001Mass. Yes. Here. Mrs. Henry here. Uh, Mr. Reagger here. Mrs. Hartley here. All right. And if um everyone could stand for the pledge of allegiance, please. I pledge algiance 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. Thank you. We need an approval of the agenda for our meeting tonight. So move. Second. Okay. Mrs. Hers. Yes. Mr. Rager. Yes, Mrs. Hartley. Yes, Mrs. Mass. Yes. Thank you. Um, did you want to do your audience participation for the rehire? Yeah, I was just going to say that we have two tonight. One is specific for uh as required by high-rise code uh for staff intending to rehire after they've retired. Uh we have to have a public session.
002Uh this was posted in the Sanduski register paper um a few weeks ago. And so those are the two teachers and a bus driver that retired at the end of this school year and are seeking remployment to start next school year. And then um anyone in the audience have anything they'd like to bring before the board this evening? Okay, we'll move on. So for reports for the building or department today we have outgoing president Amy uh Springer about athletic boosters. So Amy you are up. Okay. So what I did is I put together um we just our um booster budget meeting. And so with that, in March, we reach out to all the coaches. We send out a letter and I actually follow up with text messages, make sure that they um are aware that,
003you know, you want to put in for equipment or uniforms to to let us know. So um this is if you don't see a sports team on here, it's because they either have their own equipment and they're good to go for the rest of the year. So first thing is we approved uh girls basketball. They're getting Nike red varsity uniforms and there's 15 away. So, they got the jersey and the shorts for that. I put down 1,800. Girls soccer night warm-ups. There are 28 of them. Those uh we order really early because they won't probably come in until end of September. Um baseball, they requested new home and away jerseys uh approximately 2,000. Uh wrestling, um they're going to be getting new Nike sublimated singlets, 25 of them. He's hoping to have a good turnout
004this year. Wrestlers for 2225. Um cheer. Um our new cheer adviser um is in need of three more uniforms for I believe freshman JV at 700. And then the paper supply um comes from Sand Bay for signage which is around 200. Um and then boys and girls tennis, they usually share all their equipment. So they just requested for two ball hoppers. We um fitted tennis last year with all new warm-up suits, all new um jerseys. So, they're pretty good for uh this next year. So, you can see the total about $9754. Um that's just for cloth. Um oh, I'm sorry, the ball hoppers. I meant to put that down as equipment, but um maintenance um our freezer uh diet during track season. So, we're going to we have two freezers. We're going to order another
005one um at 600. Um we do 360 bags of Barnes hardwood mulch at 1,800 and we're going to do some painting at the stadium uh approximately around 3,000. We're going to paint the Hiron Memorial sign red letters. Um we're going to paint the old ticket booth which used to be our old it's where we keep all the equipment. When you make that turn, it's just looking um a little dingy. So, we're going to hit that with a nice gray and then paint all those letters on both sides white. Um, you don't realize how big that building is. It's we walked around it with the painter and it's pretty big. So, that's going to look really nice. Um, we make that turn. Uh, what else here? And then, oh, um, Matthew Ays requested some new conference
006banners because we're going to be changing our conference here soon. So, we're going to need that. So, he put in approximately 1500. So, he's going to go ahead and and order those. So, our total is about 67 $6,900 there. So, um at the bottom, uh what we did is we budgeted the first number is what we budgeted. The second number is what we did this past year. So, for 5050, we budgeted 2 grand again and we did 2127. concession stand. We budgeted 20,000 again and we did 25,25047 membership drive uh which was last year if you recall that was the first year we did the send kids door to door. It did not hurt us. I was really thankful to our community for that. We budgeted again 15,000 like we did last year and we
007made 18,81512. Um and then sports programs we did the same again. We did 6,000 um budgeted and then we did 592912 for uh last year. The bingo uh we have pole tickets. We're not allowed to call it lottery anymore. It's called bingo for the state of Ohio. So um those are pull tickets and we have the pole tickets at Fish House, at Sandbar, at Main Street, Jim's Pizza Box, and now we have the Vikings then. So that's down at the Lagoon. So that's just seasonal. That's just for summer, but it's doing really, really well. So, um, that's great. So, we see we budgeted 35,000 as of right now. Our our lottery, I can't say lottery, I'm not used to it. Um, our uh bingo, our end of the year, beginning of the year is October
0081st. So, Cheryl said we'll probably be around 42 to 43,000 by that time. So, that's that's good. Summer is always does really well at these different places. So, we're really lucky to to Vikings done tour, you know, a list of those. So, stadium advertising, it does seem a little low. Um, that is like every three years. So, we budgeted 5,000 for this year. Uh, last year we did 63 6,300 6643. Uh, next year will be the year we'll have about 15 up for renewal and those are at 800 a piece for the seating and signs that go along the fence. So, um, so we'll have the budget more for for next year for that. Um, so you can see our booster fund as of right now, our cash flow is 40,25621. Our bingo right now
009is at 19,456 totaling just under 60, at 59,7121, which to me I think is really good because this is our end of the year, our first, you know, July 1st is the start of our boosters with our membership drive coming up. That'll be on July 26th. Um and then that cleanup day as well is that is that day. Um our turf loan. This is kind of exciting for me because um we've really worked hard on getting this down. Um currently we only owe $75,000. Uh next month the July payment for Mucci uh will be 25,000 will get us down to 50 and then the next payment from Mucci won't be till January 2026. So, our plan is to put another 25,000 down on the principal in November. Um, we could have done that now, but
010we always feel like we want to make sure there's no emergencies, like you can be out something. Something could become a tornado and something could happen. And so, we we just felt like with a new board coming in, we thought, you know what, let's just be conservative and let's wait till November and see how things go. Um, so with that, uh, the ne the last two payments for Mucci will go strictly to the boosters with 50,000 since we put that big deposit down at the beginning of the turf. So, um, we're starting year five and it's insured for eight years and I was just out there with Mucci Farms and it looks really good. I mean, the coloring, everything looks really good still. So, that's you get what you pay for, you know. So, I'm
011happy that it's it's turning out really well. Um, our new board Uh it will be uh continuing with John Ruff as president. Samantha Dembbucker will stay on as VP. The new treasurer is Michelle Hall. Michelle I believe has a freshman coming in um son and um Kurt Hall was a past assistant football coach back in the day. And um she's wonderful. Her family um owns Turf Toughman Equipment. So she does all the payroll for her family's business. So I think she'll do Cheryl and they've been working together for a while now and she's like she's great. So I'm so happy that she's going to be our treasure. Our members at large is Sue Dickerson, Chris Foster, Beth Williams, Steve Slesman, Whitney Fantosie, and Christy Sass. Um Whitney Fantos has been our concession stand leazison for
012um several years. So she really knows ins and outs of that. Um, so I as far as the leadership there in the concession, um, I have Whitney and Christy Sass kind of heading up the the window side of it and then Beth Williams and, um, it's Samantha Denbacher will kind of head up the food side of it. So, it's going to be like a team effort to to get that um, organized. U, back in May, we did a scholarship um, banquet. We gave out 21 student athletes um, each earned 500 scholarship. Um, I listed all the names. Um, Ellie Hartung, Austin Bruno, Dominic Murritori, Paul Maloney, Jack Murray, Ben Davis, Megan Harker, Audrey Duziaak, Ella Ransom, Mason Shinley, Nicholas Rager, TJ Murray, Jason Lensick, Kendall Towns, Alison Wither, Brooke Dumbbacher, Riley Deans, Carter Slleshman, Joseph
013Wood, Adeline Fida, and Gabriella Brooker. um wonderful group of kids. It was a wonderful scholarship banquet. Um I always enjoy that. That's always a fun way to end the school year at the scholarship. Um and the last thing as far as um I was going to say was Mucci Farms uh had their employee appreciation just recently on June 13th at the stadium. Thank god it wasn't super hot like today. So um they hosted 230 employees. Uh they're just a they're a wonderful company. We were so lucky to have them here in Heron. So lucky. Uh they hosted a huge soccer tournament in uniforms. Um catered lunch by Blue Ribbon Catering. Tons of prizes. It was it was neat. If you lived around here, you'd hear a lot of things in Spanish um and then in
014English. So that was really cool. Um they love it at the stadium. They they first thing they said, the Canadians came in, they said, "Well, what is the contract? How long is the contract here?" And I said, "Well, you're okay. You got like three years." And she goes, "Oh, great." you know, so that was that was kind of neat. So, um anyway, but last thing I wanted to say was uh to thank you guys. Thank you board um administration for your support through the years. It has been um 15 years. It's been it's been awesome. It's it's been great. I've only had a couple I would say probably two tough times or moments um that I can think of. Uh uh but I I worked I was just sitting here to write this down because
015I had to write down but I've had uh I worked with uh three different principles. John Brock Scott Mcaby and Tim Lamb athletic directors Tony Mafo Monica Asher Steve Kamala Matthew Ayes superintendent Fred Fox Dennis Murritoriums John Ruff and Julie McDonald and current superintendent of course James uh Dr. James Tapman. So, um, I wanted to say a shout out to the past board members, Donna Green and Scott Slocom and Paul Wward and of course the late John Jones. I miss him. We all miss him. Um, to me here in city schools is extremely special if people are listening or watching online. Um, to me like no matter what each day brings, it's it's a group effort to have a strong community and be successful. It really is. Takes a group effort. Um through the years,
016schools have have copied verbatim our membership flyer. They've called to ask us how did we get volunteers? Um how did you get that size of a loan? It's it's been pretty great. Uh so anyway, it takes commitment, takes a lot of dedication, a lot of love and support from our teachers, our coaches, our administration, and a strong schoolboard. Um you know, loyal and hardworking parents and volunteers. It it it all makes it happen, you know. So um so thanks stand here tonight and for giving me the trust in all the projects I've been a part of. I will say it comes full circle because the very first project was the tiger painted on the wall and then the last project was the scoreboards. So I sat there the one day during the basketball game I'm
017like wow that's kind of neat that they're right next to each other. But um I laugh because um the day before they started the tire Don Wood comes up to me and he goes, "It better not look like that sleepy polar bear. And I said, "What?" So then that night I was up at 3:00 in the morning and I went, "Oh my god, what if what if it looks like a sleepy polar bear?" I was so nervous and and anyway, he uh he I told him the next day I'm like, you know, he made me so nervous for this project. So I just laughed because ever that was the first one that I was like, "Oh my gosh, please don't screw up." You know, but um but anyway, it's been a great time and I'm
018still going to be around. You're still going to see me. So but thank you guys. I know if you have any questions, but we I I don't have a question, but I have something that the board would like to give you in appreciation. Oh jeez. Is that a green Is that a green? It is possible. Is that terrible? I know what it is. Shop. This is just a very very very small token of our appreciation. Thank you so much for everything you have done. How do you change the boosters? Thank you. It's going to be a good and if it's, you know, if there's a fire, I'll be there, you know. So, but thank you. Absolutely. Absolutely. Thank you guys. So, um, a little way down a journey, you'll see we're asking for approval for
019the Magic School AI. And so, want to take a few minutes and explain what that entails and what that contract is all about. So this year um a couple of us really got into um AI from the standpoint of what impact can this have on education as it is um coming out more and more people are doing different things with it. What does it look like and then what's the role of it in our district? So, um, and a couple different p uh professional development opportunities, Magic School AI kept coming up and so I had the opportunity to go to Port Clinton as Novemberish um and sit in on their roll out of it to their staff with their staff. So, um, not knowing what it was, what it was about, sitting elbow to elbow
020with them. Um, and this was their, um, staff's first opportunity with it as well um, to see, you know, what the tools um, we could would be available for um staff and then later on students. So um after that I came back um and talked to James Mike and said can we at least do a pilot um with volunteers knowing that several of our staff members were already using it under free trial basis which is a whole other conversation but um because when I contact the lady she was like oh what's your email address and she's like oh you have accounts and I was like I don't want to know that. Okay. So, um, so we signed up for a pilot and we offered it to the tech committee and then anybody who was willing.
021Um, and so we did some, um, kind of arm twisting because who says yes to a pilot in the middle of the year? But we said what we need to know is like how you can use it in your everyday life to make things easier for you um, less time consuming, working smarter not harder, and then also impacting your instruction. So those are the two goals, if you will, of the pilot. So the teachers um, about once a month I would go back and say, "Okay, how how have you um used it to address these two goals?" And so they came up with some really neat ideas and um ways to use it that I guess when we started we hadn't really thought through or thought about like we just jumped in, let's get our
022hands dirty with this and whatnot. So if you think in terms of when you log into a platform, what the first thing Magic AI does as a user asks you um what you like and what you're looking for. So you build a dashboard of your favorites. So, I kind of had to tuckle what my favorites started as and what they ended as at the end of the pilot were different because you know there's things like um uh writing letters of recommendations. There's quote of the day that you can use for students. There um are song creators. So, you put in a standard I need fifth grade science standards for Ohio and it shoots out a song on whatever you've just asked it to do. So, things like that. So, um teachers um put in, you
023know, I'm having a hard time with this behavior. What are some interventions I can use for a second grade student? Um, I'm trying to think what else. There's a whole host of things and they're constantly adding tools to this. So, the backdoor side of it is open AI, but um, what Magic School AI does is it puts bumpers on for use of AI for both the students and the teachers or excuse me, I said that backwards, the teachers and the students. what teachers can do is have the kids log in and they can set up different things that the kids can do given only certain parameters. Um, and also one of the tools I had at Chuckle is creating assignments that are um, AI resistant. So, I thought that was kind of funny. There's a
024tool for that in the AI tools. So, um, so another thing that could be beneficial to the student and we did not mess around with this in the pilot because they didn't go that far and then that's not us, but we can upload handbooks and board policies and documents um and it'll use um I had to write this down because we keep calling it RE but it's the retrieval augmentation generation um where AI uses large data sets but they don't have parameters on it till you put them on there. So if we upload our documents and upload our things it uses that as the context for the product. So um again just say we have um a behavior um we need to discipline a student. We need to write a parent letter. It knows what
025our handbook says. It knows these different things and it can make suggestions and what to put in that letter kind of things. So we didn't get that far into it. We didn't get that deep yet. Um but um it's a step forward in our AI usage um and teaching kids how to better use AI. There are some great ways in which to do it. Um there are also other products. Um and why we liked this one is we felt the um user interface seemed easier, seemed more intuitive. Um you could build that dashboard. So James's dashboard looks different than mine looks different for Mike because what tools we're using in the classroom. Um I like this versus um a membership to teach a pay teacher which is kind of like a wild wild west of
026instructional things. I'm not a fan of teacher. I say that to our staff and they kind of chuckle. But yeah, what is it called? Teacher teacher pay teacher. It's a it's an Etsy for teachers if you will. Um teachers create stuff and put it out there and teachers can buy it from each other, but I think the research on it is a little rough for me personally. It's a little rough to say like that's not good. So, and this kind of um like I said puts that bumper system on system. It's not failing. It's not perfect. whatever. But as we tiptoe in it, you know, we have that constant conversation going of, you know, where do we start? We got to start somewhere. It's not going to be where we end up. Um the um
027contract also will provide for uh some PD for the the teachers to get going. So um when I look back at the end of the pilot and how many people were still using it, you know, each month it increase and and once they got a little bit into it, they're like, "Oh, okay. Here are all the things that I can do." I did have a teacher It did not help her become more efficient because she started creating a lot of things that she otherwise would not have created. So, it didn't buy her anything, but it got her better quality in the in the more things that she made. I thought, well, okay, that's that's honest and fair. You go down a rabbit hole and you start having fun. I get it. So, um so um
028yes, asking for recommendations on that. And then I have a little bit of good good news, too. Our preliminary report cards um have come back. And I say preliminary because we are still cleaning up data which we will do through um late summer. Um Kathy Monroe has been wonderful saying here's what's I need to look at. Here's what's um doesn't seem right. So um met with the principal last week to already clean some stuff up and um shake some things out. But as a as a good guess, um, and even it's in red on the, um, secure data center, um, the district most likely will end up at a 4.5 out of five stars. Um, Woodlands is up to a 4.5 right now. Um, it probably will not hit the five, but we also are
029still working on our early literacy component because we still have 10 kids testing this week for the summer test. So, um, right now that itself is at a three. We think we can get it up, but it won't take the overall score of that building up much more. Um, McCormick super crowds are up to a four. Um, and the high school um since kind of nationals, he's at a 4.5 right now. Couple things. Um, we are now um responsible for college, career, workforce, and military readiness um component. So, it's always kind of hanging out there. Here's what it shows, whatever. So, um, we have we're at 83 out of 100. We had a perfect 100 kids in this last class. 83 met that indicator. He needs an 85 to get a five, which would put
030him back up five star. So, um, we uh, Kathy has been in contact with different service providers that would have been responsible for that for students out of our district to still count for our district. So, as you know, people on vacation. So, um she gives me an update. I think she gave me three updates today, like just tracking how kids. So, um last week we were at 79. So, it is it is still possible. And Tim was doing a lot of pacing as we were like, "Okay, what about this one? What about that one?" So, it could be close. And then it'll also be close um when the data drops out for um data we're not responsible for. So, um, for Brian, he doesn't have two reports that happen can't even report them until
031August. So, that's why they put this tag on. But all said and done, our self-reporting document with the region, we're still leading a quick and I'm just super proud and excited because I know how hard our staff works. And I know it's not the only thing we do here, but in my department, my little wheelhouse, um, just super proud. We're getting it done. So I I just have a quick question about magic. I want to call it magic school bus. Yeah, I kind of magic AI. Yeah, I guess my question is we don't have a policy for AI. Do do you implement something like this before you even have a policy for AI? I just we have draft policy. So, um when the tech committee met last week, we had two goals. One was to
032work through the draft AI policy that a lot of school boarders shared um through JS. We hacked it up pretty good. Um the version the committee felt was very pumitive and not as um a growth opportunity in teaching students and staff. So, um that is back with James with all our red and green um suggestions. And so that work um had uh two teachers involved um a few administrators, the IT department and an intern myself. Um and we used different resources too. We just didn't go back to OSB and we to be honest with you in Ohio because we felt like some of the other states and what they were doing we liked better. So um that will be forthcoming here pretty soon. So um the other thing I failed to mention is um the
033state's work with magic school the consortium work. So the price in the contract is reflected across um the state's buying power. So the state was leaning towards that and so we like that as well because quite frankly it fits with all the other stuff that we're doing too. So do we have a timeline on the policy? Uh I still need to review it and then send it over to Stacy to give input. Uh so it could be a first read in July and then second in action. Is is there a um a date by which the cost for this has we have to approve it by a certain date to get this 495 price or is it it was statewide pricing? I don't believe so. But um they check on us the vendor checks on
034us every week and we will say it has to be approved before we sign it. Okay. Okay. But I just I just feel like if if we're going to implement this kind of program that's AI, I personally would like to see us have an AI policy in place first before we sign on for something like this. And I just if if there's a if this is timesensitive, I I don't know. Um but I just that's just my personal opinion. Yeah, and I would say it's on the agenda now after this last school year ended where staff piloted it, they shared with their peers. So as they start thinking late July into August about lesson planning and things like that for the new school year, uh having access to it, I think they find beneficial, you
035know. So um and um you know the the AI policy that OPA provided it's pretty vanilla because it's still so new that you know how do you provide guidance on something that is still being figured out and there's no legislative requirement for that policy. Um um and I would also say that there's other policies that exist that help guide decisions with any tool that's used by teachers or students. So I think that's why I'm comfortable recommending it now for those reasons. James a question on um how this fits with Senate Bill 29 and our obligations um as we're using apps and things like that like how do those is is this in its current form compliant with with because it seems like a pretty simple contract. It is pretty simple. So um so the other
036goal of the tech committee last week was the student data privacy agreements with all of the different entities that we work with. So like has to have this little sheet of paper so I work right. So, um the other contract that we had last year and that we're redoing this year because quite frankly it saves my sanity is um the learn 21 the consortium that's um where we get those DPA student privacy agreements. So magic school AI is on the list and so we have generated that and so we have it. So that was the other goal of the committee last week. So I think we're up to 42 of those agreements and then for those that we not get agreements with for one reason or other. They are being added to our final forms
037COPA Senate Bill 29 list that asks for student permission permission for the student. Okay. Thank you. Um I think and I appreciate the question about policy so we can kind of figure out how it lines up. I think because we're being pitched um platforms at the college level um to help with some maybe say nonredit certificates and some of them are just really open about using AI for developing curriculum and that concerns me honestly because I feel like that's the magic of educators and all the training that they do and understanding the standards and child development and what's appropriate and what the student needs are. Um, and I've seen some things go a little wonky and haywire with curriculum and relying on that. Um, and and I understand certainly its presence in the workforce. I
038see it. Uh, I also see some of the studies coming out about like the brain MRIs of people who are becoming more and more reliant on AI to do their creative work and it's a little bit alarming there too. So, just to say I hope you know, it's a good tool. It's important to understand the tools and exercise all the tools that we have. I also want to, you know, applaud the magic that is our educators and what they bring that, you know, AI can't do. Um I think too of some of the concerns for privacy if open AI is the background for that to ensure that what is being fed into it is not then being right because now is that becoming part of an algorithm that is then being shared out other places
039and just um hearing some of the sounds for alarm with the data privacy on a broader scale with some of these platforms. But thank you for taking the time to explain all the things that it can do and benefits. No, I appreciate and the expectation is as a board you have approved all the core curriculum and intervention. So that is our board and then we preach that using that with fidelity. This is a tool to do things with not replace that because if that's the case I don't need to spend $150,000 on reading material. Right. But I but I guess my question would be then and I understand what you're saying that this is just kind of a help tool but then who's who's making sure that people aren't just going to magic um AI
040magic AI and doing all this I mean who who's we we have a lot of teachers and I understand that. So, how do you know the parameters or what are the parameters that will be put on this with lesson plans and and things like that? Because out, you know, you mentioned something about writing letters of reference. You know, I I I know that there's a lot of teachers here that have a standard letter. they, you know, plunk and chunk and being on HF, we get the same letter over and over and over and over again. Um, so I'm just I'm just wondering what the parameters are so you're not having that creative part or the reason for we have teachers and we're paying teachers to use their creativity. How how do you how do you
041make sure that still happens? So, one of the features that is we have an admin dashboard. So, just like I can see in the pilot who's using it, how much what tools are they going to I I can look at that at any time. The principles can look at it, James can look at it, we can see that. Um I think you also see it in the teacher based team meetings, right? So, if you know um or even like um an is so the intervention meetings for um students. So um I think you know there's potential to see it there and if the overall reliance on it versus not what I hope comes the light is we drop all this other noise that people will go out and find other things other places and at
042least we're all centralized and like coming to this as a hub and say okay here's where we can generate ideas and do good things right so another tool in here is you know um a writing prompt um for the morning uh morning work morning um give me one that's standardized versus you know just like um third grade third grade math standard versus this is what I feel is too nice right so those kind of things I think will help it along as far as an over reliance on it so using the letter of recommendation K gives me a resume I can upload it put in the student's information and say give me um a three paragraph reference letter for this student who wants to go to the University of Cincinnati. They don't produce it. And
043then the teacher then has to go back, they just can't take it verbatim. The teacher then needs to go back and say, you know, does it sound like me? Um, just, you know, does it use the language I would use? Things like that. I've been asked to write reference letter. So, I tested it out and I kind of chug. I'm like, I don't sound like that. Thank you. Thank you for making me sound very sorry. So, I had to like fix it up and make, you know, make it sound like it was me. teachers are going to have to work through that. But they would do um similar things with teacher paid teacher not standard based looks very cute whatever or you know other Etsy downloads or other places they get stuff or even just
044internet searches. This gives us like I said that bumper up. It will take some growing pains. It will. And and that was one thing, you know, I took away from Fort Clinton is, you know, I'm sitting in a room with 30 teachers, all different grade levels, all different subject areas, and they're like, "Wow." Okay. And so the first 15 minutes, you know, here's back and you're overwhelmed. And by the end of it, they were like, you know, when we talk planets, we can actually do blah blah blah. And then like, what do you think about this? So I don't necessarily know that the creativity we lost is just using it differently. and we're gonna have to practice it is there like a system for magic AI school to um make sure we know like with
045standardized testing that like you know bias can creep in we know a certain type whether it's you know so like is there a way that this checks itself to make sure as it's getting fed in and I don't proclaim to know exactly how But it's getting fed in all this information from all these places that it's not skewing in a way that's whether it's politically, racially, gender, you know, like there's a bias or some sort of it already has a Google everything. Fair enough. But since we're since we're perfectly in front of it, so the answer is yes. They will also say with a little asterisk caveat that it's not perfect because it's ever expanding. So that redial with that rank system um that's what they come back to to like clean up the large
046data pieces and add context and add the things that's their fallback but they will also say it's not perfect because it's ever expanding. So I think it's I mean and I may not be reading it. I think it's interesting or a little unusual that like this contract does not say what it is. Like so I read the contract I have no idea what their service is. Like the looking at the other contracts we have, it's like this is for security awareness training and FISER training. This is for behavioral consulting services in the district. Their contract just says for our services based on the number of students. I don't think it ever like so I didn't know what it was coming in. So I apologize for all the questions. Um I just it's it's a little
047unusual. It's a really simple contract. Like it's it's like a shockingly simple contract. Maybe. Anyway, is it is it inevitable that we're going to be incorporating some kind of AI platform? I mean, obviously we're like getting out ahead of it a little bit, maybe embracing it with this. Um, but is this inevitable? So, people are using it already. So there's one out there. You don't have to log in. You just go to the internet and go check and put stuff in. So this would be located kids use it through Clever. They lover and it's there. So it puts those parameters on it. So if if we don't the platform, they can still access AI and so we ask the guys to cut it off and then the IT guys can block sites. But I think
048we also should be teaching kids how to use it. So to that end, is there any sorry like to rabbit on this, but like so in the business world like if you're in the Microsoft platform, right? And I know that's a fair I remember as a kid like it was always like Mac was being pushed in educational settings, right? And in the real world it was like PCs, right? All right. So So you could teach a kid how to use a Mac, but you weren't necessarily preparing them for like, you know, computer literacy in the um in the real world, you know, to the extent Microsoft is kind of the Phoenix, right, of of platforms in the the business world. I know we're starting to learn now in the business world how to use Copilot
049and Microsoft's AI tools. Is there any like push in the workforce readiness vein to like is there like a Microsoft Junior platform or something like that that's getting kids ready for using tools that they'll see in the business world versus something that may they may not see again when they get out of school. I don't know if my question makes sense, but it does. And I'm not I think so because it's all new. Um not that I'm aware of yet. So um Google has their um it can't off the top of my head, but um there's that one, but again, it's wide open. So um yeah, I'm not aware of what yet. Um other platforms out there risk. Um gosh, rattle them all off the other day super fast. Well, maybe just like with our
050eye to that long term and I know we're not committing ourselves forever to this platform. Yeah. And and the state can say in the next budget, whatever, right? Or in the next legislative action, whatever. So this is um for a year but to the point like Beth made that inevitability like I think the expectation in the workforce that we thought of work forces is like why why wouldn't you kids are using it already teachers are using it already to try to get some Thank you for all the discussion. Thanks. Thanks, Julie. Did you have anything more, Julie? Okay, Amy, I too I just wanted to let you know we love that you're here, but if you didn't want to stay for the whole board meeting, you sure don't have to. I was, but I just
051wanted to go outside and enjoy the weather. I just wanted to give you an out in case you had something else you want to do. We love that you're here. All right. Um, so we are 11 months through and in one week we'll be in FY26. So it's kind of crazy, but uh far as far as all the revenues go, we're sitting at about 103% right now. I imagine by the end of this month after we close the fiscal year, it' be right around 1035 um 104%. So we're pretty accurate. um expenditures all funds 84% general funds 81 I imagine for both after we get everything paid and close out all these other POS that we maybe didn't use low 90s so you know we're definitely under expenditure so that's a good thing uh we
052had $9,800 in donations for uh few different scholarships field trip and boys tennis uh I got a whole packet of purpose statement and budgets last week so I'm working through those um and I'm hoping to continue to collect those. I would love to have them before all of them before school starts so we can get all those put in. Um so there's a a list of those. Um D is uh it allows me uh between in the next seven days uh any advances or um transfers that need to happen. I can tell you know the first two I can think of like we do every year food service and athletics. Uh there will be small grant amounts. So there will be five or six grants that have to transfer the uh zero out for the
053end of the fiscal year. Um so anything I do in that category, I'll report to you at the July 7th board meeting. Um Erie County uh community foundation grant, that's uh their agreement. There was a $6,000 grant for that summer intern. So that's their grant agreement. And then F is um accepting those and there's a project lead the way there as well for $10,000. Um so that's F. Uh G is FY25 final appropriations. I don't expect there to be a ton of modifications to this. If there are, again, I'll report that out. Um but these are for our final appropriations for 25. Um and then H is the temporary. I think last year I did 25% of 4's appropriations. So I tried to get a little ahead of the game. The only thing we don't
054have right now, um we don't have any of our federal funds uh allocated to us yet. Uh, title one, I take that back. We did just get title one um last Friday. Uh, we are still waiting on all the other federal funds to the amounts to be allocated to us. So, they're not on the 26. Um, if we get them before the end of the fiscal year, I'll add them and I'll report that out to you um in July. Is that statewide? I believe so. Yeah, we're we're actually waiting on typically it's it's a terrible process. Normally they get it to us in June, but it's like June 15th and then you have like two weeks to get it all settled so you can do the appropriations and everything. This year they're just like nobody's
055got them. They gave us and even the title one they said is placeholder amount. So I don't know exactly what that means. No word from Department of Ed about it. No, Julie, you sent in Didn't you say you sent in or you know when you're at your meeting somebody sent it in? Yeah. So um I a working lunch today with Perkins and Baloo and everybody's frustrated. So, um the system's not even taking the sense like after you enter a dollar amount, you have to put cents and it's very specific and the system's not even taking the sense. So, um can send off a help desk ticket and the reply message from who you're supposed to email away message is like here are all the known issues like like I'm not answering email. I'll do it
056when I can. But if you have one of these issues and I had to like scroll and I just started laughing, but there's a work session until on Wednesday and I'm gonna go like it's just it was like the 17th. I'm like, man, this is really late. Like normally we have it by now and now it's the 23rd and we still don't have it. So what are the impacts if I mean this is for the upcoming year for the year and whenever we find out what it is? Yeah, probably. Um Well, as soon as we get them, we'll put them in. We'll amend the appropriations so we can spend them. Um, this is significant funds, right? Oh, yeah. Yeah, it would be. I mean, as of right now, the title one, I think they have
057a placeholder in there of like 20 7,000. Okay. Um, but yeah, it's um it's not it's not as impactful to as Yeah, collectively it's under half million because IDA, you got title one, title two and four, 28 and four, they're telling us they're going to give us half of this past year's allocation as a place. We don't know if we're getting the rest. So, that's awesome to make plans with. Um, yeah, I want 500,000. I can look it up. Um, I'm pretty sure it's right around that right around that area. Yeah. So, I'll update you guys as soon as you know anything about that. Um, item I, STRS, STRS pickup, uh, change for administrators. Uh, last year it was picked up at 3%, this year it's 5%. Um, so those are the two resolutions we
058sent off to STRS STRS to get that changed. Um, item J is our uh, insurance renewal. It's up about $5,000 from last year. I I inquired about it. Um, we didn't have any claims or anything. Uh they said rates are up nationwide just in general with claims. So um we get to pay for others claims. Um K is the scholarship awards. So that's just a a list of everyone who received scholarships through us. Um and L is the heron public library budget. We we pass that for the custodial for their funds. They pass through us. So we pass that budget for them. Um, Wednesday, looking ahead to Wednesday, we have that meeting with the Erie County Budget Commission. Um, I think from what we've tried to find out, it's very limited information on what the
059meeting is, but we will know more Wednesday. And I believe Stacy and Chris are planning to attend. So, that's at 2:00. So, after that, um, we'll be able to let you know kind of what they're looking for. One thing they told me was what they believe the legislative changes are going to be. They wanted to kind of discuss that with us. I'm sure they want to talk about carryover balances and things like that, but the appointment that they made, they're meeting with school districts back back, it's only a half hour. So, um I'm not saying you can't accomplish a lot in a half hour, but it's going to be kind of like, you know, move. So, um but after that, I will I will send out some details on that for you guys so you
060know what took place. Exciting time. Yeah, it's it's uh something new every week. So, that's for sure. That's all I have unless you guys have any any further questions. Okay. All right. So, I'll start my report with items on the agenda. Uh 7A is the school lunch fees for this coming school year. Um each building had a 10-cent increase. Looking at our commodities and looking at our sales and other factors, it should have been a 14%, but we don't want to overburden families. So, we're continuing to phase that in. Um the next is our NOKA membership. So, no provides us. Oh, sorry. Can I stop on that? Is there a chance to like make people aware of that now and push our free and reduced lunch paperwork simultaneously? Yeah. So, so that if somebody gets
061new like you know I'm not excited about this kind of you can be like you might want to check and apply. Right. Right. Right. So when they uh complete the returning student process and final forms, there's the prompts for the um free and reduced and then really in August, we start get getting reminders hard about completing that paperwork. Um because it it does provide your student with free or reduced lunch costs. Uh if you're free, you also get school fees waved and those types of things. So uh we try to make families aware of that. And then what we do during the school year is when we have a student with a balance, they get Mom and dad, the student doesn't Mom and dad get reminders. We still feed the kid. Um, but in those
062reminders, we're also directing them to those forms. And at that point, we even provide them paper forms because sometimes people say the technology is challenging. Um, so yeah, we we coach people along as we go. But, um, yeah, those prices, it's still less expensive than going to McDonald's, but they're creeping up. Sure. So I remember my mom sending a dollar and a dime and that was a few years ago. Do do we ever push out information during the summer to families on final forms or do we uh we do. Yeah. Would this be something that we could put in some kind of communication just to have it be on people's radars during the summer instead of August or when people are crazy getting school supplies and doing things like that, maybe just get it on
063their radars. Yeah. So July one, we're going to push out reminders to parents to finish that returning student. So in that message, we'll add a note about the school lunch and the free news application. And um you know, those thresholds are um I think they're more generous than what people maybe assume they are, especially if you're in a multi- household, multi head household. So, um, is it okay to say that? Because some people may not even look at it because they don't think they'll qualify or they view it as a handout. It's like, no, you pay taxes like you either qualify or you don't, but you're paying for it one way or the other. And clearly like uh we want kids being wellfed. It helps them focus on learning and growth and development. And that's
064why it's uh both for breakfast and lunch. Um, so when I'm waiting for the Woodlands kids to get off the bus in the morning, I'm always trying to sell that breakfast. Um, because you if you start with a full belly, you're going to be more focused on learning, not distracted. So, but yeah, we can add that to that returning student notice that goes out July 1. And then so B is uh Noka. Uh, they're our uh internet and cyber security provider. Uh, so this is just a continuation of that contract. and uh SIM contracts. This is uh it supplements what Noka provides us with regard to cyber security and provides us uh it's a required um some the services are required through our um insurance provider as well. Um so two years ago we did
065that cyber audit and um one of the elements that was looked at was our cyber security and the contracts or services that we have. Uh it was a gap. So this is contining to fill that gap. As far as that goes, Magic School uh AI we've talked about. The next two are consulting services for special education or intervention services with relation to um student um who need social emotional or behavioral supports. Those are renewals. Uh they're as needed services. Um so we just like to have them approved so that as we need them, we don't have to wait for the next month. We can get going. Uh our itinerate shared our shared service for itinerant preschool with Margaretta that's been going for m multiple years now. So it's just a continuation of that and then
066um the sports medicine. So our trainer, we have a new trainer, trainer Bill, we've found a new opportunity. I cannot remember the name of the new trainer. I believe um it's a woman so I just can't think of her name. But if um with the new contract and the new provider, well the new service provider and the same provider, uh we Matthew worked to rework that contract. Uh it removed some of the language that was targeted for certain sports in certain seasons and has really opened it up to all student athletes um in all seasons. And then he will be working with the trainer and head coaches on some sort of service request process. I'm envisioning a Google form of some sort just you know who are you what's your ailment and what's your availability
067so uh if it's like last period of the day lunch period or right before practice um that way students know the way to request support um it's something that my kids have and I put the app or it's a Google form so I created an app on my phone and so when the kids are um sharing about like their leg hurts or something like I'll put it in and by the next day the trainer is able to serve. So u so Matthew's working on that. Um but I think this contract has advanced uh in service um continue to maintain reasonable cost um and is addressing like the whole program needs not just targeted. Any questions on that one? Next is Ashlin University. So they sent over thisou and I said hey Julie like what are
068we doing with Ashley? She's like not really doing anything. So I emailed them. And I said, "Hey, like you sent this over, but why?" And they said, "Well, we haven't worked with you in a while, but we'd like to have this in place so if we do, you know, we know that we can like send a student for a field experience or send a student for student teaching." Um, so I said, "Great. We'll we'll send it to the board, get it approved." Um, and I'm hoping that that maybe um, you know, reconnects us with Ashlin for maybe a student field experience or student teaching experience. And then the other here, this uh, CLA is that Senate comp for support with compliance with Senate Bill 29. So we already talked about this, but they help with
069the legal background uh of vetting the different platforms that we're using takes a lot of burden off Julie, the tech department, the tech committee um and align. So there then Garland. So, this is to replace the roof at the bus garage of the back um barn. So, that's like the work the workshop where they um you know, repair stuff, store stuff. It's currently a shingle roof and we're going to replace it with a shingle roof. Uh we did get a quote for the cost of uh metal like sheet metal roofing and it was just uh it was outrageous. So, this new roof will last us 25 35 years. Um and it'll provide us good service. We're doing it now uh as opposed to having significant leakage and everything else. So that'll get done this summer
070depending, you know, approval. Uh looking at certified personnel, two resignations, we have Darius uh Schaefer uh resigning as principal and all other contracts. I wish him well in his new adventure, new phase of life uh for his family and so wish him the best. Deb Finny is also um looking to resign from her first grade position and then ultimately retire by the end of August um with the STRS changes that accelerated her eligibility. Uh and so again, we recognized her um last month, but just wishing her well. Uh the summer learning institute, there's three more uh teachers who submitted proposals and um are going to be are recommended for you know, compensation for providing them services. Then we have Deb uh Deb Fendy for the summer service where she'll help Julie with curriculum projects. Uh
071so the new school year starts um already up and running. And then Sarah uh Clayber is going to be our new preschool teacher, recommended to be our new preschool teacher. Uh she's just graduating and uh ready to return to Kiron. So uh she's a alumni and uh we're excited to have her in any role. And then we also have two teachers providing third grade reading guaranteed tutoring uh and then administering the summer reading test this summer. listed and then the administr annually the administrative salary adjustments to effect August 1st for classified um we have an employee with doc days for sick leave eligible reasons that exceeded her sick leave balance we have exempt uh salaries for the 256 school year Brenda Downey is going to be an onboard instructor to mentor our up and cominging
072on board instructor So an onboard instructor is uh the person that does the u behind the wheel training of up of new bus drivers. They have to they have to perform at least 12 hours of service and they could do more typically 15 to 25 hours is done before you get sent for your test because we want to make sure you can pass. Um, so for us to have someone certified as an onboard instructor, they have to shadow a current onboard instructor and then be shadowed by that person um doing trainings for new drivers. Um, so she's going to help us. She's a driver in a u she's a driver and an OBI in the district in surrounding us. And then um procedurally we have this approved for reemployment in the areas uh assigned by
073administration. Um that's the list of all contract employees and substitutes. And then uh we have approved the following for uh substitutes starting June 1 uh because they they're starting to take drivers classes. They attended that um driver experience day that the drivers and Chad held out at the bus drive on Saturday. um they had some good uh previous experience driving large vehicles uh and you know they have interest in helping with school bus driving and so I thought that event went well. Uh we got more interest than initially anticipated. So we ended up with I think four people that came and got behind the wheel and drove around the parking lot safely and u learned a little bit more about bus riding and um we had two last month and then here's two more. So
074from that came and then effective July one we have um this is the list of subs that we had active this past school year and performed work and so now we have them getting renewed recommended for renewal uh for the new school year and then supplemental contracts. Um so we have a few um wrestling assistant coaches and cross country um basketball cheerleading assistant, head girls basketball coach, obviously with Darius Leading. We posted, well, we posted all these, but we posted that one, interviewed multiple candidates, and Matthew Smith is one of our high school math teachers. Uh, last year was his first year with us. He was on the coaching staff. Uh, last year as well, so he's advancing the head coach. Um, and already he's got the team, you know, in the gym working out.
075Uh, I think they already knew that they're going soon uh to an overnight camp if you know. Yeah, last week. It was last week, right? Last week. Yep. Uh so that's uh he was serving those responsibilities as the approved assistant coach and now he'll advance ahead. Uh some football coaches and then more cheerleaders. So any questions on those items? Any Okay. And then two things not on the agenda. One is that um you know thinking about the board strategic priorities uh specifically provide high quality education and experiences. Uh Julie, Matthew and I, we've had a few meetings now with union certified union representation to talk about ways we can enrich student life and expand experiences outside the classroom for students. Um and so we're interested in finding ways uh to seek interest from staff that
076align with student interests. uh find ways that can enrich offer enriching experiences that aren't duplicating experiences that are already happening both internally and within the community. Uh so for example, if someone said, "I think we should start a chess club." Uh I would say, "Well, I know that Hiron Public Library has a chess club and they run it well and it's open to anyone in the community." So that would probably be a duplication of service. Um it would be a duplication of service. Uh so we're really looking for ways that uh students and staff with interests, students with similar ones can can connect. Um there's nothing on the agenda tonight, but um there um I guess I just wanted to share that because I know um that's something I've shared with the board and I
077want to see if there's any questions or input as we continue to talk with the teacher about it. Okay. Okay. And then the last uh I just want to share a couple highlights from uh past and up upcoming events. Uh June 7th was a Saturday. Our boys track earned their third state title for the district. Uh it's their second consecutive one. And so um using the parent square urgent feature. It was an opportunity to test it. Uh we invited everyone in the district to come welcome them back at Hero Memorial Stadium. Uh and there was a pretty good community turnout. So that was nice. They had all three trophies there. Well, they had the two that we' already earned and they brought in the third. Uh, you know, if you're really getting into the the
078weeds of the state tournament, we did tie for the state championship. And so, um, it was cute. They they said, "Well, we only have one, so we'll, you know, generate a second one and send them to the schools." And one of our coaches politely said, you know, since we're like repeat winners, like, can we take it? And so, uh, they allowed us to. So, that was nice. Uh we did share it with the other team to take pictures before we got on the bus and left, but uh but that was a fun celebration and I know they're going to be part of the uh Riverfest parade. Uh so they'll be recognized again like they were last year. Uh June 11th there was uh Hiron State of the Community held at BGS uh Firelands and it
079was facilitated by the Greater Sedestin Partnership. Uh I served on the education panel along with uh the library and BGSU's uh dean. Um but it was good to bring that back. That hasn't happened for a few years. Um I know the Huron Chamber of Commerce was the big organizer of that and uh that has evolved into or folded into the GSP. Um and um so that was good to have that opportunity uh and recognize some of the other activities happening in the community with relation to businesses. Uh June 12th, North Point hosted its first uh compass of excellence award. Uh so they invited every district superintendent to nominate up to two staff members who exemplified um being an excellence in education. Uh, I sent out to all staff a peer nomination form and because I
080mean, how am I going to sit there and pick too many great teachers? Uh, so I said, "Hey, if you saw your peer do something great this year, submit the nomination and and we'll uh use that list to narrow down to the two selected." Uh, so the two that were recognized from here on is um, sixth grade science teacher Leo Lacrosse and then Woodland's intervention specialist Allison Litz. So it was nice. It was a nice breakfast. They had a little program uh, they got recognized. So many deserving, only two were allowed to be students. So I anticipate North continuing that as a new u you know recognition experience that great. Uh Mike already talked about on June 25th the budget county commission holding those meetings. June 30th uh the blue ribbon committee is presenting their
081final report at BGS Firelands 5:30. It's open to the public. Uh as a reminder to the board and the community uh in April their focus of that they've been doing multiple sessions in April their focus was on uh schools and education and um it was hosted at McCormick's auditorium. Uh so we strategically had all students off campus uh doing incentives or educational programming and that way it was open to the community and I think there were some good discussions. I anticipate some good findings from the blue ribbon committee and I think ultimately um their recommendations or findings, we can digest them and decide, you know, which ones work for Heron and which ones um don't make sense for us. So, I'm looking forward to that opportunity uh to hear their findings. And then the last
082uh just coming up, we'll have a board meeting before, but July 12th, Riverfest Parade. It's a Saturday morning. Hopefully, it's a cooler, sunny day. Not today, and not rainy like it was last year. But, uh we have the little water bottles ready to distribute. uh PTO will be joining us to help hand PTO leadership will be joining us uh to help hand out. So it'll be the board administrators and some PTO representatives unless there's questions for this month any questions. I just thought I'd make a comment. I know we we brought up the trainer contract a number of times last year, so it's good to see that the team work through that. Thank you for doing Yeah, thanks. When I read it last year, I was like, so it was good. I think last year
083was the first we approved, the board had approved it since 2017. So, we got that back on track last year and now we have one that I think is definitely more equitable for all the sports that, you know, students participate in. Yeah, we've had the pleasure of already interacting with our students. Fantastic. Yeah, I've heard good things. So, just want to thank James and Julie for showing up on the date, June 7th, that you know, quickly pulled together recognition um and warm welcome home for the state track state champions. Um so, we just appreciate you both making making time to pull out the Sunday, Saturday evening um to come share with the district. Thank you. Any other questions? Okay, we need a motion uh for approval of the consent agenda items under five through seven.
084So move second. Okay, Mrs. Hartley. Yes. Mrs. Henners, yes. Dr. Lefay, yes. Mr. Ragger, yes. Mrs. Mass, yes. Thanks. Um these are policy this is the first reading of policy uh either to resin customize or revise. Um these are all coming from a legislative change in that we are no longer allowed to suspend a student's license driver's license for truency. Uh so I kind of chuckled when I first got this set from OSBA because I was like we can do this. So I talked to Mr. Lamb um because he has students at Dread. Uh and he said that when we're at the point of try where we're referring to court, we can we used to be able to add that as like a request. Uh he doesn't he remembers adding that request twice. Uh he
085couldn't remember if the court granted it. Um so needless to say, it simply means we won't be making that request or threat anymore of withdrawing their driver's license, which kind of makes sense. Like you're not coming to school. Now, we're going to remove the way you get this grade. So, and then just as a reminder, too, um last month or yeah, May, uh the board approved the transportation services, including high school service at request. So August 1st that request form will get pushed out through um final through final forms of fair and square um so they can be incorporated in um into the so we get that going if there's any discussion about policy and then the next uh there's some literature at your desk uh about cortis uh and that's the coalition of Ohio
086rural and schools um they uh they've been in existence for a few years. Last year they came up to Erie County and made a presentation uh to Erie County superintendents about the benefits of membership with them. Um I know one in our at least one in our county uh joined them. They found benefit this past school year uh with some specific legislative changes that were going to impact them related to the pipeline funding. Um and then this spring uh Randy Gardner, one of their u one of their executives came and presented about all the different work that Chorus has been doing with relation to the banium budget and other legislative and really his emphasis is that while we have other uh legislative uh advocates that we have so OSBA, BASA, OASBO, they represent all public
087school entities whereas This is kind of a niche for rural and Appalachian schools. Uh so they're really looking at issues and items and impact for rural schools. Uh which we have an alignment with. Um, so it's really here for discussion tonight and then uh if it's something that the board feels could benefit here on with helping uh have our voice heard um or you know be part of the similar districts that we are uh our voices heard at the state level with legislative and and other actions. Um then we can move forward in July with a recommendation if we think hey um great sounds like a great group but maybe not the right time or uh not the right group for here on um I just I guess want to share with the board for
088discussion. You said one other school in our area has joined this. Yeah, they joined last year and they're going to continue membership. It's a year toear membership. Can you say who it is? I can. It's the sleepy polar bear. What? So yeah, it's Margaret. Do you know what this I because I saw this but I wasn't sure of the relationship. So what is Sunday Creek Horizons? I don't know. Versus a chorus like a lobbying group or something that's operating chorus or Yeah. So I I am not 100% sure. I think um I don't know. Okay. So Do we consider ourselves and and I fully appreciate growing up in here in township that there is a tie to at least agricultural in our community but would we consider ourselves a rural school district certainly aren't an
089Appalachian school district we're not an Appalachian school district but would we consider ourselves a rural school district I mean Mara I think it's more interesting discussion as maybe a more interesting discussion Um, but but I wonder if it's accurate to call ourselves a rural school district, right? Uh, that's a great question. So, I did ask him that when we were talking on the phone. He said they really have three standards that they use to uh to define a rural school district. And one would be that it's um it has a high dependency on the tax base of residents. So there isn't a large industry or commercial tax base that that school district draws from. The other would be that the school is seen as one of the centerpieces of the community. They do more than
090just educate students. They service the community like it's an identity of the community. And I think that's probably true for us. And then the third is that there's other factors. Uh one example would be limited transportation, right? So if you're in a community that has limited transportation that is a characteristic of a rural school. So, um you know, we can frame it to say we are, we can frame it to say we're not. So, it is a fair question because especially if you're on city schools, I would think like, um that's a charter from like the late 1800s that probably drove that city title. But, um but we are a city school as opposed to a town local. I could see if we were a a school that drew from um more townships and more
091a wider radius that we could call ourselves a rural school. You know, like the hospital can call itself a rural hospital because we draw from some very rural areas. Yeah. But I we just draw from Curon. Um when we have some open enrollment students. So as I look at this, it looks like they're a consulting group this Sunday. horizon. It's quite long. Um, so they're right and it looks like they're they're basically wanting to advocate for Appalachian children and education and things like that. I I don't know. So I think sometimes so there's some federal designations that this whole region has, but we are designated rural this area. So like with HUD and with some other things and then I think if you think about like kind of broad categories of if we say schools
092urban districts, suburban districts and then everybody else where even though it's like we're technically a city by state statute or a small town compared to some others like we're definitely not urban and not suburban in terms of a suburban is literally around an urban core. I think the the resources that uh school districts in those areas are completely different from what so I think of the things like you know identity but really like transportation where you you face some different challenges and that does can become a big part of um the legislation but access right internet access can be challenging I mean we have trouble communicating today right we don't even have really great Wi-Fi here the town doesn't have great so there's just there can be different sets of challenges is that because we're
093not in large urban or suburban infrastructure that these are maybe some of the challenges that I mean I guess right is it is it worth $5,000 to join this? Is it can they get us free Wi-Fi in the town? That would be worth it. I don't think I don't think they would guarantee that. But yeah, so and I and I I agree with like I recognize with Jody like $5,000 a Um it's a good amount of money. Um uh typically we see contract it's based on an adm. So when they just said it's 5,000 flat to some degree it makes sense because they're dealing with a bunch of small districts. So let's just cut to the chase and say here's what we need to do the work that we do. Um in the the presentation
094that he did as far as providing updates and stuff. Uh he seems Randy Gardner and his team seems engaged at the legislative level. So he has the ear of legislators. Well, sure. Randy Gardner is the king of engagement. Yes. So to me, like last year I was like, "Oh, that sounds like a good group." But not for here on Seeing the impact that they have and it's mostly because of the people behind it um gave me pause to say maybe this is something that um would be beneficial for us. So did did Barbara give you any that they've benefited from their membership, but theirs was more, you said pipeline. It was pipeline. Yeah. There was um a pending legislation to change the funding or the direction of those tax dollars and um they were able
095to get the correct legislators ears to say that doesn't make sense. You need to do that. So, uh it was done pretty quickly. Um when Randy shared the story, it's like it would have been done. It's the right thing. done eventually, but we got to go quicker. That's a nice way to say it. I mean, is there anything you can think of that that we're dealing with or we dealt with that you could say, "Oh, this would have been a great resource." You know, I guess I I wonder if Yeah, I would say as Mike and I and every we all continue to monitor legislative changes and bienium budget changes with uh funding. Um it would be important to have our voice We are kind of unique in that, you know, we have a lot
096of homes that are second homes or renter properties. And so when people want to just have a blanket of, you know, let's just lower everyone's property tax across the board. I I disagree with that. We need to have some targeted relief, right? So people on fixed incomes, um, elderly, uh, owner occupied homes, I think there should be some relief there. Um, but if you have a residential property that you're ultimately using for commercial gain, I'm not so sure total relief is appropriate. Um, so would they help represent that? Um, probably. Um, and uh, does the OCA have subcommittees or or FA these different organizations that we're already members of? Do they have subcommittees that that focus on or is it just like one-sizefits-all? There's uh I guess speak for BASA because that's the group I'm
097part of. They have subcommittees. Uh but it's really about like um teacher retention, teacher uh like or recruitment um STRS engagement you know they do have a legislative group and again that legislative body is representing all public schools, right? So, their conversation is a little different than what this group might be because it's like, you know, let's downplay the charters and the um voucher system. Let's promote uh public schools, whereas here it's it's more lasered in on these small districts that u serve rural communities. So, I think for me, that's the niche that they have. Um but again, is it a $5,000 investment for us is the question. So, And are you I mean this you're just looking for discussion. We don't have to take action on this this No, I don't expect any action
098today more discussion. Okay. Great. Thanks. It's like a marketing issue almost like their name doesn't exact. Yeah. So well yeah I'm guessing they started as the Appalation and then they were like well that serves a nice corridor. what Maretta is saying but we need to expand. So let's add all right the next is so I'm I think after discussion I'm probably going to table it for another year continue to monitor their progress through legislative stuff and move on. So I might bring it back a year from now. Uh the next one is the Greater Sundeski Partnership. So um again here on chamber um sort of got folded into greater sudski partnership as well as others. Uh to me with the work we do with the BAC I see alignment there blue ribbon committee as far
099as regionalism. Uh so the greater partnership is going to regionalize some of those uh smaller um chamber of commerce events activities. they continue to want to maintain those individual personalities of the community. So like they hosted the Hiron uh state of the community. I think what you say they had eight event seven events in eight days because I think that's when they were trying to roll off a bunch down you know in the different uh area they serve. Um so as we um you know and then also greater partnership they help a lot with the work of the BAC. So when we're talking about organizing events with employers and connecting students, they're the ones behind the scenes uh making those connections, setting up the events, uh really helping the BAC do the work that it
100does. Uh so we have a direct benefit from the work that the Sedi greater SEI partnership provides. Um so I talked with them about membership. Um they they said uh membership for a business our size uh is has a $1,000 uh annual membership to it. Um and so I wanted to talk with the board about that. Do we think that that's a entity that the district wants to join or do we think that um no I guess is the question. There's no recommendation tonight. It would be brought to you July if discussion that way. I'm just wondering if anything they're doing now we benefit differently if we pay them $1,000. Uh I think it would be in some ways sort of like um are we just seeking resources from them without full membership? Um and
101so it's you know being a full um equitable participant in the organization. um sort of makes sense to me as far as you know we don't just take take take it's mutually beneficial um so I think we would gain additional networking opportunities Julie and I went to one we went to a few but the one was with introduction of a new dean uh they we have through the Erie County community foundation we have the intern GSP is hosting a six series um internship summer experience so for six six Fridays throughout the summer. She's going to go with I think 40 other interns and network and meet with them. And are we paying for that? We are not because we have the area county community foundation. No, but there was a cost for that like $150
102per participant to do that separate thing. Yeah, correct. So we have to pay. We don't because our intern is through the community foundation. So they uh I think GSB either build that in the foundation or they just waited for their I think they had five or six interns. They just waited for those those participants. Do you are other school districts um within their like service area whatever are they are they members as well? I believe so. Yes. So I can double check on that though. That'd be great. Y yeah I I would love to see if they did like a government or nonprofit rate. business directory and see members, you know, because some of the things I see there are the benefits. Definitely see a huge benefit for businesses and like you said, we're already
103to be so intertwined with the work through North Point, BAC and just work force efforts, internships, right through others that we can still take part in those things, but So again, I'm really a non-action item, just a discussion item. Okay. All right. So, I'll do a little more research and share decide on that one. St. search. What did you say? I just searched schools, but it was Perkins, St. Mary, Sanduski, maybe charter, private. Yeah. Okay. Do we have any new business? Um, I did read something. I don't know, Julie, if you caught wind of this. Did Roger Blevens get some kind of recognition for Ohio biology teacher something? Um are is the board going to do any kind of recognition of that or what do we do? Yeah. So last Friday they came and awarded
104him uh the actual like award. Um and then I think he's traveling now or he was Yeah, he was is going. He wasn't Sunday because I saw him on his desk. I'm sorry. So, she was supposed to come earlier in the summer. The ward physically didn't arrive on time. So, we rescheduled between his first trip and his second trip. So, he uses the timing of when it um process was like he actually was asked to apply last year and didn't get it and then they asked them to resubmit this year. Um it's quite the process. So he is the state biology teacher of the year um for this national organization. So he'll represent Ohio out in Missouri Novemberish. Um so yeah was that the one where they came in and like observed him in the
105classroom and filmed or something there too? Okay. Did we did our social media like put that out there? I gave him the information, but I haven't seen yet. Okay. I just want to make sure I didn't miss it. That'd be great. I mean, that's the deal. Yeah. Yeah. So, if we could recognize him um at a board meeting. I don't know if we want to do it closer to when school's in session or I don't know when we'd get the biggest audience, but um I think that'd be And same with the boys track team, you know. track team tough look to when recognize those funds or accomplishments before college. Oh yeah. For the seniors, would there be any way to do it when you guys do your like kick off of the school year with
106like the teachers and all of that sort of thing so that like he gets recognized in front of everybody and his peers. Yeah. And if we can pop into that depending on what it is. Yeah. Yeah. Like so humble driver is a relatively humble person. So like a float in the parade you probably want. But uh we have the ice cream social Monday the 18th and then there's a board meeting that night. Uh and then 19th is a Tuesday, 20th is the staff convocation day. So we'll definitely recognize it then. Um so but sometimes board members So if we want to do it in August 18th board meeting because it'll be in town then it'll be ready. Yeah. Just just I think it's good for the board to recognize things like that. Yeah. And then
107for track we could do that uh in July July 7th because then on the 18th a lot of them will be gone. They're getting ready to go off to school. So that would be great. And then I I believe we're going to enter into executive session to discuss um the appointment, employment, dismissal, discipline, promotion, demotion, or compensation of an employer or official or the investigation of charges or complaints against an employee, official, or student. Unless such individual requests a public hearing or will not hold an executive session for the discipline of one of its members or conduct related to the performance of his her official duties or for his hero from the office. Um so any motion for that second Dr. Le Mrs. Hartley. Yes. Mrs. Hers. Yes. Mr. Ragger. Yes. Mrs. Mass. Yes. Thank
108you. Um, can let's have everybody join us for executive session and then we may excuse some administrators as needed. No, we skate in the action.