001[Music] i stay with me because someone stay for me um i've had good teachers who have poured into me during my toughest times at high school and even after high school so i 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 hello my name is molly and this this school is called v monasury school and and the show that you are watching is called ask a kindergarten ax and the kindergartener [Music] okay so what's your name what's your name miriam what's your name dan dton yes so what's your favorite animalad lion what's your favorite um
002animal miriam i like elephants what's your favorite animal a lion what's your what's your favorite cartoon a shot car yes all right let's move on what's your favorite costume um super kitties hey super kitties super kitties i like that that's rude what's your favorite spiderman oh wait what's your favorite com book boy what's your favorite comic book spiderman what's your favorite comic book not a show okay comic book i got one all right what's your favorite comic book i don't have one what's your favorite comment i have and that's perfectly fine m i have that's perfectly fine i have a dinosaur dinosaur i'm not a copy book i don't like dinosaurs raise your hand i know how what's your favorite book if you don't have a comic book a comic book no it's a book
003like those not a comic book book okay a spider-man one what's your favorite book are you scared no i 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 outside everybody so let's let's move on what's your favorite book uh dinosaurs why does it always have to be dinosaurs because i like dinosaurs what's your favorite food i'm first no you're not i can't think who's first 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 let's move on what's your favorite movie um spider-man what's your favorite movie
004dinosaur why are we dinosaurs movie why there's nothing because dinosaurs that's a cartoon because i like dinosaurs dinosaurs is not a movie yes they is no it isn't that's hard downstairs [Music] thanks for watching as kindergarten [Music] make sure you subscribe [Music] so today we'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 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
005small 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 group 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
006in 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 greater dayton community [Music] [Applause] i think 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] 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
007of showing up so we're here today are you are you [Music] side is right next to them db's 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 hard work for me hard work on three work on three help me [Music] heat [Music] [Music] [Music] heat hey heat [Applause] [Music] all right hey get out of here let's get out of here this is our first ever dps cares health and wellness fair we have vendors from a lot of local agencies here this event offers outreach for our families we are trying to hook them up with different services in our community we wanted to make sure parents got messages about wellness so we were able to bring our guest
008speakers in we wanted to make sure that they had access to some of the great things like the yoga and chair massages and we definitely want to feed everyone when they come out we just want to show them how much dayton public loves them loves their children and cares about them and their health and their welfare i think they're going to take home that it is okay to take care of yourself and we have to take care of ourselves before we can take care of others ways that they can take care of themselves and ways that they can take care of their families everyone saying how wonderful this has been the kids are having a ball their faces are painted they have great prizes they're getting lots of good information we had massage therapists come
009in i've had multiple people say "i got a chair massage and i feel so good right now same thing there's a button on the bottom button on the bottom i don't know which way i'm just testing testing is this working check all right let's get some clarific check check turn the mic on the top under the yellow tape y'all see the red button check check right there testing testing we got it all right everybody ready to see it's on yes i am on it's already on oh cuz i'm about to get it started testing it's on it's just you got to not it is on since he's not going to be here all right madam treasurer may we have a roll call i'd like to call this meeting to order madam treasur may we have
010a roll call sure dr goodwin can you hear me yeah your mic turn and this is show red if you own template yourself dr bailey here mr lacy he has an excused absence mr smith here miss rhina present mr walker here miss wick present six present please stand for the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all amen say amen to say amen to always i need i need it yes i need it i got will on this side and eric on the other side i need some i know that's what i said our mission is to inspire educate and empower our vision is to inspire educate and empower
011scholars for a lasting impact and our purpose is to cultivate a supportive and engaging educational experience first up we have hearing from our bargaining units are there any bargaining units that would like to speak today all right next up we have hearing of the public madam treasur do we have speakers registered to speak no to now okay so we do not have anyone so we will just move formally into our first recommendation dr lawrence thank you dr goodmore i recommend approval of the following be administer if i may madam president we do have somebody in the audience who said she signed up to speak there's someone in the audience who signed up to okay go ahead and go to the mic let me get some things for you we will get you going thank you
012board member riner mr walker can you serve as our timekeeper please limit remarks to three minutes it is inappropriate to address any matter impending pending disputes grievances under a labor agreement disciplinary actions involving an employee or student ongoing labor negotiations concerns or matters that have already been settled in or any matter which because of its nature is being appropriated to be discussed in executive session mr walker will say something when your time is up and we can see you even though you have a little glow shadow glow on you so your floor is yours yeah sorry what's your name and address my name is elizabeth hudson i'm at 130 west second street dayton ohio um first of all sorry about the mistake i i filled it out this morning at 11 so anyway my name
013is elizabeth hudson i'm an attorney in the education practice group with advocates for basic legal equality or able we're a nonprofit regional law firm that provides free leg legal assistance in 32 counties throughout western ohio i serve parents and students in the dayton area and advocate for policy on their behalf i'm here to draw attention to some transportation concerns that have been affecting our clients in the last academic year first abel sees the district's challenges related to transportation we recently advocated at the state house for more transportation funding in the ohio budget state transportation policy and funding contribute to our clients challenges we recognize that you're asked to do too much with too little but funding aside there are some policies that the district could put together to support our clients um our clients who
014are busted with dps last year had seen frequently late buses or noticed that it wouldn't come at all um this creates worry about attendance and truency issues loss of learning if they're missing early morning classes and in some cases financial costs where um parents have been leaving to pick up their children from work and losing those hours and hiring a car to get their children to school on time paying more than $20 each way sometimes so these are some of the things we see and this is for parents to make sure they can get their kid to and from school um we also have multiple parents who have alleged problems with how their young children were treated sometimes five and six-year-old on the bus unkind words um for for young children by bus drivers impatience
015for students with disabilities and five or six year olds left at the wrong stop so when our clients allege these things our steps are to investigate right we try to find out if these allegations and issues are true or we ask the district to in at least two cases our requests haven't gotten response in february of this year we know dps passed an important policy prohibiting insults against students and requiring respect empathy and professionalism towards students it applies to any personnel that interact with them so this policy needs to be enforced meaningfully it requires an investigation it requires a written report and seconds thank you and it requires that those records are retained when i have requested these records they've been hard to come by um from this we urge dps to change some policies
016in practice to better support dayton families create a clear internal policy about video retention within the district regularly train all employees that interface with families on records law um and make sure those records are turned over timely and consistently thank you could i just finish this one yes go ahead thank you so much um review your training curriculum for drivers to make sure that um they can better support students with disabilities and all students i understand that there is state laws that um require education around students with disabilities and we have no reason to believe that the district isn't necessarily putting those in place but we want to make sure that they have the strength necessary um and lastly adopt clear timeline policies for those investigations i alluded to earlier um so that people know
017what to expect and they can get those responses before the school year runs out which is what we ran into this year again this information that i'm sharing with you today these client stories is to improve the experience for all students at dps and in dayton so thank you for your attention and time today again sorry about the mixup i know you have a hard job but keep it up thank you for your comments and if you stop right there to the right of you you'll see dr jones and i'm just going to ask him to follow up with you please thank you do we have any anyone else or that was there none on there correct madam treasure i didn't get any okay all right so we will move on now to the superintendent's
018recommendations thank you i recommend i recommend the approval of the following b administrative certified d classified e classified exempt f supplemental and g athletic supplemental appointments was there a motion so moved is there a second second moved by miss wick second by dr bailey please turn your mic on dr bailey bring closer to you all right give you guys a moment to look at everything on the motion see if there are any questions b c and d b c d e f g [Music] any questions on the motion go ahead mr smith i would like to have a discussion on that is your mic mr smith just bring coffee to you hello is it on yep little closer closer uh c10 in executive session i had a question on with it placement okay are you
019going to vote separately after exact yep all right anything else yeah go ahead just clarification on where did that just go t o sa is teacher on special assignment yes can i ask what's special about that assignment right on c22 [Music] hi um the teacher on special assignment position used to be a teacher leader position that was removed from dea and so we're now using the term teacher on special assignment we're no longer allowed to call them teacher leaders okay thank you you're welcome are there any other questions see none madam treasure may we have a vote when everything except for c 10 which will be after executive session president goodwin yes dr bailey yes mr smith yes miss rhinard yes mr walker yes miss wick yes six yeses all right dr w next i
020recommend approval of the following consultants motion second by walker second by dr bailey any questions on the motion seeing none may we have a vote president goodwin no dr bailey no mr smith consult right no item h after dea after july 10th oh no it said his next recommendation no he said contract he said consultant he did i'm out of order who's a parliamentary is that you can we go back uh open the motion we got to remove the motion you put the motion did i miss the motion i'll remove my motion all right let me go back to h all right okay dr go no wait wait wait back up recommendation dr morris i recommend the pro approval of the following contract not contracts human resources da after 10th green moved by mr walker
021is there second by miss wick any questions on the motion yes seeing none do we have a vote oh go go ahead miss ryan so my uh i think my wi-fi and my computer is slow and i just am waiting for my page to refresh so i can actually see the page even though i i know it's there and it is there now but i was it's good yeah anybody you got a question mr smith i know i said somebody said okay i did have a question what says da after july 10th so is it after july 10th when they submit the resignation or if they're leaving after july 10th then excuse me it's both in her case she submitted it before july 10th but it is dated after july 10th so therefore it's after
022july 10th okay would this be a would this still be a mark although it's before that july 10th date yes because of the date of the resignation so she's going to remain on our books and then essentially she's resigning in august she needs to resign now in order to not be affected by the july 10th or before july 10th okay thank you yes sir are there any other questions go ahead mr smith so you're saying her resignation date on what was submitted is to resign after july 10th correct which is the date that should be listed on there all right any other questions seeing none we have a vote president goodwin no dr bailey no mr smith no miss reard no mr walker yes miss wick no five no one yes all right dr lawrence
023your next recommendation now here we go i recommend the follow approval of the following consultants is there a motion so move second moved by mr walker second by dr bailey any questions on the motion one second wi-fi seriously dr jones can we have someone look into the wi-fi situations cuz if the seven of us are having issues i can only imagine with the people actually work in the building it's the ghost thank you all right any questions on the two consultants up for the vote my goodness go ahead mr smith uh someone want to give me some information on um the parent calf training for the parent ambassadors interested to hear a little more about that sure no problem at all um we as part of our title one parent engagement we have to do
024that um per the federal government and they have to be trained as well uh we we can't just have them in the school without unified training so part of that training is on how to interact with students um how to interact with our title one supplies and how to give out um supplies that are also aligned with our ost data osct okay will that be a one-time thing um uh ongoing how how does that training look uh this training is ongoing it should be every year so this should be reoccurring no not recurring every year meet during the year is it once per year or is it as needed what does it look like in the calendar it's part of the cat parent cafe training meeting so in that meeting there's a training section and
025they meet once a month okay cool cool i'd love to hear more about it in a problem see how it's going appreciate president goodwin go ahead miss wood how does one become an ambassador a parent in a cafeteria typically that's building level the principal selects them um but there are parents who are really active and they select themselves so all you parents out there that are listening if you want to volunteer in your schools take advantage of this parent cafe training that's exciting space thank you any other questions all right see none madam treasure may we have a vote president goodwin yes dr bailey yes mr smith yes miss rhod yes mr walker yes miss wick yes six yeses dr law your next recommendation i recommend approval of the following contracts so move second moved
026by mr walker second by miss wick any questions on the contracts i do have one uh dr dr lawrence can i actually get some information on the uh boon shop school of medicineou take flight uh which is started by sher gail was now with house of bread uh essentially we have that at two schools belmont and thood good and we provide um experiences for them work work experiences in terms of what they can see in the future and so we have a official uhou with them all right thank you yeah any other questions yes go ahead mr smith um i had one product key behavior services llc um what are some of the main goals that we want to see with that contract on um let's see that'd be right for me that's a no
027well i can tell you uh as we talked about that i wrote it and sent it back to the board but essentially uh this is support for uh jackson center not primarily but support for jackson center and the students that we'll be sending there so that we can work on uh alternative behaviors if you remember we're sending student we have students there who are homeschooled we have students there who are um also students who are going to be suspended as we mentioned before and students who we identify who need to be tested so i believe key behavior will be over there providing supports so that we don't have to have all of oec over there and it's also a contract that we uh do right now the beginning of the year because it's districtwide as
028well all right and follow up with that what does the staffing level then look like through heat uh i have to get back with you i talked to miss dinsour about the staffing level um because we're she's part of the jackson center team actually we're still working on the staffing levels right now for we have we don't have a name for it yet but we're calling it jackson center instead of alternative school so i'll have to get back with you on those ftees for the whole building actually so and then lastly with that does that mean depending on what our staffing level or the capacity that we're looking to have at do you expect or do you feel that could happen that that not to exceed could increase i do uh and thanks for asking
029that board member if i do think it can increase given uh the work that we think we're going to be doing there because like i said that's districtwide with jackson center as a primary focus but we don't want to short uh the rest of the district so thanks for asking that in public today just in case we have to come back any other questions go ahead miss whit thank you on the not necessarily a question but on the east end community services and summer programming could we please get an update on um what is still available i know recently we just saw the athletic camps that are coming out and when our pio pushes that information out it's really valuable to our families i know that people are looking to keep their kids engaged this
030summer or looking for opportunities so what is left yet in july just kind of get our pio team on that and only know that because i've been looking for like esme and stuff so anyway i say that because it's helpful thank you that's all no problem i'll make a note of that [Music] any other questions um yes ma'am go ahead mr smith all right so this kind of goes inside of some of the behavioral services that we're looking at especially within like a jackson center opening dr lawrence yeah um while we will definitely be having students over at jackson center i don't want us to then overlook uh especially at our younger levels our teachers and getting the assistance needed with you know some of the behavioral issues that we see at a young age
031um some of the issues that they face which to me goes directly handinhand with teacher attention too as well as um just that morale in our buildings how are we going to be leveraging some of these contracts that are saying working with jackson how are we going to ensure that we're still providing our teachers in the rest of our buildings um assistance with the issues that they may have which affect classroom management affect their day-to-day affect their well-being and being here be it through a contract through some of the work we're trying to do pds um just what's your mindset on that please sir hey thanks for asking so the principal's institute is july the 15th that week of and um we need to we need to do a better job uh i thought we
032got better but we need to do better of providing uh access to those services so the first response can't be suspension so we need to work more with some airb healthists uh we need to implement our pbis practices more um we have additional uh support bcbas board certified behavior analysts who work in oec we need to really deepen uh that that framework and with fidelity and provide those supports that you're talking about cuz it's not just the 712 i mean we have we have issues with students in prek through six as well and it's best to identify and solve them first there so they don't um exacerbate themselves at the secondary level so thank you for the question we we are going to make sure that we emphasize and focus on that at k6 712
033since you have me um talking now 712 will be around safety and security uh we're going to also use those mental health services but uh we're going to have a really intense focus on making sure those halls are clear this year no kids are out they're in class and that we follow up and make sure we're uh supporting instruction um in those spaces a brief followup if i may madam president go ahead all right so i appreciate you putting that piece out there knowing that we also have kind of some barriers when we talk about mental health um regarding some of our younger students do we have any plans to work with our parents around the importance of mental health understanding that in some spaces um we need that okay for us to provide some
034services to our youth um i think that would be a good wraparound piece is really understanding the needs of some of our mental health services i know there's still been a stigma that's been there for years and years with just even the the idea around mental health so in your opinion what are some of the things that we could be doing to to help with that knowing that we cannot always just put children in programs we cannot always give them the resources because we also need the parents to accept those with some of the things that we're working on in our buildings uh i think the piece we just talked about with our parent ambassadors some of the pieces that we have and outreaching engagement what are some of your thoughts and ideas on how
035do we get our parents to understand the need for mental health services um and the need to address some of these behavioral issues that they see at a young age so all all the components that you mentioned they're all part of the mtss mult for the non-educators it's multi-ter systems of support and what that means is we have individuals coming from the entire building counselors the school site uh teachers um stu intervention specialists typically an administrator um and we and teachers from that grade level band or that grade if it's self-contained and the idea is to brainstorm around best practices and our resources and how we put that together in a package and then bring the parent in and let them know or guardian or who's ever supporting the student because it's not always the
036mom and dad um that hey listen this is not punitive and it's not kind of calling the student out it's a it's a process a systematic scientific process where we as a team we as a family um actually have identified these needs we've used intervention for six weeks we've not seen the change uh and we want to provide further intervention so explaining to the parents guardians or uh family members who help the child in that way i appreciate that i would definitely love to have a update on that in the upcoming months and seeing how we can get some parents involved and coming to the table and saying some of the best ways that we can talk to people sometimes it might not be us it might be a resource in their community so i
037definitely appreciate an update in the next few months on how that's going and just how power we can help our our families and our community no problem appreciate it so that's all i have thank you clear any other questions seeing none madam treasure may we have a vote president goodwin yes dr bailey yes mr smith yes miss rhard yes mr walker yes miss wick yes six yeses your next recommendation uh my next recommendation is a approval of the following bell schedule is there a motion so moved is there a second second moved by miss wick second by dr dailyaly i have a first question for you on this one can you tell us why we are just getting this this week why we didn't have this earlier uh i believe we had one up for
038viewing and we took it down a second could be wrong um and so we made some adjustments or revisions to that one um and it's it's june and i actually um to be honest i've asked the staff earlier this week and said "hey this should have been on and so we needed to get it on and so the public can see what their bail times are for next year." and can you tell us just a little bit of the feedback and any changes that have occurred to this bell schedule versus last year just so the general public will know that as well uh sure let's start with the departments were involved so would someone from transportation like to come up and talk about your side and want to talk about our side while he's coming
039just first give us the any changes that have occurred from last year's schools to this year uh changes to occurred that the second tier of the bell schedule is the 8 to three is much heavier um and the first tier is much lighter and i'll let transportation kind of where's he going well he sure did dribble he walked fast as dr jones you want to talk about transportation piece and that show oh he's coming back now he's going back i don't think he was coming talking to us oh maybe he wasn't i said he got his head maybe he wasn't listening i ask question hey the wife takes president over your wife call oh okay thank you yeah no my wife and my mom call i run out real quick i'm sorry about that so
040um we actually requested that wagam be moved to the first tier just to kind of one they used to ride with louis troy anyway some of those students actually were with their older siblings and vice versa so it kind of helped to alleviate some of the disciplinary problems on the on the bus but also going towards efficiency we're looking at this year we had about 16 vehicles going between both schools that are about a mile apart from each other the amount of students we had between both schools could have been done with about eight vehicles so we're looking at an efficiency standpoint trying to cut down in certain places so that we could have buses going other places uh and then on our end on the academic end all those folks are on cabin um
041judy spurlock rashard simmons i think miss duly was all about some of it and because of our our students who were going to college going to sinclair at 8:00 in the morning um we gave some feedback on uh athletics and went to no time we want the kids to get out we gave some feedback on how full buses were and weren't we gave some feedback on academics um there was really um flexibility going back and forth for transportation there are some things that are efficient that may not match up with best practices and academic research and what time kids should get up and go to school and so we were able to kind of bend and and move back and forth in a flexible manner through cabinet and through other special meetings that they had
042where our academics went out to the service center to help develop the schedule thank you dr b yeah i just and maybe you answered it i'm not sure but i see that belmont middle and belmont high are on tier two but then when you got styver high school was on tier two styver middle was on tier three why by detail on this side [Music] so many of the high schools and middle schools are at where they're at um just based upon sports schedules and things of that nature so that's for perfect example that's the reason why we bring um river's edge and charity adams to the middle tier so that they were actually able to um participate in some of those sports and get to some of the events that they need to get to
043um styver i believe i'm not looking at it right now one of the styvers actually gets out at 4:00 styver middle actually gets out at 4:00 um that was one that i really can't say that we addressed um too in too much depth at the time but in reality we realized that there are issues to having every school 8 to 3 in reality when we have every school 8 to 3 and they've been used to going at 4:00 already um it just leaves a little room it it gives us very little room to actually get routes covered and taken care of thank you thanks for mentioning that mr [ __ ] we will not you know we're waving the flag now this will not make every teacher administrator parent happy it's impossible um given the sheer volume
044of and scale of what we have to do here and the number of variables i think this is the closest approximation to um efficiency and academic empirical research that we can get to thank you mr w so to clarify after looking at the one from last year compared to this year charity and river's edge moved from tier three till tier 2 and styver moved to tier one so that was the only changes that was made to this from last year so can i ask styver didn't move to tier one it's not styiver it's wgm w so wamman moved to tier one charity items and river's edge moved from three to two for this year so those were the only three changes that was made um we did have this up for our first retreat but
045we did not discuss it then and i think even then i had asked the question um we don't transport high school but all six of our high school students are at the hub at the same time so can i ask why nothing changed with those i'll let transportation speak to um the middle schools i'm just looking at high school uh the high you started off with middle school and then i so i thought you were asking too no no no i was i was looking at what changed from last year to this year we have about 3,900 kids in high school uh i forget the exact number that are involved in ccp u miss douly um and sinclair have worked for uh months uh actually dr gail started to work before she left to create
046a schedule uh for some of our best and brightest to be able to attend sinclair in the morning and then come back and uh finish the rest of their day and so that's how high school schedules are built we start with honors gifted ccp and we move from there so we have a memorandum of understanding with them they have schedules as well at sinclair in terms of their professors uh their adjuncts and when they teach and so uh those parts moving back and forth between what we're doing and what they're doing this is what we settled on after months of work so so nothing from high school changed i'm sorry nothing from high school change and i get the ccp if they're attending in the morning so we have a tier that starts at 7
047a.m but no high school is on that tier college classes start at 8:00 high school is starting at 8:00 so they're still missing that morning instruction if they're doing ccp so there's no high school that's on the 7:00 time frame to even get that morning instruction part no they're not cuz they go to there at 8:00 they go straight to sinclair okay so again that brings back to my question why didn't we put any high schools on the 7 o'clock instead of the 8:00 uh high schools also in addition to the other things i mentioned to you about coursework uh there's athletics for all of high school as well so they're all out at the same time because they often times compete against each other andor travel somewhere else so these are again all normal
048things that happen in districts in terms of how you how you're working through high school scheduling if i could just ask one question on this topic i've gotten feedback from some of the teachers at the high school level just it doesn't represent all but some of them asking why why can't the students go an hour even knowing like the philosophy you just said of that starting at 8 being able to be there at 7 just speak to that a little bit kind of thought process about why that wasn't one way to move sure um many of our students actually you and i mentioned this earlier and one of the things we do as cabinet is we mimic the students life and we get on the bus and ride the bus there so some of them
049start that bus ride as early as 5:30 uh to get to school at 8:00 uh you add another hour to that um and you can i let you do the not you personally but the public do the math in terms of what time they're getting up to go to school okay whatever the only part just the the um the assumption that individuals some will have to wake up and the reality for some that they would have to get up at 5:30 let's say 5:30ish to get to school even earlier and and and for us also uh we have seven high schools um and of which six are comprehensive and there's one where the cars are down the street and wrapped around the corner so 7:00 would be okay for that one school that is not
050the case in the other lots here when you look in these other parking lots there's three five seven cars max in which kids drive themselves and there's no line wrapped around the school in the morning so um i see it as an equity issue as well in the future is it possible since you said there's one is it possible to start like thinking about testing these concepts to see if our assumptions do match that piece of it not necessarily now but it's general yeah but looking forward of putting that out as i have those conversations with individuals and then actually seeing if we do see that individuals that does work better or works for us uh i would be glad to add that to the um school programming and curriculum committee i think what we
051call it in school is a zero period uh so seeing that a how a zero period works um as a pilot they used to have a zero period here at at styus for certain classes like latin french i can't remember the other ones it's been 10 10 years or more since i was here but that concept does exist and no i would have no problem with that at all and i know and i would say too even what we saw two years ago with study tables with some of the schools who were offering it in the that earlier slot they actually had really good participation so even some of the data points even though they're small we have seen that kids do come at a good amount at that time so it may it's just
052the opportunity there to actually flush out and let's pick some schools let's look at those those pieces and even if we do some soft test this year with again we could utilize either the study table or some other programming that occurs a little bit earlier to see if kids do come to school early even if breakfast started as early as 7:00 i mean just some there there's some opportunity for us to get beyond just our assumptions and see how kids get to school when these things are available at those points go ahead mr walker yeah and i i think for me if i'm looking at just as far as since we do not transport high school students um a separate tier just for those high schools maybe a 7 two start at 7:30 two start
053at 8 two start at 8:30 or something like that i don't really think that it will have that much of an impact on athletics if students is getting out at 3:30 um a lot of times with athletics as an official that district adjusts their schedule to accommodate their students um and those districts who they are playing know that as well so just looking at that piece um to really look at high school as its own i want to say entity with regards to a bell schedule piece hey thanks for that feedback you just gave me an idea i was thinking about it in a school programming um and curriculum meeting but we probably should have some of those members from the school programming curriculum meeting come to the athletic meeting and then those two teams
054kind of talk about this think that works okay any other questions [Music] seeing none may we have a vote president goodwin yes dr mr bailey yes mr smith yes miss reard yes mr walker yes miss wick yes six yeses all right that concludes your recommendation do you have any comments uh i do not have any comments today other than hello to my mother eva lawrence looking at eva lawrence and my ann robinson we'll see you at convocation thank you madam treasure your first recommendation that got taken off i recommend the approval of the following resolutions a permission for treasurer to utilize single source uh procurements b permission to advertise formal solicitation c permission to utilize purchasing cooperatives is there a motion so moved is there a second second something happened m look at yours real
055quick she did a b and c yes mhm all right any questions on the motion seeing none that we have a vote president goodwin is terrible dr bailey yes mr smith yes miss reinard yes mr walker yes miss wick yes six yeses all right your next recommendation [Music] i recommend the approval of monthly financial for may as reviewed last week so move second moved by mr walker second by miss wick are there any questions on the motion i do have a question go ahead dr lawrence um the positive school climate fund um and i'm just really curious on was was that affected by esre's money because it was not really used on the percentage side if i'm looking at that monthly financial it was 14% is what was utilized um what is the plan for
056psc this year or is that not coming out of that fund and it's coming out of title funds or something like that instead yeah thank you for the question and to answer your question no it wasn't affected by ers when we sometimes we think in buildings we provide supports that are not necessarily supports but they're um they can become a crutch when we don't have the administrative team the esro team and the teams that deal with students every day um use pssc right we provide these additional supports as if someone else is going to do it when the people who should be doing it are not fully engaged in it so we decided to um go in a different direction with some of that money this year but we do have it is on the
057agenda for our um our academic retreat and for the sro and um sro secondary team meeting as we talk about safety and security for next year okay thank you and then the last question on the monastery uh instructional pair i'm figuring that is only 40% utilized because that came out of esres and was taken over by general fund yes uh yes okay yes yes okay thank you any other questions seeing none we have a vote president goodwin yes dr bailey yes mr smith yes miss reard yes mr walker yes miss wick yes six yeses your next recommendation i recommend the approval of donations as reviewed last week is there a motion so moved second moved by miss wick second by dr batty any questions on the motion i will say thank you to everyone who
058continues to donate to us we definitely appreciate them and more are welcome seeing no other qu go ahead miss ryan okay seeing no other questions that we have a vote president goodwin yes dr bailey yes mr smith yes miss reinard yes mr walker yes miss wick yes six yeses i recommend the approval of purchase requisitions as reviewed last week so moved second moved by mr walker second by miss wick any questions on the motion i do uh for mr williams um i would ask dr jones but i figured he probably gonna go up there too i just want to clarify something the esports is nothing under athletics correct the esports program is that [Music] no that is currently all under it we're the ones supporting it supplying the equipment and also the training okay and
059then the po for the district phones yeah so that is to upgrade our phone system across the district it is to actually pull back the phone system from cbts to give us more control and it saves us roughly i think it's 250 250,000 a year once we do that all right i appreciate it not a problem and then dr lawrence um i did see the book back not a fan just gonna tell you i i just i i don't um i would i would be curious to see like principles or the policy or student um handbook that goes in alignment with that book bag and how to be utilized i think um to me it looks more like something for probably the middle school um i think for high school the challenge will be a
060lot of students carry their athletic things inside of their book bags with their books and things like that um but i just want to make sure that uh will students be penalized for not using this book bag or what will be the process of that going forward so if you can look at that in that um uh commit those committees appreciate it no problem any other questions or comments go ahead mr smith thank you madam president um i guess i'll go with the bags first um seeing that we do have those situations where we have students that carry a plethora of babies to school um seen a high schooler walk out with his 50 lb tote bag and he weighs about 75 lbs do we have alternate options that we're looking at we'll be looking
061at some things be it duffel bags different kind of things going down the road with that or are we squarely set on this one type of bags no uh that's just the beginning of the process itself uh to talk about the concept itself and the why and the why uh we um still have to talk to some students so we have our student senate for next year already picked um and so we need to talk to them uh we also have the principal institute so this breakout session for the secondary where chief wright and mr simmons that's part of what they'll be talking about there um and i think they've already uh pulled some of the principles unofficially around what that looks like so we still have some work to do okay and follow up
062on that sure um i think the big followup too for me is talking to students and parents as well as the why the pros hearing some of their push back cuz i don't want it to be something where we're people are just feeling like they're being thrown something and not understanding the flip side of this is why we're looking to do this um another piece of privacy that you know our kids go through enough things um understanding the levels of poverty in our district understanding the different socioeconomic socio emotional um issues that go on just in our community i think it just to me would be good to spend a a heavy amount of time of really talking through this and and really having conversations about the safety that you all are trying to prioritize
063and then also leveraging that with our students mental well-being their social well-being their just daytoday um because that that is a big thing i mean even as an adult that everybody doesn't i had to pull out right now if everybody had a clear bag you know for me it just be a peppermint dinosaur but you never know what's all and i mean those are just things in people's lives being a parent who has has had a teenage daughter in school understanding that there are just so many issues and we talk about bullying and you know we don't even have to rehash some of the things that have happened in our own district where we have had students harm themselves over being made fun of about things that they've had on them from book the things
064that are in their book bags from their clothing who we've had a situation with an elementary school child that started from teasing around her site like these are real things that are happening in our community and for me i think i get the the need for safety but i also get the need for having that conversation with people and the families so that there isn't just this sphere coming into the school year there's an understanding of okay if we're going to massively change this piece of my life there has to be some understanding of that um so i appreciate that i do hope that we do that um i'm sorry that mr williams got up you don't have to get too far back into it i was trying to catch it before you walk back
065to the seat but with this esports thing i'm trying to wrap my head around what does the staffing needs look like currently for it do we have the staffing what is the capacity that we're looking for so the one they do over at i believe it's thood right now they have roughly two teachers that essentially volunteer their time after school because it's something the students wanted so what we're trying to do is we're giving them it's roughly i think it's 12 laptops and a portable cart for consoles um and then the it team's going to come over work the events with them and following up with that so at each school you're saying it would basically be a volunteer teacher or two kind of overseeing it as an after school club such right that's the
066way they're doing it now and that's how a lot of the schools start out with it right right um with that and i don't know if that's maybe a dr jones or dr lawrence with that looking into gauging the capacity looking at some of the issues we've had say at the libraries where that's been a huge piece um just wanting to keep a close eye on it because i love the idea for do love the idea but i also don't want it to turn into something where students are just hanging out and not really getting the the main gist of what we're trying to do and getting students to engage in something that brings them closer together with each other something that is huge huge in their world the whole streaming world something crazy i
067do not get it on but not wanting it to turn into some of the things that we've seen where at some of the libraries where they've had to you know shut down some of the gaming rooms and really kind of change some of the things um have we talked to anybody at the city of dayton around what they're doing currently because i know they're trying to do something over at princeton and and i had talked to him about a couple months ago but have we talked to anybody over there and seen kind of what's working what hasn't been working i think it's probably more dr jones i'm going say mr smith let's let's send this whole piece of it to the student activities committee which you are on which oh you are you're on it
068but that way you guys like some of the discussion you're having are things that maybe you guys should be able to hash out in the actual committee to discuss to us with these answers and those type of things i think we cancelled i think we cancelled june but i think miss garren it's on for july i think it's on for july we didn't do a june meeting but in addition to whatever response that you give us today the ask here is that the students activity committee actually goes a little bit deeper in what this program is and can bring the board back kind of some solidified plans of all those things with carry on so i'll let dr jones come up and talk a little more on it but we already have essentially a list
069of survey questions that we've worked with other schools on to bring to a committee specifically like that and they're gauged towards the students for the sake of brevity we have had some conversations with um staff members at the library uh over by belmont as well as the one downtown uh they did get to a point where they had to limit uh the number of hours uh that students engage with these devices um i don't think that we'll have some of the same issues because there are relationships that already exist inside of the buildings um but we will definitely uh keep a close eye and work with uh dr lawrence and his academic team and you know the principles just to make sure that uh you know student behavior is at premium hey boardman i just
070want to follow up on something you said earlier i know you are you're you're in schools quite a bit so you see uh you see what happens when uh when we're doing intake in the morning but i don't want uh the board or the general public to get caught up on a bag for us this is a comprehensive safety space for next year so that we drastically reduce the number of incidents that are happening inside our high schools uh that um are unbecoming for schools so this is one piece uh we are not ready to down a hill for it our number one thing is that you graduate that you go to class follow up on your schoolwork that we have um pathways for you that we have um advanced course work for you ap
071coursework ccp um cte that we that we become a world-class academic institution that's what's important to us appreciate that um i meant to ask you that though when you brought up the bail schedule and the bag are we looking at reviewing some of just the pickup layouts at some of our buildings oh jeez you are thank you you're on fire right now yes all of that all of that is part of the uh all that's part of the the safety and security plan so it's not just a bag it's it's a comprehensive space around how you make these the high schools operational make them safe make them efficient uh i got the call for you early in the year about styers and yes you did and i and we we came over and put a
072plan in place and then i got a call of our opponents so i again those are all parts of it can i add to that dr goodwin said something earlier is it possible for nutrition services in the building to open like enough early enough for students instead of them just standing outside in the front like that's just something you could probably think about and then we're already working on that one yeah we sure are so that one is in is under works and they're working on that one the safety plan that dr lewis is talking about work is already happening so hopefully that will come uh with some stuff before in the next month or so okay and then last question i have because i see a lot of stuff on here um jackson center
073will it be open for the first day of school so in our committee we just met up about a week and a half ago here's the conversation and we're trying to flesh it out typically in all school districts there's a um there's a quiet period first couple weeks everybody's getting to know each other so it's really quiet and so it's g going to give us a chance we're thinking about with the high school again all the high school middle school principles are there do we need a couple weeks in the beginning of the year to transition get counselors on board when all the principles secondary all the secondary principles have their class meetings and explain the expectation to students that hey here are our steps of intervention based on psse and hey here are the
074possible outcomes and consequences and one of them could be jackson center whatever we name it uh this could be a possibility and so we want to we don't want to just say hey day one there was unfortunately there was a fight and those two people are not being suspended at home for 10 days but they're going to spend 10 days at jackson state center with some of our behavioral health support yeah that's too quick for us so as we continue to roll this out we think right now today we think that the first couple weeks should be a transition period for the whole district to prepare for it okay um and then to just elaborate on that mine was more so with operations will the building be open and running by the first day of
075school uh yes operations is ready to go i don't have any indication that we won't be ready i think that for us i think we're actually behind operations in terms of staffing uh we still need to have a meeting with the da president because there needs to be an some possible wiggle room on his end because we're past the transfer deadline so there may be teachers who are like internal that we haven't hired who want to transfer and go to that space so we have some internal speed spaces i think we might even be behind operations i could be wrong what is it okay thumbs up that's good appreciate it any other questions yeah i got one on uh page seven under participants i just want to know what uh tuition for out of district
076dps students with ieps that $2 million one so what is that the $2 million one it's uh 700,000 is that for like charter schools or is that for what is what is that for so that's for any student who is assigned dayton public schools as their home school but is sent to another location it could be cleveland it could be columbus that we don't either a have the capacity or or b um their iep is not written in space that we can service it so that is pretty common for public school districts we are actually trying uh miss dinsmore is trying to bring back a section of those students and see if we can service them at jackson center to be able to save that money but that's a long that's a process not long
077term we're just working on it now so we outsource millions um in special education gardell used to be our our school that house many of the students that we now send out for services and gardell of course does not exist as a school anymore all right thank you i i just looked at that because i know we seem to be giving a lot of money to a lot of other school systems when they're not here but okay thank you can i can i ask does this have to come out of general fund if it's dealing with special needs students like do those federal dollars not cover those students yes it has to come out of title one we can't use title 6b okay any other questions um probably you don't have to get into it
078far into it i think maybe for joan or dr lawrence with jackson center have you guys fleshed out what transportation looks like at that space um or will it be a a different model than the rest of our schools when it comes to uh dr vincent taylor was at the last meeting and yes we're uh close to finishing fleshing it out uh miss stevens miss christian actually not stevens i've known her a long time miss christian who's the new principal has met with lwc which are architects to map out um what is the best way for the to for the buses to come in and drop off based on the student body population based on how many kids we think we're going to have based on whether or not we think we're going to have
079outdoor recess equipment there were lots of variables that she's already gone through with lwc and operations about when the buses come for um for instance um the other piece around u how often what time how we get there we're still fleshing through some of that uh with some of the principles and operations and operations if i missed anything please jump right in all right if i can can i narrow that scope down to this question would a student if i'm a ninth grader 10th grader i am now over at jackson would i be catching this rta over me that's creates a another world of issues if you're saying i'm at this space in lie of being either expelled or suspended for fighting would i be downtown catching an rta bus to jackson center that to
080me we're just looking to have more headlines and i can imag imagine what that looks like if we put a kid out of a school or fighting and then they go to the hub and fight so that is what i'm also thinking on talking about what is the transportation model for students that would be in that space uh typically what happens for uh students that receive an inl of expulsion assignment uh or if it's a suspension the parents are responsible for making sure that that child gets uh to school and home uh and we have had some preliminary discussions we have not finalized uh that very thing just yet but uh i am leaning towards uh making the recommendation that parents be responsible for those for their children uh getting back and forth if they're
081on in lie of expulsion for those students that are um just seeking an alternative placement then that that's a different story right and that that's i appreciate that dr johnson that was that is my thought of making sure that it's just not a blanket coverage at that space when we talk about transportation um then secondly understanding just some of the dynamics we have in our community i can imagine a situation where a child is in a situation where then we would be under the parent has to get them there but then they fall into that bucket of children that we see every day in our community that do not have any parental guidance or parental assistance or are one of 8 to 10 children at a group home i just want us to make sure
082that as we're creating this space that we're not leaving these these thoughts behind and understanding that part of the reason for us to create this space is not to have a dumping ground but to understand that there are situations that require more assistance than they could probably get at their building but then how do we not create more problems so i appreciate you bringing that up and i definitely want to get with you and kind of follow what we're looking at that i definitely appreciate looking at some of the other alternatives that we see around the state uh to serve the same capacity appreciate that hey madam president that's all i have board member smith i want to ask uh madam president if she'll give us an opportunity to present uh what we have at
083the review session no business meeting in july uh and also again i'm glad you went down this this kind of line of questioning we also hypothesize that if you're a parent and you have a student who is in l of suspulion meaning they they've committed an infraction it means you're going to be suspended for 5 or 10 days uh we have confidence or faith that the parents by and large would bring their kids to jackson center for us to continue to do school work on apex uh some of our virtual bots that we're going to be using to continue to have live teaching to continue to be in school um versus being at home we think that most parents we believe don't want their kids at home on suspension and that they will bring them
084back thank you any other questions and miss kit or miss garrett can you put that presentation on for us for the next one all right see no other questions madam treasure may we have a ver vote on purchase requisitions president goodwin yes dr bailey yes mr smith yes miss rer yes mr walker yes miss wick yes six yeses your next recommendation i recommend the approval of the following then and now as reviewed last week some move second moved by mr walker second by dr bailey any questions on the motion seeing none may we have a vote president goodwin yes dr bailey yes mr smith yes miss reard yes mr walker yes miss wick yes six yeses please refresh your screens if you haven't i believe that was your last recommendation do you have any comments
085for tonight madam treasur yes go ahead [Music] oh this month i share two very good uh news about the this our district's financial health accountability and transparency auditor of state of ohio developed a system that measures how schools in ohio are doing financially the new system analyzes 17 financial indicators for every district out of 17 indicators we received 16 green which is a good financial state one yellow which means to pay attention to that this is a very very good u recognition another one is we also received four stars out of four stars from auditor of state of ohio which is the highest achievement in the open and transparent government the other one is this couldn't be happened without the hardworking of the treasurer's team support of the board and district thank you my team
086as always the other one i have is for our teachers and students i wish them a very great uh summer and uh they come back refreshed and to study and to teach thank you congratulations treasury on receiving those awards you guys are doing a phenomenal job on that thank you thank you miss hamilton your recommendation uh good afternoon or evening i guess um this is the same resolution as we discussed uh last week this is the resolution to uh hire a staff coordinator for the internal audit department this resolution would um essentially be an amendment or a change to the resolution uh or is in response to the resolution made by the board on april 26th 2025 so move say just say i recommend oh uh i have to read it so i recommend the
087approval of i recommend the approval of the following uh resolution thank you great so move second moved by mr walker second by dr bailey any questions on the motion seeing none may we have a vote president goodwin yes dr bailey yes mr smith yes miss rard yes mr walker yes miss wick yes six yeses thank you miss hamilton do you have any comments today all right dr jones your recommendations thank you madam president uh i recommend ratification of the following contracts there a motion so move second moved by mr walker second by dr bailey any questions on the motion can i ask about the dumbar pee-wee that's on his contract yes um i'm going to ask chief jones to come up and talk a little bit about dumbar pee-wee [Music] good evening um we're excited
088about this potential partnership this is the dumbar pee-wee we wanted to um have a partnership with um the dumbar pee-wee it's actually in conjunctions with our high school so um darren pal and his staff they are collaborating with them as well it will target our elementary and some of our middle school we think this is important for development so when they get to the high school level they have some skills already developed and relationship building with our current staff and our community so um they're not asking much from us um they already kind of use our facility already so we wanted to make this official appreciate it any other questions um just with that while uh chief jones is up there is there any ability inside thisou to work in some of our academic pieces
089to have uh some of our different various departments being there knowing that there's one thing that is at pee football practice is our parents that is one place they are definitely at and i think we would be doing ourselves a disservice if we don't look into how do we put those spaces in there in some of our other departments in front of our parents they're going to be there for a few hours like we did talk about some opportunities to have um more of orientations and um spaces where we can gather um some of those things that they need um on a regular basis so we did discuss those things um up close and we just have to do some coordination to make that happen appreciate that chief that is all thank you madam president
090thank you i do have a request in the future i know this is a change for our agenda thatus are now coming under contracts but can we still have the actualus attached in our content for us to actually see what they're saying so some of our questions may be answered by actually just being able to see the content of the just moving forward if we can make that adjustment any other questions on contracts seeing none now treasur may have a vote president goodwin yes dr bailey yes mr smith yes miss reinard yes mr walker yes miss wick yes six yeses thank you dr jones your next recommendation thank you madam president i recommend ratification of the following memorandum of understanding uh with oopsy local 158 uh time management assistant k white um we worked with
091frost brown todd on this very closely as well as um miss marshall rush our uh union president for clericals is there a motion so moved second moved by miss wick second by miss riner any questions on the motion seeing none may we have a vote president goodwin yes dr bailey yes mr smith yes miss rard yes mr walker yes miss wick yes six yeses thank you dr jones do you have any comments tonight first i want to thank the team for being here um and we're really excited about uh getting uh the hvac bac uh bas uh systems uh upgraded uh in uh three of the schools uh we're putting on some new roofs um and we're having fun collaborating with the academic side of the house uh with all the programming and everything going
092on we're still going to be okay for the start of the year thank you i recommend the approval of the business manager contract is there a motion so move second moved by mr walker second by miss riner any questions on the motion um not a question just a comment i want to say i appreciate the work that business manager has been doing look forward to the continued work and appreciate you and your team and the work that they have been doing um and highlighting some of the things that really play into the educational system even though they are not in this space so like that appreciate all the work and having the staff come out and being able to reach out if i have questions so i want to say say that publicly that i
093appreciate us moving forward with this continue working with our business manager thank you madam president any other questions or comments on the motion seeing none then we have a vote president goodwin yes dr bailey yes mr smith yes miss reinard yes mr walker yes miss wick yes six yeses thank you in so much as the board of education is committed to the continuing updating of its policies rules and regulations manual and the committee which was appointed has been working toward that goal following abroad at this time for second reading in compliance with board foul gcbe professional staff vacation and and holidays gcbd paid time off for bereavement personal days and court reasons gdb support staff vacation and holidays j student records now therefore it be resolved that the board of data use that the board
094of education of d city school district mcgomery county ohio hereby accepts and adopts the following policies that have been codified for inclusion in the handbook of policy rules and regulations i move that we adopt these policies is there a second second move by dr goodwin second by miss riner any questions on the motion seeing none may we have a vote president goodwin yes dr bailey yes mr smith yes miss reinard yes mr walker yes miss wick yes six yeses thank you board comments mr smith be brief and i appreciate everybody coming out tonight um it's been a lot going on in the world a lot going on politically and i just want us to be reminded that for a large number of our students a lot of the things they see still do not greatly
095impact them in a way that changes the situation they're in for a lot of our students it doesn't matter if our president is republican or democrat it doesn't matter if our house or senate is republican or democrat it doesn't matter if most of these bills get passed or do not get passed some of them are still living in poverty some of them are still living in neighborhoods that have been looked over and have been depleted of resources for decades and so as we are out here and there's so much momentum for all of the things that are going on in our country i want us to always save space for those who are not out there on the front lines fighting because the end of the day it does not fully change what's going on
096in their households and so that's why for us at a local level we have to be mindful of those things because for them it does not truly matter what half the country is fighting for right now a lot of those things do not have any impact on if they will have a meal on their table this morning does not have an impact on them not having a stable family unit and that is why a lot of the things that happen in this space are so important because some of those other pieces are way above their heads and that is not to make light of the things that are going on in our world right now but it is to shed light on a real reality for a lot of our families in our community it
097did not matter if biden was president trump was president obama was president clinton was president people in certain parts of our community have been in that space and they have been in that station and will remain in that station unless we do the things we need to do here because one of the great changes that we can have in their lives is giving them a solid education and a foundation to get out of some of the systems of poverty that have plagued our communities so that is all i want us to highlight for me to highlight today is that i appreciate all of the energy going on in the world because i do think that voices need to be heard but sometimes we have to lift up the voices and then give agency to the
098voice of the voiceless who often just have to suffer in silence because that has just been their station in life thank you madam president thank you miss riner thank you madam president um i just wanted to bring a couple things to the attention of the public uh there are two documents under my name for board member comments that i thought might be of interest to a lot of community members there are a couple pieces of legislation that are going through the ohio state house right now that are incredibly damaging for our communities not just our public schools but our communities as a whole um the first is uh a joint letter from oasbo and osba and basa regarding the um amended substitute house bill 96 there are some priorities there that they are strongly advocating
099for and i'm sharing it because it's um four or five pages long um and i'm not going to read the whole thing out loud um but there are a few provisions and pieces of policy and funding pieces in that piece of legislation that are relevant to the health of public districts across the state not just a dayton um the first is uh this uh joint letter is uh urging lawmakers particularly the conference committee um to prioritize funding for public education students in the budget um there are recommendations that the school board races remain nonpartisan and not have uh party labels next to them um there are provisions that uh will impact the collect it they they are asking the conference committee to consider the collective impact of property tax changes and how they will have
100an impact on ohio students and maintain the ability for local communities to acquire the resources necessary to meet the needs of those students they are strongly urging the cash carryover cap to be eliminated it was first proposed at 25% then it was raised to 30% and then it was raised to 50% we are asking for districts to be able to set their own policy regarding cash carryover cap we know what is best for this district and it is uh much more responsible to ask districts to set their own minimum and maximum cash carryover caps um we have had uh those policies on the books in dayton public for a number of years and it has worked really well for us and we would like to continue having local control and um be able to set
101those minimums and maximums for our district as we see fit and if voters disagree with those minimums and maximums they can reflect those choices at the ballot box at the local level um and so i urge voters to read that first joint letter the second is regarding house bill 335 there was a fantastic webinar that i attended yesterday um and we heard from a few experts one was dr howard fleeter and he wrote this um this second document from the ohio education policy institute and he broke down house bill 335 this is a bill that will affect not just public schools and public districts but it will affect police it will affect parks it will affect fire departments it will affect um uh municipal administrations um in a really really direct way this will be
102devastating for the way that our cities and our schools and our communities function um it is a complete rewriting of more than 50 years of ohio tax code um we all know that property values have been rising drastically and with the rising property values comes rising property taxes um it has hit a lot of people in ohio really hard and there are calls for the ohio state house to address the way that those property taxes have risen so sharply for a lot of residents and voters um there are some really great solutions out there we're not finding a lot of those in house bill 335 um i i'm not a tax expert there were i did some digging down a rabbit hole yesterday about some of the circuit breakers that are involved in other states
103that can help alleviate the pain of uh very fast rising property value property taxes um but house bill 335 and i'm quoting here is the most comprehensive change to ohio's property tax system in nearly 50 years um this will this is proposing to eliminate the inside millillage uh tax um and because the 10 mills of inside military are specifically articulated in the state constitution um people have not really worried about this for some time but the um the the supporters of house bill 335 uh are challenging that and they're fundamentally changing the way that taxes are collected and the way um outside and inside millillage taxes are collected um just so you know um this this document that is listed under my name um is trying to illustrate how this will impact districts across the
104state uh one of the most direct ways to demonstrate how this will impact districts and um have deep deep cuts to school funding is to estimate the number of teachers that would need to be cut from each district and it's broken down into a couple different typology groups there's poor rural there's rural there's small town there's poor small town suburban wealthy suburban urban major urban i'm assuming we are urban and not major urban is that correct or are we major urban because we're major urban we're major urban so under this proposed piece of legislation the percent of teaching positions that would need to be eliminated to meet these cuts are 14.3% let that sink in what that means for dayton um for small towns 23.3% what kind of what kind of communities communities do we
105want what kind of schools do we want do we want vibrant communities with strong schools and parks and fire departments if we do we have to be willing to fund them i know that's an unpopular opinion in some circles i'm willing to fund a community that is thriving and strong and meets the needs of every single person in that community 90% of children in ohio choose and attend public schools this is good for everybody even if i didn't have children which i do who attend dayton public schools i would want a strong and consistently funded school system for everybody this makes everybody's lives better we have to look at ourselves when we vote at the ballot box and ask ourselves are we willing to vote to fund the community that we want i'm yelling i
106don't care i feel very strongly about this and it's not just about schools it's about the way that we live i had the opportunity a few weeks ago to attend a presentation um from the director of a unnamed but very large new private school in the area and the director of the school gave a great presentation about how when he went to school he sat in a room with 30 desks that all faced the front and the teacher taught one thing to 30 kids and he knew that that wasn't the right way to teach kids and what he wanted to have was a classroom that gave each child an individualized attention and the ability to be self-directed and independent and it was a great presentation there was no mention of test scores or metrics by
107which he could measure against dayton public why they were actually doing better and i know for a fact that the school across the river from that school is doing exactly what he was bragging about and he said the kicker that the cost to do this per pupil expenditure was $32,000 a year treasure what is our p per pupil expenditure at dayton public schools $17,000 $17,000 he knows that it takes $32,000 to do this and i asked him at the end of this presentation do you still feel that $32,000 is what it will take to adequately educate children who are growing up in poverty and if you do at a time of historic defunding of public education in the state house are you advocating for each district to get those resources the answer is no i'll
108tell you i believe in public schools i believe in public parks i believe in public fire departments i strongly oppose house bill 335 i would urge everybody watching this to read the two documents under my name contact your legislators and let's fund our communities that is all i have thank you mr walker uh thank you i will echo my colleague and um last week i did film a um promo video with other school board members for all in ohio um and that is out and then next wednesday at 1:30 there is a rally for fair school funding at the state house um and on top of the current budget that is being um debated with four republicans and two democrats um we have uh several house bills and several senate bills um i mean the
109these are individuals who really know nothing about education who are trying to decide things i mean one bill is ten commandments uh designated as historical display material inside of schools um or adjusting kindergarten age requirements um uh i mean there's so many but just hope that you remember who's actually for schools public education at the ballot box who um actually puts their children into public schools and who actually speaks up for public education um thank you all for coming out tonight and hopefully you enjoyed the rest of the month of june um and we'll see you back in july miss wick thank you thank you to my colleagues this evening who provide such uh thoughtful um words as we close the meeting thank you to our leadership what i see is a strong engaged board
110what i see is a strong engaged team of administrative leaders thank you treasur thank you superintendent thank you business manager um i hope everybody enjoys july it's going to go really fast and we're going to be exciting we're going to be starting an exciting new school year and i look forward to all the opportunities that are approaching us have a good evening thank you dr bailey yeah first i want to offer my condolences to those in minnesota for those state representatives um who were killed please keep their families in your prayers uh congratulations dr jones for signing your contract uh looking for um even more work from you or harder work from you so looking for the changes in your department thank you for all the comments from the uh from the board members that's
111all i have thank you first i want to say thank you to uh one of our cyber teacher miss patterson i believe that's the name for doing our lights tonight because if you guys haven't been on a diver stage this is a whole thing outside of us so we do appreciate you coming out and doing this for us tonight thank you to everyone who came out tonight who isn't on the paid staff here it's really always great to see individuals from the community because we don't necessarily get to engage with you as a former board in this way which is why we're on a summer tour this summer so thank you all for coming out shout out to our team i'm hearing nothing but great things about the summer camps that are have going on
112there are a lot of parents and caregivers that are excited that they get to keep moving their kids back to the school through this period the only complaint that i have heard is they wish they were all summer long so i do appreciate that people are taking full advantage of everything we have going on academically and athletically i want to say just to echo some of the comments i've heard up here tonight i'm not sure if any of you guys got to see the rally that was in dayton this past weekend but it is a great illustration of the no kings rally it's a great illustration of how everyday people are getting together and they are bringing a collective thought of what they believe should happen in this community and around the and around the
113world and it gives hope to some of the things again that there is a lot that is happening that i don't necessarily agree with in the world right now but the beautiful part of being american and being a part of this democracy is that we always have the power of the ballot and i encourage anyone who watches any of these school board meetings if you take nothing else from us please register to vote in addition to registering to vote please vote in the upcoming election and every election after that because everything that board member riner and mr walker is stating "it is very difficult to overcome these things without voters and without active voters and without individuals who even if you don't know what's going on there is someone that can break it down enough
114for you to be able to be engaged in the conversation and make a decision by voting in every election cuz we need you not just this school board but in this country we need you." i do want to say i think we have come a long way this is the end of the school this is actually the end when we come back to you guys on the next broadcast we will be at the start of our next school year at that point and in the short time that i've been on the board we've done some really great work here guys we are ending as always better than we started the year and we had a lot of really good success our pio team thank you guys for putting out the highlights for graduation if you
115had a child graduate this year you don't know the videos are up so you can go and get that and screenshot that moment and record video record your child being crawled across the stage and hold on to that forever i would grab it now before it gets deep into the youtube page so definitely take advantage of that and other than that thank you to the staff and everyone come who came out tonight again it's great that it's only 6:07 and we are about to wrap up so i do appreciate you know appreciate you guys on that one so with that one i will say pursuant to section 121.22g of the ohio revised code i move that this board goes into executive session this meeting is being held to consider the appointment employment dismissal of a
116public employee is there a second second moved by dr goodwin second by miss riner any questions on the motion seeing none may we have a vote president goodwin yes dr bailey yes mr smith yes miss rard yes mr walker yes miss wick yes six yeses thank you thank you all and everything