001okay okay welcome everyone today is Wednesday March 5th 2025 to our business meeting um roll call please Mrs Gibson here Mr here Mrs here Mr M here Mr sh here all right would you like to stand for the pledge of move the flag it's back here to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation God indivisible withy and justice for all all right so we're going to start with our introductions today I'll start with our table to my left we have Jack heg our business manager we have Miss Julie Jones one of our curriculum directors well the curriculum director we have Becky yman our director of student services Mr Deon Barry we have him as our Human Resources Director would you guys like to say
002your names these are our stent reps hi I'm Kristen marnett oh I'm a senior I'm H Schuster and I'm a junior hi I'm danela Rodriguez Vasquez and I'm freshman and that's why we uh that's why we have them say their own names and then continuing right along down the line here we have Miss Lori Gibson one of our board members we have Doctor Andrea Townson our superintendent I am Nate Mundy I'm also the board members and then we have our wonderful vice president Leslie Miller we have johnen a board member we have Miss Angie shley another board member and of course right at the end Mr Ryan SLO our Treasurer it's good to see everyone here today all right it is recommended for the agenda for March F 2025 meeting to be adopted as presented
003motion second pleas second all right Mrs Gibson yes Mr yes Mrs yes Mr M yes Mr SE yes all right I do not see anything in regards to comments for the uh agenda so we'll move right on to our communication update Miss Corin okay good evening everyone wanted to start by reminding you of how you can find out what's happening in the school district we have West Carlton schools.com our web page social media we have Facebook at West Carlton City Schools X at WC City Schools Instagram at wcor city schools these are some of the stories you'll see on our social media as well as our news section on our website and my gosh that's oh my gosh that's me yes I put that up there specifically because I was pretty sure Miss Barnett was
004going to talk about this maybe later um do want to uh congratulate Mary Joe Phillips she won the Daniel e Creer friends of Athletics Award recipient actually she will be picking up the award this Sunday and um but we do know she's getting it so we're very proud of her she's been around the school district for a very long long time as a secretary working athletic event you'll always see her and she's always got a smile so these are the uh communication methods you'll get from the school district you'll get text or emails message from your West Carolton schools on your email um you'll get phone calls some of the things you'll get are news from your child's School including School event dates messages from your child School principal news from the superintendent and you
005know winter is not done with us yet just in case a school delay or closure occurs that's how we will be sending you information oops some of these dates coming up in March March 9th this Sunday Daylight Saving Time begins turn your clocks forward 1 hour March 12th is the beginning of the third quarter we will be closed March 13th 14th and 17th so enjoy a long weekend for the students March 18th the kids come back to begin the fourth quarter March 20th the first day of spring also my mother's 99th birthday so anyway okay March 31st through April 4th will be spring break students will return Monday April 7th those dates again it's on our news page as well as our social media perfect game I don't I know if any of you bowl
006or have ever bowled that's 12 strikes in a row and so that's pretty awesome he had a two game this is Sam Bannon he had a two game series of a 556 which is the highest recorded in the NV um since the league started so very proud of him um also we put that on Facebook it's had 2,196 views that's actually gone up since I did this this morning 251 likes 105 loves nine shares so everybody likes Perfection right read Across America week this is not Dr daughter it was the cat and hat jumped right out of the book page right into chel school to celebrate with the kids these were our Littles and then I said these are our mediums they were also enjoying read Across America week at um Harry Russell so we
007talk about reading all the time I know Dr towns and I'm sure Julie Jones could also give us a lot of Statistics a lot of information about why you should read but I went to The Experts do you think it's important reading is important and would you recommend younger kids learn to read as soon as they can okay what about you what do you think I think they should because I feel like it would make their imagination be bigger so that way they will like big and I think it's good because they get smarter like they would read faster like if you're four then and you can read like a Parra then like you could probably read like 20 like 10 and like a probably like 30 wait like half an hour something okay okay
008I think little kids like kids should learn how to read because I feel like they like want they should use their imagination more because when they get older they'll like they'll become more like older and they probably like won't like use their so I I think that that kind of said it all right we didn't we didn't need to go outside the district or look at studies we can look at them right here um winter is not done with us yet so stay warm be safe be respectful be responsible be kind and that's all I had this evening wow thank you so much it's so good seeing you you know every single day I read during lunch I forc myself to read because I I try to enjoy it and I'm probably about 10 paragraphs
009every single 30 minutes so maybe I'll get the finisher book maybe next year we'll see what happens all right and then we do have presentations they are on the in the video they're in the video so we will right along to Mr Toby and his presentation hello I'm Brad Toby principal at uh the elementary buildings for grades 2 through four I'm here to give update on the second grade team and uh a little information about State Testing so uh in second grade in math we focused on the money unit the students love working together to share their thinking as well as writing about their thinking the students were excited to be assigned the cool down uh exit ticket problems at the end of the lesson to show their thinking via words pictures and or manipulatives
010uh we use vertical boards to add a collection coins uh students were able to share their mental math strategies as they were skip counting to find the various amounts of coins another fun way of learning about money was through using a computer program called Desmos students go uh got to shop for an item in the toy shop and use the coins to purchase items um we're moving on to measurement uh this week and the students will be using open number lines as as a strategy when measuring uh in English and reading uh this week is read Across America week uh for read Across America week students dressed as their favorite book characters the students are really enjoying the guest reader videos provided by The District staff members um they are also in Reading in English
011um reading stories like the organ Trail Sakia and a dinosaur named Sue to investigate the past and how it is how it is and will continue to shape our future students are really making great uh connections between what people used in the past and how it has led uh to inventions that we use today um lastly in writing uh we are learning about the components of friendly of a friendly letter students will take what they learn and apply it to their own writing by choosing a staff member in our school to write to they've also learned about what happens to a letter once it goes in a mailbox and how it gets from place to place that's pretty cool um State Testing wise I know yall are excited about this but State Testing will be
012will begin after spring break on April 7th uh testing is done in grades 3 through 12 um Ela testing for the district starts on the sth while math science and social study testing begins April 14th for the district the testing window for both sessions is ver 15 consecutive days all right and uh we have on our slideshow we have some pictures of some second graders dressed as their favorite characters thanks and have a great evening there all right I guess we'll be moving on to uh the exciting part of the agenda you know after all the cool kids and all the neat things we're going to talk about see a little bit so um tonight is our first read which is for discussion only um Public's invited to observe sorry that you won't take formal
013action tonight um so we have a review of policies um and I'm just going to go through these a lot of it's okay there's a lot of them that are just small technical Corrections from our last policy update there are some new ones and um as always I try to do this as quickly as possible bylaw 01311 it's a technical correction just making policies easier to understand and correct um verbage and authorizes need to make such Corrections um po or bylaw 0171 we're resending that even though we adopted it not that long ago policy 14221 is a new policy it aligns with policy 31221 and 41221 um and this one is for the ad rators policy 1550 has our retirement verbage aligning with the teachers contract um based on retirement ages changing continuously policy 2271
014is our college credit plus courses and we offer information to our parents twice a year and we have to use a form developed by the chancellor of the department which we already do that so policy 2340 field trip and under District respon um sponsored trips um it just had make sure that our overnight accommodations uh remain the same um this goes into effect of February 25th we actually already do that uh policy 2432 participation of Community School stem school students in extracurricular activities and Inter Scholastic Athletics I already invite any kids that go to stem or Charter Schools or home schools to participate with our students um and they also have to have their mandatory training just like our kids do um and our coaches and the parents for sudden cardiac AR and um attend
015the mandatory informational meeting um policy 5113 is inter District open enrollment and this is just saying that we will all open enrollment for military students who attend here and if their parents get deployed they can stay as a student here through as an enrollment um we already do that uh policy 5120 um assignments within the district this is just a lining verbage to match ODU um Provisions we are grade Bandits that doesn't really affect us um policy 5131 transfer students um this has to do with athletic eligibility as opposed to an academic transfer being sure that we turned in the correct paperwork for the Ohio High School Athletic Association if a student needs necessary information sentence so they can play um policy 5223 is release time for religious instruction this is a new policy um
016and it's related to House Bill 8 and um it's also a revised policy a little bit um and we will work with our um entity um creating a release time during the school day for our kids policy 5330 use of medication that's related to changes in hospital 70 um over the counter medications have to have a specific form filled out it allows our students to wear sunscreen and students are um have to have appropriate documentation on file with the nurses policy 5350 we have to make sure that we are including a comprehensive mental health and wellness program um that promotes emotional and physical safety of our students and staff um we already do that uh policy 5460 graduation requirements we've add an additional diploma seal um from which is great it gives our kids another
017option policy 5610 is uh removal suspension expulsion and permanent exclusion um this reflects Provisions from House Bill 206 and we already do this so um policy 5751 parental status of students if any of our students are um parents then we make uh provisions and accommodations for them um policy 57 um this is the parent Bill of Rights and it reflects provisions of House Bill 8 um policy 6151 insufficient funds checks I had to ask the treasurer's office what we charg it's a whopping $3 fee so um policy 7421 um that is for um various restrooms shower rooms changing rooms that they are labeled appropriately policy 7441 video surveillance and electronic monitoring um we already adopted this policy they Revis a small small verbage in it um smart sensor monitoring technology and it'll be in our
018handbooks and on the website U policy 8142 criminal history record check for contracted School Services um everybody has to be enrolled in w they are contracted with us to make sure um our students are safe and if they have the responsibility care custody or control of any of our kids policy 8452 is the automated external defibrillators aeds and CPR and it relates to House Bill 47 um making sure that all of our coaches staff everybody who works in the school district is trained and it also um has us now an emergency action plan and team and then the last policy is 8500 Food Services um and it's just re it's revised based on House Bill 8 um and also talks about bad debt that is all I have today all right and again this is
019just a discussion there will be no vote on this one that'll be on the next um is there any further discussion on this I do have a question what did you say about sunscreen um it's it's considered an overthe counter medication and I have to I had to put in the policy that if you guys wanted to use sunscreen that you could do that without a note from your doctor or that's crazy that that's thing you guys haven't been breaking the law have youen without do permission already had it where you guys um sunscreen I know it's l but districts did not so it's just in the new imag you go to school and you know you're like going outside something you don't want to get sun you bring the sunscreen and then they bring
020you into the office and say you have to go home you broke one of the rules you brought Suns for to school not anymore anym oh my gosh okay thank you you're welcome okay well we'll move right along uh to the uh Financial items was number 10 thank you I ask the board approve items 10 a through 10c as presented discuss um since we only had one meeting in February and that meeting was early February um we didn't have there wasn't a meeting in later on in February to approve the January Financial reports so these These are the reports through January 31 um so we'll have the reports through February 28th at our next meeting um the main the story is kind of the same in terms of um like the budget actual in terms
021terms of um we know that our state funding is going to be lower than than the estimate that I put together back in November um so we obviously we'll monitor that and hopefully there are other variances within the estimates to offset that um but um just something to keep in mind as we move forward and that's really the only thing um on the finances and then we have donation from American Income Life Insurance company and then a donation from the band boosters and so we definitely appreciate those two donations yeah always good to see donations all right anyone else right move for the roll call Mr yes Mrs Miller yes Mr M yes Mrs shley yes Mrs Gibson yes all right item number number 11 U is about resolutions to file complaints against the valuation
022real property for ta year 2024 oh wow all right right I just got to mention it um as you said I ask the board approve as presented the resolutions to file complaint against the valuation of property for tax year 2024 so move second a couple years ago the state legislature changed the process so um they one of one of the changes they made it reduced the number of filings that can happen um but the filings that the district does want to do have require board approval and there's only two properties and the point of it is just to um when we see a couple we see commercial property sales where the sales price is significantly higher than the value that the county auditor has um the point is just to ask the county to address
023that you just so that all of our taxpayers across the district are paying their fair share great okay all right well with all that we'll move uh except if anyone else has any other discussions to it we move along for the Mrs Miller yes Mr M yes yes Mr sh yes Mrs Gibson yes Mr yes okay move right on to number 12 here about personel items de good evening good evening the superintendent recommends that the board approve listed personel items 12 a through 12K second any discussion I see that we have a little bit of we have some alumni see 2019 alumni how's the I graduated so it's always nice to see see some of my people there so it's great all right to V Mr Mundy yes Mr sh yes Mrs Gibson yes Mr
024yes Mrs Miller yes okay y number3 we're going to keep with the Personnel items de the superintendent recommends that the board approves the list of personnel items 13A and 13 C so move any further discussion with this not nearly as much as I thought just preparing for spring Sports good all right Mrs sh yes Mrs Gibson yes Mr yes Mrs Miller obain Mr M yes okay item number 14 deals with O hsaa and I would like to recommend that the board adopt the resolution confirming that the West Carlton school district will conduct Athletics in accordance with the Constitution bylaws regulations interpretations and decisions of the Ohio High School Athletic Association has presented this resolution shall remain in effect for the second isn't this something that we this is yeah typical right there's nothing really new
025to it no and all right ran we ready for the call this Gibson yes Mr yes Mrs Miller since it deals with rules and regulations yes Mr M yes Mr sh yes all right we're jumping over to jack for ESC a transport transport for the ESC okay thank you very much um the superintendent recommends the board approve as presented Transportation contract with senior assistant to transport a student to and from the Green County Educational Service Center in belber Ohio for the 24 25 stre I second please move probably old half for you guys you've seen a lot of these all right well that's easy enough for me move to a call Mr yes Mrs Miller yes Mr M yes Mr shop yes Mr Gibson yes okay I'm number 16 with the uh Miami Valley educ
026educational computer Association about and then that's about wires wiring data Wi-Fi one of those I'll let you handle that the superintendent recommends that the board enter into a three-year agreement beginning July 1st 2025 continuing through June 30th 2028 with Miami Valley Miami Valley educational computer Association mea to provide 5 gig internet access through lit fiber and a 10 gig gigabyte wand system which is wireless network or in building Network um between all West Carolton uh City School District buildings West Carolton City Schools agrees to pay the onetime construction fee of $3,750 and an erate discounted cost of 750 and a yearly service fee of $517 44 with an E rate discount cost of 10, 34880 wow all right yeah it is tough not having to talk about technology it is tough not having my notes
027in front of me because my computer didn't want to technologically connect so m is our internet provider and um they have been for three years and this is a second three-year contract we've had with them uh they provide fiber internet into our buildings um and then they also provide a connection for us on our own network that connects all of our buildings together so and the internet you know the Fiers is used for all of our internet our phones run through it it's you know it's a big part of our everyday life so and the eate part of it is what we pay because we we deal with same thing the libraries do um we're part of the e- rate system so and we're on an 80% discount so our even though our e rate
028Services show up as 51,000 we get an a rebate back from um what I've drawn a blank on it now that the the name of the organization good question I we we do get a we do get a rebate back so we only end up paying $10,000 a year for Internet service for our entire School District wow compare that to what you pay your house I think we get a pretty good deal on that yeah really well especially for the speeds that it has that's really so I guess my question is like do you have to pull any wires or switch out any wires everything's in and uh we're going the construction fee that $3,750 is to um that will be to hook up our new 712 building onto the uh the fiber Network right
029so um because they'll have a new internet connection so that's just that termination fee that we're paying to them for that everything else is already connected or hooked up and this is this contct cont ract us less than our previous contract with them because it doesn't include Chell or Russell because those schools are going away so we're taking that internet connection down the 24 building we're not putting a new internet connection in we're running a wire from the ECC over to it so we're just treating it like an addition to the ECC for internet services so what kind of access do we have now compared to what this is is it the same no we've got 2 gabes worth of service so we can handle a bandwidth so we're going up to five we thought
030we were I thought we thought you were talking about how fast it was it is now and we were like it's not it's amount of devices that can be on it total on the network now I'll say for the high school side there's only for if you're on Wi-Fi for every WiFi access point like the one up there on the the ceiling it only handle so many devices so if there's 30 or 40 or 50 devices on that one Wi-Fi access point will slow the internet down for all those people that are on it so the new building will have access points in every classroom plus up and down the hallways gymnasium will have four I mean we've kind of covered the bases on that for the new so it's definitely an because I I
031I spoke with some of the teachers that said that that they feel like that some of their class time is being taken trying to get that that stuff loaded and so I was hoping that that that was going to be yeah it's probably not the Wi-Fi much as it is the firewalls and stuff you have to go through the load some of that stuff too I I know we have a lot of questions here um so even though they Yonder bag their phones up the high school does it automatically connect to that that would slow the system down or is that that's the mid we get them if we are on our pH and he says either way like no one like actively on their phone is probably better way saying if your phone is
032still if you're if your phone is set up to search for Wi-Fi it's still going to tap into these Wi-Fi access um so it naturally slows things down connected to it once before it will connect as soon as like when you walk into your that's the same so you'd have to have the phone like fully off then for it to not ping that yeah or you have to have it in Airplane mode or turn your Wi-Fi off so when it comes to like using Chromebooks and things like that to try to do work and all that you're almost doubling the amount of things that's hidden because kids have the phone I'd say this the same thing I tell my granddaughter and that I told my daughters when they had phones look even though you don't
033have your phone out in school if it's still hitting all this when you get out of school your phone battery is going to be dead because your phone is trying and searching and looking for all this stuff so you're still using your battery up smart move shut that phone down don't let it search for Wi-Fi until you can finally use your phone and turn it on and have a battery very interesting stuff for me because this is not this is not my cup of tea at all right now my daughters will be saying dad's talking about WiFi oh my gosh way above my head does anyone else have any questions all right we'll move to a vote then this is Miller yes Mr M yes Mr shop yes Mrs Gibson yes Mr well yes okay
034moving to our last item here number 17 deals with the uh change orders for the the 72 building project the superintendent recommends the board approve as presented the following change orders for the 712 building project can I get a motion a second please you want to talk a little bit more about the change orders I can tell you what they are the um the change order number 36 uh Roof System variance with that is is our initial roof that we had set up for these buildings is similar to what we did here at the intermed school which is basically an metal roof deck insulation build up to slope the roof in the angles we wanted to and then they put a we'll just call it a rubber surface over top and then that's Bas basically
035your roof okay so on the new buildings the ofcc is requiring is to put a coverboard between the insulation and the rubber roofing which makes for a harder surface look at it like saying a sheet of plywood or backer board or something harder so that if you're walking on taking heavy equipment across the roof it doesn't indent into the uh Styrofoam insulation that's up there so that was not in the initial bid because we thought we could put the roof on exactly how it was and in the past they've given that variance they've decided not to give that variance any longer so now we have to pay the extra money on it so because it wasn't in the initial bid um on the tazzo floor that's like the floor we have in the hallways of
036the high school and we're putting red white black and gray terazo at the main entrance to the high school middle school in the front hallway and also back in the athletic area leading from the athletic entrance down down to the gymnasium area so that way it'll have red white and black design terazo in those areas I believe that we're going to try to extract one of the ships yes that's also included in this is the one pirate ship out of the 300s will be most likely this summer taken out of the high school moved over and placed into the new high school that it's very exciting for especially lumni to have the the actual pirate ship itself you know and then for next school year there'll be a blank piece of concrete in its place
037in middle of the 300's Lounge I guess they can step on it then yeah we're okay with that can't step on it now but when it's just a piece of concrete Mr White originally was G to get like something to put around it so you couldn't like literally could not like off so you couldn't yeah try to protect it as much as possible before we extract it you know so it will all right well we'll move right along then we'll move to the standard you hey Haley oh wait did we not vote yet oh my gosh haly and Kristen um as a punishment maybe this is going to sound bad because I'm saying I'm going to be talking about how boring this might be to them but as a punishment if they walk over that
038ship tell them they got to attend one of these meetings every time they do it that yeah sorry yeah I'm like I don't think that was a compliment in a teenag all right yeah let's vote on this right Mr Money yes Mr sh yes Mrs Gibson yes mrw yes Mrs Miller yes all right now we'll move on to the s report anyone would like to start you want to start okay so yeah so um with the my okay hold on Montgomery County Educational Service Center um there are three of us that went to this not us but three other students um that were like elected to be on this like committee type thing um and so we went to the state house last week something like that um and so we went to a Committee
039hearing we talked to legislative AIDS um and then we we saw we talked to Senator Huffman Tom young and Rodney cree and then so we brought three we had like these three um like topics that we wanted to bring up because we were coming as like a big group of students trying to oh oh um bring like topics as students that we wanted to bring up to you know like representatives and things like that so we brought ensuring safe and inclusive schools for all students so basically like safety measures inclusive educational resources Mental Health Resources which I would say that we do a pretty good job at um and we had also brought up um sro's for a lot of schools because we we had realized that our SRO had helped a lot so um
040and the two coaches that we have also so like um and a lot of other schools didn't have you know um Sr or anyone really in the hallway besides like like teachers um and then our second one was expanding College and Career access so there was a student there that thought her school did not do an adequate job at preparing students who weren't going into college for their other options like um the CDC and I had told her I had said well I feel like you know we were made aware of a lot of our options and she said I feel like at my school they didn't at all um so we brought that up saying maybe like um just make people more aware of like things options like the CDC um and then accountability
041for all schools receiving public funds so basically standardized accountability measures and Public Funding eligibility so implementing a universal accountability standard across all schools receiving public funds to evaluate performance and ensure consistency so if a school is receiving public funds they need to have to like we want them to adhere to a standard like a testing standard or something like every other school because if they're receiving public funds they should have to do the same thing that public schools are if they're receiving public funds basically and that's what we brought to them um but it was really fun and it was really pretty and I took a lot of pictures um but yeah it was it was it was really fun it was it was a lot of walking um but but we didn't get to
042go into um the governor's office or anything but they were like yeah you can look but you can't go in but yeah it was it was pretty fun and then I have to talk about the caring closet so um the current closet has been really good we got a lot of donations and I went through a lot um um I we have discovered that our best means of communication to students is through social media and not through counselors because I don't know how many and and we are not being made aware when people are going in when like the counselors take them because every single time that a student has gone in there we don't know so I have taken multiple people in in the past week to get things and they they didn't even
043some people didn't even know that the closet was a thing even though you made an announcement on the news right yes so she even made an announcement on the news and they didn't even know it was a t welcome to Parenthood so yeah so they didn't know but now they do um yeah so I'm going to try to I have a Tik Tok set up oh yeah I have a Tik Tok set up and then I posted something on my Snapchat about it and then that that reached a few people because they like screenshotted it and posted on their story so then when they like it was was people who needed it they posted it on their story and then more of their friends who also needed it were like oh like you did that
044then then I can do it too since you did it you know um so they felt more comfortable since their friends had done it so um but yeah it it feels like our better means of communication is through like a student and not through the counselors even though you know I mean we have that form of communication set up even if they don't like and they know that they can go through the counselors um it's just they would rather talk to me or haey so yeah what do you have to say about that um we also made an email for the caring closet what is it can you look actually I um it's hold on it's WCHS Karen closet gmail.com who who responds to when an email comes in I do the two of you
045so if you so if you or a student if a student needs something and your student is too afraid to reach out or if you are a student and needs something and you want to reach out and don't have social media you can reach out through email and the email is WCHS caring closet @gmail.com who has ownership of that email it's not it's not a WC email okay so what happens when you graduate she has she has so the email is literally a like it says WCHS paring CL so that was what we why we made an email like that because to make a um social media account we didn't want it to be a personal email in case when I graduate or when she graduates we didn't want to have to reach out to
046somebody five years down the line and be like hey I know you grad like six years ago but what's your email for this you know so this is a general like WCS so Danielle will'll get it too just keep yeah it's just it has a general like username and password yeah well that's good because I mean especially for like more official capacities like someone from threads of Hope or someone from a more official thing can actually email that other than going through all sorts of middlen we both have access to this that's a good idea okay oh okay um there's a lot of little things um prom committee is going to start meeting next week so that's the beginning um if you're a junior um the staff student basketball game is this Friday um it's
047during sixth and seventh period students school no the competition is getting really heated uh there's been some news announcements some commercials of students and of teachers so it's gonna be really good game always do that though and they always get beaten so yeah it's always fun but um it should be live stream on YouTube if you want to watch it oh it's be and then um mean girl's musical practice has begun um Kristen is playing Regina I'm playing Gretchen um that will be April like the last weekend of April um and then so also with that set buildings are beginning um on Saturdays so please come help us build the set please please please and you get NHS hours for it too if you're in NHS I know no one's watching this but please please
048please please please please and there's also lunch provided on Saturdays yeah um and then the a yeah and we do like FIS and Pizza Hut and stuff like that um also next week the juniors are taking the act so um getting registered for that and then last but not least just I'm s board um student council board rep Legion so just working back and forth with them I go to the student council meeting on Thursday mornings and yeah like 6 a. 7:30 NOP um so really the the basketball stud game that's buy your tickets today and tomorrow tomorrow's at lunch right yeah tomorrow's at lunch why are you laughing it's for it's for um a cancer donation thing right so you guys $1 you're helping a good cause and then it's $1 you're your school
049and then volleball workouts started there Tuesday THS at 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the high school weight room if you're interested and then exams for the end of the quarter 3 next week and this week we did have the um I know that a lot of people were not able to be there but we had our student board rep meeting everybody Daniel was there yes yes Danel was there um we are have submitted a u intention to present at the osba in November oh great so it's already uh then we're going to wait and see whether or not we can uh be accepted but um Megan did initial application and so hopefully we'll um our next meeting of that round table is March 15th and it'll still be Zoom uh the presentation is going to
050be about having student reps on your board and yeah same kind of thing because there's a lot of people that are very interested in what we do isn't that something well and I hope if if you guys are able to I hope we get a big room for that because the last time we packed that house yeah on on the Tuesday which like no one usually stays yeah and we were opposite John lithco too wow really yes and we drew standing remotely yep standing I mean it was an incredible presentation we're going to Hope go so isn't that something I did have a question for you guys actually I have two questions the donations how's the donations going with the closet is there anything that you guys need there is stuff that we need and
051things that we need less of and I will tell you exactly what they are right now what we need more of is um I will say um well I put you on the spot like like graphic te's graphic t-shirts I guess like graphic tank tops or tank tops you know of and this is gender neutral I'm saying this for you know girls and boys um and shorts now because we're it's about to get warmer and people you know don't want to go outside in their you know Nike sweatpants um and um we have a lot of Don yes we did have a lot of donations um and less cargo pants we do we have a lot of we have a lot of cargo pants men's cargo pants and a lot of men's jeans too we
052have a lot of men's jeans like a lot and not a lot of guys are coming in either so if you have a son that needs something from the closet we have clothes we have socks we have lots of socks oh my gosh we have lots of socks oh my gosh we have lots of socks so I will send your son home with a bag of socks if he needs them I'm telling you um and yeah and also if you have any extra like perfume or lotion or anything like you know those people who stock up at Bath and Body Works when they go on sale yeah we would love to get a donation of those if they're like you know not really used um because I did just have a friend donate a lot
053of hers and that really does help us out because a lot of the people who come in say oh my parents can buy me you know most of my essentials but they can't buy me things that they don't see as essential which is like perfect perfume scented lotion makeup as well um so we're going to be thinking about that too um so oh oh if you guys get the little what is that brand called is it Ipsy yeah is that what it is y Ipsy yeah Ipsy you guys not know what that is I do okay okay Ipsy if you guys get Ipsy and you don't use it send it to us thank you and then oh you have another question sorry yeah very quickly because I know uh we have a lot to talk
054about when you to the State House how was the uh sorry that's how was the uh the state reps were they pretty like supportive of your guys' ideas where well there okay I'm going to be pretty honest there we were not very good with conveying our well I say we lightly um not very good at conveying what we wanted it it got very personal and then it got to a point where it was like that is not what we brought to discuss at all and so one of them actually did say so what are you trying to make the point of and know and I had to like I had to be like well I think what he's trying to say is and yeah cuz he was like he was like but yeah no they
055were pretty they were pretty supportive of most of the things um because most of them had the same view as you know I mean it's it's kind of hard to say I don't support your schools being safer you know that's true cuz if you said that then I don't know how you're going to do but um yeah that's yes okay yeah that's it thank you all right thanks all right well we'll move right along to commender reports then does anyone have committee reports yeah I have I have at least two okay I have two as well I got the V oh good good good good so add what you can uh which will be very little okay so um so I'm going to start with I guess the the oldest one so now that I'm
056officially CTC um School Board um let me just throw a little bit first of all that building is amazing um and it's it's really again I I think I've mentioned before I'm an old lady and when I was going through school CTC was where you sent kids who didn't behave well that didn't do well in school you just sent them there it was kind of a well this is where you go to learn to do something and we don't have to deal with you that is not and and it was actually that was JVS so I think the fact that they changed it to CTC should say that it's a completely different atmosphere and um the the the preparations that they give these kids and the and all the different uh things that are available
057OMG it is amazing there um state-ofthe-art on top of things um everything is I mean they they got it going on so um I'm very um overwhelmed to be on another school board overwhelmed um so but one of the it's a few things that I found that were that I thought was interesting is that in January um the college credit plus um they had 336 total fall participation which was up from 213 the year before um and specifically there were 19 students West Carolton students that participated in the college Pro uh the college credit plus and they uh had 27 total courses so it's not just the kids that don't do well in school these are kids that are really selling and doing things that that really helped them um so I thought that was
058I I love that we had some West Carolton numbers in there um and then their numbers are just keep increasing um they have already gotten 1,767 applications for the 2025 year so um that is huge that that's up 443 from 2023 so in two years they they've increased about 40% 30% hey you get the math going there I do not good okay so we're going to go with 30% and then just round it wherever you need to when you do the math in your head um and so and also out in my car that I forgot to bring in was a cute little Christmas tree that the kids made it's made out of metal um and it was completely made by the kids and and and uh and they formulated the whole thing it's painted
059it's gorgeous I've been car my car for uh over a month now and I was really hoping to get it out of my car and yet here we are so um next month there will be a Christmas tree presented to us for that okay so um Al oh I just lost all my note um also they are very interested in us becoming a satellite school with them and um we are going to to I talk to uh Dr Townson and that think that's something that we are wanting to definitely um work at and get going um I know Miamisburg has will start that this year and as well uh Jefferson Township so it is coming this direction and and uh we want to be a part of that because it's it's a great um resource
060for our school um and that's all I got to say about that one um you want me next one sure next one um District leadership team this morning we I was there um I could throw out this mtss but I'm going to tell you what it means because no one but us is going to know no one exclude me multi-tier system of support I take notes um and and you know it's a big way of saying it supports all the kids no matter where they're at um and and recognizing that not all the kids are not everyone is in in in tier not everyone is that all the tiers have to work together um and that it's data driven data driven data data data whatever um and um it's it's not just for kids that
061have IEPs it used to be that if you had an IEP you were the kid that got all the help this is for every child whether you are thriving and you need something to push you farther or you're really struggling and you need that help to pull you up so um a lot of talk about that and how that will work best how we communicate with each other um so it was a really good meeting and that is all I have to say about that right thank you um I I can't do the building project quite Justice like Jack canus he goes in and actually lives over there and and knows all of it however I wanted to convey to all of you that the 234 is getting very very close to completion and ining
062so um we're going to schedule the board a time to go over and go through it so they are still painting they are still putting up uh I believe the last I overheard you say the last window went in yeah to the the 2 three four building so all the windows are in uh they're starting to do the finishing touches and and stuff on that so we will get a tour for everyone and we can go over um I think May would probably how about the first we the first meeting in May first meeting in may go over and see it okay I mean it is looking very very nice it is especially with all the okay you you will love it when you go through it so we'll just put that on our agenda
063that's all I had to say I don't know if was there anything you really want to add to that Jack or I know she said she summed it up pretty well I mean we've got they're um they're on the first floor in the I'll say the south end of the building which is closest to the Middle School and they're installing tack boards are up white boards are up cabinets are in lights are on ceiling tiles are in so it's they're working from that end down um as soon as they finish with all the interior of the classrooms they're going to start tiling hallways and that should be probably within the next week or so they'll be moving into hallways to start toing hallways so gyms all painted they painted it this week which what a
064difference that makes just getting a coat of white just white paint on it so just to get started with but um yeah every day you go in there something something big has happened right now so it's good to see it's it's almost like a snowball effect of change you mean every single time you go in there more and more and more is getting done so far this week we're averaging over 90 construction workers a day on that project wow which is it's a lot a lot of people just for this building here oh my go yeah the move in date um is towards the end of May it we will be moving the first week in June first week in June is the plan we'll move in there until teachers get out stay out give
065us a couple more months to finish punch list items and then they'll be ready to come August and we have a moving company that's actually going to help with this planes Moving and Storage out of Miamisburg they're going to help get everybody they will give us boxes I believe and the teachers will box up everything and move it so I just wanted us to get in there before so you can see it all before everybody gets in then we can go again you know maybe in August we we can see it all all prettied wow that's all I well thank you appreciate it yeah um I have two committees that I want to talk about of course one of them is our business advisory Council that's why we did not have a meeting at the
066end of last month was because everyone had to go and be at that business advisory Council I always really enjoy there there's something really cool to see a lot of passionate school board members a lot of passionate administrators and then a lot of businesses to all kind of converge and have a really good conversation on the amazing things that we we have been doing um some of them is what the ESC had okay it's I always see it as five stars but they have four stars which is the highest amount of stars there's no five stars and I think they're like that's something that's really a big deal um which is great because it's uh it's always good to see if our ESC is doing good that means that I mean we're doing a good
067job being suppored with them and of course vice versa um there's a few cool things that just I kind of picked out from that business advisory council meeting of course there's a lot of data and like very official things that you know everyone would probably fall asleep if we start diving in but um some of the more fun things that I thought was really interesting was at our table we had a robotics company and just an incredible company and they were just so excited with working on all the cool things are they going to be a part of the job fair job fair right so they will actually be at our high school job fair which is really cool to kind of show off some of their amazing robotics things and all the technology and
068it's very cool um so there's that I also found out that the 23 districts can I believe it's for the mg Montgomery County ESC and the Warren County ESC correct and they're adding some more ESC yeah they're kind of kind of combining a little bit but out of the 23 districts uh the kids that's in those districts went to over a thousand events in just the last year if I'm correct which pretty incredible to think that there's that many events out there for kids to go to to learn new things find new opportunities things that really get them forward in life I just think that's cool and then there was a few neat little things like the Ford Foundation which was kind of cool and then there was I think it's called dig program it's
069ran by women business owners and it kind of brings like a lot of young women in to show that like I mean there's big things that can happen yeah they use like big CL machines or whatever you want to call them I'm not a not a construction person at all excavators back exavator like the big machines always call them just the big machines you know the big yellow things uh and uh it seems pretty cool that program to really kind of get young women excited to be in a forest that's usually dominated by men workers so um and then we had great speakers um of course yeah they were local speakers and then uh they talked a little bit about our U science which I still need to do I've been fortunate enough to be
070able to try it out and I haven't done it yet but um I'm excited to see because that U science program is is so incredible when it comes to data and kind of finding out exactly what a child would want at their journey of what they want to do um so that's our business advisory Council and then I had a few things for a legislative to Liaison um I know I believe it was in committee I actually don't know what like exactly what like who is going for it or whatnot if I saw somebody in one of the Committees was uh I would if I had my technology I would know but sadly it didn't want to work today um one somebody had a computer science um to try to add computer science to high
071school I already have I don't know departments well that's what I was going to ask you is aren't we like we already do but it's already requirement oh is it requirement that's sound like this St um and then uh this is also something I think we're ahead of they're trying to make the school year longer because a lot of them are saying that math and reading is not proficient in a lot of school districts which could be true and then um Ohio out of Kentucky Indiana and Ohio Ohio is actually the least when it comes to amount of educational time for our students um so the thing is we do a pretty darn good job so in hours they're trying to raise it from 1,001 hours to 1,55 hours which would add what a few
072more days I'm graduating so you're not worried about no so they're doing it now I believe one of the uh one of the Reps was talking about how you know we have extended you know breaks and extended this and extended that like they want to Short something so it's just something it's I believe it's in committee so I mean who knows where it might go it might die tomorrow and no one right the state gr Sy and all that so um I know Senator brener um is uh definitely L off some really interesting bills that's coming out um one of them is Senate Bill 107 which has been something that's been coming around a lot especially last year you've heard about it in the year prior in the year prior um they they've been trying
073hard to have party designations on the ballots for school board members um kind of making School boards more partisan when it comes to ballots and of course with that that would add a election primary process so you know take what you will for it who knows that they'll have a pass this year um of course things have been going more conservative when it comes to Ohio so that's something that we might see um if that's the case then uh primary is going to be very interesting you know because it I mean it makes it a political uh position so that'll be something to look at um and then of course uh Senator Bill 113 you might have seen a little bit of it in the news um they are Senator burner is trying to prohibit
074Dei in schools um so and everything to be looking at um and it's something that's gaining a little bit of traction there so we'll probably see a little bit of work coming through that I know uh in the Committees they were having a lot of conversation about it and we'll see what happens there um and then uh House Bill 117 uh requires the Pledge of Allegiance in schools I don't think there' be any schools that don't have that but I guess just in case if one doesn't somewhere somebody because it's a house bill now that might pass so um there's that a house bill 125 was actually Ronney Cree one which was kind of interesting um allowing absences in schools for 4 and FFA programs it's no anybody run FFA program or 4 well they're
075trying to make it state law now so do you know if that also exclud like I'm not in the 4 program but I do compete in professional at so will that exclude me so for FFA you get you get private so um you can get science credit you get your um you have to have your meetings and your clubs and everything same with so they're more organized they don't like the yes it would have been good if they added Rodeo into that hey I mean it's not too late to add an amendment so you know you can go to the state house and try to shoot for the rodeo um and then Senate Bill 34 they actually had a committee meeting about it yet yesterday um and Cate Bill 34 is adding The Ten Commandments
076back into the schools um the only reason why I mentioned that is I just remember someone texting me about it and they're like hey by the way U check at 3:00 talking about it that so um there's that yeah that's all for I know we have a lot of legislative stuff so yeah we'll move right along do you have any comments I do I have your notes um couple things um we have a lot of dates for this month as Mrs Corbett mentioned um end of third quarter and the beginning of fourth quarter I can't believe we're in the last quarter of school um on the our teachers have QP day which is professional development and don't ask me why we had a long weekend this weekend I can't remember when we did the calendar
077a couple years ago also senior citizens uh we have our senior citizen breakfast on Thursday April 24th at 8:30 a.m. and a musical preview at 9:30 a.m. and you need to call the front office Mr at the high school um 937 859-5121 and she's extension one and it's always a great time to go if you're able Fant that's all so what do you consider a senior CI sorry s I'm about to hit my quarter life crisis do you have ack if not I'm working towards it works it all right we'll move along to the treasure Ryan do you have uh any extra comments uh just real quick I gave you a a onepage um summary of the the budget the K12 budget uh for the state of Ohio that the governor put out about a
078month ago um in total the state legislature would prob they would say that they're putting about one and a half% increase in the K12 for next year and then the following year but when you break it out by the four categories the top category Traditional School Districts so so that those are public school districts and then community and stem and then jbs's and then the scholarships for for vouchers such as um money to parents to help them pay tuition at private schools um so as you can see you know K the public schools at the top are looking at taking a about a 1% total reduction over the the Bayan which would start in July and then but then all the other three categories of community the stem and the JBS and um are showing
079nice increases so um the budget is now in the house so hopefully the house can find some additional money or redistribute the money so that the public schools can can get some some funding increases um but otherwise across the state districts aren't are not looking at much help from the state so that's just going to continue to put more and more burden on local taxpayers to to fund schools and future so obviously we'll watch this over the next four months that's it all right thank you Ryan um we do not have any comments from either of our associations so I'll move right on to central office Jack you want to start I think I've talked enough tonight I don't really have anything else to add thank you though um I just want to say that
080we have a literacy night tomorrow night at the ECC so far um kindergarten first grade family so 5:30 y so another event to look forward to it'll be a good evening the theme is black lights glow glow glowin thee darkk reading so it'll be fun for the kids yes definitely come on out for literacy night it's job fair season recruiting time so went to Shaun e State uh Brad and I went to UD and I normally take a principal to the local Miami Bowling Green U Xavier and right State um yeah to feel some of the positions of the people that are retiring and the people that are deciding to move on um just to bring your attention to we have a guy on on campus but it you know in our district uh for
081the next three days I think is Dr Daniel McKinnis he's a professor from the University of Toledo and he has a photo exhibit that he's been working on since about 21 um with Northwestern Ohio and now he's doing our district where he's highlighting teachers and kind of collecting their stories and then um the exhibit will be in Columbus for the next time he did one in the fall um at right state with them so our teachers will be included so will be six of that is really it is all right I I hope you can keep us upd that because I would honestly take the trip down to Columbus just to see that because that's really neat it's always nice to highlight the amazing things that we do here you know um we have no
082General comments from the public so we'll move right along to board members Andrew you want start I just want to congratulate the um staff that's um congratulate the staff retiring we of course miss them um but U we wish them the best of luck in their future i j uh just two quick things um the student rep process for next year should be getting started here soon we'll use the Reps we have now to help us push that last year's two seniors that we had they really um worked it pretty hard because we had more candidates last year than ever so a little pressure for you guys keep that going but I will I will I will update the and just add the 25 26 school year to it and then kind of send it
083out to you guys and you guys just run with it and we'll kind of put some rules together for application deadlines we kind of sended this around spring break which I wasn't quite here yet but um and then it was May so we kind kind of just introduce that idea to you but this is the time of year to start looking at replacing Krist and if uh Hy and Danielle stay with the two of you have any thoughts about continuing this next year at this point look at that we got two fill already that saves us the other thing I want to uh just highlight for a moment is I mentioned a few meetings ago that pirate packs was getting close to a milestone of 50,000 packs and after last week we at 49 911
084so this Friday when the packs are distributed we will cross the 50,000 Mark we are doing 32 a week for about the last two and a half months it takes a little time to build it up but uh we've been around 302 now for at least since the Christmas break was over so um want to just thank everybody for helping us get there and keep going because 300 a week is that's pretty normal we've had years where it was higher than that um preco and then since Co this is probably about average about 300 a week and um we appreciate all the work that goes into helping us give those to the kids and everything that everybody does to just put the word out because we have people show up every every week to pack
085with us they just show up and we really really couldn't do it without everybody so that's all I got great all right move over to okay so um just a couple things um I'm going to try and hit the things that somebody doesn't already said so ditto on all those um and then um again the bowling that the perfect bowling thing congratulations that's pretty awesome not many people can say that especially at a younger age so good job um and Mary Joe Phillips congratulations on the friends of the athletes um that's a cool thing I know that the last meeting we um highlighted the high school om at Oma um Awards but the middle school also uh they had set out a list and I've lost it now and I'm not going to try and
086say those names but congratulation to those people um and then you know my brain goes welcome to my world it's crazy up here but I just want to say that as I was sitting here tonight I looked over and I saw my dear Daniela and I just glanced at her notebook and everything is written in cursa Hallelujah someone still knows Cura someone still knows Cura I think that is a great thing did you learn School parents teach learn they us book and I got bored during during Co okay so there was a highlight of Co there you go if you need a highlight there it is must have put it back in after yeah we did not get okay well I don't okay here here is my personal advice at least learn how to sign
087your name I know okay all right all right good that's all I got all right um just real quick spring sports are coming um get in touch if you want to play get those physicals the final forms done and just keep up with all the announcements a lot of the teams are starting to meet because it's time it's March and this is when they're going to be filling their teams so it's fast and furious all the way through the end of the year now thank you all right you know I will say it is tough not the in cursive all right so I'm happy that our kids are Lear you know it's hard what were you doing during not learning curse for sure that is for sure um I also wanted to mention about those
088packs you I mean 50,000 might seem like oh you know just a number it's not just a number that's 50,000 kids that had the ability to eat that weekend right I mean am I getting the wrong number I mean like total like throughout the the whole time I mean that's a lot of kids that's a lot of kids to get fed I mean just total and uh just to see the impact that that makes on I mean the education for kids and the opportunity for kids to you know focus on education and not focus on eating is just uh is just incredible there's a bill in there right now that's trying to get everyone to have free free breakfast and lunch for the entire state wow really miss I missed that one how did I
089miss that look I try hard to look through these committees that that' be something all right you know I'm happy that other people can do oh you guys are okay we're getting wait for the quote wait wait wait wait before the quote I also want to thank some of our community members that are here because we got community leaders um I want to thank Karen thank thank you for coming here um I mean you working with us in the school district is really important and of course Keith is always good to see you back um with our uh city council okay and I I think they're trying to kick me out of here so I will do my quote and we will get going um this is actually at the last council meeting um it
090was uh Doug w w last Doug wood wood Woodard that's what I said yes go ahead it was his last police chief like than cuz he's retiring so he so is retiring and here's his quote okay so I couldn't get his quote because my computer didn't work but here's another good quote always had a backup just in case back yeah I tried to think itead uh we make a living by what we get but we make a life about what we get that's by Winston Church so I just want to congratulate Doug on his re all right okay can we get a motion second gibon thank you