001Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] I stay because someone stayed for me. Um, I've had good teachers who have poured into me during um, my toughest times at high school and even after high school. So, I stay because I want the student to be able to make a connection with me. I want to have an impact. I want to impact kids' lives and make a difference in them um, for their education, but also in everyday life, somebody to care about them. the teaching staff that was here when I was a student here. Um, they leaned into me and and you know my home situation when I was a kid and helped me um as a mentor and led me to go to college, go to the military and um I think having those good leaders
002before me has has developed me into the leader I am now. Make a difference. Make it Dayton public schools. Make a difference. Make it Dayton public schools. Make a difference. Make it Dayton public school. Make a difference. Make it Dayton public school. Make a difference. Make it Dayton public school. I'm here today. I'm here today. I'm here today. I'm here today. I'm here today. Are you? Are you? Are you? At DPS, attendance is important. That's why we're challenging all schools to increase and improve their daily attendance. So I ask again, we're here today. Are you Are you Hi, I'm Kristen and this is Jay. We are from Wave Foundation. We're housed at Newport Aquarium and we're here with our African penguin friend Randy today and we came out to the school to teach the kids
003about African penguins and different animals that are endangered and how we can take care of them. [Music] Hello, my name is Molly and this this school is called Mrs. H Monasury School and and the show that you are watching is called Ask a Kindergarten. Accent Kindergartener. [Music] Okay. So, what's your name? outside. What's your name? Miriam. What's your name? Dton. Dot. Yes. So, what's your favorite animal? Lion. What's your favorite um animal, Miam? I like elephants. What's your favorite animal? A lion. What's your What's your favorite cartoon? A shot. Cars held. Yes. All right, let's move on. What's your favorite costume? Um, Super Kitties. Hey, why Super Kitties? Super Kitties. I like that. That's rude. What's your favorite? Spiderman. Oh, wait. What's your favorite comic book, boy? What's your favorite comic book? Spiderman. What's your
004favorite comic book? Daddy show. Okay. Comic book. I got one. All right. What's your favorite comic book? I don't have one. What's your favorite comic book? I have. And that's perfectly fine. M. I have. That's perfectly fine. I have a dinosaur one. Dinosaur. I got a copy book. I don't like dinosaurs. Raise your hand. I don't have one. What's your favorite book? If you don't have a comic book, I a comic book. No, it's a book like those. Not a comic book. Book. Okay. A Spider-Man one. What's your favorite book? Are you scared? No. No. You're scared. Is that the one? That's right there. No, that's that one right there with the bunny and the bear. Oh, that's my favorite. That's my favorite. Okay, I'm going to go outside everybody. So, let's let's move on.
005What's your favorite book? Uh, dinosaurs. Why does it always have to be dinosaurs? Because I like dinosaurs. What's your favorite food? No, I'm first. No, you're not. I get the excuse too fast. I know you ain't about to talk back to me, lady. Oh, I will call you old man if you don't stop calling me old man. Did you just call me old man? [Music] So, okay. What's moving on? What's your favorite movie? Um, Spiderman. What's your favorite movie? Dinosaur. Why do I always dinosaurs movie? Why? There's nothing because dinosaurs. That's a carto. [Music] Dinosaurs is not a movie. Yes, they is. No, it isn't. Let's move. Okay, I'm going downstairs. [Music] Thanks for watching as kids. [Music] Make sure you subscribe. What time is it? Three, two, one. Yeah. So, the Liy summer camp
006program is all about STEMbased projects and different modulars. So, the kids are faced with different scientific challenges um and different topics focusing on the engineering design program and the scientific method. Three, two, one. It's not like regular school. So, that's what makes it engaging. The challenges that the kids have throughout the different modules also make it engaging as well. But it's more so I'm coming learning throughout the summer, but I'm having fun throughout the summer as well. I really like that they let you use your creativity and they kind of make you feel special. They let you kind of do your own thing. They give you instructions, but they let you mostly follow your own path. I like that they give us um challenges that I'm able to handle and I really love designing things.
007Mr. C's presentation is good like always. I saw him at the Victoria Theater and his was good too. So he's just doing the same things and I like his things. I like to see it every time they come here. It's good. [Applause] Tada. I like that it's fun. You learn a lot of stuff like science, math, reading, and like the science experiment we just did. It was really cool. Parents or others may think, oh, it's summertime, so learning stops. Learning never stops. So as they continue to come to the program, you know, it's just enriching them and and inspiring them to want to be inventors and inspiring them to continue to work with others and collab with others. So I do think that this program should continue to be going. That's why this is my
008third year coming cuz again, I'm having fun too with it. We hear you. We hear your commitment to learning and we're here to extend the challenge. That's why we're asking every student, family, and staff member to be present and be engaged. When we show up, we build a foundation here. And when we show up, we build a future. I'm here today. I'm here today. I'm here today. I'm here today. We are here today. We believe in the power of showing up. So, we're here today. Are you? Are you? [Music] side is right next to them. DB right here next to them. Hey, everybody understand that? Let's get to work. Let's get to work. Hey, hey, get a break. Hey, hard work on three. Work on three. 1 2 3 [Music] [Music] Heat. Heat. N. [Music]
009Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] All right. Hey, get out of here. Let's get out of here. Hi, I'm Katie Philpot, preschool intervention specialist at Rosa Parks Early Learning Center. My position is to educate all preschoolers who come through our doors into our classroom and service students on an IEP, individualized education plan. And it's a way that all students can access the curriculum and education. The kids are vibrant and excited every day to come to school and they're learning literally how to school and that's so important. DPS has lots of opportunities for growth. They give you ample professional development hours which you need for your degree to continue on teaching. It's a great place where you're going to meet all kinds of people. You're gonna meet every kind of student there is. And there's going
010to be challenges for sure. But when you handle those challenges and overcome them, you'll feel so proud of yourself. I enjoy the people I work with. They are some of the best human beings you will find on this planet. Um, I enjoy how there is a preschool program for families who want access to that. That's very important to the K12 curriculum. It's a great place to be. And if you look around the buildings, you will see active learning. You will see bulletin boards with the learning on it. So, you know that there are great things happening in the classrooms. Every child who enters our classroom feels that their learning is important and that they are valued and they are important. So being the one to do that is like a warm fuzzy hug. So today
011we're having an all city arts festival and we have lots of music. Today we have combined all of our schools together to make music performances all day today. We have choirs, we have bands, we have orchestras, and we're all here to celebrate music in Dayton public schools. [Music] A lot of these students uh come from schools where maybe their ensemble, their band or their choir is really really small. And so it's scary to come out and perform in front of people anyway and especially when you're used to just a little small group in your classroom. But they've been doing a great job. I think it's a great experience for them because we all know as adults that we have to go and do some things that maybe aren't in our comfort zones, but with this
012group of people, their peers, they feel a little bit safer. And hopefully after this experience, it'll kind of feed a fire and they'll want to do it more and more. [Music] Really, music can tap into that creativity that a lot of kids just naturally have, but seems to dissipate often as they get older. So, we're tapping into that creativity, giving them that self-expression. So, for a lot of our kids, this is their first opportunity to get up in front of people, especially in a venue this big, seeing that big smiles in their faces, especially at the end when they're coming off the stage, excitement, and you know, this is a good opportunity for them to perform and show off for their families, their teachers, their uh classmates, and the greater Dayton community. [Music] [Applause] I
013think Dayton Public Schools has a huge amount of talent in our district and we're happy to be here showing that off today. [Music] [Applause] My name is John Houston and I teach biology at Paul Lawrence Dunar High School with Dayton public schools. I've thought a lot about why a young teacher would want to choose to work at DPS and I think, you know, Dayton has such a rich history of successful people and a lot of creativity and there's a great spirit in the city of Dayton. What I enjoy most about my job at DPS, I I really enjoy working with the students. I like seeing how our students grow as people. What really resonates with me is every time you look across the room, you don't know who the people you see could be the
014next doctor, the next lawyer. You know, I I envision myself going to the hospital one day and having one of these people working on me or having one of these students um be be an attorney that I may have to hire at some point. You know, they're just they're they're going to be part of tomorrow. and they're really uh thriving in this high school environment that we've created where you have so many students that just seem on the edge of success. And so if you come to Dayton and you teach in Dayton, you can really you can really help someone find that dream and find that path. You have so many young people with tremendous skill and creativity that just don't know how to how to project themselves or how to to bring that forward.
015They don't know what they have. And so there's no better place to do that than right here in Dayton. Hi, my name is Doug and this is Aragon. Aragon is a red tailed hawk. You can see by his tail and the belly band on the chest. He represents our wild places at Five Rivers Metrop Parks. We have 16,500 acres of land and multiple facilities. These parks are wonderful for hiking and fishing, backpacking experiences, and just a chance to see beautiful gardens or to learn skills like gardening and boating. And they're a lot of fun. We really want parents and all of our community members to know how to access information on our park programs and special events. And if you use our web page, you can sign up for electronic newsletters that come directly to
016your inbox. We also put out parkways that comes out twice a year and that's a magazine that's mailed to every household in McGomery County. So, whatever you do that come out and see the wildlife uh and also enjoy the parks, it helps us be healthy individuals when we're outside enjoying the fresh air and using our bodies to get some good exercise. and it's part of our healthy active uh community. So come and join us and have a lot of fun. [Music] My screen broke. I got to get Oh, are you serious? Oh my gosh. I just put that throw that I didn't know that. [Music] I have to get to school. Oh, that's her first day. She's already acting anxious about it. She has anxiety. It's all spent a lot of time. Make sure mine
017is on. It's kind of like outside. I don't know. I never had to read that. Yeah, my my start. When is she finishing? Yes. Yes. That's good. I'm sorry. Yes. You guys down there ready? Thank you. I am ready. I'm not logged in yet, but a couple. I now call to order this August 12th review session. Madam Treasur, may we have a roll call? President Goodwin, here. Dr. Bailey, here. Mr. Lacy, here. Mr. Smith. Okay. Miss Rhinard present. Mr. Walker present. No one talked to Mr. Smith. Miss Wick. They may both arrive later. Okay. Five present. 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. Our mission is to inspire, educate, and empower. Our vision is to
018inspire, educate, and empower scholars for a lasting impact. and our purpose is to cultivate a supportive and engaging educational experience. Dr. Lawrence, I believe we have a couple of recognitions today. We do. Thank you, Dr. Goodwine. Turn my mic on here. There we maybe. Yes. No. Okay. There we go. There we go. So, I want to start by saying that uh oftentimes when you see awards, I'm going to say this publicly. Um, awards are awards where uh there are submissions where people write and say, "Hey, um, give this person an award and I think they're great and we give them awards." So, the lotus awards are manufacturer awards. They're participation awards. Uh, these awards I'm getting ready to talk about now. They're not participation awards. They're actually awards that are earned through hard work, dedication,
019commitment, and excellence um in the field of public information. And as you will hear when I'm reading this, uh, the competition was really, really stiff and our PIO team, uh, has come out on top. The Telly's is an international awards program that offers excellence in video. Founded in 1979 to honor local, regional, and cable television commercials with nonbro videos and television programming added soon after. The award has evolved with the rise of digital video to include branded content, documentary, social media, immersive video, and more. The Telly Awards today celebrates the best work in the video medium. With over 13,000 entries globally from six continents in all 50 states, the Telly Award winners represent work from some of the most respected advertising agencies, television stations, production companies, and other organizations from around the world. This is
020the first year DPS has entered the awards and we earned two silver and one bronze award beating out many colleges, universities and other organ organizations entered into our categories. So on behalf of the district, I'd like to congratulate Ryan P and Alexander Stewart for their excellent work and for representing the district so well in this international competition. [Applause] silver one. two brown. So, one of them is a share. Yes. And are these commercial? So we had the GPS early. two. [Applause] It's not like We can't see. Let's see. Hey, Alex. Let's see here. I mean, I'm sure they send them to us. Send them to us afterwards. I think we have something. We've got some business. Yeah, I think so, too. Can we actually have a little presentation that we're going to see just to
021show you guys kind of some of their work. In fact, yeah, we're going to they're presenting right now actually. Talk about your video. Okay. He said he's coming back. Yeah. So, let's All right. So, I'll move on to the hearing of the bargaining units. Are there any bargaining unit here to speak? Okay. Madam treasure, do we have anyone registered to speak to us tonight? No. Okay. No. No one for the public. All right. All right, Miss Hamilton, we'll go to you. We'll come back to the presentation from our PIO team. Floor is yours. Oh, I think he's ready. I don't know. He just walks really fast to the face. You just never know what he's going for. Perfect. I will continue and then you guys can tell me. We're going to pause if needed. Okay.
022Are you ready, Ryan? The video? Yes. Yes. Okay. Perfect. We'll start with them and then we'll come back. Yeah. to switch it to your uh your computer on my tablet. So Lesie, maybe I'll slip this on where you're going. In context, this is footage from our first day in Dayton public schools of the 2025 2026 school year from today. Oh, they got us footage in one day. Really? Yep. One day. Yeah. Quick with it. The type of team we got today. That's right. That's a bunch of stock kids. So, it's not the video from the award. No, no, no. They're showing their skills. It Yeah. video from from today. Oh, I wanted to see what they won for yesterday's price and today's price. Oh, keep the main thing the main thing. Yeah. I I think
023I've sent it before, but we'll send it again. I appreciate it. We can roll it upstairs. So we can play the video audio. [Music] Dr. Lawrence, while we are waiting or Dr. Jones, why don't you just give us a couple highlights from this today's first day of school? Well, uh, I showed up at transportation at 5:00 and I saw you there and I saw Dr. Jones there, too. And I saw lots of bus drivers there. We have 157 of them. And um they were there watching TV, playing cards, relaxing, and getting ready to go out to drive. And about an hour later, I heard the words that we all love to hear. Right, Dr. Jones? All routes covered. And I'll let you take it from there. Our video's on. There it is. [Music] That's the
024background noise. I know. [Music] I know her. No, don't worry about it. [Music] I love it. [Music] Oh no, bro. So, Dr. Jones, you can take it away for transportation this morning and I'll jump back in. In terms of the day, go right ahead or I can wait until the end to do shout outs. We're already here, man. Okay. Um, so we'd like to extend a sincere thank you to several teams and individuals uh for their incredible work uh in preparing for the first day of school. Uh, major thank you to the entire uh business services division. Um, our transportation team led by Craig and his uh leadership team ensured the first day uh with absolutely no uncovered routes. Uh so uh the Jackson Center was ready to receive students today uh thanks to the
025collaboration of Rick. Uh our facilities, logistics, and skilled trade staff. Uh the building looks good. It still has some work to do, but was ready to receive students. So, uh kudos to uh Rick and his team. Um, also, uh, we want to give a huge shout out to Amber and her nutrition services team, uh, providing for providing breakfast and lunch, uh, to all of our schools, uh, students at those schools. Um, also to Tiffany and her team, man, the the buildings look great. And I think you would agree the the floors look wet, shiny, spectacular. That's spectacina. Yep. And Kina and and Michael Ogle as well. Uh in terms of safety and security, want to give a huge shout out to Chief Wright and the SRO's for his team. Uh you know, just traversing uh
026the hallways, making sure that they're safe spaces uh for our students and and staff. Um we also give a huge shout out to um let's see, it so we've been talking or kicking around the idea of a onetoone program for years. uh we successfully pulled that off uh in collaboration with uh Dr. Lawrence and his academic team. So I think that deserves a an applaud. That's a huge uh we'd also like to um thank Chief Jones for her contributions to uh our students and staff here. Um there are only a few minor sports that aren't filled. Uh they're the same sports that kind of go unfilled every year, but our major sports are filled for this fall. Um she also received an award if I can just read that. Um absolutely. Okay. So uh this
027is this was for immediate uh press release. The National Interscolastic Athletic Administrators Association, NIAA, is pleased to announce that Chief Victoria Jones, Chief of Athletics for Dayton Public Schools, has been recognized by this association as a certified master athletic administrator. To earn this distinction, uh, Chief Victoria Jones has demonstrated exemplary knowledge, contributions, and ongoing professional development in the field of intercolastic athletic administration. Uh, the voluntary certification process included a thorough evaluation of the candidates's educational background, experience, NIAA leadership training courses, and professional contributions. It has culminated with a practical um practical written or oral presentation project. Uh Chief Victoria Jones is one of a very elite group of intercolastic athletic administrators nationwide to attain this level of professionalism. So congratulations [Music] take a picture because she's the only person in our district that holds that
028and I believe the second person in the district to ever have it. Correct. Really? So, there we go. Join us down. Take a picture. Are there any more pictures while we're down there? Let's get them all out the way. Miss Neil's a CAA. She's the So, you're the first ever. Yes, this is the first ever. I'm used to having the camera not being over on this side. I know. Now you can center our attention. [Laughter] [Music] Yeah. Do that one. You're good. You're good. Yeah. No, I can see the camera. Congratulations. [Applause] And then uh last we are also grateful for our community uh partners uh the Omega CDC for providing uh transportation for third good students and the seedling foundation for facilitating a carpool process for Styver High School students as well. [Applause] War
029is yours. [Applause] Well, I'll say to start I don't have any awards yet, but I'm really excited to be part of the majority here. It looks like um between the words from a couple weeks ago and today, it's it's exciting to see all the things that we're doing at the district. I have some excellent slides. They will be up moment momentarily, but I'm going to go ahead and just start talking. Um, I'm really excited to be here today just not only to highlight what the internal audit department does and and remind the community as well as staff members and the board of the importance of not only the department but then also the policy that governs the authority and the responsibilities of the department as well. So, I have a couple slides on that and
030then I'm really excited to share the fiscal year 26 proposed audit plan for the board to vote and approve on next week. So, um, a quick intro slide will eventually show that, um, I start off almost all of my meetings with a highlight of our purpose, mission, and values, um, and our vision here at Dayton Public Schools. And as a part of that, I do incorporate the five Cs. And that's because those five C's, those values that every Dayton Public School employee um, is expected to adhere to, um, they're powerful. And I think that not only does it strengthen this department and allowing us to more effectively contribute to the district way, but then also it helps all of us um create expectations where we can hopefully fulfill that and move towards that in greater
031capacity. And so those are some of the values that we not only like to adhere to as a department, but we also like to encourage in a collaborative effort through projects. Um any Okay, sounds great. Um, one of the things that I I'm going to highlight is sections of policy DIA. Um, this policy, like I said, it's our charter and it dictates what we can do, what what we shouldn't do, and what we're abiding by. Um, one of the first few things that it highlights is the mission of the department and also highlights the governance structure. I think it's really important to highlight not only to the board um and the community, but also to um do so because that's part of my standards that I'm required to adhere to is I'm supposed to do
032this in a formal capacity at least annually is to state that I do report to the board directly. Um it's really important for independence reasons, but then also to be able to add effective organizational value to other departments. Um because this role is really focused on advising. I collect information and then I advise management on equipping them to have the authority and obviously the power to do make all the decisions that they feel they need to not only for their departments but also for the district as a whole. And so what you'll also see on one of the slides that I hope you guys have in front of you is that the um we have an audit committee. That audit committee helps serve in an advisory capacity. In no way does it circumvent any authority
033um from the board. you guys are still my direct supervisors in every capacity. Um but what they do is they serve as a as a function to crit not criticize but um enhance my work. They ask a lot of questions. We meet quarterly and we they ask a lot of questions on why did you do it? How did you test this? How did you confirm this? What things did you not consider? What things did you consider? How did timing play a role into this project? Questions like that actually strengthen the department. It strengthens the reports. It strengthens what I do in my role, but then it also gives hopefully comfort to the board that I'm doing what I need to do. I'm doing what um what I need need to do to need to do
034not only to abide by the compliance and standards that I'm supposed to adhere by, but also um and Leslie, you can keep going to a couple slides down. Uh but also uh keep going. We're gonna keep There we go. uh but also it it helps to hopefully give comfort again that um that the way that I'm performing my work is also up to standards. Um so like I said I am held to standards. Institute of internal auditors uh international professional practices framework is what I adhere to. It has a lot to say about the ethics of my role about guidance on how to perform certain projects and initiatives. And um for me to be in compliance with that, that means I'm also reviewed annually and I'm reviewed externally at least every 5 years, which means
035that the auditor is being audited. Um and that's a really good thing. So we can go to the next slide. Um like I said, I am an information gatherer and then reporter. I'm an adviser to groups. So adviser to management and then bringing awareness to the board about what the management has decided to do. So, with that being said, it is really important for the authority of what I do to be able to gather information. It helps collect it helps ensure that I've collected a bigger picture of what the area or process is that is being reviewed or investigated. Um, with that being said, it I do need full, free, and unrestricted access to records, systems, documents. Um, and all of those things are extremely important to make sure again I'm getting accurate information. Um
036the responsibility the overarching responsibility that I do and have um is that I evaluate the adequacy and effectiveness of the district's governance risk management processes and internal control systems and quality of performance. Some of the tasks that I perform to complete those that overarching responsibility include assurance services. So that's an audit. Um advisory services such as a consulting engagement where I'll come in and I'll advise over a process or area. Um and then administrative tasks. Um that's more geared towards making sure that I am compliant with IIA standards such as creating and developing and reporting on the quality improvement program which I'm um needing to do. Uh and then also special investigations. This can be investigations that is brought forth by the board, by management, or things that appear concerning that I need to make
037sure that I'm doing my due diligence to ensure that management is aware of risks that are in their area that they may or may not be aware of before. Um, and that information does of course get to the board as well. Uh, I've mentioned the quality assurance and improvement program. This policy does highlight the fact again I'm reviewed annually every year and externally at least externally every five years. Um the external assessments there's a checklist and there it's very thorough goes through not only procedures but they detail review my projects. So it is by no means a small feat and it does take time but it is very important to what I do and to make sure that the board you all see the value and are seeing the most value from my work and
038the department's work as a whole. And then the last two sections that are highlighted in this policy are reporting and monitoring and evaluation. So when I perform projects, specifically audits, there's always going to be a written report. Um, and that highlights, hey, this is what management has accepted the responsibility to do. Those are the recommendations that they've decided they're going to take on. For any recommendations that they don't feel would be appropriate for that time, they write statements to say, "Hey, here's the reason why we're not going to accept that recommendation." It's really important that they have that authority, of course, as always. Um, but that I'm just communicating that to the audit committee and then to the board for your awareness. Um so that if there's anything that you all need to do as
039a board, you can also do so. Um and then I also do follow up on projects once recommendation is accepted by management. I follow up to say hey did it actually come to fruition? You know the deadline has come near. Can you show me that this is actually being done on a regular basis? Um and I'm really excited to say that a lot of things have been done and this is it's fantastic. So, and then for evaluations, the audit committee is able to advise um the board on what they how they think my performance is. Again, those are a lot of times other auditors um who know what to do and what not to do. And so, they are really excited to give their feedback. Um and then the board of course makes that final
040evaluation decision um for whatever that looks like every year. If we can skip to the next section. So all that being said is that equips me to do my role well that policy and as core of course other policies as well. So part of my role is developing an audit plan based off of risk. So what you guys have before you today and also is linked on the board docs is that I've developed a plan based off of some risk assessments that have been performed. It's really important to me that I'm gathering information to see where should the department's time be allocated. Um so some of the steps that I took to be able to develop the plan in front of you that is being proposed is that I performed initial risk meetings with primary
041department leaders that's with chiefs and executive directors that happened January through March or in February and then I did also risk assessments um which included surveys being sent out to directors levels and above and they were able to provide me information on hey these are systems that we rely really heavily on that's really important information to know or here are some policies and procedures that we abide by and we're keeping them up to date. That information is helpful for me to evaluate where there may be more or less risk in an area or at least what risks may be more prevalent. Um, and then I conducted additional risk meetings where I met one-on-one with other district leaders. So, that could be with foremen, it could be with uh department directors or other leaders in the
042district. again gathering information to make sure that I'm not uh that I'm using again the resources to most effectively and efficiently process um way. And then I also looked over buildings. I sampled a couple of buildings to make sure that we didn't have any risk that maybe um would go unnoticed. So if our buildings looked unsafe and that was something that I identified. If our buildings were safe, they were looked up to code. They had evacuation plans and procedures and all of that. Those were things that I was excited to to know and to note. um and if not then that was a risk that was identified and brought up to leadership. So all that information is incredibly important because then I draft the plan and in the drafting I'm able to evaluate those risks
043against auditability features. So just because something is a risk doesn't mean it's always easy to audit. Um a great example of that is because of what we do as a district, the integral thing of what we do which is curriculum. It's teaching kids. Well, there's a little bit it's a little bit harder to sometimes audit certain areas like that because even though it's critical to what we do and if something didn't happen well that would impact us negatively, um it is very hard to audit some of those spaces. Um so not every risk was able to be auditable in that space. Um and then I also got management's input. It's incredibly important when I go back to the five Cs that I am collaborating, I am communicating, I am making sure to have excellent and
044hopefully good customer service for our other members of leadership. I value um Huitt and Marvin and David's input in the process to be able to have projects that also align with where we are going in a strategic way. They have strategic plans for their departments and I want to make sure that the projects actually help them and equip them and the district to succeed. Um and then actually went to the audit committee for review and they've proposed it as well to you all um and recommended it. So that's how things got here. Um, and then we're going to skip forward to the next one. Uh, so the six projects that have made their way to being in front of you include the district-wide inventory audit, district credit card audit, uh, payroll audit, specifically salary employees,
045um, and the 27 pay review and process for transitions that have happened occurred recently, uh, a user access review which highlights cyber security risks. Um, transportation safety audit and then EMIS data integrity and compliance audit. So, I could go on and on, but I think that this is a good place to stop and see if there are any questions. Thank you. So, any questions? There are no questions. Okay. Well, thank you all. All right, Dr. Lawrence, your recommendation. Thank you, Dr. Goodwine. Good evening, uh, Miss Tingle. Uh, I have recommendations for a vote. Uh, B, C, D, E, and F, and G. Thank you. Is there a motion? So moved. Is there a second? Second. Moved by Mr. Lacy, second by Dr. Baby. Are there any questions on the motion? Yes. Did you say something
046from the M. Smith, I thought Walker. Well, then he pointed to you. Okay. So, go ahead, Mr. Smith. All right. Um, Dr. Lawrence, I see a number of long terms on here, but how many more do we have already in the pipeline that need to be uh right now u as I look at the email going back and forth about 10 to 15 more. Okay. And those will be ready for next season. Yes. have uh but you as a board you said we we could get if they passed HR muster meaning they went through and got their background check had their lensure and certification and we had an opening that we could have them start so we're working on that process right now so the ones that have not been boarded you're saying you're working
047on making sure they can start before next Tuesday correct yep absolutely miss and Mr. Smith I appreciate it Mr. Walker uh so Dr. learn. You said that there's at least 15 more, but on the budget item, there's 515 that is filled, 631 that is budgeted, and 15 more. So, that still leaves us with 111 that we still have to fill. Uh I don't we do not have 111 positions as I look at the um the openings when I count the long-term subs as as sitting in seats. So, adults in front of seats who we know have certificates. Um we have a few buildings where there are two or three openings but most of the elementary buildings of the 17 um they're staffed of the high schools Ponets is staffed. I think Styver is staffed. Dumbar
048is really close. We just have a a few openings. So I'll have to double check that and get that back for you to you as a as what the difference is. But I don't I don't see that when I look at the spreadsheets, nor did I see it today when I was in buildings. Okay. Okay. Uh and then to clarify something, the resolution for teachers starting early that includes paras teachers, custodians, I mean, excuse me, teachers, transportation, and I don't remember if it was Paris, but if if it if it does not, it should um because they're integral to what we're doing in OEC. We can't run some of these classrooms without Paris. Okay. And then does that is adjuncts being looped in with the teachers in Paris? No adjuncts. No, we have to get
049them. We've been through an extensive process. Miss Miner, Dr. Davis, even Dr. Goodwin has been involved. We have a number of meetings around adjuncts and the first of all the difference between adjuncts um and um supplementals and extra duty. So defining that and then as it relates specifically to the adjuncts, making sure that they are boarded and they've gone through all the um procedures that that they're supposed to go through in HR to be official uh in the organization. They're not on that um resolution. Okay. The because looking at this, there's an adjunct with the hire date of August 6 and then there is an assistant principal with a higher date of August 8th. So, I'm just trying to figure out how these two started early before board action. So, I I can speak to
050the principal and then can you speak to the adjunct? I I'll speak to the principal first. So, uh the principal um we lo we didn't have an we had an opening of Styers uh and so I wanted Styers to have a full team. So, we had the retreat. I would have put this on for the retreat in Cincinnati, but um we hadn't posted that yet. So, we posted it, interviewed on Monday and Tuesday. And then I wanted that principal to be able to participate in helping styers get open. It's our um one of our largest buildings. Uh has the most complex and comprehensive schedule. It's busy over there. And I just I didn't want my new principal, Dr. Paul Waller, uh to be down a person. And so she was a um a riff a
051reduction in force from West Carolton. They reduced their number of administrators this year and we were glad to get her. We didn't know she was going to be in the pool. It was a pool of only two and so I wanted to get her on board and and rolling. Okay. So can I ask if um cuz I believe Chief Davis myself was not here when that first resolution was passed. If you all can look at that and see if it needs to be adjusted to include some of these other positions. Oh, I think it definitely because this continues to happen. I just want it to go away. Okay. Um that would be my first thing. And then as I look at this assistant principal, um I want to um at least have a discussion or
052background regarding Jackson Center because currently there is only one administrator there and I believe the conversation that we've had regarding administrators when it comes to evaluations, how much of a case load they have to evaluate staff. So looking at a building where there's students that we're placing there, one person, that's a lot of work for one person. as well as running that whole building. So, if we can look at another AP or a dean of students or something like that for that building, I would like to see that happen. Just my two cents. I appreciate it. Uh we can I'm looking at Dr. Davis. We can definitely look into that for sure and get back with you. Thank you. Okay. Any other questions, Mr. Smith? Um on that at Jackson Center currently, where do we
053look what do we look like at staffing over there right now? Uh the last email I saw esro is there custodian is there. We needed to be a uh I talked to Dr. Jones about that about about it being a head custodian um versus day custodian. Uh BCBAS are are there um counselors there nurses there and principal I'm going through the paces right now. Teachers number of teachers I have to ask Dr. Davis about that and the number of students right now I think is let me look at Miss Douly 56 right six right now but but we're going to be building Hi we received um several recommendations and so we're working through the process we have an English teacher social studies two long-term subs and I believe there's an intervention specialist that we're working
054through the paperwork to get them hired to start okay appreciate you ma'am thank you welcome um I do want to echo uh from board member Walker to you, Dr. Lawrence about trying to get some help on the administrative side. Um said if it's if it looks like I know we had that conversation at retreat that it may not look like the same structure as other buildings with the administrators. Um but if there is a way to get a dean assistant somewhere so we can get that help over there as we grow and grow up in scope, I appreciate that. Do appreciate board member Walker for lifting that up. And that's all I have right now. Thanks. Got you. No problem, Madam President. Um, Dr. Jones, just to throw this out there, I had took a
055meeting in the custodian's room over there and I got locked in from the inside. So, if somebody could like look at that just in case because I was locked in there for a good five minutes. How did you get out? I banged on the door and I waited on the custodian that was in there working to come around and let me out. They promised you should be in their space. Listen, I was trying to got locked all in the room. You going to learn something? Yes, Jack's in the custodian office room. Yes, I was locked in the inside. Um, but no, I appreciate it. Any other questions? Seeing none, may we have a vote? President, yes. Dr. Bailey, yes. Mr. Mr. Lacy. Yes. Mr. Smith. Yes. Miss Rhinard. Yes. Mr. Walker. Yes. Six. Yes. You
056got Dr. Goodwin. My next my final recommendation uh to approve the following after July 10th resignations. There a motion. So move personnel. Second. Moved by Mr. Lacy. Second by Dr. Bailey. Any questions on the motion? Seeing none, may we have a vote? Dr. Goodwine, no. Dr. Bailey, no. Mr. Lacy, no. Mr. Smith, yes. Miss Reinard, no. Mr. Walker, yes. Two yeses and four nos. Your first recommendation for review contracts, please. is I would ask board members to you want to do budget information or skip it? We can look at it. Yep. You take a look at it. If you have any questions, let us know. Um I'd like to ask the board to look at contracts for review and two memorandums for review. Dr. LS, can I on the budget information um and this may
057be treasure, can I just get a um update on um looking at the actual positions and then the budget positions. what we're still paying ESS like what that contract is and things like that. Uh abs we can work with Treasury because we have some questions about that as well and we we've also um yeah we should talk about that in finance too. we made some changes in the services that we have with the ESS in terms of reducing some of those and and I think even looking at it in the sense of um I would be more curious on um in which areas with ESS are we overutilizing and things like that. Is it custodial? Is it teachers? Is it paras? Is it attendance clerks? Things like that just to see where that lands. Um,
058thank you for that qu Thank you for that because we are looking at attendance as an issue for districtwide, not just students. We talk about it a lot with students, but last year according to ESS uh in this district, we had almost 30,000 absences. Uh, that counts everybody except administrators. So, it could be more. So, that's that's a that's a big deal. So, thank you for asking that question. Gave me an opportunity to talk about our one of our focuses this year in terms of adult attendance. appreciate our contract center review. Uh I will speak to a few of them and then I'd like you can ask questions for sure. Uh HC AI uh this is a contract that it puts us in a league that's um let's just say this there only 10 districts
059I believe in the country uh that are piloting this HC and what it is is and and they came to present to cabinet which is all of cabinet which is operations too. So, what we're moving to is having each individual employee have their own AI bot that can give them feedback and information about policy around uh their job parameters around how to do their job better. So, we're starting off piloting with teachers. So, teachers will be able to use it to address instructional capacity. They'll be able to ask the HC bot about um their daily social emotional health, about how to deal with difficult parents, uh how to have deal with um calling home for call home scripts, uh what policies are in place for field trips there. Each individual teacher will have their own
060AI bot and we're one of 10 districts in the nation to pilot that. And again, it's just additional support for our teaching staff with finding them in spaces where they can u may not know information and not know how to go get it. And so this is uh for us we're really really really excited about this. Um we also have uh our premier partners here uh community health with Shaman Julianne although it's up to 80 81,000 there's there's no cost and premier was at not only convocation but they work with us closely with athletics and they're also working with us with some strategic planning with the academic team which Lisa Miner leads and they're also part of our um our superintendent student senate. They provide all of the experiences. So for the last two years,
061Premier has been providing experiences in helicopters, uh with thoracic surgeons, with um sports medicine, uh attorneys and lawyers. Premier has 13,000 um employees. They're the largest employer in this region. And I just want to take this time to really thank them for their partnership. And then the twous they are um for partnerships in terms of having young people work in our district so that we can train them but also so that we can have them as future employers. And um I think I'll let Lisa Miner speak to the Dayton Performing Arts Alliance and that contract there. Good afternoon. uh board, Dr. Lawrence, uh Dr. Goodwine, and board members, thank you for the opportunity to speak about our performing arts alliance partnership. As you know, for the last year, we have a arts team that's been
062working with community members throughout the region to provide um arts experiences, additional arts enrichment experiences to all 17 of our elementary schools. And this is one of the first contracts we'll be bringing to the district so we can stay aligned. There'll be others from other organizations coming, but this is where they will provide uh ballet, instrumental, the voice experiences at the Schustster, a variety at all 17. That's the biggest. We had to split it in half due to funding challenges. So, we're still working through that. Uh but this is the first of a few that we'll be bringing to the board. Thank you, Miss Miner. Thank you. Are any questions from the board? Yeah. I'd like to know what is a a progress advisor? What is that? How does that work? Yeah. Uh progress advisor
063is a feedback tool for our teachers and principles. It's an online um tool that we use that is directly aligned to our curriculum. It's specifically designed for Dayton public schools. So, as you walk into uh do instructional rounds to teachers, go in the classroom, we can give them instant feedback on what they're doing well and things they may want to change in order to reach the the learners more effectively. Um, our principal supervisors can do the same thing for principles as they go to staff meetings to uh today uh giving feedback on arrival, dismissal, lunch, anything throughout the building that's aligned to the standards. So, it's an online tool and then we could keep track. We have reports and everything to see what we're doing well and where areas we need to improve. Is it
064working well? Yes. Yes. We're we're grateful to have it. So, thank you. Thank you. Uh, Miss Shehi, would you come up and speak a little bit about school links or Miss Douly? Which one you you pick? Miss Dulie, I tried. I tried. She can do it. Good evening everyone. Um, school links is a a platform that is accessible to all students in grades 7 through 12. Um, the kids can access modules on our assigned modules about careers, college searches, um, employability skills, international job market, national job market. Um, they are assigned uh, lessons to do throughout the year. Um, the kids love it. It We've had We currently have 5,299 students who have logged in and have utilized the platform 63,000 times, which is well above and beyond what they're assigned to do. So, they're
065finding that tells me that they're finding the information to be useful and enjoyable. It's really good stuff and we're going to be incorporating it into our middle school career tech classes this year as um some supplements to the curriculum. Thank you, Mr. D. All right. Any other questions from the board? All right. Your next recommendation? I'd like for the board to take a look at consultant services for review. All right. Any questions on the consultant? Dr. Lawrence was going to give a Yeah, I would talk about that. What are you going to talk about? Uh, our consultant contract is for Thank you. Thank you, board member Walker. And that's not true, Board Member Smith. Consulting services for braiding class. Miss Douly just left the podium. So, I'm just going to take it from here and
066say that this continues the ex the massive and explosive expansion of uh career tech pathways andor workforce pathways at each one of the schools that's aligned to the students needs. So, we didn't just say, "Hey, this is what we think you want to do." We went out uh surveyed students formally and informally and got information back from teachers and administrators and we want to build classes in schools in regions of the city uh based on um what students think and what they want to do. So I'm uh again really excited about this uh this braiding entrepreneur class that's there and Mr. Smith if you like you can be one of our first first uh first candidates to get their hair braided. The show won't be you. Uh, I have a wig if you didn't know
067that. And it's it's got an afro. It could be braided. About to say something. We gonna get in trouble. I do have a question. If there's someone out there watching and they're, you know, intrigued by that and have ideas, you know, if we have parents at home, guardians that are are talking to their students and having conversations about some of the things that they want to see of their group, what would be the process? Who should they talk to if there's a group of students saying, "Hey, you know what? I'd love to see this at my school. Who would be that person that they should reach out to?" Mr. Smith, thank you for your thoughtful question. There's three levels. The first is to start with the principal. Um, you can go there and say, "Hey,
068these are some things we're thinking about. Principals have their own student focus groups. I have my own in buildings." So, they should start with the principal and they'll get that information to Miss Douly. Or they can go to the website and email Miss Douly directly. Um I what I think I hear and I love about your question is that we're changing we're transforming the nature of school uh through our Ford NGL Innovative Academyy's um initiative. And what that means is what school was when you were in school may be different now in terms of what kids are interested in such as braiding now. So they can the principal Miss Duly directly or um stop me in buildings and say something or email me um and we'll we'll make sure we investigate it. And also, I'm
069glad you asked that because it brings it to this notion around teaching being different now. Like we have braiding and braiding adjunct instructor. So, we don't need a full-time teacher who's went to gone to a university and graduated. We need somebody who's an expert at braiding. So, it changes the nature of our teaching workforce as well. Appreciate that. Thank you. So with that with the braiding class, what kind of certificate do they get or what can they do after they've taken this class? Well, um I don't know that I have to ask this stupidly. You thinking about it? No. Um the in the class um in the career tech pathway at Dumbar, they will have access to a number of credentials. Um a braiding credential is called a three-point credential. Shampooing is a three-point credential.
070Manicurist is a 12-point credential. Um aesthetician, I believe, is a 12-point credential. So, as we build the program and kind of work with the strengths of the instructor, we'll nail down which of those will be available to the kids. Thank you. You're welcome. Okay, I have a couple questions for you. So, so if I take this braiding class, like what is my trajectory here? What are what am I am I going into entrepreneurship? Am I going to be able to work with the cosmetolog like what what am I going to be able to do other than enhance my skills of doing braiding of hair? Um well I I would have to defer to the actual instructors themselves as we begin to learn about all of the opportunities but the whole idea of entrepreneurship is to
071give them a class in marketing principles give them a class in salon management. So that kind of opens some doors whether you want to be the actual person providing the service or the person who owns the business who provides the service. All of those will be explored. And do we have those classes also at Dumbar? Is that this is where this is or is this at another Dunar? Okay. Do we have those classes at Dunar as well? Yes. Okay. Yes. All right. Go ahead, Mr. Walker. So So how many classes this person doing for $15,000? that particular instructor is going to be there for two periods a day um every day for the entire year. We have an additional person uh Miss Hurt Wanita Hurt who will be there for four periods a day. I
072believe it's four periods a day. Um who will actually begin the formal career tech program. Our long-term plan is to take Miss Rucker Turner and help have her help us build a program at Belmont. What that will look like, we'll certainly seek some input from the Belmont community, the kids, the parents. Um, but both candidates were so excellent. Um, we wanted to to capitalize on their their knowledge and their enthusiasm to help us build this as we go forward. So, one person is four days And that's the person that we boarded as a long-term subs for 50 something thousand. One person is No, that was that has since been corrected because that's a 0.5 position. Okay. She's there five days a week for almost half a day. Okay. This person is here for two periods
073a day for the entire year. Okay. So then my next question that I continue to ask about um the barber class or the barber entrepreneurship class uh because students continue to ask about that. And as a followup, a new one that I just heard is um a DJing class. Okay. Just throwing it out there. Just throwing it out there. Um we have an adjunct up here. Barbering we know is a a very high interest area for our kids. the laws have changed and will allow us to offer programming to kids at a younger age. So, we we know that's definitely on the table. Okay. DJing, that's a new one for me. I mean, I think we have a few principles, SRO's, board members, board member, not sers, who are DJs who, you know, they may
074be able to help out and get that going. And I'm encourage those kids to take the entrepreneurship class cuz you need no credential. You need some cash. You need to be able to buy some software. You just need to keep practicing. And listen, I already got something to be a DJ. I've already heard the rumor about a sports officiating class and don't know who put my name in it, but you can take it out of the hat. Tell you that now. Just want to let that appreciate it. All right. Thank you. Thanks for a couple more questions for you, Miss Newman. One more. So with this class here, do you get the credentials before you graduate from high school? Okay. And then what keeps our kids coming back to school if now they have the
075opportunity to go do the the trade full-time? So have we start thinking about how to keep them in school versus the opportunity to make capital during the school day? Well, the credential doesn't necessarily equate to a high school diploma. So, like when our kids are in their STNAS, let's say opponents, they still have to graduate from high school. They still have to meet all of those requirements. Their STNA just gives them access to some entry-level jobs. So, that doesn't necessarily pull them away from ponets before they're graduates. So, I would ask you guys to explore it because some of like the braiding shops that I just see in town on there, I'm not I'm not sure what credentials a person needs to do to come into that workspace. But I do see that if you
076have the skill set that it would become we would now start competing for our kids to stay at school when we've enhanced the skill set for them that is far more lucrative at a teenage age during the school day. So, I'm not sure what the credentials are to braid in the shop that I see. I mean, I don't think it's I don't know if it's as high as to go into a beauty salon or not. I I don't know. But I do want you guys to really keep that in your mind and that piece of it because as we have seen too that at the state level, there is a push for kids to get into the workforce significantly more today than the school part of it. Just keep that at the forefront of thinking
077like how do we keep them once we've enhanced this skill set to stay with us to finish completely. I can Dr. Good. That's a good question and I can see students who are braiding you. I can see Lisa shake her head. That would be their workforce learn workforce learning hours and so they would still be on their way to graduation if they're still working. We can use those hours. You're thinking about a above board thing. I'm thinking about the people who we would go pay you to the shop ra. I got you. I need you to put get this, you know, all this. I mean it is it is lucrative uh skill at this point. Okay. Yes. How do I go Dr. B? Yeah. Um on this kind of on that same subject so like
078when I went to career academy and I was in law enforcement um we had to complete the whole two years before we got certified. So what age or what grade can you go into the braiding class? um their program I have so many going on. Their program I believe is a grade 10, 11, 12 program. Um the career tech pathway will be two classes per year every year starting at grade 10. What Miss Rucker Turner is doing is called an industry credential only program which is shorter, faster, doesn't have all of the extra coursework that kids really do need. Um, so I kind of forgot what your question was, sir. So basically you can you can go in 10th grade and get a certificate in 10th or do you have to go through the whole
079program to get the certificate? Um, kids can earn credentials along the way within any given career tech pathway. So some of our kids in the 10th grade might get their onepoint OSHA credential or their CPR credential. Um the idea is to bank those credentials to get a total of 12 points which then can also help them with graduation. But those kids that are wanting access to a specific career field, they need to get specific credentials and some of them are challenging. STNA is something to celebrate even though that's entry level work. Um it's access. It's a foot in the door. So, um, so they don't get their certificates before they graduate. It's their senior year. Once they've completed the whole course, that's when they're they'll get their certificates as they earn them, 10 through 12.
080Okay. Yes. Yeah. I think I think my thing is thought looking at that concern to me is no different than a kid at opponents in cosmetology. So I don't I'm not as concerned on that end because if a kid wants to leave they're going to leave. I think for us it's not about how do we stop them from having that because to be even to be a braider it's two ways if we're looking at this is the same way as to be a barber you just need clippers. to be a licensed barber, you need something different. Any kid can just go pick up and start braiding hair at the house. That's not my concern of where we're That to me is just how do we wrap our arms around children and make them realize why
081they're here in school, period. Right. Which is the same as any other building if we're looking at it. And that other piece, I think it's talking to people. The kid that age, if they're doing braiding hair, half their clientele is going to be at school with them when they're there anyway. So, I think when we were looking at it, I think looking and showing them the pathways of what it looks like, like it's a deep field when you're talking about getting your natural hair license, when you're getting your boutique services registration, like these are big things that you're not going to pick up in this class and you're not going to get it and then deuces, I'm out. Because it's if that if that's the case, you're already a kid who's doing what we see
082a lot of kids doing now who they're getting out of school and they're braiding hair. They're doing everybody's hair for homecoming. they're doing everybody's hair prom. So I think my thought is really how do we take that piece of what they like to do and I see no difference in someone at Ponents liking automotive, someone at Styver liking to play the obo. I think that is that piece when we're looking at this how just finding all these ways to grab children and then allowing that time that we have them fully aware and fully into what they're doing to pour these other pieces of you know this is why math is important this is why English is important this is how we grow so I would also encourage like finding people who are doing it at
083a legal level to show these children what it looks like because that is what we also have in our community you have people that are cutting hair in the basement. It's not they're not going to be able to do the same as going up and opening a shop or having someone who used to cut hair and now they run a shop and they employ eight barbers or they have these thing like so I think that is my biggest concern is looking at how do we grab them and I appreciate this piece because it's just another way to grab kids and so I think that would be good is just showing people because I think that is a misnomer in our community of the ease that it is to do things and the difference between a
084being able to do it but being able to do it right, being able to make a lifestyle of it, being able to be above board and moving forward into that real entrepreneur space and not being somebody that being honest you see it. I see it in the barber world. People get on there and they get talking about them people and they try to port them people to the state. They ain't going to play. I appreciate you though. I definitely want to see more of these kind of things happen cuz the more we can tap into just what they like to do that's just up for any of our staff and our teachers in the other spaces in the building. So I appreciate that Miss Doulie. Thank you. So I do have let the record reflect
085at 5:30 Miss Wick joined the meeting. All right. Thank you. Go ahead Mr. Walker. So this program at Dumbar and the students at Ponent who apply for like this their program and things like that. How how is this different amongst the two? Um the Ponent's program the kids are getting in their cosmetology credential but we have 300 kids who apply for those seats every year. Mhm. So, we're hoping that even if Dumbar's program evolves into something similar, not similar, that we know that that that is such a high interest area that we can certainly, you know, service more kids. So, I know there's been some conversation about like, is it the same? Is it different? Is it kind of different? You know, quite honestly, we're we're just building it right now. We just have our
086new people on staff, which we're thrilled about. and we're going to listen to their expertise and it'll it'll carve its own path. So, um, as a bald man, I'm just trying to understand this. So, there's different like certificates for each style in hair for instance. So if like students going through the braiding program, this certificate basically says if you get your cosmetology stuff, braiding is your specialty that now becomes your license or how does that actually work? I am not an expert. I can't speak to that, but I can certainly get those answers for you. I appreciate it. There is a whole slew of credentials and certificates and license rules. Okay. That vary from barber to cosmetology to ownership of a salon. So, I don't pre pretend to be an expert on that at all.
087Yeah. Um I totally get it. Um so, and then lastly, to to jump to a different um pathway, um is there any consideration on like a coffee shop, things like that on um students who may have interest with that or operating their own in a building or space-wise like things like that. I know like Project Lyft does something, but I'm thinking more of students who may want to know how to I don't know if you consider it growing your own coffee beans and things like that, but that type of program. I mean, we currently have some of our special education students who do some hospitality types of classes. I know there's a a class at Thood Marshall. They have a little group called Brood Awakenings. But there is a hospitality and tourism career tech pathway
088that I know board member Wick has expressed some interest in having us look at that a little more. So, hey, we're still trying to add programming to all of our buildings. So, that's certainly something we can talk about. I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Are there any other questions? All right, Dr. A good one. I'd ask the board to bring their attention to agreements DPS and YSU. This is a boilerplate agreement essentially like how we have student teachers. This is like student nurses to come and participate um under the guidance of our DPS nurses. And a shout out to Jordan Harris who's doing a phenomenal job leading that group. And so that's what C is. And then D, I'll let you take a look at that. That is signage that is going to be
089and two and that's it's ringing in my head now. Dr. Goodwin, yes, these have both been to siege uh frost brown tide uh Lincoln Heights and having some signage on Cleveland's property that designates Lincoln Heights neighborhood and there are there are the details of it below. Lynon Heights, excuse me, Lynon, you know, Lincoln, I was in Cincinnati this weekend, so that's where that came from. Hey, thank you so much. Board member Ryder Lynon Heights. Well, Lincoln Middle School, too. Oh, there it is. Joe, clean it up for me. Don't give me no excuses. That's it. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Lacy. Are there any questions on the twous? All right. Does that conclude your recommendations? Dr. Goodwin, that concludes my recommendations. Pam reviews. You have any comments you'd like to make? Uh, sure. Uh, yeah.
090This is my moment. I want to start off with I love seeing all the staff out today with their Mission Possible shirts, especially like I said the transportation, they all had them on. Uh I a special shout out to the K9 back to school configuration for today, meaning having kindergarten through 8th grade there. And then uh the ninth graders in the buildings by themselves. Kudos to the college and career readiness team led by Miss Douly. It was phenomenal to see them in ninth graders in the building today uh transitioning without the 10th and 11th and 12th graders. And I saw lots of counselors uh doing one-on-one. I saw teachers uh walking kids through the building with their schedules. I saw related services in buildings pulling kids out and working with them. It just was uh
091the freshmen are our focus. We can't fix our graduation rate unless we fix freshman retention. And it was just amazing to see us as a district focus on that grade today. Uh so hey, so shout out to your team, Miss Douly, and all the uh principles who were supporting that work. And then finally, um oh, Fairview, thank you for the cucumbers. And um awesome, awesome job over there. And then finally, Louise Troy, uh you will get this via text parents if you haven't already. Luis Troy will be closed again tomorrow, but we look forward to be opening on Thursday and Friday. Uh because again air conditioning we had to close today and we'll be closed tomorrow. All right. Thank you. Thank you madam treasure. Your first recommendation for review. Yes. Uh monthly financial is a
092spaceholder until Thursday. Uh I have a donations. Uh it is one donation from Laurel and Matthew Car for making $50. Thank you donors. I have minutes for July, July 8th, July 12th, July 15, and July 30th. I don't think you have a you have a question on that. We'll go to purchase requisitions. They are several requisitions uh from different departments. Let's look at them. If you have a question, we will answer. Are there any questions on the purchase rights? Um yes, Mr. Smith. This is for let me see if she chief Jones is here or if not um Dr. Jones, with this Dragonfly contract, where does that put us? Will that be able to cover what we need? Um, and I know we changed some things for our internal workers. So, I guess it's two
093part. Will this cover what we need for the athletic events? And does that cover like ticket folk, those kind of workers, or does this also then cover like the people like that are doing the the the yard markers and the people at the games like that? So, how what doll does this cover? And on top of that, do you think this will be able to cover the needs for the year? Good evening again. Um, so basically the the amount covers all of our game workers. That does include the chain crew too. Okay. Um, I think that's what you was referring to. Typically, we try to um give an amount and if we have to increase, we come back later. But it's hard to predict based on if we have to um redo games or if
094we need more coverage or if we have special events like if OSHA ask us to do things later. So, it just depends on um if we have to add new events. Okay. And so, this this covers everybody that will be working at any of our games. Yes. Concession workers. Um, Miss Neil's people, the gatekeepers, um, chain crews, anybody that's part of the production comes from Dragonfly. Okay. Appreciate that. No. Any other questions? Yes. Go ahead, Mr. Warner. Uh, can I get more information on connects HR? It's I'm trying to think. Connect HR. Is that a continuation? Um it's provide training for payroll team members on advanced payroll procedures services ESS. Yes. Okay. So that is a continuation. Yes. Okay. And then for um that's a consultant that we use every year basically to help fill
095out all the paperwork for the different rate items we got. They're actually the same one that helped us fill out for that cyber security. What is it? The Microsoft one on there. Yeah, that's what I was talking the $599,000. Yeah. So, what that is is basically it's more security controls with Microsoft Office. That is actually for the next three years. Okay. That 559. So, if I can ask if when we vote on this next week if it can say four Yeah. three-year contract. Um so, it doesn't reflect just one. And then I take it you're talking about the Lori. Yes. Germit. Got it. Okay. Thank you. And then last question for me on um purchase wax is what works for you. What actually goes into the employee wellness program? Like what exactly is that like
096them enrolling into something? Is that what exactly is that? Well, uh I meet them at the gym at 5:30, work them out. Uh we have to get back with you on that. Okay. Mhm. Yeah. Um, well, it it does say employee benefited self insurance, so I'm thinking, but I just want to see like is that tied to something else. Appreciate it. I see Dr. Davis writing. We got you. All right. Any other questions? Yes, sir. Smith. Okay. Um, first to follow up with that. Um, maybe this should be maybe brother Williams, maybe brother Jones. Are we const are we currently looking at um other things that could be covered through -ate? I know actually was just having a conversation with some people a couple hours ago about different um different uses for -ate to help
097districts such as ours cover some of these costs. So I'm glad to see that on there. There are some of the other uh any other things that we're looking at having possibly cover for the district. So, actually one of the new laws that they passed for this past year was hotspots for students and we're waiting for them to release that funding. So, that is another one we're looking at. Awesome. Um, some of our infrastructure is already covered under -ate. So, we get a recycle I think it's 2 and a.5 million every five years that we'll be covering and I think that cycle restarts here in about four months. So, we'll be using that for that as well. Okay. Appreciate that, sir. Um the other one I had oh on here and I was just wondering
098if this is something that we just wanted to change or is it because it's an update there are a few numbers on here line items that I don't know do we rather have them madam treasur or whoever put them would you rather have them for the under 15k or is it on this list because it's an addition to something else. Um, but even if I look at some of them, they're still even the increase the not to exceed still is far below the the 15,000. So I was wondering do we if we want to move it over to the 15,000 side? I can actually take it from Madam Treasurer. I've asked the internal auditor to look into it because when you aggregate them together, they are over the 15,000 some of them because it's the
099same vendor. So just to make sure they have our approval, I moved it up to this for us to approve on it. All right. She like this better. It does. Any other questions? All right, your next recommendation. The next one is Zen in now. Let's look at it. Are there any questions on the Zen now? All right, Madam Treasure, does that conclude your recommendations? Yes. Do you have any comments tonight? No, I don't have All right. Thank you, Dr. Jones. Your first recommendation for review. I recommend the review of the following two contracts. Uh, DCM2 Arcades and More and P School Group LLC. Any questions on the tool for review? Yes. Go ahead, Dr. I mean Mr. Walker. These vending machines, will they actually be stocked with items? Um, the number one complaint last year
100was they set empty for the whole year. Is it nutrition services that are going to staff these or are they being turned over to the principles of staff? How will this actually work? Uh and the second part with that would be if they are going to be staffed, will it be things that students actually want in the vending machine? Great question. So to the first uh nutrition services to the second u of course there are uh health guidelines that we have to abide by when it comes down to uh purchasing food items for our students. Um and so uh a lot of times what they like uh is not um allowed to be sold. So if I can there's one Takis. So is it if nutrition services buys them we have to follow guidelines but
101if principles and them take control of them and they want to fill them with items they don't have to follow the guidelines. Uh those guidelines um actually govern both sides if you will. It's really just one uh what we feed students in school. um we we have to follow you know FDA. Okay. So a backup question if we were to sell off the vending machines to students in buildings who may be small business owners for their own operation of selling snacks during class. It happens. Cannot say it doesn't happen. Um is this an opportunity for them to st to stock them and supply items? because I think looking at it, it's I get the whole healthy concept with a lot of things. Um, but I think our students, it for me it just I I
102think I don't know if we can look at the USDA guidelines because it's one thing to look at Dayton public schools and we're doing healthy things, but then if I look at a Chicago school district and they buying full out chicken wings, it's just a lot like so if you can and your team or legal can look at what actually are these guidelines, maybe put a student group together of what are some things you would like to see? Can we accomplish that? Those type of things. Most definitely. I'll run it through legal legal and not FDA, USDA. Appreciate it. Are there any other questions? Go ahead. Yeah, I mean, I'd like to back up, Mr. Walker, on that concept. I mean, I I I was I did like a little of my own research and
103Yeah. And so, I was looking So, what if we tried to serve quissants, our schools, and I did Yeah. They would have to be they would have to be a certain percentage whole wheat. Yep. And I and I was like, well, I've never seen a whole wheat crest. Right. And until spring break, we went to New York and I saw a whole quissant. So we I don't I'm not asking you to order quissants from New York, but but yeah, I think we can do some more research to find Yes, sir. I mean, a chicken wing's a chicken wing. I don't know if USDA has or if they USDA just bans all chicken wings or I think it's how it's prepared, how it's cooked, you know. Okay. If it's deep fried. Deep fried versus roasted or
104baked. I hope not. Okay. Some do actually have like Well, they So, it's not actual like it it's chicken wings, but it's like a cold pack where you can buy it and warm it up yourself and things like that. Chicken. Hey, you ain't never worked at a factory. Like, no, I've never worked at a factory. like these are things that are in like the factory warehouses and things like that. So student and like I said students students know what they like and I I I like to say a lot of times I really do value the opinion of our students who are 3.0 4.0 scholars but I think a lot of time we miss the opportunity with students who may not be at that level yet because they have not been given opportunities to advance
105to that level in aspects where they feel that they can. So, if we can look at that for different things, I would really appreciate it. Me personally, I may go in the building, I may want some flaming hot fries. I may go and work out at the gym later. It just it varies, right? We'll definitely survey our We started surveying our students at the end of this school year, this past school year, and we'll continue the same this year. So, we'll have some data for you. Don't go looking for no whole wheat Takis. I'm telling you, man. No. Yes. Terrible. A Taki is a road up corn trip, right? And Takis know them Takis is a danger out here. Any other questions? Go ahead, Mr. I have a question for the business manager when we're
106finished with um questions about contracts. So, I wanted to make sure that everybody was finished with that first. Any other questions on contracts? Okay, go ahead. M Dr. Jones, um could you bring us up to date with some of the um information that you have? There are some buses that we were informed a few weeks ago that are for sale. Um, not as many as we would need to expand our fleet to provide services to all of high school students, but you know, making sure that we're looking at every single option we have for providing transportation to our students. Um, understanding what the restrictions we are under this year um that make things different for us. Can you give us some information about those buses? How many are there? How much do they cost? Actually,
107they're uh there's more than 20. Uh there's um 35 to 40 buses. Uh many of them being 72 or 77 passenger. Uh the base price, stock price, uh roughly around $136,000 uh to equip um those buses with the features that we currently have. Uh heat, uh backup cameras, uh would be an additional uh $1,200. Uh as well as some of the other features that we have, cameras and everything. uh which would bring it to about 150 grand uh per bus. And so if we wanted to purchase, you know, 150 buses uh I mean, I'm sorry, 20 buses be roughly $3 million. How much did we normally pay for buses? We buy 10 new buses every year to replenish our fleet and cycle through them. How much do they cost? Uh it was around 1.5 for
10810. Okay. All right. And they're not they do not have backup cameras. They do not have air conditioning. Most buses do not have air conditioning. We have retrofitted ours to have air conditioning. Correct. Um, how long would that take to add those features? What would happen if we bought bus? I know I'm giving you a million questions at once. Um, what if we bought these buses and did not give them air conditioning? Would it cause difficulty within our drivers? I do believe it would cause some difficulty between our drivers, create some inequity because if we actually look at what the state has said, it is not what the conversation is being had. The conversation being had is saying the state says we cannot do XYZ. That's not what's actually in there. What's actually in there
109is not saying we cannot provide passes. So, we're moving this conversation based off incorrect information or incorrect thoughts or perceptions about what the state is saying, and it's moving us further away from actually getting our high schoolers to school in a way that doesn't cause constonnation for a group of them. And while I do appreciate a lot of the people that have been doing work, I just like for us to say how do we really do the due diligence of giving them the real picture of what's going on with transportation. So as far as the buses doesn't solve what we need to get done. So Dr. B, I was trying to think of the question. The question was where the buses nothing. So, so this might be a stupid question, but have you you said
110Rush has the buses. Have you talked to Rush? Because every time I hear that the number of buses has changed from 20, 22, now you're saying 35. So, have we even talked to Rush? Yes, sir. I have. Um, initially the communication to us, uh, the original communication was from a state rep and, uh, an employee from the ESC. And what was communicated to us is that there are 20 buses. That's why I'm asking. So, after having the convers Yes, sir. after having the conversation with the actual vendor um the folks who have the buses uh he said 35 to 40 because because he didn't know how many exactly were uh special needs but most of them were 72 to 77 passenger and but we haven't seen the buses at all no sir okay uh for
111me it it's a no that's a lot of money uh for us to buy buses at this point in time for me uh also we would have to find those drivers. Um, are you still looking for drivers with the buses that we have? We are still looking for drivers. Um, we were I don't know where uh the notion of um hiring freeze and transportation came from, but it was kind of permeating uh throughout the department. Uh I will say from a recruiting standpoint there are 60 the last number I received from first student uh was 60 drivers. Um there's 60 drivers there. We pay better uh than first student. So there's anyone in the community um watching this uh board meeting and you work for first student work for us. We we have better uh
112pay and benefits. All right. So we don't So at this present time though, even if we got the buses again, we would not have anyone to really drive those buses. And if we got those buses, we would still have to transport charter schools and all the rest of that stuff, right? So it'll be a no for me. Can I not turn yet? All right, the All right. Thank you. So I will say thank you. Thank you for the conversation, board member Riner. uh several things that would just that needed to be discussed in this piece of it. Dr. Bailey already pointed out, have you actually seen the buses in that piece? And Miss Rhiner brought up in her piece about how these buses aren't what are standard for us now. I don't know any person
113in our district, which is why we've closed two school a school two days in a row because it doesn't have AC that would work that we would want to go to work in a non air conditioned unit. So that right there would let me know that these buses aren't our piece of it because we no longer order buses that don't have AC in it. And even though as he likes to say all the time when he was a business manager, the last set of buses that we did get in because it was important to us that we didn't put anyone in our district in a condition that we ourselves wouldn't work in ourselves. We don't we don't have buses that don't have air conditioning because it is as essential as heat. The second part of
114that too, the buses are one thing and I know we we have a lot of competing interests here because let me this would be general funds. Is that correct? Correct. We have buildings that require and our busing for high schools is a serious piece here that we are actively working on and even the community stepping up is a big great. So this becomes more of a partnership and not just Dayton public schools holding on and continuing the pattern of about every 7 to 10 years we're out, we're in, we're out, we're in on that piece of it, but we have buildings that have competing interests that hold our children that need to be expanded because we are growing. We have Kaiser is one that takes hands. We have students who are in trailers that are
115way beyond the time period that those trailers should have been there that we've not made an affirmative step to go. I see this this school continues to go up in population yet. It doesn't seem like fiscally like the best financial decision for us to invest in a potential sump solve that doesn't have a long-term plan versus a fixed asset that needs to be grow like the trailers need to be a building needs to be there at some point. Belmont this year is the first year that seventh grade came out because whatever reason, but that that land there, they we only have one middle school now on the east side. Even as we go into the conversation about us expanding and adding seven grade to some possible opportunities there because Wright brothers can't sustain that by
116itself long term again the buildings are still the same size and they need to expand in that piece. So we would be competing right now for the funds because these are all again general is going to help with capital improvement. Correct. Correct. Capital improvement can't sustain multiple buildings by itself. Correct. Correct. These there are just we have roofs on buildings that need repair. We borrowed from ourselves two years ago to continue the HVAC system process of which are we complete with upgrading all the HVAC systems in our schools? Uh we're getting close, but we're not. How many? We're not we're not there. We have about Rick. Is it six? Give me a number. What's a number left? Louise. Troy. How many is that? I need you to say it in the mic for us. How
117much? Just throw a number. Just throw a number. He can he can repeat it for you. Eight. 8 to 10. 8 to 10. What? You got to put the last eight to 10 more buildings that need to be How much money though? Are we talking roughly $3 million per billion? I said about 20 something million. Go ahead and and multiply that for the people at home. How many million? 24 million. Correct. So we still have we have a lot of competing interest as a district like yes the transportation what's happening right now in high school is an immediate need and we are actively trying to figure out ways to make the best situation possible out of what we believe we can do and the advice that we get from our attorneys and fighting it. It
118does not take away from the other needs of the district right now because the roof is important. If if it if I send a child to school and it was raining through the roof and I you told me that you bought buses that you had no plan for, I would think we were irresponsible as a district in that piece of it. If if I know like I've just told all the people at home that we have modules at a school that weren't supposed to be there as long as they're supposed to be there. I would go well why haven't you built yet? You keep seeing your enrollment and Dr. Lawrence is the enrollment incler uh the Kaiser is typically number one or two 660 670 it could honestly if we expanded there we could have
119the capacity for 800 student elementary. Correct. just just knowing these different factors because I don't want people to believe that the things that we face as a district are singular. We are constantly on multiple levels when it comes to how we are utilizing funds and how we have to invest them based on how we are taking care of not only individuals children but the staff who have to work in these buildings. And then when you add on that last layer, the routing company that does our external schools at this piece of it here, that in itself is not the best relationship that we want in this piece. So you still need to route all those and like the cost of this isn't just the baseline of about 3 million. It's it sound even with the
120stuff you gave it right now probably up to like at least so staffing, maintenance, uh storage, um diesel hookups to and rowdy from uh and rowdy. Um give me a number, please. A number what you think this would cost us ultimately if we did move let's say we took 20 of the buses. What what do you what is your So the buses would be uh if we purchased 20 uh the buses would be 3 million. Um and we have some of the drivers but the original number was 74 drivers which came up to about 3.6 six million that was without benefits. So, we're already at roughly $7 million. Um, did that include the retrofitting? No. Oh, yes. Yes. Yes. I'm sorry. That did include y um so that's 7 mil. Uh maybe additional uh maintenance.
121We did not include that in the 74 drivers. um they make around 50 to 60 grand a year uh plus benefits. So we probably only need two two and a half two and a half additional but then we I could go on and on. What's the total cost? Are we looking at 10 million? We're looking at north of 10 million and and although like I appreciate the individuals who helped find this opportunity because I do believe that they were trying to assist us but I understand a lot more about the makeup of our portfolio and at this time it does not seem like a wise route to go knowing all the other competing interests that are happening right now. I don't think it's fair to to ignore the things that you already have identified in
122your strategic plans and put those on hold for an immediate soft that's not a true sol for us. It's like putting a band-aid on an open cut. Like it's just not there for us. So, in my opinion at this point, based off the things that I know about our portfolio and where we are and the competing variables, I don't think it is the wisest thing for us to invest our energy in our finances because again, I have a school right now that doesn't have AC. And I still have eight more who are going through a process to not get to where a school is. And that's a minor issue comparative to the list of things that you guys know are projects that you've planned for us to work on. So although board member Witz has
123stated like yes we may have saved some amount of money in one area but we're really not saving money. We're always shifting it to another priority that's coming in that piece. So we're not we don't have an extra anything. Something else just can get bumped up on the list of things that you guys are asking to do in a timeline in that piece. Right. I just appreciate the the the public conversation uh the comments. Uh thank you uh M. Riner for bringing it up. I think it was um good thing that we discussed it. Hold on, Mr. Walker. Then Mr. Smith, I just um as we start to discuss this plan of high school transportation on if a yellow bus situation can occur. Um I just would hope that the actual union is involved with
124this and we hear from union leaders on what would they like to see, what would their membership like to see. Does this say as a district we need a different tier for high school transportation? Like I I if we're going to look at a plan, I want to look at every single aspect of it of what may not be the biggest thing, but what may be a small piece that we need to be mindful of. Sir, thank you. Yeah. I want to figure out how are we grounding this conversation cuz I don't want us to then say one thing isn't important and then bring up the other things that we have going on because are most of the things that you have going on that are they in your budget? Have you budgeted for some
125of these other things for some of the other things that the other transportation pieces? No, outside of just outside in your space, we talk about the buildings, the roofs, those it's in a strategic plan, right? So, you have talked about these things. But if we keep if we're at this space saying just laying out the issues, we will never get to solutions. Like we in this political space are very very good at laying out the problems. We have to get a lot better at laying out solutions. like we have these things going on and one of the things that we don't account for enough of is doing things the right way. Being better stewards of money, being better stewards of our time, better stewards of how we do it. Like there are people if we
126have these issues instead of going down these roads and hoping it gets better, look at how we could route better. bringing in our people and saying how could we do this in a more efficient way. I think that for us and I think what happens is we have these issues and then at one point we go no cuz at there was a time when we talked about the number of students and needs and I think Dr. Lawrence and yourself had looked at m multiple buildings. So there has been the opportunity at the time there was no appetite from the board to look towards that way. And so what I don't want us to get caught up in is looking and saying, "I know that we need to fix this, but look at all the other
127things in the strategic plan and not already have a plan of how we're going to get it done. And as a board, how are we going to allocate the funds to get it done?" Because the kids over at Kaiser were in a module last year. They were in a module the year before. They were in a module the year before. And I've not seen a parent come down here and argue about what's going on over there. And I have not seen the population at Kaiser go, you know what, we're not going over there. So while we're moving it, I think having the ideas of figuring out solutions instead of it's easy to shift where things have to go and will always be there. You know, we can say, "Hey, we need more teachers, but we're
128not going to pay for that because we need to move the money." We have to get better at getting to solutions like how are we going to actually get better and I think that will help us and as we move like I said before some of the things that we do are not rooted in being better. We we make very reactionary decisions and it does not help us in the long run. Um, so I just encourage you and your staff to continue to be creative in what we have to do. And even with the buses thing, I look at that and it's like the people who told us about this were the same people that tried to box us into the situations that we're in. So I fully don't always have trust in people when
129the people that are trying to to push me in the corner give me a solution with their other hand. I just cannot trust that. And so I want us to look within because if I go over and talk to our people in transportation, they have tons of like getting our people to come up with ideas of how we do this better. And because what we've done is we've continually kept going. We're still moving off routing systems that were based in the fact that we had quadrants years ago there. We're still looking at routes that take people in an excess ungodly amounts of time to run through when we could sit there and go, "All right, what is best for this?" And this is not just in your department. I think it's a district-wide thing of
130how do we get ourselves in a space where we're making things not based off reactions or based off showing people what the issue is, but how do we just get better? And so as where I'm at is just let's get there and I know you can get there because I vouch for you even though you went to Patterson. Appreciate it. Yeah, it is. Yeah, it's real. So it is possible to because I just feel like I need to say this. It is possible for people up here to have opinions and other people here not to always try to tell you why your opinion is wrong. It doesn't. It's my opinion. Dr. Lawrence, did you have something? I just want to add briefly that I think Dr. Jones, you were in a meeting uh when this
131this bus idea came up and one of the individuals in the meeting was is chiefly responsible for House Bill 96 for moving the one-year one runway and for uh targeting us at 530,000 to 540,000 in terms of a county so that it's targeted directly at Dayton. So, I find it interesting that um we're targeted for restrictions in transportation and then there's an idea about us going to purchase buses. That's that's like I'm going to start a problem and then I'm going to try to help you fix it. Actually, I want to correct that. I was in that meeting and the person who offered us the buses was not a legislator was one of our community partners. And if I can correct that, the person who put us in this problem was Phil Plameumber, Tom Young,
132Jeff Mims. Thank you. All right, Dr. Jones, do you have any other comments? No, ma'am. focus on the mix. Thank you. All right. Order of new business. I'd like to recommend the approval of the following board. Travel. So moved. Is there a second? Second. Moved by Mr. Lacy. Second by Dr. Bailey. Any questions? Seeing none, that we have a vote. President Goodwin. Yes. Dr. Bailey. Yes. Mr. Lacy. Yes. Mr. Smith. Yeah. Miss Rhina. Yes. Mr. Walker. Yes. Miss Wick. Yes. Seven. Yeses. All right. Policy for first reason in so much as the board of education is committed to the continuing updating of its policies, rules, and regulation manual and its committee which was appointed has been working towards that goal. The following are brought at this time for first reading and compliance with board file
133BFC policy adoption. Now therefore, be it resolved that the board of education of the Dayton City School District, McGomery County, Ohio, hereby accepts and adopts the following policies that have been codified for inclusion in the handbook of policies, rules, and regulations. BCE Board of Committees, DIA, Internal Audit Charter, DI AF, Anti-Fraud, Waste, and Abuse, ECA, Building and Ground Safety. These policies are being read for the first time. As such, a motion or second is not required. The policies will be available in the superintendent's office for review and comment prior to their second reading and adoption for the board of education. Furthermore, the policies will be reviewed by the superintendent's office, the board's office, and the legal department of the day public schools prior to the second reading. Are there any questions, comments, or anything on
134the policies? I have a question, Madam President, or I have a comment. um under file um uh DIA the internal audit charter um after a little bit more reflection after policy committee there's a sentence I would like to add under the paragraph authority um as permitted by the law the internal auditor may request an executive session with the board to discuss any limitations or concerns regarding access to information records systems or personnel are there Any objections to that being added in, please? All right. Seeing none, can you send it to Miss K and that will be added. Thank you, Madam President. Um, go ahead, Mr. Walker. Before we get any backlash about staff not being aware of these policies, can we make sure that they're sent out once they are adopted to the entire district?
135I believe Miss Kidd and Miss Concer actually have partnered up to ensure one of the two are doing that. I appreciate it. just one of the two. I appreciate it. Any other questions or comments on the policy? All right. Next. Retire rehire notice. Please see the attached notice of Huitt Abraa intends to retire from the Dayton City School District Board of Education effective October 31st, 2025. Mr. Braha seeking re-employment with the district city Dayton city school district board of education as treasurer effective November 1st 2025. A public hearing will be held on this matter at the following time and location. D Day Dayton City School District Board of Education hearing on the issue of reemployment of retired employee. He would a brahop in the position of treasur 5:30 September 16th 2025 during the regular meeting
136136 South Lutllo Street Dayton Ohio 45402 board of education room. Closing comments Mr. Smith. appreciate everybody and getting everything together for a first day of school. Uh encourage everybody out there to work with each other. Um I do want one of those shirts. I still ain't got a shirt. I ain't got one of them red shirts. I ain't got a black shirt. I don't get nothing. That's messed up. Um, I do think that this year I just want us to increase the ability for people to feel like they matter. I think the more we do that, the better off we'll be. Um, I think people should not fear speaking up. I want people to feel comfortable with saying when they don't think things are right. Um, I will say I for one feel feel better
137when people do feel like they can speak with us. I want us to always remember that if we if we in everything that we do, if we put our children at the forefront of all of these decisions, it's the only way we're going to have lasting impact. Um, and when we put our children first, understanding that does not mean that adults are secondary because adults are what we use to have these relationships with children. So by putting our children first then we inherently should be putting the needs of the people that we entrust to work with our children first. Um I salute everybody in our community that has come together in these times to try to come up with various solutions um on how to not only get our children to school but just keep
138them safe in their communities. So, the community groups that have been out in neighborhoods talking with folk, I applaud them. The people that are trying to curb all the youth violence, I appreciate that. I appreciate everyone out here that realizes it's going to take more than just good thoughts and prayers to better our community. Um, I want to thank everybody that participated in any back to school events around the area. Uh, saw a lot of kids getting out. I was just at an event held by DCDC. saw a lot of kids getting book bags and and getting out there and having fun and just building community up. I think that's what we also need is just to really rebuild our community. So, I encourage people to get out and find ways to tap into what
139the district's doing. It's very easy, you know, say go down to a game, but really going out to a volleyball game, going out to a soccer match, um getting out to to see our children, teaching our children how to be out about their children. So, parents, if you have a chance, don't just drop your kids off at the games. Try to stay there with them at least for a quarter or two, just to get out there and have that that moment. You'll probably get to run into a principal. You might you might see our superintendent there at the game, you know. have him out there. You might see some people out here in the district um just to get out and build community because that's what we're going to need. It's a lot of political
140back and forth and it's natural for this time of year, but the only way we fight through the political back and forth is having an even stronger community. The weaker our communities are, the more it is easier to divide them politically. You cannot really divide a strong community politically because they already are in community with each other. So, I just want to say I appreciate everyone. I hope to be able to come back next week and we have even more people that we are on boarding. I appreciate Dr. Lawrence and raising that up for people who have questions. I re received a lot of questions from people that were worried that they weren't on board docs and so I appreciate you lifting that piece up so they can know what's kind of going on there.
141Appreciate our enrollment team. I told them I would have to shout them out today. Um, when we talk about the increased enrollment, we talk about it and I heard it over and over and over at the convocation and I hear it about how we have more and more people here. So, I want to shout out our enrollment team. Um, the hiring that we've been doing and coming in, I want to shout out our HR department. Oh, I saw that face. I saw that face. Want to shout them out. I don't want to shout out Chief Jones for getting people involved in extracurriculars. I know a lot of people sometimes wonder why I care so much about that, but there's so many good things that our children learn from being in these extracurricular activities that it's
142um a vital piece of a thriving community. You will not find a thriving community outside of here that does not have a lot of students and extracurricular activities. But somehow when we talk about extracurriculars in the inner city, somehow the conversation gets twisted where we do not care about academics. If you go down the road, those kids are in extracurriculars. They're in athletics. So, I appreciate everything she's done and I look forward to a wonderful year with her being out and highlighting our children. I look forward to those things coming up. And with that, keep the main thing the main thing. I'll come up with something different that they can take and put on the shirt, you know, just be like that. Appreciate you all. Miss Wick. Uh, thank you. Excited for a great school
143year. Seeing lots of good work out there. I'm currently repping my really cute Kemp Elementary pen that I received at the first annual uh DPS family event. Thank you to President Goodwine and all of you, you DPS fantastic team that showed up and created such a fantastic event. Every family that was there, it was really wonderful. So I think that res that event represents the excitement that I see and feel about the district and that is because of all of the great work that you're doing. So uh thank you Dr. Lawrence, thank you to my colleagues up here, teachers, lunchons, bus drivers, everybody. Let's have a great year. So appreciate you all. Thank you Mr. Lacy. Well it's been a great summer. We as a family, we did one thing we did, we did we
144we were in DC for a week and we we walked we rode buses. We we walked we were we drove all around town and walked around town. We felt very safe the whole time. Um no incidents. Um, Monday I went to um open house at uh Mount Street Academy and I I really appreciated the the folks at Mount Street. Uh, it looks like they're prepared to go and I'm looking forward to tomorrow for my 11th grader and thank you, Miss Riner. Thank you, Madam President. Um, I have a few questions that community members have reached out to me about the extra pay paycheck. So I at this time I would like to just ask some clarifying questions and get some answers for the public if that's okay. Um treasur when is the paycheck for the
145extra time coming to employees? The 15th. The 15th of this month. Yeah. So that is today's the is that Friday? Friday. Friday. Is the paycheck separate from the paychecks that they normally get? Is it combined with their normal paychecks? Combined. Combined. But it has a line. Okay. They can see. Okay. their regular paycheck and the the extra one. Okay. And if they have questions about the extra pay or the paychecks, who is the person that they should contact? Uh we have a line uh created. They can contact that one or Okay. Would you please send out that information to the entire district tomorrow morning so they can have it in case people are not watching it just to make sure that they all have it? They have that hotline to the whole district already sent.
146That's what they we can do with the what information of when the paychecks were coming that they were um combined with their existing paychecks. That information was sent out. Could you please send out the information that the uh paychecks for the extra pay will be coming combined with their paychecks on Friday? Um and it will be combined and um just remind them one more time just in case they're not able to find the information who to contact if they have questions. Thank you, Treasure. I appreciate it. Um beyond that, uh Madame President, I am just really excited for the start of the new school year. Um new school supplies are so exciting to buy. Uh, even as an adult, I love those fresh pencils and the the fresh backpack and notebook smell. Um, I know
147my last high schooler is excited to start tomorrow. Um, good luck to everybody who started today and good luck to everybody who starts tomorrow. We're excited for the school year. Thank you. That is all. Thank you, Mr. Walker. Thank you. Um, let's see. So yes, as the rest of my colleagues have said, kudos to everyone that worked on the family funfest, Alex, right? Family first. Hey, listen. But yes, thank you to everyone that worked on that. I think it was a great event. I love seeing the tents out um for each school and now they have those in them hand in their hands. Hopefully they utilize those. Um Dr. Lawrence. Um, I would like to say kudos to Mr. Harris. I, um, complained about this mobile health unit for a year and it debuted at
148this event and students were able to get their physicals and everything like that there. So, definitely appreciate the work that went into getting that up and running out there. Um, convocation, thank you to everyone. Um I would like to publicly say thank you to the staff members who have been here um one year, three year, 5year, 10 year, 15 year, 20, 25, 30, anywhere in there. Thank you to your service to Dayton public schools. Um thank you to all 11 of our unions and their memberships. Um today I had the opportunity to go to Luis Troy, Walgamin, Wright Brothers, Dumbar, Edison, Styivers, and Jackson Center. Um and lastly, I would like to say um two things. One, um the state legislature have been on vacation, but they are coming back. Um already dates are out
149there for September. Um, I would like to thank uh Miss Sharon Goins for being a great teacher at Thood Marshall because uh it was because of her that I understood um vetos and things like that in local government. So um please pay attention to those and when the legislator comes back because those are still possibilities. Um and lastly to the community staff um parents or students um I would just like to say that all of us here are elected individually. Um and then we serve as a Dayton Board of Education. Uh please do not please do not be feared upon reaching out to any of us. All of us are approachable. All of us are elected to serve and enjoy the work that we do each and every day. Um we have four direct employees
150who report to us and not the other way around. Um so please feel free to reach out with any concerns you may have any way that we may be better um to serve you and the community and everything like that. So thanks. Thank you. First I want to thank everybody that was involved with the family first fest to our external partner Tay Winston who did a good job to the internal team Miss Gowens was on it Mr. Harris, the two rock stars, Miss Kid and Miss Garren, Chief Jones for coming in and making sure that all the things that we put together actually fit in. Our electrician Eric who made sure none of the power went out to the many barbers who showed up when we were in a pinch and stylist and just the
151countless individuals. And actually, I want to give a shout out to the admin, what you call it, cabinet, the admin cabinet who Mr. Rafer who in a pinch cuz we had a couple people who did not show up with supplies. Mr. Rafer knew that we had a stash somewhere. He got it out there. When I tell you Miss Spurlock was out there, Miss Miner, Miss Miner was better than any tea salesman I've ever seen. She passed out books. Every book that we had was in the hand. If they were waiting in a line, she got it in there. She was selling them on the programs. It was a beautiful thing to watch. She was moving those little feet all throughout. So, I appreciate that to the safety and security team. They did a great job
152of getting over 660 students with badges and IDs that day and they just kept moving. The HR team who started off in HR and then ended up doing the badge process. Just a really good showing of how this team really works when you didn't even have to ask anybody to help out. They all just kind of stepped up and did that. And that was really great to see of everyone. And then our amazing DJ AJ, he did a great job. I mean, I think he should be our guy every year. He kept the music going and it was a beautiful day and it was really good to see families. It was good to see staff members. It was good to just see how how beautiful DPS was on display that day. So, thank you to
153all of those everyone who did something that was a part of that event. Second, convocation. Convocation the the best thing I've heard about it. It was it was the most efficient convocation that people have seen and they love that you guys it stayed on message. Things ran. It started on time, it ended on time, people went out and they came back. So, thank you to everyone from not only the visual displays were were pretty awesome. They were different than last year, so you kept that piece going on. Thank you to again the PIO team with the video up. That was good. The shout out section went really well from them. So, there were a lot of really great things. I do know that next year there going to be some more dynamic things coming because
154I want to congratulate all the individuals who won the inaugural 5C awards. They were a little rigged, but you know that's okay. Don't worry about that. You guys are all winners. More people think that they should apart been a part of the winning circle. Congratulations to Miss Kid and Miss Break for that piece right there. Miss She got her award. Miss Kay got her award. It was it was several on her, but it was really good to see you guys celebrated in an unexpected way. And thank you to the 49 individuals who submitted actual nominations because it's really good when peers are reviewing each other. Again, I hope that I hope that you guys those individuals got to at least give those 49 nominations to the people who got them because you just never know
155how uplifting it is when someone else notices something you do unexpectedly. I'm going to echo comments on thank you as we talked about how we have hit over the 13,000 mark. It's been a long time since we've been there. And that has been the inline has been the student enrollment team, which they are doing a phenomenal job of processing, finding answers, and getting those through, but the front line has been every person in this district that has followed up with a parent that has talked to someone about coming over that has talked to them. So, everyone has been all hands on deck when it comes to that part of getting students in this district and debunking narrative that are out there that just don't really talk to who we are. On the other side, again
156echoing to the HR team, you guys have been moving really fast with accuracy like our board docs this year compared to this time last year compared to the year before and on. We have seen a great increase of making sure people have the credentials and they are properly in positions that they actually can do. So, thank you to the HR team for that one. I also want to give another shout out to the HR team because if you guys didn't know, I became a licensed teacher recently and it is partially the HR team helped me with my paperwork and making sure that I got through the career tech process. And thank you to Miss Hey, I know your license. Yes, sir. Thank you to Miss Miner, too. We're working on some workbased stuff now for
157some students in business administration, I believe. And I'm excited that I continue to tell you, you should be the example that you hope that other people are doing. If you can do something, do it. If you can make the time, be a part of it. So, yes, I know. Keep up, kid. I'm just want to know what you want to. Uh, in addition to that, I do also want to thank all the many solutionoriented individuals who are a part of this district and who are trying to help us find ways forward. You are greatly appreciated. Please continue to be a part of how we move forward versus just being critical. It is never I never find it a a worthy characteristic that if the only thing you can do is talk about someone else's idea.
158That's terrible. You're not really helping us move forward in that piece of it. So, we appreciate those people who reach out and you've gotten connected with someone in this district. As Mr. Walker stated, "If you send a message, I don't know anyone on this board who won't get you to the right place that you need to go when you have an idea to see if it'll help us out." So, we appreciate you guys. We hope that you continue to work. I love how much the community, our members in the community are stepping up to be a part of the solution with high school transportation and not just in this moment because our children need you more than just this moment. We get them for is it 7.2 or 7.5 hours a day? 7.5. We get
159them for 7.5 hours a day. There are so many high school level. At the high school level, elementary, it's a little less. A little less than 7.5 a day. We still need you and all the other hours when they are outside of here because this is a this is a group project. And if only one half of the group is pulling the weight, we're never going to make it. So, please continue to step up, volunteer, join a committee, be a coach, do any of those things that bring you into this district, come with solutions and not just criticism because it is so much easier for us to work when we know that people are trying to move this life vote forward with that. Pursuant to section one, two, excuse me, you skipped over. Oh, I
160forgot about you. Go ahead. I'm not the top. Go ahead. And I do have Go ahead. My bad, Dr. Bailey. So the first thing I have is uh uh talking about Luis Troy uh five C's is highlighted communication. We did not communicate well. Uh we already knew that those uh that that we were having problems in the school. We need to have better communication and not wait till the day before school starts. That should have been communicated to the parents at least a week ago that it could be possible that we might not be in school. So, please let's use these five C's. Communication and communication with each other. Uh, I want to thank Miss Stokes because she's always helped me. Every time I call her, I get parents calling me that have students at
161charter schools and they're trying to get into Dayton public and I usually call either Dr. Lawrence or I call her and she makes sure that those uh students get into DPS. So, I want to give a shout out to her and thank her. Uh again, I always talk about this. I really would love to see more commercials of DPS. I I see all the stuff that we put uh that we show in here uh from PIO and from different departments. Uh busing just had a video, transportation had a video that was really nice as well. Uh but I'd love to see that on mainstream television. Uh if we can make that happen. Uh another thing is the tents. I heard somebody mention the tents for the schools. Uh couple of people in the county called
162me want to know where we got those tents from. So, can somebody email me where we got those tents? They love those tents and they don't want to see uh they want to get some better tents in the county. So, I was like I I'll try to find it's just one of the or two couple of organizations. Uh also went out to Belmont this morning. Uh I had a great time out there with them. SRO's were absolutely wonderful. The pairs were absolutely wonderful. The teachers, Miss McDall, did her thing out there. Um, so I'll probably be back out there in the morning. Uh, I actually assisted with uh checking the bags and Dr. Goodwine came out was like, "Dad, you working?" I was like, "Yeah, I'm working." So that's all I had. He was standing
163He was standing next to the bag checker. I was helping. Oh, tomorrow you gonna get a run for your money. I was helping. All right. Uh, Miss Hamilton, you had something? Go ahead. Sorry. How did you help me? I have the video. Yeah, how did you help? Made a video just so um I just wanted to say this year was my first convocation with um Dayton public schools and I was really impressed. I know that you all have probably seen many years of it. Um and there's been many things. Oh, I'm I'm the young one here. Perfect. We're in the same boat then the difference. Um, and I was just I was so moved by our schools, by our staff, by the people who are committed to being here day in and day out. And
164that event was just such a highlight for me because I love being able to see all the things that we're about to do and being able to see the motivation that's going to get everybody through this next year. Um, and so that was just really exciting and I wanted just to give a shout out to all of the teams that were involved in not only that event, but also making sure that team members were there and that it went smoothly. Um, so I just am really excited for that. And then the last thing I wanted to say is the last time that I presented to the board about what I do and all those things, I had my husband here and he was he is very sick right now. So he was unable to make
165it. But I want to give a shout out to him because he is um consistent supporter and you guys I practiced way too much to talk to you guys. Um I really do and I and he's he'sard over and over and over again. So um anyways, I just want to say thank you to him too. Thank you. I have to get you a video of last year's convocation then get you get you get you out here. What is it? It's a shout out. Oh, yeah. Okay. Then hurry up, man. Like, write your notes down next time. You got Listen, I I did and I just skipped over it, but um I'd be remiss if I didn't give a shout out to our um grounds folks. Uh Rob Hunter and his team uh that GR Yes.
166[Applause] Um, every year they battle with the heat and the rain and the schedule gets thrown off and um, folks in the community are left biting their nails. Uh, but um, they had two guys pass out. Uh, yes. Yeah. Yes. They just kept going, didn't it? They kept going. Maybe they shouldn't do that. You just openly admitted that. Kept going. Hey, we got to get ready, right, Rick? Right, Rick? He just openly admitted that, right? Commitment, right? Commitment. commitment. That's not what we have. No, but they uh they did a good job uh getting our grounds together and uh I just wanted to acknowledge that group as well. Thank you. I have one more. I do want to acknowledge and thank Dr. Davis. Actually, we hear a lot about the process of what it takes
167to go through the application, which is one of the reasons I went through the application process and not only the submittal time from submitting to Dr. Davis's team, but to OD, when you fill out your paperwork, it does go significantly smoother than when you leave something out. And I just want to thank you for showing me that process. And please people, if you fill stuff out correctly, they get you right through. Can I ask a question? Nope. Pursuant to section 12122G of the Ohio Revised Code, I move that this board go into executive session. This meeting is being held to consider the appointment employment of a public employee and to confer with an attorney involving pending an intimate court action. Is there second? Second. Move and second. Question on the motion. Seeing none, may we
168have a vote? President Goodwin. Yes. Dr. Bailey, yes. Mr. Lacy, yes. Mr. Smith, yes. Mr. You really created Mr. Walker? Yes. this week. Yes. Seven yeses. I just want you to hear. No, no, no, no, no. I'm talking about Joe Prosp then us then then Michelle P. What you telling us?