001Welcome to the board of education business meeting. Today is April 16th, 2025. Mrs. Gibson here. Mr. D here. Mrs. Miller here. Mr. M here. Mr. Shley here. All right. Would you please stand for the pledge? I aliance 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. That sounds a lot nicer when it's a full room people just a few of us. All right, I'm going to get started with a few introductions and and we'll get get moving. So, I'll start with the table over here. We have Jack Hey, our business manager. We have Miss Julie Jones, our curriculum director. We have Miss Becky German. She is our director of student services. We have Devon Barry, our
002director of human resources. We move on around. Well, yeah, Daniela, you're the only one. I think the other two are performing tonight. So, we we'll let uh Kristen and Haley let we'll let them go this time for introductions. So, I guess you want to introduce yourself. Hi, I'm Daniela Rodriguez Vasquez and I'm a freshman at the high school. Perfect. And I'm sure you guys can introduce yourselves a little bit later on. We got Miss Lorie Gibson. She is one of our board members. We have Dr. Andrea Townson, our superintendent. I'm Nate Mundy. I'm also a board member. We got Miss uh this is Leslie Miller, our vice president of the board. John Oallen, another board member. Angie Shockley, our fifth board member there, our newest one. And then we got Ryan Sloan, our treasure. So,
003we got a full staff today. It's always good to see. All right, we're moving on to number five. It is recommended that The agenda for April 16, 2025 be adopted as presented and we do have an agenda. Correct. We do. Um we have to add to item number 12 F. Add to item number 12 G. Add to item number 13A. Add new item number 22. Add new item number 23. And add new item number 24. Mrs. Gibson, yes. Mr. Dw, yes. Mrs. Miller, yes. Mr. Yes. Mr. Sher, yes. All right. We don't have any comments relating to uh public agenda items. So, we'll move right along to number seven, our communication update. Vinnie. Good evening, everyone. Good evening. I want to remind everyone the ways you can find out what's happening in the school district.
004Our website west carctonschools.com Facebook west carlton cityschools x at wc cityschools Instagram atwc city schools also parents will and guardians will be getting messages from schools um from Dr. towns and once a week. So, please do pay attention to those. Lots of good information to come in those newsletters. I want to remind everyone April dates to know those school April 21st, but April is also World Autism Acceptance Month and it is month of the military child. I want to congratulate Casey Hancock who is an A-list teacher inductee. She's going to be honored by the McGomery County ESC in May and you can find out more about that story at west carltonschools.com and we are very proud of her. Also, we are very proud of our Ohio Buckeye girls and boys state representatives. Should be state
005delegates, I think, is the actual correct verbage. I might have messed up a little bit, but you can find out about more about these kids also in the news section at west carltonschools.com. You can also find out what they do during the Ohio Buckeye State uh events. Uh they are two separate events and one is held at Bowling Green University and one held at Miami University. It's a weeklong event in the summer. Great experience for our kids. Mean Girls. Gee, I think there are some Mean Girls in the room. Performances, and I'm sure Mr. Coleman will say this later, too. Performances will be in the high school Gyler Auditorium Friday, April 25th at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 26 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, April 27th at 2 p.m. Again, west carltonschools.com. Just look for the
006Mean Girls flyer. Click on that and it will take you directly to a link where you can purchase your ticket. I suggest that you do so. I was looking at it today. There's a lot of seats that are already taken, so you want to get a good one. So, do Uh, do look at that site. Something else on west carltonschools.com, artfest is coming May 2nd. That will be from 5 to 8:00 p.m. at the high school. A lot of the local art, I'm sorry, student art will be for sale auction. Those proceeds are going to go to student scholarships for the arts, including the Pam Jacobs Creative Spark Scholarship. and on our social media. Keep watching for student spotlights, senior spotlights. We're doing more and more as we get closer to the end of the
007year. I don't did did anybody hear about the governor coming? It was kind of a kind of a big deal for Chanel. Um the governor came and this this was all reading and it was so exciting. We put a post on our social media. Um first lady, she said, "Thank you for having us. It was wonderful meeting everyone. It was so nice to have her comments and to get those good reviews. There's a few more pictures as they went through the school. And we also found out a few interesting things about Governor Dwine. And I'm sorry the volume is probably bad, but First Lady Dwine, she was reading a book to the kids. They stopped by to visit Sammy the therapy dog. Told us that they once had a chocolate lab themselves. This is my
008favorite thing that happened all day. There we [Music] go. I think eight children, 28 grandchildren, one great grandchild. Hugging one more did make a difference. uh just celebrate what Chanel Elementary School is doing and what the faculty here is doing, the leadership is doing. We're very proud. So that was really exciting. Of course, the kids I don't know what's more exciting for the kids, the governor's visit or the firefighters serving lunch for them. I'm guessing being kids, firefighters. Now when we asked them maybe 10 15 years from now it could be a reverse answer but both things were very exciting to happen. firefighters came to uh um serve lunch at Schnel and they came at Russell and it's just one of the great things that we do to coordinate and we just love when the
009firefighters come out and I see Chief Bernett in the room and just so you know Chief is an alumni so be safe be respectful be responsible be kind and that is all I have this evening thank you thank you so Of course, we mentioned you already and our next one is presentation. So, if you're ready. Yes, sir. Come on up and talk about the fire. Good to see you. Well, good evening members of the school board and a lot of familiar faces here. So, including some family members here tonight. Um, I did want to talk about the the fire levy. It is a five-year renewable levy. And back in 2000, we asked the citizens to vote on a 3.9 mil levy and uh so we're asking again to renew that levy. It's no new taxes,
010so that's always a good thing. So it generates about seven Good evening. Thank you. My name is Brian Hullman. I'm the vocal music director at the high school and middle school and the intermediate school. Um, our musical this year is Mean Girls the Musical and I was updating my bio this today for the program and this is my 37th musical at West Carolton High School as either a student performer or as a teacher. Uh, Mean Girls is based on the popular Tina Fay movie and uh, it is definitely rated PG. So, this is not one for the young kids, but I think all of our middle school students and certainly our high school age students will really enjoy it. and of course all the parents who maybe remember the original movie. Um, as Miss Corbett
011said, our performances are April 25th and 26th at 7 p.m. April 27th at 2:00 p.m. I believe our Friday night show is about halfway sold out, maybe even a little beyond that. Uh, tickets are $10 for students and senior citizens and $12 for adults at pre-sale. We will also be selling tickets at the door the night of the show and all tickets um at the door are $13. Uh tonight we're going to be performing a a brief scene for you from the show. This is not the opening number, but it is one of the opening scenes where we meet all of the characters. Katie Haron, our heroine, has just moved to the Northshore High School school district from Africa because of a job relocation that her parents had. And this is two of the students
012from the student welcome committee who are showing her around the high school, helping her figure out what her group of people to hang out with will be. Well, Caddy, as junior coach here as the of the student activities committee and his art freak, we volunteer to be your starter companion at Nurse Shore until you find your place. Okay, so what he's actually saying is we'll help you Caddy. Thank you so much, but it's Katie. Yeah, no, I'm going to call you Caddy. When did you move here? 3 days ago. Why'd you stop being homeschooled? I wanted to get socialized. Well, you'll get socialized. All right. A little slice like [Music] you. Baby girl [Music] singing. So what if all the ducklings think you're ugly? It's because they never seen a swan. It takes all kind
013of people who need people. So find people you can [Music] bear. Well, find your group, your her which I'll sing to you. [Music] Where do you belong? Where do you belong? Where do you belong? Where do you belong? We'll be judged on site and made to fit. So find a click and stick with it. Say, "Where do you belong?" Well, take a walk with me through the cafeteria, shall we? I'll show you the world as I see you in the locker if you say hello. The richers hate the gangster whites, though they're all smoking the same oregano. The sexually active geeks, I got two words for you. Ambiture and nail. And if you like blowing and mark, this is the group for you. Back me up. Show choir. church. So find a click and it
014say where do you belong? [Applause] [Music] There's girls that eat their feelings and girls that don't eat. They're not a lifetime but they might be debating dancing. But neither team will take me so they can fight me. Oh, who's this darling? That's the cool joining them is social college applications and doctor quotations. They wear the awkwardness with stubborn [Music] pride. Where do you belong? Where do you belong? Where do you belong? You'll be judged on voting in or out. Where do you [Music] single? Why? It's Janice and Damian, too. Not exactly. Join us, but we'll be good friends to you. And our friendship means you can skip the geeks and the freaks and the peing too soon. The striving for June, the junior achievers, the Christian believers, the tall growing wall fending offers. Forget this
015bus. and solve it. Just come to lunch and sit with us. Okay. Yes. Here's where you belong. Here's where you belong. Here's where you belong. Here's where you [Music] belong. Here's where you belong. Here's where you belong. [Music] You need protection with possess and helping hands that also just stay here. [Music] Okay, I'm staying here. [Music] Here's the way you [Music] [Applause] [Music] Oh, he's at that table over there. Don't look at him. Just don't [Music] shiny. the schoolyard. They might insult your clothing or make fun of your name and they shame and Miss Morco with the teacher. That's George Queen be always dress up always been sprinkling. We should work for her then die. My name is Regina and I [Music] am fear and stare at me and these are real. I've got money
016and [Music] looks. I am like drunk with power. This whole school humps my leg like [Music] a prettiest poison you ever seen. All the [Music] look and I am a [Music] massive. I don't care how you feel. That's Gretchen. She knows everything about everybody. That's why her hair is so big. It's full of secrets. Yes, [Music] every kiss the sun then I'm a disco ball cuz I'm just as bright as fun. If you had alcohol, I wor your secrets out of you and bring them to my master. Then I watched your life a big disaster. Regina is the queen, but I'm the heaven for her. I am seated at her right hand. That's Cara Smith, the dumbest person you will ever meet. I'm falling a D in the word orange. [Music] My hair is shiny.
017My teeth are perfect. My skirt is tiny. It barely covers. My name is I. That's it. No, really. That's it. If you want to see any more, you're going to have to come back next weekend on the 25th, 26th, or 27th, and we'd love to see you there. It's going to be a great show. Not easy. urgent urgent. [Music] Well, Ryan, I don't know how you're going to follow that. That's hard to beat there. Are you guys ready? We're good. All right. All right. Ryan, all you want. Thank you. Good evening. Um, every April we'll do um financial reports different than the the fiveyear forecast look at um second in May. just some um different and general uh financial information. So this first slide um looking at the 20 numbers from the 232 24 state
018report card and uh what it's saying is that um it has the average expenders per equivalent pupil which they account for the fact that um there's a different calculation for total expenditures for pupil but what this does it it takes into account that um like when you have kids with special needs it it accounts for the fact that it's more expensive to educate those So, um, so that's what it means by equivalent pupil. So, what this is saying is that we're, you can see that we are, um, about $800 or $900 less than the state average in terms of the expenditures per pupil. And we're um, right in line with Grand Valley and Mad River, two districts in the county that are similar to us in size. And um over on the right side, what
019this is saying that is that um when the state looks at the 104 districts across the state that we're in in terms of enrollment between 25 and 5,000 and the percent of money that we spend on instructions. So we are we are eighth out of 104 at 73%. So that is just confirming that we're doing a good job of allocating um a large percent of our budget to to the classroom. Uh this slide is just regarding our building projects that started back in November of 19 when the community approved the 5.6 mill bond issue. As we know, we opened the new PK1 and new 56 in August of 22. And we have the new 24 opening this coming August. And then the new 712 out by I75 will be opening in August of 26. The
020bond issue was passed in 2019. So then the the millillage kicked in in 2020 at 5.6 mills and the county has done a couple property updates in 2021 and 2024. Um so every time that has happened um so we we get in contact with Montgomery County regarding the millillage and because we only want to generate the amount that's required to meet our annual debt payment. So what this is saying is that over the course of these five years we reduced the millillage from 5.6 down to 3.45 here in 2025. So um the bond millage is about 40% lower than when we originally passed it. So um property values keep increasing in the future then we will keep reducing the 3.45 mills. This is uh regarding our our general fund. Um our general fund this is
021our revenue estimated revenue for this current year. Um our estimated revenue is 51.6 million. And so this is saying that you know state funding is 25.7 million of that 51.6. So state funding is about 50% of our revenue. So what happens in this upcoming state budget for the 20 for FY26 and FY27 um is very important to us. Um taxes you know from both residents and business um is about 20 million or about 38%. Uh the bottom half is saying that um so back around a couple months ago the governor came out with his version um of the the budget for the next two years and in next year is FY26. So he his version had us getting a a small increase of 176,000 but then a 224,000 reduction the following year. Um and then
022the House just last week passed their version in the budget and it's not better 139,000 and then a 48,000 decrease. So, I mean, bottom line, both versions of these budgets are making us think that we're going to be um flat funded for for for next school year. Um, and so you when your when your state funding is 50% of your revenues and then and then taxes um or taxes basically only go up when the community says approves a levy. So, um, you that's just the unfortunate part of school funding in in the state of Ohio is that if the state's not giving you more money and and you you don't have a levy on the ballot, then your revenue is pretty flat um in the future as you look forward and that leads to um
023to deficit spending because as we know 80 to 85% of a budget is personnel cost and um those costs do do not stay flat like our revenue does. Just general history of our levies. Um, regarding operating levy, we passed in 2003, 07 and 2016. So, it's been nine years since we've passed an operating levy and we are um we're trying to defer that operating levy for as long as we can. So, we've done a good job of managing our operate operating funds um for the last nine years. Um, we we did stay off the ballot. Um, Well, we did have a couple unsuccessful attempts between 07 and 16, but you know, we we survived and managed our money well from 07 through 16, and um here we are nine years later. Um and we're trying
024to, as I mentioned, we're trying to defer that as long as we can. Um the bond issue was passed in 2019. So, it has been six years since um the taxpayers have had a tax increase regarding a a levy that we put on the ballot. This is just a big uh just a snapshot of fiscal 2000 out through fiscal 29. Um and what this is showing is that um so the yellow lines just means those are years where our revenues exceeded our expenses. Um so like from fiscal 01 through fiscal 10 our revenues exceeded our expenses and then um and then we had deficit spending which means our expenses exceeded our revenues in fiscal 11 through fiscal 16 and then we passed that levy in in fiscal 16 and then that um improved our financial
025situation. So we had surpluses um and then we also got federal stimulus money from FY21 through FY24. So um so we had nine straight years of of having our budget was um you know in balance or the revenues exceeded the expenses but as we look forward to to the next couple years we are looking at projected deficit spending and and as I mentioned we're not getting we're not we shouldn't be expecting any help from the state to help us balance our budget. So um so it'll be upon us to to control our expenses as we as we move forward. And this last slide is so this is this is actually from the 22 23 school year. Um we don't have our certificate from 2324 yet but um this is just from the state auditor's office
026um saying that we had a clean audit for 2223. Um we did have a clean audit for 2324 as I mentioned. Um, and as I say every year, I mean, this is not a treasures office award. I mean, it's a district award because I mean the state auditors, they look at, um, and they look at food service, athletics, they they look at, um, a lot of compliance stuff, human resource stuff, enrollment information. So, um, everybody across the district plays a a part in our audit. Um and just um just proud that we've had clean odds the last couple years and it's our intention to to keep that the same as as we move forward. And that is it. Anybody have any questions otherwise? Thank you. Yeah, that was great. Great. All right. this party going
027with a lot of math here. Good evening. Um, I have with me Morgan Tyler. She is one of our coaches. She is our elementary math coach and um, so she was certainly part of this adoption process and and did a lot of work with her her and and Michael Scott, our secondary math coach. Um, so I want to give you an overview of the adoption process. Um, we had a we had a great year in going this I felt that it was very successful um a lot of good feedback from teachers. So we started the year with presentations from five different companies. Three of them are on the screen. We chose an adoption team of about 32 team members across uh core core math content um special ed teachers and um we we put a
028team together and so we had an open house and we invited all of the teachers in the whole district to come and see those five options. Um after after seeing those we took the teacher feedback we narrowed it down to three and then of course two were chosen to pilot and this pilot um went all the way through the year. We just we we finished it up um March March I think. Okay. Um so the first pilot started in the fall. Um the second pilot and when I say pilot we had um the majority of our secondary teachers trying one of those two. If you look at the grade levels on the screen and then we had a smaller group of elementary teachers just because there were so many of them but we had a
029good team for them a good team a good number of them to pilot. We um we also um we visited a couple school we visited a couple schools and talked to um Lakota, PIQA, and Lebanon in our um in our process just those those are schools that have chosen these um products on the screen just to get some feedback on how things were going. Um you know the pluses and the minuses that that was very very helpful. We actually spent half of the day um at Lakota at some of the elementary schools um observing a wide variety of classrooms. So that was very helpful in our decision. Of course, we used an evaluation tool with some criteria there. And then um in March, we had Zoom meetings with all the teachers. I I got all
030of their feedback, their comments, concerns, the positive and negatives, and then and then we voted. So um it was a very thorough process. Um and my coaches helped keep me on track and um I think overall everybody enjoyed the process. So the evaluation criteria here um these were our categories and so the teachers voted out of these these eight categories out of a liker scale from um five down to one. So, of course, we wanted to make sure that it was aligned to our state standards, that it was user friendly material, um, not just for teachers, but it needed to be user friendly for our students. Um, that it encompassed high academic vocabulary and a lot of academic vocabulary. Of course, we wanted to make sure it had digital access for both student and teacher.
031Manipulatives, that's a huge huge component. um you know that fits right along with our math goals of um making making uh teaching math conceptually and with hands-on materials in a concrete manner. Um which obviously number six was was regarding that student discourse making sure students had opportunities to discuss and talk in small groups. Um not just hear content one way but rather being able to to uh discuss and and show how they learned and problem solving along the way. And then of course different for our special ed students, our atrisisk students and our e students as well. And then Morgan is going to talk about the rest of the process and some of the features of our curriculum that we chose. Um so for our K through 1 ECC teachers, um you can see out
032of five they chose Carnegie Clear Math and then for our 2 through 12 teachers they chose Imagine Learning. We were happy to see the results. As you can kind of see, it seems like most of them agreed. So, that's always nice to see that by at least a half a point and in the ECC's case, a whole point that they agreed that this was the best curriculum um for their school. So, that was good to see. Just some details about both of them. So, one thing, this will be a six-year adoption. So, it'll go through 2031 for um the ECC K through one clear math for Carnegie. It really fosters a deep understanding and enthusiasm for math, which we think is so important, especially in our younger grades for them to develop as five and
033six year olds a love and joy for math. So, we really like that. Um, Clear Math has a lot of hands-on manipulatives. They're using things every day with their hands, which is so important, especially at those younger age. Um, it has a lot of playbased learning, so every single day they're playing a game. Um, which is fun. They don't I feel like they don't know they're doing math, but that's okay. um they have hands-on games, but they also have a virtual game platform and it looks like a video game. And I even had a teacher tell me that her kids were asking um for inside recess to do that instead of play. So I think that speaks for itself. So that's great. Um Clear Math has a unique structure. It has a teach teach pause
034structure. So they teach new content for three days and then they have a pause day which they call a re-engagement day. So in those three teach days they are um teachers are collecting data on how kids are doing and then on that re-engagement day based on the data they put those kids into groups. So you might have some kids in group one they were they really weren't getting what we were doing. So on that re-engagement day I'm going to pull them and I'm going to work with them. Or they might be in group three where they were knocking out of the park the whole three days. They could teach it to their friends. So, I'm going to put them in a station and they're going to do something that's a little bit harder like where
035I'm pushing them. So, we really like that day. Julie and I actually went into a kindergarten class and did one of those days with them and it was really valuable to see them all doing what they um needed to do for their level. It has a lot of collaboration and student discourse. Kids are always working together. Um not only is that great for engagement, but also at that age level, I think it's really important for their social emotional skills to learn to work together. So, that's great. And then finally for Carnegie, um they have really good family support. We know that's huge for our district. Um parents and families want to be able to help their kids at home. So this um program has the resources that they need to do that. It has videos
036and activities and games that they can play at home. So I think that's huge. And then for Imagine Learning, um that's going to be 2 through 12. It is problem based with a strong connection to real life. every single day they're doing problems that have to do with their real life. In second grade they were doing they were learning about money and they were um buying like pretending to buy things at the bookstore. So something that they do. So that's really great for them to see that math is there in their life everywhere. It has hands-on manipulatives but also virtual manipulatives. So with this program, the kids can use manipulives on their screen and then the teacher actually can see all of their screens on their screen and like so like, "Oh, Johnny, that's really
037cool." And they can put Johnny's up there and all the all the kids can see it. So they really like that. It has a really strong emphasis on academic vocabulary and that's a huge um district one plan for goal for us. So we really like that. for the differentiation. Imagine learning has adaptation packs and so with each big um topic they have things that will address gaps in learning. So if I'm a fourth grade teacher and I am um doing multi-digit division, they have to be able to subtract with that and that's a third grade skill. So if I have a kid who hasn't mastered that, this adaptation pack has a lesson in there that I can pull that small group and I can help them with addressing those gaps. So we really like that.
038They also have really strong collaboration and student discourse. We get a lot of engagement and buyin, especially with those older kids if we let them work together. So, we like that. And then lastly, with Imagine Learning, they also have that family support that we definitely want for our district with videos and um activities just like Carnegie did, too. Um I've never been a part of an adoption committee that was so passionate about these products. Like, I think they want t-shirts. They're like, they're really hyping it up, which is amazing. So, we're really excited and um they are too. So, I think it'll be really good. And you know, while you see two choices on the screen, you know, we we paused here too to use that word about um how it would flow from first
039grade to second grade. But as you can see, they are both very similar um in the way they are created and delivered. So, um, you know, we we we had some conversations about that, but no issues at all even though they are coming from two different companies. So, I think it'll be a good fit and a good transition from one grade one to two. So, I'm interested in this ad adaptation pack. Is that something that we have done before or is this a totally new concept that we're kind of bringing? Um, as far as scaffolding goes, what's what we what we have had is with our ready testing um, our diagnostic that the reports will tell us what we need to do for our kids to scaffold. This actually has the materials to get that
040done to do that scaffolding for our students. So, you know, it's one thing just to know that, you know, if they're learning um learning linear equations but they still have issues with um integers, we That's great information, but this would actually allow us to have materials and resources to help that student like in a small group to help support their, you know, their lack of integer knowledge. So, right. That's great. Because I think a lot of times that's where we start losing kids is not having the tools to really bring it back up to speed if they're missing a piece and to kind of have those come in. Hopefully, that'll assist with getting everyone on the same page so we can move up together. And we do some samples on the back table. That's certainly
041not all of them. And they were the initial uh samples that we we were given. So, they're not really a full curriculum. So, those have already been ordered and all the teachers will have their material materials before they leave for summer. Um and then the kid um the student books will come in August. So, um if you're interested in looking at those, we just need to wait till like the real ones come in. So, all right. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Thank you. Now we're moving on item nine and that's a discussion over some of our policies. And we do not vote on this part. You vote up. Yeah, we'll vote later on. Okay. I'm going to actually start at the bottom where it says review technical updates to policies. We actually have a
042policy that allows them to make technical updates, but Niola asked me to make sure I just went through the policy numbers to let you know we're making updates and they're just updating names and policies to current staff. So those policy numbers are 2260 22601 um 2266 3122 3123 33 4362 and finally 5517. So they're all just minor technical changes. Um usually I would just normally do this but uh Na said no just let the board know. So um the discussion portion of this are the policies we reviewed last month and some of these are resins as well um where policies are being combined. The first one is a technical correction but it's also revised from when we adopted it in January. So that is bylaw 0131.1 and it's just a Oh, it's the same thing.
043It's streamlining the process for technical corrections. So, um it's what I just said. So, we actually have the policy that is the bylaw and now there is a revision to that. Um bylaw 0171, we are resending that um policy 142201. This is a new drug-free workplace for the administration and it goes in line with policy 312201 and 412201. Policy 1550 is aligning our retirement with um STRS. Um this as you know everybody is able to retire right now for the next few years of 33 years. So it's aligning um as TRS we are rescending policy 22602. Um policy 2271 is college credit plus it's being revised to align with provisions in Senate Bill 104 which was effective February 25th. And this is where we have to have two college credit plus meetings um per year,
044one for each semester which the principles are aware of. The first one must be um by November 1st for second semester. Policy 2340 um filled in other district sponsored trips. We already do this, but this is um overnight accommodation restrictions based on Senate Bill 104 effective February 25th of 2025. Um we have room assignments already and we do not allow them to be changed. Polic 24302 and 2431. Um, this has to do with STEM schools and community schools and intercolastic athletics. This allows students who attend those schools to participate in our athletics if they do not have them and they have to also attend the mandatory umformational meeting. Um policy um policy 511 query. Thank you. Interd district open enrollment. Um this allows our parents who have students or they're in the armed forces to
045stay open enrolled with us um if they get to play. which is great. Um, policy 5120. Um, this is a revision for um, language to coincide with the Ohio Department of Education and workforce policy 5131, transfer students. Um, this is something it's a correction to a policy we adopted in January relating to House Bill 147 and athletic eligibility um, as opposed to an academic transfer. And this has to do with how we report the student to Ohio High School Athletic Association and information that we receive from the families. Um, policy 5223 relates for religious time. This relates to House Bill and it goes into well went into effect April 9th. Um I've already met with um Lifewise. Um so we've already started the process and um so that's they're hiring a director and once that
046happens we'll create a schedule. Uh policy 5330 use of medications. It reflects uh specific provisions for House Bill 70 and House Bill 206. Both of those are in effect March 20th and April 9th. Um, and we want to make sure we've already done all of our staff training for this. Um, this is the one I think I brought up last time. Sunburn. Um, policy 53 or 5350, student health and well-being and suicide prevention. This relates to House Bill 33. And um, not We have the training for this for staff and students. Um, we also have to have numbers posted on our website. They're already on there. Policy 5460 graduation requirements. There's been additional diploma seals that have been added to um the student options policy 5610. Um, this is related to House Bill 206 effective
047April 9th and it just allows us to expel students for more than 180 days. Um, policy 5751, parental status of students. This relates to the latest legislation um that we provide accommodations for students who are pregnant and they have parental rights. Policy 57801. This is the parent bill of rights related to House Bill 8. It's in effect April 9th and it requires us to adopt a policy by July 1 to enact the parent bill of rights um related to student health and well-being and instructional materials with sexual content. And we must allow um parents to submit concerns in writing and we need to address them which we We give alternative assignments. Policy 6151, insufficient fund checks. This one we charge $3 one time. Policy 7421, restrooms, locker rooms, shower rooms, and changing rooms. We have
048to make sure that all of our rooms um mentioned reflect the appropriate label based on Senate Bill 104. Um biologically appropriate sex um for locker rooms, restrooms, shower rooms, and changing rooms. And this is the new policy, policy 74401, video surveillance and electronic monitoring. This is revised and this will be in our handbooks. Um, we're using smart sensor monitoring technology and um, that's pretty much all the new technology that we will have in our schools uh, with cameras, recordings, things like that. Policy 8142, criminal history record check um, for contracted school services. It requires us to implement House Bill 33 for individuals providing contracted school services and enroll in wrapback. Um, which is we do that now. Um, policy 8452, the AEDs and CPR. It's a requirement for House Bill 47 effective October of 24.
049It requires all AEDs to be placed in each school and sports recreation areas under our control. We um at our last QPT day, a lot of us were reertified in both policy 8,500 food services related to House Bill 8 um providing school lunches to students who leave to um go to religious instruction. And that is all I have. Pretty pretty impressive. That's a lot. came out a lame duck. I do have one quick question. I don't know if anyone else has any question. I was just wondering and I think I might have asked this before but I cannot remember. When we were talking about CPR training, who does the CPR training? Cat, you did it for us. All right. Well, there's no other discussion. We'll move right along to item 10, which relates to financial
050items. Thank you. I ask that the board approve items 10 A through 10 C as presented. These are the financial reports for 9 months July 24 through March of 25. um regarding the projected to actual. So, uh revenues are a little lower than estimate, but expenses are also a little lower than estimate. So, when it's all said and done, when we get to June, hopefully, um it's comes out to be like a like a wash and we end up pretty close to where we guessing according to the November 24, but otherwise, um things are in pretty good shape through nine months. All right. Mr. Yes. Mrs. Miller. Yes. Mr. M. Yes. Mr. Sher. Yes. Mrs. Gibson. Yes. All right. Item number 11 deals with the escro agreements for our buildings. I ask that the board
051of education approve the two building retainage escrow agreements and and bank accounts as presented. So move. Second. This is a requirement according to high-rise code and OCC um regarding the two different building projects the the specific numbers came from OFCC and um what these dollar amounts are um it's like as we as we've been going for example like if Shook would send us an invoice for $100,000 um approximately like 8% would get held back as retainage Um so like as those retainage espro amounts got accumulated um then we got to a certain point then OCC said we are at a 50% threshold so they gave us these $2 amounts. So what we do or did is put these $2 amounts into a separate bank account. Um and so I mean it's work that Shook has
052already done but the point of it is is that um a % of their contract gets held back. And once the buildings are complete at the very so a couple months after they're complete and we've agreed that you know the building everything is like all the specifications and all the requirements are met then then that's when we uh get with OCC and authorize for these dollar amounts to go to shook. So it's it's just a way to hold back a small percent of the the project budget um so that shook completes you know everything to our satisfaction. Interesting. Is that all in one lump sum afterwards or is that like in payments back to well the one is for the 24 building. So I don't know exactly when this will happen but you know obviously
053we're going to move in there this summer. So I assume sometime in the fall early winter. Um if Jack and OC says that Shook's done everything they they've done. Then then we get with the bank and tell the bank to release the money to Shook and they are totally painful. Wow. SH withholds us money from their contractors too. So if there's a plumbing issue, they withheld 10% from the PL or 8% from the plumbers. HBAC they withheld or roofing they withheld it. So it'll be paid out it'll be paid out to the contractors through SH. Yeah. Any other discussion? Mrs. Miller. Yes. Mr. Yes. Mrs. Sher. Yes. Mrs. Gibson. Yes. Mr. Yes. All right. We got a good list here. Personnel items. Uh, Deon. Good evening. Good evening. Superintendent recommends that the board approve list
054of personnel items 12 A through 12J. And on the addendum, two additions were made to 12F substitutes added and 12G here to substitute professionals. So second All right. Anything you want to add to that though? I see a few requirements. Um yeah, I mean it's it's just going to continue Jack. I think Dr. Towns spoke to years, but moving it from 35 to 34 and currently at 33 uh gave some teachers an opportunity to retire earlier than they had initially planned and so now it's 29 years of the year that you could retire. So, we have teachers that decided to retire before. So, I'd like to congratulate Chris who's been here with us for not quite sure. We're probably the rest of pretty normal at this time of the year. It's a lot of movement.
055A lot of movement. I definitely did it with Chris because he was one of my teachers. So I respect her. All right. There's no discussion. Mr. M. Yes. Mr. Ch. Yes. Mrs. Gibson. Yes. Mr. Yes. Mrs. Miller. Yes. All right. Moving along to item number 13 is more personnel. The superintendent recommends that the board approve the list of personnel items 12 A through 12B. On the addendum, there's an addition to 12A. There are three additional coaches that we need to add. So, anything you would like to add? Mrs. Yes. Mrs. Gibson. Yes. Mr. Love. Yes. Mrs. Miller. Mr. Yes. All right. Moving right along to 14, which is another personel item. Superintendent recommends that the board approve the listed personnel item. Unfortunately, I think listening to Ryan and continuing to be fiscally responsible, uh, sometimes
056we we have to do things that are difficult but necessary for the solveny of the district. Mrs. Gibson. Yes, Mr. Yes, Mrs. Yes, Mr. Yes, Mr. Sh. Yes. All right. Number 15 bills with administrative contracts. Thank you. Um, I'd like to recommend that the West Carlton Board of Education grant an administrative contract with falling administrators for the period of time indicated. So, move second. Anything you like to add? I would I would like to share something about this. Um I just want to appreciate Dr. Towns and before I started on the board, these contracts are bigger than this. I really appreciate your flexibility. And I want everybody to know that um everybody on this list that I see here, I think there's eight count right. My Georgia math is right. Uh we appreciate all these
057folks, everybody who commits to be here. Um, I know that in other districts there may be fiveyear contracts extended to staff that are not just superintendents and treasurers and that's their prerogative. But, uh, whether your contracts two years or three years or or five, I just want you to know you certainly have our going to have, as you hear in a moment, our support. I just want to appreciate you for doing this. It wasn't easy. Uh, it isn't done everywhere like this, but I certainly appreciate our staff and the folks who have been Most of these folks for a while app Mr. Yes. Mr. Yes. Mr. Sher. Yes. Mrs. Gibson. Yes. All right. Item number 16 also is administrative uh personnel items. Yes. Thank you. I'd like to recommend that the board approve the administrative
058salary schedule for the 2526 year as presented and place the following administrative personnel in the following positions and in the following steps effective August 1st 2025. So move second. Nope. I'm happy to have everybody here that I am confident in your work. I like it. Anyone else? All right, we'll move along to the vote. Mrs. Yes. Mr. Yes. Mr. Shak, yes. Mrs. Gibson, yes. Mr. Yes. All right. Item number 17. These uh these might look familiar as our grade. Yes. Uh the superintendent recommends that the board approve the adoption of the following. Uh Carnegie Math for grades K and one and Imagine Learning for grades 2 through 12. So move. I mean, I know you talked a lot about it earlier. Anything else? No need to explain further. All right, we'll move to vote. Mr.
059Mundy, yes. Mr. Sherley, yes. Mrs. Gibson, yes. Mr. Yes. Mr. Miller, yes. All right. Item number 18 deals with uh some moving services. Jack. Uh, thank you. Yeah. The superintendent recommends that the board approve as presented the contract agreement with planes moving and storage of Dayton uh for moving services. So move second. This is coming. This is coming June 2nd, 3rd and 4th. We will be moving staff from Snow and Russell over to the new elementary school. And as I say agreement to have planes moving do that uh a lot of that work for us. Our guys will do a lot some of the work, all the technology stuff we're moving ourselves, but we'll have that move everything else. It's a big undertaking. There's a lot of people involved to make sure because we have
060a lot of parts and make sure we get everything over. So, and we've worked with this company before and it seems like they've done a great job. Five years ago, they did a lot of moves and because we had a lot of pieces over a lot of different buildings and so or three years ago. Good reputation. All right. Any other discussion? Okay, we'll move right along to that. Mr. Sher, yes. Mrs. Gibson, yes. Mr. Yes, Mrs. Miller. Yes, Mr. M. Yes. All right. Item number 19 deals with the agreement. M. Sure. Uh the superintendent recommends the board approve as presented the extended school year service agreement with I am boundless with respect to the education program for a student for the period beginning June 2nd 2025 through August 1st 2025. So move anything you like
061to add? Nope. This is just a continuation of a contract for a student who requires some extended school year. We'll move along for Mrs. Mr. Gibson, yes. Mr. Well, yes. Mrs. Miller, yes. Mr. M. Yes. Mr. Sher, yes. All right. We had the discussion earlier, but item number 20 deals with the actual voting of these policies. Um, motion and a second um that the board adopts as presented the proposed policies of the West Board of Education. I can read all the members. So second I don't think there's anything else to add either right to a vote then Mr. Yes. Mr. Miller. Yes. Mr. Yes. Mr. Sher. Yes. Mrs. Gibson. Yes. All right. Item number 21 is something I have to read. So just hang tight as I go through this. I'm going to need a
062motion in a second um that the West Carolton School Board of Education authorize and directs the treasure to place a notice in the Dayton Daily News and on the district's website April 17, 2025, which reads substantially as follows. It's a public notice. The West Carlton City School District Board of Education hereby gives public notice in accordance with section uh uh 35 353 of the Ohio Revised Code that David White, who is currently employed by the board of education as principal of West Carlton High School, will be retiring and seeking re-employment with the West Carlton City School District in the same position following his service retirement. Board of Education will hold a public meeting on this issue of remploying the above name person at a meeting to be held on June 18th, 2025 at 5:30 p.m.
063at the board of education located at 430 East Peace Avenue in West Carlton, Ohio 45449. So move. All right. I got nothing to add. Just to note that it's a special meeting. It's a special discussion. Mrs. Yes. Mr. Mendy. Yes. Mr. Sher. Yes. Mrs. Gibson. Yes. Mr. Love. Yes. All right. Moving on to our addendum which has item number 22 which deals with West Carolton Education Association. I'm requesting a motion and a second that West Carlton Board of Education approve as presented the memorandums of understanding between the West Carolton Education Association and the Board of Education of West Carolton City School District regarding wages benefits and hiring incentives. So move second. anything new like that say um yeah I really do appreciate WCA and the relationship that we have formed over the years I think
064the the respect is mutual um the past and past district really hostile I haven't had those hostile experiences here over the past 12 years um I think we discuss things professionally and I appreciate their cooperation and thank you to the board as well. Nothing better than the share vision. That's for sure. All right. Any other discussion? We'll move on for a vote. Mr. Mundy, yes. Mr. Sh. Yes. Mrs. Gibson. Yes. Mr. Yes. Mrs. Miller. Yes. Okay. Item number 23 is the same thing but with our classified staff. Jack. Yes. Um, thank you. I'd ask for a motion and a second that the West Board of Education approve as presented the memorandum of understanding between the West Carolton classified education association and the Board of Education of the West Carlton School District regarding wages and benefits.
065So, Jack again great relationship with Classified Union worked together, you know, for for years. I think it's really fair agreement for them and it's just a goes along. It was a very simple and easy negotiation on that. All right. Mrs. Sher, yes. Mrs. Gibson, yes. Mr. Dwell, yes. Mrs. Miller, yes. Mr. Yes. All right. Last item to vote on at least is for the termination of contract. Read the other one. I'm requesting a motion in a second that the West Carolton Board of Education approve as presented uh the recommendation to initiate the termination of an employment contract. second. Um, is there anything that you would like to add? I would say this is my 10th year doing this job and I have looked over the records of my predecessor. Um, and this isn't something that
066occurs very frequently or for requests that we've made to the board. So in my 10 years, this is the first request that has been made to the board uh for such an action um involving teaching and then we would have to have another to actually another vote on this later on to complete this. Right? So this is not 100% like we have to do another vote later on. All right. And I guess it's up for a vote. Mrs. Gibson. Yes. Mr. Yes. Mrs. Miller. Yes. Mr. M. Yes. Mr. Shy. Yes. All right. So, we're going to be moving on to our report. Is there much in the student record report that you guys want to talk about? Um, there's not much. Just that the EOC test is taking place. has been taking place since last
067week and that the prom theme is at last I see the light and it's May 3rd May 3rd May 3rd and it's the day after art festa I have a question the closet at the high school and I've been asked a couple of times about prom dress donations are anybody donating prom dresses from maybe students who school I am aware that there has been a prom donation that is more of a Christian category. Okay. I know how to reach her, too. So, I'll ask her about it. I was asked a couple of times by moms whose daughters don't attend school anymore if there was a need for progress donations. Wow. I mean, that be a great donation. Be here soon. Those are not cheap at all. So, it's always good to hear the community coming
068together and trying to help out any way possible. Do you want to Daniela, do you want to go into the contract? Yeah. Um, I'm gonna share with Daniela and she's going to share with the other student reps and principles. updated the uh application for student reps for the 25 26 school year. Um and we're going to have them distribute that and start plugging that at the schools to get applicants for uh the fall and the deadline to apply will be staffs here. Miss Carl's here. She'll be want to hear this probably too because I know kids reach out to you. May 9th will be the deadline for applying. So that's a few weeks away. Still gives students plenty of time to about whether they want to try this or not. And we do have two
069student reps, Daniela and Haley, who join us next year. So, the vacancy for this is a little smaller than it was last year. But we certainly want to encourage kids both at the high school and middle school to apply. So, we're going to get that started this week and certainly next week in full motion with announcements at both the middle school and high school about uh the student rep applications. And again, May 9th will be the to apply if you're a student interested in giving this a shot. Oh, I and this Saturday we're all meeting in Zoom world uh for our last meeting with all of the the different schools. Um all the seniors will be uh invited to to speak there and hopefully we will find out whether we've been approved to uh present
070at OSBA in November. So hopefully we will be and uh we'll uh we'll start planning for that. But we already have two that will be remaining with us. So they can start brainstorming about how how we will present at OSBA. It'll be an exciting experience. It was last time. So it was big crowd. Big crowd. I have a question with the application. No grade is off the table. incoming freshman all the way. Oh, that'd be good. We have right where we want him, by the way. They'll be with us for a while. All right. Daniela is obviously a freshman and she's I think she's proof in the pudding that uh opening this up to eighth graders was a good idea. Anything else on the state report? Nope. All right. Well, we'll move on to any
071committee reports. Does anyone have any committee reports? Oh, that's okay. So, remember when I said that I got a tree at Christmas? Here's the tree. Um, this was made at um CTC. Is it CTC? It is CT. I'm sorry. I'm still the old where it used to be JVS. Yes. I want to make sure I get the right initials because we're all about initials here. Um, so this was made by the students there. Um, it was designed, it was cut, it was painted, it was assembled, it was all of it. And I would like to present this to someone else. Um, it's been in my car since December. Um, and as Daniela pointed out, only four months for you to get in here. So, Tada. It's very heavy. It would make a very good paper
072weight. Yes. Christmas. Perfect. Awesome. L is not in my car. Um and then um so the biggest thing that we got I got from the um the last meeting and I I took pictures because there were flying flyers by so quickly that I couldn't keep up. Um so the Miami Valley Tech uh center is is offering summer camps. So, they have career camps um that are being offered uh in June 2nd through 4th. And these are for students that are entering 8th, 9th, and 10th grades. Um and it is a registration fee of $75. They have STEM camps um June 9th through 12th. That is a $100 registration. Um they have a robotics summer camp um that is in Eaton and it is a $75 um registration fee and a teachers there is a teacher
073camp June 2nd through 4th. Um and this camp is free. So I have the flyer on my phone um if anyone is interested. Uh or you can go to MV, this is very small, right? NBCTC.com/camps um and to complete registration and get more information. Um they were also presented with an honorary chapter FFA degree um from Jefferson Township. Um and I have a picture of that too if anyone's interested to see that. And that's all she wrote. Anyone else have any? We'll meet her. I have a few legislative updates. Not too many because a lot of it I'm not going to talk about this and save everyone time. Um some things to look out for. Um Senate Bill 156 um talks about K to 12 grades provide a success sequence on instruction for absence. curriculum.
074All All these, by the way, are going to be in the House and the Senate Education Committee. I'm not going to talk about the financial committees or anything else because there's a lot of people going because it'll be all night. So, um there's a Senate Bill 107 that's talking about uh providing instruction on substance abuse for like drug prevention, which is pretty cool. House Bill 191. Yeah, we already asked that. House Bill 191 requires all the teachers to have a minimum salary of 50K, which would be cool with the updated things. And uh I was also wanted to mention because this is kind of legislative that the deadline to file for schoolboard petitions for those who want to run or for those who want to run again is uh August 6th of this year. So
075anyone who wants to run out there, be sure petitions at the board of elections. How many openings were there? Um, there has been a few people that already filed. How many openings? How many openings this Oh, yeah. Everybody said you're on your own. We'll be back fast. I'm telling you, got this. So, yeah, definitely be sure to put in your at least petitions prior than um I think it's 75 signatures for us if I remember which it's always safe to go a little bit more than that. Um and then also uh Chief uh Barnett already talked about a little bit before but May 6th is uh or yeah May 6 is the election for this. So, you know, go out and vote and be a be a part of your society and be a part
076of your group. I would say pole workers, but it's been so long since our last meeting. The pole working thing is kind of we're running out of time there. So, I mean, if you still want to try, you can. Um, but that's it for my legislative. I was wondering how do I call for like alumni or something if we haven't had a meeting in a long time? I just like contact whoever and say, "Hey, let's I'm like I don't know exactly how to like because we haven't had one in a while." So, other than that, that's all I got for committee stuff. So, we'll move right on from uh to comments from the superintendent. Thank you. Um first off, I'd like to thank both of our unions for our negotiations. Um it went very well
077with both of them and I appreciate them. Um, our BPA students are going to Orlando Middle School and High School in May, May 7th to May 11th. So, I wish them well. Um, the chief came and talked about the fire levy renewal, which is we want to make sure we support them. And today, I attended the Franklin B. Walter lunch um with Emma Lemons. She was our student who um her teacher of influence was Matt Reynolds and she's going to school to be a nurse. So very nice lunch with her and her family and Mr. Reynolds and Mr. White today. That's all I have. Great. All right, Brian, do you have anything? Any comments? No further comments this see. All right, easy enough. All right. And we have no comments either from either of our
078associations. So we move right along to central staff. Jack, you have Well, I guess the mic's all the way down to We'll let Devin start. He's down there. Nice. Yeah, you're welcome. You're welcome. Uh I wanted to uh congratulate Brian Coleman again and the many students um and wish them luck as they start their new musical. You break a leg. That's right. Break. Yeah, you just jinxed the whole thing. I was Yeah. Yeah. You can't That's pretty bad. You have to break a leg. and thank Morgan Syler for giving up her time to come and present with the curriculum team. I think it's always good to hear different voices. So, good job. All right. In spirit of autism awareness month, I wanted to give another shout out to Casey Hancock. She um was she received
079an award from our autism assessment team um and does amazing work with kids and it's welld deserved. So congrats. So on a different note um it is still testing season. So I've been running completion reports and I'm happy to report that we are doing a very good job getting our state testing done. Sometimes it can be difficult for um students to feel motivated to come to school especially upper grades. So they are doing a great job. So each and every day I run a report um and the attendance has been good and you know teachers are hanging in there giving all the state tests. So we're doing a good job so far. We will not uh wrap up until May 2nd or third but we are doing very well so far. Just wanted to report
080on that. Okay. Um couple things. One is I'll start on a building note. Um 712 first. We'll do that. I don't know if you've been by it, but on the south end. Okay, south end on the building closest to Chel on that side of the building. Um they, if you'll notice, they've got siding on the outside. The bricks are up. They've got windows in classrooms. They've started painting classrooms. Uh we've got a first first coat paint on some of the classrooms. Also, the uh wood shop band orchestra music. They're getting paint on the walls down that end. Uh the gyms are painted or the high varsity gym is painted, not the middle school side yet. They're working their way north or towards Alex Bell Road um on that. So, but um it's kind of exciting
081when they start putting paint on the walls. That means they're dried in inside ceiling grids going on. So, that means they can start putting in, you know, all the duct work and the diffusers in the classrooms and start putting lights up. So, they're moving pretty well on that. Now, it's a huge building. They're hoping to have one part of that building done where they can have it completed, ready to go, close the doors off, and that building will stay unoccupied while they keep working their way down through the other end. So, that'll be exciting. Across the way here, we've got everything's painted. We got final cleaning going on inside. So, all the ceiling tiles are in the academic wing. All the lights are on, the case works in furniture. There's truckloads of furniture arriving every
082day going into the building. Um, so they're they're moving along well. the gym, cafeteria, and dining area. Those will be the last areas to finish, but they got the gym floor down yesterday. They completed it. Um, so they will start here. It's tomorrow. Tomorrow they'll start sanding the gym floor and preparing. Once it's sanded, they'll seal it and they'll start laying it out to stripe it and then uh come back and coat it. So, but there's a lot of work still to go. The goal is for us to pass all of our city inspections that are required by May 15th. Um, so you guys will be doing a walkth through, if I'm not mistaken, on May 16th before the board meeting. So by that time, you should see a pretty close to complete school. what
083won't be done yet probably when you guys come through will be we probably won't have the um bleachers completely installed yet and it'll be still working up on that end of the building but overall that building should be pretty close to complete. If you drive by it now you'll notice we've got grass seed and straw down. There's trees planted. There's mulch around the building. All the sidewalks are going in. There'll be asphalting here in another week. Start putting down the final parking lot. And uh so it's it's a lot going on all at once. I want to recognize um Shirley Keer, 46 continuous years and she's retiring this year after 46 years. It's kind of exciting when I found out when I was first hired here, she was a bus aid and I was in
084charge of transportation back then. And um I thought it was funny when I told her, I said, "Hey, you started working here the same year I graduated high school." which is still true. But she is an awesome lady. They have a great family. She's a neighbor and I'm excited for her to retire. Her husband's already retired this year earlier in the year. So that'll be good for both of them to have that time together. Also, um I I can't wait to see the musical. I'm excited for that. So my tickets I've got them for Friday night. So um looking forward to that. And um then the fire levy. Um, I support our local fire and EMS. Anytime that I can do a renewal, I think it's a great thing for the community. They do a
085lot for us. Um, and uh, more so than just running fire and emergency calls. They do a lot for the community in general. Uh, doing coming out to events, helping out. If you always if you need a hand with anything, you can typically call the fire department and they provide the manpower or the volunteers to come out and help with events. So, it's great to have that. All right, we have no comments from the public. So, we're gonna be moving right along. Board members, I'll start with I also want to um say with the fire levy, it's so important support that they support the support community, our school, it's a program. Um I also want to say a shout out to the um the musical kids. They did a great job performing and uh a
086shout out to our teachers because I know this is a stressful time of year for them. So, thank you. I'm going to ask now that next April when I'm not sitting here that somebody text me and let me know when the musical is going. I'm gonna come back and watch them. That is one of my favorite parts about sitting here. Check the website during the year. Check the website. Um I do have I mention two things about higher packs and one of them um it was a a bit of an issue for us with all the water that we everybody saw falling the past week there was some flooding and rain in the paint rec center parking lot in the back where our building's located and it blocked our ability to use it for over
087a week and I want to throw a couple of Um, thank you to Jack and his team who helped us to have to navigate a different way to have the food packs picked up so they can be delivered on time. And also to the staff at Pain Recre Center, which is the location where we have our building, and also the Marine Civic Center, which is where operations had to be temporarily moved to to accommodate packing. So, I really appreciate all the the help we got from those different organizations and volunteers who came and helped us get through last week. Uh, in addition to that though, and I know for a lot of folks in here that really um appreciate the food assistance these kids get, this is some really just unbelievable news I'm about to
088share. Um, there's a Joe Cox who used to sit here as well and is one of pirate packs. He was uh just randomly about a month ago, maybe six weeks ago, he was listening to a commercial on television and a a grant opportunity that AES puts together every year was promoted in a commercial and so he takes the initiative to apply for it. And in about a week and a half ago at RBs, I don't know which location, I don't remember, but S and Army's have a collaboration where they award grants to 10 different charity like organizations. So, we were going to have a chance to be one of 10 to receive a $10,000 grant. So, two weeks ago or right before this event was going to happen, Joe received the invitation to attend this
089event, which meant we at least had a shot at it if we're going to be asked to be there. And so the event happened, I think this was in the papers, so some of you may have seen this, but um not only did we receive the grant, so that was awesome in the first place, but one of the Arby's executives, I guess, was when he was younger, his family had some food short, food shortage issues themselves, and they doubled our grant to $20,000. So for the first time since probably certainly precoid we are funded before the school year even starts and that's just an amazing thing and I just want to certainly appreciate that that grant opportunity and Joe just happened to check it out or we wouldn't have been in the picture to have
090that happen. So just want to thank him publicly as well and I know he he loves what we do and it's a big passion for him. That's the whole reason that he reached. There's also some other news we'll share later about. But I just wanted to publicly say how appreciate we are with ads folks and armies for $20,000 that we didn't even two months ago even on the radar. So, and that more than helps us for the next school year to be able to not even have to worry about money, which is a rare thing for a charity to be able to say that, but not that it'll last forever, but we certainly appreciate now be able to say that. I know Miss Sherman, you when you were in principal at uh at Chanel, it
091was a big thing. You certainly didn't like seeing kids not have what they need, and this just really helps us make sure that happen. You don't have to worry. Everybody can get um well, I am thrilled that our negotiations went smoothly um with both unions. We value all of our employees very much here and it's nice to have the collaboration between us. Uh I know so many other school districts do not have that ability. Um and I'm so glad that we continue to do that. Um congratulations to the BPA students and good luck in Orlando. I'm sure you'll do great down there as well and break a leg for that musical um next weekend. Uh they did a fantastic job tonight and I'm sure it will be a wonderful performance. Mr. Coleman never stopped short
092of a a wonderful uh well he has put on so many musicals that have come from New York and and all this and so this one will be no different than all the rest of them. So do enjoy and go out and support the kids. Um, yeah. So, I have I'm just gonna go really quick because almost everything on my list, everyone else has already said. I don't see the need to redo it, but I want to let you know I was paying attention. Uh, Bean Girls, I had it on here. Um, Casey Hancock had it on here. Um, Vogue with the firefighters had it on here. Um, want to let you know that if you say south, I'll figure out which way's north. So, as long as you give me one, I've got the
093second one. Okay. Um, and then the only other thing is that um, and this is probably not going to be aired beforehand, but hey, for all of you in this room, if you're interested in coming to the Easter celebration, um, we are having that on this Saturday. Bring your mud shoes because it's going to be a muddy, sloppy mess. It's going to be awesome. Um, loving it. Although it was 91% chance of rain on Saturday and now we're down to 75. can't wait. Um, but if you have children or grandchildren, it will be a wonderful time to get muddy candy. Uh, that's all I have. All right. Well, that that's the toughest thing about being the last person to speak is everything else. I said I I have it ready pretty much to everything. Um,
094right. Yeah. With Yeah, with the Easter celebration. I wanted to say it is Saturday the 19th and like you said, I don't think it's really for you guys in this room if you guys want to join and hopefully the rain is after 2 p.m. and before 2 p.m. it's be nice dry candy and the kids will love it. But either way, we'll be out there. Rain or shine, we're there for the kids. Um, there's a few other events I was going to say. Um, neighborhood bridges. Uh, I have a QR code on my phone. If anyone wants to be a part of Neighborhood Bridges, um, I can give you guys that code so you guys can be a part of it. And it's also on the website. Yeah. So, Nicole has been just incredible with
095being a part of that and, you know, really fighting for kids that just don't have things and missing everything from a washing machine to shoes. Um, neighborhood bridges really bridges it together. So, if that's something that anyone's interested in, um, you can let me know and I will get you connected. Um, I was also wanted to say the Pirate Island Fest. Um, I know it's a long ways away, but September 13th, 2025. So, for our coaches out there, get involved. Um, for our community out here, be involved. Come and support our kids. just be a part of the events because all that money goes to helping our kids and to helping our sports and you know everything else which is great. Um I also wanted to thank the staff for a great audit. I know
096you mentioned how how it takes everyone and I was going to say that too how you audits are pretty like they're serious stuff. So for everyone to kind of come together and to make that work um it's just incredible. So um other than that I have a really because I know we're a little late on time here. Um, it's by it's La Zoo TZU and he says, "He who does not trust enough will not be trusted," which is a good way to end. And then yeah, we have a work session. So, we'll be going into a work session relating to board business and then after the work session, another business. So, All right. You don't have to