001Are you Andrew? I always look forward once a quarter type of thing. I am so I for all DPS students. [laughter] I took the political route. [laughter] Thanks. I saw you. Uh, yes. [laughter] [laughter] No, no, no. That is you. I have ended my discussion. You had seven minutes max. [laughter] Oh, yes. You're welcome. Take a picture. Brother Smith. I'm going to be No, absolutely not. How you doing? I think the form form is still sitting back there, right? I'm thinking the electronic form. Yeah. If we pull it, if they pull it apart, they add on there. I do too. That's usually we would have to put on it with his with his license. I just think that's a conflict of interest that anyone wanted to find out 5 minutes before the meeting or something
002like that. I mean, I think does it say that we will when we stop Oh, wait a minute. No, [laughter] at the beginning of the meeting. Electric submissions will only be used on public meetings. Okay. And they shut us down. So good. So you does it say when we will stop accepting submissions though like does it say at the beginning of the meeting or should we say policy we can accept submissions up to the point of there when they shut it down period then they participation you freshman year too it's quite warm in here it is yeah it does not say you did [laughter] not welcome graduated from actually and you didn't have no varsity letter school. So, you know, uh, yeah, I did. Yeah, he did. Yeah, I did. Yes, I did. Hey, he
003was walking around the school like [laughter] don't play. Do not Mr. President, we are one minute past. Yes. I didn't know she was back. [laughter] Here we go. Everybody ready? Yes, sir. Call to order public school board 1701. Roll call. President Bailey here. Dr. Goodwin. Well, she has an excused absence. Mr. Lacy here. Mr. Smith, I am present. Miss Rhinard, present. Mr. Walker, present. Miss Garrison, present. Miss Woods, present. Seven, present. We already passed it. Yeah, we I aliance to the flag of the United States of America to the rep indivisible and justice for all. Okay. I would like to put in a request for a new deis. [laughter] Our mission is to inspire, educate and empower. Our vision is to inspire, educate, and empower scholars for a lasting impact. And our purpose is to
004cultivate a supportive and engaging educational experience. District, let's see it. Um, we are excited for is this year three of debate or this is year three, right? Three. Yep. Year three of debate. And it gets better each year. This year, our first round will take place at David H. opponents, February 19th from 5 to 6:00 p.m. I encourage the viewing audience and members of our staff and and other students to come out to see the debate. It really is um a special event. The finals will be in April. Uh I love the jackets. I love the debate itself. Students prepare and it's always an opportunity to see them um see us give them an opportunity to give feedback instead of being in the hallways. Right in the back. That's right. Dayton Speaks um is also
005one of our events. MLK Ortoriical Poetry Slam. Uh this is a super super super exciting event. Um you see talent uh from students that you that you didn't even expect. We've seen kids come out. I didn't even know that kid was speaking and they come out and they're part of the ortorial poetry slam. So we look forward to that. and it's on Thursday, February 26 from 6:00 to 8:00 at Wright Brothers Middle School uh in the auditorium. So, Dayton Debate League, Dayton Speaks, those are our district events for um February. Dr. Lawrence, did Dayton [snorts] speak take the place of the Lucy May speech contest? No. So, that's a separate date. Yeah, we can't Got it. Okay. He don't got bars like that, y'all. I do day and speaks. You guys should totally come and
006support. You know, I wasn't going to say anything, but you um I think you I think you won you won last year. You won actually you won two. We were first in one and second in the other every year, but last year I won first place. Yeah. Yeah. So, that's right. You you I saw that. Yes, I did. [laughter] Uh Miss Woods, would you like to I mean, we're going to have the event again this year. Maybe we could have a celebrity board member as a speaks. What do you think? I think so. I think so. I think so. We have one here who loves to speak. Okay. Moving on. [laughter] All right. Now, we get started department presentation. Andrew, I always get excited seeing Andrew because it's like a once a quarter type of
007thing. A quarter. Once a semester, [laughter] however often it is. Yeah. Uh, good evening everyone. Uh I think this is my first time in the new year being here. So I'm Andrew Mack and I'm uh budget director if you haven't seen me before. Um and today I figured it would be a good idea just give a little overview of school finance. Um kind of go over like our accounting principles and stuff behind and then more specifically dive into like estimated resources and kind of how we go about getting our like budgeted expenditures or appropriations. Um so first up if you want to scroll down a little bit. There we go. Um so all schools pretty much every government's on a fund counting. Um a lot of stuff to do with funds. Um a good general
008idea is the idea of a bucket. Um so think of funds as like different buckets. Um different buckets have different purposes. Um some are more restrictive than others. For example, our general fund is pretty unrestricted when it comes to us spending money. That means we can do almost whatever we want to with it for the operations of the school. Whereas like our grant funds might have more restrictions placed on federally or by the state where we can only spend it on certain reasons or on that. Um, so pretty much all of our accounting structure is given to us by the auditor of states. Um, they give it to us in the uniform school accounting system. So any any of our funds, our functions, our object codes or how we spend money is kind of already
009given to us by the state. Um, and how we account for that information. So really, we're just making it go in the right place. Um, so move on to the next one. Um so first up we have our uh fund breakdowns. Um I gave a little bit of an overview just of all our funds together. Um and the idea of appropriation which is what you all approve um every so often at the four. And really the appropriation is our budgeted expense. It's the money going out uh what we're spending money on. Um so you can I summarize kind of all our different types of funds. Uh the first one our general fund that's our largest. um that's where we do the majority of all our operation spending from. Uh then you go down the list,
010we have special revenue funds. Those would include any of our like grants or anything. So all the title funds, all that good stuff. Um then we have our debt debt service fund. Um what we pay our debt out of. Uh then we have capital project fund. So anything like major construction or like Hback projects or anything, we have two of those. That's 03 and 070. Uh comes from there. It's restricted just to those big capital projects. Uh then we have enterprise funds. Uh so enterprise funds kind of act we get money in it goes out for the specific reason why we got that money in. So uh our largest one of those is our food service fund. We get money from uh the federal government. We get receipts in from uh school lunches and stuff
011and it goes into that fund and then out that fund as well. Um then we have our internal service funds. Um so that's all our like self insurance that we collect money for. we kind of hold it until it has to go out for like claims or anything like that. Um, then we have trust and agency funds. So, if we were to ever get like a major trust or anything in um that goes there, it's restricted to just those purposes that are set up in uh specified like agreements and stuff. Um, then our agency funds there are anything like uh money that we collect that we're not actually uh that we're essentially holding on behalf of somebody. Um, so we have like student activity funds where we'll collect money for like specific student activities, but
012it's up to the students who like spend that money and everything down. Um, so moving on then we get into our general fund budget. Um, which I wanted to highlight because it acts a little bit differently than the rest of our budgets. Um, a lot of our different funds have their own budget process, but our general fund being our largest works a little bit differently in terms of how we how we budget it. Um, so especially now as we're getting into like the major budget push season, um, for next year, I wanted to give you guys kind of a peak behind the scenes here. Um, so our general fund is set up by department. Um, you have different stuff for buildings and then you have all our various departments and central services. Um, and kind
013of what they spend money on. So it's really up to the departments on how they want to spend money. Um what we do in budget is we get a priority listing from them um for their staff and as well as their like different contracts and it's all ranked by priority. So like one might be your uh this is legally required for us to provide uh the students and stuff and then it goes up from there of like hey we could we could go without this if possible but we would really like it for our students. and uh we kind of compile that and everything and then uh business manager, superintendent, treasurer kind of review that see how it fits within our revenue and stuff and gets a final version together. Um and then that's all
014what's presented with the rest of our funds in uh either May, April or at the latest June for the following year. Um so I broke a quick chart down just so you can see kind of how um our appropriation set up just for the general fund. um high level departments, you can see regular instruction um and then going down the list there all the way down to our fixed costs that we budget for just like utilities and stuff. Um that gets us our total general fund allocation currently for this year for our appropriation at 280 million. Um which is important to note because the next slide we'll talk a little bit about our estimated resources which is our money coming into the district and our revenue. Um so our estimated resources is that other um
015sheet you get whenever you approve the appropriations uh every couple months. Um so if the estimated resources change or the appropriation change, you all have to approve it. Um so the estimated resources is really just taking our ending cash balance at the end of last year plus our expected revenue. So that includes our property tax um and pretty much everything else we get. And it's organized kind of the same way by fund level. Um and then that totals together to get our estimated resources. Um important thing to note is our appropriations can never go above our estimated resources. We have to have the money or the money expected to come in in order to spend it. Um so you can see it's separated the same way. General fund all the way down to trust and
016agency and kind of the totals there. Um if you want more detail, it's later on down with the certificate. Um then moving on, I wanted to talk about some of the major revenue sources we get. Um the three major ones are definitely the state foundation, our property tax and state and federal grants. Now this is spread out across all our different funds. Um and I give percentage breakdown for each type of the revenue. So our state foundation is anything that like the state gives us for like our enrollment for our ch for our children and anything else that the state gives us for like career tech or anything like that's in that state foundation. Um then we also get property tax uh from the county. Um those are our two largest and then we get
017our state and federal grants. um specifically from uh like your title grants and everything like that. Um some of our smaller ones are like our homestead and roll back. Um some of our earnings and investments and then everything [clears throat] else makes up uh around 3% um like our tuition, other donations and stuff. We get just some miscellaneous items there. Um then finally on the last slide um I just put on some Ohio Revised Code section some of the legal things to be in mind when we're we're looking at the budget. Um the first one is we have to approve either a temporary or a final appropriation um by the start of the fiscal year. So June or July 1st. Um if it's temporary then we have to have the final one approved by the
018first day in October there. Um, next is just our legal level, minimum of control, uh, which essentially states our appropriation. The minimum we can have it at is by fund level. Um, our general funds by department. Um, but for the most part, fund levels are our minimum that we can have. Um, then the last one is just that that total appropriation um can't go above our estimated uh resources there. So, any questions? Questions? Yep. I mean we appropriate the general fund by um not by not by department but by like what is it function or deoxy? Yeah, it it's kind of set up where we have like the various departments and stuff and then some stuff for like supplies and materials for school buildings and stuff like that. It's like 30 different lines or something
019like that. Yeah. I I don't know the exact name of it. Okay. Yep. That's all that's all I really know [clears throat] the number for the resources that was that's 2026. Oh, I see. Yeah. So, the the numbers I had on there for estimated resource and appropriations that this that's this year's um we're currently in the process of our like overall budget cycle here. So, um come April, May, uh we're at the latest June. You should have next year's uh broken down how it usually is and everything. And the pie chart numbers are also 26. Yep. Okay. Yeah. All right. That's all I have. Thank you. Thank you for the report. Thank you for your cool. Thanks. Appreciate you. Let's see here. Instructional insight. Dr. Bailey, thank you so much. We are going to give
020a brief overview of um preK through six. Chief Judith Spurlock will go first and followed by Mr. Bashar Simmons, secondary schools. Good evening, uh, President Dr. Bailey, uh, members of our board, Treasure Abraha, and Superintendent Lawrence. After a strong elementary showing from every building at the district science fair, elementary schools are gearing up to prepare our students for their building speech contests and math Olympic team practices to be ready for our district competitions. We are also holding career awareness programming, academic focused family nights with reading and math in alignment with our AAP as our focuses. We actually have two elementary schools um that have completed their murals, but we have every elementary art teacher and their sixth grade students working with two artists, Tiffany Clark or Chris Roland, to create an an art mural for
021their school that they create and design and paint. We are very happy to announce that Bell Haven and Louise Troy have fully completed their murals and are ready to unveil. Bell Haven Bobcat students created mural featuring um their message that Bobcats are known by the tracks that they leave. Louise Troy mural features the skyline of their community with highlights of Louise Troy and Dunar. Many more are in various stages uh from planning to design development. Um, so we can't wait to really see them all. Elementary school teams have planned wonderful Black History Month celebrations, academic activities, and programs. Highlights include musical and dance performances, and a special highlight, we have many schools doing Living Wax Museums, which is an immersive educational experience where students embody pivotal black historical figures transforming themselves into living statues, ready
022to share their stories. and they were amazing last year and we can't wait to see those again this year. Finally, Dr. Lawrence has given a challenge to excel student learning and achievement. Our elementary principles as the lead learners are focusing on the essential standards. high yield strategies leveraging all the resources of our curriculum with an intentional focus on literacy, writing and math to excel our students and get them ready to show what they know on our OST, our maps and actually really basic line is demonstrating the skills so they can get ready for their next grade level or their next adventure in life. Thank you. Thank you. Good [clears throat] evening everyone. Thank you for the opportunity to share some instructional insights for secondary schools. I'm going to start at Wright Brothers Middle School. Nine
023students completed college promise interviews. Uh OSU scholars applications are underway. The informational is this Thursday, uh February 12th. 8th grade students are participating in a law and leadership lesson in social studies classes this week. Also at WGMAN, two students placed second in our science fair with superior ratings and they are also interviewing for college promise at Ponents. Ponents career technical center technology center is celebrating a major national recognition in their business pathway. Three students competed in the Business Professionals of America Financial Portfolio Management Teams National event and placed six out of 28 teams nationwide. Students managed a simulated $100,000 investment portfolio making strategic decisions under real world market constraints. The team advanced to the second round of the finals and will present a 10-minute defense of their strategy to the judges on February 18th virtually.
024Special thanks to Kevin Keenir for coaching the team during lunch and um sharing his expertise. It was instrumental in this process at Edwin Joel Brown. Very excited about this as well. Edwin Joel Middle School continues its focus on high quality instruction and the portrait of a graduate. In science, students are studying phase changes through the amplify curriculum. Following the unit, students were engaged in a two-week engineering design challenge to create incubators modeled after the safe haven baby bird boxes. To to build background knowledge, students incubate incubated quail eggs in the classroom. The incubator was set up on January 15th with 32 eggs. And when the students returned, they had successfully um hatched 18 quail eggs. Students calculated hatch rate percentages and connected temperature regulation and phase changes uh and the engineering design in the engineering
025design to real outcomes. The project supported in the portrait of a graduate traits including critical thinking, collaboration, responsibility, work e work ethic, and communication. With parent permission, several of the students took quail quail's honor. And that's an extension of the learning beyond the classroom at Thood Marshall. Thood Marshall STEM School is celebrating several positive developments as well. Uh due to semester block scheduling, students completed a full OST administration in December. Proficiency rates in math, science, and social studies increased as compared to last spring. The Black Boys and Tech The Black Boys in Tech program began on February 10th with freshmen receiving maker space training and serving as assistants. The school's maker space is located in the library and will open in March for teachers to schedule pro progress projectbased learning. Um, their afterchool STEM engineering
026club will begin this week, February 20, I'm sorry, February 23rd, providing hands-on experiences to STEM for STEM careers as well. at Dumbar. Junior Albert Pow earned first place at the District Science Fair, marking Dumbar's second consecutive first place win. 13 new students were inducted into the National Honor Society, bringing the total chapter membership to 27. And the girls basketball team are back-to-back city champions. And one senior has received a full ride scholarship to Rio Grand University. At Styver School of the Arts, 82 student writers earned Scholastic Awards in 2025. Styver placed in the top 25 of approximately 100 teams at the Xavier University stock market challenge. Styver dancers participated in the IAB dance festival in Atlanta, Georgia, and one senior has earned the prestigious National Coca-Cola scholarship. the freshman academy. Before you move on, can
027you say that again? Which uh one [laughter] senior has earned a prestigious national Coca-Cola scholarship. Thank you. I just want [applause] um listen. Okay. [laughter] and several eighth grade students competed at the Wright State University math counts competition earning most improved team award. Uh lastly, at Meadowdale on Wednesday, February 11th, during 7th period at 2:15, Meadowdale will host a national signing day ceremony recognizing approximately five to six mighty Lion student athletes who will be signing their letters of intent to continue their academic and athletic careers as college football players this fall. This moment represents years of perseverance, discipline, and commitment, not only on the field, but also in the classroom. Principal Davis would love and be honored by your presence as they celebrate the students academics, academic achievements, and reinforce the importance of academics, character,
028and this opportunity in athletics. We are so proud of the hard work and commitment our students continue to demonstrate across this district. their achievements reflect their dedication to learning and growth. We want to continue this momentum into third quarter and fourth quarter. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I love hearing about those lions. [applause] Yes. Um Dr. Lawrence, those were great updates. I know some of which are in the newsletter. Um Mhm. Do we um publicize that on I know I know it goes out via mail. I know we uh get them as residents as well but the is it posted on a website as well where we could just people can go there and look at the newsletter to see all these great achievements. Uh the e the student achievements are but not the
029newsletter itself. So what I typically write to you all is the student focus on the students. That part always is the public is able to see and we add other events to that. Then we also send it out to the entire district in a weekly newsletter via text. So, but the instructional insight we just received is not No, that is not part of it's not on the website. Okay. If we could maybe look at if it's advantageous for us to have that because I think when people are looking at DPS, they need to see these, you know, successes. Uh, thank you for that. We would definitely uh take that under consideration. And I want to just add, thank you, board member Walker, for actually stopping Mr. Simmons and having him go back and repeat that.
030Mr. Walker was a student at Thood when we had Coca Colonel White/T Thood when we had Coca-Cola scholars. I would let the viewing audience know that to put it in perspective, there are only 150 of those scholarships given out in the nation. 150. So, um, thank you, Miss Garrison, because I think what you're saying is we we should tell that story. That's right. Yeah. Abs, you're absolutely right. So, that's a big time award. Um, thank you for having me go back and repeat that. Just funny. I mean, third does have the most wins of them right now. So, well, I mean, just just I mean, for you and miss going start, we know. [laughter] I mean, what can I say? [laughter] You want to help? I didn't have anything, sir. I just, you know. Thank
031you, Mr. Smith. [laughter] All right. Thank you for your presentations. Uh, hearing from the bargaining units. Anyone from the bargaining unit? Yes, we have one from the bar. Bargaining units. Oh, good. Okay. All right. From the public, uh, limit remarks to Do we have any Do we have anybody? We have one. Okay. Is the person here? Uh limit remarks at three minutes. The president has the discretion to extend the time. When your time is up, you are you are to stop speaking. It is inappropriate to address any matter involving pending disputes, grievances under a labor agreement, disciplinary action involving an employee or student, ongoing labor negotiations, concerns, or matters that have already been settled and or any matter which be because of its nature is deemed in is deemed appropriate to be discussed in an
032executive session. The purpose of the public hearing portion of the meeting is for members of the public to express viewpoints and public concerns. Do we have anyone? Jacob better. Jacob. Jacob. Better luck. Twice. All right. Superintendent. Thank you. Member Bailey. I would like to ask if you would take my recommendations uh in total B through G. So move second. Any questions concern? Uh yes. I just would like to pull B1 till after exec. Mhm. It's going to be you can make noise. I'm sorry. Go ahead. Yes. Briefly, sir. I see that we have a head baseball coach over at Thood. Um, just quickly, I'd like to ask, do we know where they will be able to play? I know I've been hearing and seeing some issues with the field over at third good. Do you
033have an idea of what we're going to try to do there? Good evening. Um we're working with AD Petty to identify that. Obviously, we have some reconstruction going on with Ketarin Fields. Um typically sometimes too, we um share fields within the district. So, we're still trying to um get a handle on that. Um but it is definitely some conversation obviously um throughout the years because of the drainage at that field it's going to cost too much. So that's the challenges with that. Okay. And I know we've had the partnership with the city. Is there any possibility with us using any of their fields that they have? Well, right now they are in transition with leadership um for that department. So they're trying to see where we stand with the construction piece. um with the city
034cuz we typically do use their spaces. Okay. All right. Appreciate that. I do have a question. It's a long shot. Is it possible to do a game at Dragon Stadium? Yeah, that's definitely a long shot. [laughter] Hey, listen. But but it's not a shot that I hadn't asked. So, I would look into it. A long shot though. Or they do. I know you like to hold me to stuff. So I'll I'll even take UD's field. They got two nice ones over there. Maybe we can Well, we've been better with relationships with them. So I'll talk to Scott the boat to see if that can work. That might be more realistic for us. Appreciate you, Chief. Thank you, Chief Jones. All right. Is it I did? No, I do have one. Um, just a brief on
035the math counts coach on what that actually is. Where are you? Which one? ABC. Uh, I think it's a it's a supplemental, I think. F8 and F9. Yeah, gotcha. [cough] [clears throat] She Dr. She is on her way. So, um, with our, um, math Olympics, we've extended it so that the students have coaches and compete more than just that one event and we've gone into to using math counts. So, it's a company, they have curriculum, they have competitions. So, we wanted to extend that with our focus on math. Perfect. Okay. Appreciate it. I like that. Any questions? Anything else? I'll save my other questions for our student after school activities and workforce committee. [laughter] Call for a vote. Did we motion? Oh, we did. President. President Bailey. Yes, we did. We did. Mr. Lacy. Yes.
036Mr. Smith. Yes. Miss Rhiner. Yes. Mr. Walker. Yes. Miss Garrison. Yes, Miss Woods. Yes. Seven yeses. Dr. Bley, I recommend the approval of the following after July 10th resignation. So move. Second [clears throat] question, concerns. President B. I'm still waiting on questions at this time. Nothing. All right. Caller vote. President Bailey. Yes. Mr. Lacy. No. Mr. Smith? No. Miss Rard? No. Mr. Walker? Yes. Miss Garrison? No. Miss Woods? No, two yeses and five no. I would ask the board to take a look at the budget information. uh we have had several extra finance meetings uh and on our side I mean well we're on the same side on the academics and treasury and operations several additional budget meetings um in addition with some also board member um briefs as it relates to the budget information
037but I would ask you to take a look at that and if you have any questions the treasur and I are available. [clears throat] I do have a question. Yep. Uh so if I'm looking at the budget information from our December meeting compared to the budget information today, December it said that we had 916.5 actual field teacher positions out of the 928. This one says we have 887. I don't think we've had that many resations that's come before us. So, is that just a typo? I saw an email you earlier asking for um the number of field teacher positions. Yes. I have to ask the HR department to consolidate that for you and get that back to you. Okay. Appreciate it. No problem at all. Uh Dr. Bailey, I'd ask that uh board take a
038look at contracts and consultants together. A through E is or A through D is just review, right? Yeah. Mr. President. Yes, ma'am. Um, I know that A through D are planned to be just for review. Um, item C, however, is um a change to a previously approved item. It was previously approved on January 20th. Um, is there any need for this to be considered for a vote today to make the travel um arrangements a little bit easier? Is there anybody that we can ask to see if this is timesensitive? since it was previously approved. Anybody opposed vote on that today? Do you have to make a motion for that? I am willing to make a I move to approve um 7C. I'll second call vote. President Bailey. Yes. [cough] Mr. Lacy. Yes. Mr. Smith. All
039right. Yep. Miss Rhinard. Yes. Mr. Walker. Yes. Miss Garrison. Yes. Miss Woods. Yes. Seven yeses. Thank you. Uh, thank you, Miss Riner. Uh D is uh I want to answer this publicly. Thank you so much Miss Garrison for the question. This is a longunning uh dispute uh with ask me in terms of how we take out union dues and so it's a it's a technical issue. So we solved the technical issue came up with the what the total was worked through frost brown tide the treasur treasurer Iberhigh and I did and we negotiated a deal uh that both sides thought was agreeable and we wanted to have it on for you all to take a look at today. Um and then the calamity days uh we're working with Frost Bron Tide and all 13 unions.
040We would be the treasur's office business service division and myself to develop a unifi unified base contract not for all 13 units but things around corrective action calamity days um discipline uh other other things that we want to have be universal [clears throat] so that we don't have to look at all these contracts and become more efficient. So, this is a resolution paying uh certain groups that would not have been paid because we had that historic storm and we exceeded the five calamity days. I think we're up to seven now and that uh got past their the number of contract days in which they'd be paid. So, I asked the board now, this time, one time only, because we'll be having a uniform contract pretty soon, but to be able to fill in the gaps
041for those those locals that didn't have the same coverage as the other u uh collective bar units. Any questions? So, I I just want to separate the two out. So, one is for us to do the action on E and F. D is not for anything until next week. Yeah, D is next week. Okay. Yeah, but actually E bec treasurer Araha, isn't isn't the pay cycle starting? Do we need that today or can it wait till next Tuesday? No, we need Yeah. Yeah, that should be Yeah, so E has got to be for a vote. D is just next week. Okay. So, I'll make a motion to accept superintendent recommendation E and F together. Thank you. I will that go ahead vote. He said E and E. Okay. President Bailey. Yes. Mr. Lacy. Yes. Mr.
042Smith. Yes. Miss Reard. Yes. Mr. Walker. Yes. Miss Garrison. Yes. and Miss Wood. Yes. Seven yeses. [clears throat] Dr. Bailey, that concludes my recommendations. Thank you, sir. Treasurer's recommendations. Okay. Tonight, I have a presentation for the financial forecast. Uh Shice, if you can put that forecast presentation for me. Okay. Uh, this financial forecast is for February. It is a new one. My My laptop is going crazy. [laughter] I don't know what to do. I changed. You all I did. Okay, I'm done. Okay. Okay. This forecast is according to the requirement according the OC and OAC HP 96 current state budget changes the dates and the years of the district forecast submission. HB96 requires board affiducation to submit a 4year projection of operational revenue and expenditures along with the assumptions to OD before October 15 and
043an update February of each fiscal year. Again, um this year for 2027, they changed it. They moved it to August 31st and February 28th. Again required [clears throat] funds are general fund special cost any special cost centers associated with general fund money. uh emergency [clears throat] levy which is fund 016 debt service activities um that would have been gone through general fund our district will continue we decided to continue with the five-year forecast for planning purposes the requirement is four year only purpose and objective of the forecast to engage the board of education and the community in a long range planning and discussion of the issues facing of the district to serve and as basis of determining the school district's ability to sign the four uh 12 certificate to provide a method for the department
044of education and the auditor of state to identify school districts with potential financial problems. Key line items for the district are divided into two revenues and expenditures. District revenues is made up of two main categories which is local and state funding. Expenditures are mainly salary and benefits, purchased services and supplies and materials. New legislation targets property targets targets property taxation. Governor signed into law four pieces of legislation in December 19, 2025 and takes an effect in March 19, 2026. These are HP 129, 186, 309 and 335. HP one HB9 129 adds to fix some levy types 20 meal floor calculation. This though for as for Dayton public school should not impact our district. We are not we are not on a 20 million floor or our levies are continuing and are affected by HB 920.
045HB 186 caps revenue growth to inflation for 20 million floor school districts and adjusts credits. No author authoritative details on amounts from department departmental taxation until April. Our forecast is now HB 335 caps revenue growth to inflation for inside meal for all entities. This is very bad. Um HB309 allows county budget commissions to reduce or override voted levies for school districts to limit collections. This is likely to be implemented unequally statewide for 88 uh county budget commissioners. October forecast versus February really we didn't have that much change it's very minimum less than 200,000 we are filing it this time because it's a requirement to five okay now we'll go to this slide this slide tells us a lot. What this is a snip uh shot of the uh forecast and assumptions. It's going to be
046approved later after this presentation. But if you pay attention to the red [clears throat] funds and as you can see uh those ones are comparing revenue with expenditure. And when you compare that we we are spending more than we are bringing. That's one issue. But and um by the next one is ending cash balance at June 30th. The requirement is we we don't show the third year um negative cash balance. So we are showing on the fourth year which is okay for right now at the last one is unreserved fund balance the bottom of this one. So we are operating uh uh in a positive for the next 3 years but we going to go in a deficit the the fourth year. Next, this one estimated general fund revenues for fiscal year 26. Where do
047we get our money? Most of our money is state foundation um 59.1%. other state 2.9% that is a tax but it's paid through the state that's the reason why we separating it uh real property tax 26.5 uh cap tax is 5.4% 4% and other is 2.7% of the revenue. The other is mostly the interest income we make from our investments. Let's go to the next. The next page is it shows local revenues versus state revenues. As you can see, we are heavily dependent on the state [clears throat] when you compare it. That is the reason why we we have an issue. Let's go to the next one. The next one is estimated general fund expenditures for fiscal year 2026. Where do we spend our money? Our money is spent to wages 51%. Benefits 19%. 20%
048is services 2% is capital other is 2%. Supplies and materials is 5%. That's where we spend. We are comparable with others. when you look into our um uh salaries and benefits, it's not out of whack. Let's go to the other slide. This slide is I am trying to show you how our expenditures are rising steadily while our revenues are not. So the expenditure in here is really going higher to educate our kids. Let's go to the next slide. The next slide is what it shows is our cash. If we don't receive money, how long can we go without with what we have in our unreserved fund balance? As you can see, we can uh and go JA recommend 60 days or two months of unreserved fund balance. So, we have a reservation until 2020. 2027
049according to GFO8 but in 20 uh 28 we fall to less than 30 days of cash. So now let's discuss on our our district financial story overview. The current funding has as as guaranteed through 2027. Future funding in is still uncertain for 28 and 28 to 30 fiscal year 30 as a fair funding plan is not funded beyond 2027 and the state legisl legislature may change the property tax laws. That's a concern we have. We receive 51 59.1% of our revenue from the state of Ohio, 31.9% from local services. Future funding should not be impacted by the recent pro uh property tax legislation passed on December 19, 2025. Any future property tax [clears throat] legislation could impact our forecast, including a possible ballot initiative to eliminate property tax. We need to try to match our
050expenditure to our revenue. If if we are to sustain our ending cash balance long term, if the student state cuts and reduces our state funding and several and severely impacts our ability to raise local funding, our district will need to make cuts or pass a levy. Our revenue and our revenue and ability to manage the district are under a threat by the Ohio legislature. Under current laws and state funding, we are projecting positive cash balance through 2028 of the forecast. General financial concerns. Total revenue is estimated to grow by less than quarter annually for the next 5 years while expenditure are estimated to grow 1 and a half% of each year. property tax reform. That's the concern. HB33 continue to fair school funding plan which we anticipate will continue for 26 and 27 banium budget.
051We are guaranteed school. There is no increase for guaranteed schools. Do you have any question? Any questions? So you say it it it didn't materially change in the previous 5-year forecast. Yes. So how I remember we had uh I don't have the previous forecast in front of me but I we were in negative um unreserved fund balance June 30th for the last two years in the previous also right yeah we had that but what I'm saying is it didn't change it's the same right because as a matter of fact it is um a little bit better. Right now I projected $4.99 last time. Okay. On the 28 on this the one and this time 599. So less than two 200,000 difference with my projection from October to February. Okay. So we are steadily uh working
052and then according to our forecast. Okay. Okay. I I understand. Um and then the next bianium is that are we in the middle of a bianium? Uh the next bianium will be we are this is our first year. This is we're in the middle of our first year of the banium. Okay, we are that's all I have for now. Thanks. Thanks for Okay, if you don't have any question, I have recommendations. I have a recommendation uh for both the I recommend the approval of the financial forecast forecast and assumptions. So moved. Second approval. Who is uh I Miss Reer. Miss Rhiner. Okay. Oh. Okay. I can see President Bailey. Yes. Uh, Mr. Lacy, yes. Mr. Smith, yes. Miss Rhinard, yes. Mr. Walker, yes. Miss Garrison, yes. Miss Woods, yes. Seven yeses. Mhm. Another recommendation. I
053have [clears throat] I recommend the approval of the treasure travel. So move. Second. Yeah. Okay. President Bailey. Yes. Mr. Lacy. Yes. Mr. Smith. Yes. Miss Reinard? Yes. Mr. Walker? Yes. Miss Garrison? Yes. Miss Woods? Yes. Seven? Yeses. Others are for review. Okay. We will go the certificate of estimated resources and this one is we are trying to approve. The increase is um for various uh grant funds uh 499 um 536 and 5 90. Uh what it is is carryover. We got the carryover money and uh new funding. If you don't have any question on that one, I will move to the next one that is appropriation. Uh I do have I do have a question on that walker. So last year is this principal fund balance still with money from other buildings in it or
054are the principles not using their principal fund? Like what actually is cuz I thought that when we reallocated this money that it would somehow be used. Some of them they are using it. Some of it is still there. Yeah, we also we also appropriate like a little bit more. So like as we get receipts in, we increase the like actual buildings budgets up. Um so we don't have to come back like every single month and show you like all the receipts [clears throat] that we're getting in at the at the same time cuz that would be a lot. Um so like there's a little bit of like difference between the cash balance and like the total appropriation for principal. [snorts] Got it. Okay. So the increase on this u uh appropriation is general fund. We
055are increasing it by 900 900,69. Um the other ones are the increase is for student enrollment that 900. [cough and clears throat] Um the others are an update for grant funds what is carry over [clears throat] uh to school issues. Okay, another question. What is the difference between I guess this is the special revenue student managed fund and then the trust student managed fund or student activity student managed. Yeah. So the one that's a special revenue is stuff that like that like we get in as a district and it goes to the district and like we kind of manage how to like use that funds. Whereas the one that's in 200 which is the like uh the agency one is it it's not it's not technically ours like the students manage the funds um and
056we just like hold on to it for like cash. So like we're we're like the acting like fiscal agent for it, but we're not like we're not the ones determining how to like spend it essentially is kind of the difference. Okay. So the one that has the 950,000 appropriation that usually is spent out from principles or department building. So like as they get like specific amounts in and stuff. Um kind of like the principal fund. Um, but specifically related to like more student stuff. You figured out where I was going with that. [laughter] All right. Appreciate you. That's it for me, Dr. B. What else can I ask? Okay, um, okay. So, so what was was the the need for the student enrollment center for 985? I think they got charged for more than they
057appropriated. So they asked us to increase. Yeah, it's the um so it's specifically for the Montgomery County Juvenile Court um for like our or for like our students that are there. We're required to pay for um like if they get court mandraded there or anything, we have to pay them tuition and stuff. Um so they needed more money for the rest of the year for like the to actually pay it. Okay. Yeah. And I know you're going [clears throat] required by law as you know and Miss Miner is actively working on um trying to figure out how we can reduce that amount u through staffing through curriculum through some type of alignment with what we're doing academically. We see it's an inexorbitant amount. I mean that was one part but then the other part is
058how we had the discussion about what could be paid out of if these students are OEC or a special area or something like that fund or does it always have to be general fund or the general fund later get reimburseed [clears throat] those dollars back over from that student? Yeah, that's a good question. So we we had meeting one about that and I'll get back with you after we have meeting two because we had to come back and do some homework on our end. Perfect. Appreciate you. Mhm. When I mean meeting one, not our meeting, meeting with the juvenile courts. Got it. And we have to come back and do a second one. [clears throat] Any other questions? Okay. We don't have question on that one. We'll go to advances. Uh these are advances from
059the grant funds to general fund. When we the grant funds borrow money and now when they receive the money they have to repay a general fund. So this is repaying the general fund. Do you have any question on this? Okay. Monthly financial it's a spaceholder until the finance committee meets. I have a donations donations welcome. Thank you donors and uh it's a very good donations. Let's go to minutes. Minutes are for January 13, January uh 20th and January 30th for your review. Purchase requisitions. We have several uh purchase requisitions from different uh different departments. Let's look at them and we will respond to any questions. Any questions? Questions? I mean quick question. I mean, is the is the is the 1.8 million for juvenile court is that is that more than previous years? Is there
060some reason why we weren't able to know what this was earlier or why? Yes, it is more than last year. It is more than last year. Is it just so are they are they just charging us more or are there more students? It must be more students. Mr. Lacy, you were also being charged more. Okay. Hence the meeting. We have a we we have several large buckets and Andrew talked about buckets. One of the buckets for us is the ESC bucket. The other one is juvenile court bucket. And then you've been in finance looking at some of those other buckets, but those are two big ones that are part of those contracts where we're trying to reduce by at least 10 to 20%. [clears throat] Okay. Thanks. You're welcome. Okay. We have H Zenon. Now,
061if you have any question on those, let us know. Zenin. No, Mr. President. Yes, if I could go back to the purchase requisitions. I do have a question. There are two items. Office Depot business services. Um, and they both say educational materials used in teaching college and career readiness for Dunar High School. Um, one is for 12,310 and the other is for 11,962. Is there any reason why those are separate? What's the difference between the two of those? I have to ask Miss Miner amounts. They're separate because they came in at different times. So, they paid one and then the next one came in and paid that. Okay. Thank you. Appreciate it. Can I is there any way to see any other options for telephone services? Absolutely. I I will make a note of it.
062Hey. Yeah. Mhm. Have we ever put any other bids out to the phone services? I would say the four years since I've been back. No. Um and then I was gone for eight and before that, no. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions, sir? Okay. We'll go to Zen now. Do you have any question on that? questions. Okay, if you don't have any question, I will go to contract. I have one contract for shared sources resources and we were we were paying, if you don't mind, Mr. person. We were paying for like uh um ahead of payroll and now we're continuing something else or no ahead of payroll. Okay. What's this for? This is uh they are helping us with um we lost uh three people okay in payroll and they've been helping us and they
063are we just hired three of them okay and on the top of that now we are trying to automate payroll and they are going to help us you're trying to do what automate automate automate automate okay uh some areas that's the reason why we are keeping them and they until the payroll people get trained. All right. Thank you. So once they get trained and we won't see this anymore, we'll be done with this. We'll be done with the train with the training and stuff. [clears throat] Yeah. With the automation. U we are trying to automate. If there is a need, I might come back. [clears throat] Thank you. I think his question was will will we be done with shared services or shared resource center? Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay. That concludes my recommendation for tonight.
064Thank you. Business manager recommendation. Good evening, President Bailey, uh, board member, Superintendent Lawrence, and Treasurer Abraha. Uh, the business manager's office is presenting for your review under contracts with Perfection Group. So that where does this um, Mr. President, if I may sir, go ahead. Where I So, where does this put us in our whole HVAC? So, this is what uh we had called phase 2B. Okay. Um in phase 2B, we now once we start these um three, we will have two left and that would be Cleveland and Meadowale High School. Um and then for phase three we have Eastmont Kaiser uh Horseman Kimp and then our final phase or is uh or future phase would be Mound Street and then Louise Troy because the switches were changed at Louise Troy but not the whole system.
065So we have more than half of our systems that have been upgraded and that cycle is about every 15 or 20 years is when it's supposed to happen. Um but a lot of our systems we had um the software went out of uh I started to say out of style. The software [laughter] the software became obso became outdated and obsolete and so we had to make some changes but uh that has gotten us through almost all of phase 2b. [clears throat] Question Dr. B. Your goal is is to finish the final phase Oh gohead. Uh our goal is to get the final at least through the remainder of 2B and at least starting on three sites. Um we'd like to do that next year. Um but but but because of the cost of things, things
066have gone up. We were projecting this to be an $ 8.5 million project. Um as you can see, it came in at 9.1. So the cost of um everything related to all of the um equipment and everything has gone up. So, our goal is to at least do uh three or four next year as well. And andrew knows about this. Yeah, we beg every time we see them. Okay. Any other questions? No. Are there any garrison? Oh. Um I know a few of you guys are are newer to the operation side of the house. From you all's uh history on annual maintenance. has was annual maintenance happening with a lot of the HVAC systems to ensure they last the 15 to 20 years. Yes. And so depending upon the who the contract is with in
067in our systems before they were propri proprietary. So we had to utilize their companies as we go forward with the contracting we will uh bring that maintenance in house. So we have a annual um preventive maintenance schedule. Oh very good. Thank you. You're welcome. Is there any way um any of this could potentially go into the general assembly's capital budget ask or grant opportunities? We can look at it. Um I've seen a couple grant opportunities. Nothing this big, right? Um but we are looking for uh there is a uh safety grant and when the transportation center was built, the HVAC in um the mechanic shop was um not updated and so we're looking at a grant for that. And so as I find grants, we're trying to see if they if we can slide this
068type of stuff in. That's a good question. Mr. Ryan and I will be in Columbus next week. We'll bring it up. And also I mentioned something in my superintendent's update. the treasurer and I talked about the certificate of participation. Any board members to re-review that? That'll really help operations if we can move forward with that certificate of participation. It'll save us millions. Okay. Um, how old Thank you, Mr. President. Um, how old are River's Edge, Bell Haven, and Edison? I know River's Edge is, I think, 2013. When were Bell Haven and Edison built? I'll have to check the dates on those. I don't have those on my sheet. I'm just curious. I wasn't sure if you knew off the top of your head. Anyone else? I will say while at NSBA there's a $45,000 energy
069grant. I'll shoot it your way that they talked about. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. President. All right. And then the next item that you'll see on the agenda. Um it's it says resolution. Um but there is a recovery center moving across the street from our building at Hyde. And so they send us notice um more of a zoning thing where they want to let us know that there's this recovery center moving into the neighborhood. And so um they will be moving in across the street from our building at HOD. So it's more of an acknowledgement uh than us actually doing a resolution as if we are agreeing to them coming. Thank you for that clarification because I had some questions but not anymore. There is not a [laughter] recovery center going into our building on
070high. That is not happening. Got it. So that's what this say that that [laughter] kind of read that stressing these people out. Yes. Anything else? Other questions? The build Mr. Lacy asked what's the building on high? Huh? Your your building on high. You ask our building on high. What is it? Oh, it used to be the where the cafe is the central kitchen was. And so now that's where it is housed um as well as Dr. Jones. Any other questions? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. New business travel expense reimbursement. So moved. Second. Call for a vote. Anyone second it? Yes. M Ra. No one was going to coke in nobody sex [laughter] petty like that. It's DC. Okay. [clears throat] President Bailey. Yes. Mr. Lacy. Yes. Mr. Smith. Yes. Miss. Reard. Yes. Mr. Walker.
071Yes. Miss Garrison. Yes. Miss Woods. Yes. Seven yeses. All right. Board member comments. Board member comments. Miss Garrison, [laughter] the shade. Let me just say that shade is because Dumbar plays Belmont tonight and they're going to come through. The Wolverines will come through with a win. But um my my comment um I wanted to give a shout out to Kenny Boseman of Bose Image and Englewood, former Dumbar Wolverine alum. He has gifted uh the board some gift cards for our male and female athletes. and um I'll work with uh Miss Jones to um and and probably superintendent to kind of see who our scholarly athletes are that can be recipients of these gift cards. So, just wanted to uh give a shout out to Boomer who used to play basketball for the Paul Lawrence Dumbar
072High School and has contributed to our students uh success with his image u shop and consulting out in Englewood. So, thank you for that and thank everyone for the presentations. So excited to hear about everything happening with our students academically. Thank you, Dr. Lawrence, for looking at a way to highlight that as we look to attract more students to the district in partnership with City of Dayton and McGomery County to retain residents and continue to grow our future pipeline workforce right here in the Dayton region. And that's all I have. Thank you all for coming out. Thank you, Mr. Lacy. Um, yes, last week I extend I attended a an exciting audit committee meeting. um where where we went over where we went over the um the projects that have been going on in the
073audit committee. And that's all I have. Thank you. Thank you, M. Reiner. I have nothing this evening. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, ma'am. Mr. Smith, did you change your mind? I have brief comments today, so just very brief. [laughter] Um, first I want to echo uh Mr. Lacy. We had a great audit committee meeting. I want to lift up our district auditor, Miss Hamilton, on the work that she does um and the committee that she's put together. It's really insightful being around a lot of people who are in that space and that have some real good comments about some of the things that she brings to the district. And I just want to say I appreciate that work. um met with our state senator, Mr. Willis Blackshere. I will um been having great conversations
074with him. I know Dr. Lawrence is having something set up with him pretty soon as well. So, and I want to just publicly give him kudos as well as um Miss Desire Tims. Just seeing them being present at a lot of our student events. I think that one of the biggest things that we can give our students and our staff is our presence and not just showing up. A lot of times people see [clears throat] people, especially in our roles and that political realm. A lot of people show up and they show up and then they leave and there's really no interaction. And people notice those things. People notice when you're there, but you're not really there. Um I want to say it was awesome to see um state rep. Tim's, you know, on the
075mic at the Dumbar game, you know, letting people know that they're there. And so, I really love that. I love seeing our board members and our uh district staff out at events, whether it be a science fair, math Olympics, a sports event. Um, so I really just want us to to understand what it's like to really be there. Um, and I know sometimes we have scheduling and we have to come in and out, but people really notice when you're really there or if you're there to be there. Um, next I will say we had a great um athletics committee meeting recently and looking at just what the landscape of athletics looks like. I know I really value the things that athletics and extracurriculars can bring to our district and I also understand you know the
076the growth that we can have from a financial aspect and then a growth from just the social emotional piece getting our students out. It was a great time seeing the students opponents yesterday like they were really excited during their game. So that's awesome. Yeah, I said just schools today. Um, then for Black History Month, I really want us to really dive into the history of our area. And with that, very briefly, I wanted to just lift up three names from this place. One, Miss Ethel Stewart, who retired in, I want to say 54, 1954, but spent 41 years in Dayton public schools. and to to see somebody who spent that much time in a district back when there was so much racial strife in our community. She was actually the one after the death of
077Miss Louise Troy who started the Louise Troy Club which then led to Louise Troy being named after her. And for me that is so important to recognize the people that always aren't remembered with their name on a building but who lift up people to make sure that they they honor the people that came before them. She was the first black uh degreed librarian in the city of Dayton where she graduated from Western Reserve which later became Case Western Reserve. She was over at Dumbar um after being at Garfield. She started the largest school library in the city of Dayton and had the largest collection for students of black authored books in the city. So I want to lift her up. Secondly, Miss Joanie West, who was my gifted teacher at EJ Brown and really just
078taught me how to think outside the box. And she did that for so many students. I look back recently at our gifted picture, I'm going to say from third grade, and I can look through that and point out colleges and I can go, this person went to Brown, this person went to Cornell, this person went to Wright State, this person went to Xavier, this person went to UD. And she put that in us at a young age and said, you're going to be something. And so I really want to lift that her up and she really taught us how to be in that space. She taught um for over 30 years here in Dayton public schools. She taught not only gifted but special education. So seeing that she really ranged um in her career. And
079lastly, my favorite person that I ever came across in Dayton public school was Miss Varrett Hill. And Verrett Hill was the greatest math Olympics coach ever in the city of Dayton. There was a span of where she won four straight. There was another span where she never finished under third place for around eight years. Um, Verah Hill was amazing. I I don't know how she would be in this space cuz, you know, I can say that now cuz statute of limitations are gone. But Miss Verah Hill was going to she was going to crack the whip a little bit. She definitely pulled my earlobes a few times to get me to go where I was supposed to be. But that's how I got involved in math Olympics. She went and got me off the wall
080in detention and said, "You're too smart to be sitting on this wall. Come on. You're in here." no parent permission slip. It was this is what you're gonna do and she called my grandma and said this is what you're gonna do. So I really think that being in that space, I just wanted to lift those people up because those are people that really play a part in shaping the history of our city and the history of our nation. When we talk about the people that have come from Dayton and gone on to do great things. So in this time in black history, please lift up our people. And I specifically wanted to raise up three black women because black women have been the backbone of the movements in education in our community throughout time in
081Dayton. And so I want us to honor that. Thank you, Mr. President, for giving me that space. And go Meale. [laughter] Mr. Walker. Uh, thank you, Mr. President. So, for me, under my name, there's at least eight different things, but Miss Kid has been working with me on this all day. So, um I do have a board member update on there that highlights all of that. Um but just a few things. The attended the district science fair last week as well as success looks like me. Um the district science fair was great. The thing that I enjoyed the most though was the Project Life Room with the bunny. It's my favorite place now. Like I I I love it. Um I would never get one. Like I'm But I do love that they have that.
082Um I do want to highlight that we did have a great first year first student after school activity and workforce committee meeting of this year. We have the ELLL committee that I did not do anything with last year, but we will be doing stuff this year. So looking forward to that. And then lastly for me, the legislative lunch will be coming up on February 23rd. I'm looking forward to gathering with legislative um our legislators across the state and talk about things that are affecting public education, which in my update, you will see all bills currently in committee of the Senate um or committee of the House since they are back in legislation that effectively affects public schools. Thank you, Mr. President. Miss Woods. Anyh who, today's student center spoke with Dr. Amber Johnson, who is
083a physical therapist at Miami Valley North. We were able to tour the sport therapy area, private therapy rooms, and the general therapy area. She allowed us to do a hands-on activity that included reducing blood flow to help restore muscle strength to an injured area. We also learned uh what a physical therapist actually is, their skills, their typical workday, and the different methods of physical therapy, the pros and cons of the job, and how um physical therapy actually is important in the medical field. I also wanted to put out there that I just received another scholarship to whatever college I want to go to. And I also received two new job offers that I plan to take really good action. Thank you. Did you have scholarship connect? [snorts] Good evening board members. I am thrilled uh
084to give a couple of quick updates and just thanks. I do want to thank the audit committee for meeting last week. it. I always love the quarterly discussions because I get so much feedback for my own department and for what we can continue to improve, but then also just seeing the community come around DPS in such a great way to it's a different skill set, but they want to be able to provide it and they want to be able to serve and and to to really give back to kids even if it's in an indirect way. Uh speaking of kids, I was able to go to who's who's in the Jersey event last Thursday. Uh that was so fun. I realized that I um really need to be out there for way more events uh
085whether it is for you know in a athletic event or whether it was an academic event because just seeing our kids even if it's in a snapshot of one event was just so powerful and it was great to see um specifically that event was for women to pour into other to both maybe men and women as our students and it was just so exciting to see how the community was giving back in that way as well. So that was really exciting. I definitely have put a couple of other events um academic and athletic events on my calendar because that was just I realized I haven't been doing enough of that. Um, and then I also just wanted to acknowledge that um, our department was reestablished last January. And so it's been a full year and
086there's been so much that's been done in a year. And I'm really proud of um, both my team but then also the way that uh, management has continued to do the work that they do well um, and continue to refine, continue to push themselves forward, which continues to put the district forward. And so I think it's been really great to partner with um the leaders of the district and so I think that because we've been here a year it means that they've continued to have a lot of other things to juggle and I want to acknowledge that but also thank them. So that was the other thing and um that's it for me. So thank you. Thank you Benson. [laughter] Thank you. Um, just briefly just want to say that was a lot of snow
087on the ground. And so I got to give a shout out to the grounds department that um, not only were they clearing our sidewalks, [applause] not only were they clearing our our sidewalks, but they worked with the city and were they were clearing the streets around the schools um because everybody recognized that they didn't have the capacity to make sure we got to school. So, um, they were working tw I think it's I think the number is 12 guys working 12-hour days to make sure that happened. Um, I want to give a shout out to the mechanics. I worked with Dr. Lawrence to make sure that the the mechanics were able to come in as essential staff. Um, and to work with the grounds. They had to move all the buses to one side of
088the parking lot, then shovel the other side of the parking lot. The mechanics had to charge the buses every single day. And we finally had to keep them running on Sunday night. and the SRO's had to come in so that we could make sure the kids were here on Monday. So, um the grounds team, the mechanics, the you know, did an amazing job with all that snow. Um on Wednesday, that that's that third day of Calamity. Um we worked with Chief uh Jones, Dr. Lawrence, uh Dr. Jones to determine that we were going to move forward with sports. Um again, that required people who thought they were going to be sitting at home for the next few days to show up. And so our logistics specialist showed up to make sure that all of the
089athletic events were covered for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Our bus drivers showed up. Um and again, the mechanics and the grounds making sure that it was done. So just want to thank every our our entire team for that. Um have to give a shout out for the science fair. My granddaughter Bella is a second grader and uh she came in third place and she was so excited that second graders were able to participate and so she was really happy about that. Um and uh shout out to uh uh Mr. Walucha because over at River's Edge and he really works with the young kids and and make sure that they're engaged in STEM and science and I've been in the library with him so he's doing a fabulous job with the young people. And then shout
090out to our custodians and everybody who helped get us together, logistics specialists, our carpenters who built the amazing table um or or uh scene stage setting for who's in the jersey. Um, I won't talk about how great it is uh Sarah did that, but it's just was so many people that put in so much work along with um Chief Jones to make that happen and our community members who come out for free to spend that time with our young athletes and encourage them um to go through a lot of the struggles that they see on and off the court. And so we're just appreciative for everybody who came together to make that event a success. Thank you, [applause] Mr. brought up. I would like uh to congratulate my uh payroll and accounts payable uh for
091working through all these no days uh they did their uh 1099 and W2s on time and uh paying the people uh with no issues. It's a big big uh rec I try to congratulate them. Thank you, Dr. Lawrence. Uh I just want to go back to the science fair briefly and say that um I want to recognize Rosa Parks, Westwood, and Ruskin as outliers, but the outlier of all outliers was charity. uh they must have won 8 n 10 awards. Um every time you looked up the the principal and a were back. So they took the science fair seriously. It was an it's an extension of the learning that we do. Um and this also demonstrates as Miss Garrison said earlier uh some of our academic work and it demonstrates it to the community. So
092it's good when schools, principles, teachers take those those type of events seriously because it shows what we can do in public. So kudos to those first three schools, Rosa, Westwood, and Ruskin. But a huge shout out to our outlier charity. I mean, they I I've never seen anything like it. [applause] Never. Um, and then I want to I want to I want to thank board members uh for we we we we pivoted our leadership team and we're really focusing on committee work. And it has been really fun to dive into committees, sit with you for an hour, 90 minutes, sometimes two, and go through some of the complex um complexities of the details that we deal with every day to try to understand from your point of view with the community what you're hearing and
093from what we have to do from a logistical and a technical standpoint. So, thank you for um really diving into the committee work. We appreciate it. You're welcome. [laughter] Uh for me, uh of course I'm going to represent Belmont because I graduated from there [laughter] uh just a couple of years ago. Um but I I really want to I really want to see a great game tonight. I want to see our kids competing against each other. It's great to see our kids get out here, our students, how you call them kid, our students come out here and and just compete. uh get off of their Xboxes and things like that and get out here and get some good exercise and have fun with each other. So, I'm really looking forward to that. I do also
094want to thank the board uh members uh as president. I've called on a little bit of everybody and everybody's been open and and ready to help. Uh no bickering or anything like that. So, it's been just really really really good. Uh I also want to uh thank the grounds crew as well. They they were excellent. uh greatly appreciate it. Uh I think that is all I have. Pursuant to section 121.22B of the Ohio Revised Ohio Revised Code, I move that this board go into executive session. This meeting is being held to consider the employment of uh a public employee. Second. No. No. I move. She got to No, she got to do the roll call first. [laughter] President Bailey. Yes. Mr. Lacy. Yes. Mr. Smith. Yes. Miss Reer? Yes. Mr. Walker? Yes. Miss Garrison? Yes.
095Miss Woods? Yes. Seven. Yes. You got to wait till she [laughter] say it. Sorry.