001Good evening, everyone. Welcome to this Board of Education meeting for Wednesday, July 2nd here in downtown Canton. At this time, I'd ask everyone to please silence your devices and would you rise for the Pledge of Allegiance? To our family, staff, and community, thank you for being the best in Stark County. If you're here tonight, we welcome you. If you are online, thank you for taking the time to navigate our web page to join us. Mr. Gruber, would you call the roll, sir? Mr. Rinaldi? Here. Ms. Watkins? Here. Mr. Kaminsky? Here. Mrs. Brown? Here. Mr. Russ? Here. I'll make the motion to approve the agenda as written. Second. Any changes or corrections? No, there are not. Very good. Mr. Gruber, roll call vote. Mr. Rinaldi? Aye. Ms. Watkins? Aye. Mr. Kaminsky? Aye. Mrs. Brown? Aye. Mr.
002Russ? Aye. I'll make the motion to approve the minutes for our June 9th regular meeting and our June 26th special meeting. Second. Any changes or corrections? Hearing none, roll call vote. Mr. Rinaldi? Aye. Ms. Watkins? Aye. Mr. Kaminsky? Aye. Mrs. Brown? Aye. Mr. Russ? Aye. Mr. Kaminsky? Mr. President? I move that we enter into executive session to discuss matters required to be kept confidential by federal law, federal rules, or state statute. Second. Mr. Gruber, call the roll. Mr. Rinaldi? Aye. Ms. Watkins? Aye. Mr. Kaminsky? Aye. Mrs. Brown? Aye. Mr. Russ? Aye. We are out at 6.02 and should be back shortly. Thank you for your patience. We are back at 6.34. We have no one still signed up for hearing of the public, I'm assuming. No, we do not. Treasury report. Treasury Gruber? Yes, Mr.
003President. I'd like to recommend to the Board of Education this evening that they approve items one through three of the Treasury's report with item number one being a list of donations, which we greatly appreciate. Item number two is approval of the May 31st, 2025, monthly financial report and the last item this evening, recommendation to authorize the treasurer to pay the annual Ohio Coalition for Equity and Adequacy of School Funding Coalition dues in the amount of $3,738 and the annual Ed Choice litigation dues in the amount of $11,214 for fiscal year 2025-2026. So moved. Second. Any questions or comments from the Board? Hearing none, roll call vote. Mr. Rinaldi? Aye. Ms. Watkins? Aye. Mr. Kaminsky? Aye. Mrs. Brown? Aye. Mr. Russ? Aye. Moving right along, Superintendent Report, Superintendent Talbert? Mr. President, tonight I recommend the Board
004of Education approve Section A Human Resources Certified Staff, which tonight includes retirements and resignation leaves of absences, appointments, and adjustments for our certificated staff. So moved. Second. Any questions or comments from the Board? Hearing none, roll call vote. Mr. Rinaldi? Aye. Ms. Watkins? Aye. Mr. Kaminsky? Aye. Mrs. Brown? Aye. Mr. Russ? Aye. Before moving on to Classified Staff, I'd just like to note that in our approvals tonight, we approved Mr. Russell Burt as our new principal at Harter Elementary School. Moving on, Mr. President, I'd like to recommend the Board of Education approve Section B Human Resources Classified Staff, which tonight includes retirements, resignations, leave of absences, appointments, and adjustments for our classified staff members. So moved. Second. Any questions or comments from the Board? Hearing none, roll call vote. Mr. Rinaldi? Aye. Ms. Watkins? Aye.
005Mr. Kaminsky? Aye. Mrs. Brown? Aye. Mr. Russ? Aye. Moving on to Educational Service Reports, we'll take each one of these items separately tonight. Mr. President, I recommend the Board of Education approve Section C Education Services Report item number one. This is approval of an overnight field trip. So moved. Second. Any questions or comments from the Board? Hearing none, roll call vote. Mr. Rinaldi? Aye. Ms. Watkins? Aye. Mr. Kaminsky? Aye. Mrs. Brown? Aye. Mr. Russ? Aye. Mr. President, I recommend that the Board of Education approve our item number two under our Education Service Report, which is the approval of our plus 22 McKinley graduates, plus 22 graduates, McKinley graduates, and graduates from Choices High School. So moved. Second. Any questions or comments? Hearing none, roll call vote. Mr. Rinaldi? Aye. Ms. Watkins? Aye. Mr. Kaminsky? Aye.
006Mrs. Brown? Aye. Mr. Russ? Aye. Mr. President, I recommend that the Board of Education approve item number three under our Education Services Report tonight, which is our district's online day learning plan for the 25-26th school year. So moved. Second. Any questions or comments from the Board? Hearing none, roll call vote. Mr. Rinaldi? Aye. Ms. Watkins? Aye. Mr. Kaminsky? Aye. Mrs. Brown? Aye. Mr. Russ? Aye. Moving on to our operations report, Mr. President, I recommend that the Board approve item one under operations, and this is an approval of our resolution to participate in our food and non-food bids with the Stark County Council of Government. So moved. Second. Any questions or comments from the Board? Hearing none, roll call vote. Mr. Rinaldi? Aye. Ms. Watkins? Aye. Mr. Kaminsky? Aye. Mrs. Brown? Aye. Mr. Russ? Aye. Mr.
007President, I recommend that the Board of Education approve item number two under our operations report, which is a renewal of our national lunch contract. So moved. Second. Any questions or comments from the Board? Hearing none, roll call vote. Mr. Rinaldi? Aye. Ms. Watkins? Aye. Mr. Kaminsky? Aye. Mrs. Brown? Aye. Mr. Russ? Aye. Mr. President, I recommend that the Board approve and adopt our nutritional standards policy that considers the requirements of Ohio law and governs the types of food and beverages that may be sold on school property for the 25-26 school year. So moved. Second. Any questions or comments from the Board? I have a question. Ms. Watkins? How does it affect the school stores that most of the schools have, a lot of the grade schools, there's stores where there's like Cheetos, candy bars, cookies
008that students can purchase and the money that is used is usually used for parties or other type of fundraiser events that schools have. So this is primarily directed towards the food that is made and sold as a part of our free lunch program. So school stores don't have anything to do with that? School stores, the policies that we have in place state and control food that's sold during the time that our cafeterias are open. This also controls the food that is sold as a part of our vending machines at our high school. So things that are related to our federal food program, we would just make sure that when schools are selling things, like bake sales and doing those types of things, that they're not doing it during restricted hours for food service. Okay. Thank
009you. Any other questions or comments from the Board? Hearing none, roll call vote. Mr. Rinaldi? Aye. Ms. Watkins? Aye. Mr. Kaminsky? Aye. Mr. Brown? Aye. Mr. Russ? Aye. Mr. President, I recommend that the Board of Education approve item number four on their operations report tonight, which is an approval to renew or approval to award a contract for student van transportation for the 25-26 school year. So moved. Second. Any questions or comments from the Board? Hearing none, roll call vote. Mr. Rinaldi? Aye. Ms. Watkins? Aye. Mr. Kaminsky? Aye. Ms. Brown? Aye. Mr. Russ? Aye. And then finally, item number five under our operation report is, I recommend that the Board approve the attached real estate purchase agreement. So moved. Second. Any questions or comments from the Board? This is for the extension of parking and everything
010over there? Yes, this is a property that is across the street from our Bulldog Activity Center. And once this sale is complete, we will receive the property ready for our use as a school district. And that initial use for right now would be for additional parking, which we do not have for the Bulldog Activity Center, which is in use almost every day of the week. And a lot of times, especially during the school year in the winter months, it starts before any of our employees arrive and our parking lot is full, so full that employees arriving have to park all over downtown in order to get to their offices. So it's a good problem to have, but parking is an issue. And so we're really happy that we were able to acquire this property and
011actually it's been something we've been eyeing for quite some time now. What's the timeline in getting it finished? Yeah, we're hoping that it's done by the fall. Any other questions or comments from the Board? Hearing none, we'll call the vote. Mr. Rinaldi? Abstain. Ms. Watkins? Aye. Mr. Kaminsky? Aye. Mrs. Brown? Aye. Mr. Russ? Aye. Moving on to Section E, Superintendent Action Items. I recommend the Board of Education approve Item 1, which is a second reading and approval of Board Policy 5780.01. So moved. Second. Any questions or comments from the Board? Hearing none, roll call vote. Mr. Rinaldi? Aye. Ms. Watkins? Aye. Mr. Kaminsky? Aye. Mrs. Brown? Aye. Mr. Russ? Aye. Finally, I recommend that the Board of Education approve Action Item, Superintendent Action Item number 2, which is approval of our 2024-2025 Career Tech Adult
012Education Graduates. So moved. Second. Any questions or comments from the Board? Just one thing. Congratulations to all. Well done. Mr. Gruber, call the roll. Mr. Rinaldi? Aye. Ms. Watkins? Aye. Mr. Kaminsky? Aye. Ms. Brown? Aye. Mr. Russ? Aye. And before I wrap up my superintendent's report, I'd like to thank the Board of Education, all of our community members and staff members who took the time to reach out and make calls to our local legislators, to the governor's office in support of the budget. While we didn't get everything changed the way we wanted it to, I believe that all of the calls and questioning and concerns did pay off. And I believe that we are, that this is still an ongoing issue because the process isn't done yet, even though it's been signed by the governor
013and there's been vetoes, there's still the process of where this can be, there could be some overrides. So I just encourage people to still pay attention, still watch what's going on and, and make sure that you are voicing your concerns with your legislators so they, they know that you're paying attention and watching. Thank you. Thank you, Superintendent Talbert. With that, Mr. Kaminsky? Mr. President, I move we adjourn. I will second that. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Everyone be safe and have a great night.