, number one that I saw the signs in opposition to the levy as a JA growth tax. Believe me, nobody on this board um is welcoming development into our district or encouraging development into our district just so we can build another building. Uh if you want to complain about development in the district, uh this is not the body to complain to. your township trustees, your county commissioners, your village council, those are the people who make those decisions. The other thing that I think people didn't understand is that um when we pass a bond levy to build a building, the amount the bond is

016fixed, but the number of people in the district is not fixed. Obviously, new people are going to move into the district. I know nobody likes to pay taxes, but as new people move into the district, you will pay a smaller share of that bond every single year as new people move into the district. Um, so I could go on and on and on about the merits that we have uh for this building. Uh, we were very careful in our asks to keep it as low as we possibly could. One final thing I would note today, uh, in preparing for my job, I, um, read a lot of local media sources. Upper Arlington built a new high school in 2019, and they said they're trying to determine whether they want to build three new middle schools

017or whether they want to remodel their middle schools. And the story that I read today noted that if Upper Arlington had to build that high school today, the cost would be 80% higher than it was six years ago. 80% higher. So every year that we delay, um the amount that it's going to require to do what we hope to do to give our students an optimum educational experience is going to increase. Thank you. Okay. Um, I appreciate all of those comments and we'll take time at the end of the meeting to I guess determine next steps and some dates and some special meetings or forums. Well, sorry, Mr. Lester, you're going to have to follow that uh heavy message there. But hopefully really everyone in this room should have seen a welcome a welcoming email

018from me to Mr. Lester, our new director of operations and construction projects. If you would stand up, just let everyone know who you are. If you haven't met all the board yet, this is Mr. Lester. His wife is with him, Jesse Lester. So, I would just like to share with the board that this wasn't an easy process that he had to go through. This was uh an actual two-part process that I've never done before where I had two separate committees, a classified and a certified committee because I wanted to make sure that we had the right person. I had transportation leader, our our foods leader, myself, Mark and Tyler Jester sat through the first to find our top candidates and then I stepped out of the interview process and so did Mr. Engles because I

019wanted a different voice. Uh Mr. Jester sat in because I wanted to make sure that there was consistency amongst the process. We created uh emergency scenarios and different uh challenges that uh this person would be faced with. I put Mr. Lester in front of all of our directors and our assistant superintendent and he rose to the top unanimously. So that's how I can confidently say to the board he's our next person. But he's going to be a great fit with our administrative team as well too. He's a servant leader. He wants to support our coordinators and lift them up so that they can be better at the work that they're doing. But the maybe the greatest thing about this was he was coming to Jonathan Aler regardless. He had broke ground in a in a

020a subdivision uh right down the street. So, he he was going to be raising his family here anyway. So, I know that we've got them hooked. So, welcome welcome to the team. Mr. Leer, did you want to make any comments? Uh, not right now. Okay. Uh, Mrs. Walker, with your permission, I'd like to move on to commendations. Please and welcome, Mr. Jester. So, we have a a toll student with us, Eevee Wilcox. I got to meet Eevee. Where are you, Eevee? If you would come on up and you can maybe stand up there by Mr. Vot, and we're going to uh hold this up for you. I was privileged to meet Eevee back on April 23rd. She uh was recognized at this uh special associate school board dinner. Now, I didn't get to hear the

021the um write up on her, so those that were here, if you want to mention anything that you can, but um she was recognized for her outstanding accomplishments in pharmacy science. Uh she'll be competing in this national event next month that could extend her opportunity for pharmacy careers and practices across the nation. She will be attending Ohio Northern in the fall. We're just really proud to recognize you for your accomplishment and representing all our Eevee. So, thank you so much. I wanted to do a photo op and bring her her parents up and a photo op with the board if you would. But I'd like to give Eevee a big round of applause. Come around here. Eevee in the front. We're going to do And Eevee is a state champion. She won the state championship

022a competition. The number one pharmacy student in Ohio. All right, here we go. In three, two, one. We think so too. Not everybody in the room is familiar with what goes on at Could you just give give everybody just a quick rundown of at HOSA kind of what the process is for competition? Sure. So um we have different stages. It starts with locals of course. So um for my competition I had to take a test and perform a skill. So we started with those tests and perform the skills and top 10 move on to regionals. Then you have to pick another test and the top 10 from the test go on to perform the skill and it just goes on and on like that. So I was top 10 in my test at regionals and

023then got top three at regionals to move to states where I got top 10 in my test and first place at states which means I'm going to nationals which I will have to pick another test another skill um hopefully get top three for a scholarship there. Wow. What program are you doing at six-year program at at Ohio Northern? Yes, I'm doing the six to or 0 to six program at Ohio Northern. So, I'll get my doctor in pharmacy in six years. Women's Nationals. Nationals is June 18th through the 21st. And where is it? It's in Nashville, Tennessee. Awesome. Well, on behalf of the whole board and the district, great luck to you. And we want to um say thank you because we wouldn't have been able to afford for her to go on our own.

024So, the school was well done, Evie. Okay. With us from the Ohio Association of Elementary School Administrators, Dr. Uh, Hornberger, if you would come on up and I you're going to recognize all of Plane City Elementary, but especially the outstanding leadership of Principal Savage and Assistant Principal Haymon. Am I okay over here? Yes, please. Okay. All righty. Well, thank you so much for having me. I'm Becky Hornberger. I'm the executive director of OASA, which is our principles association here in Ohio for preK through grade 8. and um we recognize Hall of Fame schools each year and I'm so excited to be here tonight to recognize Plane City Elementary. So, a bit more about the process. Um each year OASA celebrates elementary andor middle level schools that provide truly outstanding educational opportunities to their students through

025effective programming and instruction. These schools are characterized by an atmosphere of growth, achievement, pride, and a dedication to excellence on the part of staff and students. This rigorous selection process begins in the fall when a school is nominated by someone who notices the great things going on there. The school team then completes an extensive 15-page application, which is read in the blind by a panel of principles from across the state of Ohio. This committee of practitioners then chooses select schools to move on to the visitation stage. Of over 2500 elementary and middle level schools in the state, only 11 were awarded recognition as a Hall of Fame school. This year, we are thrilled to recognize Plain City as one of these schools. I'd like to share what their visitation team had to say about the

026great things they saw there during their visit. So they said, "Plain City Elementary is a school where strong community roots, a student centered focus, and a culture of positivity come together to create an outstanding learning environment. From the moment you enter the building, it's clear that social emotional learning is embedded into the fabric of the school through signage, daily routines, and student choice. The energy bus initiative has helped cultivate a shared uplifting mindset that empowers both students and staff. Under the leadership of head principal Kathy Savage, Plain City Elementary feels like a family. Her collaborative approach along with the support of assistant principal Adam and the leadership team has created a space where students thrive and teachers are supported. Despite recent transitions, the administration is working with in intention to strengthen leadership systems and continue

027building cohesion amongst the staff. Academically, classrooms are active and student work is proudly displayed, reflecting a focus on engagement and growth. The school's efforts to support every learner, including English learners, are commendable. At the same time, PCE remains committed to refining its differentiation practices to meet the needs of all students. With forwardthinking planning, a deeply involved community, and a culture of continuous growth, Plain City Elementary exemplifies excellence. It is with pride that we recognize PCE as a 2025 OESA Hall of Fame school. We're actually um providing just kind of a standin certificate for now. So Kathy and her team will be honored at the conference um on June 16th here in Columbus and they will receive a beautiful plaque to display um in their hallway. So congratulations You guys, why don't you come over here?

028Let's do a picture for the website. Oh, no. Congratulations. All right, I moved them. I'm over here now. All right, three, two, one. Perfect. Congratulations. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you so much. Okay. Now, I'd like to recognize and commend our food services department. Between preparing healthy meals for students, adhering to strict nutrition standards, navigating student uh food allergies, and offering service with a smile, our school cooks are the true heroes. I'd like to call this group up if you would as well too. You can kind of position yourself over here, and I would like the board to recognize you. And I'm going to call on Lori after I read a couple things. Don't be shy. Come on up. I'm not shy. So, school lunch hero day is celebrated on May 1st. And I can't just

029tell you enough. I don't get through the lunch lines enough, but every single time I do walk through, this group is really serving with a smile every day to our our children and meeting the needs. and um hearing from the the staff and the parents and just trying to serve our customers the best that they can and our customers are our students and our families. So, I can't thank you enough. Something else that I want to mention to Lori Robbins, I know the board remembers this, but let me just, you know, re-emphasize, Mrs. Robbins's first year leading this department was this year. And we had some hard conversations in the summer because we had the confidence in Mrs. Robbins to do this, but we're also asking her to take on a lot. As soon as

030she accepted this leadership role, then she we were all hit from the state with three significant audits and um good thing she was already in contract. She wasn't going anywhere. Uh with the with the help of uh Mr. Engles um they were able to successfully get through these audits. But I I want to mention something else. how they did this with about 40% Don't take away my thunder. Oh, okay then. I'll I'll let you go ahead. No, no, I agree. 40% of her team, 35 to 40% of her team is new. So, she's teaching, leading, guiding these other leaders and they got the work done. So, that's speaks volumes about you, Mrs. Robin. So, all right, the floor is yours. Thank you. Um, yeah. So, um, it has been a very challenging year for food

031services. Um, I wrote some notes down just so I wouldn't forget. But in addition to getting used to a new food service director, um, which I know is a challenge, um, every kitchen has faced staffing challenges this year, um, shortages. Um, we are a department of 13 and out of our department of 13, we have hired to fill nine vacancies this year. We have transferred um two people have transferred within the department and one person has been promoted. So there were a lot of changes this year. Um there have been 15 days out of this entire school year where we have had every position filled and nobody has been on extended leave. That's it. 15 days out of the entire school year. And yet these guys are getting the job done. They are supporting each

032other. I'm trying to get emotional with this. they are supporting me. Um, and they are doing it so they're helping each other so that everybody that's here wants to be here and so that they can serve our students and they're doing a great job of it. Um, hopefully most of you guys saw the video that Tyler put together. The comments from the kids are that they're welcome and the the kitchen is friendly and they don't notice the staffing issues because, you know, it would be easy to take all that out and the kids would be frustrated and they're not seeing that at all and the numbers are proving it. um from September to April of this year. You guys don't know this, we have served over 5,000 more lunches this year to the same time

033last year. And we have served almost 2,000 more breakfast during that same time this year than we did last year. So, you guys have a lot to be proud of. Thank you for all that you've done. And you are the hero. So, thank you guys. Thank you for recognizing We should say something about Lorie. She stepped in when she probably didn't want to and um she's doing a wonderful job. She really is. Y further back over here. together. I was going to say this more. Yeah, this work. I got Okay, ready, Bruce. June, a little bit to your right. There we go. All right. Three, two, one. Perfect. Thank you. presentation. Move forward. Mr. Hayes, Principal Hayes, I know you have a couple students and staff if you want to. So, um, like to introduce

034to you Mrs. Nurk, um, Ma Max Max Lewis, Anna Cardone, Mackenzie Roush, and Ella Ackles. And they are going to talk to you about our, uh, freshman career day that we had. Um it involved field trip and a day here at the high school. Um so I'll let them I'll let them talk. Yeah, I'll start. Um so I am a sister colleic. I am a satellite teacher from tolls and I get the privilege of working in this building. It really is truly a privilege to be in Jonathan Alder School District. I have 20 years of experience at tolls and then I'm here and uh I just love being here. The kids are going to talk about the freshman future ready day that we did this year for the first time and it was really a

035success and I'm just going to let them talk about it. They're really nervous. I told them that they had no reason to be. They wanted to be behind the podium. I did not tell them that it had to be. But that's their choice. Go ahead, Max. So, my name is Max. I'm a freshman here at JA. Um when I was asked by Miss Nerf to talk about the um the change and like ready and inspired field trip, I was actually really happy because um you can ask my mom. I came home and talked to her about it. I really love the field trip. Um one of the main reasons I liked it and it was very beneficial was because of the variety and choices we had. um here at the high school and at the

036Inspire field trip, we got to walk around with our friends freely and we got to go to stations that we we liked and looked appealing to us. I think that really like made a difference and we didn't just have somebody like speaking to us and handing us a paper to read off of. Um, another huge part that me and my peers loved were the close-up demos and interactive pieces that they had going on. Um, they had a lot of stuff they would show us and a lot of stuff we actually got to do. Um, I think another big part was every stand, almost every stand had stuff that they would hand out to us. And I thought it was really cool when I was there and I liked all the stuff, but as I got

037home, I kind of I kind of realized why they did it. And that was because anytime I look at the little fidgets they gave us or whatever, I think about that day and I think about what's available to me in my future. and in like very few very short years I will be needing to make those decisions. So it makes me think back every single day and every time I look at those uh souvenirs they would give us. Um overall I think the day was very beneficial and it really helped me and my peers put into perspective um how it's going to be and what really is available to us as we go on. Thank you. Um I'm a freshman. I'm Anna Cardone and although the um going to see all the different careers was

038really fun, my favorite part about it was probably here at Jonathan or when we got to meet like the panel. The panel was five or six different people that had graduated from Jonathan over some graduated and went to college. Some went into the military and went and some went to tolls and then into careers. We got to ask them questions about what they are doing now and what they experienced during high school. I really like this station because it gave me an inside look on what my future could look like given the fact that they also went to Jonathan Ber and um like it's odd because they all looked like really familiar like I knew some of them so it was like interesting seeing people I know growing up now you know how your parents

039feel. But I thought it was really cool and I am glad I got to see them again. Thank you. My name is McKenzie Rous. I am currently in the ninth grade. One of my favorite things I've done all year is having the opportunity to learn how to explore, explain, and understand things in the job industry. We had a station during the morning at Jonathan Alder High School where we learned about the higher demand jobs near us. How to create an elevator pitch where you summarize your life in a sentence and then after tell them all of your qualifications. After that, you proceed to tell them your goal and how to seem more prepared at a job interview as well as having a set plan. Hi, my name is Ella Ackles. I'm a freshman at John

040Honor High School. Um, recently my classmates and I visited a junior achievement inspired event at the Ohio Expo Center. Um, we got to experience hands-on experiences that would eventually connect to a career pathway later on. Um, there were stations set up all around the center. Like Matt said, um, each station had something that you could take with you or just like look at and go back. Um, I really liked the ones where you got to perform tasks. So, like one of them was um a construction and you got to place a block with cement. That was a lot of fun. Um, I also remember the nursing station where you got to perform CPR and like take blood. Um, I like to be able to see all the different types of careers that available in the

041world. Half them I didn't know existed. Um, and the visit helped inspire me to look further into the careers that interested me and keep my options open. um overall like being able to see all the careers options and learning about each what um career is about. Thank you, [Applause] Mr. Nerk. Thank you so much, Mr. Hayes. Thank you guys. I can't thank you enough. What confident uh speakers. So, I appreciate you being here this evening. Uh stick around as long as you want and um yeah, thanks for arranging this, Mrs. Nerd. No problem. Thank you. I just want to say Max, um, Erica, McKenzie, Ella, we love hearing about anything that impacts our kids. Um, it is 10 times better when it comes from you guys. Uh, and I'm really glad you had the great

042experiences that you did. Thank you for sharing it with us and thank you for sharing it with us eloquently. Proud of you guys. I know. Should I? Okay. How do you say that? Yeah. Now we're Now we're into the business section of the meeting. So if if everybody wants to They took their own queue. Yeah. You're allowed to stay if you want. This is the exciting part. This is You can leave, Mr. Lester. Yeah. He says, "I know." He says, "I know who's paying my check. This is going to be fun. Luster and Jester. Luster and Jester. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Um, Mr. Jester, public participation. Okay, great. Um, presentation. We have another presentation. Oh, you do? Yes. Well, I thought that she's I was skipping ahead to your report. I do want to hear the

043report. I just thought we were going to hear it later. I got mixed up. My apologies, Mark. I'm sorry. Yes. Go. So, I already threw the room. Well, uh, so, um, yeah. So, anyway, my I'm Mark Engles. on the treasurer here. I see a lot of familiar faces. Um maybe one or two new ones. So, some of you guys have seen this presentation before. I have switched it up a bit. So, um so it won't be the same as as before. Um I do really want to quickly um again shout out the food service department for all the great work they do. Um you know, just to give you an idea of the type of service we're providing. Last year they served over 229,500 meals in each of our five buildings and as of today

044they were up at 29,291 with a whole month ago. So they were definitely on pace to eclipse that number. They are the one of the hardest working folks in our building. So you want to appreciate them. I forgot to say when they were here they even serve hot lunches when we don't have electric. Yes they do. I mean come on. They're killing it. So, I just want to get this out of the way. Um, I know we talked about the bond issue earlier today, um, earlier in the meeting, but bonds are not part of this forecast. We cannot use any bond proceeds for operating. The Fiverr forecast just deals with operating dollars. So, when I say operating dollars, that means um the money that's used to pay our bills, to pay our teachers, to pay

045our staff, to pay our um pay our lunch ladies. Um, it does not include debt payments or construction costs or anything like that. Um, that's considered separate. So, I'm not going to be touching on the last week's results in this presentation. Just want to get that out of the way. Um, for those of you who are new, uh, the five-year forecast serves several purposes. Uh, the most important being to gauge the board of education on our financial picture and where we're heading. Um, it also serves as a basis to allow me to sign contracts um with our teachers, with our classified staff, with our vendors to provide services to our um to our students. Uh, basically the if the forecast shows that we can't afford the contract, I can't sign it or I get fined

046and I don't want that. Um, and also provides a method for the high department of education and the auditor of state to u keep an eye on school districts so they can intervene when they need to and hopefully catch problems early. so it doesn't balloon into a fiscal emergency situation. Um, so I'm going to talk about two key line items, the revenue and expenditures. Um, just right off the bat, I'm going to be focusing a lot on the revenue side in this presentation for reasons that will be apparent soon. Um, talking about the local and state funding side and we're going to get into the expenditures about our personnel and purchase services. Um, so I just want to make clear that I'm by law required to forecast out five years. The TV weather guy only

047has to do 10 days. And so when you get further out of the forecast, the fuzzier it gets. So, um, it doesn't discredit, you know, our attempts to forecast out to 5 years, but just keep in mind that there's a lot of significant events that can happen between now and 2029 which would have a major impact on this forecast. When those come to our attention, we will file amended forecast. We have to do this twice a year um to make sure that we capture the most current data as is available. Um this year, however, is the fuzziest, unclearest picture we've ever had. Um there's a lot of reasons for this at the state level that can impact our state revenues and our local revenues. Um, so when I'm putting together this forecast for the board

048to approve, and again, this is the board's forecast. I'm using the data that we have today. So, the laws that are in place today, I'm not taking into account the laws that are being discussed at the state house that could impact our state or local funding. I can only use what I know today. Um, as the state budget comes clear and we know what's going to be in it, then we'll start making adjustments to our forecast as appropriate. So getting to our uh revenues, you know, we've been pretty consistent. You know, local and state split about twothirds local, third state. Um definitely projecting that to continue going forward as things stand today. Um however, that could easily change by the end of June when we get the state the final state budget. This is our

049reaction when we saw the governor's proposal and especially when we saw what the house decided to do with it. So, I'm going to get into the details of what's being proposed. Again, I cannot model what they may do, but just so you know, this is why there's a lot of uncertainty in this forecast today. Um, I really don't like text slides tax, but um so the governor's budget, it called for $103 million less um expenditures for public schools. So that would have resulted in about a $400,000 cut to Jonathan Alder under the governor's proposal. The main main reason for that is because we're on what's known as a funding guarantee and the governor proposed eliminating those guarantees. Um those guarantees are there for schools with declining enrollment um so that they cannot so they cannot

050fall below a certain level of state funding. However, for us, we have increased enrollment. reason why we're in that guarantee is that as our local wealth has gone up, we're expected to pick up more of the share. So, our share of the of the of the formula put us below that floor and that guarantee. Um, and because of that, we would lose state funding under this proposal. um wrote some testimony for our state legislators and they decided to take that out of the house version um to actually increase our funding by 0.78% or $66,000 which is great. However, the house version does away with the formula altogether. Um so there is no state formula to calculate state aid. They actually put it in language where it prohibits the use of the formula to calculate aid

051for school districts. Um they also limit our carryover cash balances 30% of prior fiscal year's expenditures. I'm going to spend a lot of time on that one um and basically disrupt our entire local source of revenue. So we are currently here. The governor submitted its budget. The House passed her version on April 9th. We're currently here. The Senate is considering this version of the for of the budget, but we have to file a five-year forecast by May 31st. We're not going to know what the Senate wants to do till early June. We're not going to know what the final version is going to look like till closer to June 30th. The governor may not even sign until the first week of July. So, that's why it's it's it's messy. Um there's a lot of moving

052parts here. A lot could change. The Senate could do completely different thing than what the House wants to do. Um what they'll do is they'll pass their version of of the budget, send it back to the House, the House will vote against it. They get together to conference committee, hatch out differences, and go from there. So the primary sponsors are Brian Stewart, House Finance Chair, and Speaker Huffman. Uh Brian Stewart is our local rep here in Madison County. Um so these are the the two reps that are really responsible for the current state budget. Um I'm forecasting state revenue to remain flat. So this is where we currently are. This is where the governor's proposal would have had us. So a decline there. The state the house version gets us a little bit above where

053we were. Not a heck of a lot. I think it's safe to just assume flat revenues in that source. But then we get to the property tax reform part of the budget. Um, and I do want to say that, you know, there's a reason why the House is including property tax reform in their version of the budget. I'm not going to sit here and say there's not a problem and there's nothing there's no reason for it. It just came out of the blue. Um, property values have increased substantially over the last several years. There's a lot of reasons for that. Uh part of it due to COVID supply chain issues, the cost of construction, inflation, um and also the fact that with low interest rates um in response to the COVID pandemic, people are able

054to afford more houses than they otherwise would. So that jacks up obviously the sales ratios as being used to help value property. There's a lot of factors here beyond our control. Um so that's why the house is trying to do something. Um, last year they had a whole committee to study the issue. They released a report at the end of December which didn't say a lot of anything. It basically said there's an issue. Here's a couple ideas, but there was no form recommendation, which is why the House is currently trying to have some kind of legislation to address this issue. Um, we're we are on what's known as a 20 mil floor for operating levies. So, this is a blue bar here. If you notice throughout the whole time period, even though our values have

055gone up, that bar has stayed the same. That's because we're at the lowest legal limit for taxes in in the state. When 50 years ago, when the state put together its current property tax system, um they put in a measure that would reduce tax rates at um due to property values going up due to inflation. However, they did put a floor on it. So, school districts are not reduced down to zero. So, that's why we're where we are. So, because of that, we have seen increased revenues um due to these property values, but that's all in service of teaching our kids, keeping the lights on, getting them here safely. Um the presentation we saw with the the freshman um with their career pair, you know, we're using it, you know, for the best purposes. Mark,

056could you explain go back to that previous slide? Yeah. And explain like in 2013, uh, we're above the 20 mil floor. We're higher there than we are right now. Did you run through that? The red. Oh, this is the bond. Okay. This is the bond levy. So, basically everything. So, this is the bond. This is our permanent improvement. So, this shows our effective rates. And, um, the bond and the permanent improvement levies, these all decrease at the values go. Yeah. So this is the point I was making earlier that exactly the effective millage people pay goes down as the district grows. Yeah. So for the bond this started out 8.9 mills and now we're down this is an old graph we're down to 1.5 now. Uh so I just want to show that you know

057there is a correlation there. Right. The issue with how the House is proposing to go about this property tax reform though is um well there's a lot of reasons that is it's not the right plan. Uh for one is they introduced this thing on April April 1st. They passed it April 9th. So they're trying to redo 50 years of tax law without hearings without any consideration and trying to do it within a week. Um one of the issues is they're looking at our cash balances as of June 30th of each year. Um, this graph is in all of our war packets. They're all available online. Our lowest month for cash is not June 30th. We're looking at January, February as our lowest cash balance months, which means that why? Because we get our property tax

058revenue here in August. We get it here in July or I'm sorry, in February, March, and then we spend it down. So what happens is, you know, we get an influx of cash. So we have a surplus in those months. Then we start deficit spending it down to pay to do our payroll, to do our utilities, buy supplies. Um, so when we get down here, there's about a $4 million difference between our lowest cash month and our highest. Is that pretty typical among school districts? It is. So So the month to pick should not be June. It should not be June. No. Okay. We call this the batwing because, you know, we got a it goes up and then dips down and goes back up again. So, so explain to me, Mark, I pay my

059mortgage every month. Yes. And I, as part of my mortgage, I pay my property taxes every month. Why aren't you getting paid every month? Because the state distributes twice a year. I understand that. I don't I actually pay every six months. My But you get my point. I do. Yeah. So that people understand, we we have to start We have to start communicating this to people. Why? Why did you know does that make sense? It does. It does. So, you know, I pay my my property tax as an escrow. Um, so it's part of my monthly payment in the house. So, what they do is they put money aside into that pot and then the tax bill comes twice a year. They pay it out of that pot and then we build it back up.

060The mortgage company does. The mortgage company does. Yep. So, some people they don't do that. They just pay their tax bill when it comes. But either way, the tax bill comes twice a year and the revenues come twice a year. So that's why it it just doesn't make sense to looking at just June. And then if you're looking at just June as well, it's ignoring the fact that we have incumbrances each fiscal year, which are bills that we incurred, obligations we occurred in one fiscal year that we haven't paid yet. So these will be paid out the following fiscal year. We also have acred wages and benefits for our staff. So our teachers, they work August through May, but they get paid throughout the whole summer throughout for months when they're not working. So what

061happens is we have to still pay that out. They earned it, they owe it, we owe it, but that's not being taken into account either. Why are we paying them when they're not here for a steady income? But yes, they they choose they choose to take their salary their their salary for nine months and stretch it over over 12 over 12. So they they reduce what they would get paid during the their their normal working months so that they have a steady income. Yeah. Every year we have So we don't actually pay them when they're not here, right? Okay. Yeah. So, every every September when the first paycheck's hit, we have to explain to every new employee how to read their paycheck because they see how much money they earned and then there's a little

062deduction for acrruel. Then that cruel get put aside so they can get paid in the summer months. And so that's how that works. And also they also do benefits. I mean retirements gets paid out each time there's a payroll. Um health insurance does not stop in May. you know, our teachers are are also covered in June, July, and August. So, that's all money that is being set aside that is not being taken account by the house. Understand all this. So, our true cash balance is somewhere between two and a half to $3 million less than what they're basing this off of. And it's again, not well thought out. If they've had chances for hearings and testimony, um they could hear this from people who live it. When I talked to Representative Richardson last Friday, she

063had no idea about this. It was news to her for a bill that she voted for and and what efforts have you made? I mean, you don't have to go into detail on everything, but what efforts have you made to try to educate our legislature? Yeah, I've um submitted written testimony to the House. Um I have a meeting set up for next week with Senator Reynolds. We also met with her at TLS a couple months ago back when it was just the governor's version of the budget and so before this budget came out. Um and Dr. Miller and I also met with Representative David Thomas from Ashabila County. He was at polls. He's spearheading a lot of the efforts at the state level at the house level to do property tax reform. So we've had

064those conversations. Um, basically what it comes down to is Speaker Huffman, this was his baby. He wants to do something. He produces to his caucus, this is what we're voting on, and that's what they did. And now we're trying to catch up. So modeling the impact of that proposal. Um because the the remedy is if we had too much cash, if we had a higher um over 30% of the cash balance, our property tax revenues would have to be reduced the following year to get us underneath that cap. So that is about $5.4 million and less revenue for next year. And that basically gets us in a fiscal distress situation by fiscal year 28 because once we have that big dip, we're not going to be able to cash back up. And then our our

065expenditures are going to continue to increase because of the agreements we signed with our teachers um because of inflation and just the cost of doing business because we keep we still have to have school. We still have to get kids to school. We have to keep the buildings operating. Um, so it's overall it's a disaster. So I just want to point. So anyway, that's why this is fuzzy because everything I'm presenting to the board and this forecast, it could change depending on what the state decides to do. Any other questions on that? So there's a lot of advocacy. Um, I encourage everyone out here if you're are so inclined to also reach out to your legislators. Um, and feel free to ask me questions as well. Again, I don't want to come out and say

066that nothing should be done about property taxes, but do it in a way that's sustainable, that helps our helps our taxpayers, keeps schools whole in some way because we still have to operate. Um, but also not lead to situations where, you know, if something like this passes, let's say one year we're over that cap, so the next year your property bill tax bill goes down because they got to reduce our property tax revenues. we get underneath that cap the next year. Well, guess what? Your tax bills are going to go back up because we're underneath that cap. So, we're not reduced anymore. So, it' be very hard for our taxpayers to plan for vacations, for home repairs. They don't know what their tax bills are going to be. Um, so anyway, um, I can go

067on for a while there. Gender fund operating expenditures, um, pretty steady. This is where we're looking at. Um, we are budgeting for additional staff for enrollment growth. We've had several enrollment studies done. So, for every 25 additional students, we're adding a staff member, budgeting for a staff member, I should say. Um, we also have our new collective bargaining agreements in place effective um this fall, which will be a 4% base increase for salaries, followed by a three and a three. Um, and we also have things like a curriculum adoption which is on your agenda. That does cost money. So that's all being accounted for here. So you know overall we do try to maintain keep our expenditures as close to our revenues as possible. We don't want to be in a situation where, you know,

068we're just sitting on cash. We want to make sure we're investing the revenues that we're that we have brought in. Um, we do have income tax that is due to expire December 2026. So, keep that on our radar. And that's that's about it. Could you go back to the revenue pie chart real quick? Yeah. The general fund general fund. Yeah. Yeah. The pie chart. The forward one. Go forward one. Yeah. Stuck. So really it's about would you say 75% of our revenue goes to staff? It does. So what percentage of staff live in our district? Because if there's a lot that's money reinvesting right in our community. That's a good point. It is 58%. 58% of Yes. our staff live in our district. And I guess it's going up a little bit with Mr. Luster

069as well. Oh. Um but yes, 58% and um of our staff live within the district. So they're paying into our property tax base, our income tax base. If they live in Plane City or they work at Plane City Elementary, they're paying the village income tax as well to support their roads and their parks and their services. Um you know, so it is an investment in our community and we won't be here without our staff to provide the education opportunities for our students. Um we saw all the benefits of it with um our top ranked pharmacy student and the freshman that were up here. Um just look around. This is what that's where the money goes. When I get asked where does our tax money goes, it goes into each and every child that walks through

070our doors. It goes into our graduates who go through our programs who are now contributing to the workforce or the military or in college. Um, it's an investment that continues to grow as our community, it grows as well, and people, you know, they go to good college, they get a good jobs, they start families. That's where it goes. That's what we continue to do. Mark, do you have any idea how the 58% would compare to other districts? Is that higher than most districts? Lower, comparable? I would say it's higher. Um, definitely higher. Carla, do you know what? I don't but I would just from like my building that I was a principal in 58% would be much higher than what I was used to having you know living in the community where where the building

071was. So I don't know Dr. Miller if you have the same not 58% in southwestern or can you go forward one slide for me please? Uh one more right there. Can you explain to me and I I apologize. I probably should have prefaced I probably should have given you a heads up on this question, but and you don't necessarily have to answer it. It's just something to think about. So, can you explain to me if you look back if you look over the trajectory, right? We've seen all of um we've seen a we've seen a ton of houses of new homes go in and new businesses go in, right? uh why is why is our cash balances not going up dramatically to account for that? Yeah, so that's a good question. Like what are you

072doing with the money? So that's a good question first of all. So we have seen increase in property tax revenue due to new construction 9% this past year for instance you know with the new developments coming on onto their tax roles as well as the new commercial developments that are coming online. So what we have been doing is saving for the future. So we have um a capital fund set aside that would could be used for our roofing projects that we have on the agenda, our paving projects. We also need um our water and sewer upgrades while we're here. So in these times we need to start saving for the future. So that's coming off of our fund balance. Um but also our expenditures are outpacing the increased revenues that we're seeing from property tax.

073So is while the property tax revenues are increasing is not increasing as fast as our expenditures. So again, we're using this opportunity to um after 10 years of austerity essentially to get back to where we could be. We're elevating in every area and that includes bringing on more staff to better serve our students. Um, we also are trying to save for the future with our severance fund. So for retiring employees when they retire, they know that we have money set aside for their benefits when they for when they're ready to go. Um, and also we can save for any unexpected costs. So $220,000 to pay for the parking lot. Yes.$120,000 to fix the skylight in the high school. Yes. One skylight. one skylight. Well, it's an atrium. The skylight area. Just so our community knows

074what some of the expenses are. Like to seal your driveway at home is $750 to pave our parking lot here. It's $220,000. That's not the whole parking lot. That's just a section of the parking lot. And that was the lowest bid. Yeah. Yeah. And the roof the roofing project came in under budget, but it was 162. Yes, it was. So, it's not just the everyday running of the school district. There's there's huge expenses that come up and sometimes haven't been dealt with in the past because the money hasn't been there in the past. So, then it comes up now. Yes. So, there is no way to really avoid having a savings without sending the school district at some level and at some point in time into disrepair because you have to spend big chunks. It's

075like living in a house. and all of a sudden your water heater goes out. You can't just leave it out, right? What's a new bus cost? 172,000 175,000 just for one bus. It was 100,000 when I first started my career as a treasurer. And we need to purchase one or two every year to stay up. Why? Enrollment and the buses that you know buses 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 that are over 10 years old, 15 years old. Sorry, Bill. I'm sorry. Yeah, it cost more to maintain those buses and it's worth we're asking these questions for the sake of everyone else that's listening that doesn't automatically know understand and know these things. Just Yeah. So, so with the new houses that are going in Why can't you use the property tax and the income tax

076from these expensive developments to pay I'm being this is a serious question. No, I know you're why you're asking. Why can't you Why can't you use the money that's coming in from them to build the schools? Why are we asking for a bond? Why don't you just use the money that from the growth that's coming in to pay for the new buildings? So, in order to pay for the building in cash, again, just cash, not borrowing, um using just the revenue from new construction, it will cost it will take us about 70 years to save up for it. How many? 70. So the plan probably wouldn't work in 70 years, right? No. So it' be about 70 years. So that' be 110 by the time we have enough money to save up for that does

077not include inflation. You know, we have to keep that in line too. Um, and we also, if we're going to borrow, which will we most prudent way of doing it, we do have to get voter approval to borrow that amount of funds because it'll be over our debt limits. We can't just target certain developments. Why can't why don't you just make the new developments pay the bond? Because um it goes against tax law is a uniform system of taxation. If you look at article 12 of the Ohio Constitution, we can't just target certain developments for payment. Um, it has to be a universal tax rate across all type all similar property. So that's why we can't just target them. Why don't you make the developers pay for it? I just don't think that would lead

078to any development. I don't how they could possibly because they're in a profit motive, right? never profitfronted business. If you're ask asking them to upfront co upfront pay for a $70 million building project, I don't see how they're making back their costs. They're not going to make that investment. Great. And we won't have any development. Could you make them if you wanted to? Yeah. But even if we wanted to, do we have authority to ask? We don't. Right. I think you guys should credit Facebook, not portray these questions as your own. Yeah. For attribution sake. Yeah, that's fair. Well, they're legit. These are legit. These are legitimate. These are legitimate questions. All things we've heard. Yes, these I'm just busting your chops, but I think these are things that we should address. Yeah. And we

079will we will What's that? We will address them. Can you accept donations? Sure. Sure. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. We'll gladly accept donations and help even directed donations. We would take a donation for a building fund. Yeah. or auditorium or an auditorium. Sure. I just read that Bill Gates is giving up his entire wealth system. So maybe to ask someone could get on his radar. Write a letter. Right. So can I make a couple comments? Uh Mr. Engles. One, I want to thank you and I wanted to emphasize to the board things come to my office every day about can we purchase this? Then I try to decipher whether it's wants or needs and how does it impact our students. I go back to always the teaching and and the learning department because we have great ideas

080from our leaders and I go back to Mr. Engles and say, "How does this impact us? Does this value? Does this bring enough value to make the purchase?" And you can see with how he does his tracking, his spreadsheets and can show me yes, we can do it now or not yet or we make a determination that it doesn't bring the value. So, there's that piece. Secondly, I wanted to just remind the board what a incredible position that we're in because of negotiations that took place in the fall. There are districts that are surrounding us right now because of the complication of what the state is doing that there's turmoil between the teachers negotiating with the administrators. we feel like we reached a a fair contract with our teachers and we have that behind us

081and we've built these relationships and we can move on with that and we don't have to spend our time, energy, and emotions through negotiations this spring. That's a another thing to think about that we're such in a good position right now. Yeah, that's great. Thanks to the Mr. Engles, thank you very much for the report. You did a great You did a great job. Thank you for answering a bunch of questions that you weren't prepared for. Um if there's any question any further questions feel free to reach out to me uh email or phone. Um the uh fiber forecast clearing someone else out the room here. My forecast document will be available online under the community section and the treasure web page. Um you can find a whole host of information. Um but I'm always

082happy to talk things through. So thank you. Thank you very much. Um, do we have a lot more public participation now that Mr. Engles has spoken? Okay. Excellent. Okay. Um, I also just wanted to say I as a board, we really appreciate everything you're doing to try to explain both to us and to the legislature the upsides and the downsides. I think it's very um some of the stuff seems like a great idea, but when you start to parse it out and you put it to test, there's a lot of unintended consequences. And really what you're what you've been trying to communicate is the specific unintended consequences for our community and to show them in the most basic way you possibly can. And I I appreciate that. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. It's definitely is complicated

083issues and you know I do think there's ways to accomplish their goals but also not you know leave us out. Um you know I didn't even mention the fact that that cash balance proposal it only applies to public schools. So, it's very apparent what essentially what they're being that we're being targeted and because we're not the only taxing jurisdiction here. Um, fire there's fire departments, there's police levies, um, county levies, plain city village has a property tax levy, counties, townships, they're not impacted by that whatsoever. Nobody else has to. Nobody else is impacted by the 30% carryover. Yes. So, it's just public schools. So granted, we see the majority of the funds, but we're not the only ones. So again, it's something that we're in touch with and got a meeting with uh Senator Reynolds

084next week. Um looking forward to it. She's already heard from me before and Senator Ryan Key is current his office going to schedule a meeting with the county treasurers. I haven't heard back yet when that's happening. Yeah. And thank thank you for letting me tag along to your meeting with Senator Reynolds too. I think um the more that they see people the faces of people from the communities and learn the better chance we have of getting something that is actually workable. Yeah. Um okay. Um moving on to the treasurer's report section 8. Can I get a motion to approve the April 2025 financial reports as presented? So moved. Second. Any comments or questions. Okay. Uh, roll call. All right. Uh, Mrs. Steweiler. Yes. Mr. Hulie? Yes. Mr. McCartney? Yes. Mr. Votto? Yes. Mrs. Walker? Yes.

085Motion passes. It makes sense why you're confused. That fiveyear forecast is on there twice. I know. I I approve it. We got to do it as a presentation. Now we're going to approve it. Um, can I get a motion to approve the 5-year forecast uh as presented? So move. Second. Okay. Um, roll call. Mr. Vot, yes. Mr. McCartney, yes. Mr. Hulie, yes. Mrs. Dweiler, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. Motion passes. [Applause] Okay. Can I get a motion to accept the uh following grants and donations? 696 from an anonymous donation to Kanan Middle School camp fund for scholarships and 1,500 from Gina Riser. Is it Reer or Riser? Um Reer Reer. Okay. For negative lunch balances. So move second discussion. always thankful for the generous support of our community. Very much definitely for the miss, Miss Racer.

086I Racer Reer Racer, I'm so sorry if I'm mispronouncing your name, but thank you very, very much and thank you for the anonymous donation to for the Kan Middle School camp fund. Um, roll call. Mr. Vot, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. Mrs. Stoweiler, yes. Mr. Hulie, yes. Mr. McCartney. Yes. The motion passes. Okay. Moving on to 8.04. Can I get a motion to approve the amended appropriations and certificate of estimated resources as presented? Some moved. Second. Just a really quick explanation. um general fund increase um partly for um higher than expected purchase services throughout the year as driven in part by special education needs and services and our facility repairs. Um but also um also putting aside more money for our severance fund which um did some calculations. We need to top that off with based

087on what we who may retire in the next couple years. Um so top that off and also put aside more funds for our capital improvements um especially with our water and wastewater plants um at the all the buildings except for plane city which is on a municipal system. And then federal grants we had some additional allocations that were received in April after our board meeting. Um we are using these grants mostly to fund additional personnel that doesn't hit our general fund. Trying to be responsible trying to use these to the best we can. Um, and so we're just appreciative we got some extra funds. It's not a lot, but something. Great. Okay. Any other discussion? Roll call. Mr. Hulie. Yes. Mrs. Deweiler? Yes. Mr. McCartney? Yes. Mr. Bo? Yes. Mrs. Walker? Yes. Motion passes. Okay.

088Moving on to section nine. Um, can I get a motion to approve the employment and personal consent items, including 9.01 resignations, 9.02 employment, uh, 9.03 revised classified salary schedule, 9.04, job descriptions. So moved. Second. Okay. discussion. Yes. I was wondering about is this the supplementals or is that the next? What's in there? There was a supplemental for a coffee shop. So, Erica Flogger at the junior high, Rick Kitchen at the high school out of their resource rooms. They're teaching the students to be able to run a a coffee shop, making the the purchases with stock coffee, put the orders out to the staff, make deliveries, or staff come in. And we are asking for the board to approve this advisor position even though it's volunteered so that they can handle the cash transactions through this

089program. That's cool. So it's for the staff. Okay. Yeah. I was just wondering because I know some we heard freshmen proposing to have like you know some kind of coffee shop or store or something down by the cafeteria in the snack bar area and I thought oh maybe they this is only for staff right at this point board members anybody on those days yeah great it's not a pace elemental it just kind of allows them to handle the money right I get it I just didn't know what that was when I saw it Well, maybe it can grow. Yeah. Um, I'll share that Mr. Lester's bridge contract is not something that we would typically do. We're usually hiring someone July 1st or August 1st. Um, but in this particular situation, I thought it'd be best

090to get him in as soon as possible to help us and learn how you close down a regular school year. Spend some time with uh Mr. Finnick. a lot of time with me, time with Mr. Engles, Lori Robbins and Misty Greyber and the principles so that when he's closing the school year down with us next year, it's not new and he's not starting July 1st or August 1 learning everyone's names and and building the relationships he's already established through this the end of this school year. So, I'm glad you're here. The 54 day bridge contract and then he'll start his two-year contract on August 1st. Great. Awesome. Um just briefly revised classified salary schedule. That's the same as was approved last time except for we added a column for maintenance technician. Um in the past

091it was custodians were responsible for grounds and maintenance and top of their custodial duties. So now we separated that out. So try to recognize the different responsibilities. Not not a new position but it was the restructure that I've been sharing with the board under that maintenance department. Okay. Uh I just want to say um Eric and I came from a technology meeting um prior to this meeting and I just want to say how impressed I was uh Mrs. Buyers with the integration and the detail you and your team engage in Nicole Shrock engages in. It's just super impressive to see that you have a plan for our students from kindergarten all the way through um grade 12. listening to the four students here who went out on a field trip. Like I'm just I'm envious

092sitting here like nobody ever approached me in high school about career opportunities and stuff and I'm just amazed how you guys integrate the think big space. You made a remark in your meeting that this was the one of the best things I heard in the meeting was that you said something to the effect of our kids are not afraid to fail at something. And I think that's so important. Like kids don't have uh that develops self-confidence when you can fail at something and then learn how to conquer it. And I know they do that because of the way you guys encourage them and challenge them. So I just want to say and I just how impressed I was by the content of the meeting today and congratulate you on your new position. Great. Anything additional?

093Okay. Roll call. Mrs. Walker. Yes. Mr. Roto? Yes. Mr. McCartney? Yes. Mr. Hulie? Yes. Mrs. Dweiler? Yes. Motion passes. Got it. Okay. Moving on to section 10 tolls report. Mr. McCartney. Yeah. So, the big highlights for uh for you are the certification ceremony is May 19th and 20th at 7 PM. If uh you happen to be available, love to invite you. Thank you to everybody that was able to attend the associate schoolboard dinner a couple weeks ago. I know that's always a great time. Uh we currently have 917 students that have been accepted into level one or senior only programs. uh combined with the students that'll be returning next year, uh we expect record enrollment at tolls next year is an astounding number. We're moving forward with the construction project. Uh it's get we're getting

094to the final stages uh to be ready to break ground. Nice. Okay. Um, moving on to old business. Uh, we are now under a second reading for the um policy revisions that I Bruce and I went over in detail the last meeting. So, unless anybody has any questions, we're going to skip that detailed presentation about the policy revisions. Were there a couple things that you were going to come back to about back to us about? Do you remember? I thought there were a couple. I was just thinking that, too. No, prior to that there were, but we resolved them at the last meeting. So, I trust you guys. Yeah. Okay. And um I I'm having a glitch right now. We don't need to vote on the policy second reading. They automatically take effect. I think

095we do. Can we vote? There's a vote for it. There is that's for this. We have the academic calendar, too. Go back one page business right here. Okay. Um, so can I get a motion to approve the policy revisions after today's second reading? So moved. Second. Okay. Roll call. Mr. Hulie? Yes. Mrs. Stweiler? Yes. Mr. McCartney? Yes. Mr. Roto? Yes. Mrs. Walker? Yes. Motion passes. And we're also under a second reading for the 2627 academic calendar. Um, did anybody have any question? Well, can I get a motion to approve the second reading and therefore enact the so uh 2627 academic calendar? So moved. Second. Okay, great. Um, I just want to say I'm really glad that graduation is being moved back to Memorial Day weekend. Um, too late for us though. Yeah, but I don't

096have any. I think it's great. I'm fine with the calendar the way it is. Okay. Roll call. Mrs. Walker? Yes. Mr. Mo? Yes. M. McCartney? Yes. Mrs. Dweiler? Yes. Mr. Hulie? Yes. Motion passes. Thank you. Okay. Moving on to new business. Uh, can I get a motion to approve the resolution regarding the proposed state budget, House Bill 96? So move. Second. Okay. So, do does does anybody have questions why we're doing this as a board? Okay. I think it's a great move on our part. I think it's something we should be doing. And Mark, do you want to just give a brief Yeah. So, this is what what the resolution says. So the resolution, do you want me to read the whole resolution or no? Summarize it. Okay, thanks. Yeah, please don't. So the resolution

097before the board is to show uh the board's disagreement with the house budget as presented currently. Um it is asking for the general assembly to preserve local financial control by supporting district's rights to maintain appropriate cash balances by eliminating any limitation on carryover funds. So that ensures that we can effectively plan, manage and operate with the flexibility needed to best serve our communities and to maintain the existing funding formula with updated inputs as it was intended to run. While you're in growing districts, do not lose funding. So again, we're a growing district. We don't want to lose funding with the state budget. So this is what the resolution is for. Um I tend to present um the resolution once approved to both our state senators and both our state representatives and bring cop already provided

098copy to um representative Richardson last week. Have a copy for Senator Reynolds next week as well. Um we're not the only school board to do this or I never seen the level of advocacy against an issue as I have seen for this budget. Um, so we're definitely not the only ones and just as many voices as possible to craft a budget bill that's fair to taxpayers and schools. So basically it's a way for this board to speak on behalf of this district to our legislature. So So Mark, I have a question real quick. Would there be any value in sending it since uh Governor DeWine can do a line item veto? I mean, is there value in sending this to the governor's office as well? I think it wouldn't hurt. Definitely wouldn't hurt. Um, obviously

099we don't know what the final product's going to look like. No, but at least we can get in front of them. Yes. Are you going to Is Mr. Jester going to push this out on social media and with actions that our community could take to support the district in this endeavor? Yeah, we we could we draft we have something drafted. You know, we got to work on it again. You know, we're talking about complicated issue. Um, but it's something that I've seen other schools do as well. all in a Hillyard where my kids go to school. They pushed something out recently. So, it's definitely something we can we can push out. Okay. Roll call. Mrs. Dweiler. Yes. Mr. Hulie? Yes. Mr. McCartney? Yes. Mr. Boto? Yes. And Mrs. Walker? Yes. Motion passes. Thank you. Okay.

100The next two new items we already briefly discussed. Um, can I get a motion to approve the enclosed paving contract from Tullver and Curl paving for 220,000 um the high school lot? So moved. Second. Okay. And this was the um lowest bid uh with the 2-in removal of the surface. Yes. They're taking away the the top two inches and then reinstalling it. And we're trying to be strategic on this once a junior high. You know, there's construction equipment happening here. We don't want to pay for brand new black top surface. So, let's do some patches and repairs here. Replace everything the surface on everything else. And um this company basically was able to put it together the best package for us. Okay. So, um, we are not putting a brand new parking lot over the

101entire campus. Okay. Okay. Roll call. Mr. Hulie? Yes. Mrs. Dweiler? Yes. Mr. McCartney? Yes. Mr. Bo? Yes. Mrs. Walker? Yes. The motion passes. Okay. Can I get a motion to approve the enclosed roofing repair contract for $162,000 from $637 from Cotterman and Company for the high school gymnasium roof? So move second. Okay. Um I've I've been in that gym with a leaking roof and buckets around the floor and it's problematic particularly when you think of the danger that it could cause to kids who are running around that gym floor. Mhm. So, um, can I make a comment on that as well? So, remember our restructure with Mr. Bennett is hands-on with these types of improvement projects. He's up on the roof taking video evidence using dampness detectors, bringing me the, you know, the video evidence

102and we're looking how he's pressing on the rubber seal and can see dampness between the rubber seal and the ceiling underneath. to just think of over time how much additional damage or maybe even mold. So to tackle this now, that's why I'm asking for the board to approve this. And as Mrs. Walker said, we've had games where it's actually been somewhat embarrassing to put a a bucket out in the middle of a game to catch the drips. So our kids deserve better than that. Is there is there I mean the 62,000 is not a number to That's a that's a huge percentage of this project. Are we confident that Cotman and Company is going to complete the repairs as necessary? Because I know that roofing has been the bane of this district's existence for the

103last 30 years. Um, I don't want to spend $162,000 to save 10 if we're not going to get it done right. Joe spent hours and hours with each individual contractor and and manager and felt confident that this was the best direction. I talked to Joe and I have full confidence that he's vetted. He understands the process and what it needs and what it takes and and he's So, could there be additional work to the roof following this repair? Absolutely. This is just over the gymnasium area. There's two more, right? I meant over the gym. Like is the gym does the the 162,000 completely fix the gym roof or could they get in there and find additional problems? I guess there's always a potential when you're dealing with building stuff. There's always I mean they're not

104literally removing the roof and putting a whole new No, this is uh there's probably 20 years of patch repair rubber seal epoxy and caulking. This is to reseal with one rubber seal across the top. Okay. So, yes, they will get in there. They will find more damage. We'll have to have more work done. But this is what we feel is, you know, using the technology they do now. They they sold their work to us. They could get it done. Yeah. And it does come with a 2-year warranty. So, if they do the work, you know, right away and then February rolls around and we have leaking gym again, then that's covered under that warranty. Um, there's a manufacturer warranty on the material they're being used has a 20-year warranty. Okay. Um, and Trunkco, who is

105the manufacturer, they'll do a 2 year, 5 year, and 15 year warranty checks. So, you know, we'll be covered if something does if if we do this project and it doesn't work as well. At least we have the warranties in place. Um, and there's two other sections of the roof where if this goes well, you know, that we're considering to do as well. same process. Um, not complete replacement, but there the other two sections of the flat section of the roof could also use some attention as well, Mr. Lester. So, you're going to be busy this summer. And we went through um, you know, competitive bidding process and this is where it came out. Um, it'll be using the same process as being used at Fort Field in Detroit um, with their roof. Um, and

106so overall feel we, you know, speak for Dr. Miller and myself, we feel confident. Sure. Can you um can you just tell us so all of this is being paid out of the capital projects funds? Yes. Uh what was the what was the balance prior to this and what will the balance be after? So we transferred 2 million last year to the capital improvement funds which was earbarked for demolition at 340 West Main. Um which we're still waiting on a bill for by the way. Um, we got this project. We also have the paving project, um, for the high school, the skylight project, um, window replacement at Monroe Elementary, and I'm drawing a blank carpet replacement in Plane City. Um, so we have earmarked the full 2 million that was transferred last year uh, for

107various projects, and I'll get you a listing um, after this meeting. Um and then it all adds up quick, doesn't it? It it really does. And you know, we're expecting reimbursement through that grant for the 340 West Main demolition. Yeah. Which once received, then we can earmark another important project. This is this is conversations I've had with Mr. Lester as well. This we shouldn't be in a position where we have to do everything at once. It should be just like your forecast, a 5-year operational forecast and let's rotate these, you know, expensive projects accordingly and by priority. So, he understands that and that's going to be on his priority list. Yeah. And what I just described too, that's not all happening next year. It's all spread. It's spread out. So, you know, again, we're I

108work with Mr. Lester. You know, have a nice fiveyear forecast ready. Um, we do have one made up for, you know, what we're going to be using out the general fund, permanent improvement fund, or building replacement, repair fund, or 070 capital projects fund. Um, so, so the grant was going to be like 400ish or 350 305, I think. 305. Okay. So, that'll refill that a little bit. Is there a plan in your 5-year forecast to uh to to put more money back into that capital improvement fund? There is. How much? Um another u just hair over 2 million again this year mostly for air marked for land purchase. Um the 12 acres at here at this property. Um there is also potential initial conversation initial conversation at Plane City for additional land. So, if we're

109if it the price is right and you're ready to to pull the trigger, we have the funds set aside. Um, but talking to Mr. Bennett this past week, we have um and I'm just during this meeting getting some quotes, which you know, I'm sure Mr. Lester has as well of the needed repairs at our water and wastewater systems here at the junior um high school, junior high, Kanan, and Monroe. Um we uh we're issuing a switch operator record um for the service and we have we could we don't have a good estimate yet of how much that's going to be. Uh but we're expecting quite a few hundred,000 to get things where they should have been a long time ago. We can't just milk that along until water and sew until water and sewer come.

110you know, if we don't want to lose the water pressure every once in a while and, you know, want to make sure that we're complying with EPA is something that we definitely need to do. Don't want EPA. Okay. Thank you. Okay. So, uh, roll call. Mr. McCartney? Yes. Mr. Roto? Yes. Mrs. Walker? Yes. Mr. Hulie? Yes. Mrs. Dweiler? Yes. Motion passes. You still want to be here, Mr. Lester? She's excited. I'm I'm getting feeling more and more grateful for that bridge contract. Yes, for sure. Okay. Um, can I get a motion to approve the enclosed proposal for quality well quality quality walls and windows to repair the high school skylight for $121,680 and declare an urgent necessity per Ohio code 3313.46. 46. So moved. Second. Okay. So the work is classified as an urgent necessity

111due to safety concerns associated with the skylights. Um we also have the line company even willing to take on the project. So um it was something that was advertised along with the high school gymnasium roof. Okay. um due to the nature of the construction how things obviously I can't I'm not the type of person to explain how how it is but um they're the only company that was willing to do it to provide a warranty on the work as well. Okay. Um which is important for us because we tried all kinds of fixes that just didn't work but none of them was covered by a warranty so we kept the money at the problem. And this company gave us two options. One was to replace the sealant and caulking that is there now, but I

112believe that's already been done in the past, but that was without a warranty. This is replace everything in between the skylights with a 10-year warranty. Great. Good. I tend to think this predates everybody here, but is there a short answer as to why it was not fixed from the very beginning if it leaked from the very beginning? Does anybody know like I've been here about 15 plus years and it's always it's always leaked. I mean honestly that's back 2008. I was told recently by a custodian that it's been leaking since 2008. Well, the building opened in 2006. So Mr. Lester, these are questions you're not going to have to answer in 15 years because it will have been done, right? So, um, out of the 07 fund initially, we're budgeting about 300,000 for both roof

113repairs here and these two projects combined gets us underneath that budgeted amount. So, okay, it's fairly big pay. Good deal. Great. Okay. Uh, roll call. Mr. Hulie. Yes. Mrs. Mr. Stweiler, yes. Mr. McCartney, yes. Mr. Boto, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. Motion passes. Okay. Section 12.05. Can I get a motion to approve the resolution to enter into the expedited local partnership program with the Ohio Facilities Construction Commission? He's around here somewhere. So, move. We didn't get this information until about an hour and a half ago or two hours ago. So, Mr. Engles dove into it a little bit. Is Josh here? backing. Did I get a second? Uh, no, we didn't get a second. I'll second anyone. Okay, I'll second. Thanks. So, why are we entering into an agreement when we just failed a bond levy?

114Mr. Perovich, want to take that one? I'll come home. I know the answer. We know you. You know the answer, but you don't hear it out loud. Um, so, uh, good evening. Uh, thanks for allowing me to come in and answer some questions. um the uh entering into the expedited local partnership program. What this allows you to do is to start um basically using any funds that will be applied to uh expenditures for future project. You can start co-unding those dollars. And so what we're doing is we're building credit right now, right? Uh in the EL program, the district leads with the 100% local share. Um and we're building credit against that future state share. So, if you take a look at the resolution in front of you, um you'll see the listing of the

115$17 million in state share that we're hoping to garner uh as part of this project. Um and so things that are uh that are applicable, for instance, if we do site investigations, right? If we do geotechnical uh or surveying or um any other types of of sort of site investigations that would be applicable, those are all things that we would do in advance of of the project actually starting. Um, and so we're trying to um speed up your ability to get to those co-unded uh opportunities. Thank you. Okay. Um, roll call. Mrs. Dweiler, yes. Mr. Hulie, yes. Mr. McCartney, yes. Mr. Boto, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. The motion passes. 12.06. Can I get a motion to approve the curriculum adoptions as presented? So moved. A second. Carla, do you want to I mean, we've Yeah,

116we've this is the social studies and the science six-year adoption of um teachers curriculum institute for grades 5 through 12 and SAVIS for grades 5 through 12 which we've discussed. Yes. Okay. I'm happy to share any information or answer any questions but um as we discussed we had multiple teachers and administrators sit on the curriculum adoption team. Staff members have been using these two programs. So, they tried out the new additions and looked at the materials and felt really strongly that these were the best um materials out there and most aligned to the Ohio learning standards. And so, you know, after a lot of discussion, a lot of meetings that we had with our science and social studies curriculum teams, we are recommending that we continue with SAVIS for science um in grades 5 to

11712 and with the uh TCI program and social studies for grades 5 through 12. Great. Thank you for all your work on it and I'm sure you're relieved to have this finally before the board tonight. Thank you. Okay. Roll call. Mrs. Walker, yes. Mrs. Dweiler, yes. Mr. Hulley, yes. Mr. McCartney, yes. Mr. Bo, yes. Motion passes. Okay. Can I get a motion to approve the enclosed contract for services from the East SC of central Ohio for fiscal year 2026? So, move. I'll second. Second. Okay. And this is just a um entering into contract with the ESC of central Ohio um which were required. Yes. Requirement to uh for them to upload to the state. Um it doesn't include the scope of work of the type of services we'll be getting from them. Um but just

118to officially align with them. Okay. Um, any other questions? Okay, roll call. Mr. Hulie, yes. Mr. McCartney, yes. Mr. Bo, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. Mrs. Dweiler, yes. And motion passes. Okay. Now, moving on to the um our discussions regarding the uh bond issue and our next steps. I know we we talked about it a little bit. uh at the beginning of the meeting. Um does everybody seem is everybody okay with holding anformational session with the community? At least one. Yes, definitely. Yeah. I mean I I would probably recommend two in all honesty. I I think we have to have one where we listen to everybody and and try to understand from those who voted no. But then I think we also need one with what are what are we going to offer? What's our next

119approach going to be? Okay. It would probably be more in the September time frame. Okay. But I think it'd be good to have one soon. What's the statutory deadline, Mark? If if we wanted to go back on in November, um the spec special needs part one filing deadline is July 7th. Part two deadline is July 29th. Board of elections filing deadline August 6th. Can you explain what those mean, please? So, state consent special needs um trying to think back to when we just did this um last fall. It is to requesting permission to ask for um basically to exceed our debt limitation by putting on a bond issued to front of our voters. So, we exceed our um.1% of our total valuation and debt. we need special consent from the high department of taxation and

120high department of education to do so. Um so that's part one and then part two is a separate filing is a se separate filing um basically um where we need to have our auditor's certification of estimated millage that was going to bring in that's July 29th. That's July 29th. Yep. And we'll need our auditor's certification, our board resolution asking the auditor to um provide the estimate. We'll need our special consensus for part one and part two filings and our resolution of necessity to go to the board of elections by August 6 to get on the ballot. Okay. So, here's my So, if we So, By July 1st, do we have to know by July 29th? We definitely have to know how much the project's going to be. Do we have to know how much the

121project is going to be by July 1st or do we only have to know whether we're going on in November by July 1st? So, yeah, we'll need to know I got to look at the filings again. What exactly was asked for for state consents? If I remember correctly, it was our um it was asking our current indebtness in terms of where we are. Okay. Um and then we'll have to Do you know Mr. Povich off top of your head? I think I've always understood that you need to have the full project amount for the first file. Yeah, I believe it's correct. So the first So we have to know by July 1st. Yeah, correct. Mhm. That's always been our understanding. Thank you. So, we need a we need a plan, which means we need to

122speak to the community quickly. Quickly. Yep. Yep. So, early June. Yes. Yeah. after graduation. Are you going to be able to get two meetings in in June? Why two? Well, one to hear and then a work session and then two to one. Isn't there a way that we can hear from them before like have people submit and we already know quite a number just in talking the other day. We have quite a number of questions that we can get the answers to now. Yeah. and have them submit things, you know, the week of or whatever so that we can meet. So, kind of do it to kind of do like a listening session. And the only thing is the the only problem with that is don't you need their feedback to come up with a

123plan? So, how do it's going to be in my mind it's just difficult to it's difficult to just read feedback from a from a cert because we're effectively talking like a survey or people submitting things via email and then if we were going to say June whatever June 7th have a meeting that you're responding to those things and presenting a plan and soliciting feedback from that plan. just feel like I don't necessarily think we would have the plan ready when we meet with people. We would use that to develop our plan. But the plan developing doesn't have to necessarily be in a public forum. Once we've had the public meeting and we can discuss and ask answer questions and because I think a lot of the questions regardless of what our plan is, we can

124answer a lot of them without the number of this is the amount we're asking. Well, we can select a date now or tomorrow, this week sometime for any day that the the board decides and start announcing it every day. Here is the agenda. This is what it's for. Here's how you submit advanced questions. Yeah, I think you're right. That's what we do. And then repeat questions just get boiled down. we can have um the responses to the ones we can and then we'll still Well, I think what Steve was saying was from that the results from the first meeting to then have a second meeting as we present our approach for in September. In September. Oh, in September. Right before the vote. Before the vote so that it's fresh because there will be people still

125may have to have I misunderstood. Okay. But I also think before we go too far, I really believe we've got to talk to the pack who did all this work to get what they thought went well, what didn't go well. It's not just about our questions, but we have a lot of folks working on this and they might have some insights this time that might help us craft a better message or there might be some things we didn't do that we could do better. Um, so I I think it's really a series of meetings. I think we have to meet with our pack and get their feedback as well. Well, that can happen with that can happen anytime and that would also public and we can't Yeah, that can't be the entire board unless we

126were to be at a make it an official board meeting. Well, but you have but you have two board members on the pack that could that could meet with the pack. Are the two board members who are on the pack also not the ones having graduating seniors this year? Yes. Thank goodness. Excellent. Boy, I'm so glad the way that worked out. I've already sent a message to the pack over the weekend if I didn't have your personal email that you should have been forwarded to you letting them know that we are going to re-engage right away after this board meeting after we can hear from from you. But I'm ready to arrange something with them this week or next week to make sure that everyone's on board and um see if I can gain any

127information from them to share with with you and that will help us steer the the agenda for our special board meeting or the forum. And to circle back to what you were asking, Mr. McCartney, we will need to know the project amount for to pass the first resolutions on July 1st. Yeah. By by July 1st. Yeah. July 7th is the filing deadline. So, we'll need to move pretty quickly. So, um what's everyone's availability like the week of June 9th? June 9th. Good. It's a good week for me. It's good for me, too. It's good for me, too. I forgot my phone, but I was over. It's going to be good for Bruce, right? And then what time um what time what time do you guys think is a good time to hold an open community

128forum? We need input. Seven. Seven. I was thinking seven, but is seven a good time? Is that right in the middle of dinner? No. No, six in the middle of dinner. Some kids might be going, but five or six is too early, right? Five or six. 6:30 summer. Clint, what do you think? This all hinges on you, bud. Time, six, six, six or seven. It's it. But like June, you got to have kids at the ballpark. And I mean, it's vacations, right? It's a crazy time. But I'm like if it's not if it's after something you guys should know is if our baseball team and softball team track team go far those the tournaments go way into June this year states not until the 14th 15th. Would Craig know when those games would potentially be?

129Yeah. I mean the brackets are out, aren't they? They know which nights so we can make sure it's not they're all on they go like Thursday, Friday, Saturday. Okay. So a Tuesday potentially earlier in the week. What if we said what if we said by email look and see what all is going on then the 9th to the 11th day date 9th to the 11th and pick the day that doesn't that's not conflicting with any of our potential is is the week before the only reason I'm I don't want to run out of time is the week before out for anyone. So that that gives us the week of the 9th through the 12th to be making some decisions and um gathering information. It's kind of out. Oh, it is kind of out. Okay. I

130got a couple. It's kind of out. If I had to do it, I could towards the end of the week, but then that might run into baseball. Do we want to shoot for like June 10th or June 11th? And then we'll circle around hear from Mr. Hulie. That's okay. On your schedule. We'll tentatively say those two evenings. June 9th or 10th. 10th or 11th? 10th or 11th? 9th or 10th or the 9th? That's Monday. 9th, 10th, or 11th. Yes. 9th or 10th? Because there's not there's not a considerable difference between the 5th and the 6th or the 9th and the 10th or there is for you. No. Um and and it would be a board meeting so it would be recorded. Um, we can also have access to a lot of questions in advance and

131be able to answer those too so that if anybody isn't able to attend, they could at least Tyler, you could probably put the questions at the bottom of the screen after the fact to make it easier for people who want to like page through and see respon. Okay. So, we can make it as user friendly as possible and informational as possible. we can learn as much as we possibly can and open it up. Are we going to have it here either auditorium or the area or the gym? But I don't think we have to decide that location yet. Maybe we can start getting hearing about what the ga engagement might look like to determine the setup. Great. Yeah. Great. You could send out RSVPs. Well, you could just say, "Are you interested? Come." Yeah, sure.

132Advertise it. try to get as many as we can. Yeah. But that gives us enough time to get information from the district out to the community at large. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Okay. So, we'll talk about and finalize a date um in the next couple days. Okay. I'll send something to everyone so we can all confirm in writing that we're good on one of those three dates. 9th, 10th, or 11th is going to be sometime between 6 6:30 and 7 and then we'll determine where at the high school depending on what the interest looks like and they'll have opportunity to submit questions in advance. Yes. Excellent. Okay. Anything else? Great. I don't think so. Okay. The next regular board meeting is Tuesday, June 24th, 2025. And um can I get a motion to adjourn this board

133meeting? So move. Second. Roll call. Mrs. Delweiler. Yes. Mr. Hulie. Yes. Mr. McCartney. Yes. Mr. Voto. Yes. Mrs. Walker. Yes. We're j