001[Music] Just took a nap. That's correct. I worry about Yeah. I hear you. something. Yeah. All right. transfer plane or something. No, I know. Thank you. 28. Sorry. Oh, you're here. Got you. Right. That's how it is. So graduation is getting real, isn't it? It has two things. Every kid, your kids are great. [Laughter] I put my uncle. I know. Where' she go? I'm [Laughter] like minutes on the phone. Thank you. Get real cold. We go there. I don't know anyone else in That's impressive. But Oh yeah. really like. Uh oh, I didn't hear that. Hold him back with us. Is that ready? I might have you might have the inside information. Okay. Like to call to order the Monday, April 28th regular meeting of the city school board. If you could call the role,
002please. Mrs. Hers here. Dr. Lefay here. Mr. Regger here. Hartley here. Mrs. Math here. If I could ask everyone to stand with us for the pledge of allegiance. To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. There are some um people that walked in after I let you know if you had community participation that you wanted to address the board. There is a paper on the back table that we'd ask you to fill out with your name and I think your address and just give it to our treasurer, Mr. Linderio. We need an approval for the agenda. So move second. Mrs. Hartley, yes. Mrs. Hers, yes. Dr. Lefay, Mr. Ragger, yes. Mrs. Mass, yes. Thank you. All
003right, we're on to item number three, our audience community comments. Um, just as a reminder, each participant is allowed five minutes to address the board with a total comment time at 30 minutes unless the board decides to extend that. And just as a reminder, this is not a back and forth dialogue with the board. This is a time for you to address the board with um your thoughts and concerns. So with that, I have one Ashley S. I'm not going to attempt the last name. I will mess it up. Can you hear me? Okay, Ashley, I'm gonna ask you to tip that microphone as close as you can so um our audience that's listening on YouTube can hear you also. Is that good? Yep. Awesome. Um, I just want to let you know as the
004uh Lifewise Heron City um for uh program director, I just wanted to tell you that I look forward to providing this program to our students whose parents have given permission and just to let you know I do have additional documentation in regards to the legality um of the program for the state of Ohio if that is helpful to you. Thank you so much. Thank you, Ashley. I'm good at following directions. That's okay. Uh, hi. Uh, Tim Seki, 346 Ohio Street. Actually, I have two two items I wanted to to address and and mention to the board and to the superintendent and administration. First is an item involving safety. Um, I live on Ohio Street and getting very concerned as the weather gets nice more and the kids are out of school. There are kids zooming
005and I mean zooming up and down that Ohio street on electric bikes and electric scooters. Um they're they're blinking lights up telling cars to go slow, but obviously those lights don't mean a whole lot to the kids. And they're not wearing helmets. They're some of them are riding double uh even triple. And I just hope that maybe the board can make something happen in the way of uh encouraging those young people to to please be safe and please be careful because at this point they're they're playing with fire and like most kids they just don't know it yet. So um that's that's item number one. I would hope that maybe with the help of the principles and so on and so forth, we could make something happen over there with a some sort of guidance
006or maybe a program with the police involved to make them aware of that. They're putting their young lives at risk the way they're riding those crazy bikes, scooters. Um, I know if they had existed when I was married, it would not have been pretty. Um, item number two. Um, I notice uh on the agenda in item number nine, I I think I'm making reference to the the right item. and uh having been a member of the uh facilities committee that's been studying uh the possibility of of undertaking a uh building uh remodel renovation both out at Woodlands and uh at the high school. Um I think it's a it's an obviously a logical first step to take in that process to do what you folks are going to be asked to do tonight and that
007is um start the ball rolling um and ask that um the powers that be start putting numbers to uh in the way of a bond issue and then looking forward to the possibility of a bond issue appearing on the ballot in November. Um I'm just really supportive of the of the effort. Let's make it happen. Let's give the voters of heron the opportunity uh to say yes. I'm sure there's a few that will say no. Um, and that's fine, too. Uh, but let's let's really make sure we uh keep the process moving and give everyone the opportunity for input and to be educated and to learn uh about the need that exists in in this community. And that's all I have. Thank you. Thank you. Is there anyone else in the audience this evening that
008would like to address the board at this time? Okay, we will move on to administrative reports. Yep. All right. So, we'll start off with a building department presentation and this month it's about Tiger Grants. I'm turn over to Julie. All right, good evening. It is my absolute pleasure um to introduce some of these folks out in the audience tonight who will be joining me up here uh to talk about our here on Tiger Grant projects. So this process starts off about Augustish uh where uh staff has the opportunity to submit a grant. So with our mission to engage empower and equip these grants are also um challenging the staff to look at schooling in a different way that perhaps we haven't thought about before. They want to try something different and they just need a
009little bit of seed money to get started. Right? So um if you're not did I go one too many? Okay that's I'll introduce you guys in just a second. I do want to explain and um I think I actually put the slide at the end but it would make more sense to explain now. Um the tiger grant funds and where they come from to do this. So our money um that is our seed money if you will sits with Erie County Community Foundation where um there is a fund people can put honorariums um in this fund. So, it just sits and grows. And then every year, uh, Pam Provo and her staff are, um, hey, do you want a check this year? Yes. Yes, we do. So, they put a cap at what we can
010withdraw. It's typically about 4% and it's based off of what the fund made that year. And so, those are the funds we use to make these grants happen. So, we're very fortunate um for the Erie County Community Foundation for their stewardship and making that grow. So, uh, next year I believe they, um, let us know we'll have about a $4,500 check coming. So, um, very awesome that that happens. Very fortunate that people look, you know, to put the money in for us so that we can do these sorts of things. So, with that, I'd like to welcome our sixth grade team up here. We have Leah Lacrosse and Dustin Caster, and they're going to talk to you about their grant. [Applause] We have two other team members um Shannon Smith and Tracy Harbaugh who also
011worked with us on this and Tracy actually was the person who like submitted the application. Um but uh over the summer we worked as a team to come together and decide on some um I some concepts that we wanted the students to grow in this year and their professionalism. And so we decided to do a quarterly reward system. And our grant was looking at that little carrot ahead of the kids to kind of get them to see like the payback or you know like what you get when you put forth so much effort. So in order to attend our um quarterly reward systems they had to get a 70% or higher in their professionalism points. And so taking all of our classes and looking at how they were performing in our classes and in the
012hallway and in the lunchroom and everywhere else. Um that was how they could uh qualify to go on to the um the field trip with us. And our third quarter reward took us to the natural history museum. So that's what funding helped out for. And all right. Um I think we've done Let's see. We went to see a movie. What was the second quarter one? Was that the bowling one? That was there. Our kids have had so many experiences this year. I've been teaching this my 27th 28th year. I don't know. But um this has been the most experiences we've been able to give our students and they've really responded well and we've been using this idea of professionalism and I know that a lot of this are those soft skills that through the business
013world they want these kids to know. Um, so we have basically made this a tangible point value in all of our classes and each week they can earn between five and 10 points based on how often. Um, and then we have multiple students who are on behavior plans that we're able to constantly be in touch and send things home with the parents and say, "Hey, rough week this week or hey, they did a great job this week." And we have a lot of parent buying right now as well. You can see a few of the things up there. Um, this was our first year doing this. Uh, this is the first year our team's been together. Uh, I've been there for a long time and I'm lucky that lucky enough to have Mrs. Lacrosse and
014Mrs. Harbaugh and Mrs. Smith with me as well as Miss Zimmerman who has joined our crew this year, too. Um, and it's it seems to have worked really well with our students. We can look at them and say, you know, you're going to lose a point for that. You know, used to be when they'd come to class, oh, I forgot my pencil. I forgot my paper. And I'm like, now there's something that they're like, a crud. And you can really see the difference in in kind of their behavior. Um, it has helped transitioning in the hallways and it's just a nice way for those students, we talked about it, I know at the beginning, you have those students who always doing everything right and maybe they struggle a little bit in your class. That's nice.
015That's a nice little bonus to give them for, hey man, you're a great kid. Keep doing what you're doing. So, um, I think that's about it for us. But yeah, we really appreciate the Tiger Grant for I know Mrs. Lacrosse and I put in for it every year. Um, we're always looking for funds and things to do in our classroom to keep the kids excited. So, thank you. Thank you so much. A little bit before we call up Alison and Carrie and more. When Dustin says you put in for it, they have to write a proposal that goes to the committee. Um and not everybody gets funded. So, um we're going to hear from our ladies from Woodland next. Is that that's still part of Okay, there you go. All right, for the sensory room
016update. So I totally had like seven to 10 minutes for the whole group. So this was pretty collaborative. All right. So we as a um special education department wrote this tiger grant. So it was um mostly intervention specialists. So we had our occupational therapist um and our speech therapists all together kind of collaboratively wrote this grant. Um the purpose for the grant was when we joined um Shaunie and Woodlands together um we now had a space for a sensory room which was great. Um however our equipment was a little bit outdated, not quite safe anymore. Um and it really only addressed gross motor needs. Um so we all kind of worked together to figure out different ways to address other sensory areas. Um and then I'm going to um so the sensory room this year
017is actually the second half of my classroom. So, I see the sensory room used on a daily basis. On the days I'm at Woodlands, I also share time at McCormack. Um, we started a sign-in sheet at the beginning of the school year just to keep track of how often it's being used. And what we found is 52 groups of different students have utilized it since August. And I have seen daily preschool through fifth grade, every single grade coming in with adults. And yeah, and then like she said, Jess Taylor is the interventionist for third and then Chelsea's a speech therapist that could be with us and we've always just had it in our small little room um and not get and we weren't a we weren't able to change different things out. So this week
018um when we're able to get all the stuff in and um we can change things out or you know we'll be able to present it like if we know that this student really gravitates toward this that they'll be able to pick it. So, we just wanted a variety depending on each student's needs because they're each different and they kind of take ownership when they go in there, too. They kind of have their own routine. Some of them like to do obstacle course. Um, we have a swing. Some kids love the swing. So, it just provides different benefits for each student. Whereas some of our older students, they now can take it as independent. Like, okay, I'm needing this break. I know that this is a safe space that I can go set the timer and
019return back to class. where preschool level we still have adults there. They're still trying to figure out, you know, their sensory system, what makes it work, what revs them up, and we say, "Oh, no, we cannot use that because that just took them way to the other side." Or we noticed that this really helped them calm down and they were able to return back to class and, you know, talk about the choices they made and how we can go from there. So just having that space um has just been beneficial this year and just got myself as the OT but you know my colleagues being able to you utilize it and expand their knowledge along within the woodless to kind of show the positives instead of a negative or is it is it just a
020break to get out of my class? Well no there there is these positive benefits and you can hopefully see them in return to your class and just to kind of give them a break because we all need a place where we can decompress after the day. So, as long as we can give our students that option and build those skills so they can finally do that on their own is what we are. Could you guys introduce yourselves so everyone knows who you are? I'm Lauren Zimmerman. I'm an intervention specialist. Carrie McGloin, the occupational therapist and Allison Lit, intervention specialist. Thank you so much. You're welcome. [Applause] Okay. And Aaron Smith is our school counselor at Woodlands and she could not make it here this evening. So, um I hope I do her justice, but um
021guys with ties is something she wanted to explore as a complimentary program to our rocks program that she presented at I think last year. So, um, looking at leadership skills in our boys group, she had 14 participants that were selected by staff and she developed a 12week curriculum that you can see she's focusing on relationships, confidence, empathy, and communication skills. So, hopefully when those 14 boys come up next year. Okay. Um, so, uh, she is also doing a lot with our attendance program with the Browns. So, she had the the guys with ties develop. This is a public service announcement. Yeah. Even football. Ladies and gentlemen, [Applause] So, um to further that uh team building experience part of the grant is also funding um the gentlemen going to common grounds for a team building activity
022here in May. So, that is yet to happen. They're looking forward to that. So, that should be exciting to hear about when they do return. So, and I said to Aaron, I said, "Hey, listen. Do you have enough ties for your guys?" and she's like, "Look, I did an all call and I had so many ties." So, the staff came through um cleaning out some closets. It was super cute. Uh last but not least, um Steve Schaefer here at the high school wrote a grant. He could not join us tonight either. He had a conflict. Um so, Steve comes down in my office. Never. Never. So, he shows up one day. He's like, "Hey, can we take up the ocean?" And I was like, "Where are we going?" He goes, "Upstairs." "Sure, sure, friend. Let's
023go upstairs." He's like, "Now imagine that the kids used to hang out in the union and blah blah blah." And so we need to do something that has like that college feel and get them off the floors. And I said, "Okay, what are you thinking?" He's like, "Countertops." Said, "Okay, talk to me a little bit more." So, um, what Steve put together was a proposal to, um, if you're in the upstairs hallways, we have a couple left over. We might try the downstairs, but we're finishing the upstairs. um these countertops in that white space between the lockers. And um Dave has been so kind as to get them flush with as much of that stuff as you can see going on that picture so that they you know are not jabbing anybody in the hip
024as they're walking by. And then we'll have bar stooly height chairs like the cafeteria the tall boy um to fit under there. So um a couple weeks ago we had a couple girls who were sitting on front like hey come here try this out. So, um, they're doing a little bit work to brace them a little better because some of those walls aren't really walls in the sense that you think. So, it's been a little bit of trial and error to get that to work. Um, so they've been doing a great job um, getting the kids off the floor and just having that different experience. So, that was Steve's proposal and I would say there's going to be eight or nine of those countertops coming in when they're all finally finished. So, um, still working
025on that, but it should be good. And, um, if we can get a cook down here, we will. So yeah. So again, thank you to the Erie County Community Foundation. It's always something to look forward to. Um we changed up the uh window to apply used to be in the spring and then we were trying to order stuff and do the projects in the spring. I'm like, this is rough. So switching it to the fall allows um for more times and things to happen. It looks like we got great data coming out of Woodlands for that. Um and we just appreciate the foundation working with us and making sure we have what we need. So thank you. Thank you. All right, Grant is next. Board student lead. Hello everyone. I hope you are all doing
026well. Kon has been extremely busy these past few weeks since we've met. Um last Friday was the Shaunie beach ball dance. Um it was five five to seven or 5 to 7:30 to 8ish. Um it was crazy but it was super fun at the same time. Um it's I think the kids had a lot of fun. So I it was a great event to have. Um state testing is still going on. I know the high school has one on Wednesday. I believe McCormack also does as well. Um and then with sports, track has been doing really well. softball and baseball have been doing really well. It's been great seasons for all sports and congratulations to softball tonight. Um, last Thursday, uh, National Honor Society at the high school inducted, I believe it was close to
027around 40 new members. So, I mean, that's a lot of new kids and that's extremely impressive. So, congrats to all of them. And this Saturday is the junior class trip. So, we are leaving on Saturday and we'll get back Monday night. So, we're all super excited for that. It should be a fantastic time. Thanks. All right. In your receipt, um I have a handout for you. And you're like, "Oh, what's this fun stuff?" Well, um as you may recall, uh the high school, uh report card is changing up a little bit. We used to have an indicator that was called prepared for success. So the new name of that um area on the report card will be the college career workforce and military readiness component. We have a new acronym folks CCWMR. So yes, college
028career workforce and military readiness. So um what you see in this paper is how um that is going to be figured. So there are 11 components and a student counts as one. You can't double dip them but basically are we preparing students for college, career, workforce and military upon graduation. So it will be a scored component. If you remember the prepare for success was not um this is all legislated. So to give you an idea of what this looks like, um the progress and achievement components will still have equal weights and then with the high school gap closing graduation and this new component will also have equal weights. So doing the math um progress and achievements will be 28.5714 each of the total grade and then the gap closing graduation and this new component will
029be 14.28 57. So easy math, right? Like you're like we went up four decimal points, great. So, um, I attended a a webinar on this and I was like, 50 slides. Okay, 50 slides. Basically, are we are we getting kids ready or not? And so, if you look at some of these things, um, you can see we're already doing a lot of them and a lot of them well. So, you know, getting threes on AP, um, honors diploma, uh, remediation free score on ECT, and that would count if they're taking the junior one, and when they take it on their own if they so choose, or if they take the SAT and they so choose. Um, you know, if um they're doing a pre-apprenticeship, which we're working with the Greater Sanduski Partnership, or Greater Cleveland
030Partnership, looking into those. um if they're at e-hov and doing the technical assessment um our Ohio G means jobs readiness sale. We have a lot of kids who do that. The the flip side of that is the 250 hours. Um Mr. um Schaffer tracks that out of his office. We do have a couple of students lined up for that. So, um we're doing well. So, um we also have a competitive staff here and they really like adding to those five star banners over there. So, um, they're planning and they're executing and and we feel pretty confident we'll do we'll do just fine. But, um, as you see that material start to come across from different groups and whatnot, this is what they're talking about. Thanks, Dr. McDonald. Appreciate that. All right. Uh, so through March,
031we are threequarters of the way through the fiscal year. I feel like every time I say it, it just it seems like it goes faster and faster. Um, so we should be around 75% on revenues and expenditures. Revenues in all funds were at 79%. And in the general fund, we're at 80%. In early April, I want to say it was like right after the month flipped. We got our last uh tax payment for the first half. So, you'll see that number jump up quite a bit next month. Uh, expenditures for all funds, we're at 67% and in the general fund, we're at 65. Uh, we do have that third payroll in May, so that'll bump that number up a little bit, but I think we're trending really well on both revenue and expenditures. So, um,
032I look forward to the May 5-year forecast update. So, I think it's going to look all right. Uh, item B, Leah is here. She had, uh, applied and got a $1,000 grant from the Ohio Space, uh, grant consortium, and it's for replacement drones to use in the science class and STEM club. [Applause] Uh lastly for this there was donations for March $11,61287 most for scholarships and um there was some for the athletic fund which I believe was quote we had to pull it up McDonald's where you dine and get money. Uh so like I said the five-year forecast will be presented in May. We do have a finance committee meeting scheduled for this Friday. I hope to have the uh rough draft uh to present there along with we're going to be talking about a
033bunch of other things as well. Um Friday uh Julie and I went to the Gavron meeting in downtown Sunduski. Um most of that meeting if not all of it was about the 30% carryover that's being presented and uh where we're at with that. Um it seems a lot of the questions asked were really good. It seems like it's really unclear even what fiscal year they're talking about starting this in. Is it going to be like FY24 for your FY25 numbers? Is it going to be FY26? There's really not a lot that she had answers to. It didn't seem like at this point. So, um the talk was really one of the comments was I don't know whether to be spending money or hoarding money. So, that's kind of where everyone's at right now. So, there's
034not a lot that came out of it, but I think it was good that we all got in front of her and were able to express our opinions. So, uh, and that's what I have for you, unless you have any questions. I just want to thank you and Julie for going to that meeting with, um, Teresa Gabone. I know it was kind of last minute and you guys change your schedule, but I really do appreciate you going representing my district. Okay, Dr. Chapman. Yeah. And then just also with that 30% carryover um you know we continue to study that because a few months ago with board policy we approved the policy of a carryover of 50%. And we did that for a few reasons. One is we want to make sure we have cash on
035hand to pay employees and other expenses obligations that we have also with a 50% carryover that improves our um how am I going to say this? Our bond rating. Yeah. Thank you. So uh with that uh that was a recommendation from uh our financial adviser uh and also from uh OSBA who helps us with policy. So clearly if the law says we can only have 30% but our policy says 50%. Um there's a conflict there. So we're going to have to work through that as we learn more about it. Um before I get to the agenda items, I also want to share that um on April 15th, the Blue Ribbon Committee that's been doing their work uh for Erie County, they came and presented uh their session on uh educational collaborations, savings, and operational uh
036ideas. We hosted it at McCormack. Um I thank the teachers of McCormack. I know they all had a different off-campus incentive or educational trip planned for April and we they rallied together to say let's let's do it all on the 15th so that we can have a community event during the school day without students in the on campus uh you for safety uh reasons. Uh but it was nice to host that committee of seven that the county commissioners appointed uh and formed. Um there were educators, uh superintendents, treasurers, board member representatives from the nine different, uh public districts that um you know serve the Erie County residents. Um and it was good to share ideas and ways that districts are already collaborating together in order to lower operational costs and uh have purchasing power for
037better rates. Uh but it was also good to hear from the commission or from the committee about ways that they're considering um additional savings, operational savings, operational benefit um ultimately to help the taxpayer and ensure that schools could provide the services for our primary service which is educating students. Uh, so I know coming up they have a few more sessions on the books and then at some point they'll put together a like report and so I look forward to reading that report, learning more about all ways that municipalities can save but specifically schools and ways that we can collaborate and uh we do a lot already with schools. there's opportunities. Hopefully, this opens up conversations for opportunities for us to collaborate with other entities, um, townships, cities, uh, port Port Authority, and others like that,
038uh, in order to continue to maximize the investments that taxpayers contribute to us. Um, any questions? I know Jody was there, so thank you, Jody, for being there and Mike and Julie and David. Oh, no. Julie was actually Yep. So also that morning, we had a busy morning. Also that morning, uh she Yeah. But um we were I was reached out by the CEO of Project Lead the Way and they were going to be in the area and they wanted to observe one of the classrooms that Project Lead the Way is is offered in. And so that's uh Miss Dunn's class, Taylor Dunn's class, sixth, seventh, and eighth graders. It's one of the specials in the class period. So for nine weeks the students get project lead the way which is STEM, science, engineering, techn
039science, technology, engineering and math. Yep. Yeah. Um so the CEO and uh and then also some representative leaders from Hardall came observed the class and then after that we had a good discussion about you know those instructional approaches that help students build those soft skills making them uh work ready as far as collaborative problem solvers working communication with others um and the list goes on and then ways we're going to look to enrich that. So, we are looking to enrich Project Lead the Way by offering it down in the fourth and fifth grade next year as one of the specials. Um, Taylor is going to help us with that. But then, um, I wasn't able to because the blue ribbon committee, but Julie um, some of the other principles in Taylor were able to go
040to Ardall and tour their facility, learn more about what they do with the canning process, canning creation process. Uh, and it was actually neat too because um, uh, Exxon Noble, right, Exxon Noble uh, develops some of the chemicals that go sprayed inside the cans that they use and that's another partnership here in in town and they've done things for us or with us as well. So, it was good to kind of see those different uh, connections across multiple uh, industries. Um, but yeah, that was an exciting opportunity too. in the middle of the tab. If there's an H, you know it was made in here on. And then um also if you see 839 on the can, you also know it was made in here. And it was interesting. So, a couple years ago, Julie
041and I were uh invited to go tour Mucci's facility, and we had to wear almost like surgical like PPE equipment. Um hairnet, jacket, things like that, shoe covers. When they when I saw pictures of them at the factory, they had to do the same thing there as well, which I was Yeah. Yep. So, true. We Well, and we had um it was loud because we were stamping and the the amount that they stamp in a second is ridiculous. So, we had um headphones um that were walkie-alkies and um they said this is the when the students visit, they just love this part, right? and we look so fascinating. Thank you. Thank you all of the nine yards. It looks good. But what really started off as uh the leadership of project lead the way reaching
042out to us has helped us connect with Ard Doll and we're hoping to continue to have you know the leaders there were like we need to bring your students out here to see what we're doing and connect those dots between you know what um Project Lead the Way is having to do in the classroom with what is going to happen in real life when they're in a work setting like that. Um, so that's good that we're hoping to continue to build that relationship with the international company that's here locally. It's excellent. Yeah. Thank you. All right. On to agenda items. So there's the second reading of policies. These policies were reviewed last month for a first reading and do not have significant changes to them. Um so there the list majority of them are from
043um legislative uh guidance changes. Um and so I know I think there might have been a question about one or at least a comment um student staff relations. No. Okay. Uh and then the second item B is uh Erie County Health Department provides us nursing services. So this is renewing that contract for the next school year. Um, LLA therapy is services uh for individual students based on their IEP service decided uh decided by the IEP team. Julian and Groo is going to provide our Medicaid audit uh services. So we can build back Medicaid for different special education services and so they just conduct the audit for that making sure that there's no errors or gaps or anything like that. Next is uh renewal of the service con technology service contract with NECA. So this is
044our first year where Noka's been providing us tech services, boots on the ground and uh the providers that we have and the support they get from Noka have made their services uh leaps and bounds compared to what we've had in the past. Uh they're super responsive. They're on the scene. um they're coming up with solutions to problems that we don't even yet know exist. And an example would be um the last couple years when we had testing uh we had to spread them out over multiple days. And for students who split between buildings, so we have some students like seventh and eighth graders that start at the high school and then they go down to finish their day. Uh they were missing a lot of days of instruction because they weren't just missing their grade
045level days when there was testing, but because of the schedule changes, others. So tech did their assessment and said that our bandwidth and our internet can handle it and so we've consolidated some of those days so there's less disruption. Is that fair? Yeah. Um yeah so that's really putting that focus on service for the students, service for staff which can support um learning in all aspects. So um next is kind of leads from one to the next but acceptable use policies. So, uh, Senate Bill 29, um, sort of reccalibrated, uh, acceptable use, internet use, internet sharing of information, and so really, we should be doing this annually anyways, but the acceptable use agreement has been updated to reflect those uh, legislative changes through Senate Bill 29. And so, it's there for board uh, review and
046approval. Item G is the student handbooks for the three buildings. Uh again all the changes uh related to technology um onetoone device acceptable use policy are in there in the high school handbook there's we've had discussions about uh GPA discussion about weighted GPA added GPA and so in there is um the new standard that begins for the class of 2026 which is um if you take an advanced uh AP or CCP course um and you get a passing grade then you get an add-on to your GPA. So after the average is accumulated then you get an add-on and there is a cap essentially after you take five of those types of courses AP or CCP any combination of them um you've maxed out that and your GPA has um been enriched uh by half of
047GPA point uh we changed it to 0.1 and then five courses get you that yeah because we did um really again Yeah. Um, and really because that would have got you eight classes, got you there. What we were looking at with high school staff and high school counselors was what's when in a student's high school experience is that GPA necessary for college admissions and then ultimately um, college financial aid. And it's really at the end of their junior year. So, while we still have kids senior year taking AP and CCP, majority of our kids who are on that track or on that path have taken five by the end of their junior year. So, that way they get the most enrichment they can and then they roll in senior year, they should continue to challenge
048themselves for all the right reasons of uh additional college credit or additional AP uh credits that count towards college credit. So, um, so yeah, we changed it to a 0.1 add-on and then it's still maxed at five. Yeah. Or five. So, five. Um, and then middle school handbook also has the notation that uh and the high school one too that high school credit earned prior to enrollment in ninth grade transfers in as credit without a letter grade. So, uh whether they got a C or an A, they get the credit. And that way it encourages kids seventh and eighth grade maybe take that cho that course that's you know mom and dad might hesitate because it's a little more challenging or the student might hesitate because it's a little more challenging. Uh we want them
049to have safeguards in there to take that course take that challenge and then after that experience they can recalibrate to say this is the right path for me or I need more genetic. Yep. That is that going to be for seventh and eighth graders starting next year or will that for7. Correct. Yeah. So, it's going to recalculate from the class of 2026 and and later. Um, and when we looked at that analysis of, okay, they're going to lose like lose that letter grade, that class they took in eighth grade, but they're going to gain the add-on points. Uh, we couldn't find a kid that it had negatively impacted. So, the kid will be positively impacted. Um, you could create a scenario where they got an A in eighth grade high school credit and then they
050went on to high school and didn't do as well. They got a B or a C. So, that A is helping carry them higher. Even if there is a kid like that, when you add in those addin points to the ZPA, it's still a better end result than that that one or two A that they had. So, so yeah, it it starts immediately. Yep. Any other questions about the student handbooks? No. Okay. H and I are kind of linked together. So H is an MO is anou between the HA uh and related and us related to the school calendar. So looking at the 26 27 school calendar, uh there are a few uh variations that um we needed the MOU for. One is that the teachers work day is going to be a little bit
051longer. It'll be 10 more minutes longer. And then also um with negotiations this last year and we got to experience it this year with the calamity days. Uh when we exceed five calamity days then students and staff participate in a uh remote learning day. And so in order to help facilitate that experience so that people aren't waking up at 6:00 a.m. excited they don't have to go to school but now anxious for what does that virtual day look like. We're going to have the two days before uh Thanksgiving break be asynchronous learning on remote learning. Um both students and staff will be you know actively learning but um we recognize that families use that week of Thanksgiving to sometimes travel. Um so they can still have that flexibility on those two days. And then the
052last sort of highlight from thisou is that uh inservice days will now um there'll be four of them instead of two. Yep. And the second half of those four days will be a records day. Uh so stu so staff can work on finalizing grades, finalizing that way. The turnaround for students and families looking at grade cards is should hopefully be faster than what it is now. Hasn't been a hasn't necessarily been a problem, but be faster. Um, so that's theou that leads into the school calendar. And the school calendar, um, this is for the 26 27 school year, so a year out. Uh, it still has us starting, uh, in August. We kind of can't get away from that. Um, and some reasons why is people like the two weeks off at Dece. They like
053the time to be with family, maybe travel, uh, but enjoy that time. And then when we get to spring break, again, it's a little bit longer because we tie in um, now it's going to be a PDRcords day, Good Friday, and then a week off. So again, for people who like to travel, see family on those holidays, they have no time. Uh whereas I think you know some of us older people like me think about you know when you didn't start school till September and then you were out by uh end of May. Um for some of these other reasons we also didn't have those two weeks in December and maybe more than a week break. So uh I know occasionally people ask me why why can't we go back to meet the minimum standards.
054Um so any questions about the school calendar? Okay. Letter J I think is long and long awaited and overdue. Uh it is my recommendation to approve suspension of the pay to participate fees for the 25 26 school year. So that was something that was imposed a few years ago after some operating levies uh failed and um as Mike has said, you know, forecast is looking good. uh we're being fiscally sound and this idea of um you know scraping a nickel off of uh all the families, we can suspend that for next school year. It's something I think every year we'll have to review and make sure um but for next year that's the recommendation. Certified. So for certified we have um three staff uh res resigning. One is a secondary teacher. She's heading into retirement.
055So, congratulations to Diane. And then Mary James and Bobby James are both resigning for other opportunities. We wish them well as well. Um I feel like they colluded. They colluded, right? Yes. Yeah. So, um and then we get into employment. So, the first is for Bailey DeFazio as our school counselor. Um she'll come in at uh serving at McCormack. Christy Tra is gonna move return to the high school. Uh that was her choice and I support it. Um and then we have Kyle Kupki Kupki. Thank you Kyle. Uh he will be our uh health and PE teacher and we're also looking uh for some enrichment in the weight room uh sports uh strength and condition. Yeah. Yep. Strength and condition. So, he'll collaborate with coaches, uh, build out programs, and help with that, and create
056opportunities for kids to have access to the weight room, um, during the school day, before, after, uh, not just when a coach is available. That's kind of how it works right now. Um, we also have Sarah Reading. She's currently a part-time employee. We're recommending she moved to full-time status so she can fill the second grade vacancy. And then moving to uh, contracts. We have two teachers for continuing contract. They fulfilled the requirements set by OC Ohio Revised Code and our collective bargain agreements. That's Nathan and Chelsea. And then we have some extended school year services um from Allison Litz. And then credit recovery tutor tutoring. So that's a summer service uh to help students with credit recovery. Rachel Coffman. And then uh approve limited one-year contracts for the following staff. Read it off. And then
057uh approve renewal of a one-year retire limited contract for Mr. Wood. Any questions about certified items for classified? Um, so for classified working through the Erie County Community Foundation, we've been awarded a summer intern, Megan Evans. Uh, I met with her and I'm excited to get her started. She is a U computer what's it called? Yeah, like a IT IT specialist is uh she's got a major in computer science. That's what it's called. and she said her her high her interest is um AI and so uh she'll uh she'll be working with everyone in the summer from the central office. She'll primarily work with our tech staff uh learning systems that we have probably making suggestions of how we can do them better. Um but that's uh a service that's paid through uh the area
058community foundation. Um and so it's uh it's nice to have that extra service. We had one two summers ago, but not last summer. Um, Amanda McKenzie, she will serve she will uh one-year limited contract as a cafeteria worker. Um, and that's a replacement and and then um Tracy Yoast is approving her amendment for resignation for retirement. So, she's already been approved for retirement. Uh, she's moving it to May 30th uh as opposed to the end of the school year. And then we have um classified contracts for renewal. Uh most are a two-year agreement or twoear contract. And then we have uh some additional sub staff. Some of these subs are going to be working on their bus driver license. And we'll also get van certified. So hopefully we're building that uh that base of certified
059bus driver uh staff. Uh we still have two vacancies. One that's for immediate hire and then one that's for hire at the start of the new school year. So we're hoping some of these subs get the credentials they need and can move into those full-time roles. And then lastly, we have is a summer casual labor crew. And so working with Chad, they will support um maintenance and the building uh custodians with the regular summer maintenance, you know, clearing down classrooms, wax, rewaxing the floors, and putting all the all the uh furniture back. We're hoping that with this summer crew helping, we will uh be able to get some of that done quicker so then we can move on to special projects that our summer's a great time to get that stuff done. And then last
060question. Yeah. Is your summer academy labor crew? Are these are these students? Some are students, some are some are adults, right? But the students will be working in pairs with leadership of an adult. So, they're not going to be off on their own. Uh we're not expecting students to guide any equipment like or anything like that. Uh they'll be in the buildings. So, sweating it out. And then the last uh item M is supplemental personnel. The majority of 25 26 school year supplementals will be presented at May. That's when we normally do it. This one because he's the new wrestling coach uh he's coming to you month early. This way pending approval he can start working with the athletes and the parents and family and get the program going. So that's Tyler Me. He is
061also a secondh custodian for us. So, we're familiar with him. He has got good experiences. And in the interview process, it was clear, you know, you got to know like a takedown and like a half Nelson. You got to know that stuff, but you also have to know like healthy eating so that you're not cutting weight inappropriately and harming yourself. You got to know the mind game of how to be mentally ready for a match. And um his experience as an MMA fighter, well, former high school wrestler and an MMA fighter and MMA coach. um he has some of those additional uh values of understanding there's more to it than just being the strongest fastest uh wrestler. You got to have the mind too. So um any questions? Those are the items. Thank you. For
062items 5 through seven of the consent agenda questions, Mrs. Cers, yes. Mr. Rger, yes. Dr. Lefay, Mrs. Hartley, yes. Mrs. M. Yes. Thank you. So, Kyle, if you want to stand up. You guys want to get a picture? Yeah. So, here's Kyle and then Bailey's. [Applause] Do you want to do a picture? Just because we we have we have executive session. guys don't want to have to wait and I might be nice just to do it now so we don't forget they can leave if they want to you guys All right. Excellent. All right. We're on to um item number nine, the bond debt resolutions. Yeah. So the first item all three of these are separate so separate vote is necessary but the first one is 9A is about McCormick school use uh so basically
063the recommendation says continue approve continued study by the community facility group or sorry community facility committee for the future use of McCormick for community benefit to avoid demolition. So this uh comes out of that community facility group. Um there is genuine consensus I would say without taking an official vote. Um people recognize that the usefulness of McCormack for learning is kind of we're setting the sun is setting on that if it hasn't already. Uh but they still see benefiting McCormick itself as being uh reimagined as something else for the benefit of the community. We don't know what that is today as we sit here. Um but as we get cost sheets from the architect firm. They have to put something in. So, they keep listing demolition and then a demolition cost. Um, basically what I'm
064asking the board to do is just confirm that as a board we want to continue to study uses of McCormick to avoid demolition. So, doesn't lock us into it, but it just says that we continue need to study it. Are we going to take these one at a time or they all need a separate roll? want to do it now or if you want. Okay. So, we need a motion for the uh I move we continue to study the use of Mrs. Hartley. Yes. Dr. Lefay. Mr. Ragger. Yes. Mrs. Sinners. Yes. Mrs. M. Yes. like do I don't do you want to talk about the other ones? So B is um the resolution to pull up the special needs resolution which allows us to tap into the additional money that we would need past our
065original debt capacity without special needs. Um so in there we have talked with bond council, we've talked with Mike Sina. Uh the number that's currently in there is 77,750,000 85,000. Um we landed on that number. Um it takes the millillage under seven. It is 6.98 mills at that number. Originally we had 80 million plugged in there and it was 7.2. So we believe in talking with uh myself, Dr. Chapman and and others that the project could be done for that between cash on hand and if if needed um a cops on on our existing PI. So this resolution gives us the ability to access that additional money. Yeah. So a cops in essence I think the easiest way to explain it would be we currently have a PI fund that generates X amount of dollars
066per year and what that would allow us to do is borrow against that money for a specific period of time. Permanent improvement fund PI fund is your permanent improvement fund. So we have our general fund which is what most of our expenses come out of. Then we also have a permanent improvement fund which is what we do um equipment or building improvements with or bus purchases recently and things like that. The worst chair here keeps falling down. [Music] Any questions? any more discussion mean could you just tell us what this um and for benefit of people who aren't looking at the documents you know what like this step is if we take action on this what does that mean uh so this is the first step of a few steps steps to go onto the
067ballot in November. Um, this particular one uh sets the is half of what sets the dollar amount to go onto the ballot. Um, and it's special needs. So, there's uh with the special needs it is, how do I explain it? I'm trying to think of the easiest way to talk about it. Um, we have a debt capacity that we can do without special needs and that number just didn't get us to the project cost. So, there's another thing that you can do. It's called a special needs limit. And with passing a resolution, uh, you're able to increase your debt capacity. I I hope that makes sense. I'm trying to Yeah. So, that's what this particular one does. And then the second one that we'll do, the next one is um the necessity for bonds. So
068that was what we would send to the county auditor to show that we have a need for these bonds for our facilities. Can you just outline those steps maybe for every like this is the first step you said so like timeline and just the next couple maybe so we understand what we're looking at. So we have to have two separate sets of resolutions passed and they have to be done for July se I think. I'd have to pull up the date. I think it's July 7th. So, um, after we pass this one, uh, we'll send we'll make sure everything's in order. Uh, there will be a second one either in May or June, and then all the documentation will be able to send to the auditor to allow us to be put onto the ballot
069this November. So, so given that this first step will go on the ballot in November, how how do we How is the word getting out and how is this being communicated to our community about this? Yeah, I think the facility committee um meeting and hopefully talking, but I think the next step if we decide to move forward with this would be the formation of some sort of a lev committee to get to get the the uh information out to the the public. We do have, for those of you who don't know, we do have the building tab on our website that kind of outlines the process that we've taken to get to this point. Um, and we met as a facility committee for I think it started in Octoberish. We met and uh all of
070those talks over that period of time have got us to this point. Yeah. I I sit on the facility committee and the finance committee uh for the board. So, I thought maybe I'd add a couple comments to that. At the after the last facility meeting, we decided to not really meet again until this first resolution if it gets a yes vote because the work with the architect is kind of at the point where we really they can refine a lot of things and we could choose a lot of options, but we have to know we're going to be going towards this path. So once we do that between now and like that second resolution that um even leading up to the election there'll be a lot more work done with the architecture finding what the
071final dollar is what the um you know what everything might look like and renderings all that stuff we've talked about multiple times like we we decided to take a pause till we do this first step here because you know we could keep sending the architect to like retest exist and the numbers keep coming back very similar and it's just like okay we let's let's get a point where we can go forward. Um, and this gives us a start and the finance committee can still meet because there's still a lot of items to go through there. I think too on, you know, with the the mill the floor we hit this year, you know, if this passes, what do we change on the other, you know, there's a lot of this or that, but we got
072to have a direction. I think just to set expectations right with the levy committee, you guys have done amazing work, but like our ability to as board members, the law prevents us from advocating for uh an outcome. Um, and so we can certainly provide information all day long. Um but the board itself is not able to go out and and be pro or obviously or anti but to take a position on the levy. Um and so that really is where the community to the extent that they want to see you mentioned it like that's where we'll need folks uh in the community to step up um and and be those advocates if that's what they're looking for because unfortunately the law puts us on the bench uh for that. I totally missed that. It's okay.
073I'm sorry. I missed. Oh, this one. I'm sorry. Yeah, we'll have to do one for all each one of these. I was like, man, I totally blacked out. Don't move. Like do I need to read it or you say which one? The special needs resolution. I'll second. Mrs. Hers. Yes. Mr. Reagger. Yeah. Dr. Lefay. Yes. Mrs. Hartley. Yes. Yes. Letter C. So, the next one, um, is a lot of the same things. Uh, this will go off to the county auditor for approval, and then he'll he'll take a look and make sure all our numbers are correct and everything. Uh, so again, the numbers 77,850. Um, this is over a 39-year period and that and we're estimating a 5% interest rate after talking with Mike Cena and everything. Um, you know, you can you can
074do like 475 and be aggressive, but he feels that 5% he sent some off the market uh recently and he said it was right around 5%. So, we went with 5%. Just to be safe. Okay. Dr. Lefay. Yes. Mrs. Hers. Yes. Mr. Ragger. Yes, Mrs. Hartley. Yes, Mrs. M. Yes. All right. Great. Going to move on to item number 10, board discussion action items. Yes. So, the first one is policy JFB. This had a first reading last month and then in that discussion uh and some discussions I had with individual board members after uh there was enough substant substantive changes that I wanted to bring it back for a second reading um so that discussions can continue. Um we want to make sure that this has been an area of focus for many um some
075on some from both sides of the opinion on this. Ultimately, Ohio legislation says that we now must have this policy. So, we want to make sure that the policy accurately reflects the expectations um that this school district has that the board has for the school district with relation to release time for religious instruction. Um so, it's attached. Uh, one of the substantive changes from last was that we added I've added um to support non-disruptive operations in the school. Upon students return to campus, all materials must be away and out of sight from peers including but not limited to literature, awards, souvenirs, trinkets, treats, and candy. Uh, I think that was something that came from the Columbus area or Columbus itself. Um and I know talking with both sid representatives from both sides um of the
076item that that is an area that has been um contentious or disruptive uh to schools who previously have or you know have this policy in place. So, so that was um the change there. And there were some other things that we looked at uh specifically talking about when the group takes the kids off campus, they must provide the kids with a meal that meets the food standard guidelines that the schools have to follow. I I'm not in favor of having that in our policy because I don't know how school administrators, district administrators would regulate that uh onto a group that's not affiliated with the school district. So um so that wasn't added, but that was discussed. I don't know if there's other areas of discussion from the board. Um I think one of my questions
077last time trying to see I don't know if it's in here included. I know Amherst maybe included language about frequency of concern. It's like this is going to be an every single day occurrence thinking of the level of disruption in the building for the office staff but also for the educators and the other students. Um and so looking at some type of some some type of language that addresses that. Um, and I think my other question last time was about see if we talked about it in here. Um, the whole background check and do we just take it out? And some others are saying language like what happens if an participating entity ignores your rules, right? if kids are back late every time they're coming back and the level of disruption is higher. Um any
078ability like what recourse does a district have because I know the law gives us some language to enact some things like the background checks and things like that but I don't know that it was really clear and what do you do about that? Yeah. So, so as far as the frequency, it's not in the current draft here in front of us. um from the uh religious groups that have talked to me that are anticipating delivering service, they've told me it's a once a week type program and they're going to be flexible with our scheduling as when we have a modified schedule because they're state testing or assembly or um instead of trying to work around it, they simply would push that day's uh programming um you know to the next week. Um, so, um, so
079you're saying like one day a week, like on Monday, day is what I've heard so far. And the reason I'm hesitating is not currently in here on from what I'm hearing, but I know that the law provides for like high school kids to take a course, which would be daily, for probably a semester, and then ultimately try to earn high school credit for like a religious study class. Um I have not heard from community groups here that want to do that. Um that part's still optional though. I think is the language still may school district may offer credit but does not have to. Correct. Um because I think you know I'm thinking of programs I don't know I know there was an afterchool program years ago where they would pick up students. the idea that
080I think is this a set group of students every week, right? Again, thinking the ease of administration for release and coming back in. Is this potentially different kids every week? Um, and so those kinds of things, right? So, like is there like a permission slip that is set once and like this is it for the year or at least for semester or is this something that's changing every single week? Because again, I'm just trying to think of how do we minimize level disruptions and just make sure everybody is where they are supposed to be because especially with younger kids. Oh, I feel like going here today. Yeah. So, I would say I mean they're here, right? So, Lifewise has met with Brian and I and we've said like once a week for the kids, uh
081different days of the week based on grade level and um so that's different from what I'm hearing. That's different. You said once a week but different days. So, so from our district it's every day. I don't say every day. It depends on depends on the enrollment amount, right? So, that that's I don't want to speak. Okay. But that's not clear. If if we're saying we want to limit it to one day, but then now it sounds like it's possibly multiple days depending on grade level. That's that's not the same thing I guess that I'm hearing. And the other part I was going to say is a few months ago, maybe six months ago now when we had some public comment, there was one parent that said, "If this happens, I'm doing my own religious programming."
082Da da. So I don't know how many of those types of students or families that we have that would say, "Well, I'm I'm going to offer it, too." Um, so think I think that's a little bit of the why behind the what of for example I forget which county school it was just said we'll have a day in the week and like that can be the day for this programming but it's not going to be like an everyday you know depending so I I think that's probably a decision point that's still out there. I will say, I mean, from from my reading, like if parents are signing their kids out to me, like then then that becomes the parents, whether you want to call it, choice or responsibility to figure out where they're sending their
083kid. And it seems to me that if if that's the case, no more than if somebody comes to pick a kid up to take them to a doctor's appointment, it's not for us then as a district to to really be a part of overseeing every aspect of what happens when they're not in our care control. In fact, to me, I would think we would want to be on the opposite side side of that line. Not because we don't feel a sense of responsibility, but because literally if that parents signing that kid out of school, they're out of our our control. Um, and I think when we try to exercise control, it's going to get messy. Um, so, you know, the legislature has made the decisions they've made and the roles we're playing by now, right?
084So, you know, that's uh that's that one's out there. But I do think the question of of how often, you know, especially if it's just going to be at one school and how often and there's potential for multiple groups, how often um are schools able to handle these transitions on a daily, you know, on a daily basis, especially given if if we have, you know, poor poor classes. Um I think it's been discussed this could potentially happen during lunch and recess and not everybody at Woodlands eats lunch or has recess at the same time. Correct. So how how logistically does that even work? So then kids are getting out they're some could be getting out of class some could be having lunch in recess some could be coming back and it just I don't know
085how how that logistically works. Yeah. So I have heard that programs planning to um provide service in here their focus is providing that they're in they understand that they're not pulling kids from instructional like core. So then what if you have a child a student that signs up for this or a parent that signs their child up for this but the time that has been designated for this program doesn't fall under that students lunch and recess then they can't be they can't participate correct right okay I think I mean I think we just see positive intent I mean I think so far um but I think to that point assuming positive attention for the least disruptive way to to manage the the deck of hearts cards being given. To my point, I mean, I get
086the idea. Well, what if they come back late? What if I to me I think if you find it to be an issue, we have the ability to revisit. I think out of the categ, you know, trying to do the right thing the right way. We can always revisit it if it's if it's not um on force. But I do think that's an interesting question if there's a misalignment between how we separate kids out from lunch and recess and perhaps how any one group intends to separate out kids for this and how do we how do we get alignment there? And and I know this we we probably can't assign it would be a poor idea to assign based on any attempt to align with with a relief program knowing that multiple groups can you
087know potentially apply for it. Yes. So that sounds like it's a an area that we probably need to sharpen up before we finalize. Excuse me. I had a question like in the fall we talked a lot about redefining the core how we define the core classes and the the release time on here on this policy just says the board will collaborate with sponsoring entity for release time for this instruction program to identify a time to offer the course during the school day is is that just saying is that kind of covering that case if we wanted to define course curriculum like this or is it I mean I don't think this is a lot more general than we first in terms kind of goes. Well, I think we need to revisit and rework. There's no
088question. I mean, we're going to comp or do we just don't vote? Okay, great. I'll I'll take the responsibility and forgive me because I've been I was out of town for most of March for work. So, I'm a little bit behind in in catching up on this on the policy side. I'll get with you in the next week or two and we can drill down on on this issue. So, we're ready to present. Sounds good. Thank you. On to our activities and athletics handbook. So, the next is activities athletics handbook. This is something that uh is long overdue. So um uh previous uh leadership did not have a student handbook uh and Mr. Ays worked to develop one. He did this not in isolation but he did it with input from other administrators, coaches, adviserss
089um to develop and um so it helps provide guidance uh and direction for students and parents that are involved in these uh extracurricular activities. Um so I share it with you and like I guess open up for um thoughts, comments, uh feedback. I'm gonna submit mine separately just because I don't want to I don't want to go like item by item. I do think the um just kind of overarching thoughts. One is this should be largely directed toward a student population, right? I do think that it's um the language is maybe a little bit it's a little advanced. Um, and I think we can probably be simpler, uh, more simple and and more clear in in the things we're hitting on. I I also think like everything you should say should mean something. And so
090if there's phrases, and I think there are, and I'm sure they're borrowed from other handbooks, you know, benchmarking and best practicing. Um, but if there's words that don't really mean anything or don't need anything clear, you should probably give those a hard look. Um, and then I did have some questions. There was a Supreme Court case from 2021 dealing with uh while while extracurriculars are privileges, so they are treated differently than your right to to an education under the law. There was some first amendment protection given to uh students or social media activity. Um and so I think we probably need to just take a hard eye to some of the language to make sure that we're on the right side of that line. I agree. Uh I'm familiar with that Supreme Court case and
091the Supreme Court really moved that line. Yeah. Oh, it's a much Yeah. much closer to the freedom of speech than control. Yep. We have to respect that because that is their right. Um and so yeah, so you're you're going to have like a a long laundry list for me to review. Yes. All right. Then I look forward to seeing I'm sure you do. Overall, I think it's I think it's wonderful to have something that will address the spec any specific um expectations or occurrences for athletics. You know, all these these come from our policy, but rather than making folks hunt impact for policies that apply to athletics, I think it's really a great idea. Appreciate the effort um of the team for pulling this together and trying to pull these things together. Um, and I
092I love the idea of something that, you know, language that I I really love the idea of this students reading this, you know, the athletes all being handed this and having really clear expectations um and understanding there. Good. Thanks. All right. Okay. Anything else with that one? No. Uh, the item C is the tip ordinance notice. So, two months ago, uh, Mike I and the board had some good discussions about the Kaggra tiff that was approved in let me get the dates wrong December of 21. Uh and so that was approved by the board at that time and then it went on and um as I studied it I I guess I I learned that it never moved forward with the city. uh they were waiting to finalize the uh scope of work proposal plan
093with the developer. That developer has changed hands a few times. Scope of work has been refined a few times. Uh so now uh this was this was emailed and mailed to me uh simply providing notice that on May uh on May 13th the Heron City Council uh plans to take action on activating the TIF. Um and so really they want a signed receipt back from me as superintendent simply confirming that we've received it. So, um, looking at it, uh, again, Mike and I went to the tax incentive review council meeting. Uh, and on at that meeting, it was removed from the agenda. Um, so we made a note, Mike made a note in the minutes. I don't know if you want to share more about that meeting. Yeah. Uh, it was originally, I think, supposed
094to be on the agenda. They took it off as it wasn't an active diff. Um, so we just made sure we were in the minutes, our viewpoints on it. Um, Zack Rosert, uh, he had emailed me just to clarify. Uh, so I sent them over a statement. So they will be in. So all all the city is asking you for is a signature receipt that you receive this. you received a notice because I'm guessing part of their obligation before they take action is to say did the other entities involved uh were they aware that you know May 13th at 6:30 p.m. the city council was going to vote on this? So that signature would just confirm that we're aware. So what is there action that we need to No. So I guess I was just
095sharing it with the board to share the awareness. Okay. I don't think we're under any legal obligation, right? I mean, whatever is going to happen by virtue of whatever the board did in December 20 21st or 2021 is going to happen with or without any action. Now, that's my understanding. Uh being a collaborative partner with other municipalities that serve here on residents and here on students, uh I'm intending to sign it to confirm that the district has received it. I mean, the the only statement that I'll make for the the record, and it's Not unlike what I said in February. It was disappointing back in December of 2021st when the then board which it this was a week out from when the new board would have would have taken office that they pushed this through
096and respectfully on a collaboration the city pushed that time uh to avoid having to sit before most of the folks at this table uh today. Um I I will say at the time uh in particular, you know, the financial picture for the school district was not good and it was counterintuitive for the school district to be granting incentives for luxury condominiums down at Kagra. Um particularly because that property when the city took it out of the tax base in 200 whatever it was 2008 that used to be tax generating about 60 $70,000 a year for this district that just sat it sat and not generated a single dime to the tune of us losing you know well into the seven figures in tax income. I so I I I guess I don't want the community
097to misconrue anything that we've signed especially if we don't need to for our consent or our cooperation today particularly where we're going to be seeking the bond later this year because I think it's an important message to our community with this board today like we're going to ask people to pay their fair share of taxes. We're not going to ask, you know, our senior citizens in our community or people, you know, living paycheck to paycheck to pay extra for a school project and at the same time be getting freebies to uh, you know, like the city's chosen developers or uh, partners just doesn't make sense and it hasn't been necessary. When you think of ARDO, Ardog paying full freight uh, in their taxes. Muchi is paying full freight in their taxes. when businesses come in
098when developments when the market can sustain a development and technically feasible people will pay their taxes. Uh so I just I think that's an important point to note particularly given uh what this board approved tonight in terms of the bond and what our levy committee uh the work that they'll be doing over the next you know six months or so to make it clear that this board is not the board from the center because I've asked you respectfully not and not to be not collaborative but just to be mindful that our number number one priority is to be able to put out safe functional buildings for this district. It's not to facilitate luxury condominiums that my personal opinion this community doesn't need. This community needs some schools or at least remodeled schools that can function
099for the next 50 years and any collaborative partner would make that priority number one. Was is that a motion from the board or just something I'm just one member that collects is necessary to do. We absolutely could make a motion. I'll make a motion. I will second. So just to be clear, what what is your motion? We just I mean you've obviously you've obviously received it. So we would just ask that no action be taken in terms of signing or otherwise taking formal action from the district on that letter. Right. Uh Mrs. Hennters. Yes. Dr. Lefay. Mr. Ragger. Mrs. Hartley. Yes. Mrs. Math. Yes. Right. And then item D, 10 attendee is new business. There any new business that needs to come before the board meeting? Okay. Um if not then we need a um
100motion to go into executive session for the purpose of discussion of the appointment, employment, dismissal, discipline, promotion, demotion or compensation of an employee or official or the investigation of charges or complaints against an employee, official or student unless such individual will request. I move we go into um executive session to discuss the appointment, employment, dismissal, discipline, promotion of motion or compensation of an employee or official or the investigation of charges or complaints against an employee, official or student unless such individual requests public hearing. Second, Mrs. Hartley. Yes. Mrs. Hers, yes. Dr. Mr. Ragger. Yes. Um, we do not expect to have action after our executive session. So, at this time, you're more than welcome to leave. We'll adjourn the meeting after the executive session. So, if you'd like to stay, you're more than welcome to,
101but there won't be any action taken after the executive session. Thank you. I do. I had Hi a lot. Yeah. I'll do that. Yeah, they were at the [Music] specific point. Uh, I guess I'd just like clarification on the number of days, how