001hey I'm here today are you Are you you at DPS attendance is important all and improve their daily so I ask again we're here today are you are you i came for the DPS principles to talk about how their school represents the people they're named after this episode we have Charity Adams welcome hi hello can you tell me a little bit about yourself charity Adams Early Academy for Girls i have been in the district for 30 years and the principal at Charity for Cis who is Charity Adams charity Adams was the first African-American female to lead her battalion war that was very rare at the time so she was a leader um learn as I stated was a leader she fought for um equal rights and she was aer so students learn how to lead
002how to um empower themselves how to speak up for what is wrong and um we are strong believers in sisterhoods at Charity try to carry on Charity's legacy um one by empowering the our young ladies cultivating their unique potential having making sure that they know they have a voice and they see that they're great and they um How do you celebrate 30 Adams born after living so um this year with the movie Tyler created coming out to Charity Adams really awesome be um next Friday February 28th watch the students attend Charity Adams Early Girls Academy students should attend Charity Adams Early Academy for girls because it's a phenomenal school orment and just creating that environment where our young ladies are thinking about careers that just being at an all girls school what makes your school
003special um my school is special one because it's a single gender all girls school and it's the only one in the area in the state as a primary school also and then also um when you enter it's just a very warm environment it's a community just it's a great place to be [Music] we hear you so much we hear your commitment to learning and we're here to extend the challenge students family staff member to present when we show up we know the future i'm here i'm here today i'm here today i'm here today so we're here are [Music] you here next to them right here everybody saying that [Music] [Music] three All [Music] [Music] right hey get out of here let's get out of here so today we're having an old city festival and have
004lots of music today we have combined all of our schools together to make music performances all day we have choir bands we have orchestras all here in schools a lot of these uh come from school and choir and it's out and in front of any and especially when you're used to just a little small group in your classroom they've been doing a great job i think it's a great experience for them because we all adults that we have to go and do things they aren't in our comfort but with their peers they feel hopefully after this feed and want to do it [Music] more tap into that a lot kids just naturally often as older we're tapping into that creativity that self expression so for the opportunity in front of people you this big seeing
005that big smiles in their faces especially at the end of their age and you know has got to be show off for teachers great community i think D schools has talent in our district we're happy to [Music] [Applause] hear hi I'm Katie Philpot preschool intervention specialist at Rosa Parks Early Learning my position is to educate all prisoners who come through our door and serve on IE individualized education plan that's the curriculum and education the kids are vibrant and excited every day to come to school and they're learning how to school and that's so important dps have lots of opportunities for growth they give you ample professional hours which you need agree to teaching it's a great place where you're gonna meet all kinds of people you're gonna meet every kind of student there is and
006there's going to be challenges for sure but when you challenges and overcome them you'll feel proud of yourself i enjoy the people I work with they are some of the best human beings you will find on the planet um I enjoy how there is a preschool program for who access to that that's very important to the king of curriculum it's a great place to be and if you go around the buildings you will see active learning you will see bulletin boards every child who enters our classroom feels that their learning is important and that they are valued and important so being one to do that is like a hug hello my name is Molly and this this school is called this is a school and I'm a kid [Music] okay so what's your name what's
007your name mion what's your name yes so what's your favorite animal what's your favorite um animal name i like elephants what's your favorite animal a lion what's your favorite cartoon all right let [Music] me karma book what's your favorite what's your favorite book hey I got one what's your favorite comic i have one what's your favorite i have that's perfect i have a dinosaur one dinosaur i got a comic book i don't like dinosaur what's your favorite book if you don't book those book what's your favorite book are you scared no no you're scared is that the one there no that's the one right there with the bunny and the bear oh that's my favorite that's my favorite everybody so let's move on why does it always have to be dinosaurs i like to talk
008your favorite food no first I can't talk back to So what's your favorite movie um Spiderman why do we always got dinosaurs movie wait there's nothing dinosaurs that's because I movie yes it is no it isn't thanks for watching make 365 ever DPS cares health and wellness fair we have from a lot of local agencies here this outreach families we come up with in our community we wanted to make sure parents got messages about wellness so we were able to bring our guest speakers in we wanted to make sure they had access to some of the great like yoga and chair massage and we definitely feed everyone and they come out to care about them and their health and their affair I think home that it is okay to take care of yourself and we
009have to take care of ourselves before we take care of others that they can take care of themselves and when they can take care of their families all their faces are painted they have great prizes they're getting lots of good information we had massage I'm sure you All right i now call to order this April 15th business meeting madam treasure may we have a roll call president Wayne here present present and let it be noted I have to leave at 7 for a my will and will be bound when it's finished so I leave Mr walker he will be arriving today m present he is okay so the pledge of allegiance is to inspire educate empower our vision is to inspire our purpose is to cultivate a supportive educ thank you so much flipping this
010battle the bands it will be at Belmont April 26 2025 it starts at 2 o'clock um we have a retreat that morning come state west so we have a retreat we'll be talking about academics and operations and presenting to the board the academic as well a retreat at um Central State West and we're going to get out of there i hope ready to get to Battle of the Bands i said that also All City Arts Festival will be held May 3rd is on River State Park downtown if you've been amazing all city arts festival May 3rd 2025 down on Rivercape the weather's going to be great and vehicle day is back thursday May at Stadium lots of vehicles there lots of kids enjoying themselves i think Mr smith I think we were there last year
011at day right now on trucks all right thank you you're welcome i believe we have special recognition members joining me now and we will recognize our day in All right good evening wine vice bailey board members superintendent Dr lauren treasure of Braha my name is Eddie and I'm elementary math academic coordinator at we held our annual math Olympics competition at Belmont High School so I'm going to recognize the elementary teams the fourth through sixth grade competition that included quick grade level math computation questions as well as critical thinking collaboration where teams work together to solve a breakout box i do want to say thank you to the coaches families chief sheet the I'm going to present to you the teams first through fifth place in our fourth through sixth grade division so coaches and students
012when I call your name please come up you'll receive a certificate and then you'll move to center for a photo are Susan Garland and Marcus Smith the fourth grade members were Aaron Dudley Jeremiah Head Shaya Dutch Woods then our fifth grade were Armani Crower Kylie Holly Anderson Marielle Rutled Devin Shine and Giovani Smith so congratulations Valerie [Applause] [Applause] for by Megan and William Waters the fourth members are Jair Lard Ruth Jackson Charles Robinson fifth grade team members Shakina Mabalo Micah Smith Ivory Darian J Sheffield Meer Sims [Applause] congratulations let's go down our team was Kaiser Elementary coached by Crystal House and their fourth grade members are Joke Nirinaba Alli Ian Tar Mex Herrera or Hera excuse me their fifth members for Maline Rosen Dubz Hansel Escar Braden Shapiro their sixth grade team members Humi Iden
013Lomez James sorry Momes sorry congratulations one more is coming so hold the photo two all right nice job Kaiser [Applause] all right our second place team was Eastmont Elementary coached by Amy Gray and Michael Vantine their fourth grade team members are Bella Leon or yeah Bella Leon Marcel Lily Davis and Alex Bobbit their fifth grade team members are Bodie Walker Moses Rodriguez Epinosa Colton Rearing and their sixth grade members are Brock Holt Ella Schmidt Serenity Delton and Leila Brooks congratulations [Applause] East congratulations congratulations two one more [Applause] all right and now our first place team the winners of our 2025 um fourth through sixth grade math Olympics competition is River's Edge Monastery coached by Michelle Richtor their teammates the fourth grade members Elvin Craig Joshua Nulls Killian Northcut Kaia Bowler Dye their fifth grade members
014Remington Pearson Xavier Williams and Dorothy Kleinholt their sixth grade team members Liam Matthysse and Quinn Simon congratulations [Applause] If you have your Congratulations well done all right nice job Riverside all right I'm going to turn it over to Carrie Vaughn to announce our seventh and eighth grade competition of winners good evening the middle school teams competed in three rounds of competition um they competed in the target round where individuals answered 30 complex math problems the sprint round in which individuals completed two or pairs of tasks and then the team round where teams worked together to solve two investigative tasks the team rounds were a combination of all three scores and we presented trophies to the first second and third place teams and then we also presented medals to the first place winners of both the
015target and the sprint rounds so I will start with our third place team right outside the door third place team was from Belmont Middle School coached by Curtis Smith we have Jeremy Tucker Gage Mulaney and Ivan Baraka congratulations let's talk one more [Applause] congratulations our second place team was the seventh grade team from Styver Middle School coached by Doug Richards we have Xander Trodel Julia Rutled and Devin Maxwell and Ariana Lomb [Applause] you could it's hard when you're the only one or Juliet it is congratulations and our first place place team was the eighth grade team from Styver Middle School coached by Aaron Nisonger we have Mey Steel we have Eva Wilson Brooklyn Craig and Elise Jeff congratulations congratulations [Applause] and then we had the individual winners um of the target round there was a
016tie for first place both from Styvers um neither is here Melee Steel and Elise Jeff and the first place winner of the sprint round was Julia Rutled also from Styver [Applause] you don't have to thank you all right good evening board president Goodwine Vice President Bailey board members superintendent Dr lawrence and treasurer Abraa my name is Tiara McGee and I serve as the senior academic coordinator for social studies and credit credit recovery lord and I'm Diana Law i am the uh 712 ELA academic coordinator so on February 27th we hosted the 42nd annual Dayton Speaks MLK ortorial and poetry slam competition at Wright Brothers Middle School this event featured two distinct components the ortorial and the poetry slam with both junior and senior divisions students had the opportunity to develop and showcase their talents in
017creative writing and public speaking um we want to extend our heartfelt thanks to the coaches families Chief Sheihy the teaching and learning team and most importantly our incredible students for their dedication and hard work at this time it is our honor to recognize the top three winners in the junior division for both the ortorial and poetry slam which includes our seventh and eighth grade students um coaches and students please join us at the front as your names are called following this uh we will recognize the first through third place winners in the senior division which include students in grades 9 through 12 so first we have Santiago Bell from Styver um high school or Styver Middle School in second place in the MLK ortorial contest we have David Rogers Jr from Wagaman Middle School and
018in first place we have Montre Stevens from Wright Brothers Middle School [Applause] then in our we also have Deontay Sutterwhite in third place in the junior division of the poetry slam [Applause] i'm sorry we have Aane Norman in second place from Wright Brothers Middle School and then Trinity Bird and Zoe Ruiz um from Styver Middle School and now I'm going to turn it over to Diana for the high school for the MLK ortorial senior division in third place was Al Albert Powell from Paul Lawrence Dumbar High [Applause] School in second place was Claudine Tumusifu from Thood Marshall STEM High [Applause] School and winning first place was Nvea Woods from David H ponent's [Applause] CTC congratulations congratulations [Applause] in the senior division of the poetry slam in third place was Nvea Woods from David H ponent
019High School she's back in second place was Tatiana Wilbur from Thood Marshall STEM High [Applause] School and in first place from Styver High School Maria Wiznant and Vincent Shipman [Applause] and you guys should know that Naa went to state the state competition for the MLK oral and competed last Friday [Applause] thank you thank you in the middle establish Wait on Mr walker all right let the record reflect that Mr walker joined us at about 5:45 and as we move on I'm actually going to invite Vice President Nvea Woods to sit in the student senate seat in the absence of Mr scott i would like that she's on her way up and if someone could get her logged in on board docs down there that would be great i'm not in charge that's not a thing
020we didn't thank you for joining us Miss Woods you're welcome just so you know regular protocol we about to have a presentation that's why the lights give a second just so you know protocol when you have questions just raise your hand otherwise I'll just call on you to see if you have anything down there and on and off button miss Wick can show you how to work that as well all right Dr lawrence our first presentation we have a budget from elementary schools we do miss Judith Spurlock um former teacher of board member Smith former colleague of mine at Meale High School let's kick it off okay good evening um President Dr goodwin Vice President Dr bailey Superintendent Dr lawrence Treasure Abraha um esteemed board members and the vice president of the student senate Na
021Woods good evening everyone i'm here to present our proposed budget for the 20 2526 school year on this slide that you can see is our requested budget um with 451 staff members and I'm representing all of our elementary buildings and international school in my numbers um with a total salary of uh just over 44 million and non-payroll of 280,000 last year um well this school year um we had 411 full-time staff members a salary of just over 39 million and a total non-payroll of just over 308,000,000 so we have an increase of 40 full-time equivalent staff members salaries um 4.9 and an a reduction of non-payroll by 28,000 okay when we look at the next slide please the staffing and payroll what does this encompass why is there such a difference so you can see
022um it has me um 334 teachers 22 pair of professionals in my numbers um that is we have um kindergarten pair professionals um we have media pair professionals and monosuri pair professionals um including some building subs that I'm requesting and uh principles and assistant principles for a total of the 451 the increase um it's really due to an increase of elementary enrollment by um almost 400 students which is equivalent to a building Um and where are they coming a majority are in core teachers elective teachers because with the increase of numbers we need to add more elective teachers so that teachers can take planning um an increase in pair professionals um at both the monastery and kindergarten because we have an increase of classrooms um so what we normally do is we have one kindergarten
023pair for two if you have three classrooms we give you two um and if you are extremely over our caps we might need to add a couple extras to support um we are also looking for additional support for our teachers and our buildings and for our students um to really be able to engage our students in learning um not in these numbers but I did want to mention that we are adding um additional school counselors and social workers uh one for every building depending on the need of that building that we're granting that because we definitely see that there is a need for that at our elementary buildings we've been fighting that um requesting that for a number of years and this is finally coming to fruition so I wanted to mention that because it's
024really important for our elementary buildings when you look at our nonpayroll requests um we have purchase services can you go to the next slide i'm sorry um we have the budget and that's actually a reduction of about um tw um just over $12,000 um and including that is professional development for administrators and teachers um we did put some teachers in that PD um because sometimes we need that so I just want to make sure you have that um principal evaluation certification so that's for OTZ OPZ and our school counselors um certification because we need that in order to evaluate understanding the standards um mileage and travel consultants for PD and our neighborhood school centers if you can go to the next slide so this proposed elementary education budget request is vital to supporting the highquality
025learning environment at our elementarymentaries and it directly contributes to our students um to direct input with with staff working with our students um and for our student success which is our focus that's our throughine is student learning student achievement and student growth and thus our organization success so the investment will support our elementarymentaries and district-wide schools infrastructures to enhance the learning experience support our administrators and teachers development of program to ensure high standards of instruction um and expanding opportunities to promote that well-rounded student growth which is necessary and that is what I have to present um any questions thank you mr lacy looks like he's anxious to go so floor is yours Mr lacy so how many schools are we talking about it is um Whoops 17 okay so that's So that's that's generally one
026it's it's generally one principal and one assistant principal for each school yes okay and then is some of the so it doesn't it's some of the increases due to ers or is this just an increase of no all the all these increases in numbers are just due to needs yes okay um okay that's all I have right now thank you Miss W thank you thank you for the presentation i'm wondering I know that the resource pool continues to be more shallow wherever we go it's harder and harder to find um yeah fill positions are we broadening our lens and perspective as to what the subs or some of these positions can look like i know we have a lot of retired people in the community that oftentimes want to talk about volunteering but would come
027in and serve as adjunks and are are we are we doing any work around that i just have a question thanks so um we actually had a meeting um today with human resources and al actually our president of our DEA union talking about the predictions of staff leaving and really trying to ensure that we have high quality teachers in this position i am so excited to say that um for the interviews that I'm actually conducting right now with our principles and our teams for the school counselors and social workers we had well over um 35 licensed candidates all attempting to come for our positions which are 16 um so we are very happy with the candidate poll um and we have a lot of options and I'm hoping that that will continue to lead to
028our teaching positions as well and um I know that Dr davis and her team are recruiting and um they are telling us they have numerous candidates that are licensed so I'm very looking forward to that additionally um this is the year that OD has increased the lure which makes us very very happy prior to that we had lure that was PK3 and 49 subject specific the new lensure right now is PK8 because we often have that sixth grade and that seventh and eighth grade that's really hard to fill um and then because then they went to the PK5 so what do you do with sixth seventh and eighth um and then four 9s have the option of either going down based on what they have the PK8 or go up to 712 so we're very
029excited about those opportunities that's great news thank you any other questions Mr walker and then Mr lacy so um to piggy back off of Mr lacy it's so if it's 17 buildings and that's a principle it says principal that's only 34 so where does it 36 come from so we actually um when you look at that we said almost because we have another principal that we have placed that's been moving to a couple different buildings and situated at Rosa Parks but now is covering another building and then next year we're looking at a floating um AP to go because we've had um some shortages to really help float that in high need buildings so that was that would essentially be like another lead principal thing that we already said not not a lead principle just
030a regular principle but a floating principle which essentially it's going to different buildings okay so agree to disagree what that title would be but so what's the other position or is there two that's going to be doing that no it's just it's an assistant principal as well okay so that's 35 so what's the other one it's 17 buildings that's should be 36 she's saying that there's a principal still floating and an assistant principal correct yes so to your question yes there are two individuals one principal one assistant principal okay and then looking at your numbers again so if the enrollment increased by 400 I take it these are not all elementary students so even if 16 teachers for 16 teachers 25 students cap in each classroom I mean that's 400 students right there so where
031does the other 20some students come into play or 20ome additional teachers come into play certainly um we have some electives right now we have buildings that are sharing electives so we have two teachers elective teachers either art um music or PE that are floating between two buildings we want to stabilize that so that we have um three full-time specials at each of those buildings um and then at our largest buildings we are looking to have an additional special because the the schedule is so tight in order to support so we have talked to the DEA about that what would they do again supporting our arts initiative um we also have some ideas for them to have um and push in for our inner murals choir um other opportunities for art prepping our students um either
032um advancement enrichment um or intervention and pushing in so what you're saying is every elementary will have a full-time art teacher a full-time PE teacher not going to different buildings anymore yes okay that's awesome oh my last question the building sub is that looking at each building getting one building sub or two building subs and then Dr lawrence my request for you would be I did not see this same breakdown for building subs for the high school presentation so if we can get an update on if that same thing would apply there because I know that they struggle with building subs as well absolutely thank you so we're looking at based on needs because some buildings um they they need that extra person and some do not so that's why we have uh 14 we're
033looking at that to go between um some buildings will have them um and some their attendance they very few teachers off they don't have a need for a a building sub to um supplement and fill positions and that's why we're only requesting 14 all right thank you thank you Mr lacy my questions were covered thank you Miss Woods oh sorry had to make sure it was on um my question is how beneficial do you think having a floating principal is well I don't really want to put a title on it but having a principal that's moving around so much how beneficial do you think that'll be or what's what's your big idea your big picture of that yes that um actually came in quite handy this year um that floating principal has been at three
034different buildings and supporting those buildings um and we always have you know somebody has out there's there's different h things that happen in life and sometimes buildings just need a little extra support and so that's why we have that position thank you thank you i do want to say note again that it is encouraging to hear that the arts will have or the unified arts I believe what they call them will have individuals at their schools because we have been getting that conversation for two years to see you guys actually add that in that is really great are there any other questions thank you our next presentation Madam Treasur I believe this is from your shop yes um Andrew Mayan is going to discuss the budget of Treasury thank you hello all right here we
035go so all the formats kind of look all the same so I'll go pretty quickly through this here um starting off with the budget overview for Treasury um not much is changing in way of like staffing um if you you'll notice a decrease in salary which I'll talk about in the next slide um and then non-payroll quite a substantial increase which we'll go over um on the actual like non-payroll slide um so if you want to flip the payroll slide um so we're not changing any FTEEs it's pretty much all the same as this year uh no new positions kind of broken down by like each department within Treasury um you'll see a major decrease in terms of like actual salary and benefit amount um and that's really just due to better estimation with our
036SER pickup um this year versus last year when it was still kind of uh being decided on um then for non-payroll you want to switch to the next slide um so our overall like increase in the request is really due to the transfers and advances line which isn't really like an operating expense um it's just our transfers to uh like our permanent improvement fund for stuff like capital projects um challenger center um and then debt service payments that we pay out of O3 um so we're estimating to transfer around 22.2 million um for all of that which is why you see such a substantial increase there um purchase services and dues and fees and others decreased pretty substantially um it's really just due to bringing down getting our budget in line with how we're actually
037spending year-over-year uh essentially better estimating how much we're actually spending um versus budgeting um then if you want to flip to the next slide um so this is just a breakdown of all the different departments within Treasury kind of like what they all do um you can read through all that i'll just go briefly over each one so budget department uh pretty much handles all the budget right um so we pretty much compile all the requests from all the departments get all that good stuff any analytics or anything will probably come from us payroll department charge of paying people um every couple every two weeks um they handle all like the deductions and stuff from everybody's paychecks and everything um accounts payable is the other side of that if it's not payroll it's probably going
038through accounts payable so any invoices or anything that we get in as a district they kind of manage all that all the travel requests and everything um if you want to flip to the next slide um then we have accounts receivable and cash management um so any money we get in whether it be like foundation or property tax they handle like putting that actually into the accounting system then anytime like on your financials you'll see like the uh pretty much all the financials and like the cash reconciliation that's all handled by them as well um then purchasing department pretty much handles all of the purchase orders any purchase requests any bidding requirements any contracts or anything we do we'll go through them as well um then the next slide is just our our treasury mission
039which you can read but any questions thank you Mr walker no questions um I just want to commend you all for the work that you do looking across the state i think um for the budget that this district has you probably are the smallest Treasury Department team um and I think out of all of our presentations so far with these budget presentations you're the first department that has not asked for an increase in staff um and and costsaving measures are in place so thank you so much thank you any other questions thank you thank you all right Madam Treasurer not first are there any bargaining units that would like to speak i don't see it i don't see them either but they might just run up give them two seconds 3 two one all right
040do we have anyone registered to speak yes there is one give me one second speakers when you come up to the podium please state your name and address it is inappropriate to address any matter involving pendent disputes grievances under a labor agreement disciplinary action involving an employee or 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 the purpose of public hearing portion of the meeting is for members of the public to express viewpoints or public concerns mr walker will be your timer and once he let you know it's 3 minutes that is when you are to cease your comments jamica Garrison you want my cap thank you my name is Jamaica Garrison 531 Belmonte
041Park North Dayton Ohio 45405 floor is yours all right thank you um good evening uh President Dr goodwine Vice President Bailey Superintendent Lawrence and team um first I just want to offer my heartfelt condolences for the loss of the uh the Paul Lawrence Dumbar Wolverine U Mr alfred Hail and uh condolences to his family was very heartbreaking to hear as I am a mother of two teenage boys 15 and 17 and and to hear about that incident at the hub was an unfortunate thing to to hear so I'm just here to really encourage you guys uh more than anything i think a lot of times you know the community you know we trying to look for somebody to blame but there's not always a place to blame really we have to look at ourselves because
042we are the village the community and that includes me Jamaica Garrison as a resident as a mother as somebody born and raised in Dayton as somebody who graduated from Dayton public schools and who's still here supporting Dayton public school students um I want to start with a definition of the word love love is an intense feeling of deep affection a great interest and pleasure in and then I want to define the word care the provision of what is necessary for the health welfare maintenance and protection of someone or something and a lot of our children lack those two things from guardians from parents from teachers from principles from leadership from politicians from everybody that they come in contact with and if we want our youth and our children to be successful they have to have
043first love and care and they have to have individuals with the right heart posture when I think about my upbringing my single mother she was a construction skill trades worker my dad in and out of prison my mom didn't come to parent meetings she didn't come to activities and sporting activities and I graduated from the Paul Lawrence Dumbar as most athletic because the community raised me lynen Center Princeton Center Westwood Center Dakota Center all of these centers that we don't even hardly have anymore my my coaches my teachers they were the ones who motivated me my peers my teammates you know my neighbors neighborhood watch was was a thing you know our neighborhoods and our blocks were filled with people who cared about us when the street lights came on we went looking people told
044us get in the house they didn't ask for permission 30 seconds and so I just want to encourage you guys to remember we've been we we we haven't been here before but we used to be a lot better and it's going to take collaboration so I hope that you guys reach across the owls the various owls that are out there city of Dayton all that good stuff whoever because we need to fight for our youth this is a call to action and I'm here to serve and help in any capacity thank you [Applause] thank you that was our only speaker yes all right dr lawrence your first recommendation um Miss She would you get her number for us thanks thank you Dr goodwin our first recommendation I recommend the approval of the following administrative appointments
045dr goodwin if I may let a motion come first let a motion come first that's what I was about to do my motion okay go ahead motion to take A through F together what i do this to you all the time don't act like there's some no not all of them you two oh you got something second all right moved by Mr walker and second by Miss Wick are there any questions on the motion can I separate A2 out for a separate vote um and then Dr lawrence i mean just to point out on uh ah a sorry C3 C3 is from July of 2024 we're just now getting it today i believe someone is here to speak on that actually I'm not sure who it is but someone should be here to speak on
046that and I don't know if you have the information on E4 17 41 34 42 and 48 because those are all from August of 2024 until now as well i can speak on the resignation well not really that actually predates my time and Dr davis's time in human resources that resignation went to uh Dr jones in July of 2024 so he will have to speak on that topic come on up dr dr davis was here in June dr davis started July 1 the resignation was received for a July 11th uh effective date that's all the information I have for that so Dr davis started July 1 y'all received it July 11th and it went to Dr jones we received the resignation with the effective date of July 11th all we know when we went to
047look for the resignation is that it was tied to Dr jones that's the only information I have for that term or that resation has this employee still been getting paid since July she has not no okay any other questions on the motion mr smith yes could you um I'd like to take out a for executive session no right pulling A1 and A2 for a separate vote is yours just for a separate vote or is it for executive no he's already made somebody know okay anything else and anybody look through everything else one moment please all right give you a second miss Woods you have any questions down there all right i do have another one all right mr walker Madam Treasur there's one on here for your shop it says they started yesterday yes because
048for some reason um everything was complete the forms but for some reason I don't know what happens in HR um they didn't they said they didn't receive the forms so but that person quit their job uh in advance two weeks in advance and we have to hire them as of yesterday but everything has been submitted to HR that's what um we see that's what we they told us okay that's the reason why I requested that person not to be penalized by quitting her current job coming to us follow up on that one there was a request for this one to be on our last board meeting however when that was made last Friday HR reported that that individual had not completed all their steps so that person could not come on the last board agenda
049for that reason this will be the last time we see someone that has a start date prior to the board as that is our policy in that piece of it but I'm not that little breakdown there that person's paperwork was not processed in the timeline that the madam treasurer needed the position which is why this is again the last time of every staff has been notified that there will not be individuals starting prior to the start date with the exception of bus drivers because of the urgency and need of bus drivers anything else oh just go ahead just to clarify on B2 you all should vote yes that is way before that date or way after that wait actually I like to take B2 SE separate is that Oh it is after the date still
050no that's fine i mean it's not a this is not a after ah okay it's not is that actually Miss Vicki is that noted correctly i don't see a B2 um there is no B2 actually make Oh B1 you know what I meant you saw okay so no never mind Miss Mickey we're fine all right so we are voting on everything except for A1 and A2 and we will be voting on A2 separately and we will be voting on A1 possibly after executive session madam Treasure may we have a vote president Goodwin yes dr mr bailey yes mr lacy yes mr smith yes miss Reard yes mr walker yes miss Wick yes seven yeses miss Woods don't forget Miss Woods oh yes okay yes okay thank you eight yeses thank you now we are voting
051on A2 okay for A2 President Goodwin yes dr bailey yes mr lacy yes mr smith yes miss Reinard yes mr walker no no Miss Wick yes Miss Wood yes seven yeses one no thank you we are at 7A your first recommendation Dr lawrence my first recommendation I recommend approval of the following contracts is there a motion so moved is there a second second moved by Mr lacy second by Dr bailey are there any questions on the motion all right seeing none I will make a comment i did get to see AJ Brown's cafeteria today and it is phenomenal it's a great design if you go in there I took some pictures so I'm going to post it later but if you go in there you can just really see how that energy is really enhanced
052by that side of the cafeteria i will say on the other side maybe we should put up some artwork or something it's a little plain when you just turn around it's not as exciting got to look one direction go ahead Mr walker uh Dr jones um with regards to the cafeterias I'm just curious on in looking at EJ Brown um and like Dr goodwine said one side is very bare with our high schools a lot of the class photos are in the cafeteria so what's the plan with that area and those items at the middle school level or high school high school level um I'll have to get with Amber um they are actually going through the design process right now can you put the mic up a little bit um I'll have to get
053with uh Miss Whitmire they're actually going through the design process right now i know at third good uh the um graduation pictures wraps around the entire cafeteria uh Dumbar uh most of those pictures are out in the hallway so it'll differ by building um but we'll definitely pay very close attention to uh the design build of those cafeterias with um pictures around uh the cafeteria yeah I think that that was like what I've really seen was Dumbar a lot of their class photos are right there at the top and then even with their gun Marshall so if we can just with the RFQ or RFP for that to look at that piece on where that would now be housed at in the buildings most definitely thanks sir madam Treasure may we have a vote president
054Goodwin yes dr bailey yes mr lacy yes mr smith yes miss RER yes mr walker yes miss Wick yes miss Wood yes it's Woods with a S woods okay ats's thank you your next recommendation i recommend the approval of the following consulting contracts so move second so move moved by Mr lacy second by Miss Wick any questions on the motion you good just want to make sure all right may we have a vote president Good Guain yes dr bailey yes mr lacy yes mr smith yes miss Reinard yes mr walker i'm going to Yes yes Miss Wig yes Miss Woods yes yes ats's mr walker would you like to make some comments before we move on sure i I asked second year in a row on this revival center ministry information and I never received
055an email regarding it so second year in a row miss Graham could you come up and speak to that i don't need you to come up and speak to it because I requested it last week and nothing was sent over so I appreciate it though you got a yes vote for me just next year when it comes back if we can have that in the forefront be really great miss Gramp since you here come on up i'd like to hear what you got to say come on up i I just said the other day I never get to see you anymore give us a couple words let the people know you still out here oh man whoa whoa whoa whoa there you go rough out here you know it's all love in this building it
056was We had the same conversation last year when you came and presented on the same same project what do you want to know well we do have a lot of information um you want to know about the gear program or the 21st century program because revival center ministries provide a lot of services for their students so I was more interested in the contract that we awarded them last year to do the same program at international what was the data behind that was it successful a model how did our homeless population take the program and things like that what resources was allocated to them for it all of that information well the resources well let me put it to you like this it was a two-part program our teachers provided the instructional side which was the
057literacy and then what Revival Center Ministry provide for them are is the enrichment pieces the life skills so there was not the in the enrichment so what they provide is those experiences that our students experiencing homelessness would not get otherwise so like for instance uh let's see I do have some information for you it just wasn't emailed so and I have it over there too so for their proposal for what they are doing this year they are doing a number of things that provide students with their life skills um experiences and what she does is she um works with the children to give them like guitar lessons boxing um while on the fly she has different experiences every week is a different thing they um experiences with I need to put my glasses on so
058I can so I can read because this doesn't help so it's this fitness social emotional learning music and studio entrepreneurial leadership arts and crafts STEM activities and positive youth development so e these are the enrichment pieces not the academic pieces for them we do that in the morning and the reason for that well from 9 to 12:30 because we want to give them enrichment pieces and things that they wouldn't have during the summer like other students would be because most of our students are sitting in a shelter so we make sure that it's all day and we want to give these experiences to them to give them the life skills the enrichment the um items that make them have more fulfilling life last year it was interesting that the kids went to the zoo the
059most important part for them or the most exciting part for them was actually being on the highway for the first time so those are the experiences that we try to give these students because most of the students if not all of them because we do open up the gear program for at risk students but the priority goes to our students that are experiencing homelessness so we give them these uh all these experiences and things to do that they would not have that if they were in any of our other summer programs they're their half day and then they go home our students in McKenna Vento their homes may be a shelter their homes may be their car their homes may be uh living with somebody else their homes may be you know living on the
060street so we try to fill their day with the academics and then have some fun activities in the afternoon and give them those skills um that make them more successful in life that is enriching their academics now what data do we have to support that we really don't because that's not the part that we are evaluating what we're evaluating with the curriculum and instruction is how they are succeeding academically and so that's the morning part of the day so I'm not sure so we can give you data about how they have um succeeded during the summer program but I don't know how much I can actually say that what revival has provided to them since it's enrichment and life skills has a tribute to that so if we awarded it last year how do we
061track as a district what they provided was actually successful to do it again well what we do is we do reach out to other providers because what we're doing we're trying to make sure that we're giving them these experiences so because we are using federal funds we are required to at least get other quotes so we do reach out to other providers to provide the students the same type of experiences that we're trying to provide them because we've already gave them the academic portion so what we our hopes are from this that it does have an impact on tying what they're learning during the day which is their reading enrichment and their reading literacy because it is get excited about reading so the activities that they're being provided is bringing some of the things that
062they're reading to life because now they're getting those hands-on experiences and putting it together so our um uh curriculum is lit camp and so they're having this experience with Scholastic with the lit camp and then after they're doing that during the day now they're having those hands-on experiences that's tied to that literacy now they're living it they're experienc it and have the different experiences to tie it back to what they've learned during the day so there is some cohesiveness when you think about that now they're living through what they've worked through and we're hopeful that some of the activities is uh is lived experiences for them so the parents don't get a survey about the activities the child are doing children are doing either not currently okay i was just curious because if it's grant
063funds that's being used and things like that how are we tracking like even if students are doing like they said boxing guitar and things like that where's the survey of saying that students are yes I'm still interested in this yes this is somewhat I agree with continuing the program somewhat I disagree with continuing the program like that's the data again this is the second year that the same organization has received dollars for this program but I don't I just don't see any like backup to say it has worked and our students are interested in it and that's fine and what we can do we can actually get that data for this year since you're requesting it we can specifically do that uh however what we did put in our grant application because we are not
064these are from our McKenna Vental subrant and last year with the art palms money pay for this these are what we said that we would enhance social and emotional well-being to address stress anxiety and trauma that the students may be experiencing so that is what this is doing because it's giving them some of that time to let off some of that stress that they would experience if they were spending this time during the summer in a shelter on the street in a car in a hotel doubled up with somebody so this is giving them that time to release some of that stress get rid of some of that trauma and have some normaly during the time that they're in the summer program okay thank you let me ask you a follow-up question now yes for
065this report out period so this program ends July 11th according to Yes here okay so at our August meeting would you be able to pres present out data of the surveys that Mr walker is requesting on because I'm imagine that you guys are going to ask them before the program is over some of of their experience on that survey data of the children in the program we sure can correct so we can Miss Kid can you just add that to our August meeting to have a followup on this specific program so we can have that now we got real we got timelines of what we're going to commit to to find out how this year absolutely all right no I appreciate that i like dates in deadlines hey that way everybody know what's going on
066we go all right thank you any other questions for Miss Graham before she leaves the podium i do have handouts for you since I made them I'm going to make sure you get them so I'm going to give them to uh Shereice and Leslie madam Treasure okay thanks thank you thank you all right dr lawrence your next recommendation i recommend approve the following memorandum of understanding in NJRTC moved by Mr walker is there second second by Mr lacy any questions seeing none may we have a vote president Goodwin yes dr bailey yes mr lacy yes mr smith yes miss Reard yes mr walker yes miss Wick yes and Miss Woods yes yes eight yeses miss Wood you got to be confident down there with your vote can't be squeaking i told you wasn't like that
067up on doing our poetry hey man i wasn't number one first place and third place winner down there throat just a little sore you know I was just giving out speeches all week and stuff [Applause] bonus children are a little spicy sounds like a future board member hey you sound like a DPS board member out here future board member somebody been watching the show all right Dr lawrence your next recommendation uh before I make the recommendation I'd like to ask Miss Allen president CEO of the Boys and Girls Club to come on up she did hey would you just like to talk a little first of all how are you i'm doing well sir how are you good good hey would you like to talk a little bit about the Boys and Girls Club what
068you do and and how this MOOU kind of fits into some of the long-term planning that we've talked about absolutely thank you Dr uh Lawrence uh President Goodwine Vice President Bailey all board members again Crystal Allen president and CEO of Boys and Girls Clubs of Dayton i've been in my role almost three years now and uh we are very committed to supporting the students in this district uh I am not new to Boys and Girls Clubs i come with 15 years of experience uh from Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Cincinnati and my role is to elevate the work that you do every single day and providing young people with opportunities to have great outcomes and so over the last three years we've really uh moved Boys and Girls Club from being a swimming gym
069to true youth development so every single day our club members participate in 45 minutes of academic enrichment it is required if they do not have homework we provide academic assistance uh we also do uh academic intervention uh in partnership with Sinclair and EDGE to ensure that they are moving uh forward and there again we're enhancing what what happens during the school day they also participate in 45 minutes of physical movement every single day i often say we're not interested in creating athletes but we want them to know what happens to their beautiful brains when they move their bodies we also serve a snack and a hot nutritious dinner every single night uh we also um ensure they participate in at least 45 minutes of civic engagement community service projects every single week and also uh
070STEM related activities every single day in conjunction with 45 minutes minimum of life and workforce readiness uh training as many of you may know our building was built in 1968 uh it has and needs a lot of work and so over the last few years we have really uh banded together as a community to make uh the decision that our community and our young people deserve to build a brand new Boys and Girls Club uh in in that space of where we are uh it is a $16 million project uh we uh to date have secured $12.2 $2 million uh to build this brand new club and we are hoping to break ground in uh late summer uh early uh fall for a 14-month project uh in my experience across the state uh and nationally
071even with Boys and Girls Clubs in order for a Boys and Girls Club organization to be successful we have to have a very strong partnership with the school district and with the caregivers and so um during this time we do not want to disrupt service services so we are asking uh the the the board the district to consider uh a temporary location uh during the time of our construction uh one to ensure that we don't disrupt services but also to demonstrate to the community that the school-based model in Boys and Girls Clubs uh works boys and Girls Clubs of America has the largest footprint in the world in youth development there's no one in the world that has a larger footprint than Boys and Girls Clubs we have more than 6,000 clubs across the country
072uh 75% of those are in schools 25% of those are brickandmortar buildings the students are there uh the teachers are there the resources there are there in the schools and we just want to enhance again the great work that you do uh every single day i do want to highlight uh our new facility will be a 37,000 ft² facility which will include 5,000 square ft of um traditional office space 25,000 square ft of uh traditional club space and a 7,000 foot life and workforce readiness center so our young people will be able to uh participate in five uh career industry pathways that very much align with what the district is doing we know the great work that you are doing to provide those opportunities for young people and so again we exist to enhance what
073you are doing every day thank you thank you so much [Applause] is there a motion on the floor so moved moved by Miss Reiner second by Mr lacy and now the questions i'm going to go first mr workers you always go first i do have two questions for you on this one i looked at the time and I've asked you this before and I just want to make sure it's out here for the public the time for the after school program is 2:30 to 7:30 and the location that we're going to is Wagaman where they get out at 3:00 p.m when that crossover does occur where would these individuals go since they're technically still in school during that period the expectation is that they'll be in the gym uh doing their prep time to prepare
074for all of that work that Miss Allen just told you they're going to be doing all right so let me give you a follow-up does that mean that gym our physical education will not be on the schedule for the last period of the day at the school and if it is how does that balance work uh it does not mean that it won't be on the schedule uh the gym is utilized by students typically the gym teacher is fantastic by the way i've been there for a while and they have active exercise while they're out there in games and I would imagine that boys and girls that are waiting will be sitting in the bleachers okay and final question so this it because volleyball and basketball are two of our athletic events that are offered
075in the fall and the winter i just want to make sure that there would be minimum impact to that program as well uh there is no impact to impact to those programs and Miss Allen met with um Dr jones and I and she said we do not need the gym all right go ahead Miss Woods thank you is that better um my question was if I know at my school um after school we do still use the gym so since the since during that trans um transition period the children will be in the gym how will that like how will that work with children running in and out of the gym just because they're at school or like they have um weight room or games practice how will that go along with each other thank
076you so much Miss Woods for your uh question uh we are very creative in boys and girls clubs uh there are ways for our young people to um experience and and have the opportunity to do uh health and and wellness programs athletic programs within the confines of a of a program space of a classroom and so the times that the gym is available we'd love to be in there uh but our staff is prepared to to offer alternate uh activities that do not necessarily need the gym thank you thank you Mr smith uh yes first for Dr jones um with this proposal does this impact any of your forecasted needs for WGMAN as it comes to any grounds or building work custodial crew things like that uh we'll have to make some slight modifications there
077are three uh classrooms uh that have been identified uh they're confined in the same area of the building and so we'll just work work around uh where they are okay appreciate that Mr walker yes thank you um so um I guess for me I'm I'm curious on that middle school transition um since it's at 2:30 and the other students that served outside of Walgamin and their access now to Walgamin um I don't know if this is a Dr jones Dr lawrence or Miss Allen but how will that be monitored probably should just stay up here uh so uh our operating hours are 2:30 to 7:30 Monday through Thursday and then 2:30 to 6:00 on Fridays uh from 2:30 to 3:00 we have maybe 15 maybe members at that time we um currently transport from four
078Dayton public schools we purchased two vans to pick up students from those schools as well as from a uh shelter and so our bus routes will be happening during that time uh but we may again have probably at at max 15 to 20 students from that 2:30 to 3:30 3:00 time frame at that time we are planning to use that time to provide snack and to just gather our members so I don't foresee there being any disruption um in anything that's happening during the school day thank you um and while I ask your my question for you so I as an official I know that we officiate games at Boys and Girls Club over the weekend um will this now impact that and will the request come later then to look at utilizing the gym
079or like something like that or So we are currently exploring uh you mean with our new facility well like currently so I know that you have the basketball program over the weekends that go so that was Yeah so there was a organization that was renting our facility or using our facility uh uh because they needed uh program space that is a separate contract that is not included with us um and we have um notified those partners um of the need to uh reach out um to other entities in the community to be able to use use B or gym space okay thank you and then my last question is for Dr lawrence um I do I did have the chance to go to Waggleman and I'm just curious one of the classroom is a robotics
080class where I think the instructor left in the middle of the year the other one is the health class and I'm just curious of now will waggle not health have health um I'm sorry art is the class um will now not have health and then what would be the plan for continuing robotics or looking at someone different or what will happen with that space so the robotics uh space stays we're actually transporting a teacher from another building to there we're locking the equipment up for the summer uh so that we can clean that area the equipment is very expensive and so we don't want to we actually don't want to use that room at all and so that room stays as is it'll uh robotics will be there project Leadway is actually what you're asking
081about and then the other component about health you have to tell me why that not health it's art the other one was art but oh uh the first one to the right yes um I don't think they're using I think they're using the one two three that are in the Yeah that are in that in that in that hallway yeah the one that I got to to your When when you go down the hallway it's left left right okay yeah the room that I got shown yesterday was the art room at Wall sounds like that was incorrect can someone give him the correct rooms on his next tour appreciate it great thanks can I also add that um in uh a part of uh Boys and Girls Clubs of of Dayton we are under the
082umbrella of Boys and Girls Clubs of America and so we sit under this national framework where uh they require certain safety measures i think I shared with Dr lawrence in order for us to move forward Boys and Girls Clubs of America would have to come down and charter uh this as a temporary location so we will have our national safety team um there just to look at the facility to make sure that it's suitable for boys and girls clubs um so I do want to add that addition um safety protocol will be in place miss Riner looks like he was about to flip on all right i I had a couple questions based on that one too oh wait are you finished okay you can go after me my turn the What is the age
083range of the individuals in this program so we serve uh young people kindergarten all the way up until their 19th birthday okay and with that piece of it how are people eligible to be a part of the program so Boys and Girls Clubs is an absolutely free program we eliminated all membership fees um three years ago when I came uh we are a mainstay in West Dayton so most families know about Boys and Girls Clubs but we certainly uh are hopeful there's that there's an opportunity through a partnership with the district for us to be a natural feeder uh for after school uh for the students that are served every single day but we have open enrollment so members uh can come from any community any school to a Boys and Girls Club how do
084they sign like how do they sign up where do you get the information at that's you can visit this is the pitch part sure you can get Oh thank you appreciate it my marketing person will be so mad at me um so you visit our website www.boyandgirlbgcdatton.org um also stop by the club we are offering our last few blue door tours uh through May uh which we will uh you know plan to demolish the building so either visiting our website or stopping by um we do have um schools that we uh partner with in some ways luis Troy Waggman where we do have um flyers and applications available uh at some of those schools okay thank you now my next question is for Dr jones I believe so knowing that we would have external students
085who are not necessarily um students at Wamman on our side for the security protocol what are we putting in place to ensure that again the kids that are coming into our building are at least getting the same level of checking that those who come on a daily basis for safety right we'll certainly make sure we have our SRO's present but we also talked about um I apologize so one of the things um you asked about enrollment so we require that in order for a young person to sign up for club a caregiver has to attend a caregiver meeting that is a requirement a parent grandparent uncle goldfish somebody has to come on behalf of that young person uh we offer an entire uh training around safety uh expectations for uh attending club services uh they
086are required to come at least three days a week in order to remain eligible for uh club we understand that life happens when life happens we check in with our young people but we have a very rigorous uh process we some boys and girls clubs allow open gym and open memberships we do not allow that in our organization for the safety of uh everyone involved all of our volunteers and our staff are vetted they have to uh go through a comprehensive background check that is ongoing so we don't do them every year every 5 years it is ongoing 24 hours monitored by Boys and Girls Clubs of America um and then they also participate in grooming mandated reporting uh sexual abuse training uh at least twice a year uh as well the other difference is
087we offer a um we have we are required to have a um membership intake coordinator at the door so we will have a staff person who is housed right at the door to ensure whatever door we are able to use the members coming in that door are actual club members okay can I pause for one second one of our board members needs to leave and I'd like to get a vote on it because she would like to vote on it on the record and then we still have more questions for you though but okay uh madam okay okay can go ahead um for Dr lawrence for me section three and it says in here "Our DPS administrative team will monitor and report to the community on the following items: programs activities public relations and marketing
088opportunities what does that look like on our side seeing that the payment that we we're looking at is for the leasing of the buildings then secondly I'll put it all in one with Dr jones when we say we would have those SRO's would that be in addition to what we have over there because if so does that incur an extra cost because I believe the contract as it says right now is that the only other cost that we would not incur are agreed upon extraneous maintenance costs and anything else is not in there so that would be my two questions that I won't proact you want to go first real quick yeah I'll be real okay all right um so that window of time um from 2:30 to 3:30 our SRO's are there already that
089would be my question yeah so we wouldn't incur uh additional costs uh from that standpoint well appreciate that and Mr smith the administrative team at Wagman that's just them meeting with Miss Allen's representatives to check in and monitor that all the programming is going effectively and that we're not having any hiccups and then on our end at central services uh she and I meet on a regular basis to follow up to make sure that there are there are no um barriers or anything that's going wrong on their end or ours all right all right all right madam Treasur can we have a vote president Goodwin yes dr bailey yes mr lacy yes mr smith yes miss Reard yes mr walker yes miss Wick yes miss Wood yes eight yeses let the record reflect that Miss
090Riner has exited the meeting at 7:01 p.m are there any other questions on the boys and girls before we move on all right does that conclude your recommendation dr lawrence it does thank you so much madam treasur your first recommendation i recommend the approval of this uh resolution amendment to permanent appropriation for 2025 as reviewed last week can I go ahead make a motion to take A through F together is there a second second motion moved by Mr walker second by Dr bailey and we are taking A through F in the same vote any questions on any of the items on there all right seeing none Madam Treasure may we have a vote president Goodwin yes dr bailey yes mr lacy yes mr smith yes miss Reinard she's okay mr walker yes miss Wick yes
091miss Woods yes seven yeses thank you does that conclude your recommendations Madam Treasur yes dr jones your recommendation okay i recommend ratification of uh the athletic agreement with non DP DPS enrolled students uh second moved by Mr lacy second by Mr walker any questions yes go ahead Mr walker is this an individual student this is a student that's uh homeschooled yes we have a few more actually that are going to come in as well i like it they parents is agreeing to do stuff okay appreciate it let me I'm trying to I do have a question on this so are we are we requiring all homeschooled students to go through the same process as the charters is that what we're trying to do yes sir this thing down all right i will say Dr jones
092if you can have the address updated to where you're actually located at that would be useful in the future we'll do yes ma'am all right no other questions madam Treasure may we have a vote president Goodwin yes dr bailey yes mr lacy yes mr dismiss i will ratify this one today yes it's the same joke okay i really don't like that mr walker yes miss Wick yes miss Woods yes seven yeses thank you i recommend the approval of the following board travel as listed so moved is there a second second moved by Mr l i can't second can I have a second someone can someone else second the motion three board members on the left not paying attention can one of y'all second the motion you got it second thank you moved by Mr lacy
093second by Dr bailey any questions on the motion seeing none may we have a vote president Goodwin yes dr bailey yes mr lacy yes mr smith yes okay mr walker yes miss Wick yes miss Woods yes seven yeses thank you i recommend the approval of the following resolution authorizing the superintendent's performance bonus for the 2024 2025 school year and just a note for the viewers at home there are some performance matrix that Dr lawrence needed to hit and he did hit those matrix of which increasing enrollment from 12,418 to 12,844 which is an increase of 426 students and retaining staff which I don't think it says in here but last year out of the 900 plus teachers we only lost 174 so those are the matrix that our Dr lawrence is receiving this bonus for
094is there a motion some moved second moved by Mr lacy second by Dr bailey any questions or comments see is that whom you got a a comment are you just humming okay seeing none may we have a vote president Goodwin yes dr bailey yes mr lacy yes mr smith all right yes Mr walk Walker yes miss Wick yes miss Woods yes seven answers it's weird and she ain't rhymed enough in the whole meeting i need y'all to calm down all right so now we are on to our comments miss Woods I'm going to give you time to think about getting your thoughts together since it's your first time up here so I'm going to start with Mr lacy uh the finance committee met last Thursday and went over the um the financial statements and they
095are in good order and I'm looking forward to the audit the uh audit committee meeting this month thank you Miss Wick um thank you uh thank you to the team tonight for all of your professional presentations i always appreciate it um I attended the uh service yesterday for the young man that we lost downtown um a week ago um I was struck by the fact that um if his mom or his aunt or somebody didn't receive a call every day from him by about 3:00 they would be calling him because he checked in with him every day so that he was safe so that they knew he was safe and I know that the complexities of the organization and our students and all of the things are a big part of all of it but
096I am pleading with this board to take action to move the students away from the main bus hub we have buildings we have facilities we have community partners and agencies that we we can and should do better by it's our responsibility and there are other community agencies that bear responsibility as well this is not calling anybody out on anything anybody is or is not doing but I am calling this board to do more to move our students to a safer transition point while we work for better solutions so um uh thank you that's all I've got thanks Mr walker had to get my notes ready lord um so I did attend the Council of Great City Schools conference um legislative conference in DC as well as the National School Board Conference um in Atlanta Georgia
097under my name um you will actually see my very very attentive breakdown of my sessions and things like that that was attended um as well as um my second hat on the board is legislative um so in there as well I have some of the current bills that are pending in the state um that um affects public education in a lot of ways um so please take a look at those and reach out if you have any questions um last month I believe I served as a judge for Edison's um speech contest congratulations to everyone that participated in the Botilian Cotillian and Debutant um definitely enjoyed speaking at the Meadow JTC military ball uh next week we do have a after school activities committee meeting um and thank you to first time I do anything
098like this thanks to Madame President for putting these budget presentations on i really do enjoy them you will never get another one of those um and then yesterday I had the opportunity to attend the DPS Foundation board meeting um you know previous board member um and co-founder Miss Nancy Ner is doing some really great work over there with her team um to the athletics department i will say that I will um like to charge you all to really look at um I had a chance to visit Styverus today styrus has plenty of space inside of there um there's some programs that have five or six rooms of storage so if you all could take a look at that and see where um this Cyberus football team may be able to use some space inside of
099that building um that would be really great and I would appreciate the update on that piece um and I will end my comments with the um general statement that election season is here um please do not fall victim to tricks that politicians like to play inside of the city of Dayton um recognize what clown behavior is and know how to stand on recognizing what clown behavior is um individuals who feel some type of way about students downtown one it is discrimination to me um it is retaliation um it's always interesting when you see individuals on this level who has done this work and worked in public education for 30 plus years as retired teachers principles union president who has a statement of 25% of our population of youth is 100% of our future be nice
100if they actually meant every word that they say um and other individuals who decide to associate with those individuals as well the state does not fund public education correctly to actually do um transportation and to piggyback on that um even if the district was to route children um we have to route children within a a half a mile from the residence and factor in safety um also have to pick many atrisisk students up at their door rta is able to have bus stops based on efficiency and do not have to traver traverse to neighborhoods like we do rta is a terrible partner to day public schools rta charges $60 for a regular bus pass and day public schools pays $85 for a bus pass it's ridiculous but yet you have city officials who appoint these
101members to their board and want to bring them to the table but will hold a press conference because they're trying to run for office so hopefully individuals in the community will look at who's on the ballot and recognize where people stand and stop looking at discrimination um against our youth thank you Mr smith yes yes yes that was a lot um I want to say thank you to everybody that came out today um seeing those students be um recognized for their achievements as a former student who got to hold up his Math Olympics trophy high you know you wasn't you wasn't our coach you know cuz we had winners over there um I I I remember how good I felt at that moment and I I just want us to constantly find ways to encourage
102our students when they're doing well no matter how big or small that we perceive it to be because when they're doing something they're it's always huge to them and I think the more that we can do to encourage students and let them know that we value the things that they do it it lessens the impact on people lifting them up for doing the wrong things and I want to be clear that's one of the reasons we see in many communities um a spike in youth violence alongside of the poverty and disinvestment and all the things that we can be here all day talking about is that a lot of students or a lot of young people gravitate towards those people that bring them in and quite often it happens a lot that people lift up
103people who are doing the wrong things and so the more we can lift up our students for doing the right things that's just another step in the right direction and so uh I really appreciate that and I appreciate the board uh always taking space to house those moments um I want to thank everybody out here going that testing season let's keep keep it going encourage everybody i want to keep everybody lifted up um this is that time where it's easy to check out so want to encourage everybody there um looking forward to the the summer months and um Dr lawrence if you could you know make sure we get with PIO to make sure that all the programs that we will be putting out i know last year you had a whole blitz about what
104was going on this summer don't don't slack up in year two man i can't have you do that um facts can't have you do that we need to know what's going on and then lastly I want to uh just thank everybody in this district i know there's been a lot of things that have been in the news that make an already difficult situation more difficult the people here in this district care about the lives of all of these students and when unfortunate incidents happen unfortunately some people use that as an attempt to attack the work that goes on here and I want to thank the people who have been here i want to send a special shout out to our transportation team because when these things happen you guys take that hit and I know
105for a fact that transportation has improved leaps and bounds over the the past few years um and so I I want to lift you guys up for that and I want to just really say I really really support DPS when we have people out there saying what we shouldn't do or what we're not doing or how we should do things and we're not putting that same energy towards attacking legislature we're not putting that same effort towards attacking a fund uh they're sleeping in their beds if we're not going to address safety in this city and we're only going to put it at one space then we're only pushing the problem off of our front step and we're saying "I don't want to see this issue as long as it's in my my vision." If we're
106just pushing off the problem then we're no better than the people that propagate the violence in the first place and so I want to stand with our district and say we have been working over and over and if anyone wants to go they can Google most of these things we've had this contentious battle with how do we transport our children we've tried different methods we've tried going to a private system and that didn't work because we have to then pay fines that are not being picked up by those who would be driving that so that method's out the way we've tried talking to RTA who also was interviewed with this whole press conference and their response was we don't want them on RTA so we're getting mixed messages about do we want to route separately
107when the CEO of RCA is saying I don't want these kids on my buses and he is on record for saying I will try my hardest to discourage children from being on RTAs and he's gone a step further by moving RTA stops further away we have a student sitting up here that can tell you there was bus stops right in front of ponets those bus stops got moved further down the street to discourage students from being on those buses so if we're going to have a question and conversation about safety everyone has to come to the forefront and really lay down what do they really want and what is this really about because if it's about safety then we need to work on safety if it's about where we want children to be then let's
108just be honest and find places that we want children to be at but for us to sit around and couch safety inside of a student's death to me is unfair to the students of this district the staff of this district and it's totally unfair to the parents and families not only of this young man but of the numerous students who we unfortunately have lost and we have not seen an outpour of political movement around those deaths that is all I have to say president Goodwin thank you Miss Woods sorry um well first I want to say thank you guys for coming today and staying for about 2 hours and 20 minutes me personally I think this is the shortest board meeting ever what I've ever been to in my opinion and I'm so happy about
109that like I'm so happy about that not the point though um can you say your last name for me one more time um Miss Garrison I just wanted to thank you for saying what you said about Alfred um when the situation happened um I I went downtown 5 minutes after it happened so I kind of seen like the aftermath of everything but a lot of my classmates they seen the incident actually happened in front of their eyes and I had to call one of my friends and tell her what happened because that was her friend um I don't feel like this situation should be used as a oh children need to be moved from downtown because like everyone is saying stuff happens downtown all the time that's like me i was going to work the
110other day and a a lady literally picked an argument with me and the bus driver got in my face it was it was a whole situation and I almost got kicked off the bus and I wasn't doing nothing i wasn't doing nothing i was sitting there quiet on my phone just wanting to get to work but and well that to say that that goes oh sorry to say that that goes into what he said when he said that the CEO is trying to push us away from the bus and push us away from using the bus because he tells the bus drivers like hey you can say whatever you want to these kids whatever they say back is going to get them kicked off the bus whatever they say back is going to stop them
111from being able to ride this bus the bus driver lit he literally threatened me and said and I quote "I will kick you off this bus and you won't be able to ride it no more." And I couldn't say nothing cuz that's my only way of transportation how am I going to get to work when my parents are How am I going to get to work my parents are at work and the RTA is the only way I'm getting to and from work to and from school we can't get kicked off the bus like we literally can't stand our ground we can't say anything back we have to just sit there and be disrespected we have to sit there and be called out our names stumped over everything just because the RTA is our only
112way of transportation so I don't feel like his death should be used as a not let me not say used but I don't think it should be put out there as a these children need to stop riding the bus or these children need to be moved away from the hub but I feel like it should be more of an intention like we do all feel unsafe and a lot of us haven't rode the bus since Friday like I know I haven't went downtown this morning was my first time downtown since the incident and I was scared like I w it wasn't just a regular scared when I got off the bus i barely wanted to get off the bus because I was just shaking because I didn't know if somebody was going to come up
113to me and say "Hey are you this person or you look like this so I'm going to do this to you or I'm going to say this to you." It's scary and none of us really want to be down there but we're forced to be down there because that's the only way we can get to where we need to be but what I'm saying is thank you to everyone for saying what you did say or what you are trying to do to move us from being downtown and thank you for actually seeing that we don't feel comfortable downtown and we aren't safe downtown this situation should be used as a these children aren't safe downtown instead of a these children need to be moved from downtown that's all mr walker has a part two everyone's
114excited about it no I I forgot to do something that I said I was going to do yesterday so to Chief Shei and her team and Dr lawrence and Chief Wright um thank you all yesterday for your stepping in um and covering classes at Dumbar um while staff went and students went to that funeral um I saw principles actually teaching math classes i think Miss Bonnie was doing a lesson on Jim Crow era um Chief Shehi was running around with keys asking kids where you supposed to be so it was it was very like great to see them in action yesterday so thank you all that was actually a good part two from Mr walker good job two points i'm saving my rest for the city commission meeting tomorrow all right Dr bailey first is
115your mic on belmont thought it was on probably I clicked it back off but I want to thank the uh principal for Belmont coming out he's been at quite a bit of the uh meetings that we've had so I appreciate that uh Miss Garrison uh thank you thank you thank you for coming out and um the words that you gave us today um I hope it touched everybody's heart in here uh I want to thank Eric and uh Will for their comments and Karen as well but Karen said that she's putting pretty much kind of a proclamation to us as a board members to do something about this but it's way more than just the board members and I'm asking the community to come together to start talking to the mayor talking to the city
116manager and talking to those at RTA to come to the table with us and actually do something about this it's been well overdue um because sometimes I think well it's not sometimes our hands are tied as well i'm not going to regurgitate anything that Eric Walker has already said or what will has said but we all have to come to the table to get this thing done and I hope that they don't use this seeing that the elections are getting ready to come up as a political thing um I am one that will always say that I am about the students and they need to look at these students and make sure that they are safe downtown the mayor has always said that you know he's been on this board um and that he is
117in touch with this city then he needs to be in touch with this with the city um we need help because we can't do it by ourselves and I think somebody's already said we don't run the bus routes for RTA we don't we don't schedule those so I don't know where we go from here but I do know that we need to come together and uh and make this better and I think that's all I really have to say thank you Miss Hamilton only time to speak let me speak um I just wanted to say thank you all um who showed up today from you know the math Olympics and the debates and the the other celebrations that we had for our students i think it's fantastic miss Woods I loved hearing you uh multiple
118times today and seeing you up here it was fantastic um I the only update that I wanted to give about the audit uh department is that our audit committee meeting is later this month like um Joe Lacy said and uh we have a really good group of people who are coming together it's a mix of board members so we got um audit committee chair and board member Joe Lacy Dr goodwine um William Smith all board members of course currently and then of course we have community members who have chosen to volunteer their time on a regular basis to come alongside our district and support us consistently and I'm really really excited for their involvement and those members include uh Christopher Calvin Allison Clark Curtis Farnell Steven Gregory and Abby Patel Jones and um I'm really
119excited for the audit committee to be official and to be getting the ball rolling so that's it thank you thank you Dr jones dr goodwin if I may no you may not but go ahead i just want to say I appreciate um that audit committee i just want to share that I think the way that that audit committee was was formed is something that we really should look at this the fact that people came in on their own time to be interviewed to serve on a board shows the the the interest and the dedication that they're going to have on there so I want to salute our our our auditor on putting together that process and I just want to thank you for being so creative and finding people that really are coming together for
120the betterment of DPS thank you Dr goodwin back to you Dr jones i'd also like to piggy back um Will Smith and saying uh huge salute to Sarah um we got a a chance to look at the preliminary uh the draft of the audit uh the first audit was on uh it and it was extremely detailed um it was really good and I think it's uh it's going to guide our our strategic plan uh formulation as we as we move forward so uh thank you uh also um we are conducting uh K8 uh transportation listening sessions on the 23rd and the 24th and so this is an invite uh for any parent or guardian uh to come to uh our listening session on the 23rd or the 24th uh from 5 to 6:30 at Jackson
121Center thank you thank you madam treasure thank you uh this year is the banial budget year as you know most of our revenue comes about 70% from the state so far what we know uh what is approved by the house is our um foundation is going to be increased by 1.1% in 2026 and by half% in 2027 so with rising of our the cost as the expenditures wages and salaries 1.1% increase is really very low on the top of that now HB 96 ending cash balance has to be capped by up to uh 30% that is a big big issue for our district and all other districts the bill cups 30% of u the expenditures cash balance over 30% is going to be cut from our property tax uh revenues it is huge for us
122so our dis district estimated revenue is less than our estimated expenditures this means I must use cash balance uh to cover the expenditures always my revenue is being lower than our expenditures so now if I receive less money from the property taxes where am I going to go are we going to ask our community to have a levy every year to cover the deficit because now the way if it passes through the Senate I I can't cover the the second year and by ORC we can't have a deficit in the second year and third year so uh we need to communicate with our uh senators and um I hope it doesn't pass um that's a lot of concern for our district and all other districts thank you that's all we have thank you Dr lawrence
123madam Treasurer thank you for your comments the 16 superintendents met this morning and we support the treasures and echo the same comments and thank you for your talking points that you gave us and thank you for um putting us in a position where unlike many districts around the state because of your leadership Dayton public schools did not have to lay off staff like most districts and um because of your leadership now we're going to band together uh superintendents and treasurers is bringing public school districts together to push back on this carry space so thank you thank you uh I want to thank you i want to segue i want to thank your office uh for participating in the debate competition david Riley was there um and Larry was there as well uh Sarah thank you
124you were there as well so they were judges uh uh Dr goodwin was there too she got a chance to see all the teams i heard her talking about her team and what they would have done so maybe next year she'll make the finals i can't believe he hating on kids that's the superintendent right there i'mma play this back to him too well I mean I didn't I didn't say they weren't good i just said Yeah i just hope that you'll be there next year i mean you know who knows uh so thank you thank you uh now I want to say in all all seriousness um uh I hear a lot about and you can read a lot about urban superintendency it is the most dangerous job in America or one of them uh
125our average tenure is 2.5 years um public education is under siege everywhere and so uh this job is a difficult one and dangerous but you can't do it without support and I love the entire team uh Dr jones but I'm going to get my 40 i'm going keep talking about that right and so uh for this it's a basketball analogy the community it's a basketball analogy 40 is the gonna have a problem not a 40 right 45 45 it's a basketball analogy for Dr jones i don't think that the basketball analogy Dr jones and I but but it's tough and you can't do it without a team and the team is super supportive we had a great cabinet meeting today and I'm going to ask ask the board for their support um around the nation
126as we talk about superintendent i mean they were all sent a letter on April 3rd from the United States Department of Education that essentially said uh that you had you need to sign it to say that you're not violating title six of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and what I would like to say is um we as a team we service all students we have an academic action plan that suggests that all means all it's on the front of our booklets that we carry around it's a statement that we use all the time when we say all we mean every single kid every single subgroup so it's not about one particular subgroup so we do it as a team together and so you know it's a part of me personally too a lot of
127my u when people call you doctor you forget about your work u but I have written a dissertation that focused on white teachers and equity so I spent years writing all groups and how we make things um uh available and opportunities every single adults who manage this process so um I'm going to publicly ask the board because I'm being asked almost being told like the rest of the superintendents around the country uh that by Friday at April 18th Friday April 18th Good Friday which happens to be 160 years after coincidentally Lincoln was assassinated and what he stood for by 11:59 and there could but um most colleagues are are grudgingly i'm going to ask the board to support me in the non-s signature means you ain't up on that right not signing right non signature
128like you put ended the sentence okay that was his mic drop moment okay all right thank you Dr lawrence thank you all for staying with us tonight and coming out there are a couple things that I also want to echo my colleagues on first I want to thank the Dumbar family as well as the district as a whole for just wrapping your arms around the family of Mr hail the family of our principal Miss Bailey and her husband as well as those are actual individuals in our district that this is their family that this incident occurred and happened to and it's very real here like as anyone to lose someone is always hard to unexpectedly lose someone and in the manner that they lost their family member is a difficult and unimaginable pain that I
129hope none of us ever have to go through so thank you for keeping them in your thoughts in your prayer and lifting them up and even just being there for the people who are who work with them the people that they serve you guys are doing something that they need at this time second I want to I want to echo as if you guys don't know I am an honorary member of the academic core team and when they say all means all that has to mean something actually before they start saying it used to be in a show called The Wire and it was a piece yeah that's where y'all got it from in case y'all wondered where y'all got it from they got it from a show a TV show yes miss and as
130Miss Miner watched the wire so it's okay as we talk about this piece here of what is happening in our city is I'm sure that we we've all seen the press conference we've seen the back and forth conversations we've seen multiple things one thing that I personally have stood for is us finding the best possible solutions when it comes to our children every day and those who serve them because this Dayton is a city that we all continue to live in day in and day out our reality when it comes to this transportation issue is we have very limited options and I'll share them with you because one of the things that I'm really good at is translating information that's complex to individuals so you can follow along in the story option one is what
131we're currently doing right now it is not the best option but it is the option option two is to no longer service any of high school students with transportation completely letting them figure it out on their on their own which was an option that led us to the current option that we're on right now because we do realize as you heard from our vice president of the student senate that our children utilize the RTA not only for school but for life activities that are outside of here work-based learning is a real thing for us us making sure our children get to that next level is a real feat for them and option so that's not a that's not an option that you know it's not great option three is that we take care of ourselves
132and say forget the consequences meaning we stop doing what the law requires us to do we only service our students now with option three although it sounds like that is something easy with those come penalties and fines so to take such a stance would it would be bold it would service us our immediate need of our students it would also cost us financial gains it would also take away from other program it will involve litigation because it takes a lot when you decide that you are going beyond the legislature and you are taking your argument to the judicial branch it is an option out here it it is something that again you continue to think about because transportation doesn't just impact kids who go downtown to get on a bus to go to where they're
133trying to go it it impacts kids who have to wake up early to go to school at 7:30 because that's the bell schedule they got because we have to give someone else preference it impacts kids who want to stay after school and do one of our many afterchool programs because again the later they're in is based on a bell schedule we had because again we have to be we have to adhere to impossible situations and continue to be the group that has to pivot in that one these conversations aren't just something that we have day in and day out and they aren't some solutions actually are simple when it comes to what you're asking for and some are very complex we sit in a building every so often when we recognize our kids that we
134haven't used in over six years this is an option when we talk about places for kids to come this option requires some type of investment as we talk about partners out here I'll tell you I've personally asked the city of Dayton to invest in this building there are two floors above us at any time if we are looking for a space for kids to gather outside of school to have somewhere that is other than the hub this could be that option unfortunately that investment just isn't there other options if you go down at C Moses when I worked at the human relations council there was a building there called the RTA Culture Center it has set vacant since 2018 i know that because that's I worked at the city of Dayton and it closed that
135year but you see that land right there again another option of personally I'll ask the city right now if you want to help and get some skin in the game share that place with us we just saw the Boys and Girls Club come up here there are other community partners that are just like them who do after school programming who want to be involved in making safe spaces for the children who live in Dayton Ohio because you don't everyone who rides the bus isn't just a DPS kid but there are a lot of city of Dayton children day in and day out that you have to hope that they get from A to B my child rode the bus up until a year ago and that's a big feat that's a It's a scary thing
136but when it is your only option as Miss Wood stated it is your only option here i hope actually I hope and I I mean I demand and I call I think our board does everything that we can to have skin in the game and to do things to try to make it better i want our city leaders to do everything they can to be more than a facilitator i want them to be a true partner i want them to stand with us by investing you had at one point they put a million and something dollars in youth services it was a million dollars in youth services i know have no idea what those gone to but I'm thinking if you could do that once we can invest in this part here one of my
137colleagues has stated we have nothing to do with the routes we have no control over them we have no say in them we even pivot when they keep changing as a person who had the experience with my own child school starts at 8:00 when you first start riding the bus you can get to school at 7:30 or 8:15 and then a couple months after we start buying passes the times were changed to where you can get to school at 7:15 or 8:35 making it impractical for children to be on time so there is a lot that is going in here like there is an allout attack on black brown and workingclass youth and it's a real thing like if you I don't know where the camera is cuz we're in another room but all the
138people who are sitting to the right of me are individuals who constantly fight to make the world a little bit better and a little bit safer and a little bit more practical for children who have people who constantly are giving up on those individuals it's a big thing that we have going on here and I just I want you to know that this board this board echoes that we really would love for our children to be able to ride on buses that we own and they are cared for by the staff that is dedicated to children and that do this day in and day out unfortunately to do those type of things means we have to sacrifice another group and we can't we can't do it all the realities are there like if we could
139we would but as my vice president said we need partners like a real partnership not people who just want us to do something and get out the way or people who just want to use something of ours and get out the way or people who just want to dump people in places and get out the way and I'll tell you guys one of the recommendations that came out at one point was to take drop all the children off somewhere at Ponets and that's not realistic because again when you know the reality of the neighborhoods and the schools and the people we serve that you understand that every group of kids they can't go to a school that they don't go to there's nowhere for them to be at what that does to a system frustrates
140so many other things safety is important to us it's a part of our core values it's something that is weaved in the five C's that we have here you see it in our mission here making sure our children are safe is number one and we are going to do everything that we practically can to do those things on top of that that's my uh TED talk on that piece i do hope that again I'mma pastor Bailey because I'm going to go with pastor right now that's not doctor this is pastor right now the same way he put out there this has to be a community that drives solution not one that bickers amongst each other and one that points the blame on other entities and one that is seeking for someone else to be the
141to take the lead on it we're here we're open and we want to work with whomever would like to work with us to not only make our city safer for our children but make this area safer for their families as well other than that school assignments are out all the board members have them i believe they'll be on board dock so you can see where people are that's great everyone has their graduation assignments i do want to shout out Miss Hamilton and I'm actually going to be reorganizing some of my committees based on what I saw in that process there our team does a lot of work and I commend them on the different things that they do but there are a lot of individuals who want to be a part and be at the
142tables to help us navigate and keep not only the balance of expertise but community interest in play so with that one I think it was a remarkable process that we went through of putting out and allowing individuals to tell us why they would like to be a part of the committees and interview to see if they were good fits for that one so I will be doing those with all of my committees and going through that process again and I'm hoping to tool up by June with some new and engaged and energetic individuals who want to be a part of continuing to watch our city grow so let's see i do have a request for the finance committee to actually give us some updates on because the CRA committee is actually under that one as
143well so if we can just get some updates where we are at this point of things that have been paid out as well as the intangibles that have been gifted just to make sure that we are keeping in line that things are happening district events I did get to attend and I want to give a shout out to Miss McGee Miss Law and Miss Shehy and the whole team that was a part of the debate competition as well as the debate season i definitely pushed them a lot farther than they were willing to go initially but at the end as most people say they were happy to see kind of the end results and even the growth in the children and not only their critical thinking their public speaking and their just ability to go
144beyond normal conversation so I do thank them i'm excited because let me tell you here we do mock trial next year as well as debate part two is coming and I'm excited that this team is working and I know you all love my hat and I enjoy it as well and it's actually more of a nod to the Styiver students who actually just finished Susicle the musical it was a great performance the lead is his name Josiah josiah was amazing and he is going somewhere in life and when we see him on the big screen I mean the other cast like there were many individuals had very talented voices throughout it it was great to see every element of Styver in one room from the individual the CTC program that does the photography gave them
145their first promos that was cool to watch the orchestra down give you all the music that was happen the stage the theater tech kids out there i mean you have to see a lot come alive in this piece if you missed it shame on you cuz you missed a treat next year you should all just go and check them out because it is really a mini little shoe in there and it's really good to see how talented our children are and how creative and expressive when you see everything that a school is come together in one production so I think that was amazing to see them i love that they did I I believe it was Horton here's a who is not one of my favorite Dr seuss's book but I did enjoy it i
146enjoy that all the places you can go is my fave just in case anybody wonders other than that I did get to attend Belmont's town hall last night with Dr davis and the crew not D sorry Dr lawrence and the crew and it was really good to hear the students that came out a couple of parents we are actively always looking for ways to engage better with the community so we take suggestions as well one suggestion I say we got to have some food you know you coming at the six o'clock hour it got to be a little snack there some chips some water or something but if you guys if there's anyone who is watching this who can help us because again we move significantly smoother when we are moving together and we have
147you at the front end and we aren't trying to tell you at the back end what we're doing we want to hear from people it helps us make decisions and move in that way for all those who have graduation gradu graduating seniors graduation is near we are almost there couple more expenses and we are out of this year so I'm excited that that is coming to a conclusion and that's pretty much all I have for you but Miss Reiner has rejoined us and I'm going to give her closing comments thank you Dr goodwine um a couple updates that I have um first of all the events I attended um this month is the OSBA urban network meeting i attended the um council of state schoolboard associations annual conference there is conference notes and a conference
148report under my name i attended the network for public education conference which was incredible um the engagement committee met um we had a great meeting very productive we are looking at planning out four district-wide events um that will be really beneficial for our students will be handinhand with title one um we're really looking forward to the possibilities that we have there we also discussed one of the takeaways from my um conference attendance the COSMA conference was a parent academy um they do this down in Cincinnati um I'm going to be doing we're going to be doing a field trip down there and see what they do see if it's something that we can replicate here we've also done something of the kind in Ruskin previously too so there is a little bit of a model
149here um I wanted to bring to your attention a number of legislative items um the first is I wanted to shout out House Bill 191 it was just introduced um this is a bill that would require districts to pay teachers a minimum of $50,000 a year um I think this is a really good thing for um starting teacher salary across the state i would like to point out that our um starting teacher minimum is higher than 50,000 it is 51,785 so I think it's good that we are higher than um the current minimum and I think bringing everybody up to that point is good this is teaching is a demanding job and it should be paid as such um and so I fully support House Bill 191 um House Bill 96 the subhouse budget bill
150which um might have already been discussed uh has a number of items um that as advocates for public education we are going to be pushing pretty hard on um one of the biggest items that we're looking at um is the modification to the requirement that the county budget commission reduce school district property tax rates rates based on the district's carryover balance by increasing the threshold from 25 to 30% of the previous fiscal year of general fund expenditures um what this basically means is districts cannot have a cash carryover balance higher than 30% of the previous fiscal year's general fund expenditures um this is a really devastating way to the way that um this is a this is incredibly disruptive to the sound conservative responsible fiscal management that we run our district by that I know
151many other districts run their districts by um this change this requirement that we cannot have a cash carryover balance higher than a certain percentage um overlooks the unique circumstances of every single district and the reasons for their cash balances um the cyclical nature of levies um and approvals of those results naturally in an increase and a decrease in cash reserves throughout the life of a levy and it reflects the need to prepare the the cash carryover reflects the need to prepare for uncertainties through um conservative budgeting practices basically when we do our five-year forecast for this district we can't count on further down the road of two years of state fund um formula funding and so every single five-year forecast that we have to do as mandated by law years four and five we are
152in the red we have to prepare for that we don't know what the future will be like because we don't have long-term school funding formulas put in place um and we have to be responsible for our money we have to think about the big projects that we have down the road i think all the time of that period in COVID when everybody was taking a breath in the first few months and we didn't know what the economy was going to do be doing we didn't know what state funding was going to be like we had no idea of the the future of public education of funding of this district and we looked at our very responsible cash reserves and said thank goodness we have this um this is a really really really problematic item of
153the budget um that I am hoping that we can work with our legislators to find a solution to it um so um that's something that everybody should keep on their radar um also there is something regarding um the department of education ution in a workforce to establish a system for comparing the performance data of state scholarship students enrolled at chartered nonpublic schools with the data of similar students in nearby schools um summed up we can't really compare public schools to non-public schools because we don't take the same testing the the standardized tests are the same the standards are not the same so when you say this school's better than Dayton public there's actually no way for us to measurably look at that and say that that's a true factual statement um so this is a
154step forward in us being able to say this school is performing at this level and this school is performing at that level level um that's enough of legislative stuff for today i wanted to bring to your attention a couple slides that I have from policy matters Ohio they did some really good work about breaking down what uh state funding um and the fair school form the fair school funding plan would look like and how would it affect each district this is how it breaks down for the Dayton City School District um the fair school funding plan is based on what actually costs to educate students and it would provide an additional 66 million district it provides an additional that is the stark difference what we it also to bring up the other slide breaks it
155down live and there's some interesting information there and ways for you to contact your state house rep um depending on which house these Thank you very much for pulling those up uh the last is a resolution I like before discuss regarding the ban on student transport i have a resolution I would like to the board um um or whereas board of education of the day school district the board is committed to supporting our students from school so they can receive high quality education every day whereas pursuing within their jurisdiction and whereas the board which is elected by Dayton voters goes above and beyond the legal requirements to transport K through8 students currently exceeds this legal obligation by providing monthly RTA transit passes to high school students in lie of yellow bus transportation despite the state
156not offering adequate funding for this service and whereas Ohio law mandates that DPS provide transportation not only for our students but also for charter and private school students within our district boundaries and whereas the state of Ohio has not provided sufficient resources to meet the logistical and personnel demands of reintroducing yellow bus transportation for high school students especially in light of driver shortages and capital fleet costs and whereas public school districts do not have the funding from the state of Ohio to expand our yellow bus fleet and hire the necessary staff to bus our high school students on a yellow school bus and whereas the tragic death of a Dayton public school student at the RTA transportation hub on April 4th 2025 is a devastating reminder of the violence impacting our communities and underscores the
157need for holistic safety strategies not transportation restrictions and whereas the proposed amendment to the state operating budget introduced on April 10th 2025 seeks to ban student transfers at regional transit hubs directly targeting districts like Dayton that rely on multimodal transportation to fulfill their legal obligations under 3327.01 and whereas such an amendment is an unfunded mandate violates students rights to access public services and undermines local school board's authority to determine the most effective and equitable means of transporting their students and whereas this proposed policy change does not address the root causes of violence nor does it support coordinated solutions involving public safety infrastructure or youth programming now therefore be resolved by the board that the board unequivocally opposes the proposed ban on student transfers at transport transportation hubs as it disproportionately harms lowincome urban students and
158infringes upon their rights to public transit access under Ohio law number two the board reaffirms its commitment to transport above and beyond the state minimum requirements by providing transportation options to high school students number three the board calls on the Ohio General Assembly to reject unfunded mandates and to instead allocate appropriate funding for school districts to expand yellow bus transportation options including for high school students number four the board calls for legislative change that allows public school districts to focus on transporting all our students on a yellow school bus number five the board calls for adequate state funding to support driver recruitment fleet expansion and improved routing systems number six the board calls for citywide youth investment strategy including the reopening of community recreation centers access to safe transit and alignment of public agency efforts
159to protect and uplift Dayton's young people and number seven the board supports a city-wide commitment to youth by opening recreational facilities expanding mentorship opportunities and centering teen focused investments thank you anything out there that is all I have all right um I will yield for questions from the board and um we can consider a motion if somebody I move to pass this resolution is there a second i'll second moved and second any questions on the motion seeing none may we have a vote oh go ahead did you go ahead Mr smith not in favor of voting for something that we just seen and that really doesn't have teeth to ask these things but as we see us asking please turn on your microphone us asking doesn't create any action I am more for us looking
160at this and finding ways that we actually can create action instead of voting to ask somebody something because we don't need a vote to ask somebody something and that is my thing on really all resolutions is that if we're doing something I want it to be grounded in action and most of these things aren't things that we can control so I would rather look at it and say how can we take the sentiments of this and create something that actually moves towards action instead of putting out something for the sake of putting it back on somebody else especially when we know the political climate it's just it'll get lost in the ether of what's going on and we would have voted on something to ask somebody to do something that is already not doing those
161things um I just think that especially with me just looking at it right now and then turning around and voting on it when it has no teeth to do some of the things that we're talking about doing would you like to work to put some teeth in it yes i'm just asking if you going to like do it yes i think that's that's the whole thing if we're going to tell somebody where we stand we have to be able to stand on it and as currently written right now we're not standing on anything we're asking people to go do things which would be the same thing as what we just said the city and RTA and those people are currently doing to us can I request that that come back to our Well I got
162to ask them on their motion but my request to you would be can we bring that to our board retreat that's next week yes ma'am would you guys like for would you all be okay with waiting on this until the board retreat um I I think that um I mean I I still would like to have a vote for this i would like to point out that the title is a resolution opposing a proposed ban on the student transfers at the RTA hub i think that's pretty actionable i think it shows that we are officially opposing this amendment which is going to the legislative floor very soon right i'm saying it's opposing something that we don't have power like when we oppose something that legislators do that's all all we're doing is saying "Hey we're
163against that." Saying we're against that does nothing for us it doesn't change the fact that we're outnumbered at the state level it doesn't change that these things if they say they want to do something they're going to do it that's like my child saying "I'm against you saying do this and it's I'm the dad you're about to this is what's about to happen." Like these people well I don't like to say these people the way the politics is shaped in Ohio and across this the country you kind of know how these things shake out it's a reason why people came into our city on that time to put this out opposing what a RTA bus moves us no further into solving our issues it's us putting out a statement saying "Hey we're against you guys
164doing that." Most people already see that we're against them doing that i don't I just want us to if we're going to take things to a part where we vote on things if it's not about actual action outside of us just saying we're against something to say we're against it I'm not for it i have an idea actually um I would still like to vote on this tonight and if um board member Smith would like to have an action committee to work on this following the resolution that would be great would you like to have an action committee to work on what happens next yes cuz that's what we should do i mean it's not about getting political points for passing resolutions that won't do anything i want us to actually get to doing work
165okay I understand that all right um what we doing we voting you guys motion stands all right anything else any other comments before we vote yeah i I don't think the motion I mean Yeah as for all they know we support it i don't think that's Yeah i mean it's an official statement from the board like we haven't spoke as a board we spoke as individual members and I yeah I don't think this is all our this sums up our response but yeah the response would continue any other comments go ahead Miss Whit thank you thank you board member Reinard for the work i appreciate it thank you board member Smith for your thoughts um I agree with both of you i'll vote for this um I still am not hearing any solutions anywhere so
166and solutions oftent times are there's not one solution we don't have a silver bullet that's going to fix this right now but we do have resources and places and spaces where we can respond to some of the things that are going on so as you're putting together the action around the statement uh can we can we can we have immediate response secondary and the the big plan can we respond immediately to what's happening in some way using the resources that we have that Dayton Public Schools has not depending on anybody else because I can't I don't control the city i don't control RTA but I do know that we as a board control what we have here in this district and what we can do to respond to it so I'm just asking that when
167the actions come around it you can talk all day about what everybody else should and shouldn't be doing and let's be honest a lot of these problems exist because of fractures in relationships and fractures in relationships happen when we sit here and we call out people by names and we call out our community partners in negative ways rather than to really invite them into productive conversations so when we're putting action around all of these words can we please remember that we are part of a solution and we're part of a problem so let's all come together and be part of a solution so thank you that's it i'll request an action dr lawrence can you ask the city of Dayton if they're willing to allow us to use the closed culture center and also I'll
168request a section second action dr jones can you ask the city of Dayton if they will invest in the building that we are sitting right now right now we'll bring some funds to the table too of what we can to do that you know that answer i do know the answer but board member Wick asked for some action so we can partner in some things so Dr jones that is my request to you dr lawrence that is my request to you and can you bring those answers back to us publicly of what those responses are appreciate you thank you President go ahead Mr mer dr goodwin um I was wondering if I could We're talking about funds and we would love to transport all of our kids on yellow buses do you mind if we
169bring Dr jones up and I ask him a little bit about some of that funding and the costs do you think now's If he right you ready to go dr jones do you have a few minutes oh the whole team is here like Yes the whole team actually as business actually do it too if you want to yes I'll call them up when I get stumped so not to put you on the spot but I would like to have a an understanding a snapshot right now if we were to transport we currently transport K to8 on our yellow school buses with our drivers our fleet if we were to expand that K12 yellow buses all the students Dayton public and non-public how many kids would that be how much would that like rough estimate how
170how many more buses would we have to drive to buy how many more drivers would we have to hire like what would the financial snapshot of that be at this point okay so uh currently uh everyone knows here that we pay $80 per uh bus pass uh we currently transport or provide uh bus passes to 3,500 students that's our students parochial students and charter uh that number is 3,500 right uh there's 48 seats on a bus okay and so if you take that 3500 divided by the 48 seats per bus you get 73 buses that would be required to be purchased at $150,000 a piece uh and so uh that number comes to uh $10.9 million now uh that's 3,500 students that we currently provide passes to uh in all actuality uh there are around
171uh 4,000 students uh at the high school level uh that are eligible to ride the the the yellow buses okay and so if we again do the math uh that would require a purchase of 84 buses um to the tune of 12.6 6 million a year how many more drivers would that take for us to hire so uh 73 and how um do you know how much yes uh just salary alone I didn't work in benefits uh but I believe you you multiply the salary by what 20% uh perhaps but salary alone for 73 drivers that would be $2.6 million a year uh if we went with the 84 um buses uh that would come up to $3 million a year thank you sir we just got that laying around no ma'am how much of
172it we got laying around just curious give me a ballpark a ballpark you know what i would wrap it up in information around look we have like 15 buses on reserve um we need that many on reserve so that you know if a bus breaks down or two or three or four we have additional buses uh but uh we we don't have that type of money need a number man people need to follow the math you just said need some help 80 buses that's a lot of money somebody so we don't we do not have $11 million to purchase buses in addition to that uh the last time we purchased uh new buses it took 18 months okay put them together how much give me a number what number do we have you said we
173don't have 11 million do we have 10 do we got nine no what about eight how about seven no so six uh we met we had a conversation uh it's a guess that's all uh Dr lawrence myself uh we were um looking at hiring 30 drivers it's not in the budget at all give me the number man you keep talking around it what's the number what give me Let me get you a teammate Mr anderson you over come on up what type of number are you exactly i'm asking what the number we at you said it take 11 what money do we have what do we have so So it would be 11 it would be 11 million for buses an additional 2.6 that'd be 13 almost 14 million we don't have What do you
174have what you got additional we don't have any additional so we at zero are we at zero little Tommy got five apples don't do that don't do that are you Are you asking how much we have left here do you have Hold up let me Let me do that right now you said 11 million how much of the 11 do you have what you got on it right now what could you put on the table if the church plate is going around what you putting in the basket i I hear that in the budget but it's not there that's what I'm saying are you saying zero is not there we don't have the budget i know and you'll see that you'll see that in the presentation so you got zero dollars you got zero on
175it we don't not even two in a possible it's a bad head of space right now okay if we don't use those uh bus passes you will have that much plus maybe 2 million so if you didn't purchase bus passes that would that'd be $3 million three million plus two million so you got five million on 11 yeah okay we that's what I heard we got five on the 11 short on the action item since you know people talk about partners and bring them into the table can you ask those same partners if they have the other 6 million that they're willing to allocate that's what we asking for 6 million is what we need to make it happen or I would if I may Dr jones so in the conversations that you've had with
176transportation partners if we were not purchasing bus passes to ride general buses and as we've had conversations about trying to create a limited stop route system if we weren't paying for these bus passes in your estimation what would be that difference that we would be able to have knowing where we've talked about funding and partnership funding for LS route that would bypass the hub so you you're saying you're asking if we didn't have if we didn't have to pay these pass because we only paid passes to ride the general routes but if we did not have the general routes we would have to pay for the limited stop routes that's how it's always worked we had to pay RTA to give us the LS routes right now we just pay passes to catch normal buses
177i have when those conversations have come about what has been the number if any thrown around for the price of a limited stop service so there hasn't been any numbers thrown around however uh those buses accommodate around the same number of um individuals u same number of drivers would be needed um then it would probably be an additional number of drivers because that's kind of why we usually pay because LS That would mean that they would still be running their regular route services on top of running so the last time that we had this cuz before I got on the board we weren't doing any busing at all that first year when I was running we started this LS system see I got the N from Thomas Gray my man was around here with that
178i think Mr gray we had to pay what around 3 million 3.5 million at that time and that was to get extra buses because that's been that argument is that it's going to take extra buses no matter how we do this if we were to do it ourselves we need extra yellow buses if we were to do a limited stop service they would need extra RTA buses the issue came around when COVID hit and there was no need to use RTA buses that's when that partnership went away after CO well after CO we're going back to school there was no pickup on that service you gota you have to add in why there was no need for the RTA buses oh because we wasn't wasn't going to school okay it was shut down it was
179yeah it was shut down so I'm saying do if we do not have I think that number for you for me as a voter on this board will be important if we're having these conversations around what does that look like the difference between trying to put people on yellow buses versus putting them in a LS system what does that look like and having those conversations because that will require extra drivers and extra buses on the RTA side but if that has been now a push from other outside entities I think now that increases the appetite or the it should increase the appetite for other parties to come to the table with a different attitude than before when there was no conversation around LS buses the conversation was you guys figure it out and find a
180way to put them on yellow buses because I do think that just the LS system allows us some more flexibility and that was helpful back when we had it was the flexibility that it afforded and I think that now if we're talking about a landscape where people are saying that other folk are saying let us find this new routing model and the question was then where do we h bust them to I think surrounding that whole conversation may for me be a good comparison on where we should go is it through LS or trying to find this pie in the sky funding to go hire a bunch of drivers ourselves and hire a bunch of buses ourselves so I think that for me would be a big thing for your team to look into alongside
181of Dr lawrence to see what are the the real options go ahead uh Dr jones or Chief Wright um how currently what safety and security measures does a district provide to RTA and to the library good evening board thanks for having me up here um the total now is 4 daily um we did have an additional four going in the morning for AM uh RTA down at the hub um it's now the 4 in the afternoon when most of the actual traffic is coming through the hub out of that so Chief that that then becomes overtime out of your budget for your staff for both locations do either other partner contribute any dollars to that no okay say that one more time you You finish it too quick no can you slow it down just
182want to hear it one more time can you say it in the mic like say it with your chest they do not They do not do what contribute any funds towards our overtime oh okay what about our regular time absolutely not okay Dr gil you were at a meeting when I asked if they would contribute and the answer was no i was at that meeting it was it was not said as nicely as you said it but yes it was unequivocally no go ahead Dr bailey so then could you tell me if you know how much overtime is being paid out 30,000 a month is what it was averaging and I I'll just Dr ability to add to yours and you know I love that all these entities are public entities because according to the
183city commission's agenda and things like that um the RTA provides $1.7 million a year to the city of Dayton to provide police services down to the hub and what do they give us again zero okay does the city of Dayton kick in on us at all oh okay okay just just curious may maybe I miss something and and I'll just add like these and I think for me asking these questions because when we talk about who are our actual partners and what they actually do I I just I want us to look at really the scenarios that we're placed in um Chief Wright I I commend your team because they go above and beyond the request of what they're actually hired for but again it is like looking at our students and where they are
184and making sure that they are safe in these environments and things like that but I just to me it's a slap in the face of your department um Dr jones and transportation is a slap in the face of your department when you have these people who get on press conference with individuals who can ultimately say "Hey we're going to add funding into the state budget to then assist these districts with things like that." And that's not partner like when individuals get up here and showboat what their actual hidden agenda is so thank you all for the work that you do no worries thank you all appreciate it any other comments on the motion on the floor can I go ahead i forgot about just one more thing um when we went with uh First Student
185when First Student was transporting our uh high school students uh we were paying them uh 7.4 billion a year um with uh four a planned 4% increase every year uh so that wouldn't be a viable option either and just while you're doing that could you elaborate on like the time frame that it takes for an individual to get certified to actually become a a bus driver personnel and things oh I can tell you that i did it oh yeah dr lawrence did you No he dropped come back to that he dropped real alpha energy over there it It really depends on I became the superintendent and I was not able to continue my courses good evening uh board president vice president superintendent uh currently it takes anywhere from four to six weeks for a driver
186to get through training that's a brand new person applying getting boarded um getting the permit for it takes two weeks in classroom first they taking we purchase we pay for the permit um they get they do the background check of course uh physical everything is paid for by DPS the cost for the four four to six weeks will be anywhere between um shoot three to $5,000 for one person to finish out the total training for 4 to six weeks because we do paid training and the trainer gets paid during that time so they're training in between their routes which induces overtime for them also so all of those things happen they go through an entire bus they learn everything about that school bus inside and out engine um pick up and drop off of students
187how safe they need to be in order to operate that school bus for those students and u Mr if you I'm just curious when we look at transporting charter school private school students what is the reimbursement percentage for those students compared to actual district students mr calhoun can get more into that part of it so when it comes to the funding good morning everybody well good evening i've been here since 5 I've been at work since 5:00 a.m so y'all really working me today bro mr anderson Mr and everybody knows that so um when it comes down to the reimbursement for transportation the funding is the same when it comes towards a non-district student as opposed to a district student however as you all mentioned the state does not pay for us to fully fund
188transportation so when we're counting those count weeks uh when we're doing those things like that yes we're actually counting every student regardless of what however the state does not currently pay for this department to function that's just reality of it can you put a number on it oh perfect so we um spend about what our state um normal was last year was about $1,600 a year to transport a student that was before we started this hiring trying to add in more drivers and that was before we started buying more buses and before costs went up so I'm just like the year before it went up from $1,400 for those students that year up to $1,600 next year as we continue to add on more responsibilities as our costs continue to increase as the RTA cost
189went up those costs do also go up as well so right now $1,600 but next year we're sure it's going to be somewhere around $18 to $2,000 and if we add in all of the high school option which we mentioned before um safest means transportation on the planet would love to do it let's come back to basics so it cost us 1,600 how much do we get back on the 1,600 um I think it was what 40% up to a certain amount of money so it wasn't even fully funding department put a number on it yeah i believe what was it i think it was somewhere around if I'm wrong $56 million on 1600 no adding in all our costs all together yes I do i know i'm on the one student so it's 16
190follow me on the project perfect perfect perfect those only got five apples right so it cost me $1,600 to take Eric to school yes how much is Thomas giving us back for taking Eric to school around $700 okay there you go appreciate you would that number be the same for high school students no that number would actually end up increasing because as we do this as we continue to add to the fleet our cost will go up so as we continue to buy buses as we continue to buy parts it would no longer be 1,600 it's going to go up just from the fact of doing that and when we transport a high school before uh not many high school students and it's the more students you have the better the number is and then
191last question for me Mr kahung we had a conversation about this the district cannot go out and buy RTA Metroike buses and and do their own fleet of that correct absolutely not they're not allowed to legally do it thank you yeah that was that was my question i'm glad you brought that up Mr calhoun is looking at that that year when we did that ridership on those yellow buses at the high school level was extremely low and what it led to was a lot of students still just being at the schools and then still hopping on RTAs after they stayed after school for events or just stayed after or just I mean it was a new thing figuring that out for them was a new thing because I think it's first year in around at
192least 30 40 years that we had high schoolers on a yellow bus so I think that also is in play there so um that's neither here nor there my only question for you is when we look at how this shakes up for you and your thoughts and your views being over there what is the best say if we had to have a solution for next year or had to put together then a long-term solution by the following year to move on into the future what does that look like in your mind well I appreciate you saying that um going off of my No you don't you just use that little line they say say it's a bad person everybody knows I I really do typically speak my mind so I'm trying to really watch how
193I say it um so for next year honestly speaking I talked about this back in December i do believe that having students on yellow buses is the safest means of transportation on the planet i have no question about that at all but what I do not want to see is us to lie to the community and to our students saying we can do something that we cannot do so I mentioned back then having action steps and a plan moving forward so that how we can actually address this down the line hiring let's just saying out of nowhere we can just hire 80 drivers tomorrow and somehow have them trained and ready to go in August it's just not a reality so who it would benefit who it would be um hurting right now if this
194would happen what they said actually happened it would be hurting those kids that actually need to get to where they need to get to so I would love personally for us to work out some of those options that you mentioned i would love for us to discuss some of those safety u benefits that we talked about even with Miss Woods before us actually getting together and we talked about it before um talking about how we can really help you to feel safe while we're there so that we can transition down the line into actually being able to do something but that is not something we can do out of nowhere and if we were to try to go with first student the same issue you mentioned before with RTA one of the things that I'm
195sure they're talking about with the LS buses they need the drivers as well first student needs the drivers as well everyone needs the drivers in the bus as well in reality we're sitting here talking about a group that I'm sure would love to have a 11 million contract with a public school saying they can transport the kids if they could do it they can't i'm talking about RTA itself for LS and the fun they would love to do that they can't so I I'm very glad that you're all speaking about it now i'm glad that we're talking about actual options and how to truly benefit the kids and really just setting up a timeline and some goals and looking at progress points to see where we're at and looking to see where we need to
196pivot so we can actually give something beneficial to our kids appreciate that thank so I was preparing for testimony in February in the state house for the education committee and I asked some questions about transportation at the time and I flipped back to my notes um and I would just tell you that the information that I got from our treasur in February is that our total transportation costs um I believe it was last year was $20 million of which we got $13 million from the state to cover that but five to six million of that was the cost of our transporting non-public students to 20 different non-public schools so thank you for that information a few months ago treasure thank So thank you and thank you it's always good to hear the people actually do
197the work come talk about what the work is because none of us up here have to do any of the things you guys are talking about on a daily basis yet we're the ones that are in the rooms where the conversations happen and I mean reality is we cannot promise people something that we cannot do for the many reasons that you just told us we can't do it so that number was 11 million okay just making sure and we have zero on it at the current moment in time actually if we stop the bus passes we could put five on it and if somebody else come up with six maybe seven or eight and then we still need all the drivers and all the equipment and then the riders so it's a it's a complicated
198it's not as easily said as we're just going to make a switch 18 to 24 months 18 to 24 months to get the additional ones if that was something that we could actually do and I and to add to that again the student bus pass is now allowed them to actually go to their jobs that they have and things like that as well all right okay all right are we ready to vote on the motion all right Madam Treasure may we have a vote president Goodwin yes dr bailey yes mr lacy yes mr smith abstaining miss Rhinard yes mr walker yes miss Wick yes miss Woods yes her statement seven yeses one abstain thank you pursuant to section 121.22G2 of the Ohio Revised Code I move that this board go into executive session this meeting
199is being held to consider the appointment employment of a public employee second moved by Dr goodwin second by Mr lacy any questions on the motion seeing none may we have a vote president Goodwin yes Mr dr bailey yes Mr lacy yes Mr smith m miss Reard yes Mr walker mr walker pay attention yes miss Wick miss Woods yes eight yeses thank you thank you all for coming tonight and staying