Jonathan Alder Local Schools Board of Education Meeting - April 8, 2025

001[Music] Okay, I'm going to go ahead and call the April 8th, 2025 uh Jonathan Aler School Board of Education regular meeting to order. Um let's all stand for the pledge of allegiance. [Music] 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. Mrs. Stweiler, present. Mr. Hulie, here. Mr. McCartney, present. Mr. Roto, here. Mrs. Walker here. I'd like to take a moment for silent prayer and meditation. Thank you. Okay. Can I get a motion to approve the April 8th, 2025 agenda? So move. Second. Roll call. Mrs. Deweiler? Yes. Mr. Hulie? Yes. Mr. McCartney? Yes. Mr. Roto? Yes. Mrs. Walker? Yes. Motion passes. Can I get a motion to approve the minutes from the March

00211th, 2025 regular board meeting? So moved. Second. Roll call. Mrs. Walker, yes. Mr. Votto, yes. Mr. McCartney, yes. Mr. Hulie, yes. Mrs. Deweiler, yes. Motion passes. Thank you. Okay, we're in uh section four of the agenda today and it's time for the superintendent report. Thank you, Mrs. Walker and Mrs. De. Thank you as well. Well, I'm extremely excited for tonight. I'm excited for the board. We have a a full agenda. We'll be recognizing our student athletes. We are going to be talking about some of our uh progress within the throughout the district. We have some community voices and we're going to be learning about how Monroe supports our e language learners. So, I'm really excited for the board this evening. I wanted to thank Mr. Rule for uh I saw you Mr. Rule. Maybe he

003stepped out. I want to thank you for uh you know this was kind of a a short notice. Mr. Jester and I were putting the agenda together over the last couple weeks and we wanted to stay on track with recognizing our winter sports programs. So thank you Mr. Rule for the overview and most importantly recognizing our student athletes. Uh the village department of uh development department is with us. I can't thank you guys enough. This is an impeccable timing to to share with our community, you know, some of the numbers and some of the developments that impact Jonathan Alder over a over a long time. So, thank you for being with us. Uh, I wanted to emphasize to the board this is eyeopening even though you've seen the numbers. we've done the study with cooperative

004strategies and future think just to see the display is eye opening and it's going to be confirming that the board made that uh call on the 80% capacity over the next 10 years. So that was a great call. I've met with uh many families and different individuals and different entities over the last couple months uh talking about the master facility plan and um the bond issue, the bond impacts. We've had uh numerous families invite our team into their homes. Last week we were at the Plain City Ministry Association. They invited us in. It was a smaller group, but it was very valuable and impactful because they have so many relationships throughout the community and they're talking about the schools and our students, praying for our students, talking about the future of our district. So, now

005that they have a little bit more of this information, it was very uh impactful. Um, tomorrow I am in a uh the team is in a home in this area. a family has invited their their uh our team in to speak about this work. Last week we were in a development at Mitchell Highlands. It was a Dr. Keel and his wife invited their neighborhood in and it was very important as well too because this was a a newer neighborhood and you know the houses were built within the last two years and those on the on their street wouldn't be the families that are receiving our typical weekly and monthly updates. There were multiple young uh parents that have you know either infants or children on the way so they might not be receiving our updates.

006And then there were empty nesters as there as well. So it was just very powerful conversations about how this bond impacts our district long term. Then I'll be in at Pioneer Crossing next week and then Darby Station to follow. I also wanted to thank the board for allowing me to negotiate with the land owner north of the high school. We've we have some progress here. I I know that the board is excited about this work as too. We now we announced this to our community and to the community advisory team and to our employees. If uh Mrs. Paige, would you be able to advance the one slide here? And I thought now that we have our athletes with us, our parents with us, let's go ahead and and put this up. This is our latest

007development. It's one week old. Uh the plans have been set for the new junior high to go on the high school site for a few months now, but just last week we came to an agreement, the board came to an agreement with the landowner just north of the high school for an additional 12 acres for uh vehicle and bus loops, uh extra drives, tennis courts, and practice fields because that was one of the bigger concerns. Adding the junior high to the high school site, we're taking away space. Well, here you can see um how this will positively impact that site and our athletes and our families. So, I was going to leave that uh display up throughout the meeting before our next presentation. If anyone has questions on that or if the board would even

008like to have a discussion on that, I'm I'm open to that as well. So I would like to emphasize to the board with all this progress um all of these moving parts the the you know 18 months of master facility planning and the bond issue the the conversations I want to promise you that we will not lose sight of our teaching and learning the the focus of our student development and and developing the whole child will always be our number one focus number one priority all the moving parts and the bond and the master facility that comes second. All right, before we go into our presentations, I I had a couple announcements and a couple thank yous. I first wanted to thank our well, I want to thank the board and I wanted to thank

009our tech department. Uh they took on a major project over spring break with a new phone system. If you recall, the first day of school this year, and it probably lasted for about a month, our phone systems weren't able to update with our normal summer updating our systems, updating our Wi-Fi. There were a couple days where we weren't able to call out and our families weren't able to call in and we didn't learn of this. Things were working fine the day before school, but once we were in session, our phones couldn't handle that uh upgrade capacity, if you will. And Mr. Ingles and I put a meta contract before the board to upgrade our phone system across the district. And this is something that you would normally do in the summertime. And I tasked Mrs.

010Shrot and her team to get this done over spring break. There were a few headaches, you know, coming out the first couple days, but we are commun we are able to communicate between building and building, administrator, administrator to our families and our families back in the schools better than ever before. So, I want to thank you for approving. I also wanted to uh thank our safety and security coordinator, Jim Ratherman. I tasked him over the last couple months to continue applying for safety grants because we can never be safe enough. He applied for this latest attorney general's safety grant and the board will be voting on another $10,000 grant later in this agenda. But with that approval, we will put that $10,000 right to work improving our safety features across the district. And then space

011night at Kanan. I don't know if you guys heard of of this or not. There wasn't enough messages that went out last week. Um over over 1500 stu uh family members for sure signed into this event. We think we we think a little bit more. Uh there was a downpour. We had multiple entrances. We were checking and signing families in. So it's probably more than 1500, but we can account for 1500. This is the space night in partnership with AWS. Remember, we were the first district to host this last year and this is our second one. Um, I just can't thank Tim Harmon enough for his partnership and his relationship and the connections that he has. He brought in a retired astronaut. I think it's Don Dr. Don Thomas, but it was just a a

012great hit for our families to see, you know, the outstanding planning that we have for our students and our families. So, a huge shout out to our teaching and learning team, especially Mrs. Buyers, Mrs. Rings, Mrs. Shainer, Principal Walter, Mrs. Quick, and Mrs. Shrock for making this so amazing. I guess I would also like to share with the board if there's a family in this district that is, you know, on the fence on where they are leaning on this bond and which is completely fine. We want them to make the decision what is best for their family and their household, but if they attended last Friday, they probably feel a lot more confident about how we support and educate our students. So, it was really good timing. So kudos and thank you to the teaching

013and learning department. All right, so on to presentations and I don't want to disappoint any of our families and our our student athletes. Normally you guys come up right away and we let you have a recognition and then we let you go and if you have any practices or or anything that you need to get to, we'll certainly let you uh step out early. But I think that this presentation by the uh plain state development is so powerful for you to hear. I I've asked these gentlemen to keep it to 15 minutes, leave time for some questions so our community can hear this and so you'll see too why that 80% enrollment capacity goal was set uh about 6 to 8 months ago with our master facility planning process. So Mrs. Paige, if you could

014queue it up for um Plane City Development, Jason Stanford and Derek Hutcherson. I'll help you, Mrs. Paige. They're going to give a 15minute overview and then we'll start right into the athletic. Are you sure? Good evening. Good evening everybody. Appreciate you having us tonight. It's good to see you all again, especially as spring is finally springing. I think it snowed. Yes. Um, you know, I just want to start obviously I'm Jason Stanford. I'm the development uh director for Village Plant City. So, hello everybody. And I have Derek Hutchinson who's our our planner. We're going to talk a little bit about development. Shouldn't be more than an hour. I know he said 15 minutes. We got an hour. But then before I toss it to Derek, I just want to comment on, you know, we are

015so grateful for the partnership we do have with you all. Um, obviously anybody from our council, to our administration, to our staff. We value the the relationships that we have with our schools. Um, you know, I know a lot of times, especially in the media and different things, you know, development is is a scary thing. You know, I get that change is scary. Um, and we just want you all to know that we're in it just as much as you guys are because we're navigating change as well. And there's a lot of change. Derrick will get into this, too. So, I just want to preface this by saying we are open to questions. You know, um, we have, I think, two or three slides that we'll go over, but there's a lot of information. Um,

016but yeah, we do appreciate the feedback even from our community. We we love to hear from people and especially our our partners. So that being said, I'm just going to turn over to Derek um and go over some of our development activity. Right. Well, thanks for having me. Um so development, this is what we have going on. Now, this is I just want to make a quick clarification. Plane City zip code. Sometimes it gets confusing because there's townships that have plain city addresses. This is just the village of Plane City only. This isn't uh Jerome Township. This isn't Darby Township. Um we work for the village. So anything I tonight is just within the city limits, developers limits. Um so we currently have we currently have six developments that are under construction today. All residential

017construction. Um there on this map here they're indicated in green. Uh Derby station runoff hour reserve. Uh and then there's two different sections of Madison Meadows and then there's a small uh apartment complex Jefferson Village right here. Um so those are all under construction right now. Right now that accounts for about 1,500 units, a little less than 1500 units. That's residential units, mostly single family. Um now the developments in Bloom, we have about 10 developments that are approved or annexing in or resoning right now. does grow on account of about another additional 2500 homes. Um now saying that let me let me explain what the situation of the village is as far as develop and how it impacts us. Um our current water our current sewer plant is at capacity. So everything that's in green

018that's under construction that's all that's going to be under construction in the next at least for the next two to three years. anything in blue uh minus this large one here and Jason talk a little bit more about that that's just commercial there's no residential in that one um other than that one everything else will not start until um Mid Ohio who is our new water and sewer district so we no longer in the water and sewer business um they are going to be building a new plant down north of London and it'll be bringing up uh horse main sewer lines 12 miles from London to plane city to Uh so that right now is slated to be completed by mid best case scenario mid 2028. So that means none of these blue developments minus

019the the commercial one up there um is going to start construction until probably at least 2028. And that's just construction on utilities and streets. So first home actually probably will not be built until sometime 2029. Um these developments take several years to build out. Um now that being said, our developments that are under construction now are way ahead of schedule. Derby station uh which is uh over off of 161. It's 522 total units. Uh that was slated to take 7 to 10 years. The first home went up in beginning of 2023 and it is it was it is already um over halfway done. So it's they're way ahead of schedule. The last phase of that was supposed to start until 2028 and under construction today. Um so they are selling really quick. Um but uh

020we we we're real happy with our developers that we work with. We got a great relationship with those. Um with them and then everything that's coming in. So we have a lot of new uh new products coming online with the new developments that are all highlighted in the blue areas here. Um so we have some we do have apartments coming in. We have town homes, condos, we have single family homes. Uh and we're now starting to see commercial. We have a lot of commercial that's going to be starting up. Hopefully we have grocery grocery store soon. Um there's some more uh options for fast food and restaurants. Um and then we have a large uh large park here at the north, a large blue spot. That's 550 acre industrial commercial park. Um now that one,

021like I said, that one might start a little bit earlier because it is uh it's actually going to be serviced by various various built there sewer. Uh so they'll be able to start construction first. But so under construction today, these are the ones that are under construction. I don't know if you can see this or not. Uh this is what's been built to date. There has been this was at the end of last year. So there has been a few more packed on this. Uh Madison Meadows is a 250 unit and they're almost built up. They're already at 225. So the first phase of Madison Meadows 250 is almost complete. It will be complete this year. Uh Darby Station, the Right. I spoke about home 161. That's our largest currently. Uh 522 homes and date

022we're at 342. Hamilton on Derby. That was a um a 55 and over uh community that was built 67 units. It is complete. They completed last year. Uh and it is it is completely occupied and those are primarily 55 and over. There might be one child in that development but typically there's not. uh road to Hoffower, there's 100 units there and the other are halfway done now. They're starting section two right now. So, they're at 57 homes built already. Mayor Reserve, that's our newest one. So, that one's on um Lafayette Plane City Road across from Madison Meadows. It's 443 homes. That's a mixed use. They have a 55 and over um complex. That's accounts for almost half of 226 units. And then 217 single family homes. Uh those are under construction today uh today. They

023just started uh at the end of last year. Moving pretty quick. Um Mass 2, which is the new section of Madison Meadows, just south of Madison Meadows on L Queen City. Uh it's just beginning. There's only about 20 homes or so right now that's uh that's been built. Um, now the uh small apartment complex that I mentioned on this map here, I don't think everyone seen this, but very small one that's just south of our city offices. It started construction. You may know it's right before you get to our office on on uh 42. It started construction actually in 2019 and it halted. So right now all you see is retention pond and you see some infrastructure out there. Uh they are approved and have been approved. They're waiting on some uh they're working with

024ODOT. an issue on the 42 access. So once they get that complete, that one will resume construction. Um, but I imagine that's probably going to be later on this year if they start this year. Uh, so so with all these, like I said, they're roughly 4,500 homes. That's just what we have today. So that's what's being annexed in. That's what's being uh going through planning, going through reszoning right now. Um, we know there's developers right now looking at property. we know of builders, home builders that are located at commercial. So that number is going to go up, continue to go up. Now, a lot of people think when they hear, you know, 4,500 homes, they think 4,500 times two, two kids for every home. It doesn't work out that way. And when these how they

025how they're built also, how they're built out, this is spans over one to 10 years for these developments. So, it's not all they all don't come at once. Um now we will see a surge with uh all those developments starting at the same time in 2029 or 2028. So there will be a small surge just when they very first start. Um but uh they'll they'll even out. Um some may just depending on how sales and what the economy is at that time. Um anything can happen. I mean even these numbers I mean is it's not uncommon. I've been communities where uh a developer was approved for x amount of number of homes and something happened in the economy and they come back for the revision and end up revising the the development and bringing fewer

026homes. Um and I'll let Are you going to talk about just touch on Yeah, we can touch um so we get the question a lot why why is Plane City building so much? Why are we bringing so many homes? Um, so when we went to uh Mid Ohio Water and Sewer, we gave up annexation rights. Before if any community surrounding Plane City wanted sewer, they had to annex in. Uh, once we gave up our water sewer rights, we gave up that annexation right. So, um, these developers now can build in these townships without having to annex them to us. Um so we are we would rather them annex in where we can control and have some standards and some say how they develop um rather than if they develop in in the township it's it's

027out of our hands at that time. Uh any any development that's going to be around us it's going to impact the village of plane city. U so if it impacts us you know we like to have a hand in that at least you know benefit from it at some point with with revenue. Um this is a breakdown and all this everything we're showing you it's on our website. So we have this map. We have a very uh it's called storyboard. You can click on any of these developments and it gives you examples. It shows you the site plans. It gives you timeline of all the approvals that these developments went through. Uh so right now out of those 10, two of them are completely approved and just ready for sewer to get here. Um the

028rest of them we've had um probably in the past two years we have annexed in uh double the footprint of the original sizes for this city. So we are twice the size today as we were two years ago. Um and we're going to continue to grow and you know we're not the only ones building. Also you know Jerome Township has got a lot going on. Uh Derby Township is looking at some stuff. So, uh, we're not going to be the only ones in the in the district that's going to, you know, make an impact, but, um, we're doing what we can to, you know, to control it in into an aspect and and develop what we what we think that will be detrimental to the to the community. Um, is there anything else you can

029think of? Is there anything the board would like me to go into more detail about that maybe you've seen that I didn't cover tonight? Um what is the level of certainty that you have that on the timing of sewer coming up from London? The certainty as far as 29 is 28 for the completion of the plant. That's best case scenario. I'm I'm going to say realistically it's going to be finished in 29. So that means the first home may potentially not be built till 2030. But this is the timeline that they're giving us right now is the plan to be completed by 28. That means we'll have service at 28. Okay. Okay. Um but with that questions from the board or anybody I'll take questions. I have a question. Yeah. So based on I just

030did some quick math here. So it looks like we're you guys are approving about twice as many residential acres as commercial acres with what's been presented tonight. And so I was just wondering is there any uh does the village have any sort of a standard based on going forward we want you know to see x amount of commercial for x amount of residential. Is there any it's it's kind of naturally it's kind of naturally happening. Okay. Uh so uh the first push obviously was all commercial. Uh probably the last four developments that we've gone through are a mixed use. They have a big residential aspect. uh with the big large commercial park um that is going to spawn uh this one up here, this one's going to spawn a lot more commercial. Uh but some

031along 42, our developments here are going to have commercial and the northern part of 42 has got a lot of commercial as well. So we're starting to see a lot more commercial interest now. Um and we're starting to see that that trend change a little bit from single family to start mixing in some multifamily as well. Uh so that it's it's just happening naturally. Um we are in the very beginning stages of redoing our comp plan. So, we just started, we just had our kickoff meeting last week. Uh our comp plan comp plans for municipalities are about they're generally 5 to 10 years is about what they last. Um ours was done last in 2018, but with COVID and then what was not anticipated in 2008 where we are today, uh we are we are

032due for one. So that will outlay a land use plan that will really show we give developers this is kind of where we're looking at where residential should be and commercial be uh anything commercial is going to be along 161 or 42. That's just natural where it's going to be and the multif family. Anything apartments are going to be along the corridors, not into the neighborhoods back. Yeah. One thing we really want to avoid is Plane City becoming a purely bedroom community. That's huge drain on any resources out there. We can't focus so much on residential. I'm sorry. What did it What did you say? A bedroom. We We don't want to become a bedroom community. Yeah. Um so we obviously need to focus on jobs and and of course just the commercial side of

033things. We need a grocery store. We need, you know, all these other things um that residents are wanting that we should have already, but especially with the growth that's coming in, it's critical. Uh Creek, for example, um this is such a rare um railing project for for any community. It's 550 acres total or 15 515 acres um with some frontage on 42 that will be for the commercial side of things. But this alone will provide ample amounts of job creation for the village for the foreseeable future, probably at least a 10-year window. Um but we're already looking at other opportunities like Derek mentioned. There's a couple projects that will have some light manufacturing or light industrial flex uses um as well. Um but yeah, that will that will happen more and more as these residential

034units are built out. Obviously, people want to work in the community in which they live. Scary. Anybody have any questions? Yeah, it's a lot. It's a lot. Um, you know, Plane City today, the build of Plane City today is a lot different than it was two years ago. Not just saying that because I've been there for two years, but uh we have uh we have a lot uh more um experienced staff than we did previously. Um we have a very aggressive um and a very good council right now. Uh so everything that like I said, all this is online. So all you folks could you could go online and take a look at all this if you ever have questions. Our phones and doors are always open and feel free to stop in or give

035us a call. Uh but all the site plans everything detailed everything that goes through the public or just our hands are public knowledge. So all this stuff is on online. Hey Derek, what percentage of Derby stations complete? You got 522 homes, but a lot of them a lot. Yeah, about 350 is completed today. 350. You made reference to giving up some control over the water and sewer uh which compromises your ability to control some of the development. Why was that decision made cost? We no we had no uh so planes the village plane city is 100% in the Derby wershed. So the EPA would not allow us to expand our plant any further or build a new plant um at all. So you know it maxed it just done. Um so in order to grow

036we had to go to a district regionalized so plant be built outside of the water shed and be discharged outside of the dark. Thank you all. Thank you very much. Thank you, gentlemen. Thank you. Just wanted to remind the board and our community, we have this uh trusting relationship with build partners. They've been sharing this with us as much as we've been asking for it. There's monthly meetings. We take this information of what those developments are and what they'll look like in 10 years. We hand them over to cooperative strategies and future think and say here's the development might be a patio home might be a targeted 55 and up might be homes that are for four and five bedroomedroom homes 200 homes in this development 500 in this 50. The cooperative strategies comes back

037to the district and tells us what that student yield will be. Then we can plan accordingly for how many classrooms we need in the next 5 to 10 years. All right, Mr. Rule, now it's time for the the fun and important information if you would. Well, we weren't fun or important. No offense. No, I don't know what you said, but I told somebody I think you guys got us on that shot. Rusty and J, please come up. So, thank you for allowing me to be here tonight uh to recognize our winter sports athletes. It's always uh nice to be able to get them here and um talk about success and seasons and what a great year not just all of them had as a group, but some of them had individually. Um our first group

038we're going to recognize tonight is our boys bowling team with me. Um I've got Drew Damron and Coach Walter. Um to talk a little bit about Drew, um this is his senior year, so kind of um I feel like we have him every year, right? Like Drew is always here for me. It's sad to see him uh bring this to a close, but Drew um was a three-time first team all CBC performer. Uh the only year he didn't get first team, he was second team, which was his freshman year. Um in the district tournament this season, he was the champion of the district tournament. And in the district tournament, he bowled 204, 298, 267. Um so to put that in perspective, um he had no frames in three straight games of of bowling in the

039district tournament for a 769 series. Um he finished fourth place this year uh in the state tournament which our boys bowl in division one state tournament. Um so levelwise it's a bit of a little bit different for them as far as competition um which makes him first in all Ohio for the second time in his in his career. Um he's been in that state tournament multiple times. Um always performs well. He actually bled 705 this year in the state tournament. Um, if you've been around Drew or or been with him, um, he's still bowling now. He's won tournaments every weekend and still bowling and and has just had a a great career here at John Fer. So, we're sorry to see him go, but just want to say congratulations on his career. Please help me

040congratulate you again. [Applause] Yeah, graduation. [Music] Good luck. Good luck. So, so 28. Okay, our next group we've got is basketball. Um, two of those guys aren't able to be here with us tonight. I know has plenty of tennis right now and Sam Kramer is actually at the golf room working on his game trying to get ready and be able to play at the next level. But I am happy to have here with us Ryan Mark and also coach Dicki. I'm going to talk about all three of them. We'll first talk about Noah. Um all three of these guys we're recognizing are all seniors. Um Noah was second team all Ohio. He was district 10 player of the year. He was district 10 super team. It was all central district division four first team and

041was also first team all central Buckeye conference. So um for those of you that are able to get to basketball games know it was not a hard one to find out who was on the floor. Had a great career um and again a senior with us here tonight. We've got Ryan Mark. Ryan was honorable mention all Ohio. In addition to that he was all central district division four second team. He was second team all CBC. Um, and in addition to that, um, obviously this year was was a huge year. I'll talk a little bit about that in a second, but not just for Ryan, but for all of our guys together as far as the accomplishments they had as a team and and what they were able to achieve. And a lot of times, as

042everyone knows, those things wouldn't happen without players like Ryan and these other two guys as well. And then our third one is Sam Kramer. Sam also is not able to be here, but also a senior. He was all central district division four honorable mention. Uh, special mention all CBC as well. So, um, a little bit about these guys. They, as a team, they were Central Buckeye Conference champions. They were district champions, which was the second year in a row achieving that, um, regional runner up, which I don't know how many of you were able to get to that game, but it was very exciting. Um, big comeback late um, and took the lead um, late in the game and it was just a battle from there on in. So, um, just just a fun group

043to watch. They finished 22 and five um and had a great year. And I I always I want to make sure that I recognize coach Dicki as well who was named coach of the year in the central district. So um for this whole group together um again just the the year was fun. It was a lot of fun to watch. I'd like to say congratulations to Ryan as he's here with us tonight on earning all Ohio honors. So please help me congratulate Congratulations. You're going to kill it. All right, here we go. Three, two, one. Great. Okay, next with us is girls basketball. And I've got with me Natalie Walker and also the coach craft. Um, and Natalie had to come running here from track practice. So, she actually, this is surprised that she was

044able to be here because we were supposed to have a track meet tonight, but it's obviously pretty cold. So, um they canceled the track meet. So, we're glad to have Natalie here with us. Um Natalie earned honorable mention all Ohio honors uh this year. Um in addition to that, she was second team division 4 all central district. She was also second team all central Buckeye Conference. Uh Natalie averaged seven points a game and 10 rebounds. And I think if you were at girls basketball games, there was no secret to the fact that her ability on the court was kind of the glue and the leadership to our team as far as being able to grow and improve. Um, this group of young ladies this year, um, I don't think they maybe had the season they

045wanted, but I will say that four out of their last seven games they won and in addition to that, they really got uh to playing well at tournament time. Um, in the tournament they beat uh River Valley on the road in the first round and then beat Columbus International in the sectional final. Um, and then went to London and lost in a district semi which was actually a really good game. Ended up being eight-point game. Um, so just a great year for them as far as improvements and strides and a great year for Natalie as a senior to be able to earn all high honors. So please help me congratulate Natalie for being here. All right, here we go. Three, two, one. Congratulations. Okay, next with me, uh, I have swimming. Um, and again, I

046would say the same thing about Lily. As I said, Drew, it's no surprise to see her back here again. Um she is a junior. So the awesome thing is that we're going to have one more opportunity uh to be able to watch her again. U this year was her third trip to the state tournament. Um she finished eighth in the 200yard freestyle and sixth um in the 100yard breaststroke. So she was on the podium and received state medals in two different events. Um she was second place in the district in the 200 yard freestyle, third in the district in the 100 yard breaststroke. She was fifth um also in the district in the 200 yard medley relay um which was obviously a huge part of that relay team with three other girls. In addition to

047that, she was seventh in the 200 yard freestyle relay. Um she was Central Buckeye Conference Swimmer of the Year, which is her second time receiving that award. Um she was first place in the CBC in the 200 yard freestyle, first in the 200 um or sorry, first also in the U in the 200 freestyle and then also in the 100 yard breast script. In addition, she was first place in the CBC um sorry in the breaststroke and then also second place in the CBC in the 200 yard medal. And in addition to that, she holds multiple uh school records right now. Um so again, this year was their as a team was their second straight conference championship. Um which is is big because we won our first one ever last year. So our girls have

048now won the won the league twice. I've got her and coach Burner here with us. Um, and again, one more year to be able to watch her, but just like to say congratulations to Lily for getting on the state podium and two events this year swimming. So, please congratulations. Thank you. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Three, two, one. Okay. Congratulations. Congratulations. Okay. Next with us, I've got Blues Wrestling. Um, again, another group that just had an incredible year overall. We've got three of them with us that made the state tournament. Um, but as a group, uh, they had a great year in multiple tournaments throughout the year and continue to grow and and get better. Two of these guys are a senior, one's a sophomore. Um, but just to talk a little bit

049about them a little bit, first talk about Ethan Karen's. This is Ethan's senior year. Learned recently that he's going to go to Thomas Moore uh, next year. So, we'll have the opportunity to wrestle at the division 2 scholarship level, which is um exciting to be able to get that opportunity moneywise and and have that chance to wrestle at the next level. Um he was seventh place in the state tournament. Uh and he is a multiple state qualifier, so he's been there a few times. He was third place in the district tournament, second place in the CBC tournament, which recognizes him as second team all CBC honors. And he was also the Central Buckeye Conference Sportsmanship Award winner. Um, so just, you know, a great kid. Again, as a senior, we're sad to see him, uh,

050his career come to end, but we're excited to see him get to go to the next level. Also with us is Trenton MBA. Trent was also a state tournament qualifier this year. Um, he also, in addition to that, finished fourth place in the district tournament. And I can remember talking to Coach Watson as we were at the district tournament and I said, "Man, Trenton is really wrestling great right now. He is just going into the sectional, going into the district. He was getting better. He was getting hot. was just really wrestling really well at the right time. Um, which is what you have to do. You gota you got to get hot right um at the right time of year and he did that and again um was able to make that state tournament trip.

051So again, super excited and want to congratulate him. And then last but not least, Race Watson and Race is only a sophomore. Race finished second place this year in the state tournament um and wrestled in that championship match on Sunday night. Um he was first place in the district tournament. He was first place in the CBC tournament which earned his first team all CBC honors. In addition to that he was the CBC Kent Trail wrestler of the year and just had a great season. And I know uh for all these guys are already starting to train and work and get into the offseason of getting ready to go for another year. Um so like to say congratulations to them and then also coach Watson is here with us as well. This was their sixth straight

052um CBC championship as a team. And in addition to that uh in the sectional which was very tough that was at our place, most of the best teams in the sectional were there. They finished third there were really really good sorry they finished second there and were really really good in it. Uh in addition to that went to the district and competed well and also in the state tournament. So just want to say congratulations to all three of these guys uh for making it to the state tournament and coach Watson as well. [Applause] [Music] Please. Thank you, sir. Got a couple more here. Good job. Thank you again very much. Appreciate you guys. Okay, next I've got our competition cheer squad. Look at this. Everybody won the CBC. Next with us, I've got our competition

053cheer squad. These ladies had an incredible year. I'm sure if you followed any social media or anything newswise or all that, you're able to see a little bit about them. We've been recognizing them um hopefully as much as we possibly can different things throughout the year and trying to be able to give them praise for the season they had. The beauty of this whole thing is um none of these girls are seniors. They are all coming back. Um so everybody's thinking like we should do this again, right? A second time. Um but anyway, just want to say congratulations um to them and their coaches with us here tonight. I'm going to read all their names. Obviously, we don't have all of them, but we have Who could be here? Miss Cindy Bowley, Michael Dicki, Reese

054Fry, Annie Kenyon, Abby Lewis, Ava Raph, Alana Reynolds, Chamilleia Shiblack, Hannah Shop, Paige Cipher, Cara Smith, and Olive Snarker. And then also with us, coaches, Coach Cochran, and Coach Kendler. And they've had an amazing year. And this is one of those sports that you feel like it never ends. Um, it starts in the summer. Well, actually, start here in a few weeks of tryyous. Then all summer they're doing things and then the CBC competition happens in the fall and then they go all winter through competitions and the state competition doesn't happen until March. Uh or it's actually it's February this year. Um but it it just seems like it it's there all the time in the gym working, training um to try to get better. Um so they were first place this year in the

055state tournament um and won the state championship um in the division three building category. Um, which again, the last couple they've been in it multiple times. In 2023, they were fifth. In 2024, they were seventh. Um, so an awesome accomplishment to be able to get there, win the state championship. In addition to that, they're obviously u a regional qualifier uh to advance to the state tournament and then also um starting again all the way back in um November. They won the CBC championship to kind of get the whole run started. So, um, just an incredible year. I always say with cheerleading, it's one of those things if you get a chance to watch competition cheer versus sideline cheer, um, you really get a different appreciation for athleticism and tumbling and what they can do and

056just being good athletes. So, please help me congratulate our young ladies and coaches on winning state championship. [Applause] Thank you. Congratulations. Thank you. [Music] We're going to stand. Yes. He doesn't have a lens. All right, here we go. Two. Okay. Congratulations job girls. Well, even though most of them left, I just want to take this moment to say thank you to the parents who go through it all with their kids. the one hand sticking it out. All right. And the coaches, I mean, it's it's a it's an enormous commitment. And uh when you look at this state level recognition and all the other recognitions, I mean, as Bill pointed out, we won the CBC in almost every sport. Yeah. is so I don't I don't think the CBC loves us very much but but it's

057amazing what our coaches and our parents and our kids do. So thank you. Okay, back to you. Okay, thank you Mrs. Walker. Uh, I hope the board doesn't mind that I I put the development uh in front even though it was maybe the hardest to listen to, but I thought with this community in front of us, it's a good uh time to hear and see and then celebrate our athletes and now our academics. So, Mrs. Paige, you're you're leading here. We have um a presentation on our e uh work that we're doing. So, I'm going to hand it over to you. Okay. Well, thank you so much all of you for coming to Monroe Elementary this this evening. Um, I am so excited always to showcase Monroe teachers. Um, I know I'm a little biased,

058but um, I just appreciate I mean these this group of teachers put their heart and soul into kids every day, and that's what it's all about. Um, so I am so proud of all of them. But tonight, I want to highlight um, Miss Betham Moss and Mrs. Kelly Newman. Um, as all of you know, Monroe Elementary has a high e population and they have been working so hard to figure out and um, use a new instructional strategy to help grow our e students. Um, so I am super proud of them and they're going to share with you some things that they've been doing um, just to help grow our e students. All right. Do you want me to do those so you guys can No. Okay, I'll sit down. [Music] We've practiced. We're ready. Can

059you guys see all that? All right. Well, I'm Desa M. I'm the ESL teacher here at Monroe. I've been in the district for almost 11 years now. Started with all of the buildings and now only here. And I'm Kelly Newman. I've been in the district for almost 10 years. I taught third grade for a really long time and now I'm an intervention specialist. So we're going to talk about sheltered instruction, what it is and why we think that it's needed here at John. So first, what does EL even mean? Um that's an acronym that you're going to see a lot of. It means English learner. Um you'll also probably see ESL, which means English as a second language. Some school districts even use the term MLL, which is multilingual learner. Okay. And how does a

060student become an EL student? Um, so when a student enrolls in Ohio for the first time, either in kindergarten or as they move to the state, the parents fill out a bunch of forms and one of them is a language survey. And on that survey, there are three questions they have to answer. Um, what language is spoken in the home? What language does the child speak first? And what language the child prefer now? And if any of those answers are anything but English, um it triggers the school to know that they have to screen the student with a a screener from the state. There's reading, writing, speaking, listening in all grades, and if they do not pass that screener, which is very difficult to do, they become an EL student. Um and pop quiz for

061everybody. What do you think are the top five languages for home language for EL students in the state of Ohio? Spanish. Number one, Japanese. Chinese. Chinese is up there. Arabic. Arabic. Arabic is one. There's actually three more. Three more. Yeah. Sorry, top six. Another one is Somali, the second highest Somali population in the states. Um, and then English is actually another one. So, a EL student could have English as a home language. They might just have been exposed to other languages um in the home or it was their native language and now they just don't speak it anymore. It's possible. Okay. And then Dutch is actually Oh, really? Are we are known? I didn't know. I figured they go to one room swap houses. All right. Yes. Sorry. Okay. So, once they become an EL

062student, they have that label. Is that their label for the rest of their educational career? No. Every year they take the which stands for the Ohio English language proficiency assessment. And so they take that every year in February. And there are four parts to that test. Reading, writing, speaking, and listening. And um all four of those parts are scored one to five. One meaning they are a beginner speaker and five meaning they are fluent. um once they receive four or a five in all four of those areas, then they are exited from the program and no longer need um ESL services. Um and I will add here that the research shows that you can become fluent conversationally fluent in a language after one to three years, but academically academic fluency takes five to nine years

063depending on the situation. So the OELA is really a measure of English used in the school. Um, and that's why we get kids in EL for so long because it's academ it's more academically geared than just conversational everyday English. All right. So, the history of EL here at Jonathan Alder. Um, about 10 years ago in the 20145 school year, there were 28 EL students across the entire district and one part-time ESL teacher, Miss Moss. Um, now flash forward 10 years. In this school year, we have 94 EL students across the district, three full-time ESL teachers, and a part-time ESL teacher. So, we did some math, and that turns out to be an almost 600% increase in the last 10 years. Holy cow. Um, and we have the most ESL students at Monroe. I think we're

064about 75 students right now just in this building. 40% of 40% of the school at this point. Um, so we're the question is always how can we move them along academically, get build up that academic English and get them exited out of the program faster. Um, so we're here to talk about sheltered instruction which is a model of teaching English. Um, there are different models school might use. Some schools do bilingual education which counts as ESL. Um, some a lot of times here in the district we'll use a pull out pushin model. So we will pull kids out of their classroom for 20 30 minutes at a time to practice English, practice vocabulary and then push into support in the classroom. But then and that's not really the most effective model. One of the more

065effective models is sheltered instruction which is where um it's a teaching approach that makes academic content more accessible to the students. So they might come out of the class some districts will do a sheltered math class for ESL kids to get more academic math help. Some might do a science class here at Monroe, we've decided to do a language arts reading class in a sheltered model. So before we kind of get into how we do that and the benefits or before we get into how we do it and like the model and methods, let's talk about the benefits of it. So the first benefit is that all of that academic content is being presented in a way that is more accessible for them. They're we're not using the harder academic kind of vocabulary. We're using

066vocabulary that they're familiar with and that so they can understand the content, not be blocked by the language. Um we also use several different strategies for this including visuals um simplified language, collaborative learning experiences and this ultimately um allows students to feel represented and supported in their learning journeys. Um it promotes equity in the education. Um and then we've also seen a lot of academic success with this model. So what does that look like here at Monroe? Some days it looks like that. Um but we've been able to provide this sheltered instruction model for the last three years with select groups of students. Um three years ago, Miss Moss was able to start the first group and um you want to talk a little bit more about that crew and their kindergarten. So three years

067ago, two things were happening. We were piloting Amplified, so the language arts curriculum. And the group that was going into third grade were kindergarteners in 2020. So they were the ones who went home in March of 2020 and didn't get to come back. Um, and kindergarten and first grade are very foundationally important for learning to read and learning a language. And those kids had a disadvantage. So we realized we really need to do something to try to grow these kids more. their OA scores were really low. Even though they could speak conversationally, the reading and the writing was very, very difficult for them. So, we thought since we're starting this pilot anyway, let's just try this method and see what happens. So, that includes some different strategies that we use in our classroom. So, a

068lot of it is speaking practice. So, they're having time to practice speaking English with each other. Um, we use a lot of partner work. So instead of in the traditional classroom, they might be um the teacher might ask a question and then ask for someone to raise their hand and give the answer. And that can put a lot of pressure on someone who's learning English because if they're not sure how to start their answer or they're not sure if it's going to be grammatically correct or if they're going to say the right word and and it can add a lot of pressure. So what we tend to do is we will ask the question and then we'll put them into pairs or groups and they can talk amongst each other while we walk around and

069see if they are answering correctly. But it takes away that kind of um pressure on them. Uh we also use vocabulary strategies every single day. Um, our curriculum is very good about pulling out academic words that they might need, but there's also other words in the content for the day that is going to be above their heads. So, we will pull those out. We're doing academic, we're doing regular just conversational English words that they might not know and we can really focus in on what they need. And then we use a lot of visuals and that can be as simple as um introducing a new vocabulary word and then showing a picture of what it is if it's a certain thing. Um, but also visualizing things that are a little bit more abstract to understand.

070Um, for example, this was really funny this week. We were talking about the sun and the stars and how the sun is a star and why it looks so different is because it's so close to us versus so far away with all the other stars. And that was kind of abstract. There's a lot of language and vocabulary in that. And it was really hard for the students to to realize or visualize it. So what we did is we stood up in front of the room and we were like, "Miss Moss and I are both teachers, right? We're both adults. We look fairly similar. We look the same, right? Same size, height." So then I ran out of the room. I ran out the school. I ran out into the parking lot and I was they

071could see me through the window and I'm like waving like this. I come back in and they're like, "You look so tiny. You look so small." And it was like, "Why did I look so small?" And they're like, "You were really far away." And so then we were able to make that connection with stars looked smaller because they are so far away. So those visuals are really important. Did it click for them? It did immediately. Um, another strategy we do is differentiated groups because there are two of us now in there. It's wonderful. We can really differentiate. And Miss Newman is a is so we have some EL kids who also are on IEPs. So they would have academic goals there. So she's able to be in the room at the same time and we

072can serve all of their needs at once, both English and their IEP goals. So we can split up class into groups. We can read with them and just really focus in give each group the support they need. Um, writing is a big part of English proficiency. It's actually the last part that really kind of you become the most fluent in is writing. So we hit writing very hard every single day. Um, some of it might be modified versus the other third grade classrooms because we might add sentence starters to their writing journals. We might give them prompts in their journals and they have to fill in the blank with the right word. Um, we also work on kind of developing our sentence structure and realizing we have capital letters, punctuation, all of that stuff. But

073we're practicing writing every single day. Um, and then we're also able to modify the materials themselves that we get with our curriculum, like in the workbook or anything else, the reader. So, we can, and we'll show you some examples of that later, we can change the language of it that doesn't really change the content, but can make it more accessible for the kids. So, here's an example of some of the writing we were just talking about. You can see over here on the left, this was from September, maybe even August um, of this year. And At this point, we had to kind of put the scenes from a story in order and um and write about what was happening in each scene. So, at this point, this student needed a lot of scaffolding. He needed

074a lot of support. We gave him the first word. We gave him the picture cue. Um we gave him kind of the character traits and the character names we wrote up there so they could copy the names and make sure those were spelled correctly. And then you can see this very same student, this was just from last month, he was able to an entire story with a beginning, a middle, and end. Um, he had a problem and a solution in his story. He even included dialogue. So, just the growth from the beginning of the year till now is astonishing. Great job. Thanks. Um, and then this is just an example of how we might modify some of the workbook pages or the reader. On the left here, you can see what is actually in the

075workbook. This is third grade level text that they're expected to be able to read. Um, and this was towards the beginning of the year, so it was very difficult. So, we're able to go in and keep the content the same, but change up the language just to make it a little bit more accessible, user friendly, user friendly for our kids. Okay. So, we wanted to make sure that we brought you guys some data and some proof about why this model is so effective. So when Miss Moss took her very first group, um we worked she worked with the classroom teachers and then she looked at their OPA scores and she decided because people who probably are having one scores ones and twos, the lowest scores probably need the most language heavy focus. Um and so

076with input from the classroom teachers and from all of the data that she was able to see, she chose nine students to receive this sheltered instruction. Um so she had those students by herself and all of their third grade reading was done in the shelter instruction model. And then the following year when they were in fourth grade, um we were able to add a second teacher. I was able to join and we were able to add an additional seven students for a total of 16 to have this model. So I want to show you first their OPA scores. So in second grade they did not have sheltered instruction and their average score was about a six. Remember, the highest score you can get is a 20. And then in third grade, they got sheltered instruction

077the entire year. And in February, their scores increased tremendously for an average of 10. And then in fourth grade, with two teachers in a second year of sheltered instruction, their OLA scores, their English proficiency increased to a 13, which is very difficult to do. Even gaining one point is very exciting. So we were very thrilled with this. included their average MAP reading scores. Um, and you can see they're from second grade to third to fourth. And then we were even able to look up their fifth grade scores this year and they are we're so excited. They're doing well and it's continuing to grow. Yeah. So, these charts are for the like original nine that we call them. Um, but there was also a there was also a big increase for those additional seven that just

078had one children. Do you have a control like for what the scores would have been for a traditional model? It's hard to say because we took the kids with the most dire scores. It's hard to say how they would have done otherwise, but the kids that we did add the second year were kind of like middle OPA and they a lot some of them tested out the next year like wow. Yeah. It's really hard to say though because we didn't leave them for that purpose. Um, and so then we just took three of those original nine students and we compiled their AOPA data from their entire school and career. So they those nine students were here or these three students, I'm sorry, have been here since kindergarten and you can see their OLA scores and

079then um the biggest difference is all of a sudden in third grade they start to shoot up and the only really differences there is that they had sheltered instruction cumulatively. So, our goals for sheltered instruction and for um Jonathan Alder would be um to continue this model. Next year, we're hoping to be able to teach two grade levels using this um sheltered instruction model. Um these are grade levels that we've already identified that have very high language needs. Um and there are also a lot that also have learning disabilities. So they would be the perfect candidates for this kind of method. Um we also have reading specialists here at Monroe who are pursuing their T-OLE certification which is teaching English to speakers of other languages. So they're going to be able to help us too.

080And then we would love to be able to offer this kind of model to all the grade levels rather than just having to pick and choose which ones deserve it more. What do you need to do that? Yeah, that was going to be my question. That's great. Well, this is pretty it's pretty stack intensive usually. Um, so so you guys hit 16 kids, right? Nine and seven. Is that right? Yeah. This year we have 10 right now. We'll probably add more next year. So how many students need to be in need it and aren't receiving it. Um, so not every So we have 74 kids right now. Not every kid needs to be. We don't want to pull all EL kids just for the sake of having them. Yeah. But I would say there's at

081least 30 more who would really 30 more in addition to the 10 year old school. Yeah. In different grade levels. It's just because of scheduling and timing of when everything happens that this is the grade that was able to do it this year. Gotcha. So we would love to be able to do it at every grade level for the kids who need it. We brought some of the writing samples here. We have their journals. If you'd want to take a look through them, you can see at the beginning of the journal and the beginning of the year and what they were able to accomplish versus if you flip towards the middle now, some of the things are just mind-blowing. Even as looking at it today, what other questions do you have for us? Um, I

082don't have a question, but you um are doing amazing things and also anytime I need anything explained to me, I'm going to have you two come in and do it. because this whole presentation was perfect and delivered to me like you know cherry pie. Thank you very much. We gave you a sheltered instruction. I know. It was amazing. Like it's such a good cell. It was such a good cell. I would love to look at one of those books. Yeah. Do the kids understand the book and how much they can they understand? So is this like beginning of year end of year? Yeah. Well this current Yeah. current kids. And please know that the only reason we didn't have kids come to present anything to you was we didn't want them to feel like they

083were different or it it was more about like we wanted to be able to showcase what they're doing and it's but didn't want any kids to feel like oh I'm different than everyone else. So cuz they don't I I don't know that our kids even recognize or understand that they're being pulled in a different way than other kids. So I opened one book and it starts with the mole went to the river and met the water rat and then I flip through and the next sentence is Venus is the goddess of love. [Music] Julius Caesar was a Roman. It's amazing. In Rome, he said, "I came, I saw, I conquered." Conquered. He was a traitor. Are they copying these or they writing? I think he's a hero. Some of the things they might be copying

084like this is the start and then we usually give them like the first sentence and then they have to write the rest. I think you're far enough. What grade is this? Third. Yeah. Yeah, these are really impressive. What's the optimum like student to teacher ratio? Say you like to serve more students. What's the optimum student to teacher ratio where you can do each of them in third grade. For this one, it's going to be a lower class size number. Um, but when there's two of us, we're able to do a little bit of a larger group. Um, I would say that last year our 16 was probably close to maximum number. Two teachers for 16. Yeah, that's just what we found were it really depends on the needs of the kids. Last year we had

085three kids who spoke no English who came in in fourth grade. So, it just depends. It's comparable to like a preschool setting, right? I mean, kids that need a lot of one, you know, a lot of support and they do a great job of splitting kids into into two groups and working with them simultaneously, too. Um, yeah, I I think it really speaks to their relationship, too. Um, because it's a perfect co-eing like they finish each other's sentences all the time, you know? It's just like it work they work so well together and they feed off of each other um that I think it just benefits our students so much. Great. And you're dealing with students in your classes who have they speak different they don't all speak Spanish. They all it happens they have

086different class different languages. Correct. Well at Monroe it's only Spanish. It's possible. And Plane City has five or six different languages. um at PL to the elementary, but this model works with anything any combination. It just happens to be that we have Spanish here. Yeah. And all of our instruction is presented in English. So, it's not like we're doing something bilingual or anything like that. It is all English based. I'd love to see the map score if you compare these map scores because I think through the progress book or whatever, you could pull the map scores based on EL. I'd love to see if you you have these students pulled out if you could do e and see what the compare and contrast the two. Yeah. Um it's too it's easier to justify Yeah. asking

087Dr. Miller to hire more people if we can Dr. was like, "Wait a second, this presentation." It's much easier for the board to justify to him to to hire more people if we if we can compare and contrast those results and say, "Look, this this is meaningful and you know, we can justify this to our community." Yeah, very good. Great job. [Applause] Just so you guys know, we are looking, we've been talking a lot about this district level and Julie and the team. Thank you. Nice job. And we're going to be doing trying to implement a lot more of this without additional hiring at Monroe. There we have found some other creative ways that we can um use this model to support more of our students um not only at Monroe but across the district.

088It really is just about figuring out the right people to make this happen. Um team teaching is not putting two teachers in a classroom. It really has to be modeled like this. So, thank you too for demonstrating that today. Awesome. And I was super excited when Carla and I went to our um three reading specialists and asked them if they would even be interested in getting their T-OLE. And like without a doubt, they were like absolutely, what can we do? And so they're studying right now to take the Tissole test. Um and I think they're planning to take it over the summer so that they can help um Betha and Kelly and all of our other teachers just support our EL students more. So, thank you so much. Thank you. Are you done? Is that

089the end? Entire. I don't think we have uh anyone else. We're done with our presentations. We're done with our presentations. Okay. Anyone else wants to So, public part no public participation. Okay. Okay. Well, Mr. a motion. Oh, yeah. Yes. Can I get a motion to approve the March 2025 financial reports as presented? So moved. Second. So for uh March, we've continue receiving our real estate settlements. Uh we've got the rest from Manson County. We also got Franklin County. Still waiting on Union County. uh that should be coming in. Um the auditor said it should be hitting our bank account on Thursday. So um don't have everything in just yet, but things are tracking to um exceed last year's collections. They're going to come in a little bit under forecast. Um I got to see how

090it shakes out the second half collections um to see if it's because of more delinquencies or more taxpayers splitting up their payments between the first and second half as opposed to paying it all at once in the front end. Um so kind of keeping an eye on that. Um, as the board knows, I've been in contact with the state legislature about the current, well, the proposed state funding bill that's working its way through the chamber. Um, the current state budget expires June 30th, 25, so they have to have something new in place. Um, in terms of where they are in the schedule, they actually kind of had a schedule. Usually the House doesn't vote on their version until the end of April. They're going to vote tomorrow. Um, so the House Finance Committee, they voted

091out their version, uh, 19 and 10 today. I don't know if there's been any amendments or what they look like to the bill. Um, I do want people to here to know that there is provision that they added into their version of the bill, the House did, which would limit our ability to carry over cash that exceeds 25% of our prior year expenditures. The reason why that's problematic is that it reduces our local control. It mandates that the county then reduce our tax collections to make up the difference between what we carry over versus um what we're expecting to receive. So that could have a detrimental impact on our finances. Um it's a they're bas it it's not well thought out and it also allows the county to suspend what's known as a 20 mil

092floor which has been placed since the late 70s. um so is a very concerning provision. Um I don't know exactly if it survived the committee um intact right now. Um I sent letters to Brian Stewart who is the chair of the house house finance committee who also represents the district the Madison County portion of the district and Terry Richardson who represents the Union County portion of the district. Um as I said they're going to vote tomorrow. So, right now, focus is going to switch over to the Senate, and the Senate can go ahead and basically do a whole rewrite if they wanted to. So, it's far from over. U Michelle Reynolds, I did talk to her um last month um about budget issues. I'm looking forward to extending those conversations. And Bill Ry is our

093state senator in the Union County side of things. So, um, if you're inclined, I do encourage the board and anyone in attendance to also reach out and express concerns um, make sure that we're fully funded. Um, because we have practice effective fiscal management. Fact that we haven't had any new property tax mill since 1979, I think speaks volumes to our community and our resource management. Um, but right now things are pretty um, kind of shifting on the state level. So, uh, that's kind of what I have. Any questions? Anything? Uh, Mark, I I just appreciate you being on top of that and all the letters you wrote to our legislators. Those were excellent. So, thank you for your work on that. That's really good stuff. Second that. Very good job. I second it, too. Um,

094I truth be told, I have a very difficult time understanding the school funding and in even some of your communications are a little too detailed. Sorry for me to comprehend. Send it to Betha and Beth. But I mean, shelter us. My takeaway, which I was discussing with Bruce, is that we're going to be penalized for being fiscally conservative and having a fun. Can we spend the fund? We could. And it was either basically they expect us to spend it or get penalized in the back or we get penalized on the back end where we have our revenues reduced. Do you have any idea what the motivation is for that? Like what's the upside for the way that they're they would say you can only hold a certain percentage be penalized? You know, there hasn't been

095much comment about it other than they're looking at property tax relief and they're thinking that if there is in their terms excess cash balance that then they will reduce the property tax collections then that would provide property tax relief. But then that turns around into well then we're operating very small margins and we might have to go back to the voters and ask for additional property tax to make up what has been lost and it's a constant vicious cycle. Um I know Speaker Huffman, he's been really focused on these cash balances going back at least two budget cycles ago. every when he was the leader of the Senate, their version of their of the budget bill always included the cash balances and he was always trying to make a point that we can basically not

096need as much revenue as basically everyone else does and that's just his viewpoint and now he's speaker of the house and so this is happening sooner than later. So that he's which county is he? He is um Oh, he's not from he's not he's up in Lima. Gotcha. Okay. So, as I said, the Senate could go ahead and just do their own thing and then they meet together and they hash out the differences and they send it to the governor. There's a long way to go, but um I can't say I'm surprised, but at the same time, this was kind of a um kind of caught everyone off guard um in terms of the extent that they were going with this. Um and it takes away local control. Some boards would like to see a

097higher cash balance, some want to see it lower. Um, but it basically takes it out of your hands. Well, it's it's sort of like a non-solution because if they're if what they're doing is they're giving money back to the taxpayers, which I'm all for that as a taxpayer. Yeah. Um, but then the school district gets in hot water much quicker than they're passing more levies. Am I understanding this correctly? Impact. This makes no sense. And the other the other problem is if you're on the 20 mil floor, it creates a perverse taxpayer stewardship deal where you say, "Well, we might as well spend it instead of giving it back." Right. Right. Which is like ridiculous proposition. You know, they really would like a tax relief. Um if they would stop the abatements and the tiffs

098and make the corporations pay what they are supposed to proach. We would not it wouldn't fall back on Yes. Thank you. the taxpayer and that would be a great I mean really you could get tax relief. Yes. If if you cut out abatements and tips. That's right. Yeah. So anyway, I'll keep everyone uh appraised as things go on. Thank you. and and as Bruce and I were discussing, it's very it makes me feel good to know that you're there and you understand it and you're advocating. So, thank you for that. You're welcome. Okay. Um, roll call. All right. Mrs. Deweiler, yes. Mr. Hulie, yes. Mr. McCartney, yes. Mr. Vot, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. Motion passes. Okay. Can I get a um motion to accept the following grants and donations? 982833 from the Ohio Attorney General

099School Safety Grant. Uh special thank you to Mr. Riderman for applying for that grant and getting it. And then um 30,000 to Plane City Elementary School from the Plane City PTO. So move second. Any discussion? Roll call. All right. Mrs. Walker, yes. Mr. Moto, yes. Mr. McCartney. Yes. Mr. Hulie, yes. Mrs. Stweiler, yes. The motion passes. Okay. Um, we're moving on to 7.03. Can I get a motion to approve the amended appropriations and certificate of estimated resources as presented? Second. Uh, just really quickly, the changes are have to do with the donation provided from Plane City PTO. um so they have the spending authority to go ahead and spend it and also um make sure that the sixth grade camp account has enough funds to make sure that everything goes smoothly there. Um we received

100more a little bit more money $555.70 from the state for our data communication fund that helps offset the cost of internet. Um and then finally that miscellaneous state grant fund is the safety grant that Mr. Radman applied for and received and again that provides him spending authority. Okay. Thank you. Um anything else? No questions. Okay. All right. Uh roll call. Mr. McCartney? Yes. Mr. Roto? Yes. Mrs. Walker? Yes. Mrs. Dweiler? Yes. Mr. Hulley? Yes. The motion passes. Okay. Moving on to section eight of the agenda, personnel consent items. Um, skipping ahead to 8.05, can I get a motion to approve the employment and personnel consent items in 8.01 to 8.04 as presented? So move. I'll second. [Applause] Um, does anybody have any discussions about the resignations? Um, employment leave of absence request. Um, a new

101job description for the Title 9 coordinator stipen and then that's it. No discussion. Great. Roll call. Mr. Hulie, yes. Mr. McCartney, yes. Mr. Roto, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. Mrs. Dweiler, yes. Motion passes. Thank you. All right, moving on to section nine, uh, policy committee updates. Um, this is Bruce and I. Okay, so we recently did a whole, um, policy committee review all of the policies, which of which there are many. I will go through briefly so that the community and the board understands what policies we're revising, adding or rescending. Um, and this is a first reading at this time, so I won't, if you want additional information, I encourage the board to go back and read the policies in between now and the second reading. Um, okay. So, I'm going to go through them as

102quickly as I can. First of all, um, policy 0131.1, technical corrections. You'll remember a few months ago we voted for the board to be able to do technical corrections with one reading. Um we now can this policy says the superintendent can do the technical corrections and present them to the board. So we don't even have to do one reading, but he still does have to um provide a summary in the and the corrections to the board for technical corrections and all policy language. Um, and then we just do we just approve it at the board meeting. Then he just submits it, it's corrected, and it's right. And if you have a problem with it, then you got blow up his phone. Okay. Right. Okay. Um, uh, policy the resending of 0171 is replacing any conflicts

103with the new updated technical correction policy. That's why we're rescending 0171. Okay. um 1422.01 drug-free workplace. This policy is adding the same provisions regarding a drug-free workplace to administrators that already exist in the policy language to um staff. So this just includes that administrators have to be drug-free also. So the party's over administrators Um, two two. Wait, where are we? Drug food workplace. Okay, hold on a second. Okay. Um, policy 1613 and 3213 and 4213. Thank you. Thank you. figured out where you were going with it. Yep. I'm just going to cover them all. 32 and I'm marking them off here because I've already gone and uh 42 right under it. Okay. Those all pertain to student supervision and welfare. Um there's a list of prohibited behaviors that administrators under 1613, um professional staff under

1043213 and classified staff under 4214. um are well they're prohibited behaviors you're not allowed to do. Um they that now includes the the wording grooming. Um so this is prohibited in our district and for the definition of grooming there's a corresponding uh attorney or I'm sorry a um administrative guideline that will go with this. So um does that make sense? No grooming. Policy 2271, College Credit Plus Program. Uh this is revised to include provisions of Senate Bill 104. Uh before you used to, the families had to let the um school district know by April 1st if they wanted their kids to participate in college credit plus programs for the following year. Now they've added November 1st. So let's say you're not doing it in the fall, but you do want to do it in the

105spring. So you can let the school know April 1st or November 1st for the following semester. This um the Senate bill also requires institutions of higher learning colleges to provide CCP students with a mandatory orientation that meets guidelines issued by the chancellor and the department and also uh the district's required to use CCP forms that are developed by the chancellor and the department. Okay. So, some updates to our college credit plus program. [Music] Um 2340 um is field and other district sponsored trips. This is a revision that specifies that students of the opposite biological sex may not share overnight accommodations. This coordinates with um Senate Bill 104 and uh is required. Okay. 23 2430.02 is participation of community STEM school students and extracurricular activities which is revised in inner school athletics which is revised. Um

106this is a result of House Bill 47 which is which requires a mandatoryformational meeting for students and parents um and adding on sudden cardiac arrest and adding sudden cardiac arrest training and restrictions. So I think this is going to look like an additional final form and sound a lot like um uh what's it called when you hit your head? Concussion. You know when you look at yeah it's going to look a lot like that. uh but refers to sudden cardiac arrest. Um and then we have special education um policy 2460. There is the the department of education workforce uh recently released updated special education model policy and procedures and within that there are certain operating standards. The operating standards require uh us to adopt written policies and procedures regarding education of children with disabilities. Those

107um operating standards also allow school districts to choose the method that will use to determine the existence of a specific learning disability and also require school districts to develop written procedures for the implementation of their method. I know that's a lot. Um, Carla, we're all and and yeah, we're we're we're there, right? We have it. We're in we're working on it. We're in compliance. You adopted the resolution to about two two meetings ago. Yeah. The board approved sticking it into the policy. Okay. Okay. We'll follow the resolution of the model. Okay. Okay. Okay. And then um we already did 3213 and 4213 and um introduced open enrollment. Um according to Senate Bill 208, we are um required to allow a non-native student to open enroll if that student's parents is a active duty member of

108the armed forces. And then also they can stay here if um for the remainder of the school year if the student's parent is discharged or released from active duty. So our policy was updated to include that. Um then 51 31 this is a where we're sending the policy language in 5131 on student transfers. Um, okay. 5223 is a update to a policy we already had on religious time for release instructions because House Bill came out and said all school districts are now required to adopt a policy authorizing religious time for release instructions. And um we're revising our own policy to add the language that we are now required to collaborate with a sponsoring entity um of a release time course in religious instruction to identify a time that's appropriate, which is what we were doing

109anyway. It's just we're adding the language to our policy. Um and also we are requiring that any sponsoring entity um requires instructors and volunteers to undergo criminal checks, criminal records checks and certify for us that they have um done the criminal records checks. Good. Um and then policy 5330 is use of medication. Uh, House Bill 70 said that districts can authorize specific employees to administer over-the-counter drugs to students after we have parental permission. That'll look like another final form. Um and 5350 student health, well-being and suicide prevention is revised um just to include um comprehensive mental health and wellness initiatives that promote the emotional and physical safety of students and staff. And it also addresses training requirements for students and staff as prescribed in House Bill 33. Uh policy 5460, graduation requirements were there were

110additional seals that were added to the graduation requirements under the um the due the department of education and workforce. And actually those seals were already in our policy. We just put them in the list instead of we had like a kind of oh oh yeah and these two. Now it's all listed very clearly. Okay. 5610 removal, suspension, expulsion, and permanent exclusion of students. Um, the overview of this one is it gives the superintendent a a lot more flexibility in um the suspension of a student who poses a quote imminent and severe endangerment to the health and safety of other students or employees. Um it also requires that if they if a student is expelled for a period of 180 days, which they are now allowed to do up to 180 days, um this district has

111to devise a plan for the continuing education of that student during the expulsion. And um before the superintendent can develop conditions um for the student to satisfy before the student may be reinstated. One condition must include an assessment by a psychiatrist um licensed psychologist or licensed school psychologist to determine whether the student poses a danger. Um and then the board of education were required to establish guidelines for appropriate conditions that the superintendent may use. And then the superintendent basically decides whether or not the student has met all the conditions precedent. And just just for example, imminent and severe endangerment include things like um bringing a knife or firearm to school, making a bomb threat, online threats. This is how it's defined. online threats that would lead a reasonable person to conclude that a student poses

112a serious threat. Okay. So, um policy 5751, parental status of students. This um adds appropriate accommodations to protect parents pregnancy and parental rights of students. And that's a revision for 5751. um 5780.01. Uh this is a new policy regarding the parents bill of rights and uh this policy is a result of House Bill 8 which became effective in April. Um April 9th well becomes effective. What's the date today? April 8th. April 9th. Yeah. Tomorrow. Okay. So, um, so we're required to adopt a a policy, um, that says you have to provide advanced notice of age appropriate sexuality content to parents and prompt notification of any substantial change goes out to parents in students mental, emotional, physical health or well-being. So that's the summary of the parents bill of rights. So basically more communication with the

113parents. Um and uh can I ask you a question about that? Yeah. Should we add or is there anything in this about um surveys? Well, since it includes um mental, emotional, so if the surveys are asking these questions, which we had already planned on and discussed doing next fall, is listing out for the community any um survey or presentation involving mental health or wellness um or sexuality is going to be in a list that parents are going to get at the beginning of the school year and they're going to be aware of when those things are happening and how they're happening. So nothing is going to be taking parents by surprise now. And then parents will be given the opportunity to opt into some of those programs, opt out of others. Sound good? Okay. Um

114Bruce 6151. Yeah. It's if the district receives a bad check um and it's not it's deemed not to be collectible after 30 days, the treasurer remark is authorized to remove it from our accounts receivable to take appropriate action to recoup the money and uh we can charge the person who wrote the bad check any fees that we incur to pursue the payment. Okay. And um 6460 vendor relations Yeah, I don't have much for you on that one. Um, I can't I can't remember and I don't have a summary right now. So, I'm going to ask the board to go back and look at it and we can discuss vendor relations again during the second reading. But, if there are any questions regarding vendor relations, it didn't raise any red flags for either Bruce or I.

115No, it's it's basically like cleaning up some language with technology. Yeah, it's SB29 related. So, trying to remember exactly what it is, but Okay. Well, I'll go back and look at that and I'll give you a summary of that during the next board meeting. Okay. Um 7421, restrooms, locker rooms, shower rooms, and changing rooms. This is a new policy that uh reflects provisions of Senate Bill 104, which requires public schools to designate um separate facilities for exclusive use by either male or um female biological sex. And uh this is required in our district. now. Okay. Um 7440.01 uh is the video surveillance and electronic monitoring which is revised to allow us the option to authorize the use of smart sensor monitoring technology. Um, policy 8142, criminal history record check for contracted school services, is a

116revised policy that requires any individuals who are providing contracted services, school services to enroll in the wrapback program if they have routine interaction with students or regular responsibility for care, custody, and control of a student. Um and policy 8452 almost done two left. Um is the automated external defibrillators, the AEDs and the cardopulinary resuscitators policy. It's it's a revision which um reflects requirements of House Bill 47. That act requires all school districts to place an AED in each school and sports recreation area under its control. Um, the act requires each school district to provide training in the use of AEDs to teachers, principles, administrators, employees, coaches, athletic trainers, and other personnel who supervise athletics. Um, and each district must adopt an emergency action plan for the use of AEDs. Um, and the district has to

117hold informational meetings regarding the symptoms and warning signs of sudden cardiac arrest for all ages of students or youth athletes before the start of each athletic season. Uh, we talked about that. We're not exactly sure how that's going to look yet, but um it'll become part of working with Mrs. Carl and Tia Rutherford and we are already headed in the right direction and we have many coaches and the trainers are obviously already trained in this area but we'll need to finalize a plan for the overall training of everyone that needs the review. Most of that occurred last days. I'm sorry. What did you say? training occurred at the last days. Okay. But then routine that we have to do quarterly that go with that getting as well as all of the coaching parent trainings that

118have to occur before every season. Right. Before every season. Wow. Yeah. Um do we have AED devices in every building? Yes. We have one that's portable to go on the bus for cross country who's offite and we just purchased at the junior high in that building that will be for other weather. So it'll be a special box that'll be heated or anything seasonally to keep it dry. So everything should be within distance of every athletic event. Does cross country take it to practices? It's supposed to be on the buses. Well, they don't they don't get a bus for practices. Then I'm assuming it well we should we should make sure it's on the bus for meets but make sure the coach is taking it to the site that was the purchased okay thank you I

119guess what I need to find out is the same for golf like they're offite right who was it golf oh Right. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Thank you, Becky. And then the last one, um, policy 8500, food services. This is a revision that in says that if if you're allowing religious, uh, time release instruction to happen during lunch, um, the schools still provide the school lunch for students participating in that um, program during the lunch period. And then there's additional language and options regarding bad debt and dietary modifications. Um, okay. Did you guys get all that? Any questions? Thank you. I would have made it much shorter, but Bill asked for a very detailed presentation on all the policy language. That was good. So, um, okay, we don't need to vote because that's first reading. So, moving

120on to section 10, old business. Um, 10.02. We're going to get a motion to approve the I'm skipping 10.01 because that was Wait, that was a motion. This was a policy that we went through a first review on a couple months back. We pushed it forward and the policy committee agreed to removing the administrative guideline reference. So, it's we're up for a second reading on this. Okay. Okay. Yeah. So, we do need a motion to approve the removal of the language for non-existent administrative guidelines in the federal grants funds policy 6325. Uh, can I get a motion? Some move. Second. Okay. Um, Rooff, Mrs. Statweiler, yes. Mr. Hulley, yes. Mr. McCartney, yes. Mr. Roto, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. Motion passes. Right. And 10.02. Can I get a motion to approve the 202526 JA high school

121course handbook? So moved. I'll second. Oh, any discussion? Sorry. Can we do the Who had the motion for sir? Steve. Steve. Steve. Steve. And I have the second. All right. Okay. No discussion. Okay. Roll call. Mr. Hulley? Yes. Mrs. Deweiler? Yes. Mr. McCartney? Yes. Mr. Roto? Yes. Mrs. Walker? Yes. Motion passes. All right. 10.03. Can I get a motion to approve the updated 2526 academic calendar? So moved. Second. Okay. The adjustments are changing the August 20th to a staff PD day um which was uh part of our new collective bargaining agreement which will be used for safety training uh to discuss student needs and plans and then moving March 17th staff PD day to Mar May 5th due to election. So that's um March 17th will now be a student day. Okay. Any other comments,

122questions? Roll call. Mr. McCartney? Yes. Mr. Hulie? Yes. Mrs. Deweiler? Yes. Mr. Vot? Yes. Mrs. Walker? Yes. Motion passes. New business. We have the academic calendar. Um, okay. So, so in order to start a little bit later in August instead of the second week of August, which is still summer in my opinion, um, we will need to come back after Memorial Day until June 2nd in order to get in all of our days. But after receiving feedback from staff, they um we moved fall break from October to the week of Thanksgiving to make it a full week break. Um so there's a lot of students out during the week of Thanksgiving. Yeah. So basically we're allowing for travel Thanksgiving. Um this calendar keeps the full two weeks off for winter break and full week for

123spring break. And then spring break lines up with Easter. this calendar year. Okay. And then can I get a motion 11.02? We don't have to vote on it. It's just a reading. Yeah. And then 11.02. Um, can I get a motion to approve the master contract with Meta Solutions for fiscal year 2026? So move. Second. Any discussion? Okay. Roll call. Mr. Votto. Yes. Mrs. Walker. Yes. Mrs. Dweiler. Yes. Mr. Hulie. Yes. Mr. McCartney. Yes. Motion passes. 11.03. Can I get a motion to approve overnight trip for Kanan Middle School 6th grade camp May 21st through the 23rd 2025? So moved. Stephen second. Got it. Uh discussion. Yeah. So on the camp budget it there was a breakdown. Total cost per student for camp is $174. Is that how much they're charging students? I have to

124dive into a little bit more. I don't have that answer. Sorry, I probably should have asked you ahead of time. It's okay. Okay. Um, roll call. Do you want to hold would impact your vote on this. Uh, Mr. Jess, did you print those uh attachments out for the camp that were in board docs for this packet? Can you pull it up? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I can pull this up. I can pull up the budget sheet. I was just wondering, you mean charge to the family? How much is charge to the family? Yeah, I'm just thinking this number is starting to creep up a little bit and being an entire grade that goes and does it with the board be willing to subsidize some of that cost instead of passing the entire cost of camp onto

125what I have in front of me is the this Well, that was that was the cost. Is that the card? Is that the cost that's charged to students? Um, well, the cost won't change. It's what what's going on to the he's asking what's being passed on to families. Correct. Vote to approve this and then have a discussion about that very issue and whether or not the board wants to do anything about that cost is being passed on to the family. Does that make sense? Yeah. We're just approving the trip itself and the cost. I mean the cost they have to break down the cost of right. I sorry I didn't have a question about the cost. I wondered if the parent if the families were paying the full cost of the trip that or if

126the district was subsidizing any of that. That was my was what I was trying to It's my understanding that the family pays the entire $174 and if there are any students or families unable to then there are specific scholarships in place so no students have to sit back because of maybe any family complications with finances but that is something I think we could entertain. So, um, further we'll have discussions about that. You can, Dr. Miller, we can talk and find out further um, if there's anything that this board might be willing to do to help subsidize some of that cost because it does seem like it's creeping up. I don't think anyone would complain if the board wanted to contribute to the overall cost per student. Yeah. And it is 174 per. Okay. Thank you.

127Okay. Any other questions? Roll call. Mr. McCartney? Yes. Mr. Hulie? Yes. Mrs. Dweiler? Yes. Mr. Votto? Yes. Mrs. Walker? Yes. Motion passes. 11.04. Um, data warehouse adoption. Aubrey. Can I get a motion to approve the adoption of Aubrey as the district's data warehouse provider? So moved. Second. Okay. Conversation, discussion. I would like to comment. I I can't remember when it was last year. Sometime Mrs. Quick had Mrs. Deweiler and Mr. Julian to review the ins and outs of panorama and asked Mrs. Quick in the teaching and learning department to do a an audit to see if there was a tool out there that could be better than Panorama. And so Mrs. Quick and Nicole Shrock Nicole Shrock was leading a lot of this effort. But uh even though that when she first learned that Aubrey

128might be a more effective efficient tool, probably had a pit in her stomach to think about the amount of work that would take to transition over, but that work's already done. And so I wanted to thank Carl, Becky, and Nicole for it. Yes. Um and the reason that this is on the agenda now and not for May is because it's a significant cost savings to the district to sign a three-year contract now versus next month. That's great. And um it thank you Erica and Bruce for um starting this inquiry which ends up being to our benefit. Yeah. I honestly it's a miracle. I didn't think it exists. Like I was like, "Yeah, just look." But there's never going to find something that's better or works the way we want it to. And I literally just

129had a phone call before I came up community member called and wanted to ask about the bond issue. And I was like, "Listen, we're still finding ways to save the district money." Like, this total miracle happened. And I was telling her about Aubrey. So, great job. Thank you. We could not be more excited. When we've seen what it can do for us, it is like night and day of what we're used to. The MTSS part, I was like, "Wow, that we didn't even know that was like going to be an option." That's great. Yeah. Well, well done all around. Yeah. Um, okay. Roll call. Mr. Hulie, yes. Mrs. Dweiler, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. Mr. Roto, yes. Mr. McCartney, yes. The motion passes. Okay. The next regular schedule board meeting will take place on May 13th,

130Tuesday, 2025, uh, and is located at Jonathan High School with a 5:00 pm start time. Can I get a motion to adjurnn? Before we adjourn, can I commend uh my staff for staying and being a part? Yeah. [Applause] We love hearing about policies. It's great. Well, Bla, Bill, no, I wanted to hear it, too. I just didn't ask you. I didn't actually ask. I know that. Okay. Okay. Motion to adjurnn. Second. Okay. Mrs. Dweiler, yes. Mr. Hulie, yes. Mr. McCartney, yes. Mr. Roto, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. Great. Thank you. Thank you.