001[music] >> We'll recall the meeting to order. Mrs. Burtis >> Here. >> Mr. Porter >> Here. >> Mr. Sherwood >> Here. >> Mrs. Smrek >> Here. Will please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> Mr. Porter, can you please read the mission statement? >> Our vision and mission statement >> I would like to have a motion to add addendum item 1-28 to the regular board meeting agenda. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Mr. Sherwood >> Yes. >> Mrs. Smrek >> Yes. >> Mrs. Burtis >> Yes. >> Mr. Porter >> Yes. >> Upon the recommendation of the treasurer, approve the agenda for the June
00229th, 2026 Board of Education regular session. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Mrs. Burtis >> Yes. >> Mr. Sherwood >> Yes. >> Mr. Porter >> Yes. >> Mrs. Smrek >> Yes. We have no public comments. Treasurer consent items, upon the recommendation of the treasurer, approve the following items A through D by consent action as follows. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Mrs. Smrek? >> Yes. >> Mr. Sherwood? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Bertsch? >> Yes. >> Mr. Porter? >> Yes. >> Memorandum of understanding. Upon the recommendation of the superintendent, approve the following memorandum of understanding by and between the Austintown Local School District known as the board and the Austintown Education Association OEA and EAS follows. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Mr. Sherwood? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Smrek? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Bertsch? >> Yes.
003>> Mr. Porter? >> Yes. >> Superintendent's consent items. Upon the recommendation of the superintendent, approve the following items A through I by consent action as follows. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Mrs. Smrek? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Bertsch? >> Yes. >> Mr. Porter? >> Yes. >> Mr. Sherwood? >> Yes. >> Upon the recommendation of the superintendent, approve Dave Phillips as the high school head principal for the 2026-2027 school year. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Mr. Sherwood? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Smrek? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Bertsch? >> Yes. >> Mr. Porter? >> Yes. >> Upon the recommendation of the superintendent, approve Adam Lowden as the intermediate school head principal for the 2026-2027 school year. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Mr. Sherwood? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Smrek? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Bertsch? >> Yes. >>
004Mr. Porter? >> Yes. >> Upon the recommendation of the superintendent, approve Brian Umstead as the high school assistant principal for the 2026-2027 school year contingent upon completion of all administrative licensure requirements. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Mrs. Smrek? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Burtis? >> Yes. >> Mr. Porter? >> Yes. >> Mr. Sherwood? >> Yes. >> On the recommendation of the superintendent, approve the 3-year contract for Joe McMahon, intermediate assistant principal, from August 1st, to July 31st, 2029. Salary in accordance with the board approved administrative salary schedule. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Mr. Sherwood? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Smrek? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Burtis? >> Yes. >> Mr. Porter? >> Yes. >> On the recommendation of the superintendent, approve the 1-year contract for Thomas Letten, intermediate assistant principal, from August 1st, 2026 to July
00531st, 2027. Salary in accordance with the board approved administrative salary schedule. So moved. >> Second. >> Mrs. Smrek? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Burtis? >> Yes. >> Mr. Porter? >> Yes. >> Mr. Sherwood? >> Yes. >> On the recommendation of the superintendent, approve the following contractual agreement with Grand Canyon University as follows. So moved. >> Second. >> Mrs. Smrek? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Burtis? >> Yes. >> Mr. Porter? >> Yes. >> Mr. Sherwood? >> Yes. >> On the recommendation of the superintendent, approve the three agreements between the Austintown Local School District and Julian and Group for the preparation of its schedule of expenditures and federal awards, the federal schedule, for the fiscal year ended June 30th, 2026 through June 30th, 2028 at a fixed fee of $900 per year. So moved. >> Second. Mrs. Smrek? >>
006Yes. >> Mr. Sherwood? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Burtis? >> Yes. >> Mr. Porter? >> Yes. >> Upon the recommendation of the superintendent, approve the agreement with Ford Office Technologies for copier services beginning August 1st, 2026 for a period of 63 months at a monthly rate of $5,997.77 with overages billed monthly at a cost of 3 cents per color impression. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Mr. Sherwood? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Smrek? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Burtis? >> Yes. >> Mr. Porter? >> Yes. >> Upon the recommendation of the superintendent, approve the agreement with Frontline Solutions for for professional learning, evaluations, management, and time and attendance services at a first-year cost of $31,291 funded through Title II resources. First-year price breakdown is as follows. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Mr. Sherwood? >> Yes. >> Mrs.
007Smrek? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Burtis? >> Yes. >> Mr. Porter? >> Yes. >> Upon the recommendation of the superintendent, approve the following contractual agreement for Legacy Visiting Health Service as follows. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Mr. Sherwood? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Smrek? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Burtis? >> Yes. >> Mr. Porter? >> Yes. >> Upon the recommendation of the superintendent, approve the following contractual agreement with Mahoning Valley Community School as follows. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Mrs. Smrek? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Burtis? >> Yes. >> Mr. Porter? >> Yes. >> Mr. Sherwood? >> Yes. >> Upon the recommendation of the superintendent, approve the following resolution for the adoption of NIST Cybersecurity Framework CSF version 2.0 as follows. So moved. >> Second. Mrs. Smrek? >> Yes. >> Mr. Sherwood? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Burtis?
008>> Yes. >> Mr. Porter? >> Yes. >> On the recommendation of the superintendent, approve the following resolution for the rehire retire rehire of Heather Bronstein as follows. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Mr. Sherwood? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Smrek? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Burtis? >> Yes. >> Mr. Porter? >> Yes. >> On the recommendation of the superintendent, approve the following resolution authorizing the execution of an architectural agreement with Wright Engineering for the repairs, renovations, and upgrades at Austintown Fitch High School as follows. So moved. >> Second. >> Mrs. Smrek? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Burtis? >> Yes. >> Mr. Porter? >> Yes. >> Mr. Sherwood? >> Yes. >> Upon the recommendation of the superintendent, approve the following memorandum of understanding by and between the Austintown Local School District and the Austintown Education Association OEA NEA as
009follows. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Mr. Sherwood? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Smrek? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Burtis? >> Yes. >> Mr. Porter? >> Yes. >> On the recommendation of the superintendent, approve the following handbooks for the 2026-2027 school year as follows. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Mr. Sherwood? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Smrek? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Burtis? >> Yes. >> Mr. Porter? >> Yes. >> On the recommendation of the superintendent, approve the updated gifted plan as presented. So moved. >> Second. >> Mrs. Smrek? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Burtis? >> Yes. >> Mr. Porter? >> Yes. >> Mr. Sherwood? >> Yes. >> Upon the recommendation of the superintendent, approve readoption revision of the following board policies as follows. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Mr. Sherwood? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Smrek? >> Yes. >>
010Mrs. Burtis? >> Yes. >> Mr. Porter? >> Yes. >> Approve Upon the recommendation of the Board of Education, approve the five-year administrative contract of Timothy S. Kelty, Superintendent of Austintown Local Schools, August 1st, 2026 through July 31st, 2031. So moved. >> Second. Mrs. Smrek? >> Yes. >> Mr. Sherwood? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Burtis? >> Yes. >> Mr. Porter? >> Yes. >> Our next meeting for July will be July 21st. Our work session will begin at 4:00 followed by our regular session at 5:00 p.m. So moved. >> Second. >> Mrs. Smrek? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Burtis? >> Yes. >> Mr. Porter? >> Yes. >> Mr. Sherwood? >> Yes. >> Treasurer comments? >> None. >> Superintendent comments? >> Yes, I do. Um I have some introductions that I would like to make uh to present to you
011to our Board of Education. We're going to first start off with our teaching staff, our AEA appointments uh with Melissa Walton. She's going to be assigned as an intervention specialist at Fitch High School. Melissa, are you here? Please stand and wave. Thank you. Second uh is Jenna Uh-oh, how do we say the last name? I want to get it right. Hepperlin. She's going to be She just hired as intervention specialist at our Austintown Middle School. So, we're very very fortunate to have them. They both have a great amount of experience and education. So, we're looking forward to them in Falcon Nation. So. Uh lastly, I I'm going to speak on our administration and before I do, I'm I'm just very uh proud. You know, as usual, but I'm I'm even more so that the amount
012of support that we have here for our teachers and administrators. Uh so, thank you for the the administration for coming tonight. It means a lot. Um I want to congratulate Brian Umstead first. He couldn't make it. He's on vacation. He's going to need that energy when he gets back when he goes to Fitch. So, we're looking forward to Brian. On the other is uh Mr. Dave Phillips, our new high school principal. I'm very proud of of him being a Fitch grad along with Mr. Thomas Lenton, who is upon coming back, he's with his wife and that. So, thank you, Mr. Lenton. Uh Joe McMahon, another Fitch grad, very proud Fitch grad. He's here with his family also, Joe. So, please stand and be recognized. I think you're here with your mom. Is your mom here?
013Very good. Very good to see you. Uh well, uh last but not least, Adam Lowden. He will be our head principal at Austintown Intermediate. Where we're proud of him is all his children and his wife is an employee of the school system, but his children go to Austintown. I I it's AIS, all of them, right? I don't know. Okay, the future looks great, right? Some four little Falcons. So, I want to thank everybody for coming and um I appreciate I'm looking forward to already the school year. I know that kind of hurts to hear, but we're ready to go. Thank you. >> Carol >> I've been welcoming everybody. >> Now, I'll speak real quick. I'm just um happy with all the new leadership in the buildings. I think it's great. And um I think this
014board is trying to do that, have continuity. People that have been around the block um and reward leaders. And that's what we want. Our our scores are great. So many things are going in our direction here. And we want to keep rewarding that. That's our mandate, what's best for kids. And that's what we're trying to do. So, all of you got the new contracts, the new people. We're grateful, but the work is coming at you pretty quick. >> Just a congratulations. I think it's all been said. >> I also want to congratulate everybody. Um I'll sort of piggyback off what Don said. You know, there's times when we have to make changes, and sometimes people question that, but rest assured this board with any changes we're always trying to move forward and and do the
015best we can for our staff and our students and our community. So, with that, everybody enjoy their 4th of July and have a safe safe rest of your summer. Thanks. Motion to adjourn. >> Mr. Sherwood? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Smrek? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Burtis? >> Yes. >> Mr. Porter? >> Yes. >> Mr. Dow?