001Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] I'm here today. I'm here today. I'm here today. I'm here today. I'm here today. Are you are you are you? At DPS, attendance is important. That's why we're challenging all schools to increase and improve their daily attendance. So, I ask again, we're here today. Are you Are you Heat. Heat. [Music] Hold on. [Music] Go candy go [Music] ky. What time is it? 3 2 1 Yeah. So, Lily summer camp program is all about STEMbased projects and different modulars. So the kids are faced with different scientific challenges um and different topics focusing on the engineering design program and the scientific method. Three, two, one. It's not like regular school. So that's what make it engaging. The challenges that the kids have throughout the different modules also make it engaging as
002well. But it's more so I'm coming learning throughout the summer, but I'm having fun throughout the summer as well. I really like that they let you use your creativity and they kind of make you feel special. They let you kind of do your own thing. They give you instructions, but they let you mostly follow your own path. I like that they give us um challenges that I'm able to handle and I really love designing things. Mr. C presentation is good like always. I saw him at the Victoria Theater and his was good too. So he's just doing the same things and I like his things. I like to see it every time they come here. It's good. [Applause] Tada. I like that it's fun. You learn a lot of stuffs like science, math, reading, and
003like the science experiment we just did. It was really cool. Parents or others may think, oh, it's summertime, so learning stops. Learning never stops. So as they continue to come to the program, you know, it's just enriching them and and inspiring them to want to be inventors and inspiring them to continue to work with others and collab with others. So I do think that this program should continue to be going. That's why this is my third year coming cuz again, I'm having fun too with it. We hear you. We hear your commitment to learning and we're here to extend the challenge. That's why we're asking every student, family, and staff member to be present and be engaged. When we show up, we build a foundation here. And when we show up, we build a future.
004I'm here today. I'm here today. I'm here today. I'm here today. We are here today. We believe in the power of showing up. So, we're here today. Are you? Are you? Hi everyone. Today I'm going to talk to you about bus safety. Every day thousands of day and public school students ride the bus to and from school and it's important to know how to stay safe. First things first, make sure to get to your bus stop at least 10 minutes early. And while you're waiting, stand in a safe spot away from the road. Once the bus arrives, go straight to your seat so the bus can start moving again. And remember, while you're on the bus, stay seated and keep the aisles and exits clear. Just like in a classroom, listen to the driver and
005follow their instructions. This includes no foul language, no sticking your arms or head out the windows, and no eating or drinking on the bus. Lastly, make sure you only get off the bus at your assigned stop, and be sure to walk home safely. Let's all work together to follow these rules and keep our bus ride safe for everyone. Thanks for listening and stay safe, DPS. [Music] side here is right next to them. DB's right here next to them. Hey, everybody understand that? Get to work. Let's get to work. Hey, hey, let's get a break. Hey, hard work on three. Hard work for me. Hard work on three. One, two, three. [Music] [Music] Heat. Heat. N. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] All right. Hey, get out of here. Let's get out of here. I saw
006you. You did a great job. You were like the star. No, they were like, look, after you got off, they were like, I don't want to work remote no more. [Music] Nope. The link is not [Music] going. Yeah, when he remember he asked and I said it'll be next week. Yeah, last week he asked. I said I got it. Yeah, we had this presentation. Yeah, it's your first time to go. Yeah, y'all feeling I'm feeling great. Actually, you know what? Is this your first time here? It it wasn't on our agenda at all. Not on the agenda. No, like it just got added on. Like that's You leaving 615 here? No, they just sent it to Chief Dwey just sent it. I saw you. Well, he he he asked for it. Are you guys ready?
007Yeah. There's a camera right there. I know you the one bananas. You said my borrow my own computer. Told me not to do it. No one told me nothing. You're not in here. That's it. Yes, I am. I'm going to tell the van, let me do it for the rest. I call to order. D public school board meeting at 17:31 hours. And we have a roll call. We'll need to elect a treasurer first. A Oh, okay. Oh, that's all right. Not sure. I didn't even know she wasn't over there. Yeah, do David. Do David. Um, David, can we elect? Can I elect our associate treasurer since he is here? You can legally elect to be appointed. You can like you can be appointed as it and I think he can take the notes for it,
008but physically you would have the responsibility. Mr. Walker. Then second. I second that. I I was going to say I second it. [Music] I And all in favor say I. I. I. I. I. You don't get the vote. Yes, I do. Yeah, you do. It's unanimous. There we go. There you go. Let the record reflect says it will be Eric Walton. Is there a sheet? Oh, he has it. So, it works. that we're good from there. You can do it from there. It's just like physically the board take a vote. Doesn't matter. But yeah, we're shaking on his responsibilities. Yeah, I just have to sign. That's all right. Roll call. She's not here, but he has an excused absence. Oh, no one will be able to hear him since it doesn't have uh Vice President
009Bailey. I'mma just do the roll calls. Okay, go ahead. Here. Uh uh. Board member Reinard present. Board member Lacy here. Board member Smith, I'm here. Board member Wick present. Board member Walker is here. And then Mr. Champion here. uh to stand for the pledge of allegiance. Do it to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. [Music] Our mission statement, mission inspire, educate, empower. Our vision is to inspire, educate and empower scholars for a lasting impact. And our purpose to cultivate and supportive and engaging educational experience. Do we have anyone from the bargaining units? And I know we I do know that we do have one that's going to be a little bit late and we
010will make room for her when she comes. All right. Hearing from the public. I hear that them. We have we have four that are rendered and yeah, each of those sheets is another person. All right. I'm hearing from the public. the public. When called upon, identify yourselves, state your name, address, school district in which you reside. Um, address the board as a whole through the president and not board members individually. It is in inappropriate to address any matter involving pending disputes, grievances under labor agreement, disciplinary actions involving an employee or a student, ongoing labor negotiations, concerns, or matters that have already been settled, and or any matter which because of its nature is deemed inappropriate to be discussed in an executive session. The purpose of the public hearing portion of the meeting is for members
011of the public to express viewpoints and public concerns. Uh you will have three minutes uh to address your concerns. Alexis Hicks. Alexis Hicks. Uh, Shellyley Def Franco. Good evening board members. My name is Shelley DeFranco, 632 Belmont Park North in the Dayton Public School District and my students attend River's Edge Monastery. I wanted to come back and thank you all for your help in securing afternoon transportation for our kiddos this year. I appreciate the leadership that you showed and the discussion had at the August board meeting. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Charlie. Thank you. Thank you very much. Uh, Jennifer Evans. Hello. My name is Jennifer Evans. I live at 702 Troy Street in the Dayton Public School District. I am actually here representing the Old Nord Dayton Neighborhood Association. The Challenger
012Learning Center is located in our neighborhood adjacent to Kaiser School. Has been for 35 years. We understand that it is being discussed moving that center. We are in support of it staying exactly where it is if it cannot stay at Kaiser School for other school board reasons. We support having it moved somewhere else in our neighborhood. It's a it's a great asset for our community. The staff like it there. Everybody that goes there and it's a very popular center. They have a lot of programming. They know where the neighborhood is. They're familiar with the neighborhood. It's a win-win to have it stay in the neighborhood. So again, we strongly support the center. We want to see it remain where it is or if nothing else somewhere else in the Old North Dayton neighborhood and we
013would fully support and assist with trying to find a location for it there. I do have a resolution that was passed by our neighborhood association. basically stating the same thing. So, who might I give that to? Miss Garrett. Oh, I didn't see Miss Thank you. Uh Jerry Boland. Good evening, Mr. President and board members. My name is Jerry Bowling III. I live at 522 Herbert Street in Dayton, Ohio in the Dayton Public School District. And before I start, I'm the son of a former teacher at Dayton Public Schools. And if she was here, she would tell you she served 34 and a half years in this district proudly. So, uh, I would be remiss if I didn't say that. Um I'm also here on I'm on on here on the behalf of the Makookfield Neighborhood
014Association. Uh combined with Old North Dayton, we are uh considered to be greater Old North Dayton and um our our children also attend Kaiser School and um when Kaiser School was rebuilt in I believe 2005, it was actually built around the Challenger Center. So they kept you guys kept the the center there and we're thankful for that. Um the Challenger Center has been a partner with the both Makook and Old North Dayton neighborhoods uh for like Jennifer said 35 years almost 35 years and uh we would like to keep it where it's at. Um they've been a great partner actually for us. Um, also if it does move there, we would like to keep it in greater old North Dayton. There is a site on Baltimore Street which used to be the Steuart Patterson uh
015recreation center and later it was a host of Miami Valley CDC which has since moved. And um at that site there is a gymnasium that would be perfect for the drone program where they would not they could do that indoors and that would support that program. Um and um I'd like to thank you for this opportunity and uh please consider this request. So thank you. Thank you. Y M Mr. President, can I just ask real quick is so the Baltimore Street site, does that have any use at all? Is it empty? It's it's our understanding that since the Miami Valley CDC uh has moved out that that site is actually for sale. I don't have specifics on that, but it's right at the corner. It's it's embedded with Steuart Patterson Park around it, but it's
016an individual lot that was sold to a group and they lease space to the Miami Valley CDC. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you. That is all that I had on the list. Uh Dr. Bailey. Yeah, I'd be I'd be willing to come out and meet with you all. Yeah, I sure would be if you uh Miss Garren, if you would get their information, we'll have our folks uh reach out to you and you can invite um other folks who want to be interested in the conversation. I bring a team out. We'll have a conversation. Thank you. No problem at all. All right. Thank you. We now have a presentation from Chief Douly. Actually, uh Principal Christian and Mr. Simmons. Oh, okay. You got a suit on today. I got your old. Yeah. You have both
017of those. Yes. Good evening, ladies. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Sher Simmons. I'm here representing secondary schools. And I have with me Miss Lolita Christian, principal of our alternative center at our alternative school at Jackson Center. Good evening. All right, we're going to get started with a quote. Uh, every young person deserves an education custom to their unique circumstances and potential. Young people don't need to be fixed. They need to be understood, supported, and given the tools to overcome obstacles. The evidence speaks volumes. When you find the right educational environment, change follows. This is kind of becoming our mantra. It's it sticks with us. It um it resonates with me. Um and I just wanted to share that quote before we got started. I'm going to give you a staff update. Current
018staffing, we currently have seven teachers, one intervention specialist, one school counselor, one full-time therapist from South Community, one OEC academic coordinator, and we are currently looking for uh to replace our social worker. Our current enrollment long-term students, we have 15 middle schoolers, 22 high schoolers. Um, and these are students that are there for more than 20 days. Our non-enrollment students, our non-enrolled students, they fluctuate. So that could be anywhere from 20 students to 50 students a day. Miss Christian, take it away. Okay. The current configuration um that we are using the academy model of the Ford NGL and so the alternative programs at Jackson Center has been broken up into two uhmies. Academy one is the inspire academy and those are the enrolled students and academy two is the rise academy and that is the
019non-enrolled students in lie of suspension or expulsion. The daily schedule for our our enrolled students is a five period day. We have four core classes English, math, science and social studies. credit recovery for high school students who need it and one creative writing class that is taught by our MTSS instructor who is also our restorative teacher. Every student has 75 minutes of daily support with an MTSS instructor or therapist every day. And so she teaches the creative writing class. And I just wanted to show you I brought a few samples of the students work and you don't have to see it but if you look on this page and you look on the next page and you look on the next page there are two and a half pages writing here. All of these samples
020that I have are at least two pages. We have students writing over at the Jackson Center. So I wanted to let you all know that. I'm going to read just a couple of statements from the students to drop. Yeah. Thank you. Okay. Um, this young man said, "I've met nice teachers who helped me better myself and control my anger and to get me back on track to get me back to my school." This young lady, I've had a good time reading. Coming to this school, I have learned how to read good. I never know. I never knew how to Excuse me. I never knew how to do any reading for real because I thought it was just too much for me. Now I love to read. What have I learned from being in Miss McGee's
021class is that you can be yourself in her class. Miss McGee makes you feel loved. Just because it's an alternative school doesn't mean that it's not a good school. It is a good school. My time here at Jackson Center was not actually as bad as I thought it would be. I am in love with this building. It has showed me that you can be loved by a stranger. Every student has access to the full-time mental health therapists for oneonone counseling and restorative circles as needed. And we have been partnering with the Dayton Metro Library across the street and they provide monthly enrichment activities. Um we also are working with UMadok and they come every Friday to work with our high school students in a session for an hour and then we are celebrating student success
022in the building. Um attendance weekly we celebrate on Fridays. Um we are celebrating our students in class. The writings that we receive students are bringing to me. I give them something. I just say hey thank you for sharing. Um so we are doing some wonderful things over at Jackson Center and there is more to come. Thank you, Mr. Christian. Our 30-day plan by November 21st is to continue professional development for staff, secure arts enrichment for students, improve instruction, and provide engaging lessons, increase enrollment, begin community service projects to earn the community service seals for graduation, administer the youth science assessment, and continue to explore best practices. Again, this is one of this is one of the first times I've presented uh with students in the building. Um and I am elated at the effort that
023I see with the just what the students are doing. They're writing. Uh when I'm in the building, when I talk to them, they're just talking to the students, they are excited about where they are and they're excited about just changing things, you know, the things that got them there and just changing their circumstances. So, they are really excited about this building and there's an energy there. So, thank you. Thank you. Any questions? Some questions. Quick question. Are they using Apex? They're using Apex for credit recovery. Yes. Okay. Thanks. That's all. What's the admin support staff levels or what what's remaining left to be filled in the building? Social worker and three pairs. And then you're currently still the only admin. Yes, sir. Okay. [Music] Thank you. Thank you for the work. I'm so incredibly excited
024about it. I really am. I'm so grateful. Honestly, as I'm like ending my like cycle of work on Dave public schoolboard work, I am so proud of the work that you're doing and this like um depth of service that we're giving to our children that need it and our families that need it. So, and I'm looking forward to watching it build because it's so important as we um come out of a co world and the experience of education that we've had. It's really critically important that we address the needs of our students and our families. And I think this work is so valuable. So, I'm grateful. I'm grateful to have been a part of it and like your leadership and the work that you're doing. So, thank you. Thank you, Superintendent Lawrence. Thank you to
025the board that continues to uplift this and support it because it is it's it's necessary. So, thank you. I just want to say that. Amen. Mr. Smith, if I have a few I'll start with you guys before I move to um Dr. Lawrence. Um so what has been for you if any challenges um in the few months that you've seen as the administrator? I'm just working through attendance and we've got it together now but um making sure that we separate the students that are there for the end of the students that are there permanent. Um we've actually had some students that were supposed to return back to their schools. their parents uh said that they wanted to stay and it was fine with them. So, we had to make some adjustments, you know, with attendance
026and making sure that the home schools get the attendance. Okay. And has is there ever a time when those two groups ofmies are together or is it strictly separate for the whole whole day? Um it is separate for the whole day. One day last week I did um have them together uh with I let them go into a room with them. I thought that would be a good addition uh to have those students over there. So, I appreciate that. Um over to Lawrence and probably Dr. Jones. What I know we had a you had an idea of what you wanted transportation to look like from the beginning. What did that look like now? How's it moving? Any challenges? Any perceived changes that you may have in the future? Um actually start with this Christian. Yeah,
027that's fine. Transportation. So the secretary when we get students and excuse me, she receives the uh either the referral or the in of paperwork if they are a middle schooler, she automatically emails the four designated people down to transportation for students to receive a bus. They uh let us know what the bus is um and where they catch and they also send the information to the parent. So I think uh bus situations well okay transportation has two dedicated buses to the um alternative school so it makes u routing a little bit quicker easier once we get the information to them. So okay and right now with the numbers that you're at Dr. Lawrence D4C trying to keep it around this number right now or would that capacity possibly raise? Uh I just talked to Miss
028Douly, Mrs. Simmons and I was in the building. Miss Miss Christian was busy with the parent, but we see it expanding but gradually. Um we're off to a really good start. So we want to keep it stable while we incrementally get larger and then think about phase two for next year and then in the f into the future. All right. going to ask also because one of the things we talked about was some of the difficulties that we're seeing in the other buildings where because of how the process had been, you then have students that were recommended to be at the alternative school and because they are not given that permission by their parents. they are now students that are in buildings where they know that they have been requested to be removed but yet
029they're still in this building and we've seen it create some situations. So with that and understanding that you want to try to scale up in a in a in a way that doesn't create chaos, how are we dealing with that situation and do we see the recommendation process for the alternative school changing in the future? So I think the model is again we're it's it's it's really cutting edge in this idea around trying to remove suspensions and use inlu of and there are parents who refuse that right and then guess what we'll go old school on you and that what that means simply put is if there's a three-day suspension then you do what 5 10 you that's what you're going to do. Um we try our best uh Miss Christian does so does the
030the principles at the schools Mr. Simmons, Miss Goins reaches out and calls parents and says, "Listen, this is this is a great deal. You still get to get educated and even if you get there a few days later, we take like while you're there, if you if you miss three and then you're there seven more, we take those days off of your suspension and it helps the district and from a attendance standpoint and the child in terms of not having chronic absenteeism." So I think it's just a matter of staying the course, board member Smith, so more parents begin to understand that this is really a positive. It's not a negative. So, but I'm saying by staying the course then you essentially have situations where now we we have to still in in staying a
031course making sure that we're working with communication because what happens is you have people at the just months ago we were told and so principles were told that there would be this tool which I love which I was a proponent for but there would be this tool to help them deal some of the situations that they're seeing now. We see a drastic reduction of the number that they thought was going to be able to be over there. If you're looking at 22 high school students that are there and then the other fluctuating numbers, we have to try to communicate and have that out. And I do think maybe it it may be good to even have Miss Christian or staff to come out to some of the high schools to talk to just parents of
032that building to understand what what the building is about. So I would recommend that because it's I can understand a parent going I don't know much about this. I'm being told this is the option. And then also for the building, it creates that fluctuation of we're trying to say we're moving away from suspensions, but we're still then going to suspend them if they don't agree to go to this space. So, I think having that conversation would be vital in understanding that. Um, so the initial conversation we said we had 140 seats. We didn't say we'd fill them all. We had several Yeah, we had several meetings with the middle school and high school principles to try to come up with numbers. we talked and uh one thing was to not do anything the first couple
033weeks and then to kind of ease into this uh we um it's a work in progress. I happened to walk across a meeting um being chaired by Miss Christian, Mr. Simmons and Miss Douly with all the other principles u working on the intake process what the referral forms looks like. So this is some I mean we continue to have a um uh what I want to say a symbiotic relationship between the buildings and the work that Miss Christian is doing and central services to try to work through the kinks. Okay. Now last week I asked if we could uh speak on what is the process for students that are over there in lie as far as them coming back over and being able to be caught up on their classwork as our previous policy stated
034that students whoever however many days they were out on suspension and I asked if we can look to see if that language also includes inl. Do you have any information on that doc? So we'll do two parts. I'll go to the practitioners and I'll come back and tell you from our level. Okay. Okay. So, um, Chief Sheihi and her department have been over to the school, um, almost every day for couple of months, um, aligning the district curriculum with the, um, Apex and also um, getting ready with the courseware that's coming up so that when students come over that we're able to get them started pretty much in the area that the teacher should be in teaching the lessons. So we are definitely working on that but what we have been doing is just using
035the pacing guides for Dayton public schools and starting the students there and then on our end we're asking department chairs intervention specialists and a few other key teacher personnel at the secondary level what does it look like for you? What do you want to see from the student when they come back from Jackson? Um so we're working on this on all different angles. Okay. Do you foresee us having to change the our policy around um the amount of days that a student has to have their work completed? cuz I get being able to stay on track learning wise, but also understanding if I'm a student and something happens to get sent out for some time, the work that I have to turn in, are we going to still allow them to have that same amount
036of time to turn in their work or does that change with it being in lie and not a true suspension? I I'm glad you asked that, Board Member Smith. I think it's important to I think we are we move too quickly with policy. Something happens and there's this knee-jerk reaction and boom, it's a policy. I think we have to work more toward regulation. So, what I hear you saying is we have some existing policies. What are the regulations behind that policy and how do we specifically tailor those for Jackson Center? And yes, I think we'll have to make some changes. All right. Yeah, cuz I think right now some stories I've had definite are some concerns I had um question and then my last piece would be so with the inlue of piece what does
037the process look like? Is it a building building specific piece? Is it a district-wide approach that we're trying to go through? What does that that piece look like on getting a student back into their homeschool after they've been over at Jackson? How's that been going? Uh what are some of the things that you think are some some some key pieces that are working and if there's anything that may need to be changed or something that may need to come to the board later? Do you have any any ideas? Yeah, I'm going to take your question and add to it. Why don't we start from the time you walk in and then go from when you walk out? Okay. Okay. So, when you walk in, you uh sit with me and have a a conversation. We
038do an intake. Um I complete a form and I ask questions um to the parent and to the student, talk to a student, ask them what happened, why they're here. Um once we do that, then I have a conversation about um just our school in general. Um what has been going on, what we moving toward, what it looks like, ask if they have any questions as I'm speaking. Um and then um just depending on um the way the conversation goes with the parent. After that we create a schedule for the student depending on if they are a enrolled student or non-enrolled student and then they are taken to the class introduced to the teacher and the students and then they go to class and then once they're finished it's time to go back. So when
039it's time excuse me when it's time to go back we meet with them to let them know that today is their last day you know um have a conversation with them about that. Um, and then we um tell them that they are to report to school tomorrow. If they have completed work, sometimes the schools will come pick it up and I'll say, "We'll get your work turned in or I'll even scan the work in to a principal." Um, or the student will say, "Well, I I'll just take it." So, the parent, it just depends. And then they'll that's how we do the work. So, and then there's a third step in. So, you're in then out. Are you going to speak to them when you get back to the school? Okay. Yeah. We're working on
040how can the services that you've benefited from at the alternative center follow you back to your scope so that you can be successful in that in that space as well. So that's a conversation with OEC that's a conversation with the healthcare providers that's a conversation uh you know that we got to have making sure that our students who are successful here those services follow you back to your school um to prepare you and to make sure that you continue to be successful in that space. So, um, that's the, um, that's the piece that we're really working to perfect. And what I've seen, what I what I saw was I saw assistant principal and counselor meeting with a student returning from Jackson Center and going over the schoolwork and the information sent from Jackson Center back
041to the school. And so, I saw that in a conference room. We just need to I don't know, I saw it, but I don't know it's happening in all of our seven six other high schools. Uh we just need to figure out a way to systematize but again we're just just starting the process. I like where we are. Okay. And Mr. Simmons to follow up with that has there been in your you can recollect or if you have the data students that have gone in lie of come back and then been sent out. Have we seen that? I think we're this is our first batch of students who were there enrolled that are starting to um metriculating back into into schools. So Oh, it's just a couple. Just one. Okay. Just one that's been back.
042Yeah. Okay. See, Miss Christian. Okay. Yeah. I would I would like to if we can keep that data and understand um kind of following what happens when we come back so we can figure out if they're to your point what does that services look like what does what does that parent wraparound look like uh or guardian or whoever that student goes home to at night. Um yeah, that's something big on my radar. I want that's what I was thinking is seeing that. So trying to think if I had anything else. Anything else? Well, this is some important thing. We put we put it's so important. Put some stuff into this. This is big time work. Yeah, it's big time. Oh, no. We We Listen, I acknowledge the importance of it. I I just want you
043to know that I know that when you ask questions, you you already know the answer. No, I don't. Not all the time. That's why I ask these questions. When I ask you a question, I know the answer. When I ask them, I'm trying to learn some things. Um, so with the middle school and high school, how's that been working um with keeping all everything separate? How's that been kind of working for you, Miss Christian? Um, it's working out well. They have it all separate. Every once in a while we take a break and go outside. We don't have gym. They all together with therapist, security guard. So they're we're building a family building a culture and do that you know so other than that they have their own appreciate that and Mr. Simmons, lastly for
044you, what in your in your space, in your perspective has been just um a key takeaway that you've seen over here that you would want to see implemented in other buildings. I think the the utilization and the combination of the services um yeah that are available to kids uh with each building has a profile or a jacket of uh services available but I want to make sure in my space that we're working that everyone's taking advantage of the um mental health services that the district offers across the board. I appreciate that. Appreciate both of you. Thank you Miss Christine. Always a pleasure to have you come out. Um, Mr. Christian, I have a question for you. Oh, sorry. Um, I was wondering cuz let's say somebody got suspended, right? Let's say they got suspended for
045like 10 days. Would they go do 10 days at home, then 10 days at the Jackson? Because I know somebody that said they got suspended for 10 days, then they had to go to the Jackson. But I don't know if he was lying about it or not. Um, you should only be suspended up to 10 days. Um, so no, they should not do 10 days at home and 10 days at jail. Okay. Thank that was all I had. Thank you, Mr. Are principles allowed to suspend for 10 days. Yes. Yes. Interesting. Okay. Is that it? No, that wasn't it. That was Oh, go. Oh, Miss Wick had one. Yes. Oh, go ahead, Miss First of all, thank you. I continue to like I'm so reflective of being grateful for the work that we're doing here
046at State Public Schools. to introduce this new concept of an alternative like we're giving families and students the opportunity to like come to a different place to reserve additional services that they need. Um I recently attended a meeting with um leadership locally that reflected that our local urban areas and our jails are 67% of our people that are imprisoned are a result of mental health illness and that we at Dayton public schools are taking proactive measures to subsidize that before it happens before our students are incarcerated or we're we're really servicing those needs. So, I'm so grateful honestly and I know it's work in progress and it's building and we have a lot of questions and interest, but in the world that we live in today in an urban environment, it's 2025 and we have
047a lot of opportunities to do better. So, I'm Yeah, I'm I'm so excited about the work. I really am. And I think that it's going to be a wonderful program for our community to give that like we also give a place for our students in other buildings that that behavior may be disruptive that we can continue learning in more productive ways while we remove those students and those families to receive the services that they need in more productive ways. so that we're we're doing our work. So, I'm I'm super grateful. I'm grateful for the board and yeah, so and will thank you for your thoughtful questions as we move through the process to develop this because I think it is cutting edge. Honestly, I really do. I don't think that there are many districts around
048that are using this tool to really provide deeper services. So, I'm I'm grateful. So, that's all I want to say. Thank you and thank you for your attention. Thank you. Yes. Amen. Mr. Wolf. Um Okay. Thank you. So, the students who remain um at Jackson who are seniors, uh Dr. Lawrence, I believe we asked this months ago. So, I just want to follow up. Is that a separate graduation or how does that like entire process end up working out? Do they remain the entire senior year or do they go back to the science school or what happens? I'm going have one senior and he goes back in March, but we did a graduation um checklist with him and we've talked with the counselor to make sure that he's on track and make sure that he
049has everything that he needs. He's never failed a class since he's been at Dayton public schools. So, he is on track for graduation. Right now, you hold the record of graduating an entire senior class. So, looking forward to um and then Dr. the IRN, he's something else, man. the board member Walker. The IRN was not submitted by social superintendent Lisa Mer is a graduation school at this time. Okay. So, back to your home school. So, perfect. And then that kind of leads to my other question I have for you. Mhm. Went over your limit of one, but go ahead. I did say I have one. So, that's all right, Mr. Walker. Proceed. with regards to like testing for students. Is that data its own separate building now or is that now just that student at
050that back at that home school again? So that's back to the home school. We only have we don't have a lot of tests anymore. I heard that last night at the board um board um candidates night candidate thank you candidates night last night about like a lot of testing. Uh we have three map tests. There's OST which is mandatory in the uh late winter early spring and then there's AP. Uh so we don't have a lot of testing. We do do some PSAT ACT but in terms of a bunch of testing we do three MAP scores and we can uh those are assigned to the kid at the building. Perfect. Okay. Last question I have for Dr. uh Jones and Dr. Lawrence. I know that the director of nursing is filling in as the nurse
051of the building. As the students enrollment increases, will there be an actual nurse there assigned or will he remain in that role? And then for Dr. Jones, I know that there's currently one food service person that's at the building. Again, as the student enrollment grows, is that now looking at more staffing into that facility or how does that work out? Uh I will go first and say that we have we are minus five FTEEs for nurses. Okay. So to answer your question that is the plan. Uh once we get up to full full FTE capacity with nurses we are actively working to fill that fill that space. Thank you. Yep. Uh thank you for that question uh sir. Um, basically we we do have one there, but we rotate other um food service workers into
052the building. However, if the numbers get exceedingly high, then we'll definitely uh dedicate more staff to that uh kitchen. Okay. And since you're up here, with the two buses and the routing, how does that actually work with routing students? So is that next day they're now getting routed or what what's that process look like? Two days. Two days. Two days. Two to three days. So what happens in that time frame of those two to three days of them waiting to get routed. In some cases we go ahead and just still transport them. We have we try to work as quickly as possible. Get them in the bus. Okay. Thank you. I just got two questions. Um, one Yeah. Um, if a student has to go over to alternative school uh, in le of suspension, are
053they able to still play sports? That was a great question. That was I like that question. You get to I So, I'm going to I'm I'm going to answer that as u a former high school principal. I think the answer for me is yes. You're still in my building. Uh you're I'm your home school. Uh you it can serve as an incentive uh for you to to remain on the academic and behavior track while you're at Jackson Center. uh because you are in lie of suspension and not suspended. Um I think uh that there's you should have every opportunity to participate in sports. Okay. We'll talk about that later. Sure. And uh he had a followup to what Dr. said. Yeah. I was going to ask I mean like in lie of suspension I mean
054that kind of can go 5050 but what about in le of exposure? Those are not the same. They're they're those are not the same. They're marketkedly different. Expulsion means you are remanded to another school actually for anywhere up to 180 days. Actually, the superintendent I think can do more than that. So, they're they're very different. If you're expulsions are level three offensions, we're talking weapons uh uh uh physical acts of assault that uh that could be um yeah, physical acts of assault that are really serious. uh theft, depending on what it is, uh with level three violations that you you won't be playing sports here in Dayton public schools. My other question is, uh I know what UMDOP is, but for the public, could you tell them what UMDOP is and and how they're helping
055our students? Okay. um they work with um drug and alcohol assessments um with our students and they actually have someone that comes over on Fridays and they have a curriculum that is outlined. Um I was able to choose between two and I selected the ones where um most of our students are being sent over to the building for the excessive vaping um you know not attending classes and those things. Um, so that that's what's going on right now. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Can't see. That's it. Oh, you gohead. Is that for me? I had a few more. Um, I mean, it's what we here for the business. With the current staffing capacity, have we had situations or do we foresee situations where a student may be requested to go to the alternative school in
056L but we do not have space? Like is there a hard cap on the the number of students right now that we will allow middle school and high school principles to send over to the alternative school? Dr. Mars, we don't have anything hard at all at the at Jackson Center other than the systems around intake, the systems around mental health, um social emotional awareness as board member Wick spoke about. That's a huge thing for us. You heard the curriculum team is there daily. they are serious about making sure that um the kids have a really robust curriculum that they're there not just as a holding center but that we're actually teaching and so those things are in stone for us but there are lots of other things board member Smith that this is year one
057um and we we just um kind of started this charge this summer and they're um things that we're not sure about right now. Yeah, because that is my question because I think for us figuring it out on the early side as we build would be good. Um, even looking at right now what is that? So my my thing is the whole triangulation of the family at home Jackson and then the home school. So, if I'm in a building and I have five students that I would have up for suspension and so this is a marked difference if all five go to Jackson or if all five have parents that say no, I'm not giving you permission to send them to Jackson. So, I think this probably is the best time to figure out what does
058that truly look like before we try to ramp up. Um, in my opinion, because that is the feedback that I get and I hear is that that process creates conststonation because we have to then figure out what are are we just then sending this shot home and then they come back into our building with the same issues. Am I upping the level of of of issues in a classroom? Cuz that was one of the root causes of having this was talking with principles and staff that were trying to figure out some of the help from some of the behaviors that we see in the community with the um just myriad of issues we have being in the urban environment. Um what does that look like for us creating that process? are are we doing something
059now while we're building it up? Because I get this is new, but the best time to figure out what our processes and strategies are going to be is while it's new. Um, if we we wait longer and kick it down the road, then we'll have a situation where we then have a building in a couple years and not knowing what we're going to do with it. So I do think trying to figure that piece out for me is going to be really huge because it's going to have to be a point where we go either we are going to change a student's assignment at some point if there is an issue or we moving towards intent to expel if there's continued issues because it it it just won't it won't work the way we talked
060about and that was one of the things I did have a flag on is just I don't have to go like If I'm a parent, I don't have to go, but then I have to deal with the suspension and then we keep the same thing and then we're not in this space of trying to get rid of suspensions. So, I just think I wanted to lift that part of that because I had some people reach out and talk to me about some of the issues they had saw. So, I do think that this is the time to really really hone in on that, hone in on, as you said, the regulations because I don't think we need to have all new policies. I think the policies are in place that are good. as I looked
061at them, I do think the regulations that need to be in place to govern kind of what happens and then also having real talks with family members about hey this is this is the option but it's not it's not a you either go over here or your child goes back to class because that is also where you don't want to have people have that that piece and I do agree with the in lie of and still being able to be involved in um extracurriculars I do still give rights to that coach, you know, and that principal. Do think that's that leeway. Princ uh coaches still can always say, "I'm sitting you down." Same way they could if a kid got suspended and come back for 5 days. They're still on the team if they were
062in the building. Same thing. So, I'm with that. And I appreciate you having that. I think that's going to be it. If I don't, I'll see you over there. Okay. So, I did have a question. Uh Walker going to make me have questions now. No, no. This is it. We can close it after this. If you are out or the Ford and GLP piece cuz I know principal have gotten pulled there. What's the admin in the building at that point? Nikki Taylor is there. She's amazing. She has an admin license. Um has extensive background with students with special needs and also Mr. Simmons has covered the building sometimes half a day while um Miss Christian is at Ford NGL. Also, there are multiple staff that come from the OEC department daily also and so they
063are in the building also. I have somebody from there every day. All right. Are professionally licensed who's licensed? Some of us folks in OC able to cover a building that's principal as well. So we just split it up, map it out, run the dates and we make sure that it's covered adequately. So, how how do they cover a building if we have not hired them as an administrator in the district in that capacity? They just have to have a license. If we assign them there for the day, they're capable of carrying out administrative duties per the OAC. Okay. Mhm. Kind of like Yeah. Kind of like if I went to a building, same thing. You are not in that anymore. You were passed that. I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Anything else? No sir.
064Thank you. Uh we do I did see Miss Winfrey come in. Do you have anything from the bargaining unit? [Music] Can I sit in this chair? Good evening. Y know my statement. Good evening. Amen. Hope y'all can hear me. I'm a little horseo this morning this afternoon. this evening and I wasn't holling at my students. Um, uh, protocol is going to be established properly in tail. Um, but, uh, I do need to speak. Uh, good to see you, Dr. Bailey, uh, Superintendent Dr. Lawrence. Good to see all of you, me, board members. I'm here with major concerns and transportation department. Uh major concerns about our routes, major concerns about how our department is being ran, major concerns about the things that's not getting completed and fixed in our department. I have three areas that I
065really want to discuss with you about the situations that we have going on in the transportation also dealing with mostly because since I am Marie R. Winfrey, local 627, school bus driver union president. If anyone didn't know, you do know now. Thank you. So, um, to talk about the issues that we having with our drivers and things of that nature, I want to really start. I brought a lot of things with me so you can see where we stand and the things that is going on right now. This here is a um, where our routes. I remember sending an email or incorporating you board members in an email that I sent directly to Dr. Marvin Jones about our routes back in September. How we see that our routes were uh wrong. We got overlaps in
066our routes, overloads in our routes, picking up kids on the wrong side. We had routes where we had that they didn't have the correct information. We also had that the information that we was seeking for or more or less our times didn't match up. Time changes were constantly being done and things of the things that's even state requirements was being omitted including us doing our pre-trips. You're removing our time to be able to start a route and we don't have time to do a pre-trip which is a state law and it's also in our contract. We have these issues that was going on. Our routes being changed because it's not even accommodating what the driver picked at route pick which was done in August. And we still have these same situations going on today. Seems
067like we're not progressing forward and moving forward in our department to make things complete. We had a meeting with Dr. Goodwine, Dr. Jones, also Mr. Brandon Calhoun who's over routing at this time and we had a meeting down here at the board um speak about how we can make the changes and make the routes efficient. This was done back in July and as today we were supposed to vet these routes, pick five drivers or five persons to be able to vet and we incorporated also the pairs in transportation that did not take place. That is some of the reason why our routes are off the chain. Our routes are driving us all over the city of Dayton, Ketering, West Carolton, Morraine, Huber Heights, and some other areas. We have no consistency how the route should
068be when we picking up our students. Give me just a second. I'm going to show you what I went through when we first started trying to get these routes vetted. And we seen the errors of the routes at the beginning before school even started. This is the stack. This not even all the routes. I vetted all those routes myself. I also sent some of the information over to you board members, including also our transportation management staff. And you can see the errors. These are not all of the routes, but each one of these routes, including some of the drivers that are here today, have routes in here have still have not been fixed. And some of these routes, these are just small minute. We had 107 routes that was put together, including I'm adding on
069the 14 extra board that makes 121 routes. We had 154 drivers as of in August when we started. So where those other drivers are, they were implemented as extra board drivers also. But we have all these routes. We have all these drivers, excuse me, less routes, but we have all these overlaps. You got school and mine incorporated also. This is just one step. And I'm not going to take it out, but this is my route by itself since August. I'm missing three cuz I just got two new ones yesterday. That my route is 4:40. I do two schools. I have schools in the morning. I have to be done. And my one school does not go in until 7:10. But you're asking me to start another school at 6:47. And I haven't finished completely finishing
070picking up my first school and dropping them off. That is just not my route. That is a lot of ours at that compound transportation that has not been completed and fixed. We don't even also we don't even receive notifications when our routes are being changed. As I was leaving the compound this afternoon, this evening, excuse me. I looked at the mailboxes and just about every mailbox has a route sheet new one in there and we just received new ones Monday. We're not understanding why the process that we always having changes in our routes and parents is not being notified. Students do not know when they're going to what bus they're going to be getting on. I don't see the increase also in our enrollment and I have seen some of the other things decreases and
071some changes in our enrollment. We understand we have to add we understand we have to remove. We understand that part. But why is it so much of an intake of it that it cannot be fixed? We came into it where is a solution that did not be resolved. We brought a solution to our management team and they did not follow with us and go with the resolution that we can resolve this situation. That's why I'm standing here today stating where we feel how we feel about how our routes and how things are not being changed. I can't speak about the other things that pertains to uh arbitration and grievances but I can speak about how we are filing issues and complaints against the things that we cannot see. We understand today that Mr. Calhoun is
072our routing director. He's over routing. He's also over payroll. He's also over logistic specialists. Three different major areas that's in the transportation department. As I spoke to Mr. Craig Anderson, maybe he's a little overloaded that he cannot get the rest of the work done that needs to be done in certain situations as these routes. This is very tedious that our students do not have consist consistency in their routes. We also have issues where we request it when you're saying that we're collaborating and integrating our students with our regular students and our special needs students that we also ask in our professional development to please bring in someone to assist us drivers to be able to handle the things that goes on with these special needs students. We haven't had that done correctly or haven't done
073that yet. That request has been made since August and we still haven't done and we had PD just yesterday and we still haven't had anything done pertaining to that. We have a lot of people, our young people, students had a driver this morning, excuse me, this afternoon even stated 486 that she has a student that's in a harness and a vest and that the student that sits behind her because she have an overload overloaded bus is always constantly pulling on the vest of the student that's sitting in front and the harness. That is not just the only driving that has been complaining. We really don't have enough pairs. But if we have regional routes, we will be able to handle our students that have special needs and put regular students and our special needs students
074together as you see. We're collaborating and integrating them as y'all do in the school. We have no problem with that. But bring us the right tools to be able to handle. We have a problem with that cuz we don't have the tools, the learning that we need to have to be able to handle these students as they handle them in the building. As you stated, the students that's in the building, they supposed to go with the same thing, go with the transportation on the bus. Same behavior, same way. We don't want to cause any kind of conflict of that student to have any type of discomfort. That is what you consider as customer service. That's what we're looking at that we need to receive and change. But our routes needs to be changed. All heard
075this morning also, we are now going to have our route pick that we decided on in a meeting. Dr. Lawrence, Dr. Jones, Dr. Benson Taylor in a meeting that we have and now they got to me today that that has changed and we're not going to be having that new rap pick per uh the director. So, with that being said, we have some issues from day one that needs to be fixed pertaining to our routes and transporting our students. things are not going well and we still have in our state no confidence in our manager staff that is still in place and we still ready to enforce it. Some other things I need to speak about and one of them I just said about the professional development we've had in services and professional development days
076but we're missing the mark on that. I've looked at some of the ones of the other departments where they have things that they do to help them with the tools and the knowledge to make their job smoother, work things out differently in the other departments, including the teachers. We are missing that. We do not have professional development to help us and things that will make it better for us to transport our students safely. previous years we've been here, we've always had certain videos or certain people come and speak to us about certain things pertaining to our students. We know mental health is a situation today, but they don't bring too many people over to talk to us about the mental health. The last person to talk to us about the mental health issues was um
077the nurse practitioner nurse at our in service. Those things happen because even the drivers go through those situations. We're dealing with students in all capacity. All capacity. We're dealing with drivers in all capacity on the road. We're dealing with road rage. We're dealing with all capacity on the road. We have a lot that we deal with. Making sure our children get off at the designated place for safety and to stop. You need to understand and the confusion that we do have in certain area of these routes constantly changing and our parents is not really looking at the management staff. They're looking at that bus driver whether things are not being done. They're accusing that bus driver of how things are not progressing moving forward. That's my next step. Last one. Third one. Hopefully we can
078get this resolved. We said that we were not being able to go into the service building and it was a temporary statement to fix that. Um, but the problem we have, our badges does not work over at the service building. And the thing is, you're asking us, our management staff to come over to the service building. Don't ring the bell, but call the receptionist, office manager sitting there to call the offices. I did that. And they called and no one picked up cuz no one was there. Matter of fact, Mr. Walker was coming down and he seen me waiting out there cuz I was on my way going into a labor management meeting and he opened the door for me. I asked him a question to please fix this situation to see why we cannot
079come over here in the service building to see our managial staff. Mr. Anderson, Mr. Gray, Mr. Brandon Calhoun, come and see them, the coordinators, and coming in when we supposed to be going to see them, but they're not at their desk. But you're telling us you're our transportation department and you're over in the service the building and we over in the transportation center. I remember when the I issue came to renovate the center transfer centers. We supposed to been having a second floor where our management staff will be able to be there with us. We wouldn't be a divided department. We are a divided department. We have management in the service building and the rest of us over at transportation. You cannot lead in a different area that you supposed to be leading. You need
080to be in the same location where things can run smoothly and we can collaborate and work things together. We should not be able to have to call and ring a bell to get access to you since you are management leaders. That's an issue and that's a problem and I think we need to resolve that. We still haven't heard and I know it's a temporary thing but we still locked out our badges. Transportation department workers are still locked out of the service building. I know I'm going to get a rebuttal. It's okay. It's okay. But the question is, if we're all the same and we all work in the same district and we all supposed to be part of the same district, we should not be locked out of a district building, I still have access
081to get into the schools. How come I cannot access to get into my talk to one of my men when there's a need or turn a paper in? I thank y'all for the opportunity to allow them to hear me and uh the concerns we have over in the transportation department. We still stand with the no confidence. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Wer. I did have a um you had you referenced the email. I did not get an email. So, if you can forward that to Nope, I just pulled up the two that you sent me and it was not the one that you referenced. I just didn't. No. So, if you can just send me that one, I'll forward it to you. I appreciate it. Okay. Thank you so much. You're welcome. Thank you, Miss
082Winfrey, for your comments. Uh, let's get started. Uh, superintendent's personnel agenda A through G for a vote, please. So, move. Second. Take time to look at them. You already have it. All right. Question. I did. Yes. Go ahead, Mr. Walker. So, last year, Dr. Lawrence, the instructional leader was a first time thing. What exactly went into that role for those teachers? And what was the expectation? What was the deliverables? Were they met? And what the intent this year with that going forward? You said instructional leader. Which one of you? Uh I may have classified it differently, but yeah, on the instructional leader for parent and family engagement. Gotcha. Oh. So those leaders when we have meetings with parents they're able to explain what we're doing academically the core goals of the academic action plan and
083also underneath that you just see general uh parent engagement activities that we by law are are mandated to have and you talk when you said outcomes uh you've been watching from when you were out in the audience and you've been now sitting on the day as we change those uh yearly I will get with you um and get with Miss Miner and Miss and Miss Goowens and say What are what are those core outcomes this year for this year? Perfect. Thank you. Um I did have another one on here on FE. No, not on a Okay. on the um administrative appointment. Okay. Um so for HR, does this now fully complete the staff in HR? Is there still openings there? So this is it. These are perfect. Okay. And then my last question is Oh,
084sorry. One more. Okay. So, one more. Is that a generalist one? Got it. Okay. Um they said that was got Okay. And then I was going to ask Mr. Rafford if we can table his retirement to like December of 2026 or is it definite June? He looking around like what? Huh? He said no. No, but I I do want to thank you for your service to Dave public schools over all these years. Um I think it's been really beneficial and I think whoever comes in next will have um some very big shoes to fill uh going forward. Board member Walker, thanks for catching that and acknowledging that. Uh two seconds. Uh everybody has a nickname. His is the legend. We're going to miss you. The legend. The legend. Find an email from 1963. See, Dr.
085Lawrence, what happened was you done? I am. Thank you, Justin. Thank you. Um, I just have a question, follow-up question for um the for the supplementals extra duty. the instructional leader for parent and family engagement. Is that the same thing as title one? That is a title title one role. Okay. Thank you. I appreciate it. That is all I have. Mr. Smith. Yes. So, dark waking my way up. Um, see Chief Jones over there. [Laughter] Um, now I was going to ask Chief Jones, um, with the supplementals for athletics on here, that put you in a good space in your estimation coming into the winter season. Good evening. Um, we are doing good with um, our openings. I think right now we are still looking for a swim coach. We had one that flaked us,
086but um we have a lot of kids trying to swim. So, if there's a swim coach out there, we need you. Uh and then we have a few openings for girls wrestling, too. So, for those that may be listening, could you um give people the difference that we have with our swim um participation rules for sports like that versus like basketball and wrestling? So with our individual sports in general, they can um represent their school but still be coached by another school. So essentially we've been having opponents and styvers and our other schools go and participate with the coaches, but when they compete, they represent their schools. Appreciate that. Appreciate you, Chief Jones. Thank you, Mayor. And I'm going to move to I would like to hold on. There's a couple of them I had
087questions for. If I could have some questions in an executive session for everything but A2 on A. I would appreciate that. And then I would also briefly like to echo Mr. Walker sentiments on uh our brother Rick Rafford. Definitely appreciate serving with you and um just all the stories I've been able to hear. Uh Rick Rick Rayford also worked with both my parents in his previous career. So just we always have some good stories to share and he's been able to share a lot of things about my parents that I did not know. So I'm certainly grateful for some of the things that he shared with me. He lets me know I get some of my fussiness. uh honestly so lets me know that that worked out well. But we will definitely miss you and
088we look forward to celebrating your your time here at a later date. So appreciate you my brother. Um then also I had a question around if I can find it again because I just clicked something. Nah, I'll just ask you about that one. Dr. Lawrence later later today. That's it. Oh, Dr. Davis. Okay, I know we go through this every time. The long-term sub number, is that certified teachers and long-term subs lumped in as one or is that broken into separate? Like on the on the budgeted information? Okay. Oh, sorry. What's the question? So on the budgeted information it says uh what is this like long-term subs actual field 917 position budgeted 928. Does that include certified teachers as well? Like is that being lumped in together as teachers as a whole is 928 or
089is those two separate line items? Princ could you come to the mic? [Applause] You looking at C? Uh, yeah. Well, I was looking at the budget information. So far, yeah, C. Is it like C2, C3? Yes. Okay. Yeah. I'm um I can double check with you. I'm assuming that's uh DEA and uh uh long-term subs. Teachers and long-term subs. And then while you're up here, the substitute bus parah say the letter for me. Um I'm still on a budget sheet. So on I on superintendent recommendations I on the the budget sheet for substitute bus pairs. It does not have an actual field or positions budgeted. So is there a cap on that? I see the it's an actual budgeted amount, but I don't see that there's a number for that. You said substitute bus pairs.
090Yeah. So, essentially would be E2, but on the like on that budget sheet that Andrew uh gives us. Yeah, I see E2. Yeah. It doesn't have an actual field or positions budgeted like number there. um that I have to get back to you on that right now. All right. Thank you. I don't need to actually vote on them separately. Just wanted to speak to them separately in executive session. I'm sorry. So, you want to vote on everything except uh except a a two. Well, except yeah except everything but A2 in there. So A2 plus everything else. Okay. So you want to table A1 and then 3 through 7 till I after exact. Yes. Okay. So when we vote currently we are only voting on superintendent Super. It's It's superintendent's personnel agenda B. It's actually B
091B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B2 instead of A2, right? It should be B2. When you click on it, it says A2. Yeah. So, we're voting on B through G together minus A2. No, B through G together plus A2. Plus A2. Bingo. Okay. We're voting on the rest of Yeah. So, A1 3 through 7 is pulled to after exec. A2 we're voting on now. I think that the A is throwing you off because it's actually B. Mhm. Yeah. Okay. So, I'm ready. All right. Uh, Mr. Lacy. No, I don't have any. No, I was I was I'm sorry. Oh, yes. I was
092calling for the vote. Uh, so Mr. Lacy, yes. Miss Reiner, yes. Uh, uh, Mr. B. Dr. Bailey, I'm sorry. Yes. Uh, Miss Wick, she's not here. Oh, Mr. Smith, yes. Uh, Walker votes yes. And Mr. Champion, yes. Do you know what you're Yes. Okay, let me ask. Okay, so five yeses, six yeses, I'm sorry. Yeah. And then a A1 3 through 7 for after exact. [Music] Uh, yes I do. Uh, I'd like for the board to vote for recommendation for vote HR resources DEA after July 10th. So moved. Second by Yes, it was second or motion by Mr. Lacy, second by Miss Reinick. Yes. Uh, all right. Mr. Lexi, yes. Or I'm sorry, no. I'm going to change that to no. Miss Reiner, no. Mr. Smith, yeah. Miss Dr. Bailey, no. Walker votes yes. And
093Mr. Champion, yes. Oh, okay. So, that is three nos, three yeses. Three nos, two Simple. Yeah. So, three nos. Two. Yes. So, it doesn't y motion fails. Oh, no. He got this. He's throwing me off cuz other people not here. So, that's right. But I Okay. So, I think we're at a crossfire because the motion failed. So, it is. So, let's continue. Yes. Got you. They got it. Dr. Bailey. Uh, the motion fails. We're going to go to budget information. I'd ask the board members to take a look at that and if they have any questions, we'll take them. I think board member Walker already asked one. Yeah, I'm good. You're good? Yeah. Any other questions? Not on budget. All right. Uh board member Bailey, we didn't make any changes from last week's review session
094for contracts, consultants, and resolutions. Do you mind taking those together? And we can ask answer any questions individually if you like. I'll make a motion. Second. Yep. No changes for AB and C together. Oh well, Mr. Lacy motion then you second. Second. All right. Uh Mr. Lacy, I have questions. Oh, what questions do you got? Man, I just had I just had a follow-up question from something last week. Um, Dr. Lawrence, with those um Dayton Performing Arts Alliance pieces, what Oh, I mentioned it the other day. What parental helps are we going to put around there to kind of let parents know what are we doing around this? I know we've increased the level of communication that we give out to um our our community. Um especially with something like this that we're really bringing
095in and the work that went into it. How are we planning to kind of get that out, get the word out and kind of gauge interest for for parents um involvement in those things? Well, one I think you um just approved and voted for um parent um parent family community engagement title leazison at each building to the I know the elementary principles every Wednesday they send out uh information to all the elementary school parents in the district and so I'm sure it's updated there. uh three PIO uh sends these out and then I know for a fact that there is a campaign uh coming from the um associate superintendent's office to um to champion this work and there's also a survey coming from the um from the curriculum office asking parents about their level of
096interest. I know that Dr. Bailey, board member Riner and board member Walker Halls um spent time with Miss Miner. Thank you Dayton Foundation for providing the resources for them to travel and coming up with the idea that uh one art school was not appropriate for Dayton public but in fact having art experiences for all kids in elementary was important. So I know they have a comprehensive plan for that. Appreciate that. Appreciate that. And then I'll I'll talk to you offline about the the DCDC uh piece and you're seeing some of the differences between that and then fleshing that out with u like the summer program that we had over stock. Yeah, gotcha. We'll talk about that offline. All right. All right. I can get that one. Um I did want to mention with while we're
097looking at those um Dr. Lawrence and Dr. Jones both. Um, in line with some of the people that came out and spoke today, um, one of the properties that was brought up, correct me if I'm wrong, wasn't that one that you two, you two gentlemen had brought to us before as well when we talked about, coincidentally enough, the alternative school. Mhm. Yes. Go ahead. I'll go I'll follow you. Um, we visited the school building. uh Rick, myself, I think uh Miss Pal also went at an earlier date. Um the going price on the property was I think 1.5 at the time, but that was last school year. And going back further, Tiffany's been Miss Pal's been twice. Uh she was there initially when I was the business manager. She and I went to that property.
098And um so we've been out there on two separate occasions, had uh I know I had conversations with the owner um actually both the owners uh but was never able to bring that to the board for fruition from a from a project standpoint uh because we hadn't we just hadn't worked with the academic side yet to determine what we're going to do with Kaiser. Kaiser is our largest elementary on the east side. Is that right? Yep. It's the largest one on the east side and we, you know, we're actively working. Listen, this is an opportunity board Smith for you to, you gave me an opportunity to say, look, our K through 7, um, and I believe soon to be K through8 expansion in Rivers Edge is working. Um, when we did parent surveys at Eastmont
099and Cleveland, those parents want to stay big time. uh Kaiser parents. I mean, we're probably losing a 100 kids or more because we just don't have the space. 100 kids at 20,000 plus, you do the math. So, um that is that's a hot spot for us in terms of growth. And we've got to figure out a way whether it's through moving Challenger somewhere else and placing kids in those four or five additional classrooms that will be there or if it's purchasing another a property and using that as um K12 for Kaiser some version of that. U I've worked as an elementary principle in buildings 2 two through five 2 through six but Miss Burlac and her team are looking at all those different options but we've got to figure something out in that space. Yeah.
100And I'd also like to add that building um would not be a good building for a school per se. Uh the way it's kind of laid out. Um Challenger Center, that's a different thing. Uh we did uh when we when we went into the building, we were viewing it from a uh additional school space standpoint. Um I I don't believe it would be good for that. However, with a Challenger Center, a possibility. Appreciate that. I was on my mind from that. You're talking about coming in Baltimore. Yeah. Yes, sir. Yeah. It's like right in the middle of the park. Yeah. I've been there. I've been there. Right over there. Appreciate that. Do you guys be bringing stuff to us sometimes? [Laughter] Yeah, I'm good. Appreciate you, Dr. Bailey. Thank you, sir. Um, also let the
101record reflect that um Karen Wick left at 6:21. Uh, Dr. Lawrence, can I ask why they're separate? Um, oh, never mind. No. Yeah. No. So there's three on there for contracts, but then there's one on here for uh No, there's one on here for a contract. The other is three are here for consultant services. So they're not providing the same services essentially cuz the description basically is them doing the same thing or is it because their amount is different or those are different vendors. Um, and based on our uh, yeah, based on the amounts, looks like those are all over 15. Let me see how much this one is. Uh, don't worry about it. I I'll ask offline. Okay. All right. All right. So, for the vote, Mr. Lacy, yes. Miss Reiner, yes. Uh, Mr.
102Smith, yes. Dr. Bailey, yes. Walker votes yes. Mr. Champion. Yes. All right. Six yeses. That concludes my recommendation. Pres, excuse me, vice president. Uh, Dr. Bailey. Thank you, sir. Um, treasur's recommendations. I think you you can do that part. Uh, we want to do A through E. Okay. Okay. Some moved. Second. I recommend the approval of A through E on the treasures recommendations. Moved by Mr. Lacy, second by Mr. Walker. Questions? Was that A through E? A through E. A through E. Yes, ma'am. Okay. Thank you for the vote. Any questions? I have no questions. What? Mr. Lexi. Yes. Miss Reiner, yes. Mr. Smith, yes. Dr. Bailey, yes. Walker votes yes. Mr. Champion, yes. Good job. Thank you. Nice. That was nice. Business managers. That was pretty nice, Mr. Riley. [Music] Thank you, Vice President
103Dr. uh Bailey. Um I recommend ratification of uh the two contracts um AT&T and education framework. So moved. Second. Moved by Mr. Lacy, second by Miss Riner. [Music] No questions. All right. Um that's just the one comment. um with the education framework if if Dr. Jones um once that gets rolling we can bring back a presentation um be an executive if there any privacy concerns but to let us know kind of the update of how that's moving and is being successful. Oh, most definitely. I'd love to. Yes, sir. Appreciate that, sir. That's all I have. Mr. Lac, yes. Miss Reiner. Yes. Dr. Bailey. Yes. Mr. Smith. Yes. Walker votes yes. Mr. Champion. Yes. Six yeses. I also recommend uh approval ratification of the 48 hour waiver to present the following uh settlement agreement. So moved.
104Second. Moved by Walker. Second by Miss Reiner. Questions. Mr. Lac. Yes. Miss Reiner. Yes. Dr. Bailey. Yes. Mr. Smith. Yes. Walker votes yes. Mr. Champion. Yes. Six yeses. Okay. I now recommend ratification of the afore uh settlement agreement. So moved. Second. Moved by Walker. Second by Dr. Bailey. Questions? Mr. L. Yes. Miss Riner? Yes. Mr. Smith? Yes. Dr. Bailey? Yes. Walker votes? Yes. Mr. Chandler? Yes. Six yeses. Conclusion policy. Second uh reading resolution adoption of board policies rationale and as much as the board of education is committed to the continual updating of its policies, rules and regulations manual and the committee which was appointed has been worked toward that goal. The following is brought at this time for second reading and compliance with the board file. Now therefore, be it resolved that the board of
105education of the Dayton City School District, Montgomery County, Ohio, hereby accepts and adopts the following policies that have been uh codified for inclusion in the handbook of policies, rules, and regulations. GCI, professional staff assignments, and transfers, which is a new policy. J E C BB admission of interd district transfer students revised to align with uh legislation. Jed students absences and ex and excuses revised to align with legislation. Jeda truency revised to align with legislation. JEDC religious expressions days new policy. So move second moved by Walker second by Dr. Bailey. I do have one thing question. Yes. Um with Jed DA J E Da Truency um Dr. Lawrence, I do possibly think there is some in my mind I'm thinking there's a way that this conversation should also be couched in the framework of the alternative
106school. Um just wanted to broach you on that since you have it up as a policy. Thanks a lot uh board member Walker. We will add that to uh the other policies around attendance and we're doing our AI kind of sum summary to see what overlaps are as we move to work adding regulations to uh pieces around in le of suspension. We will get back with you on that. Actually I think you were at policy last week weren't you? No I was not on finance. Yes I was finance. You had finance. Yes. I didn't ask the I didn't ask the question. Mr. Smith did. But I appreciate the acknowledgement. Oh, that's right. Twins. He did. All right. Oh, I did have a question as well. Uh, Dr. Lawrence, can you speak to the policy GCI?
107Um, and where that fits, like how does this differ from like the um bargaining union agreements and things like that. So, um, per OSBA, this has given superintendent broad lateral authority. I know you've been following it. There's actually been, um, at the state level kind of an I don't want this in a strong word, uh, attack, but really pushing back on unions um, and and some of the rights that are part of their collective bargain agreement. So, this broadens and expands the superintendent's authority to um, assign assign and reassign teachers. I I do um want to say that definitely honor collective bargaining agreements. In fact, we're starting that process early. Uh Miss Winfrey was in the room when we asked um our legal team to work with us to begin the bargaining with the 12
108I think it's 12 this year. Everybody everybody except for DA start that process early and we value th that contract language. I know for a fact um I have lots of conversations with them about about Yeah. about honoring those contracts. And so it would not be in my purview to con to consistently or or um on purpose kind of undermine the CBAs. There are extreme circumstances when I think kids are first and sometimes there's um some barriers there. But overall um I still believe in CBAs, but I think this language is uh comport with what we're trying to do in terms of making assignments relevant for our kids. All right. Thank you. So we will And following with that, how are we making sure that this and in giving that broad discretion that we are
109still following our contracts and agreements that we have with our bargaining units? I mean, we have a situation right now where um we have teachers who have teacher contracts who are essentially teachers on special assignment here who are intervention specialists. We have a broad need for them in the buildings right now. It's the beginning of the second quarter and we're going to move them to uh those buildings that have a I mean a a really huge need for IS's based on based on their background and based on their assignments. So we alerted the um the DEA president. We also have um at the international school um a significant reduction in the number of students there. We think it's because of national policies around immigration. Um, and so do my colleagues and other Ohio 8 in
110terms of, you know, immigrant families coming and those leaving because of fear. And so we have a significant reduction there this year with class sizes that are less than 20. Um, and so we're packaging up some teachers there and reassigning them. And all of this has been done uh with the um communication and collaboration two of the five C's with the U board with the DEA president. Okay. Well, one uh glad you are having those pre-con conversations. I think those is the biggest thing is making sure the conversations are had, communications are had and it allows people to get out any frustrations they may have, any any concerns um on the front end. So, I appreciate that and I think that's that way to come together and figure that we all are supposed to be
111here for the betterment of our children. So, we can figure that out all together. We'll be good on that. Um yeah, I'll add one more piece to that. There's another while I have you. There's another piece where that's right. Uh Dr. Gil kind of taking her position lead counselor I mean her position and breaking that up into three pieces lead counselor at each level and again he was contacted I may not have caught President Mahoney around the international school but I will circle back to him I think we should I think yeah I usually check I usually check in um with that with the international school what number do we foresee like that building needing to be at to continue to serve in that fix. Um, I want to uh refer that to the school
112programming and curriculum committee. That's a really deep conversation around what's going on in that neighborhood and what we see as the projections for the school. Um, I think you chair that. I'm glad that you actually chair that because you're the community, one of the community board members that spends a lot of time out there and you should hear uh some of the data around um the cost per student, the projected number of students and um and some of the proposals we have as it relates to that footprint there. Yeah, I mean especially just seeing that building itself just it it was shut down for having fewer students than we're thinking about having there now. Mhm. Then it was reopened with fewer students than it was when it was shut down. And so, and I know
113when we had a vote on this building, there was a big petition from community members which allowed us to then have students from that community go there. So, if we're looking at a reduction in numbers, I think it begs the question of us sitting down and figuring out how do we continue that valuable service, but also be good stewards of district finances as well. And how do we then utilize that building if we're not going to have those numbers? Cuz we still had community members that were sore about the school being shut down years ago. I think you might have been around. I was. and the number that it was shut down at for not having enough students is more than what we have over there now. And I want to say also that last
114contract negotiations uh Miss Spurlock led that with with she and I went down and worked through this with the uh President Mahoney, your former baseball coach. DA is now silent on transfers, but again uh the academic core academic team has him on speed dial. They run almost everything we're doing by him. We he's brought in to have conversations. Dr. Davis has conversations with him. So, um, we we definitely bring them into the conversation. Appreciate that. Appreciate one of those five C's. I'm working on that. Uh, I would I would just add that uh this policy was not something that the board came up with or the superintendent. This actually was something that was added into the state budget, House Bill 96. Um, so it's Ohio Vias code 3319.173 that allows these type of perimeters now.
115So appreciate it. All right, for the vote. So I actually have a follow-up question to that board member Walker. You might know the answer to there is a clause on um GCI. Um the last sentence of the first paragraph says these requirements prevail over any conflicting provisions of collective bargaining agreements entered into, on, or after September 30th, 2025. That sentence kind of confused me a little bit. Can we get some clarity on I believe because the budget went into effect after or at that date and that's why that part of that language is in there. I'm at least that's what I think. Um I don't know if we want to pull that one and wait till next month so we can get some clarity from legal on it just to make sure. So um I
116was I'm part of the policy committee and I had a conflict and I could not attend this particular policy meeting. So, I was not part of this discussion. I reached out to a few people that were there and this policy, this was not I think maybe people overlooked it. I sent an email to our legal council asking about that specific sentence and he said it doesn't matter what's in the policy. Um, it does not override any of our collective bargaining units. Because of that reason, I would like to move this back to policy committee for review with legal counsel just to make sure that everything is in alignment with our collective bargaining agreements and with Ohio Revised Code. Um I don't I don't know if there's any discussion that people want to have on that.
117Um so you want to pull I would like to pull GCI and send that back to policy committee. I'm good with that. All right. And second request, um Dr. Bailey, if we could vote on these policies separately. Um there was a policy that had quite a bit of um spirited discussion in the policy committee. Um and I am not I I'm hesitant whether um I mean I would like to send that back to committee as well too. I didn't feel like there was enough um full understanding of the people in the room um both board members and administration. I feel uncomfortable voting on something that um I feel was not really where where most of the people were not on the same page. There's a little bit of confusion over whether there were enough votes
118to pass it through policy committee as well too. So I would like to send um Jeda back to policy committee for further review as well. All right. So we're pulling GCI and Jeda to go back to policy. So we will be on that. So do you want No, you So do you want to vote on J? Do you still want to vote on them separate or just pull those two? If we could just pull those two. Okay. So then we pull JCI sorry GCI Jeda. So we're only voting on JCBB Jed Dc. Correct. Okay. Is everybody good? All right. Mr. Lacy. Yes. Miss Reiner. Yes. Uh Walker votes yes. Uh Dr. Bailey, yes. Mr. Smith, yes. Mr. accept. Yes. And I I'm not saying we don't need to vote to send those back to policy.
119It's just as a board collectively, we're saying that those are going back to policy. All right. Think that's what we do. Comments. Uh Miss Hamilton. Yeah. You have any comments? All right, Mr. Jones, I'll be really quick. I want to give a shout out to um the drivers. Uh we've had one uncovered route this year. Um we've done over 150 field trips all covered. um and we will continue to work with them collaboratively. We meet every Thursday um to rectify some of the issues shared and um yeah Mr. Bhouse is not here. David, did you have anything? Um, the assistant treasurer of the InnovativeMies of Dayton public schools does not have right. David Riley She's watching. She's watching. Don't get too comfy. Johnson Reinhardt. I have nothing at this time. Uh, Eric Walker. Uh, I
120will say this is our last board meeting until after election day. Um, so please do your part and educate yourself on who is running. Um, please don't be fooled by any political tricks or political stunts or political endorsements. Appreciate it. All right. Uh, Mr. Champion. No, sir. What? That was your moment. No comment. He won't be back. So, Mr. Champion uh is a student in the Belmont Bison marching band. Yes, sir. [Applause] He not coming back. Name the Belmont Bison Marching Band. Isn't it called something? Mighty Marching Bison. mighty marching. Get it right or pay the price. No. So, uh, thank you. First, I want to shout out Dr. Bailey on doing a a great job at running the meeting this evening. Hey, he didn't have to keep me in order. You know, you kept
121you kept Brother Walker in order. And you? No, I'm always I'm fine. So, I do want to shout that out. I want to lift up everybody in this district for all the work that they continue to do. I hope you all had great uh professional development sessions. Hope we starting this next quarter off uh in a great way. I want to remind all our family members out there. Please take advantage of our hack and our other communication um portals. There's so much information that actually does go out and our our people perish for a lack of knowledge and sometimes it's unfortunate that that knowledge is readily accessible but we do not always go after that. So always encourage people when you come across people do not just uh give them fish but teach them how
122to fish and that is also how we need to be learning. Um, I want to lift up all of the people who have um just had anything to do with the care that has gone out to people in our community um that have lost loved ones. Um, we we talk about it when we have the funerals and we talk about it when we have the immediate shock of these incidents, but there are countless people throughout our district that are taking families under their wings and lifting up these babies daily. And a lot of the times when we go through that trauma that time doesn't always heal all wounds, but time also lets a lot of people go back to living their regular lives. And I want us to remember that for the people that go
123through the traumatic situations that we see and we express our heartfelt uh sincerities out to that that feeling stays there. And so I just want to lift up the people that stand in the place and are always thinking of people um because it can be years. I'm someone who's gone through it. There are days where I just have a bad moment. So just understanding that and lifting up each other. I want to thank our treasurer and her absence as well as our business manager and our superintendent and our auditor for their continued work and collaboration. I really appreciate the spirit of collaboration as much as possible and I encourage us all to move forward with that. I want to thank the people that came out from the Old North Dayton neighborhood. Got to be they
124get upset when we say Kaiser's on the east side. It's on the north side of town. Yeah, they they'll fuss you out over that one. They will. But I appreciate um Dr. Lawrence, you uh saying that you would meet with them. Um just being present in those spaces sometimes does wonders. black people do not feel heard. So, I appreciate them coming out and voicing their concern and also even coming out with in their mind what solutions could be. I really want us to really get into that solutionoriented kind of thinking. Um, with that, let's continue to love on each other and continue to try to make this district as great as possible. And like Mr. Walker said, there is an election upcoming. I do not get into the whole endorsing and telling you who to
125vote for, but I want you to get out and vote. Um, but also just as much as we give energy to voting, I want us to give that same energy to accountability for those that we vote for. And I think that's what puts us in these positions when there's so much going out around election season because in between election seasons, we do not hold that same energy. And so, I want us to be able to stand on those things. that way when we make those decisions, when we go to elect people, that we can make um real decisions that can really impact our communities. So, get out there, encourage people to get out there and vote. Um and let's just move our people together in a safe and loving space that is off. Thank you
126so much, uh Dr. Vice President Bailey, Dr. Lawrence. Uh special thanks to OEC, uh Gilight and Curriculum. We had hundreds. Each school was represented by hundreds. Thank you transportation for getting our schools out, kids out today for coach Anthony Grant's um suicide awareness. Today we represented like no other school district in the county. Um if for those of you who don't know Anthony Grant, longtime basketball coach at the University of Dayton, awesome guy. Unfortunately, his daughter committed suicide. He's been he and his wife have been committed to that space. So, we uh were there today representing, talked to several principles today and kids and they had a phenomenal time out there today. I want to thank the academic team uh for all the work that you do. Um I said a lot. I want to
127keep saying that I see you. Keep doing the work you're doing. I bet I see you. You made it. Uh we it's less than two hours. Thank you for staying hanging in there today for Dr. Densore and uh Kina, I was at Westwood uh two days ago and today and I called Tiffany right away and said it's spectacular. When I go in these buildings now, I just want to say the work you're doing is phenomenal. There's nothing better than going into a building that's clean. Floors are um spotless and shining. So kudos to the work that you do rolling your sleeves up to stand side by side. Yeah. with those uh with those custodians and uh yeah, it was it was great, man. It was I mean spotless in there. So, thank you. And then
128uh you know, last but not least, I want to give a special shout out to um one of our principles at the secondary level, uh Mr. Eddie Davis. Uh he Be careful. Uh Mr. Eddie Davis, be be careful. Uh Mr. Eddie D Eddie Davis, he uh the principal of Medadella, he took the bold and courageous step, the right step of crossing those burning sands of Alpha 5 Incorporated, Dr. Bailey. Yes. And that makes about the 15th brother in the district. I just want to say Eddie congratulations. Thank you. All this time Eddie was a GDI. That's wild. Well, now he is a part of Alpha Alpha Incorporated. Oh, so I went over there. congratulating him. Uh went over to Meville today. Uh it was really nice uh just to watch those students how they were
129moving. Uh I will give some kudos today. You know, it's good to be here today. It's good. I'm glad to see you all. I don't really have anything other than that. Pursuant to section 121.22G, I did have something else before you did G2. Sorry, I did. I just realized Miss Garren and Miss Kid will actually choke me. Um and Miss Goins next week we are having our first um MPHC national panh helenic council roundt discussion um where we have invited all divine nine um representatives out to hear from superintendent Dr. Lawrence, Dr. Jones, Miss Hamilton and treasurer um of where we are as a district. Mr. Smith, you're invited but we know who it's actually for but we always welcome all board members. I'm just saying uh uh but this is a com this is
130this will be an opportunity for us to do something different and bring them to the table because they do all have youth mentoring groups but we want to make sure that with the Dayton public students in which they are serving that um all of our services um all of our academic plans all of our um enrichment opportunities are being universal across the board um but also where we are at financial institutions giving them that opportunity to chime in. So thank you Dr. B. Appreciate it. Thank you. And because of Will Smith, pursuant to section 121.22 G2 of the Ohio Revised Code, I move that this board go into executive session. This meeting is being held to consider the appointment, employment, dismissal, discipline, promotion, demotion, compensation of an public employee employees. Second moved by Dr. Bailey,
131second by Mr. Walker. Uh for vote, Mr. places. Yes. Miss Ryan. Yes. A welcome. Yes. Dr. Bailey. Yes. Mr. Smith. Of course. Mr. Champion. Yes. He don't even get to vote. He don't go. He still I still said yes. Hey, that's I still see him next to me. Yes.