001Yeah. Karen down there with you. Put Marvin down there. You want us a special camera? Camera cuz they were presenting today. How you going to present? Where Oh, the screen is right there. He giving us a presentation. We gonna see the consultant side. I'm excited. Put a little color on it. So look, I was say it. Why is it so dark? I mean, but geez, the the gold ain't sh Well, originally I was at green and gold and then only he mentions it all the time in the class. Hey, hey, guess what? Huh? Yes, I did my survey. Some of the answers. Yes, I did my survey. Some of the answers though my answers weren't realist. They were kind of my answers weren't real sync. They were kind of Yes. Okay. Okay. All right. Marvin.
002Oh, yeah. You done got promoted. I already know you. Without. Yes. That was Marvin and I's fault. We apologize in adv in advance. I mean, I don't I don't see Right. Look, you know how I feel about empty seats. I'm saying I like these padded seats. I like the height of Chris. Oh, I see. I got my own fell over. How you doing, Miss Kid? I'm all right. How you doing, Miss Garrett? Let me know when all you How are you, Dr. Are you this one? [Music] You cut your hair. Did you cut your hair? Everybody ready? Yeah, that's right. I now call to order this July 15 board meeting. Madam Treasurer, may we have a roll call? President Goodwin here. Dr. Bailey experience. So we're going to start with a special recognition from our
003for our treasurer. I'm excited about this. if everybody can join us down so we can celebrate you. Thank you. Thank you. Award puts your district in a very entity's total entities total and only less than 4% are even eligible for this award. The auditor state award is presented to local governments and school districts that meet the completion of a financial audit that meet the following criteria. I'm going to read the audit that meet the following criteria. I'm going to read the criteria real quick because I know let these criteria real quick because I know let these people know what it takes for you guys to make this happen. The people know what it takes for you guys to make this happen. The ND must file financial report for the ND must file financial report for
004the auditor states office by the statutory due date without extension on a GAP accounting basis and prepare an annual comprehensive financial report. It may not contain the report may not contain any findings for recovery material. The report may not contain any findings for recovery material citations or material weakness have no other financial concerns. This award it represents the hard work of all the Dayton City Schools employees here and all the financial staff who make an effort each day to attain accounting excellence. I want to recognize the board of education, the superintendent, and everybody that have done an outstanding job watching over every dollar here at the Dayton City School District. I specifically want to recognize Hwitt Abraa, your treasure. Don't forget under a labor agreement disciplinary action involving employer or student ongoing labor negotiations concerns
005or matter. Okay, I hear you. It's your contest. It's all It is inappropriate to address any matter involving pending disputes, grievances under a labor agreement, disciplinary actions involving an employee or a student, ongoing labor negotiations, concerns, or matters that have already been settled, and or any matter which, because of its nature, is deemed appropriate to be discussed in executive session. Mr. Walker, will you serve as our time keeper? Go ahead, Madam Treasure. Brandy ready. Brandy ready. Brandy our next speaker. Okay. Tanisha Horton. Tanisha Horton. And please say your name and address before you get started. My name and address. Yes. My name is Tanisha Horton and my address is 2222 Stanh Hope Avenue. Thank you. Go ahead. Good evening, Dr. Goodwine, Dr. Bailey and distinguished members of the board. My name is Tanisha Hort and
006I stand before you today disheartened fighting to reclaim a job that I love and I'm still unsure why I've been denied. February 2025, I resigned from my position as a bus driver due to pregnancy complications with every intention of returning to the district I care about deeply. I reapplied on April 10th and was informed by Doc Mr. Craig Anderson that there were a few steps to complete, but I will soon receive an offer letter. However, on July 9th, 2025, Mr. Anderson called brought unexpected news. I was ineligible for rehire. When I asked for an explanation, I was told it couldn't be shared. That's why I'm here this evening. I'd like to highlight my 10-year tenor as a bus driver with a public schools. I had no writeups, no disciplinary actions, and I provided a two-eek
007notice upon my departure. I followed the proper procedures, and I am left wondering why I'm not eligible for rehire. This isn't just about a job for me. It's about a passion to serve. I take pride in ensuring children arrive at school safely in and on time. I enjoy my work and the people I collaborate with. Most importantly, I'm committed to the students and I believe they deserve dedicated professionals like myself. I respectfully request that you consider my situation and provide clarity on why I'm not eligible for rehire. I'm eager to to continue serving this district and its students. Thank you for your time and consideration. Thank you. Our next steps Stephan around the release time policy. This policy is already in place and has been adopted November 13th, 2025. And because this policy is already
008in place here at LifeWise, we would like the opportunity to be in this space as a collaboratory partnership serving DPS under the Ohio law, not just as a release time religious instruction program, but also as a way to serve our community together. Lifewise Academy is fully committed to providing Bible education to public school students during school hours following release time religion instruction guidelines upheld by the US Supreme Court. While our methods and and strategies will evolve, our vision to reach students during public schools with the gospel through a replicable release time program is settled. Focusing exclusively on release time allows us to be highly effective on our mission. This approach is not just strategic, but it's what the parents want for their children. Release time offers a unique opportunity to reach students that might otherwise
009attend before and after school programs due to various restrictions such as transportation, extracurricular activities, and parents work schedules. We're committed to doing one thing and doing it well. Offer Bible school education to schools to students during school day. This course ensures that we stay true to our vision and avoid the risk of mission drift. We are more than welcome and open for all to to release any of our policies um or anything that the board would like to see. We want to do this as something together to reach the students that are in our public schools and in our community. Thank you. Thank you. Regina, how the past 2 and 1/2 years. The past two and a half years. It's been nothing but a joy this past couple years until this past recent year. I
010recently went on maternity leave due to having my youngest set of twins, Mari and Markeel. I had them July 11, 2024, which was also during the summer non-school days. I worked the entire year while I was carrying my babies. Not just one, but two. During the heat, the cold, the rainy days, even the snow. I showed up every single day. I wobbled through the parking lot all the way up to 36 weeks pregnant. Once again, not carrying one child, but two of them. As you must know, that's definitely a high-risisk situation, but I made sure I did what was best for my kids. As I was asked by former employees on the daily, "Why are you still here? Why are you still working? Aren't you tired?" I showed up and showed out for my job.
011I did what I needed to do cuz I knew once my children arrived, I knew I would needed time off with them. I worked every field trip that was possible. I picked up every child that was left behind because that was my job. I was told that no child is left behind. I did just that. Fast forward January 2025 to be exact. I was told I had to resign from my job due to my maternity extension ending or I would be fired. I did not want to lose my job. I made sure I did everything, every precaution that I was supposed to do to make sure I was able to return. This job was not just a job. This job was perfect for me and my children. I'm off during the winter breaks along with
012my children, summer breaks included. I chose this job for my kids. During this time, while being off on maternity leave, I suffer from postpartum depression. No one knew besides my doctor and I and my mom. I asked for another extension, but there was nothing that no one could do as I was told if I resigned from my job, I was able to come back within two years. As long as I did the proper things I was supposed to do, I was told that I would not lose my seniority. I would come back with my same position and pay. I was told I left on a good status and that I could have my job back. Three months later, I got myself together. Here comes April. I beat the stages of postpartum, the hardest months ever.
013I was back and ready like I never left. So I thought if you want to wrap up your final comment. Yes, I will. I was told to give me another week. Another weeks turned into months. July 8th, two days shy before my twin's first birthday, I received a call from Craig Anderson saying that I would no longer be able to receive my job back. I asked, was there a reason? There was no reason why. I was told that the district, it was a district-wide decision from the board. So, I come forth today to ask why I'm not able to have my job. I've never been suspended. I've never been nothing. I've never had a ride up or anything. So, I come back to you guys to see if I'm able to have my job. After
014being off of maternity leave, I feel like I'm being discriminated of having my children. I've done nothing wrong to this company, but be great. So, if you guys can take that in consideration as a single mother, I would love to have my job back. Thank you. Thank you. Michelle Jones, Serena Murphy. Hello. Good afternoon to the president and the board members. My name is Serena Murphy and I stay at 1327 Kingsley Avenue in Dayton, Ohio. I wanted to come forth and address a concern I have about DPS transportation rehire process. First, I I want to start off by saying I am a former bus driver of Dayton public schools. I work with DS DPS from February 2014 to August 2022, which gives me eight years experience work with DPS, but overall I have 11 years
015experience overall. My main concern with DPS transportation, like I said, was the hiring process. So on Thursday, July 10th, 2025, I had an interview with Mr. Anderson. And at the end of the interview, Mr. Anderson basically told me to look out for the hire on email that will be sent out to me no later than Monday, July 15th. And it and he also told me if I didn't receive the email by then to give him a call. So this morning, which is um July 16th, I end up giving him a call um this morning because I did not receive the email. Mr. Anderson basically proceeded to let me know that they weren't they decided not to continue on with the rehire process. I asked him what was the reason and he couldn't really give me
016one. So that brought up major concern for me on how does the rehiring process goes especially when you have a overall well-qualified professional driver here and ready to work. Um, you know, DPS always is looking for bus drivers all the time. So, I just don't understand why if you have a qualified driver that has the experience um to actually come to work and actually do a job that she's used to doing professionally. Um, I wanted to know what was the issue where you hired me on and then you kind of like took it back. It was like a snatch and grab if that makes sense. So, I wanted to know if somebody could reach out to me about the concern um about this matter cuz I really feel like the hiring process over at DPS
017Transportation needs to get looked at. Um, as you can see, we have other employees that came up here and said their concerns. And I also feel like it's more people out there, they're just not speaking up. So, I came here today to just speak up about the matter to see why was I hired, but then it was like took back. So, if you guys could, you know, address the matter. Again, my name is Serena Murphy and if you guys need my number, it's 937-4437817. So, someone can address me about the matter. Thank you. Thank you. Concludes concludes tonight's uh speakers. Thank you to all those who came out to speak. Miss kid, if you could get the information of the three individuals that brought up the issues regarding our hiring process, that would be great
018for us. And then if you could take that information and give it to Chief Davis so we can just get some information on these files, that would be great. Dr. Goodwin, go ahead. Um, are we having an executive session? We always have an executive session. And if your team could gather whatever you guys have between now and by the time we get to the executive session, that would be great for us as well. Was that that what you're going to ask me like to have that discussion in executive session? Absolutely. Personnel with us. Yes. And madam treasurer, if you could give Looks like Miss Kit is already moving on it, but I think she may need that list. Yeah. Okay. She's on it. All right. Thank you. You said that concluded our public comments. Yes.
019All right. Hearing of the bargaining unions. Are there any members of the bargaining units that would like to speak? Anything else that short? Okay. Good evening. Protocol established. Board members, madame president. I see Vice is not here. All of you board members. Um my name is Marie Winfrey, a president for local 627 transportation uh school bus drivers. I I'm here concerns also expressing concerns. You heard the matters of several past drivers on the issues of the process for our rehiring drivers. It's come to tell us that they state that we need drivers and we understand we need a lot of drivers at this time because we have also other dilemmas that we need to fix pertaining to transportation for all of our students K through 8 and our high school students. Uh we're always hiring.
020The process is that we're hiring and we train them. We start them off. It takes about four weeks. They still have to receive the silver service test and get their CDL license. That takes about another two to three weeks. Then they have to pass everything and the process it is and they have to go with a onboard instructor. We have you're adding up about two to three months for these drivers to come on to be able to be qualified and be commercial professional commercial drivers license as we do that. So we stand here concerned the local that we have several past drivers that has been approached and applied for the positions that have their license. All of them have already been reertified through the state and had they researched. All them is be drivers with
021experience to be rehired back so we can have more added on to our list of transportation school bus drivers. We're hiring. You add up the cost of what you're paying for the training that would take place for the 3 to four months to one that would come back in already CDL license and if they have any no nothing on their records and they're in good standing with the district and the union then they can come back in their place of seniority or they have to do as our contract states they have two years and they can come back if they resign. So in our local article 22, so we have concerns that how this process also is being for hiring drivers in rehiring. It was stated and asked of us by business manager Dr. Marvin
022Jones if we know any of our past drivers and they're in good standing to come back to the district if they're in good standing. And we are out there doing that. We're trying to bring them in because we do want to be the best in transporting our students. So the thing is this and plus to have the information, excuse me, the transportation for our high school students. We want them all. So the concern that we have here is the process. How is this process is working? You're asking us to do something. We're out here reaching to these drivers, past drivers and new people to come on board to work for the district and then we have these situations that comes for in place right now. So I'm asking the district the board members also to
023help us look into the situation how we can proceed with this to do things completely decently and in order. Please look at these drivers that came before and spoke in the public. Look at the entity there and see if we can bring them back. Even if we have to put them as per some of the district policies on probations or professional development performances, that will be able to at least we know that our transportation will increase. We will have more drivers to be able to take our students to and fro to school without even being out of compliance. We're looking at those issues. Please, I'm asking on behalf of the local 627 that we look and take a look at the situation, how the process is for rehiring drivers in our transportation department and our
024transportation management staff. Thank you. Thank you. Are there any other bargaining units to speak tonight? Okay. Thank you. Well, for everybody else, next up, we actually have a special presentation from our superintendent. This will be the first time we've ever gotten to see him present, so I am equally excited to see what others have only witnessed. So, Dr. Lawrence, the floor is yours. Do you have slides, too? Wow. Just refresh your screen. Slides. That's a nice podium. Don't mess it up saying it from your seat. There's my little screen. They're going to just do it on there. That's why I thought they seat. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, we have it on our screens, but you can go ahead and put a screen down. Yeah, I'm pull the screen. I want the public to see it, too.
025So, the public can see come down because sit green is going to be in front of their heads. That's right. You can cover that mouth. Okay, what you got to do? James is going to get the screen down. We got it. Brings back memories. Bring back memories. Get your walking mic so they can hear you. Yeah, you know he ain't going to be standing walk you sideways walk. I don't have a presentation. You have a presentation? I just refreshing. I don't have a presentation. Oh, there is when you come to build it, you start looking at the designs like why they got that say y'all. I was not here. Mr. Lacy helped design. He approved everyone. Looking at put all these non goals in here. Dr. Lauren, would you like us to give you something
026to get started? I'm ready. You want us to go to another part and come back to this? Yeah. All right. So, let's move on. Come on back up. Yeah, Dr. Lawrence, your first recommendation. June 10th. Is there a motion? So move. Is there a second? Second. Moved by Mr. Lacy, second by Miss Wick. Any questions on the motion? Just to clarify, July 10th. That's correct. I said July. You said June. Oh. All right. Seeing no questions, Madam Treasur, may I have a vote? President Goodwin? No. Mr. Lacy? No. Mr. Smith? No. Ma'am. Mr. Walker? Yes. Miss Wick? No. foro one your next recommendation Dr. Goodman I recommend approval of the following consulting services just an overview from last week I think you or board member Walker asked me how many students were 42 41 of
027the 42 pass of this uh to continue that work in the area of phbotomy certification thank you is there a motion so moved is there a second second moved by Mr. Lacy, second by Miss Wick. Any questions on the motion? Seeing none, may we have a vote? President Goodwin. Yes. Mr. Lacy. Yes. Mr. Smith. Yes. Mr. Walker. Yes, we will. Miss W. Yes. Absolutely. Five. Yeses. Your next recommendation. Good morning. Next recommen recommendation is the approval of the following contracts. And I do want to bring attention to Kegler Brown Hill and Ritter uh agreement to establish a pilot junior RTC collaborative program that will cover all the armed forces and and be available in all DPS high schools. We had a uh wonderful presentation this weekend at the board retreat and it is Colonel give
028me his last name. Miller Miller. Colonel Mill. Colonel Miller and Colonel Miller will be um leading that that work. Currently we have Navy RTC uh at Belmont and we're here at Metal Medale with Army RTC. So we look forward to having students learn about all the armed forces. Uh that's what this is and in fact we look forward to in the future this could be the baseline for us to having uh armed forces ROTC's and all I'm going to say seven of the comprehensive high schools and in county mal street as well. So uh I bring that to the board's attention and then we have mental health services from the ESC uh general funds zero. This is a rollover contract that we just placed on since the 48 hour uh waiver was open and then
029participants for anou between date schools and Dayton Pew. Uh I think this is a repetitive uh repetitive participant process that we have and I'll ask any anybody from athletics to give the details on that but I I've seen it before. I thought we just did this. We did just do this one because there's something Oh, so we should take it off. Yeah. One, it should be under the business manager, but two, Dr. Jones, is there a reason why we're having thisou a second time? I am not sure um why it's on here a second time. Yeah, let's go ahead and put Can we pull that one off, please? Sorry, repeat, but I I wasn't sure it was a vote. And then finally, uh Samaritan Behavioral Health, uh contract services for YCATs. So, we got our
030Animus money in and from that we're now asking uh for our YCAST money to complete our comprehensive mental health programming for our students before the school year start school starts on teachers back August 6th. Uh August 12th, preK through 9 and then everyone comes back on the 13th. So, we want to get it done right. Are there is there a motion on the floor? So, moved. Second. Moved by Mr. Lacy, second by Miss Wick. Any questions on the motion? Seeing none, may we have a vote? President Goodwin. Yes. Mr. Lacy. Yes. Mr. Smith. Yes. Mr. Walker. Yes. Miss Week. Yes. Five. Yeses. Does that conclude your recommendations? Dr. Goodwine. That concludes my recommendations. All right. Would you like to do your presentation or you like me to go on? You know what? Let's just keep
031rolling. Madame Treasur, your first recommendation. I recommend the approval of the following A, B, C, D, and E together as reviewed last week. So move. Second. Moved by Mr. Walker, second by Mr. Lacy. Are there any questions on the motion? Seeing none, maybe we have a vote. President Goodwin. Yes. Mr. Lacy. Yes. Mr. Smith. Yes. Mr. Walker. Yes. Miss Wick. Yes. Five. Yeses. Does that conclude your recommendations? Yes. Thank you. Dr. Jones, your first recommendation. I recommend ratification of the 48 hour rule uh to present the following contract. So move. Second. Any questions on moved by Mr. Lacy, second by Miss Wick. Any questions on the motion? I have a couple questions. Can you explain to us tonight why we have a 48 hour waiver for this one? Yes, ma'am. Uh we essentially um LWC
032conducted uh the um the bid process. Uh typically that's something that we do internally. Uh and so um some dates were missed, if you will. Um and with that we also began to uh examine some of our in-house practices. And so moving forward all contracts will be funneled uh to me uh via business plus. Um also uh when we have situations like this that come up um it'll be included in the workflow of business plus um and not email. Dr. Dr. Jones, I'm going to ask that you get with Dr. Lawrence cuz his team has gotten significantly better at these deadlines and actually get your team to training with them because we've had two meetings since then and we this is the first that we're seeing this. Mr. Walker, did you have something? I Yeah,
033this is like the third 40-hour waiver. And if this is something from operations, I I thought the practice was if it was something for those departments, they would be here to give us more insight on it. I I just I I struggle with if the practice is for things to be submitted, there's no way that this should have came in late. Any other comments or questions on the motion? Uh yes. Go ahead, Mr. Smith. Um I get where we're coming from, but Can you pull your mic up a little bit? I also don't think and I said it before, I really don't want to get and I mean if they give it to Dr. Jones, I really don't want to get in a space where we're calling people up on the carpet for doing those
034things, especially even as a board. We just made a vote out of the blue last week to get tents that came that day. So, I mean, we can't hammer down on our employees. I get coming at our folk, but I wouldn't want the people under there to feel like they're under the gun because something just happens. It is a big district. things happen and we always have the power to vote no. So I just that is my thing. I want to put that out because I don't want our employees having to come in because something comes in after deadlines and deadlines are put in there. But we have seen where if things have to happen, we'll figure out a way to make it happen. And as a board that has the ability to say we're
035going to vote today on something, then we should still extend grace to folk that are in the district that work for us. That's all. Mr. Walker, I while I appreciate my colleague's comment, I would just say that even seeing the contracts here, there there's nothing really of insight of what actually is this project that's going to go going on with the renovations. We voted on Jackson Center a year ago and we are really doing things now to prepare for the school year. However, something like this, if this is renovations for Jackson, for the alternative school, whatever the case may be, it's been months in the work. So, this just seeing this today and again, we just met Tuesday last week, Saturday, and then we're here again today. So, so if I could uh I'm sorry.
036Did you want to hear from Dr. Jones? Mr. Walker? Yeah. I'm just curious if now Mr. Lacy and Mr. Doc Mr. Lacy and Mr. Rock would like to hear from you, Dr. Jones. What is this project? It's Jackson Center. It's Jackson Center, but what what is the renovations? What is what are we spending 75,000 of taxpayer dollars on for Jackson Center? So, we have uh carpeting that's going to take place. Uh as as you know, the uh the south wing of the building is uh currently where we have some computer items, IT items. uh that part of the building is going to be closed off. Uh but in order to make the building safe uh we have to put up a wall um at the vertex or the L uh the part that faces the
037highway and so when when parents come into the building uh they won't be able to roam around the building if you will. Uh so it's a safety concern. Uh also it's to uh ensure that the lunchroom and kitchen uh go back to being just that you know uh for the past couple of years has been used as an office space. Um but uh we want a a place for the for the students to to sit comfortably and eat lunch and breakfast. So there's a wall that has to be removed uh in that area. Thank you, Mr. Lacy. Okay. It requires four votes, not a majority, right? I'm just asking for clarification. Always four depend. Okay. Yeah. Four. So, I mean, if if if people are thinking of voting no, I mean, I would s I
038would ask them to request that um to be I'm not I'm not voting no. Okay. Typically, that's what I do, but I'm not going to vote no. I just wanted to be clear that there's processes in place that we're not getting these last minute when we just had two meetings that hey, a phone call could have been made to board members to enlighten them. Hey, I may have this. We're waiting on a final actual purchase order to come through of the full amount or something like that. We're just seeing this today. I understand. So, yeah, if I can reiterate, um, we didn't handle the bidding process. Uh, typically we meet deadlines. Um, this is one of those situations where uh another organization handled the bids. Uh, the contract came in uh just a a week
039or two ago. Uh, it would have been right before uh the previous board meeting. So, all right. Thank you, Madam President. Are there any other questions or comment on the motion? Yes, there are. Y know, we we still on the 48 hour waiver though, but go ahead, Mr. Smith. All right. Um, Dr. Jones, how many more of these do you foresee coming in the next month or so? Or be kind of on the schedule where you need to be? Uh, we are on schedule. I appreciate it. That's all I needed. Thank you. Any other questions on the motion? Seeing none, now we have a vote. President, yes. Mr. Lacy, yes. Mr. Miz. Yes. Mr. Walker. Yes. Miss Wick. Yes. Five. Yes. Dr. Jones, your next recommendation. Yes. I recommend ratification of the following contract. Is
040there a motion? Second. Moved and second. Question on the motion from myself. Can you tell us about this addition for school AI? Uh, Mr. Williams just saw him. Okay. So, um, school AI is something that, uh, actually the academic side of the house is, uh, is going to be implementing in the classrooms. uh we actually moved it to our budget so that um I mean we're going to be supporting it from an IT standpoint and so school AI is a way to personalize student learning um and a and a and it's capable of doing several other things as well. Are any question other questions on the motion? So it's IT budget and not general fund. No, the general fund, but it's uh we're supporting it. Okay. Thank you. All right. Any other questions on the
041motion? Seeing none, may we have a vote? President, yes. Mr. Lacy, yes. Mr. Smith, yes. Mr. Walker, yes. Miss, yes. Five yeses. Thank you. Does that conclude your recommendations? Dr. Jones, does that conclude your recommendations? Yes, Madam President. Thank you. We are going to jump back up to Dr. Lawrence now for his presentation. All right. Talking Joe. whole metal heart belong to you our loyalty. We pledge to thee to friends revered and true. Our lion spirit brave and bold will proudly wear the black and gold. Our hollow halls will ever be a part of every memory. Now do you know dumb? He don't know it. You did. Patterson didn't have no song. They just said we here for two weeks. We gone for two weeks. What's going on? I didn't get any Snickers today. They
042ain't had no Snickers. I see out the Snickers. While they are doing that, I'm going to move to board travel. I recommend the approval of the following board travel OSBA capital conference. So move. There's second moved by Mr. Walker. Second by Mr. Lacy. Madam Treasurer, may you have a vote? President President Woodwin. Yes. Mr. Lacy. Yes. Mr. Smith. Yes. Mr. Walker. Yes. Miss W. Yes. Five. Yeses. Thank you. I'll save the second part to after executive session. So what is the ETA on this presentation? Is this happening or moving? I could have just told me, you know, we do the good. All right, so we'll do closing comments while we're waiting on that. Madam Treasure, do you have any comments? Oh, sorry. Miss Hamilton, do you have any comments? Uh, my only comment is to
043congratulate the treasur and in advance congratulate the rest of the district on some of our moves for this building. Thank you, Dr. Jones. I just want to thank uh all the business services. Um, we've been working fanatically to get the uh buildings up and running. Um, and so I appreciate your collaboration, your hard work. Um, all of your efforts do not go unnoticed. Thank you, Madam Treasurer. I would like to say thank you to my team for their hard work and dedication to get this award today for the district and I would like to say thank you to the board and superintendent for their support. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Smith. Yes. So, I want to say thank you for everybody that came out. Uh, definitely want to give a huge shout out to our
044transportation staff that came out and spoke. I appreciate not only coming out and speaking, but for those that came out in solidarity. I just always believe in us standing with each other, and I believe we can always get to the root of our issues if we work with each other and first see each other as human beings. So, just want to say I appreciate you guys. Uh, oh, where' my guy go, dude? appreciate you coming out. You know, it's different not seeing you out here at the soccer field. It's a lot different there. So, appreciate you coming out and sharing that and for for your colleagues and their support. I want to say thank you to everybody who set up this beautiful, beautiful space at this beautiful, beautiful high school. Um, like the backdrop and
045the chairs. I mean, this was just first class operation all the way around. So, brother Marcus, shout brother Marcus out. Brother Marcus, we got to put a statue. We've been here since I was here, which is, you know, 5 years ago or so. But, um, lastly, I do want to say we're about to start school. Please do everything we need to do to get out there. If your babies need to get enrolled, come down and see our fabulous enrollment staff. Um, really, let's get back and kick off this year the way we know we have. We know we talked about some changes because of some state things last year. It's time for Daytonians to come together and do what Daytonians can do when Daytonians are up against the wall, and that's work together and come
046together. So, I just want to encourage everybody out there. Want to say thank you to everybody that does the work. And another shout out to Chief Jones. She had a cool little write up in the paper the other day. That was pretty dope. I said, "Oh, man." So, I want to say thank you to her and all of her work. And thank you for all the work she does as our church as the best drummer on this side of town, too. Y'all know that she's talented. See, I tell you all that. So, but let's get out here, love on each other, and keep the main thing the main thing. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you, Dr. Lawrence to your presentation. They They're ready to go. Uh, I can't see on my screen. Y'all can go
047down further. We don't need Go ahead. Y'all got him walking mic. There we go. Little bit more. There we go. That's it's pretty much focused. What about right here? Cut off right here. You don't know about heart here. You can have my iPad. Yeah. I mean Oh my god. No, this is good. This is good. You can go back to the first screen. The projector is like cricket. All right. Thank you so much for being here today. This is actually the biggest crowd we've had all summer at our on our summer tour schools. So, thanks for coming out. I appreciate it. Uh Dr. David Lawrence, superintendent of Dayton Public Schools, Alternative School at Jackson Center. Uh so, I probably shouldn't say this. I was first tasked with this uh briefly as a business manager and
048then as I was transitioning to superintendent, I lost track of it. But the board of education had a resolution uh a few months ago to make sure I didn't lose track of it again. So here we are. What does an alternative school mean? So there are lots of alternative schools around the country and alternative school generally means a setting that offers a different approach um catering to students who need whose needs are not being met in the school. Uh these students may employ many diverse methods to address various student challenges including academic, behavioral and emotional difficulties. That's important academic behavior and emotional difficulties. So that's where we want to focus at Jackson Center uh alternative school at Jackson Center student voice. In May of 2025, uh, we asked the six high school principles if they
049could put together a group of students who they thought may be candidates for Jackson Center. We wanted to know what those students uh, thought Jackson Center should be or what they envision. So, we started with student voice. Uh, in that room was Dr. Marvin Jones and Miss Sharon Goens who were there to help support. And what we heard students say in that environment was they wanted a safe environment. That came up repeatedly, a safe environment. They wanted teachers who care and respect. Respect is in all capital letters because we heard that over and over and over from students. We want they wanted adults or teachers who respected them. They wanted adults who took the extra time, stayed after school, had lunch with them, maybe came early, but who took time to be with them and
050hear their concerns and needs. And they wanted school to not be boring. That's probably a universal thing across this nation. But they let us know that. They said one of the reasons that they're having difficulty in school is because it's boring. Teacher voice. uh teachers responded and said, you know, they want kids want to be respected. So do we. Uh so we're tired of the disrespect. We're tired of the insubordination. Uh so we want students to work on that on their end. They also teachers also were sentimental around they wanted wraparound services. They said, "Hey, when students are in situations where they're being insubordinate or we're having behaviors that are outside the norm, they said there's got to be additional support for them. We can't do all that in school. We can't do that. We
051can't teach and provide those wraparound services. And then they wanted to see restorative practices to reduce recidivism, meaning the repetitive repeated nature of when offenses happen. And then when students were suspended, they were coming back, then being suspended again, then coming back and suspended again. They said, "What what can you do to make sure that they don't keep returning after they're suspended? parent voice. Uh when students withdraw or excuse me, when families withdraw from Dayton public schools, um it there are a variety of things that happen. They come to the school and and give us reasons why they're withdrawing. They go to um student enrollment and give us reasons why they're withdrawing. And sometimes they call um our we have a um a a parent kind of a complaint log where you can call and
052tell why you're withdrawing. And one of the reasons was because they felt that schools were unsafe. Felt the schools were unsafe. They wanted institutions that were free from altercations. I thought about that when I wrote that. That is code word for fights. uh they wanted a calm environment in which order rules, clear hallways, efficient dismissals and entries and orderly lunches. They said the parents said those are some things that uh they felt were not happening and if I feel my kid is not safe uh specifically this is at the secondary level then I may take them out and move on to another option. We don't see uh this really at all at the elementary level. Uh, can you bring that up some or bring the screen? Uh, while they're doing that, what you see in
053front of you are the high school attendance rates. And one of the reasons that Jackson Center, the alternative school, is going to be important is we are working toward not having student exclusion. That means trying to make sure that we include students in attendance rates where they're not suspended. So, what happens in high school is and in middle school is you get a 10-day suspension, you go home for 10 days, and then when you come back, you're already chronically absent. And that's one of the reasons that the high school attendance rates, they almost never are as good as the elementaryaries with the exception of one school, sometimes one and a half. So, what you see here are the attendance rates at the high school. And you see 25 you see 76% for Belmont Ponent 83
054Dumbar 73 Metoell 81 Styver 90 Thood 79 I do want to make a special have a special shout out for Thood as you look at their attendance 69.9 75.9 and 79.1 that's a lot to do with the administrative team that team uh led by Miss Lewis they really respect kids care about kids take that extra time they do those things and when you do those things with kids you can see improvements in all type of metrics across the board in high school, middle school or elementary. So what we want to do again when you're remanded to or sent to Jackson Center it's in lie of suspension. So we don't want you absent at home for 10 days. We want you at Jackson Center with wraparound services so we can try to push up high school
055attendance rates. I'm ready. Chronic absenteeism. I just mentioned that your first 10 day try not 10 days try five uh at that point you're already on the way to being chronically absent and so we're trying to change that again by having inluspension at Jackson Center and once again where is thood you can see thood again that team uh again led by Miss Lewis they embody respect and shall we say love for the kids you can see it and feel it when you're in the building and you can look at their chronic absenteeism going from 66 70 to 82 you can see a 15% um decrease which is really positive uh in fact they lead the district in that space so what we're trying to do again is decrease chronic absenteeism increased attendance those are two
056reasons that we have Jackson center opening uh I don't know that the schools matter so you may not be able to get down further but these are level three incidences. Level three incidences are where's my chief right? Raise your hand. Chief Wright, those are those are some of the worst incidents that we have in our handbook. Uh they include weapons, uh drugs, and gang related activity and mult multifactor fights. Uh we uh want to make sure that we reduce level three incidences in schools so that they're safe. And you can see 25, 24, and 23. And you can see an increase on the far left. I believe that is Belmont. Um, and the others we've kind of stayed steady, but those are still too many. Um, you see triple digits level three offenses in some
057of the high schools. We got to get away from that. Uh, that screams unsafe. And then finally, here are the numbers for you. And once again, uh, you see Thood again with that leadership team that really cares about kids, EJ Brown, and then Meale, home of the Lions. That's another team that cares and loves kids and demonstrates it every day and shows it by respect. And you can see the decrease in the number of level three incidents. So, the principles are currently right now down in Liberty Center for the principal retreat for the next two and a half days. And we're having conversations around how how we treat kids and how staff treats kids. And staff is everybody. That means SSRO, that means food service, custodial, how we treat kids. That has a large effect
058on what we do in terms of chronic absenteeism and attendance. But if when we can't get it right, we want Jackson Center to be that failafe, kind of that parachute place where kids can go and we can make sure they're taken care of. And I want to make I just saw Chief right out the corner of my eye. This is part of Jackson Center does not stand alone. Don't think about it as stand alone. It's part of an entire comprehensive program that we have and all that offensive to make schools safe this year. So Jackson Center is one piece. Chief Wright and his team and the high school and middle school principles last spring met to put together a plan for this year for safe schools. And what that means is after 10:00, no entry.
059Um, unless you have a guardian or a parent with you, cannot be in school after 10:00. That means get to school on time. I can hear the backdrop of transportation. That actually might work out if you're not writing RTA and you're being dropped off. You might get to school even sooner. And also clear hallways. Make sure the hallways are clear and that teachers feel safe and that there's not a lot of disruption in school. So, we've been working very closely uh with Chief Wright and his team to again it's part of a safe schools campaign, not just Jackson Center, but again uh Thood Meale, but and but I'm going to double down on Thood again. Uh that's relationship right there. And you can see them in a green across the board. Uh I hear curriculum
060a lot. Uh what is curriculum? It's a set of activities, assignments, and assessments. Those are all academic terms. Uh what we really mean when we say curriculum at Jackson Center is we're going to use artificial intelligence, school AI to work as an individual tutor for kids. Artificial intelligence right now is a hot topic. And on one side, uh there's a group of people says that kids shouldn't use it. It's cheating. On the other side, they say it takes large volumes of information, makes it simple for kids so they can understand. Well, we heir on the side of large volumes of information. We want to simplify it so we can have the conversation with some of our most atrisisk students and we'll be using that at Jackson Center. In addition, Apex is our credit recovery tool
061that we use across the board and we're going to be using Apex to credit recover in the building. And we'll also be using direct instruction with tier 2 and three supports. All fancy words for um it's not just the teacher teaching, but we're trying to make this a process that is different. uh so that kids will enjoy the time that they're there as best they can and we can help rehabilitate them with that last bullet which says restorative practices or restorative circles. Uh we currently um train the entire district at the secondary level on restorative circles. We got to do a better job of implementing it. Uh training is one thing, implementing is another uh so that um we cannot see recidivism but that will be a major part of what we do strategically at
062Jackson Center. It'll be part of the curriculum where it happens every day uh when we get our restorative circles together and get to the bottom of some of the conflicts and trauma uh that some of our students have. Transportation. The expectations will be that grades 9 through 12 parents will transport students to and from Jackson Center. Seventh and eighth grade parents will transport to school. And I'm working with Dr. Jones to think about alternatives for the PM. We have not completely fleshed that out. Uh but the reason that middle school and high school are different is we offer K through 8 busing for kids in Dayton public. We don't offer it on yellow buses 912. So it's an idea around thinking about how we can um how we can help support those students in the
063afternoon. I I do want to say another shout out to transportation. I I used to spend a lot of time there and um you you've done an amazing job of Craig and your team of getting lots of extra drivers, having routes be on time and I think uh we have the possibility because I know you you never turn down work. Uh I know that for a fact. So we have a possibility of trying to figure that out and have I see you. You never turn down work. How we get those seventh and eighth graders home from Jackson Center. We have some additional time because Jackson Center uh will be open two weeks after school. Um so we have some additional time. It's not as urgent as the other piece around transportation for the beginning of
064school. goals, as I've mentioned a number of times, reduce the number of level two and level three infractions, minimize the number of repeat suspensions, create small groupoup student support for struggling students, and develop safer spaces in all of our secondary schools so that students can learn, teachers can teach. It's really that simple. What ifs and what abouts? What if and what about? What if your guardian doesn't drop the student off at the school? The suspension will not begin until the student arrives at Jackson Center. The days will be counted as unexcused absences and our truency team will dis will be dispatched after the third day. You got to get there. What if a student is involved in a level three infraction while at Jackson Center? That depends on what the level three infraction is. Um,
065it's possible that students could be expelled from Jackson Center, but this is an opportunity. I am really remiss. I should have said this early on. It's a major gap in my presentation. Lolita Christian is the principal of Jackson Center, the alternative school. Um, for those people who know her, caring, loving, uh, is in the community, been around Dayton public schools for almost 30 years. Uh, she finds a way to build relationships with kids. couldn't be a better fit for here. So, I hope we don't have to have any expulsions from uh Jackson Center. How many days will students be present at Jackson Center? The plan is for five and 10 day stays at Jackson Center. So, you'd be in le of suspension for five or 10 days based on a level two or level three
066offense. There may be some students who were there based on uh the high school principal list that they're working on right now. Uh they may be there um for extended periods and possibly all year uh depending on um their evaluation status. I'm ready. What if my student has an IEP? Is Jackson Center a change of placement? Yes. So the office of exceptional children is involved in the team at Jackson Center. And any student that's sent to remanded or placed at Jackson Center, uh we have our OAC team that will make sure that we're in compliance. What if I refuse to attend Jackson Center? Uh that's not an option. Uh if you serve a suspension, you will be sent to Jackson Center for at least 5 days for restorative practices and re-entry protocol. What that means
067is if you don't go and you're gone for 5 or 10 days, no problem. But until you walk back into Meadowdale or any other school, you still have to go back there so that we can go through restorative practices and try to understand why you were suspended. What about lunch and recess? Uh lunch will be catered during the first half of the year. Recess is optional and will be handled by the principal. And I've also got a question. What about grades lower than seven? Possibly in the future it could go from 4 to 12 because we have prek through three mandatory nonsuspension. In Ohio is Ohio is one of the states where you can't by law Ohio revised code suspend kids prek through three. There are some states where it's prek through six where you
068can't suspend them. But this these are future plans. Um we have not fleshed those out yet. Can I participate in sports? No. Uh who will my teachers be? We don't know all of this at time at this time, but we have at least 20 applications and we'll be hiring and transferring teachers soon. Uh I wrote a note to myself, we we may need or we'll need a special board meeting uh to staff the school prior to the beginning of the school year. Uh policy on naming the school. I keep saying Jackson at alternative alternative at Jackson. Uh there's a process for that. Uh, and the board of education determines the name of the school. It's currently Jackson. Uh, as academics, we're out of the business of naming, not our deal. Uh, we're about making it
069a world-class facility and making sure your kids are taken care of, but the naming of it, that's left to the board. So, um, those considerations, uh, as you can see in front of you, are about individuals who have had outstanding contributions, uh, the geographical location of the building, uh, and other appropriate names as deemed by the board. I did email the board and ask if uh we could name it the um William Smith Academy and they said no. The superintendent must form a naming committee that includes administrators, parents, committee members, employees and students. Whenever you see superintendent, you should always think superintendent slashdesign. Um because a superintendent does some work, but most of the work is done by the staff. So, Miss Sharon Goins uh and Lolita Christian will uh lead the work of forming
070that committee um and getting input and then giving recommendations to the board as a function of that committee. And then I thought this was interesting. The board will not be influenced by personal prejudice, favoritism, political pressure or uh this is tempor temporary popularity. Uh, finally, uh, we are DPS. Uh, I'll take questions from the board. Thank you, Dr. Lawrence. I'm going actually kick us off because you said some things that were a little different than what we heard at the board retreat on Saturday. Well, that's cuz, you know, um, you you and I have talked about this. Let's let's start with the the sports one. Can you give us a little bit more on that because we got a different answer on the sport when based on in lie of termination or suspension and suspension.
071So give me a little bit more. I'll give you a little bit more. At the retreat we had this qu I asked the question at the retreat. Uh I was trying to figure out if you're there in lie of suspension. So suspension is suspension means no athletics. No no no no no. In lie of means we're sending you somewhere else to serve the term, right? So, you're not really kind of like suspended. You're going somewhere else. And the question was, can you still participate in athletics? I was thinking possibly practice, certainly not games. Um, and as I listened to the conversation and I watched the chief of athletic director's eyes, um, there are other um, considerations that have to be made that I think are too complex. So, as the superintendent, I just made a
072decision. Uh, it's no. And of course when we send this recommendation to you, you can veto it, but that's my going to be my recommendation. A follow up on that one. The the students that are there that aren't suspended, is that still applicable to them as well? No. So let's go. Let's say very good. Let's say you um so currently, like I said, in Cincinnati right now, the principles are getting together and they may have they are may have a batch of maybe 28 to 35 kids. Um once we have parental support, parental petition, parental participation and parental sign off, you were not remanded there because you had a level two or level three offense. You were there because you chose a different setting because you might like the curriculum we're offering. No, you don't
073have to not participate in sports. You're eligible. And where did you land on if these would be non-enrolled or if they will be coded to home schools? I'm sorry, Dr. Goodwin, I could not hear you. Where did you land on if these will be treated as non-enrolled students like the international school or if they will be treated like have home schools like Dayton Digital? Uh we landed on home schools and are we going to do that same thing with the international school? Yeah, we're going to correct that. Yeah. So we had a conversation around that actually this morning while we at the retreat uh while we waiting to ramp up had a little mini athletic conversation and we we are going to go back and correct that. All right. Thank you Mr. Walker. No problem.
074Uh Dr. Lawrence, so question for me. Um a principal has said with parental or not necessarily parental, you're going to the alternative school. Is there an appeal process from the principal and that parent not agreeing with that to you or to not agree with the being sent to the alternative school? Yes. So which which set of students? The students that are well there's three sets. the students that are um on home instruction that are from OAC, those seats are given. They're going to be there. That's going to save us um quite a bit of money. I don't know the exact number, but I have to get that from Miss Denmore. Um you've addressed that several times, like Dr. Lawrence, why are we paying the ESC all this money? So 8.9. So we're working on it.
075So that's going to um save us money. So that's not an option there. Then the option where where you were um you're suspended, there's no options there. the option around hey um parent participation you agree to this um yeah that's that's an that's not an appeal if the parent agrees then then you go now if the parent doesn't agree oh then you you stay where you are we can't we can't do that okay that's we can't do that by law second question I have so the last board meeting I asked will Jackson center be open the first day of school the answer then was yes so now it's two weeks after the first day of school so What's the plan going to be for those students in the meantime? Yeah, thank you. So, I think
076yeah, I did I did say yes and I I quipped after that, too, that I said I know the board members will be there the first day. And actually, I I mentioned two weeks cuz I said you'll probably be there the first day. I'm letting you know now that for the first two weeks um you won't see any of the um students who are on the five and 10 day suspension. uh and you won't see the kids who the principles right now are saying, "Hey, let's get parent permission. We think this might be a good placement for you given that we're going to use alternative means of instruction." Uh you I got to talk to Dr. Dmore to see if her people will be ready, the uh home instruction folks. So, I have to email
077you back on that one. Okay. Um but but the five and 10 day suspension that starts after the first two weeks. Thank you. And then a part of your presentation said something about recess. Middle schoolers and high schoolers get recess. So, uh, middle school, yes, we have recess at middle schools. Really? Uh, yeah. Yeah. If you go to Wright Brothers, there's recess. Used to have it used to have it at EJ Brown with the former principal. I don't know what the current was going to do, but yeah. Um, and then last question is for Dr. Jones, actually. So, where did we land on nutrition services staff at this facility? So, that's a question I have to defer to my colleague, Dr. Marvin B. Jones. Jones. Actually, we're going to utilize uh staff members from other
078buildings uh the first couple of weeks of school and uh by the second semester, we should know um if we need to fully staff the building. Okay, I appreciate it. Thank you. No problem. Thank you. Any other questions? Go ahead, Miss Wick. Thank you. Thank you for the presentation, Dr. Lawrence. Uh and I know you know we're just getting this off the ground but if you look at the numbers on the number of um level three incidents you know based on so Belmont is was at this point in time 7 through 12 uh opponents was 9 through 12. um the numbers, but the the story of the numbers really says that our junior high buildings really have the highest degree of incidents based on junior high buildings only have seventh and eighth graders, buildings with
079300 kids in them. So, what is the uh the track look like for being able to capture some of these behaviors early on for our junior high kids so that potentially in high school, you know, we're eliminating some of that. I think what you're mentioning is per capita uh there may be more level three offenses at the middle school. So we I'm just going to say it now. Um we have um we have an emphasis this year. I mentioned third grade marshall repeatedly. Um a lot of these level three offenses are there three things. One, they really are level three offenses. Um if uh there are several board members who spend time in school, you can't get away from these things happen. Um I would be dishonest if I said there w they weren't happening.
080And we have again we have a um a complete focus on have on safe schools this year. Uh Chief Wright and I are looking forward to our results. So they're happening. The other one is how teachers code things. Um this is like in real life like when you're stopped by a police officer and they they instead of one charge you get six or seven or eight and then they call the principal. Um, and so sometimes teachers are coding things as level three offenses on in terms of how they feel. They're really not level three offenses. And so we have to um tease out um being culturally responsive to how you how you address what you see as an educator um in that space. And then we have to also at the leadership level begin to
081really build those relationships. And it's really hard to do at the middle school level. You spend a lot of time there. Middle schoolers in some in in many instances can be more difficult than high school. So, thank you for that question. Um, that is why um let's just say that not sure what happened at the retreat, but that is that was not that was not accurate. Um, I have I was at the last meeting with all of the 7 through 12 principles and I don't remember any um communication with me uh or Lisa Miner, the assistant superintendent that said we were doing 912. This has always been a 712 venture with the idea around how do we get back to do four, five, and six um as quickly as possible. Thank you. Thank you. Any
082other question? Mr. Smith. Uh Mr. Smith. Yes. Um so first, so you said won't be open until two weeks after school starts, correct? So what will we be doing? We go buy buckets of students. the OEC bucket. What's going to be with that? They'll just be continuing what they would have done before until we're ready. No, I think the OEC bucket, they're already moving on that because we know where they are. We know who they are. That's okay. So, that's probably why I'm asking for clarity because the way it looks, it's like it looks concrete across the board. Okay. So the students that would need the the parental sign off for those that say, "Hey, maybe your child had XYZ going on. Maybe this might be better." Or even a parent that comes in and
083says, "Hey, I think this might be." Are they going to be waiting in this holding somewhere for two weeks or will they be ready when the school year starts? So, our thinking is that when we have schedule preview, and you've been to those before, uh, and they're typically about a week before school, uh, that we would not let we would notify the parents before that, but that at schedule preview, we have the sit down to say, "Hey, this is a possibility. Where are you?" And at schedule preview, that's an appropriate time to do it because if we if if your guardian say, "Hey, will Smith's a go?" Then we can begin the process with Delina, student enrollment, student assignment of transferring you over to um Jackson Center. So there's the possibility of those students being
084there the day one instead of the second week. Yes. It's a possibility of that group being there day one. The parent consent. So what you're saying the group that will not be there for the first two weeks are the group that are there in lie of or to serve out of 5 to 10 day suspension. Correct. And that is that's because the high school and middle school principles uh I was in the meeting when they agreed to this and I I agree to this as a former high school principal that we kind of get some for the most part we kind of get some grace the first two weeks. I'm looking at Mr. Walker. He's shaking his head. He was in school. There wasn't a lot going on the first couple weeks and then after
085people's shoes get a couple scuffs on them and people get to know each other then things start to happen. So that group we're just kind of uh easing into that. Well, I I don't know. I done been in some of these buildings sometime, Dr. Lawrence. I seen some fights that won. Well, change real quick sometime. Well, yeah. I don't know. Maybe the game has changed. It's been a while since I was high school principal. I'm just saying get frisky first day sometimes. Okay. Well, well, Chief Wright is over my shoulder. I know we're going to be all over this. It's going to be safe schools. Safe. That's what I wanted to get cleared up because I don't want people out there watching thinking that, you know, cuz that these students would be at say a
086dumbar or a third good and be there for two weeks knowing that in two weeks they're about to go to this other space. Oh no, that's a license. I want to make sure with everything we're talking about, we're clearing it up. Um, also my thought is I think think you already addressed it, but just make sure that's crystal. Um, you got it. For students that are in that voluntary track, they would still have their home school. Correct. That is correct. So then that they would be eligible for extracurriculars at their home school. Correct. Absolutely. Okay. So I want that to be clear. So it's those students who are at a school and they are get into some kind of trouble then it's basically the same protocol of what they would have to do if they
087were suffering going through the same issues at their school. So they're being there those are the students who are not then allowed to get involved in extracurriculars because they're serving out what they would be serving out which I totally am cool with. I just want to make so we were um waiting that for this presentation. Now that it's over, there have been some questions that you all have asked that we're going to add to the slide deck and then we're going to clean it up and then put it on the website uh so that it's available for the public. Okay. Yeah. Because then I have some questions when we're talking about with a chart this space and saying, okay, if I have volunteer students and then I have kids come over because some things happened,
088like looking into what does that look like in classroom spaces? um what does that look like and how are we moving them together and those kind of circles. I would love to be able to see our parents come through. I think it would be good too to just invite them out once we get it going uh to be able to see that because some students just might need a different space. So then my other question following is what if there is a student who gets into it at their school, gets into some kind of trouble, needs some kind of reset, needs some kind of restorative space, and they're over here and between staff, student, parent, they go, you know what, this is a better fit for my child. What does that look like? If I'm
089a parent and my child gets into some trouble is over at this alternative space and goes, "You know what, Jackson fits my child better?" What does that look like in your mind right now? Cuz in my mind, what I would fear or would not want to see happen is a child embrace that space more, get taken out of that space to go back to whatever school they were at. And now because you see this in in different industries and different spaces where it's it's that I I was able to go over to where I like being at by doing this behavior. And so then they start that behavior in and what I wouldn't want is a process so that you won't lose any credits and we can continue to move forward with your education at
090Jackson Center. What it looks like is um making that change with your home school and then you become a Jackson Center student or whatever name you all come up with. Okay. And then I think this is the last one for right now that I was thinking um in the space here you spoke a lot about restorative practices. In doing so I would want and I think I know your answer but are we going to make sure that we're still embodying restorative practices in our other buildings? I wouldn't want it to be a space where okay child does this write you up you're out of here peace out and you do the restorative stuff there but we're not still constantly working because we'll need the restorative I think if you have that restorative practices in the
091other buildings then I over time you may see a reduction of the need to send people in the lie of the five and 10 day things so that that was part of the presentation about saying that hey this is about relationships so we we shouldn't have to do this if you do those things that you're talking about then we shouldn't and have to send uh everyone there. And no, you can't. We're not we're not going to give the adults an easy way out to to do to say that, hey, I don't want to do restorative practices. So, you go there and and Miss Christian and her team do it. Actually, in we I was studying Denver public. They have a committee um and Miss Douly I think is leading that. No problem. No problem. Appreciate
092you. Are there any other questions? All right. Thank you, Dr. Lawrence. Oh, absolutely. Back to closing comments. Miss Wick, thank you. Uh, thank you all the transportation people for coming out this evening. There's Oh, oh, I always love seeing all of our people come out, but transportation, you have such heart and passion and you're such a community and I love that. And my mom and dad were both bus drivers. So, uh, got up with my mom every morning at like 4:30 and rode the school bus so my brother didn't beat me up. Anyway, but just kind of kidding. Anyway, thank you Dr. Goodwine for a wonderful board retreat this weekend. and uh we had some great learning experiences and the board joined together and um you know got to know each other a little bit
093differently and that was very nice. One of the presentations that Dr. Lawrence mentioned and that we approved tonight is the junior ROC program which I'm so excited about for I watched something the other day on a jump rope jump rope and I think that we should have some jump rope clubs and they do what is the old double dutch when they did the whole double Dutch thing. So, I just throw that out because I'm always looking, we're looking for after school activities, after school things for kids to do. And I think a jump rope club would really, these kids are real physical. They like to move and music and dance, and I think it would be fantastic. So, um, other than that, super excited for the school year. Uh, all the work that's being done.
094I appreciate you all and the energy that you're bringing to Dayton public schools and the work that we're doing and proud to be a part of it. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Yes. Um last uh this past Thursday I I attended the uh finance committee meeting and uh everything seemed to be in good order. I want to thank the treasurer um our the treasury staff and and all the staff for for the um honor you bring to the to the Dayton Board of Education. the um state house will meet again July 21st. So although items were vetoed out of the governor's uh budget um they may come back in this special session that is being called. Um lastly I will say my comments on the high school transportation uh as a board and our um
095leadership who reports directly to us regarding high school transportation. We have not said that we are not doing anything. We just told our team to come up with like what is the best option to make things work. I will echo um what I said before is that to be clear that also is saying that no D public schools will not pay overtime for staff to work at the hub or the library. You did not want our kids downtown. You figure out how to do it yourself. We're not going to waste our dollars of trying to help situations and you continue to not come to the table and provide your own funding for things, but then you want to go. Hey, that's my comments. Thank you all. Dr. Lawrence, uh I would like to thank lot
096of fun got some work done. Um, I would like to take this opportunity to send a special thank you to Sarah Cosner who's the assistant principal at Eastmont and Megan Whitman who's the assistant principal at Wagaman. Uh, they both received job offers in other districts um and they have stayed uh while they could have been off at home and worked with the administrative team uh at each one of those schools. Waggleman, Eastmont, Miss He worked with Miss Cawer and then worked with Miss Jackson at Wagam and party with the principles and assistant principles. Uh, and uh, congratulations to Madam Treasurer. Uh, wonderful job and winning winning yet another award. And again to the board, Dr. Jones and I, I saw an email exchange earlier. We will be um, sending you a proposal on transportation options
097within the next 24 hours. Thank you. I do want to thank everybody that was a part of the board retreat. Mr. Lacy missed it because he was out living his best life, but that's okay. We had a good time. Thank you to my team, Miss Kid and Miss Garren. You guys did a great job of making sure things were there. Thank you to Dr. Davis who I pulled in at the last minute to copy something I saw her do and it worked out really well for us. Chief Webb, you and Dr. Davis gave a great great little talk that helped individuals learn a lot more about payroll and HR and I do believe it was a really needed discussion. Mr. Anderson did a great job also giving us some transportation information and us having that
098dialogue as well. Dr. Jones, you jumped in on that one, too. I think we learned a lot about our leadership styles and the styles of those who were there. So, I do appreciate Chief Jones, thanks for coming out. Hollis, we learned a lot. Miss Hamilton and I think that was there's some other people there, but I don't see them here. So, I'm not going to say their names. We're just gonna act like they didn't come. So, that's You said he's not here. We're not going to call people who not here. It's as if he wasn't even there. It didn't even happen. So, I appreciate that. I want to thank the transportation team. Miss Miss Winfrey is always very vocal and is a major advocate for your team. So, thank you for continuing to do your
099part. Thank you for the individuals cuz it takes a lot of courage to come and advocate for yourself. It is easy for some people who do it naturally, but to do it for yourself is a real step that is needed. I'm going to echo my colleague, Mr. Walker, not only advocating for yourself in this space, but as a community, that is something that we need more and more as we are on this journey right now. like the transportation situation is just one example of where community voices are needed consistently and repeatedly for us to find solutions. I do want to address one thing about the bus passes cuz my mom stopped me cuz she got stopped in the hair salon and she said she didn't know how to answer and I told her that I
100would state at the meeting that just because Dayton public schools is not buying bus passes that does not prevent individual caregivers to buy a bus pass for your child. Your child is not prevented whatsoever from stopping to get on the bus if you purchase the pass from them. The only difference here is that Dayton public schools will not be purchasing the passes because there are constraints on what could happen with that pass if we buy it. So, I do want to be clear if the bus is something that you are choosing to utilize, you still have that ability. Nothing has changed for you besides you being or your family being the one to purchase that. Let's see. I also want to thank my team, my customer service committee team. We had over 50 plus district
101employees apply to join the customer service committee. I know we out here and they have been doing interviews like crazy because yeah, it's a big thing. A lot of people want to be on here which is really great for our district that people want to see us get better in customer service. So yes, thank you for that one and we are excited. I have nothing to do with the selection process and I am very grateful for that. So, I can't wait to see who the team ultimately decides to move forward and I'm still advocating that there's a place for a lot more than what they intended because I think that's going to help us ultimately really improve customer service throughout the district. Madam treasurer, I will say I've been here for all four of these
102awards and I like to believe that I'm your good luck charm out here because this wasn't happening until I got on the board. I don't know what they were doing. So, it's really our award. Uh, I'm just looking at consistency here. The rest of these people have been in your life longer than me, but when we got together, you may be, but she's got she's a four Pete out here. That makes me a four P. It's really good. Mr. Lacy was here before me. They didn't have a streak. Mr. Smith and Miss Wick were as well. Didn't have a streak. So, we're winning right now. And I appreciate the Treasury team. It don't count. I have four. So, thank you all for that piece. And I'm excited that we continue to have these audits that
103continue to show again the excellence that is occurring with our treasury department and ensuring that we are fiscally responsible. I want to thank the team that put us here. One of the reasons we come out to the school is not only to experience a board me as board members what our staff and students endure in the school cuz today I learned it is hot in metal deal and it's a different level of hot and we got to work on this AC unit here cuz you know this wasn't one of the hottest days. We also got to learn about the technology gaps that we have here and I think those are things that we can improve to ensure that people who use these products and these systems that they actually have them available. So, I appreciate
104that the technology gaps that we saw because we got to see some real gaps in the school and those give us opportunities to improve those for the people who utilize these every day. The air situation though, Dr. Jones, if your team can look into this cuz yes, we definitely want our team to be comfortable when they are in these places cuz that's a big thing. Man, it is hot. So, I like it to be a cool 69. That's all I'm asking for. You should be able to put a sweater on and go, "All right, if I need to take it off cuz I get hot, that's what I want." So, yes. So, with that, thank you everybody who came out this I believe actually we we have one more school that we're going to attend.
105Our next meeting is at EJ Brown, which will be our final selection of this summer tool. Shout out to Mr. Lacy that has us all here at 4:30, which is pushing me as a board member cuz it is a complete change from 5:30 to get here. So, thanks Mr. Lacy. We can do that. Pursuant to section 121.22G2 of the high revised code. I move that this board go into executive session. This meeting is being held to consider the employment employee and dismissal of a public employee. Is there a second? Second. Moved by Dr. Goodwine, second by Mr. Lacy. Any questions on the motion? Seeing none, Madam Treasur, may we have a vote? Yes. Mr. Lacy. Yes. Mr. Smith. Yes. Mr. Walker. Good. Mr. Walker. Yes. Miss Wick. Yes. Five. Yeses.