001Today I want you to take note of this president vice president whenever I have excuses absence medical issue I have a notice I can no longer stay so I give that lady it's got a doctor's note on it and says he executive session I can't wait I'm wait for you bling over here. I just read that. That's all. I just think Our mission is to inspire, educate and empower. Our vision is to inspire. Oh sh [Music] he catch up. Don't worry about it. I now call to order the October 14th board meeting. Madam Chair, may we have a roll call? President Goodwin here. Dr. Bailey here. Mr. Lacy here. Mr. Smith, present. Miss Reiner, present. Mr. Walker, present. Miss Wick, present. Uh, Miss Woods, present. Seven present. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. [Music]
002I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. You fell short. Okay. Wow. I fell. Our mission is to inspire, educate, and empower. Our vision to inspire, educate, and empower scholars for a lasting impact. And our purpose is to go cultivate a supportive and engaging educational experience. Thank you. Dr. Lawrence, can you tell us a little bit about these parent teacher conferences coming up? Absolutely. uh this coming Thursday which will be the 16th Thursday evening and all day or Friday 10:17 I think it's Friday morning Thursday evening Friday morning uh parent teacher conferences uh I really want parents to take advantage of this opportunity to come out and not just look at grades uh
003but build relationships with the teams in the building the building leadership team the principal assistant principal and I can see over the top of my glasses Amber Whitmire is here the director of nutrition services. I think we're going to have some amazing tasty treats here from nutrition services. So, you'll get a chance to uh sample uh what your students are are eating during the day and it's amazing. I've had some of the meals myself and board member Lacia, I think we're going to have the steak croissant. So, please come out for parent teacher conference 1016 1017. Can you tell them a little bit about the hack system information that they'll be able to get here? Yeah, home access. Home access center. From here on out, you'll be able to access the school, your parents, and
004any activities through home access center. We had a glitch with that earlier, and I'm looking over the corner of my left eye there, and I saw the IT director eyes go up, and we have got that taken care of. So, thank you so much. All parents are able to access hack now. Thank you. And I believe Chief Spurlock, the floor is yours. Good evening everyone. We're really excited at the elementary level. We just finished out our first quarter. Um and just going to highlighted a few things and initiatives that we put together. um elementary initiative. It was to provide guaranteed experiences through the Dayton Performing Arts Alliance for every student at every grade band, preschool through sixth grade, and that's come to fruition. So, some of the titles and some of the things we're having
005are brass, woodwinds, and string quartets. So, it's three separate performances at our elementaryaries with such titles as the great dinosaur escape. We've also in added this year ballet residency the title including colorful mo emotions in motion. We also are doing an opera exploration and field trips to Schustster Center and the Masonic Temple. And some of the career connections with some of the programs also include who wants to be a dancer and singing star. Who wants to be a singing star? So these are some additional things that we've added for elementary schools and it's very exciting in alignment with the district's academic action plan. Every elementary added a college and career exploration focus to their building plan. And through this through this career lens, elementaryaries um have and are continuing to plan throughout the school year
006field trips focused um speakers from various careers such as a focus maybe on service. So police, fires, EMTs, and then beyond just those basic careers. Uh several schools held theme days tied to careers or activities to learn more about local colleges and even some participated in the college signing day in correlation with Y apply day. Um we've had several elementary schools and students that are going to be um starting to create wall murals in their buildings to decorate their halls and they're going to be working with the local artists. We're beginning with the schools of Ruskin, Kaiser, Valerie, Cleveland, Fairview, Louise, Troy, River's Edge, Westwood, and Charity. So that's our beginning round one, phase one of our student created murals in our buildings. And this fall, we added elementary participation um at high school uh
007football games. So students and their families were came able to come out to participate in a high school football game. saw the cheerleaders, the bands performed, and even some of our uh dancing performers. Uh we really want to thank our elementary administrators, teachers, staff, and students, and families that came out. It was a lot of fun. The kids were trekking down the field. Um and it was very exciting. They were really worked up and they learned even some cheers. Um but we want to do a special shout out to athletics department that supported this effort and our high school administrators. if you weren't there and experienced them cheering on the kids and getting them revved up to come down the field. It was pretty wonderful. Um and we really enjoyed um the games and elementary
008principles are saying, "What are we going to do next? How are we going to include in other sports? We do want to do a special shout out to all of our DPS principles in honor of October, National Principal Month, to honor their dedication and hard work uh as serving as our school principal. So, we just shout that out. We definitely want to have our parents come out because it's parent teacher conferences and at those you're going to be learning about your students progress. You're going to learn a little bit about their results on MAP and Dibbles. Um and we're going to learn about strategies with that home and school connection to make sure we support our students throughout the school year. So we thank you so much and we look forward to second quarter. Thank
009you Mr. Simmons. Good evening. and secondary. Across the district, we're seeing encouraging signs when it comes to student engagement and behavior. Several buildings are reporting fewer fail fewer students falling back off track with attendance. Belmont, for example, not only met its attendance goals last year on the state report card, they're actually trending better this year as compared to the same time last year. So, the city of Belmont is well on its way to reaching its attendance targets yet again. To support this progress, we've launched multiple efforts under Dr. Lawrence's safe and secure hallways initiative. This includes Thursday, Friday, and Saturday school, as well as detailed hallway tracking. We're now monitoring how many students are in the halls each bell. We've also implemented a daily tardy call, daily tarting calls to parents um to improve on
010time attendance. We're also seeing a noticeable drop in unruly disruptive behavior throughout the district. While a few hot spots remain, overall we're in much better shape than last year. One key sign is of improvement is we've had zero incidents at the football stadium during uh football season. I'm also thrilled to share a major success from last week. We moved nearly 500 students to the Montgomery County Career Expo at the convention center. This incredible event sponsored by Commissioner Carolyn Rice gave our students exclusive access to the county career opportunities. Every department there set up hands-on activity stations to engage our students and uh inform them of what career are available with the county. With strong collaboration across multiple teams, including our principles, transportation, safety, and security, and our life coaches along with many others, we've moved
011all 500 freshmen in and out of the facility um in a timely and efficient manner. I want to extend a heartfelt thank you to everyone who played a part in making this event a success. If I miss anyone, it's my sincere apologies. We're also starting several afterchool programs, specifically Wright brothers pri prioritizing ELA. At third good, they've selected 20 STEM ambassadors to partner with uh logo to work with therapy fourth graders. Thirdood will also host their first STEM night uh during parent teacher conferences. And at Dumbar, eight students have received early acceptance to Wright State University already this year. So, we're rocking and rolling and we look forward to our second quarter. Thank you. Second uh semester. Thank you. Thank you. Do we have any bargaining unit members here to speak tonight? Don't see any.
012All right. Madam treasur, do we have anyone signed up to speak tonight? Yes. All right. One second. Speakers, please limit your remarks to three minutes. It is inappropriate to address any matter involving pending disputes, grievances under a labor agreement, disciplinary actions involving an employee or student ongoing labor negotiations, concerns or matter that have already been settled and or any matter which because of its nature is deemed appropriate to be discussed in executive session. Mr. Walker will be your timekeeper for the evening. Go ahead. Breezy Smith. Breezy Smith. That's it. All right. Thank you, Dr. Lawrence. Your first recommendation? Uh, my first recommendation is acceptance of the superintendent's personnel agenda. Uh, items B through C G. B through G. Thank you. So, moved. Second. Moved by Mr. Lacy, second by Miss Wick. Are there any questions
013on the motion? A moment. I think I'm good now. All right, Madam Treasure, may we have a vote? President Goodwin? Yes. Dr. Bailey? Yes. Mr. Lacy? Yes. Mr. Smith? Yes. M. Reard? Yes. Mr. Walker? Yes, Miss Wick. Yes, Miss Woods. Yes. Madam Treasurer, can I change my vote to abstain? Abstain. Yes. My next recommendation is acceptance of the human resources DEA after July 10th for a vote. So moved. Second. Moved by Mr. Lacy, second by Dr. Bailey. Yes. Any questions? Seeing none, may we have a vote? President Goodwin, no. Dr. Bailey, no. Mr. Lacy, no. Mr. Smith, yes. Yes. Miss Rhinard. Yes. Uh, no. Sorry. Thought I had another one. Mr. Walker. Yes. Miss Wick. No. Miss Woods. Yes. Okay. Two yeses. Six. No. Five. No. Thank you. Your first recommendation for review. My first
014recommendation for review. Contracts. Please see the contracts below. Are you going over or you're looking? I'll go over some of them. Congratulations to the Meale senior team. Uh they are cooking with hot grease. I sell them over their meeting. They already have the rental agreement for the senior dinner dance. That's significant because that's months and months and months from now. Um, City of Dayton Fire and Police, we do that every year. We're actually ahead of schedule now. Um, Dayton Performing Arts Alliance, thank you to Miss Miner and Dr. Bailey and Miss Reiner and Board Member Walker who traveled around the nation last year looking at arts schools. and then we brought that back to extend those services to um our um pre-K through sixes. Elevate K12, we like all the other districts in the nation
015struggle with science and math teachers. So, a special thanks to Miss Ke Kesha Shehy and her team team for contracting through Elevate K12 for those very difficult uh subject science and math at Belmont. It's going to be in our um 8th grade and it's all the other schools as well. This is our second year. And then MGT Solutions, uh, we they won a contracted bid. The state gave us four different companies to select from terms of school turnaround and Dumbar was one of those school turnaround schools that was listed and MGT solutions. This is their pilot program here. Uh, they're supposed to be great. U we'll find out in the near future. Uh and then further down you see uh Nord link uh EVI which is what we use for tier two and three um
016assessments as we think about MTSS and how we determine whe the kids are moving forward. And then there's Meale again scene 75 in terms of their prom and after prom. And I know the questions coming. Board member Walker, I text everyone because it was easy for me to text you that email uh all the other dates for the um for the high schools for their prom. And yes, soon to come I'll be able to tell you about their after proms and I hope they get on the Meadowdale bandwagon, get their senior dinner done early. Thank you. Any questions from the board? Mr. Walker, Mr. Smith, go ahead. Mr. Walker, go first. He didn't even say anything. I heard you, but I knew he had questions. So, if you go ahead, Mr. Smith, he's good, Mr.
017Smith. Mr. Walker starting to look like me, I guess. Uh, Dr. Lawrence, could you please give me a little more information on what are we expecting from the Dayton performing arts office? I want that calendar look like. Oh, I'm going to ask Miss Mer to come up and talk about that. She knew I was should have stay. Absolutely. That's Look, she the one went out in the country with you. Did you went on the trips, too? Well, no, I didn't. I think you went on the trips too. Well, good evening. Board members, Dr. Lawrence, thank you for the question. Board member Smith, uh, as uh, and Miss Spurlock mentioned some of it because it's has started to happen. Our goal was to provide 100% of our elementary students with experiences in the arts and Dayton
018Performing Arts Alliance is one of the first contracts we have. They are providing free services. is well we are paying for it but through the contract they'll get free performances to attend at the Schustster and the Victoria throughout the year the orchestra will be coming on site uh the brass would win the opera and ballet lessons. So all the schools it's already scheduled out and so throughout the year they'll have multiple arts experiences on this contract. Miss Miner, would you invite uh the board members to those performances? Yes. Thank you so much. Yes, I will. Thank you. Appreciate that, Mr. Walker. Yeah. Uh $500,000 for two schools, a turnaround program. Yeah. Is that a typo of a zero or that's the actual amount? No, that's the actual grant that uh it's the turnaround grant that
019was offered to schools and school improvement throughout the state of Ohio. Um and we were able to apply and receive that f those funds from the state. So, it's not our general funds. It's resources to help coach our leadership as well as provide um tutoring supports uh comprehensive tutoring to rapidly raise student achievement in those two schools. So that's not it's a full year of support. I I hear your question on another front. Uh I said to I said earlier that the state gave us four options uh to be fully transparent when you're in school turnaround. They give they vet the companies. they give you options and then when you get the grant, the money is funneled to one of those four. We vetted those four. We think MGT is the best. Um and then
020if they're successful in this space, um we can uh maybe use them further down the line. They have shown significant success in Akran. So is this similar to SIG? Um it I don't it's different than SIG. the they actually had already identified organizations that had proven uh support where with SIG back in the day the school had to do all the research. In this case, the state did the research and they only offered certain schools. So, we were certain organizations of improvement and we were able to select who we thought was best aligned with our needs. So I just I just want to make sure this was not one of those cases of SIG of those It's a good question. Yeah, SIG was loose. This is much tighter and not every school was able to
021um earn the grant. So I'm I want to see what MGT does. They're at every major conference. You you'll if you're going to council next week, you'll see them. When I'm at Chiefs for Change, you'll see him. AASA, they they dominate and serve certain sections around the country. and many of my uh superintendent colleagues in urban centers swear by them. So, I'm I'm interested to see what happens. Perfect. Thank you. And then my next question is, can I just have um and I don't know if my colleagues may want the same thing, just some data on how Elevate K12 is going um in the high school setting and I did not know that it was happening in the middle school, but if that data can be shared as well. Yeah. Um I know uh Chief
022Shei and her team, they have the data from last year. Okay. and we can share that and any preliminary data, but last year's is probably what you want to look at. Yes. And then lastly, um I'm interested in the national conference for community childhood trauma piece. Is that building focused or is that districtwide that that work is going to be done or how would that take place? Uh project initiative to address childhood trauma for the 2526 school year. Um 141,000. Oh, it says title one, so that means districtwide. Okay. All right. And that's all my questions. No problem. Thank you. I had one for you on the MG MGT. Yes. How does that work or pair with the NGL process that we're currently going through? Like will it work parallel to it? Are we now
023segmenting these two out of that one since technically it's a whole different company doing that? Just a little information on that. Yeah. So our forward next generation learning is about buildingies and opportunities at all the high schools and it's a prek to 12 initiative of the college and career readiness and opportunities. The services that MGT will provide to both Wagaman and Dunar are all around raising student achievement and helping the instructional leaders of the building maintain and sustain that. So, it's targeted just for those schools. The other is all about opportunities, bringing partners in to guarantee that 100% of our students after they graduate have a diploma plus college credits. um mil opportunities to enroll enlist successfully in the military uh graduate with credentials, certifications, scholarships and all of that. It's all about beyond high
024school. This is to raise the achievement at Dunar and Wagaman. So their work will be aligned with that. Can we get a written explanation of these two kind of where they differ where some intersections will occur and also can we get a piece of this to put on both the Waggman and Dumbar websites too for good that benefit thank you for that let's see are there any other questions yes ma'am go ahead Mr. Thank you. Um along with the request for information data on elevate K12, can I ask with that if we can kind of see on an anecdotal level what has been or has there been any changes? I know some of the students earlier in the year and I know there have been work to kind of alleviate some of that. I wanted
025to see how that went as as far as the interaction the the triangle interaction between the students person on the screen and then the proctor in the room. I know there have been um just some difficulties with students trying to adapt to how that process works and and you know having some confusion at times and I know that like I said before there have been some work going on during the year to try to help with that and work on that. But I would definitely love if we can get some information on how that's been going. We evaluate it every year. We absolutely can get that to you at the end of the first quarter. It's the time for us to take a look at that. We do know that last year um Elevate K12
026uh they outperformed the teachers who were in the classroom. So we um we certainly are tracking this and we'll get you some first quarter anecdotal feedback. Knowing you, you've probably already been in one of the classrooms. Appreciate that. Thank you, Miss Miner. Thank you too, Dr. Lawrence. One more one more question with the MGT solution. Can we also get some information regarding the company? I know Dr. Lawrence stated they did some Akran. Akran is not necessarily a credible source for me when it comes to a multitude of things. So I will I said around the country. You said Akran too. I said around the country. You specifically said Akran. That's the last thing you got us for NGL too. I mean you really like a man. We will get but yeah, just want to know
027more about this company and the actual personnel and then I'm interested if we've ever worked with any of the personnel in this company, not necessarily the name of this company in our district in the past five years. Like some of their or their consultants, have we worked with them? Yeah. Because then I'll be interested how' that go for us. Yeah. Yeah. So find out. No problem. Yep. Okay. I was partially here. I believe that they are I believe some of the individuals which is why I'm asking you guys to confirm for me or not if they are a part of a company that worked with us in the three years that I've been here when when we started we there were elements of MGT here and we eliminated their services immediately upon uh me getting
028the job and now we'll we'll see what happens. Now we're going with them again. We'll see what happens. You know, we cut them. You said you had four choices and you went with this one. That's an interesting thing. Any other questions? Yes, please. Go ahead. Rolling the dice. Roll. Um, could we please, Dr. Lawrence, um, get a with the I Video Technologies. I'm interested in seeing kind of the status of some of the programs over at um, Ponents and Maddale. So, if we can get some kind of piece around just the status of what's going on with those pathways, um really excited about seeing some of the things that we've been doing over there. But we'll definitely love to hear more and some of the things that we may not know or ways that the
029community could be made aware after one of our meetings and ways they can help out and just think it's really a good positive thing. So, appreciate seeing this on there and just want to put that on your radar. I got you this Thursday in my weekly and I'll bring it up again next week. Thank you, sir. No problem. Follow-up question for you for the what location are these instructors at the they in the past I've seen the school on there the fire program and the police program where these going to be located at can we have this reflected to state their actual location for people can they say opponents and then if I can follow up because you know talking about when you first got on the board but up here with us we did
030have the fire program at Belmont and we took it out of Belmont and we never really got that explanation on why that happened. Oh, I think I think you and I talked about that. I I'm not the only one in the district who wants to know why the program is not there anymore. So, tell us a little bit about why. Uh I sure will. Uh I was named the superintendent I think on something like July 11th. Uh, and at the next meeting, which was July 18th, the agenda breezed right through and it was taken out of um out of um Belmont. And so I I had no idea that was happening. I was the interim superintendent. Um I didn't I didn't even know I didn't know what was going on. I just I just sat
031here. So that was something placed on here previous, but it just blew right through and there we have it. Can we revisit why like why why we don't have that program? Yeah. Yeah, I would I would gladly revisit it. The opportunity to give back because I do know that that that school had a good thing going. Yeah. Can I go ahead? Are students really taking advantage of the firefighting and program or is it mainly EMT that they're taking part in? Oh, they're doing both. We going to get you over there. That veil is looking like I got you. Look at that big smile. They over there. I actually wanted to I kind of wanted to answer that only because at Ponents we have EMT and then we have um criminal justice and I feel like
032I feel like they definitely take advantage of the opportunities that were provided um especially EMT and criminal justice and sometimes different pathways do go and ask for help from um Mr. S which is Mr. shop and Miss Savage like I know myself I want to do the ride along with the police station just to see like how what do they really do and what is their job really consist of so yes we do take advantage of those opportunities so that's a ride along with the police or right along with the fire M police interesting but you can also do a ride along with the fire department too they still got fire trucks with no AC I say yeah I'm a pass ask me that when I get back from my ride along okay that's That's
033a bet. That's a bet. Yes. I would like to see us explore expanding the fire EMT program because that is something you can do immediately out of high school unlike the police force. You got to be 21 to do that one. And just knowing like every other field, the shortage for EMT and fire individuals is huge. And because you know I manage a fire department, I see it every day. So mention your fire chief. It would be I think it's a really good opportunity if we can get that program in more spaces in our district. It would not only help the city of Dayton fire because they're large that it's just a good opportunity. You said the key word expiration. Thank you. Any other questions? Not a question. More so a followup with that with
034Dr. Lawrence. At that time, a lot of what was moving or what was brought was the low number of students that we had in the program at the time. and that there was concern around um trying to figure out if as we move forward was they're going to stay at Belmont or was it going to move out of Belmont or was we was it going to stay in that space but then allow other students from around the district to somehow participate in the program. That was kind of what was swirling at the time. Then things changed and you know somehow you got here and we we here I guess. So but yes that was what was going on at the time. But I too I do think like at the where we are now um
035especially with some of the changes at Belmont and some of the flexibility we have some of the um things that we've put in as far as resources um some of the things that we've tried around getting children into other buildings or you know increase the capacity for children to take um CCP courses things like that I think we're in a different space where I think it would be worthwhile to look into possibly what that looks like. Does it look like having a Belmont program or is that like a district-wide program with some some of the pieces anchored at Belmont? Because that was kind of what was going on at the time, which it's one of those pieces where when you took look at numbers, it may not always be reflective of what the trend may
036be. It may just be what's going on at that school at that time with the class of students at that moment. So, so I definitely think when we have some of these uh opportunities to look into it, I would appreciate you you looking into all the options because Well, do I always thank you for your historical context? You remember uh yeah, the history of things and you know, I was just trying to make sure there was no graffiti on the wall as a business manager. Oh my gosh, I might get this. Any other questions? All right, seeing none, your next recommendation for review, please. I'd love for the board to take a look at the consultants. This is an extension of the work that um again you all did in traveling uh using the Dayton
037Foundation money to go to Atlanta and u I think Houston. Uh we're again continuing arts programs all day contemporary dance and music machine. Any questions? All right. Your next recommendation? My next recommendation is I'd like you to take a look at the Voya leave recommendation, the leave management services agreement. Essentially, what this means is now that we have a fully staffed HR department. We are working to bring aspects of HR that we're outsourcing back into HR so that we can manage it. So, we're going to manage our leave management services uh internally now. So, that's what you see in this agreement. All right. Any questions on the resolution? So, it's Go ahead, Mr. Walker. Do we currently pay for this from them? Yes. So, you know how much we're saving now with the coming back?
038I will get that for you, but yeah, I was Yes, we currently pay for this. And Dr. Davis and I went, we were like, we we got to some of these things we got to get out of this as well as the subservice uh ESS service. There are there are about five or six things we talked about. Actually, I'm going to put them all in in my weekly update and I'll try to uh put all the costs in there as well. Appreciate it. All right, any other questions? Does that conclude your recommendations? That concludes my recommendations, Madam President. Thank you, Madam Treasur. I believe you have a presentation for us. Yes, I have a presentation and approval of the uh financial forecast. Uh Leslie. Okay. So this time what we going to have is the
039financial forecast is changed from uh November to uh October. of this year. Next time the same way it's going to be October and February. So we going to start with this financial forecast and um we'll discuss as I continue into this presentation. Uh the purpose and the objectives of this financial forecast is to engage the board of education and the community in the long range uh planning and discussions of financial issues facing the school district to serve as a basis of determining the school district's ability to sign the four the certificate required by OC 570 5.412 certificate commonly known as 412 certificates to provide a method for the department of education and auditor of state identify to identify the districts with potential financial problems. forecast changes due to HB96, Ohio Revised Code 5705391 and Ohio
040Administrative Code 3301- 92-04 requires requirements current state budget changed to the dates of districts forecast submissions. Fiscal year 26 requires a board of education to submit a financial forecast along with assumptions to the Ohio Department of Education by October 15 and an update by the end of February of each year. For fiscal year 27, they change it again. The date moved to August 31st and an update to February 28th. required funds to be included in this forecast. General fund any special cost centers associated with general fund money emergency levy fund 06 debt service fund activity that otherwise have gone through. All uh all these are necessary but our um the Ohio Department of Education requires as to file um current last year's um actual current year budget and three years forecast. So we going to
041uh send that one. I prepared that according to the requirement and but for our district what I did is I kept the five-year forecast for planning purposes key line items for us. The financial forecast is divided into two sections revenue and expenditures. District's revenue made up of two main sources local and state funding. When we say state funding our foundation and the local is our taxes and miscellaneous. The expenditures are mainly salary and benefits, supplies and materials and purchased services. So developing the budget and the forecast what we did is we looked at the strategic plan and goals legis uh legislation as much as we could. They kept on changing. analyze all the uh trendy datas and um of our revenues and expenditures. We calculated according to what we think we should get from the
042state and we calculated according to our valuations and um meals meals for our taxes since they are the main source of our um revenues. That's how we get here. But we still have some concerns for 20 uh 2627 state budget legislation. HP 96. The current state budget provided no increase in foundation funding only small amounts outside the formula. That's what we got. More importantly, there are still proposed laws in impact local property tax and valuations that could reduce local funds for all public school in Ohio. Proposals from the work group or future legislative action seem imminent that would impact property tax which our revenue is 32% in property tax. Also, HB96 included in piggyback uh tax exemptions law that allows comm county commissioners to give a second tax credit for homestead and home owners two
043and a half% credit without reimbursement. This could cost our district 2.9 million. if approved by our commissioners. Continued on that, the House voted in July to override one of the governor's um vetos on levy types. The Senate the the Senate has not considered this veto yet or if they they will move to override other vetos. The Senate can act all the way up to December 2026. In essence, portions of HB96 may not be final until that date, which is 12 1231 2026. The taxpayers freedom triology act was introduced in August. They they are HB 420, HB421 and HB 422. These bills if passed in law would eliminate continuing levies potentially set aside inside MIA and create more than 50% approval margins for a new levy. All would be devastating to our local revenues. We count
044on to educate our children. Any changes could be significant to the state funding and property taxes because they correlate both of them. So what we I am showing you in here is the trend local revenues u versus uh state revenues three years of the actual and three three years project. As you can see from this one, the revenues are really flat and we are heavily dependent on these two sources. So for this year for fiscal year 2026 which we are already budgeted and working on we showing state funding foundation 58.5%. Other state is 2.9. Those are the homestead and rollbacks. They come through the state. A real uh real estate taxes 26.9 pop taxes 5.5 other local is 2.7. Mainly other local is our interest income from our investments. So as you can see the
045two buckets we have state funding is 61.4 and the local is 38.6. So we are very dependent on these two sources. Now we'll go to the expenditure line items. This is our expenditures for this year as budgeted. Wages we have 51.9%. Benefits 19%. Purchase 21% capital 2% other 2%. Can you Leslie? Okay. Can he change? Okay. Yeah. Estimated general fund expenditures for fiscal year um 26 by objective for the forecast period. On this one I'm showing you the way I showed you for the revenue section. We saw our revenue is flat but our expenditures are rising. So the revenue is cannot keep up to our expenditure. Right now we are deepening into our fund balances. This line graph is revenue expenditures and cash balances. As you can see, the blue line is our revenues and
046the red line our um expenditures and the green one is our fund balance. As we go, we are using our fund balance to cover our expenditures. Consequently, our fund balance is dropping. So and this one we have a policy 5% policy on reserve we can f we will fund until 20 fiscal year 20 uh 27 but after that we cannot reserve that 5% and we'll discuss with the board what to do with that reserve next Here the next slide shows ending cash balance as a true cash. In this one, what I'm trying to show is if we don't get any money from outside with what we have, how many days can we go? So in 23 we could we could go 20 uh 227 24 212 25 118 26 114 27 17 and after that
047we cannot survive with no revenue coming. So 30-day cash balance as related to expenditure. So up to 2027 we have 70 as recommended by GFOA. After that we don't have it. So, I'm still having um concerns and reassessing what we can do. HB uh 33 continued the fair uh school funding plan. We anticipated to be continued until 26 and 27 benium budget. The revenue is estimated to grow by less than a quarter 1/4% annually over the next 5 years while our expenses are estimated to grow by 1.2% a year. The really we are worried especially about the tax reform. Besides that this forecast we are forecasting positive for the next three years as required by OD. Do you have any question? Thank you. Are there any questions from the board? Go ahead Mr. Walker then
048Mr. Ly. Um can I clarity on what is the pulp tax? I think PUPP tax those are pro public uh property the utility and all that. Okay. And then lastly okay so this is general fund revenue but does federal have its own thing or is that counted into this at some point? No this is only general funds or associated any other funds associated with general fund. Okay. And then lastly for me, I believe that the Senate did confirm the House's override. Mr Rer, is that do they I thought they came back and met and had confirmed the override. Yes, they confirmed the override. They are still talking though. Okay. Not the House, but the Senate. I thought the Senate came back from from break and had confirmed the actual override. Let me look that up.
049I think they overrid some things but not but they could still override more. Yeah. Until until next year until 26 December of 20 26. Okay. Um Okay. Thank you, Madam President. Madam Treasur, Mr. Ly, and yeah, thanks for the presentation, Madam Treasurer. The um Okay, so the our current five-year forecast, it shows the final two years going into deficit. That's but that's that's based on the assumptions that we have. If if what if it if it were three years wouldn't wouldn't the state be according to the law have to act? Did that did that change or something? Yeah, they changed it. Now we have to show we are required to show three years. So for three years if you go into the so for the next three years. So 26, 27 and 28. 28 I'm
050positive. Okay. Okay. And what so if if 28 is negative, the state will come and um try to u ask us how we going to overcome. We'd have to put together a plan to overcome that. Yeah. And um and then if we continued I mean would it would uh if we continued if we continued to have in the third year for the succeeding in succeeding forecasts then then at some point they could actually just take us over could they take over our finances? Yes. If we cannot uh show them uh how we can uh come back to a positive. Yes. And then still on the other side the the the legislature doesn't want us to build up um reserve a surplus. Yes. To prevent that from happening. So we have we it's like we have
051to thread a needle. Yes. with our finances. We are lucky we were having the reserves now while other districts are laying off. We didn't lay off and we are dipping into our reserves right now. That's how we are managing not to go to a layoff or anything. Okay. Yeah. Well, thank you. Thank you, President. Thank you, Miss Ryan. Um just to confirm uh on October 2nd earlier this month the senate did o finish the process and did override um the what the house started um so the first portion the very first um override of the governor's line item veto happened. I have done a pretty extensive deep dive into the property tax reform. I'm not going to piggyback on your presentation right now because it's under new business but I'll come back to this. Um
052there's a lot that I'd like to bring to the district's attention. I did want to have a followup, too. Let me go. There you go. You already had the first bite. A couple questions for you here. Actually, it's not just for you, Madam Treasur. I'm actually tapping in superintendent and business manager because this is a group project when it comes to our finances and what's going on here. So, the forecast we show a negative cash balance by fiscal year 29, which and then 95 million by fiscal year 2030. I'm curious on what corrective actions are you guys planning now at this point and kind of what needs to start happening to make those adjustments again with the assumptions that are in this forecast right now and the other things that we are seeing that are
053happening. How are you guys protecting us as a district? not only our students but our staff who work here in those pieces because as madam treasurer stated we haven't had to do layoffs but we are dipping into the reserves we are trending down so any of you guys I think stuff go ahead yeah I think as the district uh the superintendent treasurer and business manager we have to sit and discuss what we can do uh without affecting the instructional um expenditures. So we have to see it and analyze it first and after that we can do what we can do but uh I would like to meet with both of them and uh see what we can do. Okay. But I don't want to affect any instructional at this time. So, we're going to put
054that plan together and I'm going to ask for our next retreat for you guys to bring us that type of information because this is stuff that needs to start happening now. Next question for you. Given the trajectory of what is going on here, and I know this is a conversation that hasn't happened since 2008, but what are we talking about and should we start considering a loving? And if so, when do you want these type of conversations to occur? Like, are we at that point? Again, group project here. So, yeah, three leaders feel free to hop up. Yeah, we got we need to talk about this. We haven't discussed it but um what I think is next year we have to start uh looking into discussions and what we need uh to be used those
055uh levies and we have to have a package and discussion and uh try to do a survey. other two teammates thoughts on this. [Music] I'll just kind of echo what um he would share. I think it's critical that we come together and put together a plan uh to not only look at uh positions within the district uh unfilled positions uh positions that don't necessarily impact our educational programming um but I mean it's been since 2008 since we've passed a levy. I think it's absolutely imperative uh that we sit down and put a plan together uh for that. Okay. So, we'll be ready by the next retreat. I think the plan isn't just about uh reductions in force or levies. I think those are two components. I think the other one is we've had some initial
056discussions around um how uh how we retain and increase the number of students. Uh what does that mean as it relates to middle school? We've had surveys around K8 and returning to those. And we've had a huge parent um support of returning to some K8s, meaning they would not take their students out of DPS after the sixth grade. They would stay in um stay in DPS. Those are assets or resources. In addition to students, uh we found significant success at uh River's Edge already with our pilot for this year and the parent support at Cleveland uh East Mine and Horus man has been extraordinary. So um we also have found success at charity. Um this this board was here when um actually I was out there at the time and you added seventh and then
057went to eighth and that school was up about 136 uh girls. And so we went from hey we're going to close it to now uh we continue to um increase in that in that space. So I think it's a comprehensive conversation comprehensive plan. The three leaders were part of it but we began that conversation today at cabinet uh which is usually 90 minutes. We spent the first 60 minutes which is unusual. Uh the treasurer and her team were the focus of the presentation. So every leader uh in this district that has uh in that room, every leader in that room supervises the other 2,300 uh employees. So everybody in that room, everybody in this district reports to one of us. And so we had the overarching conversation today so that we could be can begin
058to um as you asked for put together a plan. Appreciate it. I mean, those are things that like you guys are the actual workforce that leaves this district and people need to hear what's going on that they don't hear from you guys frequently. They will make up their own narratives and then chaos will happen. Those are some goals here trying to prevent that. Couple more and then I'll get back to you, Mr. Walker. Okay. So, the piggyback property tax exemption there saw that estimated to lose about three million if that's adopted. Do we have any contingencies if the county did adopt that of how we can make up that team project here? Any of you guys jump out there? I have regular conversations with county commissioners and I've not heard from them yet uh that
059they're going to move in that direction. like uh Commissioner Rice and I met uh to actually begin the discussions for the countywide project that happened earlier uh this week. Um you and I actually have sat down with Mayor Commissioner McDonald and I've sat down with her afterwards. I've got no indication that that's been the case. So we have frequent conversations with them. Uh to answer your question, have we have a plan? No. But I don't have any indication right now that they will move in that direction. Okay. the 35 38 million that we transferred to the workers comp and the capital improvement fund. So what happens to 27 when those one-time fundings like if those disappeared, what would what's our plan or is that another one of those ones? The part of this is you
060guys are starting to work on the plan is uh we have to look into our uh expenses if we can reduce our expenses and um try to look for any other grants or something. Okay. So outside of us looking at or hearing about the 5-year forecast, are there other trigger points for you all that kind of I hear today you start looking at this stuff but we're trending in that. Do you have anything else that kind of accelerates what you're looking when we need to pivot or things that need to come to fruition cuz what I don't want to do is all of a sudden we all of a sudden we had to cut all these purchase services or something like that because we no longer have the funds on it. So, I'm asking, is
061there something that is triggering when you know that we have to do something versus we're still in planning phases? Um, I'll ask Madam Treasur to follow up on what I'm going to say next. Um, this is a we we knew this day was coming today. if we didn't see any increases in funding once the banial budget was passed and we didn't see any increases that was the trigger to say that the um the number of staff we had that we were that were in ESR's funds that we were carrying that we could no longer carry that any further um and it becomes they have to come back to general funds so that was the trigger the bannual budget and so we're having the public conversation today uh but I would say that this is a
062conversation that uh the treasurer and myself in for years actually and then now the business manager I've had. So for me it's it was the banial budget and no increase and then after that you can see the attack on carryover and then as board member Lacy said like you have to there there just are a lot there's an allout offensive right now to in terms of how we deal with public school finance and so we we're in a situation now. All right my final question then back to you Mr. Walker. Just want you to be ready pass it over. So our goal is to protect classroom instruction and student facing services. So I'm a little curious too as the trigger point became that banial budget and that piece. What are the preliminary conversations about how
063we actually protect those items if we do get to a point where we have to start making reductions? So I think the conversations are are about uh are centered around how uh programming and people are tightly coupled and loosely coupled to uh the whole educational process. And that's a that's an ongoing conversation. It's a deep dive and analysis into um what matters the most and what we can do without. Uh and so when you think about it, you have classroom teachers, right? Um absolutely imperative to make sure we have teachers in the classroom. Uh that goes for subject intervention specialists. Um very tightly coupled. That coupling loosens a little bit uh when you get into um specials teachers. You know, I've been in situations where uh we've had to decrease our the number of our
064specials teachers. Um and then you just again just work your way outward. You know, transportation is absolutely critical. We have to have, you know, drivers get our students to uh school every day. Um and I and I know it's a Yeah, I won't even put that out there today, but it's a conversation. It was very complex, but it needs to to happen now. So, yes, we do need to figure or at least know what we're looking at because what I don't want us to do, we've done a good job of rebuilding from the last time that this district made a lot of cuts. We just got back to having arts daily for some schools. I think this is like the first year you can go to music gym and what's the other one? Art, music,
065gym in that piece of art. That's gym. That's gym. That's the gym is gym is a location. This is true, right? No. What is it? Gym. Gym is gym. That's what the kids call. But that piece of it, I mean, the the seriousness here is it's taken a long time to get where we are. And if we don't make the necessary moves now to protect as much as we can because I mean, funding is a real it's a tangible piece right there. So we and I'm I'm going to speak for the board and they can say something different if they want to. We as board members need the leadership team as well as the people in this district to work with the leadership team to start making these plans because otherwise we'll be back in
066the situation like this is like 5 10 years to get here. And if all of a sudden we got to do a cut off because we didn't predict or we hoped it wouldn't happen or we were naive in the sense of maybe it won't hit us. We got to protect as much as we can so that the next group of individuals in all of our seats on the board and on the staff. They aren't starting all the way over again. And it's another 10 to 20 years to get them back to the point we are because we got really good traction going right now. I agree. And I want us to keep moving as much as we can, but I also don't want us to get to the point where we can't move. So, Mr.
067Walker, thank you. Um, so I just want to be clear because we know how the media likes to spend things. This is not us saying we are looking tomorrow to look at cuts that we're going to make here at the district. No. No. No. Perfect. Appreciate that. Hopefully that gets printed that way. That is not what we are saying. Um the second part, Madam Treasur, looking at this budget, general property taxes here, we are not there's no line item basically for the like one-time payment or yearly payment from TIFF agreements or anything like that. That's countered into this, right? It is counted. Everything is counted. Everything's counted in here. Yes. Okay. Can is there a way to get like a breakdown of uh how much revenue we're missing out on with these type of agreements
068in place compared to if this was actually no agreement and those dollars were actually coming in. Um yeah, I can uh bring it. Okay. Yes. And the the second part is um I would be interested in even the ones that you know there's a state law that gives cities um the opportunity to approve up to 75% for a tiff agreement and then districts. Um those agreements that the city may have done that are in place as well that takes revenue from the district. Um I think for me I I definitely be interested to seeing what a levy looks like. I think and I just did a search of other you know the other eight districts um other seven district in this Ohio 8 what an income tax levy would look like or something like that
069as well um and just seeing if that's something for us to look at as well. So thank you madam president. Thank you Miss Ryan. Thank you madam president. So there are two things that I want to bring forward to the discussion. First is I think that the questions about um how will we go about this in the most careful cautious um way if we have to um while preserving the classroom experience and the resources in the academic aspect of what we do um is really important and I it's interesting that this comes up kind of in this context. I would like to reiterate that whoever is here in January, I highly, highly, highly urge this board to go through student outcome focused governance. Um, if we're going to be going through this process, I think
070making sure that this board is unified in vision and how we um best focus on student outcomes. Um, so um that way the public can be assured that we are doing this um with all of the knowledge and all the tools in our tool belt. Um, the second is that I think, you know, I've not ever been here. I've been here for eight years. We've not had a levy since 2008, which is um way before I came here um on the board, I believe. Board member Lacy. So, actually, show of hands of the board and of our director reports, who has been here um or supervised, overseeing been in a position of leadership um in a district where we've had a levy? I'm just curious in case I'm missing something. I was a sophomore so
071as a sorry as like district. Okay, thank you. So that's helpful. We've got um a number of people here who we can count on as a resource. I do want to put out um this is another very very good timing. Um as board members, we have to be very very careful about how we go through the levy process legally. There are things we cannot do and I do not want to put this district in any sort of precariousness. I want to make sure that everybody knows what our role is and what our role is not. Um, next month I think all of us are going to capital conference out in Columbus. They will have um, I'm sure at least one or two sessions about levy 101. Um, I would highly encourage every single board member
072who's attending the conference to go to as many levy sessions as possible and then we can discuss it afterwards. um we can come together and uh as a board talk about what we learned um show the public, you know, this is what we can do, this is what we can't do, this is what we need from the public. Um I want to make sure that we're doing this right and especially knowing like we don't have at least half of us have never done this before. Um so I'm happy to spearhead that. I'm happy to do some research and give resources to board members and let you guys know when and where the sessions are. Um, but we have some really good uh pieces of information and opportunities for us to learn and dive into our
073professional de development quite soon. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you. All right, board member W then Mr. Smith. Thank you. Thank you for this um informative report, Madame Treasure. Uh based on some of the information that board member Reinard has too under her um her public content around property taxes and proposals that are happening. I mean, this is not I mean, I I'm happy that we're on the front end of this and we see kind of some of the alarming situations that we have to respond to as leaders, but I also know that we have a city of 140,000 people that is also built for 500,000 people. So, you know, when we talk about property taxes and that being a large portion of what funds us and that we have escalating property taxes and we
074have 2,300 employees, I just invite all of our community members. I know if you're watching and you're have a student here that you probably live in the district and you're paying some sort of taxes because you live here and you go to schools here. But I invite all of our uh employees, all of our staff to look at our rich real estate that we have in our community and come back and be a part of our community. Um community is wherever you go. When you go out your front door on your front porch, you live in a neighborhood, you give back to your neighborhoods, you give wherever you are. So, um, you know, I'm a proud resident of the city of Dayton. I have been for 40 plus years and, uh, certainly am proud to
075pay my share of property taxes that go to fund this important education model. And I invite all of our staff, our employees, our teachers, our bus drivers, everybody to come back to the city and live and help make our school stronger. So, thank you, Mr. Smith. All right. First, I'll start from the beginning of I'm glad that Mr. Walker also stated what I wanted to state around fact that we're not trying to make a doom and gloom and head for the hills cutting uh motion out here right now. But I also do want us to recognize that as the president stated, we need our leadership to come together and work. I also want to add that to do so, our district needs our board to keep in mind the fiscal prudence that we need to
076hold as we move forward as well. Um, we have the ability to put things out there that then cost money as well. we have things that run us up around the district and just how do we deal with things or how do we invest in employees so we're not then looking at employee turnover like the things that we need to do on our behalf is very important to the financial future of this district. So I want us to understand the gravity of that um when we're in this space. So I appreciate the conversation that we're talking about. I also want to say thank you, Madam Treasurer, for the outstanding work as always. Um, and as we talk about one of the things that we do not see a lot around here, it's throughout the history
077of Dayton public schools through my lifetime, there's not been a lot of levies. It's not been a thing, but as someone who's actually worked on multiple levies at the city level and at the county level, it's rather clear about what we can and cannot do. So, I would like um our staff to just be aware of that and as well as what board members can and cannot do. One of the things we cannot do is put any money towards a levy. It's one of the biggest things that we cannot do is put any money towards the levy. We cannot put any monies towards campaigning, publishing, those kind of things. We cannot pay employees for any time spent on activities to influence a levy. That does not mean that employees cannot go out there and if
078there was a case or even to speak on it in a positive nature. We as a board can speak of things. We can give factual information. What we cannot do is speak for the entire board as one board member. Other things we can do we can actually openly campaign for a levy as a individual as a board member. It's just how you do it. So, um I appreciate us having that conversation because it's something that I have done multiple times um and very successfully, I may add. Um but I do want us to be mindful of that. But in reality, the real way you pass any of these things is community trust. And that is the huge part of why the biggest way to get the community behind supporting any kind of initiative, whether it
079be a levy, whether it be donations, whether it be just advocacy, is what work do we put out there? What product are we putting out there for uh the Victoria Joneses of the world, what are we putting on the game film for people to want to work with us and be partners with us and to support us? And so that's why I believe every day we should be striving to be better at what we do because that's the only way we're going to actively get people behind anything like that. So I do welcome the further conversations. Um and I think that we're going to be we're going to be all right because that's the day and way. We're going to come together and we're going to make this thing rock. Thank you, Madam President. Thank
080you, Madam Treasur. Once again, one second. Madam Treasure, can you just let us know why we need to vote on this tonight, please? Uh because of Oh, the deadline. The deadline, the deadline is um HB 96 changed the uh forecast the submission dates to uh October 15. Thank you, Mr. Walker. I tend to know most of the answers to the questions, but I just want other people to know. They better go read like we go ahead. You know, some people don't know that we have laptops here to see what we're discussing. So, um can I Hey, y'all s Um, can I ask for and this this may be a long shot. Is there a way to get a five-year forecast breakdown? What I mean by that is we have this general 5-year forecast, but I'm
081curious of what that looks like from an educational component for the district, but then an operational component as well. Like we know, hey, cyers may need a new roof in three years. where is that in that forecast or like those type of things just to see where some money is budgeted at before um like any type of reduction of force comes into conversation or anything like that but just seeing how that looks compared across district and these department levels I mean I don't I don't think the forecast goes into that kind of detail it it it there are assumptions and you can read the assumptions and a lot of a lot of the assumptions are are that we have to assume that that we're going to make so much from the state and it's and
082you can't you can't increase that. um you I don't think you can assume that that real estate um collections will increase or or anything although they have it's uh been increasing and uh the collection is nowadays uh it's coming really good like 91 to 94% which we never had before even our um um deloquencies are becoming good, but like a particular but a particular um um capital project that that that we think like like roof repair in a few years. We I'm pretty sure it does not go into that kind of detail. No, like roof and other ones. We have another fund which is 070 and 03. Those are to be used for those kind of expenditures. And this is and yeah the this is all O1 the general fund general fund. Okay. But if
083you want uh detail you can see on the assumptions it goes by detail. All right. Any other questions? Thank you, Madam Treasur. Your first recommendation for a vote. Okay. Uh I recommend the approval of the financial forecast uh the Excel portion and the um PDF portion. The Excel portion is going to be downloaded according to the requirement uh into OD. the uh financial forecast and assumption even though it is um loaded into ODA it's not required since it's not required um to be be the three-year forecast only I put it five years for our own purpose so moved is there a second second moved by Mr. Lacy second by Mr. Smith on the way down there. So, Mr. Smith, any questions on the motions? Seeing none, may we have a vote? President Goodwin, yes. Dr.
084Bailey, yes. Mr. Lacy, yes. Mr. Smith, yes. Miss Reard, yes. Mr. Walker, yes. Miss Wick, yes. Uh, Miss Woods, yes. Seven yeses. Your next recommendation for review. Uh monthly monthly financial is um a placeholder until the finance committee meets. The next one is minutes a minutes for August 12th, August 19, August 30th, September 9, and September 16. I don't think you will have questions on that. We'll go to purchase requisitions. Purchase requisitions. the we have several of them. They are from different departments. Let's look together and we will answer. Go ahead, Miss Wiz. What did I ask the first question? The best way to learn is just to ask about it. I mean, I was going to ask you. Um, it was one on here. I'm trying to find it. And my question was, why
085are we giving money to CJ and they aren't in the Dayton public district? They aren't Dayton public schools at all. I want to explain that to you. Maxville plumber. That's a good one. Poor member Walker. Uh Naa, we provide lots of services for parochial and charter schools. Um to the tune of almost $1.4 billion when you include vouchers. it gets close to two billion. We add additional services like this. So the simplest way I can put it for students is that we we work and you attend a public school district. Um in America there is an attempt to um dismantle and destroy public school systems. And part of that is by us using our funds to fund other pe other districts and organizations that are not public. I had another question. Um what cuz I
086know at Ponets we have um mannequins for our labs and I seen it said that Meadowdale was getting um educational materials. I was wondering like would they be like mannequins or uh I don't know exactly what materials are going to be but most of those uh purchase requisitions underneath the treasures recommendation or academic materials and so um I certainly can find out what they're getting. Are you going to ask me should the honest get some too? I just wanted to know like I just wanted to know how their pathway is being formed because I know our pathway our pathway has been going very well. So I wanted to see like how Meadowdale's pathway is compared to ours and Belmont's pathway compared to ours. Well, I tell you what, check this out. At the next student
087senate of which you're the president, I will have everybody report out on their pathways because you all have a big smile on your face when you talk about it. actually did on the podcast so everybody can talk about their pathways and I even invite Miss Douly to talk about them. Thank you. There any other questions? I did have one. Go ahead, Mr. Walker. So, Mr. You know what? You move it down there. Um, Mr. Graham, you can just nod to this one. So, with the title dollars that we get, you have to manage those for the charter schools as well. They can't hear you. Got it. He told you you cannot, but the people at home can't hear you. They don't need you to come up. It was just a me. It's not. You were
088a public man. You got to say, right? I tried. Take you down the wrong path. No, we just manage the funds for the private and schools cuz the charter schools get their own uh federal funds and they manage those themselves. Okay. And then I so another question I just saw on here. Is this the first year that funds have been like we've approved anything for the greater Dayton School? No, this is not the first year. Okay. Thank you, Dr. Lawrence. Before I came onto the board in this Greater Dayton school open, I thought there was an agreement with them for some services or funding coming to the district. Is that not the case or uh that was the case. those funds have come to the district. Um, but that was not a continuation agreement. Um,
089I would say that I would say that um, AJ Stitch and I have had several conversations. I just was there a few months ago and they they remain committed to two things. A cap on the number of kids from from the Dayton public schools our footprint. Um I would say actually yeah there are a lot of kids there from outside from not from DPS. Uh I think they also remain committed to the idea around sharing professional development. Uh some of the best practices that they have that uh even though they don't have collective bargaining units like we do they are doing some amazing things that I think it will be good for um our team to see. Dr. Lauren, Dr. Jones, are we providing transportation now to the Greater Dayton School? Oh, they have their
090own buses, sir. All right. Thank you. Quick question for you guys. CBTSL Telephony is this says 2425 school year. If that's correct, then that should be in now cuz we're in 2526. So, is that a typo or is that correct? I mean, y'all can figure it out. Y'all can figure it out because if it is 24 and 25, then we now have defending now P7. But if it's 25 26, we just need to correct it. Go ahead, Mr. Smith. Thank you. Uh, Mr. Walker, yesterday's agreements are not today's agreements. We see I see. Oh, Dr. Lawrence with um some of the changes um around alternative school and some of the conversations that have been had moving forward. Is there any connection or any changes with the way we have been working and our partnership and
091learning about the things that are going down with the Montgomery County Juvenile Court? Um, we are scheduled, we would be Mrs. Simmons and I are scheduled to have a court tour and to be in court um to get more information about what actually is going on over there because I read the emails. I see some of the correspondence, but I got to get over there and see that. So, that's coming. I can't It's before October is out. Okay. With that, could I ask if we could get a presentation on what's currently going on at the alternative school? Um, and kind of how you guys are seeing it, some of the needs that we may be forecasting in the future, especially in light of the conversation we've previously just had. Um, I would definitely appreciate that
092uh sooner than later. Dr. Lawrence, we'll be ready to go next Tuesday. that works for Madame President. Yes. Can I add some questions that I've not questions, some concerns that I've received from individuals out in the field regarding how we are doing assigning our that piece of the school. Yeah. Yeah. So, one of the complaints I've heard is that we have a good amount of parents that aren't agreeing to send their children to the school, which doesn't help us because our goal was twofold. one to put them in a wraparound program that helps them and two to not have the missing school when they do do disruptive behaviors or things against the code of conduct. So, I just kind of want some information on the amount of referrals that have gone over, the amount of
093parents that have not agreed to utilize that school. And if our initial our initial pathway of hoping that people voluntarily is something that we need to revisit as well of if you get suspended kind of maybe a choice needs to be made for you at that point. I don't know. I want them to be successful, but I have heard a little bit of complaints about that piece of it that parents aren't readily taking advantage of what we're trying to do. Do you have anything else on that, Mr. There you go, Mr. Smith. I won't be long. I promise. Oh, no. With that, I would want to not only kick it um to you, Dr. Lawrence, but I would ask those involved in policy as well to look at if there are some needed changes that
094we need to look at being that currently in the way things have been. If a student is not in a building because of behavior, which would be a suspension, they also have the ability to make up work for as many days as they have been out for. five days suspension, you have five days to get that work back. Being that now some students who are over at the alternative school or students that you know if we're making some changes on how we assign students technically they would be in a school but they would not be in their class. And so that may require us to do some looks at policy on how we allow students to do their work or how that what that looks like, what it looks like educationally over at the alternative
095school. Um, so I think it was going to require a deep dive now that we have things going and we're seeing some of the pros and cons or some I wouldn't even say pros and cons, just the es and flows and some of the things that we may need to tighten up on. So, I definitely encourage those involved in policy to look into that piece as well. And I promise I will not say anything else about it until we have the presentation next week. So, except the questions I'll come and ask you beforehand. I ain't going to surprise you or nothing like that. No worries. Thank you, Madam President. Always appreciate it. Thank you. In addition to that one, can I also request just a little bit of preliminary data that you guys are getting
096on the newly established Saturday school? Just a little bit about people showing up in that piece of it. Yeah, that too. That too. Yeah. and actually ask our staff how they feel about it. Maybe they'll tell you guys if not, but I just really want to know kind of is it working. I like it's an old school concept, but hey, if it's working, it's working. Can't make everybody feel we'll work through it. You all try. The attendance part is more important to our people are showing up to Saturday school. All right. Any other questions on purchase orders? Did you catch that, Mr. Simmons? All right, madam treasure, your next recommen recommendation. Uh, we have Z then and now. Let's review it and if you have any question. So, we have two then and now. Can
097you guys just tell us a little bit about why these are on then and now? Why these didn't go through the proper purchase PR process? Absolutely. Mr. Mr. Harris, would you come up and talk about the first one? It was some stairs. Yeah. Jordan was over there. Mhm. You said they were both mine. No, just one. Okay. Which one was that? Just one. Just one. Just one. And that's a that's a sweet shirt, too. That's a nice fleece. Nice. The Dayton Sport Institute. The doctor that contract. Oh, okay. the um so our medical director um we pushed it up but it wasn't in the proper process last school year so this year we had to do the then and now okay I didn't know what I was doing then I guess I mean you learning
098this year that's all right thank you that's pretty much it all right who's the second one from it's been a minute since you've been up here. She do it. That's the queen. Get out of um ours is for our exercise science pathway at Meadowdale. That prescription for curriculum was that rate was given to us for three years and we have to we didn't know we had to bill every one of those three years. So, um, we did not put in a purchase request for year two, which we are currently in. Okay. Thank you. Mhm. Does that conclude your Oh, are there any other questions on anything else? Does that conclude your recommendation? Yes. Thank you, Dr. Jones. Your recommendation for review? Yes. Thank you, Madam President. We have our uh first um contract for review
099with AT&T. It deals with um demarcation using a physical barrier between uh network lines uh at welcome stadium. Uh the second contract is a renewal with education framework and that primarily deals with student data privacy. Okay, any questions on the contracts for review? Thank you, Dr. Jones. Right. Into new business. I recommend the approval of the following board. Travel. Sorry, my is moved. Council of Great City Schools and NIAA athletic directors conference. Is there a motion? Some moved. There a second. Second. Moved by Mr. Lacy, second by Dr. Bailey. Any questions on the motion? Seeing none, may the vote. President Goodwin. Yes, Dr. Bailey. Yes, Mr. Lacy. Yes, Mr. Smith. Yes, Miss Reinard. Yes, Mr. Walker. Yes, Miss Wick. Yes, Miss Woods. Yes, seven yeses. Thank you. Resolution to adopt board policy first reading. In
100so much as the board of education is committed to the continuing updating of its policies, rules, and regulations manual, and the committee which was appointed has been working towards that goal. The following are brought at this time for first reading in compliance with board file BFC policy adoption. Now therefore it be resolved that the board of education of the date city school district mcgomery county Ohio hereby accepts and adopts the following policies that have been codified for inclusion in the handbooks of policies rules and regulations. GCI professional staff assignments and transfers. JECBB admission of interd district transfer students. Jed student absence and excuses. Jeda truency. Jedc religious expression days. These policies are being read for the first time. As such, a motion of second is not required. The policies will be available in the superintendent's
101office for review and comment prior to the second reading and adoption by the board of education. Furthermore, the policies will be reviewed by the superintendent's office, the board office, and the legal department of the Dayton public schools prior to the second reading. Any questions on the policies? I have one thing. Um, quickly, Madam President, when we have it up for first reading, we have the policies to read underneath. Um, we don't usually have that for second reading. Can I just ask that the policies be there for second reading as well, too? Miss Gar, can you guys make that possible? Absolutely. There you go. All right. Next, I recommend the approval of the following amendment to resolution 25007. So move second. Moved by Mr. Walker, second by Dr. Bailey. Any questions on the motion? Seeing none,
102may we have a vote? President Goodwin, yes. Dr. Bailey, yes. Mr. Lacy, yes. Mr. Smith, yes. Miss Reard, yes. Mr. Walker, yes. Miss Wick, yes. Miss Woods, yes. Seven yeses. Thank you. Mr. Lacy, do you have any comments? Um, yeah. I passed out um some notes um about the index the the Urban 8 um performance index scores. I passed it around the room to some people. Um, as I did that, I I set my phone somewhere and I I It's somewhere. It's in the It's in this room somewhere because I'm getting messages from it. But, uh, yeah, it's a blue case. Oh, well. Um the performance index scores uh for the urban aid it shows it pretty much shows that uh it the performance index scores uh rising since the inception in 2001 um as
103districts learn how how to teach the test. And then um somewhere around 2014 um the the legislature told uh the department of education you got to make it harder. So they did and that's what so then we have a couple of of of um years where it drops drastically. Um well in 2020 of course it dropped drastically of force roar um um because of um uh co and then we've been rising since co ever since and we rise pretty much the the the urban are pretty much in lock step. we rise according pretty much according to our median family incomes. Um this past year date public did not rise as as fast as the other urban 8 and part of that I think is due or probably most of that is due because to um
104Dayton rather than the other urban aid had a significant rise in the immigrant pe immigrant student population. the immigrant student population has a lot of barriers to to its performance. Um the main thing being uh language and we have to we have to put a lot of resources into that. Um and that and that creates a challenge for us. But we do welcome that challenge and we welcome our immigrant students and um we look forward to um to working with them. And yeah, I um I did have a chance to in the since our last the last meeting I've been to to visit the international school and that was a very great visit and um I I uh I look forward to continuing to work with our immigrant population. And that's all I have. Thank
105you, Miss Ryan. Thank you, Madam President. So, I have a number of things. Um the first is that the engagement committee met and we talked over um a lot of our title one events that are being planned by our title one coordinator. Um and as those are finalized, we will announce them. Um we talked about um the life coaches and the work that they've been doing as well as um the uh uh we have a new member on our committee who talked about um you know, we discussed some of the things that are happening in the parent cafe. Um Dr. Lawrence, I do have a request from parents that I don't know if it's possible to do a parent cafe not during the school day. Um, some parents wish to go and having it Friday
106morning doesn't work for everybody. Um, so I'm passing on that request to you. Um, I was not able to attend the Southwest Executive the Southwest region uh fall conference because I was attending my daughter's choir concert, but congratulations to all my colleagues across the Southwest region who received awards and recognitions. Um, I want to bring everybody up to date with a couple of pieces of legislation and then I'll dig into the analysis of the residential property taxes and the webinar. Um, so House Bill 129 passed the House and it affects fixed sum levies. Um, next it will be moving to the Senate. Um, House Bill 309 passed to passed the House. Um, it allows budget commissions to reduce the millage aside from a debt levy if it finds it prudent or necessary to do so.
107um and they get to define what prudent and necessary means. Um the House Education Committee um discussed a number of bills. The one I want to bring to the attention of Dayton um because I think it's fantastic is House Bill 415, which is the Crown Act. It prohibits discrimination by public school um against an individual based on their hairstyle. And then there was a in the House Public Insurance and Pension Committee, Dr. Lawrence, you will find this pertinent because it was in your weekly update. Um, they discussed House Bill 473, which prohibits public employees from paying employee contributions to the uh SRS. I'm sorry, I'm blanking. STRS and service, correct? That would greatly impact our um employees. Um, it's um a bill that I uh oppose quite vehemently. Um, we want to be able to
108serve our employees as best we can. And um this one is uh has some troubling aspects to it. Um so regarding the residential property taxes, if you go under my name, I have three documents there. Um one from OSBA, one from the Ohio Education Policy Institute, and one from um the Ohio Education Policy Institute. And it's the analysis of the residential property taxes in Ohio. Um I'm not going to read all of those. I'm going to give the executive summary of what that is. Basically, um, we're at a property tax crossroads. Um, there is a number of pieces of legislation that are being proposed that would be devastating not just to public schools, but to municipalities, to counties. Um, there are four reasons why we're here. Uh, the first of all is that home values
109are skyrocketing, which is good. We we want our homes to gain in value. Um, that's the whole point of buying a home. You hope that while you live there that it gains value and then you can live in it for a long time or you can sell it. Um but uh the home values have gone up nearly 46% since 2020. Um it's good for Ohio, but it can be frustrating when um people are on fixed incomes and their property taxes are rising. We just got noticed that our property taxes are going up pretty significantly and it's a little bit of a um it's difficult to see that. Uh I for one support property taxes. I support our local public schools. Um but I can understand why if you're on a fixed income that can be
110really frustrating. The second is that Ohio has a pretty slow wage growth. Um our per capita income is just 88% of the national average. Um state funding has shifted. Uh two decades of tax cuts um and policy changes have shifted more of the the burden onto local taxpayers um who now pay 67.5% of all school property taxes. And all this information by the way is not mine. Um this is from the Ohio Education Policy Institute. Um and then House Bill 920 levy fatigue. Um nearly 400 districts are at the 20 mill floor where reappraisals automatically raise taxes. And Ohio has more school levy campaigns than any other state. Nearly 13,000 operating levies since House Bill 920 was adopted in 1976. So um a rise in home values um a increased burden of school property taxes
111are now paid by homeowners. Um and our property tax burden um we are eighth in the nation for the burden of property taxes. Um the abated properties um the value of abated properties is up from 5.7 billion in 2004 placing more stress on homeowners. It's now at 26.6 billion. And there are 381 districts at the 20 mil floor in 2024. So this matters um because if there is a movement to abolish property taxes, it would defund schools and essential services overnight. Um so the solution that is being proposed by a lot of the professional organizations OSBA and BASA and OASBA is that we need reform but not repeal. Um the the suggestions are strengthen the homestead exemption and tie relief to income, protect seniors and veterans from unmanageable increases, cap growth in 20 mil floor
112districts while ensuring schools are reimbured and give districts flexible tools without undermining stability. Um I would encourage folks who are watching this at home and people who care deeply about their communities, about their public schools, about their municipalities, about the services to contact their legislators, let them know how they feel about this. used these uh documents that are under my name. Um they are full of information. Um some very respected names in um school funding have produced them. I'm really grateful for those resources. Um and so that's uh an extension of the conversation that we had earlier. Treasure. Um the next thing that I want to do quickly is um ask Dr. Lawrence. I had a community member ask me about a week ago why we don't pay the background checks for parents or volunteers
113who want to volunteer in our schools anymore. And so I asked Dr. Lawrence earlier, Dr. Lawrence uh informed me that when that was approved that we pay for the background checks that it was only done on a one-year basis. I think if we want to engage our parents, if we want to engage our community members, our grandparents, our um aunties and uncles, I think that we should pay for those background checks. Um and I would like to move make a motion that um DPS pay for the background checks of people who volunteer in our classrooms. Um and I would like to not put a limit on that at that point. So that motion is on the floor. Is there a second? I'll second the motion. Moved in second. Any questions on the motion? So, yes,
114I have one. I I just want to know cuz we just had a whole conversation about finances, right? And I would just ask kind of what it cost us and what would it be taken away from if we did go with this one? 47. Thank you all crowd. you know, $47 and how many? $47.25 per background. Let me let me let me clarify my question. I'm asking what did we pay in that year cuz and then what would it take away from you guys now if we did that? So, I'm not against us paying for it. I just want to know kind of what that lump sum that we would set aside for this amount is mainly because I know we're also having conversations about supplementals and extra duties and some other competing things. And
115if I have to decide between them, I have to know what I'm deciding of giving up to do this one. So, I'm not against it. I just kind of want to know the dumb person. I I may be wrong, but I I I thought that like the policy was if they were with children unsupervised and they had to get a background check or is it at total in in general they have to get a background check? How does that how does that work? I believe it was if you volunteer in our schools with our children, you go through a background check. Is Chief Wright still here? You know, but one of the lovely people out here should also know the answer to that question for you, too. And I mean, okay. And then for me,
116I just I think we get into a difficult area if we're just saying that people that volunteer in classrooms, we have people that volunteer in other capacities throughout the district. And now we're saying that those individuals only is one that we're going to. But I would be curious to see Mr. Smith. Um yes. While I definitely would want I love for all the people that come and help out with our children and I truly appreciate it. I would not feel comfortable voting on something without data around what we're looking at when we're talking about cost. Also, what are we looking at in implementation? Is it that we would pay someone's background check? At what would flag us doing because they said they would volunteer, because they would sign up? like what does this actually look
117like? Because what we could end up getting into a space if we do not do the due diligence part first, we could be in a space where someone says, "I want to volunteer. I'll take this background check for free and then how do I know if you're going to show up?" Do we have anything inside of this to say if you do not do these things then you owe us back or because of that does that look like if someone was to get a background check and then volunteer will we reimburse them which I would be much more amunable to being that they're getting the background check because they're doing something for us which is be the volunteer action. So, I think for me it is getting the data. What does that look like? How
118is it triggered? And then how are we going to handle that? Because what I wouldn't want to do is then just be the place where someone can say, I'm going to sign up for my child's school and now I'm about to get this background check and then I don't show up or I do these things and I'm not really intentional with how we do it, especially in this the wake of just having a conversation about us being mindful about finances. Appreciate that, Madam President. Thank you. Mr. Walker, you want to repeat your question since Mr. Wright is in the room. Chief, right, my question was Okay, so I just found a policy um volunteers in the district who are like supervised by direct staff. Do they still have to get background checked or the ones
119who are not supervised directly by our staff have to get the background checks? Currently, all background checks are done on volunteers. Okay. or currently all volunteers go through a background check. Got it. It's anyone who need who's around children. Correct. Say again. Anyone that's around children. Correct. Generally. Yeah. I'm going say it is a policy that says that. Mhm. Any other questions on the motion? I like to piggyback on what Will said, too. Um, I would be cool with letting them pay for a background check and then reimbursing them because a lot of people use background checks for other stuff. They can come here and get a free background check from us and then go use it for something else and then never come and do anything at our school. So, I I kind of
120agree with that. That's all I have. Anyone else? So, are we saying that a volunteer pays for a background check and if they become an approved volunteer, they get reimbursed? So, I mean that that's not what's currently on the floor. Well, I really don't know. I would probably figure that out. Yep. The floor right now is just going back period covered. So, Miss Ry, would you be open to tableing this for one week to get further information? Yes, I would. I will say the whole point of having the district pay for the background checks is because it is a burden that a lot of families don't have. Um to even $4725 isn't always feasible. We know how people live paycheck to paycheck and um that's part of understanding who our people are in this district
121and wanting to give everybody the opportunity to help in the classrooms and help their children's or grandchildren's or nieces and nephews uh educational experience as best they can. I would be open to um uh discussing next week um the possibility of um reimbursing people who've already paid for background checks um this year, this school year. But I I think an important part of it is um paying it upfront and not placing that financial burden on families. So can I ask uh while you're gathering this information, Dr. Lawrence and your team. I'm looking at our balances of principal funds. Is this something that can come out of principal funds to pay for those volunteers? Like, does that work that way as far as, hey, it's in my principal fund budget. Am I moving the chief price
122budget to then cover that background check for that volunteer or talk to the person who ask them their pay? That would be I I can tell you now they would say no. I see. Yeah, I was about to say that somebody's got some hefty principal funds. I'm just saying they would say no. I know. I mean I mean they would see that as you kind of going in their pocket and telling them how they going to spend the money. Okay. Sorry. Yeah, she right. I I would be open to like um scenarios on what that could potentially look like. Like I said, for me it's I don't I don't want us to give background checks cost. And this is BCI FBI background checks that essentially we're paying money to a third party to have this
123system here to do these background checks. So again, we just talked about how much money we need to save in our district. So then to do something like this, I'm just curious on is there a cap on, hey, uh, styers, you get five volunteers that you now can give free background checks. After that five, then they need to pay out of pocket. Like I'm just just throwing it out there. not as a this is what I want to see happen, but I think us giving money away like that type of thing is going to put us in a fast. The the only thing within safety and security is when I hear the term waved, no such thing. Got it. Cuz we're paying. Yeah. And it's 47.25 out of my budget. I say, so we say
124that it's going to be free for that volunteer is coming directly out of your budget now. Correct. Yeah. And I would I would push back on the idea that um we should cap uh volunteers. This is an investment in building the relationship between parents and teachers and students. This is all about what makes people's education experience strong is building that relationship of trust between those three. Um having a parent volunteer in your classroom. I remember when I was in I still remember when I went to kindergarten and I went to the Minnesota zoo and my mom came with me and I still remember all the times that I went through a background check and I paid for it and I went to my kids' classrooms and I volunteered in their classrooms. This is an experience
125that not everybody gets to have that is invaluable that builds lifetime memories and relationships and bonds. Um, I think that, you know, having that here in Dayton public and doing everything we can to foster that wonderful relationship is something um that uh is worth investing in. I want to echo even with the things we're asking you guys to bring back. Equity is a thing here. So, if we're talking about classroom volunteers, we have to remember our extracurricular volunteers. And it's just expansive on the different things that people volunteer to do with us. in that piece of it. So, in addition to whatever else everyone else has asked for, I'm actually asking for in the one year that we did this, how much did we spend and how much activity did we actually have from those
126individuals who who actually volunteered? Did they stay with us today? How did we track them? Were they here the entire year? Also, if you guys have proposals on what would kind of meet some of the different needs that you are hearing from the board here, I ask you to submit those. kind of give us a middle ground here that meets this piece because I do think volunteers are important. I also think fiscal responsibility is important especially after getting that five-year forecast piece of it. So I asked you guys to for me I'm asking that come back in a week with this piece of it. Let me get that to you Dr. Lawrence and then Dr. Jones since I'm asking about the athletic individuals as well as people who may volunteer for the inter murals at
127the elementary level too. So just kind of whatever data we have on it, we just like to see it. Dr. Lawrence, um, years ago, I don't know if they still do it, the ESC and the mentoring collaborative used to actually pay like do background checks and did not charge those individuals who were serving in those type of capacities. Is this something that potentially Shannon Cox could take on at the ESC of them like doing the background checks instead of it coming out of your budget? we give them $8.9 million and they end up reimbursing us what's left over. Is there a way to look at that in a sense to where again it's not coming out of our actual budget? Yeah, there is. Uh who used to work there for a long time that's something
128they still do. Appreciate it, Mr. Smith. Uh yeah, I appreciate that and I appreciate um you clarifying some things, Chief. I definitely would ask also Dr. Lawrence for your team to even look into talking to principles, talking to staff, and seeing where is the need really at cuz I get that we have a lot of people in our district that want to help in certain ways. But I think we are better served when we get the community around the issues that we face. I mean, we just had a perfect example. And now you don't have to be right unless somebody else got sign for chief. You ain't got to be right there if you don't need to be chief. But um I do like I look at what happened when people in our community saw
129that students were not able to get districts passes and you saw how immediately people raised funds. You saw immediately people come together. I think when we're in this space, when we talk about the fiscal duties of a district, the board plays a huge role in that because the board is the only space that can really sit up here and make a vote and tell us to spend money just like that. And so, if we're going to have real conversations about how do we budget because we're looking out and I'm looking out at people who many have had to suffer slashes in their budget over the past year. many are facing the same thing possibly moving forward. So, not only are we talking what I want the information on just where is the need, what does
130the need look like because a need for some when we talk about equity is not a need for all and then also how do we put safeguards in place when we do this because one thing that we weren't doing at that time is really publicly announcing that we would do these things. So, it was something where if someone came in to volunteer and they got that background check, they were told then, hey, this is what you need to do, which is much different than announcing, hey, if you say you're going to volunteer at Dayton public schools, we will give you a free BCI background check. So, I think there's a lot of work that needs to go in whenever the board decides to tell the district to spend money. And I think that is the
131fiscal duty of the board and us looking into it, which does not take away the want of us to have parents and community members in our buildings because I think we do a fantastic job of that. And I shout out all the people that help out. But I think we are better served when we actually get a handle on what the need looks like and what the handle on the what the implementation looks like and getting a handle on where we can allocate funds. like what does it truly look like? Because I think we get ourselves in trouble when we as a board make decisions on the fly and then we task our staff with handling the decisions that we make and that is more than just fiscal duty. I think that happens in other
132capacities. So, I would encourage us when we do these things to have conversations with our staff on the front end the same way we require our staff to have conversations with us on the front end when they have recommendations. Thank you, Madam President. All right. So, we still have a motion on the floor. So, I if I may, Madam President, this has been a great conversation and I really appreciate the uh ask for data and um I will withdraw my motion and we can revisit next week. I would like to say uh this was a public conversation we had a couple years ago and we voted on it publicly to um pay for background checks. So this was not done um behind closed doors. Um this is what we did a couple years ago. Um
133my next uh item of business is um we talked about and this is um my last item of business. We talked a few weeks ago at the board retreat about hiring a lobbyist for the district. um you know, the need for having somebody out in Columbus who has the relationships with our our legislators to be able to watch things. You know, I I watch a lot of uh legislation and I report to it, but it's not my full-time job. Um, we saw directly the impact of not having somebody actually advocating directly for DPS um, out in Columbus when the amendment to House Bill 96 and the banning our kids through the RTA hub happened and it only ended up influencing our district and um, all the other uh, major districts have a lobbyists that represent
134them. Um, you know, we have the Ohio 8th that does a good job in um, lobbying for the large urban districts and we have OSBA that does a really good job in lobbying for public districts all across Ohio. Um, I think it would be really really beneficial for our district to have that. Um, but what I'm not asking for tonight is to pay for district pay for a lobbyist and to hire a lobbyist. What I'm asking the board um tonight to vote for is just to do some exploring on who's interested in working with us and how much would that would cost. So, what I would like to um make a motion for tonight is just to put out an RFP um to see what interest there is and see how much it would cost
135and do a little bit more research about that. I'm not asking for any funds to be allocated. Um so, I would like to move um for uh DPS to put out an RFP to hire a lobbyist. Second moved by board member Ryder, second by Miss Wick. Any questions on the motion? So, this will essentially be a another direct report to the board type of thing, a contract for the board. Yeah. Yes. It would go directly to the board because it would be uh working with elected officials and that's how it is done in other districts. Okay. You got any other questions, Mr. W? No, you good, Mr. Mr. Smith. Okay. So, To me, even if we're not talking about putting money forward right now, we're still talking about putting people's time towards it. And that
136is also a resource. And that is a resource we do not get back either is the time. Also, it is false because it's correlation and not causation when we talk about the effects of not having a lobbyist when the bill affected Dayton because lobbying in any way wouldn't have overrode local politics. The reason other districts weren't in the final draft of this bill that went out is because nobody from those other cities was putting it forward. That is the difference. So, no amount of lobbying would have changed Dayton area politicians making a Dayton area decision and then making concessions as long as that the final result was what was wanted for at the beginning. And so, I do not feel that one, we are big enough to even warrant that. We also have other lobbying
137groups and Dr. Lawrence could speak to that that already advocate on our behalf. So in outside of that, I would not want to go out on a search to even see what was out there when the only piece that we can talk about is a piece of legislation that was drafted and created by people that wanted to do something specifically in Dayton. When someone wants to do something that much though no amount of lobbying would have done anything. So all we would have done is paid someone money to come back and say sorry but this is what they wanted. And that is why at the end of the day it took a legal action on our behalf to do something. I don't think that the political winds in the state right now lend itself to
138us going out to look for something that we know even if we found something then we would be spending money. So even though we're saying we wouldn't be spending money right now, the time used to do it is a fruitless endeavor for me in my mind because I do not see any way that any of us can say in any way anything we've seen recently from the state level or the federal level would be changed by Dayton paying a lobbyist to lobby on our behalf when we have people that have lobbyed on the urban aids behalf on urban districts across the country and we get the same thing. We come we have sat in a board meeting and talked about how there's an onslaught on urban education. There's nothing a lobbyist is going to do
139for us to change people's minds if they're already going to do that. We see that all around. We see people talking about stopping gerrymandering ain't changed. We see people talking about the funding formulas have not changed. The only times we have seen change happen at the legal level, at the political level from the state for urban districts is when urban districts banded together to go to the state house to do it. There's nothing that we've done on our own. So for us to sit here and think that any of these other cities were pulled out of this bill because of lobbying, it was also because they did not care about them being in it. And until we get to that point, we're now saying, "Okay, we're going to look and see what's out there." And
140then what if we find somebody out there? We're going to do what we just talked about, which is being fiscally improved. And so for me, I would not even want to support the looking for someone if no one here can actually tell us how that would actually have a return on investment that would fill any gap that we currently would have. Thank you, Madam President. Any other comments on the motion? All right. Seeing none, Madame Treasurer, may Miss R, you tell us what we vote on again and then we have a vote. We are voting um to put out an RFP for lobbying services. Okay. Hold on one second. Miss Whit has a question in the RFP. I mean, and I hear what you're saying, board member Smith, and thank you, board member Reinard. I
141think it's important work. I mean, I think that had perhaps we had a lobbyist that maybe we wouldn't have been put in the position of the last situation, whether or not it was local or not. Uh, is it is there something that No, I'm It is funny when our mayor and our state reps and our senators say by hell or high water, this is going to happen. I do not see how we pay somebody to tell them to change their mind if the people they work with every day already said something. It's not like we live in some huge town where we cannot go talk to the mayor and our state reps. I do not see how us paying someone that becomes a racket when we're looking to pay someone to speak on our behalf
142in a space where any of us are an hour and a half away from Columbus in a space where we are two blocks away from city hall in a space where we see I'm sorry I'm just saying she asked me a question and I was going to answer why you were laughing because it was it was amusing to I'm sorry. It was amusing. It's rude to lie to people. Uh it's rude to behave that way. So, I'll in that. Okay, that's nice. Um anyway, uh I think that perhaps had we had potentially this I'm not saying there's right or wrong here, but I'd like to see what the opportunity is that if we had a lobbyist that was fighting on behalf of the charter schools and the the unchartered area there that is protecting our
143district from having to bust charter school students that it would protect us. So, um, anyway, Josel and board member Reiner, could you please make sure in the, uh, RFP that it includes a scope of services and identifying the work and what could potentially happen? Thank you. Yes. Any other comments on the motion? Quick comment. Go ahead, Mr. I I mean I think actually based upon the testimony of the legislators at at the hearing um it it they were pretty much um they they were pretty much dead set on on the path that they were going to do really just they didn't want Dayton public school students downtown at all. they admitted um and they and they actually felt that they had um um some support from Dayton public schools in what they were doing. Pre
144the previous superintendent brings to mind and plus they uh other other people that they said were at uh that they had met with um they felt like they had their backing. So yeah, I think they they they would have gone through with it uh whether we had a lobbyist or not. Thank you, Madam President. Miss Ryder, oh, sorry. Um I think it would be better to do a request for information, which is gathering information from potential vendors instead of um a RFP, which is uh officially soliciting for a scope of work. Are you open to that, Miss Rhiner? Thank you. I am agreeable with that. Yes. All right. I'd like to make a friendly amendment to your motion. People don't know what are here. God Jesus. Davis, you could have said that like 15 minutes
145ago. Everybody in the room is looking 30. It's something we're supposed to do. All right. M. No. All right. Thank you guys all for your comments. Um, Madam Treasure, may we have a vote? Presidential. [Music] What do we We made the amendment. I made the amendment to what you exactly said and I accepted the friendly. People were laughing, but we moved on. President Woodway. Yes. Dr. Bailey. Yes. Mr. Smith. Yes. Mr. Le. Yes. Miss Reard. Yes. Mr. Walker. Yes. Miss Wick. Yes, Miss Woods. Yes. Seven answers. All right. As we finish the night, board members, cuz y'all taking a lot of time on your closing comments, I'm just going to request that the remaining individuals go shorter tonight. And then we'll give you more time next week. And the people who've gone longer tonight, if
146you can go shorter next week, just to be respectful of like we're not done, but those people out there have been here all night. And it's just a request. You don't have to honor it, but I do hope that you do honor it. Mr. Walker, I actually have no comments. Thank you. Hey, don't push it cuz you said I know longer next week. Miss Whit, thank you. Thank you, Mr. Smith. Oh, I got time to do that. No. Um, I do No, I'm sorry. I did have something. You already moved on. No, no, no. I do need to we need to do a motion to reconsider on something. Come back to We come back to you, Mr. Smith. All right. First off, um I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge the pain in
147our Dayton community right now. Um recently a 5-year-old was lost due to gun violence in this community. And it is a sombering reminder of the world our students are living in. and we really must stay mindful of the community that we are in. So when we talk about the need to be fiscally responsible, a lot of that for me also comes into the need to really hone in on why we are truly here, which is to work to better the lives of these students around here. We've lost too many people. I can't count right now how many students I have seen lost to gun violence in just my brief time here on the board. And that's just just gun violence. That's not even talking about the people who have lost parents or siblings to gun
148violence. Um the society we live in, it doesn't stop when they walk into the schools. That trauma, that instability, that exposure to violence and uncertainty outside our walls not only impact their mental health, but we have to realize it impacts the mental health of those that work with them every day. And when they're going up against that, that is why we must also do everything we can to make sure that we don't add additional stress to the people that work here every day because they often take that burden. They take that home with them. There are people on our staff that are sick and tired of being sick and tired and we must acknowledge that. Um, so I just want to lift that up. I want to lift up all the meaningful work going across
149the district that's happening every day in our classrooms and our buses down here at Lutllo in every space that we have. I want to lift up the people that really play a role in filling gaps in our community. Um I want to say that I appreciate the conversations that the board has had tonight, but I just think even though I yes I voted to have information, which is what we should do, gather information. I think the only way we truly change things in a political way in Dayton is advocating and educating our community. Our community is going to do far more than anybody we pay as far as advocating for our community because they're the ones that can get out there and go vote. So, I would like to lift that up. But lastly, on
150a good note, I want to shout out Erica P and the place to be, who's our Title One parent and family program coordinator, because this Friday at Cooji Burger, which is at 127 East Third Street, everyone who purchases a burger, Cooji Burger said for every burger purchased there, they will donate a dollar to Dayton Public Schools. And so, I just want to shout out her and the work that she's doing and making connections in our community because I think that's how we grow and that's how we let people know. So everybody out there, try to stop by, try to support. It's a it's a downtown business, so it's centrally located. Everybody here, if you want, go over there and get some lunch because they're actually working to help us and we want to show that
151we support people that are trying to support our children. So once again, that is this Friday, October 17th, at Cooji Burger. They are donating a dollar for every burger that is sold there that day. So tell your friends, stop down, do something. Um, and that's how I think we need to really start growing and moving. So, with that, thank you, Madame President. Thank you all. You all have a nice evening. Miss Woods. Hi, guys. Um, student center had a meeting today where we spoke with nutrition services and we all really got a good look on why we can and can't have certain things in our foods and certain foods at all. Um, we were also able to give our opinion on certain things that we wanted and certain things that we wanted to bring back.
152I also attended another Ford NGL meeting and it feels it honestly does feel really amazing to be the voice of other students and be able to say like hey we feel like this we feel like that and not feel neglected but to feel heard. Um I was also going to speak on legacy that was her name. Um I believe she went to Emerson. Her family did create a donation fund for her funeral. I did donate. If you guys can donate, I feel like it would be really well um really well deserved for her mom because her mom was struggling a little bit. Um I am sending my prayers out to the family. Love and prayers to the family. And then David H. Ponets, our Ally Health Pathway seniors and juniors, I believe, are going to
153clinicals next week. Wish us luck. And we take our final exam this Thursday. Oh. Uh oh. I can um share the link to her donation fund as well if you guys are open to donating. Thank you guys. Dr. Bailey. Yeah. Uh I just want to say that I've also been praying for that family. Um it was a pleasure to uh walk with the students uh the other day when they went over the 18 year olds to vote at the county. That was really great. The bands were awesome. Uh all of our bands I think showed up on that day. We even saw our international school band had their new uniforms on and everything. Uh Mr. Walker talked about that and was very pleased to see that. Uh and then my last thing is uh I
154was at a service on Sunday and um Miss Winfrey sang her face off and she just really blessed me. So Okay. Okay. Oh yeah. She was she was doing her thing. For anybody that didn't know, she sang. I didn't even know. I know she's been a part of choirs, but I didn't know that she sang sang. And uh she said she did one of them things like my mom with my mom getting ready to tear the mic up. She goes, "Well, I'm not really feeling all that great." And then she let us have it. So, uh I greatly appreciate that. Take your time. Thank you all for coming out tonight and bearing with us. Amen. Take your time. Thank you. Thank you. Miss Miner and Chief Shei, you got them van uniforms that we've been
155working on for like two years and you got us all the way to the finish line and that's amazing. Thank you, Miss Miner. Cuz if you guys come out to the spare shop, you going to see a lot of people moving. You going to see prices on clothes. It's a real story now. And I want y'all to know Nao work for us now, too. I'm excited. She has very limited hours cuz she also has another job that's really important to her scholarship and we support that 100%. Miss Happy. I am actually going to yield my time to Dr. Lawrence because I've gotten a lot of people reaching out to me about special education and what's happening at the federal level and how that impacts us. And I think you need to hear from our district
156leadership who deals with our actual department more than you do the politicians who deal with the political side of it. Go ahead, Dr. Warren. Hey, thanks. That a good one. Uh at the federal government, as you've probably seen, almost 4,000 or more employees have been furoughed. Um there's an attempt to um that's about 20% of Ohio of the of the Department of Education workforce. Uh the question is how does that um affect us? We have a district 11 plan that deals with compliance and I'm looking at Dr. Denmore and over the last two years she and her team have diligently I've watched it because I get the reports worked on um getting our compliance to a point where we're almost completely compliant. So I would say to the general public that we are way ahead
157of the game. uh we have staff in place to make sure we complete ETRs, IEPs, 504s, that we have district representatives, all special education services will continue to move forward um at this point. Um and any other disruptions that may come in the future. We are actively uh planning for um what those things may be. We just met today at 4:00 to talk about lots of things associated with that. And also at the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce, you see uh massive furls, cuts, and layoffs there. Um, I would just say that, um, nationally, I'm speaking for, uh, all of our superintendents, especially the ones in the council, uh, eventually um these types of, um, staff reductions will affect us from a reporting standpoint and compliance to begin with, and then further down the
158road, we really are clinical practitioners. Even though many of us have doctorates, PhDs, EDDDs, we don't we don't necessarily do research anymore because we deal with the clinical practice of the work every day. And so there are lots of that's lots of research that's done at the federal level and state level that helps guide our practice in empirical ways uh so that we can do the right thing based on research. um and you will see um a reduction in research u actually come to a halt and that's going to be bad for all kids but in particular our most vulnerable. So uh I would ask you we talked about legislators I would ask you to reach out to your legislators and say hey uh please continue to not continue push back uh become a resistor
159and and fund public education. And then a special thanks to Lisa G. Miner for sitting in the hot seat here uh last month. I appreciate you because it is hot up here. Um, and it's actually cold right now. Thanks. Thanks for the rest. Thank you to the rest of the team for the support while I was out. The entire team, uh, finance, um, operations, everybody. And thanks to the thank you to the board members, your text messages and flowers when I was in the hospital. They said, "You must you must be important, especially the flowers you sent out the wine. They were they were they were pretty expensive." Don't worry about that. And then uh you know I don't I see Naa's Nvea Woods name on here and Na I don't see it says student
160senate representative but aren't you the president? Yes. Yeah. So I think maybe we should make the adjustment on here since we can do that in real time. Um did you make the agenda? Uh no no I this is a this is a board agenda. Can you get that correct? This is a board agenda and so I want to right here it should say president. Um and then thank you so much Aaron to the county event last week um at the convention center. Um I think there were almost over 50 booths inside and out of different um classifications of jobs. Our kids were amazing. I think Mr. Simmons mentioned it but I wanted to double down on it. And then thank you to kids voting. We had almost 4,000 kids vote and gave grades 3 through
16112. And then last but not least, um, happy 86th birthday to my mom. Happy birthday. And with that, a beautiful surprise. Motion to adjurnn. Second. Oh, let's dip. Moved and second. Madam treasure, may we have a vote. Yes, we have an executive. President Wayne. Yes. Dr. Bailey. Dr. Bailey. You a cold. Call me your name. You are cold. Mr. Lacy. Yes. W. Mr. Smith. We miss. Yes. Everyone said yes. your turn. Yeah, I did.