001i'm here today i'm here today i'm here today i'm here today i'm here today are you are you are you at DPS attendance is important that's why we're challenging all schools to increase and improve their daily attendance so I ask again we're here today are you are you for Black History Month we're talking to 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 hi my name is Carla Goens and as you know I'm the principal at Charity Adams Early Academy for Girls i have been in the district for 30 years and the principal at Charity for seven this is my seventh year at Charity Adams who was Charity Adams and why was
002she important charity Adams was the first African-American female to lead her battalion in World War II that was very rare at that time so she was a phenomenal leader what do students learn about Charity Adams in your building um so my students learned that Charity One as I stated was a leader she fought for um equal rights and she was just a trailblazer so students learn how to lead how to um empower themselves how to speak up for what is wrong and um we are strong believers in sisterhoods at Charity as a principal how do you try to carry on Charity's legacy so um we 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 um
003to speak up when they see that things are not right and they um to be activists how do you celebrate Charity Adams during Black History Month after your building so um this year with the movie Tyler created coming out we're celebrating her by doing a tribute a special tribute to Charity Adams so it's going to be really awesome um so the young ladies will do a skit from the movie so we're really excited it'll 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 um it's an all girls school and again as I stated we're about sisterhood empowerment and just creating that environment where our young ladies are thinking about careers that haven't existed yet so
004we're pushing them to be leaders so it's just an exciting and very powerful experience just being at an all girls school what makes your school special 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 middle school all girls school and then also um when you enter our school it's just a very warm welcoming environment it's a community and it's just it's a great it's a great place to be and work [Music] we hear you so much we hear your commitment to learning and we're here to extend the challenge that's why we're asking every student family and staff member to be present and be engaged when we show up we build a foundation here and when we
005show up we build a future i'm here today i'm here today i'm here today i'm here today we are here today we believe in the power of showing up so we're here today are you are you [Music] here is right next to them tv's right here next to them hey everybody understand that let's get to work let's get to work hey hey let's get a break hey hard work on three on three 1 2 [Music] 3 Heat heat [Music] n heat heat [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right hey get out of here let's get out of here hello my name is Marley and this this school is called Mrs h Monastery School and and the show that you are watching is called Ask a Kindergarten ask the Kindergartener [Music] okay so what's your name what's
006your name miriam what's your name dot dot yes so what's your favorite animal aad lion what's your favorite um animal Miriam i like elephant what's your favorite animal a lion what's your What's your favorite cartoon a shot cartoon yes all right let's move on what's your favorite cartoon um Super Kitties hey why you Super Kitties super Kitties i like that that's rude what's your favorite spiderman all right what's your favorite comic book what's your favorite comic book spiderman what's your favorite comic book show okay comic book i just got one all right what's your favorite comment i don't have one what's your favorite comment i have and that's perfectly fine m I have That's perfectly fine i have a dinosaur one dinosaur i had a copy book i don't like dinosaurs raise your hand i
007don't have one what's your favorite book if you don't have a comic book a comic book no it's a book like those not a comic book okay a Spider-Man one what's your favorite book are you scared no no you're scared is that the one that's right there no that's that one right there with the bunny and the bear that's my favorite that's my favorite okay I'm squad everybody so let's let's move on what's your favorite book uh dinosaur why does it always have to be dinosaurs because I like dinosaurs that's your favorite food no I'm first no you're not i get to choose who's first i know you ain't about me to talk back to me lady oh I will call you old man if you don't stop calling me did you just call me
008old man [Music] so okay let's move on what's your favorite movie um Spiderman what's your favorite movie dinosaur why do I always dinosaurs movie why there's nothing because dinosaurs that's a cartoon because I like dinosaurs dinosaurs is not a movie i say it no it isn't let's move okay I'm going downstairs [Music] thanks for watching as kids in it make sure you subscribe this is our first ever DPS cares health and wellness fair we have vendors from a lot of local agencies here this event offers outreach for our families we are trying to hook them up with different services in our community we wanted to make sure parents got messages about wellness so we were able to bring our guest speakers in we wanted to make sure that they had access to some of the
009great things like the yoga and chair massages and we definitely want to feed everyone when they come out we just want to show them how much Dayton public loves them loves their children and cares about them and their health and their welfare i think they're going to take home that it is okay to take care of yourself and we have to take care of ourselves before we can take care of others ways that they can take care of themselves and ways that they can take care of their families everyone's saying how wonderful this has been the kids are having a ball their faces are painted they have great prizes they're getting lots of good information we had massage therapists come in i've had multiple people say I got a chair massage and I feel so
010good right now hi everyone today I'm going to talk to you about bus safety every day thousands of day and public school students ride the bus to and from school and it's important to know how to stay safe first things first make sure to get to your bus stop at least 10 minutes early and while you're waiting stand in a safe spot away from the road once the bus arrives go straight to your seat so the bus can start moving again and remember while you're on the bus stay seated and keep the aisles and exits clear just like in a classroom listen to the driver and follow their instructions this includes no foul language no sticking your arms or head out the windows and no eating or drinking on the bus lastly make sure you
011only get off the bus at your assigned stop and be sure to walk home safely let's all work together to follow these rules and keep our bus ride safe for everyone thanks for listening and stay safe bps are you there thank you mr scott you got yours up hang on a second you got your board agenda Mr scott scott up now call to order this April 8th review session madam treasur may we have a roll call president Goodwin here dr bailey here mr lacy here mr smith I am here today miss Reinard present mr walker present miss Wick present seven present please stand for the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for
012all vision is to inspire educate and empower scholars for a lasting impact and our purpose is to cultivate a supportive and engaging educational experience scott Dr lawrence can we have some district announcements before we get started absolutely the debate finals competition thank you Dr goodwin debate finals competition will be Saturday uh April 12th at 8:00 at Styvers i want to make a note that uh you stepped in and as a coach did a wonderful job taking Charity Adams all the way to the semi-finals so we appreciate you stepping in you're welcome we were cheated so I filmed it let you watch it my girls were robbed and I understand why people get a little heated when it comes to the competition so Charity Wagaman uh great work uh we're looking at Styver is it Styver
013versus Styver middle school level wow that it's a middle school with two teams right yes uh so those are the debate finals competition middle school and high school April 12th uh 8:00 a.m starts at Styver uh if you have any questions email tiara McGee um and at daytonpublic.com or T McGee at dattonpublic.com versus Belmont for the high school finals uh Belmont did Belmont win last year belmont oh that's right belmont third good okay Belmont's got a chance for two out of three madam President yes uh we forgot to ask if the student sen senate representative was present oh go ahead [Laughter] uh and Wednesday April 16th Lucy Maywy speech contest at Wright Brothers Middle School uh starts at 6:00 that's always packed and always great to come out to see thank you all right associate
014business manager i believe we have our first presentation from you guys' department all right come on up good evening what's up Amber how are you good how are you good i'm Amber Whitmer the associate director of nutrition nutrition services and I'm here to go over um our budget one second before you get started yes ma'am is there a It's not opening on our end but you go ahead and get started we'll just catch up okay i printed it there we go so um I'm missing a little piece of information but um want to start off our our um budget request for payroll for 2026 um we have 117.5 FTEES versus last year which one we had 115.5 which is an increase of two um we added an additional truck driver uh and an additional nutrition
015services coordinator position into our budget for this coming year um which increased our salaries with benefits um by 1.1 million um so here's our current staffing um vacancies and and fillings we have the director position open um we have three of our four coordinators have positions filled um the production chef is vacant um we have 25 managers um 20 or 59.5 FTEES for prepare our food service repairs but 11.5 of those are currently vacant um we have a tech support um a food service technician we have a program manager position that is currently vacant um logistics coordinator and stock clerk we have two and then four truck drivers next slide here's our non-payroll budget um we so for purchase services we are requesting about 365,000 more dollars than we did last year is that number
016right i feel like that sums off there um we did last year we had all the the big projects added in the um renovations for the elementary and middle schools as well as the high school projects are being added in so that's why it's a little more this year versus next year um supplies um we had an increase of 2.3 million due to rising costs of all of all of our food and equipment that we typically order on a regular basis um we did we are asking for a little more for equipment a lot we have a lot of depreciated equipment uh that we're replacing um we've tried to repair a lot of it but it's some of it is just too far gone we've done all we could with it um and then an
017increase for um dues fees and other Next slide please thank you so our mission is to support support the students well-being and academic success by providing balanced meals that meet USDA guidelines while addressing food insecurities through programs like community community elementing innovative meal solutions the department creates a positive dining experience that helps students stay healthy focused and prepared for success that's it thank you you got to the end and it open for us okay like to open the floor any questions i think Mr lacy I know you have the question because this is your favorite so this is So this is uh is this your fund this is Yes okay so this is not G nothing out of general fund no this is on nurse services so we don't really have these line items in
018in in your fund but um um and later on in the agenda we don't we have a big um Yes like five yes so the Roomba project that is for um the renovations of all the high schools uh we got the everything has went through purchasing we're at the point where we've picked the contractor we're going to use um the project what they told us is there's not enough time for us to get everything designed and done because we need it to be done over the summer um so we're going to take our time get everything planned out in the the targeted goal to have all five of the high schools other than not including Mountain Street done he's working on them now ej's done i don't know if you guys have made it out
019there it's absolutely adorable um he's working on Eastmon and then we're going to keep rolling non-stop we should be at a steady pace where we're just rolling out designs for the And so how much is the grade school i believe total was a little over it was like 2.2 million total and the high school is going to be six million so we're replacing equipment updating all of those things so yeah it's more because it's a ripping everything out and redesigning the full thing whereas the other project it's more like making it cutesy so it doesn't look so boring just making it fun for the kids okay and then I I was looking it up i guess Doge elim the DOG whatever that stands for eliminated um two federal grants um for um locally sourced food
020but we don't use those not currently um it was in my plan and I'm kind of hoping that things change and we can go back to that i think it also affects like the school gardens which was something that we wanted to start touching on so we're we're kind of just hoping things kind of go back to the way they were but no they don't affect us right now but we have used those grants in the past we haven't no no it just was in my my You were planning to try to use them work with local more local vendors so um we just kind of have to pause on that right now okay all right thank you Madam President mr walker thanks for your presentation thank you uh thank you for the presentation so
021my question is more so your current unreserved balance is 22 million so I'm curious on the addition now of this 1.6 is that going into that budget or what's the difference between the two so when I when I sat with Andrew some of that budget is already encumbered so I can only do what was unencumbered which is why we had to set it the way we did um so while the 22 million is sitting there a lot of that is already reserved and I do anticipate actually there's going to be more coming into the the fund because we still have three months left of school we get reimbursements for but it should with the big projects it should kind of wind down it's going to look different at the end than it did last year
022okay do we know what that number is you will see it on the budget increase now we are increasing her budget uh by 5 million for the update and her uh fund is fund O6 what she's saying is all the fund what she's doing is from the pand okay and we are increasing it today by 5 million so that 5 million you will see it uh are you looking at the financial so I'm looking at the monthly financial from last month and it currently shows the unreserved cash balance is 22 million so we're adding 5 million to that balance we are that unreserved that will be less by 5 million because it's going to be encumbered the 5 million so whatever we have right now it will be less by that 5 million okay so
023if that takes it down to 17 million we're now increasing it again by 1 point whatever million the one point uh what did you ask for okay I can come back to that i I'll ask that at another time so currently there are 15 open positions and then out of those 15 open you want two additional positions as well so those are already there okay so I added them after um after we did the budget last year okay they were added in one was September i'm not sure when exactly the truck driver came through so is there any way to look at those positions and decide if those are needed before increasing the budget to add the other positions um yeah I was working with Andrew on some of that stuff it just didn't make
024it here but by the time we get to the end of the year we'll have it all figured out because there were some other ones like the production chef we're going to get rid of that position but I put it in there because that's you know where we were at at the time okay thank you that's your last question any other questions thank you for your presentation thank you have you seen EJ i was there today but I did not actually go in and I was right so close but I'm going to go back now that you said something i did see EJ that's nice thank you guys thank you exactly dr lawrence you have a presentation budget presentation from your team i do lead principal for secondary Bashar Simmons is going to come up
025is there a presentation on here for Mr simmons no Miss Garren okay can I just say had a little computer crash three minutes before hopes Chris yes I understand so you know if it's not loaded on the computer I can't see that screen and I can't see that screen that's not good i just want you to know i'm going put a request in to our assistant business manager assistant business manager our individuals in the pointer can't see any of the screens when it's not loaded on our computer we just want to make you guys aware that they need a way to be able to see things in addition to the continued request for Miss Wick which I support of redesigning this day is to be like the other one so you can see people just
026get rid of it on let us get some little folding tables we'll be all right do like the old days sit down it's rather pompous to be up here back when we used to sit in the circle i think fine yes okay give me one second are we able to reload yet miss Miss Gar is it on our side if you break it you buy senior dude is going to increase they just made $75 y'all need to get some of those clever boards you know they told me too all right Mr sam you can go ahead and get started and we will catch up with you guys and get it on our side too all right we'll go ahead and get started thank you uh we'll get started with our secondary board presentation for today
027again my name is Bashar Simmons i'm the executive director for secondary education all right moving budget overview uh currently I'm sorry not current yes currently for year 2026 fiscal year 2006 26 what's requested uh is total salaries for we're requesting total salary of four 42,800 just over 42 million um and the total non-payroll is 127 uh,04 fiscal year 26 as we can see that is an increase from uh fiscal year 25 um because we're requesting additional uh long-term subs for all buildings that's staffing and payroll our staffing and payroll uh for fiscal year 25 was we had a total of 438 employees uh as we can see the breakdown here with uh the number of not the number of employees but the uh actual status and job titles of those in our department i give
028you a minute to go over the slide administrator can I ask you a question while we on this one since I have it the staff numbers go down in 26 but the total salary goes up why is it how do we decrease in staff but increase in salary uh we're decreasing in I can't remember what the uh what the title is but we're decreasing some areas but we're asking for 18 additional long-term subs to support buildings so where would they be represented at if they're not FTEES uh here where it says staff FTE 19 total salary and then you have the Oh that's it yeah the increase i'm sorry that's the increase that's represented right there okay so it's at the bottom yes but on on that same thing if is this number like the
029staff salary is that the with the resolution that the board passed for the pay of long-term subs i would have to research that and get back with you as the treasurer what so when we passed the resolution for all long-term subs to be the the one salary is this number that or is this the old salary level number where they were on the different levels no the salary of that change it to the current salary theou salary that we did yes okay one more one more question for you because I know we've been actively trying to increase our certified teacher pool but I also know that we have had a request from our schools to have building subs are these long-term subs reflecting that request of the building sub or is this just general long-term
030subs i can say unequivocally it's building subs dr davis and her department have been saying to administrators uh you no longer have the option to pick your really good long-term subs and bring them back as teachers we're filling those with certified teachers and then the really good long-term subs will then become building subs that's the plan okay go ahead Mr walker a followup to that yep you have another resolution on here for one building is that configured into this i don't I can tell you right now that answer would be no uh that those additional teachers that 5,000 for math and science for STEM right now no that is not configured into that um I have to get back with you on where we where we put that or if we add it here or
031somewhere else but no that's not there okay yeah it's a good question no it is not i can tell you that number is probably eight if we get if we fill all those math and science positions there so that's another $40,000 okay next okay this is our nonpayroll request these uh as you can see there's a significant increase here uh for purchase services uh we're going from 20,000 to uh 117,000 that's because the u graduation ceremony fees were moved into under my budget for this year for next year so this is just an example of the things that we utilize our funds for for nonpayroll requests what are we paying 96,000 for for graduation fees university of Dayton Riddle um no not 96,000 that's a that's an additional um that's an added expense for next
032year right so you went from 20,000 to an increase of 96,000 not that's not the only expense there i'm just saying that that's contributed to that going up higher okay so I I guess I'm confused on the purchase service for secondary schools so is that coming out of the academic office budget if it's benefiting secondary schools and not secondary school budget so so Miss Shehi's office the CEO and his are of different like he has his own fund there so if he wants to send people away for professional development or his own professional development he's currently um professional development cohort right now miss Spurlock um and Miss Douly um out of Nashville where they have principal supervision coaching so that comes out of their budget so there are other things that you have the flexibility
033to do with that money so that includes consultants professional development and in that line item you have a graduation um graduation as well so outside of your actual secondary schools staff your actual budget is only $127,000 correct yeah that's that's normal they typically don't have a lot the chiefs typically don't have a lot of money most of that resides with the chief academic officer never mind that elementary budget is use the word only maybe we need more money all right next all right so the impact the uh the impact the proposed secondary education budget request is vital for supporting a high quality learning environment which directly contributes to our organ organizational success this investment will improve resources and infrastructure to enhance the learning experience for all students support teacher development programs to ensure high standards
034of instruction and in expand extracurricular opportunities to promote wellrounded student growth that is the end of my presentation unless you have more questions I appreciate and thank you for your for the time thank you for your presentation are there any questions from Madam President go ahead Mr lacy i Yeah go back if you could go back to the purchase services i guess I didn't really hear exactly what you said when you were Were you saying that it was that the 96,000 was paid for by another fund previously no uh what I was saying is there was more to it than just the uh graduation fees and things like that you have professional development consultants uh and PD for principles and assistant principles okay so Okay so I guess I don't understand the reason for the
035increase the reason for the increase yeah you you made do with 20,000 this year and you need uh 96,000 more next year right the once again moving the graduation fees under my budget I believe oh so it was it was paid for by something else in the pre so these are things the 96,000 is is something that was paid for i'm sorry under someone else's line item yes what other line item was this so you said what other was it yeah what i would have to rearch that several of them or something like that i would have to research that and get back with you and let you know where it came from okay dr lawrence cut on his mic so I'm going to just call him out so he can hop in for I
036was going to say that because we separated um college and career readiness that entire division is now run by Chief Douly there are some Okay so that's I missed that whole explanation can we just get the update of the transfers too sent to us i'm I'm not sure if it's for you it's more for Dr lawrence of where funds are where they were last year in the budget versus where they're going so we can just see kind of that transfer of where it came from and where it's going uh sure i think that's Andrew but I can work you want to talk to the mic sure i will work closely with the budget director Andrew we can get that to you anything else Mr l that's fine any other questions no I don't mr walker
037so looking at the staffing request so okay there's three dean of students so I guess I'm I'll wait i'll ask that off i can I can speak to a little bit now would you like well it was yeah more so the dina student like what is the goal here and as well as I see in school and I'm thinking that's in school suspension pairs but again what is the goal there is that currently working we've had this discussion before and what what's actually changed with this we currently have two uh we're not necessarily pl that's in there now uh as we get through staffing right now um I don't think we're going to have three i think we're probably planning on having one possibly at the alternative school because we don't know how many students
038we want to start out with there we don't know that we want to have a full-time principal there so that's a buffer for the alternative school uh dean and then we currently have one at Styver um based on some recent events we want to keep that team intact and so we want to keep that dean there as that dean works toward becoming a certified principal and there's one at Wagman and uh I I can speak to all that uh a bit later that's why I said offline yeah but but I want to say about the alternative too that's that's that's where the extra one is okay and then the other part is the inschool parent situation the goal is that philosophy working with in school suspension what is the goal here i can say to
039you unequivocally it was not working our chief academic officer i asked her to take a look at it probably in November and December she did what she does took a team teams out and came back and said "Hey listen we have to we have to revamp this and do some things drastically different than how in school suspension is working." And so with uh the pending approval we've already been directed to do it but we're going to we're moving forward with alternative school but which you all are proving that today we have some plans that may eliminate the need for inschool suspension totally at at the secondary level okay and then lastly I just want to get this right so we have six high schools seven county street but yeah okay okay so we count M
040Street and then there's three standalone middle schools right okay so that's 10 but on here it says 11 principles so is that the alternative school or if you don't count M Street like I'm just curious on where the 11 comes in at i count M Street okay got it yeah we count M Street perfect thank you are there any other questions thank you for that presentation but don't go too far cuz it's time for you to give us an academic insight might as well get it while you're still up here what you got for us today academic insight thought I was going to sit down no Miss Burlock is next too come on share some good news with us what's happening in the district we got some really good news some really good things going
041on at the uh as you like to say for the viewers this is at the secondary at the secondary level for the viewers the secondary level this is 7 through 12 7 through 12 i wrote them all down so I have to switch gears and get to them that's a lot of pages you flipping through right there take a lot of notes you need to You need to be like board member Riner and get you that rocket book a lot of notes never mind don't be like her problem is I just look for the empty page and I can't find what I'm looking for but I definitely wrote down a lot of good news you want Miss Spurlock to come up right yes Miss Spurlock come on up she right behind you got you get
042out the way so into elementary so we are so proud to announce the last of our elementary schools louise Troy Kemp Eastmont and International have been visited by Step Up to Quality to determine their ranking as a preschool program previously there were star ratings in the state of Ohio but now programs are rated by gold silver or bronze awards we are proud to announce that all 17 of our school buildings with preschool pro programming have been rated as gold award programs we We know that children have approximately 1,892 days from birth until school starts and every day matters it is important for us to have quality programming for our students to develop their self-confidence social emotional skills and the love of learning the gold award rating means that all of our programs have met or
043exceeded the expectations of the Ohio Department of Children and Youth thank you go ahead and tell people how they can enroll their lovely children in school oh sure so you can go to the Dayton public schools website and schedule a time for you to come down individually and have your child enrolled with our preschool department currently we have um two enrollment specialists hopefully we'll have two more so that we can increase our daily um appointments from from um 28 to double that so think about that as you approve tonight in what age tell them let them know what age that we start oh we start at three years old so three-year-olds and four-y olds best part what does it cost people to be in these programs um it is free if you look on the
044website um for preschool promise you can look at surrounding areas and how much they charge but ours is free say that one more time so they hear it again absolutely it is free for our Dayton public schools students and families i have a few more announcements can I Okay okay uh Westwood Elementary has truly embraced restorative practices and a social emotional learning focus they have drastically decreased suspensions from 600 to only two this school year a positive culture has embraced the students the staff and the families of Westwood with a with a focus on instruction kaiser Elementary had Dayton Contemporary Dance Company deliver an engaging presentation for students in grades K through six they are hoping to have student dance presentations at their next international fair which is coming up very soon louise Troy Elementary
045students had the opportunity to learn and showcase their talents by performing in an orchestra performance which is very new for Louise Troy in preparation for OST which began this week elementary school students geared up with academic prep rallies parent events to create encouragement notes for their students clapping celebrations and overall support by parents staff and community partners because we want our students to know that we believe in them and encourage them to do their very best and take their time to show what they know on the OST bell Haven in preparation for OST held a parent collaborative event that was called uh collaborating for success to support student learning and prepare for OST they had an amazing turnout and really great reviews on their survey all elementary buildings have held their building level Lucia May
046Wyatt speech contest and building winners and I've heard a lot of my principles say that there's a lot of original pieces we'll proceed to the district contest on April 16th elementary students are getting ready for our final inter murals event spring track the first week in May and this is an exciting one in comparing this week from November 2024 to I'm sorry April 2024 to April 2025 there has been an increase of 412 elementary students to Dayton public schools that is a whole school building wow and our final two entire elementary buildings Kemp and Bell Haven all of their academic staff and administration have completed all of the science of reading course requirements and there's a lot that are actually not due till June 30th um we also have several other buildings that are very
047close to 100% completion we are very proud of our elementary school buildings staff and students thank you Mr walker has comments for you uh Chief Spurlock chief Spurlock so a question for you and then a question for the treasurer um has preschool begin to look at House Bill 114 and how that may affect Absolutely we are looking at that from a couple different perspectives and we're going to have an update for you at the retreat um we know that there's concerning and a projected loss but we are looking at how can we get qualified um to be the first choice for all of our students thank you and then to the treasur I just want to clarify something the city of Dayton passed levy for preschool the district gets no contribution from that correct late
048feed no okay thank you all right appreciate you thank anyone else have comments that they wanted to add thank you all right mr simmons back to you all right i'll be very brief i'll start with AJ EJ Brown has 14 students who applied for the Young Scholar program and it's in progress they have two college promise recipients and if you haven't seen it the cafeteria redesign is something else there it's very nice it's the decor the nutrition services guys did a great job it is it's nice very nice wright brothers they also have two college promise uh recipients and they have several students who have the law and leadership applications in progress and then we're moving to international schools they have all of their school links completed as a building and have participated in multiple
049career field trips that's huge for um the international school thank you i'm a little upset that we were at EJ Brown together and you knew that that gym was right there and you didn't say just look around the corner right there we were right there hey it's a great design i love it any comments for Mr simmons anyone all right thank you Dr lawrence your first Oh no sorry hearing of are there any bargaining units here to speak tonight all right seeing none Madam Treasur do we have any individuals signed up to speak from the public yes give me one second parliamentarian Walker can you please put your timer it limit remarks to three minutes it is inappropriate to address any matter involving pending disputes grievances under a labor agreement disciplinary actions involving an employer
050or a student ongoing labor negotiations concerns or matters that have already been settled in or any matter which because of its nature is deemed appropriate to be discussed in executive session the purpose of the public hearing portion of the meeting is for members of the public to express viewpoints and public concerns i'm not sure if the clock is going but Mr walker will be allow you let you know when your three minutes are up our first speaker Daniel uh blocker okay well thank you for coming you know all right our next Angela Angela Bailey hello i'm Angela Bailey my address is 348 Park Drive Dayton um Madame President Dr president how do you say that and esteemed members of the board Dr lawrence and the dedicated DPS staff present this evening thank you for this
051opportunity to speak and advocate on behalf of children and families in our community first and foremost on behalf of Styver's parent association and myself we extend our deepest condolences to the family teachers and friends of Alfred Hill we cannot begin to comprehend the pain and loss please know that we stand with you in grief and solidarity we are committed to advocating with in our community across the state to ensure the safety of every student in our Dayton public school family we await guidance on how we may support efforts and create meaningful change so that such a tragedy trag tragedy will never occur again as a board chair of our Styver Parent Association I would like to bring your attention to an ongoing concern of many parents the lack of consistent coverage for staffing for our
052adjunct artistled classes throughout the year we continue to receive questions and concerns from students and parents regarding classes being cancelled or merged with others especially those that are central to our school's magnet art focuses courses like sound studio and graphic design are not extracurricular they are integral to our students artistic development and are cru crucial to pursuing post-secary careers in education in the arts it makes them college ready for our seniors in both musical and vis visual art magnets these classes are vital preparation for college applications and professional opportunities they reflect the unique highcaliber arts education that Styver is known for additionally I would like to respectfully request improved communication and coordination with the scheduling of external use for our school building several key events have been in fact impacted by district scheduling conflicts requiring
053us to cancel reschedu or significantly modify plans for example during our recent allgrade auditions just this past Saturday it was crazy um the essential an essential part of the program we had to relocate to the cafeteria due to gym unavailability staff parents and parent volunteers worked tirelessly to register host and adjudicate over 320 students in the space and it was not ideal and just think about most of those students had at least one parent some of them had two and siblings so we were quite busy it was fun but a little chaotic we're used to it we're creative um so uh we would just like for some consideration to be made in that similarly this week we have the musical Susicle i will refrain from any rhyming um I had to be rescheduled from Friday
054to Thursday if you've ever been in theater uh tech week is very very very stressful um and this is theater so very dramatic um so cutting into that um makes a big difference okay uh furthermore our annual photography auction was the largest fundraiser and um photography magnet had to be cancelled this event funds scholarships provides trans um transformation transformative opportunities for many students the loss of this event was deeply felt while I understand the district calendar is complex and I do not envy you guys for having to coordinate all of that I will trust um that with improved um communication we can work together to avoid such conflicts and better support the incredible work happening at Styver and throughout DPS if you ever walked into the halls of Styver you've seen it our kids are
055truly magical their passion creativity and dedication are unmistakable we are so grateful for the ongoing support and exceptional school for the artistic and creative students that was your three minutes okay thank you that part I was just thanking you guys and your support thanks thank you thank you i will say I asked Dr lawrence if you can look into the adjun as was mentioned there and board member Riner which is our board member who is assigned to Styvers this year if you can look into the other issues addressed there and bring it back to the board that'd be great thank you our next speaker Nicole Ryzen nicole Risen Maria Carpenter good afternoon everyone good afternoon thank you Dr lawrence Dr goodwine and the other members of the board for allowing me to speak today my
056name is Britt Carpenter i stay at 1430 Chadwick Drive 4546 which is the Dayton Public District i'm a high school senior at Styber School for the Arts today I want to talk about two critical classes that are missing from our school classes that could change the lives of students first I'd like to talk about musicianship this class teaches students how to properly play the piano and site readad music for those who are not familiar with site reading site reading is the ability to read and perform music at first sight it's a fundamental skill for any musician right now many of us are expected to perform at high level without being taught the basics we have talent and passion but we're lacking the tools i took musicianship earlier in my high school career and I am
057now the women's and corral um choirs class president and as I work with the other students lots of them struggle with site reading which is important for the Ohio Music Education Association competition that we compete in every year next is the res the recording studio class a space where students could learn how to record mix and produce music this isn't just about having fun with microphones and headphones this is about preparing for the real world recording is essential for college submissions auditions and art competitions we need the classes for submitting professional quality recordings for scholarships and applications while we're trying to make do with what we have is not a level playing field as a high school singer I felt the impact of not having these classes i've had to help others with site reading
058and recording important music on lowquality phones and laptops i don't want others to miss opportunities simply because they don't have the training access the training or access to the right equipments we have so much potential at Styiver so many talented students who want to pursue music not just as a hobby but as a career but without the proper education and support we're being held back bringing back musicianship and recording studio wouldn't just benefit a few students it will uplift our entire music department thank you for listening and I hope you'll consider how important these classes are for young artists who walk through the Styus Halls thank you for coming out and we're definitely going to follow up with for member Riner and myself on Danielle danielle Black Daniel okay that concludes uh tonight's speakers thank
059you all for coming out definitely always love when we get student advocacy out here and our team will be following up on what was kind of addressed today we appreciate you i think he wants more he didn't know to do he had a form to go would you like to speak come on up give you three minutes say your name and address and we'll get you going greetings everybody my name is uh Raymond King i uh reside in now Fairborn Ohio um 85 old Yellow Springs Road apartment he is my son's mine i'm father so uh got to always have him but uh I came by to um openly uh express um a viewpoint as a community leader and as a former Stylus graduate myself class of 2021 um I noticed there was uh something
060that uh transpired in our city um that I think obviously everybody is aware of what had maybe had transpired of course academically in our athletics um department but uh I think as a uh yeah what happened before the cover up um I think something that I would like to bring to our attention is something that we may not be considering and that is the uh the uh the sacrifice that we are kind of sacrificing our academics at the expense of athletics one thing I do notice and as a former student athlete myself um coming from an athletic family is that GPA requirements are something that are actually very serious and uh one of the things that we kind of played into coming from a previous school district originally I'm not from Dayton from Yri Ohio
061and one thing that I learned as a athletic student is that uh sometimes GPA actually do play into the behavioral side of things that can transpire uh transpire into our athletic situations such as games um one thing that we do have to take in major consideration is the environment and where our students do come from um yes I am talking about the Saturday big fight um if anybody hasn't caught on to what I'm talking to yet but one thing I thought about before coming here is what we are actually kind of allowing to come into play before we actually can put a halt some things if I can just kind of cut the field as my father would say he's a preacher so please forgive me for using certain analogies but uh I think one
062thing that could benefit us all um Dr lawrence um Dr goodwin nice to finally meet you you actually know my father ironically pastor him but uh one thing I would like to suggest to the board in these in these um forgive me I'm kind of nervous with what I want to imply but uh I think one thing I would like to suggest is a system that perhaps allows safety measures for certain students to be able to enter and to be able to apply for athletics to be able to be a student i think one thing that can change is raising the GPA requirement yes there may be something that can alter you know the options of how talented of students that are coming in but like coach Carter said you're student first and one of
063the things that I obviously can trans put together is that often times we have students that have low GPA often have bad behavior issues and what it seems like is we may be rewarding bad behavior with a freedom to be able to be an athlete but in return if we're going to move these students up into a college world where colleges are expecting them to be at a par such as a 2.5 or higher or if we're looking at a football school something as specific as Notre Dame requires a 3.7 GPA some of our best high school athletic students in football would not even be able to apply because of the simpleness of the low requirement that we've been able to withheld over their heads for about years so not only just that but even
064the students that you allow to your building three minutes two minutes that was three minutes that was three you have any closing i'll give you Yeah thank you 30 seconds you got 30 seconds 30 seconds closing add it to our students what I would suggest is this created an ID system with your students contacting them with your IDs as they enter in the games have somebody with a computer system such as this young lady over here that gave my young man allowing them to become into an ID system you can scan their system in the same way that police pull up your IDs and pull up all your registered histories the same way you can be able to pull up the GPA and their registered behavioral history allowing them access into the building based upon
065their GPA requirements and behaviors such as well as students being able to come into perform raises your GPA as students and your academic success but it also gives them something to challenge themselves for not only academically but now you got something to work for and you don't just have to fail in order to be an athletic star so thank you i do want to I will tell you this we do have that in place already it was not in place on that day but I want to invite you to join our athletic council advisory committee because a lot of the stuff you're talking about are things that you're actively working through constantly and I would love for you as an alumni to see kind of what we have been doing over the last 3 years
066and most of the stuff you're saying is things that we are actively tackling so I want to I want to say for that one I want to ask Miss Garen if she could get your contact information so we can invite you to that form because that is exactly where you would want to be to not only share those ideas but help us as we continue to work through go ahead Mr walker i just want to add to it the athletes were not the ones involved in the situation so their GPA and the state of Ohio athletics as a whole has no GPA requirement for athletes so it's not just a DPS thing that's statewide and I say that as an official who officiates across the state so so before you leave even though we have
067your address because you said it on the record we want to get some contact information from you and an email address because we definitely would love to have you be a part of our academic advisory committee and you can also share these things and help us work through what we are constantly doing and been doing so thank you appreciate you thank you and if somebody can grab the mic top so we don't Somebody get Appreciate it all right does that conclude that is our last one now all right dr lawrence your first recommendation dr goodwin I recommend approval of the following administrative appointments is there a motion miss Thankotion by Miss Whit second second by Mr bailey any questions on the motion can I point of information go ahead a2 position was director of human
068resources this body never did a change of assignment which we've done for anyone else who've changed positions so I just want the record to be corrected on that a2 we can uh Miss Mickey can you correct that please all right anything else seeing none may we have a vote president Budwine yes dr bailey yes mr lacy yes mr smith yes miss Reard yes mr walker yes miss Wick yes mr scott yes at yess your next recommendation I recommend approval of the following DEA after July 10th is there a motion so move is there a second second moved by Mr lacy second by Miss Wick any questions on the motion all right seeing none may we have a vote president Goodwin no dr bailey no mr lacy no mr smith no miss Reard no mr walker
069yes miss Wick no mr scott no seven no one yes can I on that can I ask a question this says effective tomorrow hopefully there's a plan already in place for this intervention specialist classroom i will follow up with the uh executive director all right your next motion i recommend approval of the following certified appointments so moved second moved by Mr lacy second by Dr bailey are there 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 Mr eight yeses i recommend the approval of the following classified appointments can I make a motion to take D through G together oh thank Mr walker i was supposed to get on the other one but I forgot
070is there a second second moved by Mr walker second by Mr lacy and we are taking D through G together dr lawrence can I ask for just information on the arts festival mhm got it sure one second got it and for athletics just an update on fall coaching openings or vacancies glad you asked about that cuz Belmont may be double booked again this year [Music] good evening so right now currently we have 53 vacancies for high school um soccer we need soccer coach for third good dumbar and divers tennis third good and metale um feel like it might be another school for that one um golf all of our schools and then boys cross country Belmont girls cross country Ponets Dumbart and Styver and then looks like here's the other three for tennis Ponets Dumbar
071and Belmont and then for middle school Styver Middle School football golf tennis Wright Brothers football cheer cross country golf tennis ej Brown cross country soccer golf tennis walgamin cheerleading cross country soccer golf and tennis charity Adams tennis cross country soccer and golf and of course with the middle school we try to build on that every year just depending on availability and interest within the school thank you any other questions Mr smith chief my fault i was trying to look up quick enough it's okay um with the resation for the middle school track program they're in season who's covering that until another person can come in so I believe there's an assistant coach that helped us with another sport that uh AD Watts has identified and that resonation came um Robin Hayes been with us for
072a while but he also does club volleyball and he was trying to do something where maybe a couple days or maybe one and we felt like that wouldn't work with just the inconsistency so that's kind of where that came and I think he didn't realize his schedule was going to be too conflicting until he actually said he would do the job and after talking to the principal we just felt like let's try something different appreciate it all right thank you looks like Miss Burlock is coming up to tell us something too you had a question about the All City Arts Festival yes it takes place on May 3rd starts about 11:00 a.m it's an exciting event we have um elementary students um combined performing multiple performances um and multiple um of our elementary music teachers
073perform with their students and also take turns um conducting we also celebrate um elementary I mean middle and high school bands as well they come and compete we also have a display normally of student art so it's an amazing day i invite all of you um you sometimes it's hard to find a chair so you might want to bring your own because we have so many turnout from our staff students and parents so is this the festival that takes place at Rivergate yes okay i haven't seen a purchase or anything like that for Rivergate is it a in our one agreement yeah i think it's we approved the PO last year i'll double check okay and then lastly keep check okay and then lastly with the all city music festival I do know that our
074high schools do more of the college style is that incorporated into this all city festival i I can't speak on that i'm sorry okay i think that's what I asked last year so I just want to make sure you said the you said more of a what now so the HB.CU style that our high school bands do is that incorporated into this all city arts festival i won't get that from Aisha and find out thank you right but I do want to announce that they have a big battle of the bands on April 26 26 since we actually we have a meeting that day don't worry about that you in our business that's what I was asking i was like we know how to move officially okay all right all right so HB.CU style followup
075uh I can tell you the the practices that I've seen in Thood and obviously Belmont H.B.CU style but we'll find out appreciate it all right all right any other questions madam Treasurer may we have a vote on D through G i think it was something like that president Goodwin yes dr bailey yes mr lacy yes mr smith yes miss Rhina yes mr walker yes miss Wick yes mr scott yes eight yeses does that conclude your recommendations for a vote tonight Dr lawrence that concludes my recommendations for the vote all others will be reviewed all right before you move on I would like to make a motion to for reconsideration of from our last agenda items under classified appointments item B2 i second it any questions on the motion seeing none may we have a vote
076president Goodwin yes yes okay dr bailey yes Mr lacy i didn't I don't see a B2 from last meeting last meeting i'll abstain i don't really know what's okay i understand okay stay okay okay mr smith yes miss Rhinard yes mr walker yes miss Wig yes mr scott I'll be forgetting you down there seven yeses one abstain so now you up here so next we will be voting revoting on the motion the original motion now okay everybody clear all right Madame Treasur may we have a roll call on the original motion original motion on item again from the March 18th meeting under classify item B2 okay b2 okay president Goodwin no dr bailey no mr lacy abstain mr smith no miss Rhinard no mr walker no miss Wick no mr scott one up abstain thank
077you all right Dr lawrence back to your recommendations for review thank you that's a good one i need to make uh one revision a B and C are review d is for vote i spoke about it earlier about the STEM teachers at third uh contracts for review i would ask that board members take a look and we're uh our staff is here we're willing to ask answer questions all right give you guys a opportunity to look and as always with contracts and POS if everyone is in the room that if you have any questions possible they'll be able to answer okay go ahead um the Okay so the broom construction contract um it says design services to begin following contract award so the contract isn't awarded yet is Brooma just So what's Broomba doing if
078I'm pronouncing that right so we have they won the contract yes so right now that's where the high school redesigns are going through boom is waiting on seven votes okay well I mean for like they won because we had two different companies that competed for the bid so they won the bid the So what what was the question sorry I missed the last part no that you answered the first part so you have awarded the contract yes and and and they'll then they're going to spend a over a year designing so it would probably take less time but we want to do it while the students are not in session so we can get it all done at once rather than um you know a week here a week there um we don't have enough
079time to get the designs done and all the equipment ordered before this summer starts so we have our target is to get everything completed by next summer but you want to be able to start it right right as soon as students leave or something like that we want to start the design process so we have to we'll have the design okay okay then I understand it a little better m thank you Mr walker so with that while I appreciate how the elementary and middle schools look will the high schools look more of high school style and not like it's going to look more like a college food court kind of got it appreciate it when next time you come around I can show you some of the ideas we already have if you see thank
080you any other questions uh not on that all right thank you your next It wasn't on that you got something else on this one yes dr lawrence mhm the contract service for public relations i I guess I'm confused on what this one actually is last year we had one for contract services for marketing again and we I did a termination of that contract how's this different what safeguards are in place to make sure that this organization actually does that work and everything like that uh this one is significantly different this one is for recruiting we're in the middle of recruiting seasons also teacher retention we're beginning contract negotiations soon and also for additional marketing and I I love your question about safeguards um we've met with that company twice uh done several reference checks uh
081around their work and um I think this is a a great opportunity for us to I know it's uh single source but we are in the middle of recruiting um what I want to call it um arm and getting so we're trying to make sure we don't have 180 long-term subs next year and we're trying to also make sure we don't lose any teachers and also marketing around bringing kids back as Miss Spurlock mentioned earlier um well over 450 kids we want to continue that that movement and right now is enrollment time and they'll be actually they'll be here next week as well okay and then unlike that other company looking at this it says that the contract starts May 25th i guess I'm confused on where has HR recruitment been so far this year
082when we're already at the end of the school year for staff that we're looking to start for this upcoming school year i don't have the exact numbers for HR in fact they're in at Xavier Heights Xavier University today recruiting they were in Bowling Green last week uh in fact they had a special guest with them who recruited several people several teachers to the district that special guest was Dr goodwin yes not special first off I'm the Kobe out here [ __ ] like give me the ball coach yes she she made the trip to Bowling Green Ohio so um so yeah we We can start it sooner well I I said I just was curious on and it said May and I know we're in April okay appreciate it and then can I go back to food
083service yep international school is that a part of this since it's still a high school or Okay got it thank you you good yes you sure i I'm good feel like you didn't ask about everything on there it's just little feel like you missing something nah okay anybody else have any questions all right dr lawrence your next one for review i'd like board members to please review the consulting contracts there are three all right give you guys a second and if there are any questions Mr welcome i do have questions so last year we contracted with Revival Center is there any data to show that that program worked thank you Miss Miner so Revival Center supported our 21st century which we get data on that every year and yes they were effective according to that
084um this contract they have that they were one of the quotes that were submitted um that the state and federal grant uh solicited they got the best um had the best deal and were contracted this is where they're servicing our unhoused students with McKenna Vento and our ELLL they are providing for the summer the enrichment part in the morning it'll be academics and in the afternoon it's enrichments and they got uh quotes from different organizations and theirs was the best but the we do have data about their 21st century because they service Westwood this is them servicing our um summer program enrichment non-academic enrichment i totally get that last year we approved this same contract for this same entity at international school so I would like to see that data outside of their 21st century
085because it was questions last year about their contract award for there as well yeah um so they they're nonacademic what they do they do enrichment so do you want me to I mean they work with the same data on their behaviors or because if it's coming out of title one funds and it's a a grant summary that's supported after they've been awarded grant dollars so I'm asking about what services they provide under that those grant dollars and with those students and how was that beneficial right with them reawwarding this this year okay yes we can provide even the activities they did and everything like summary of what they did last year and then a summary of what's coming this year perfect appreciate that and then lastly um I see Belmont is on here for student
086engagement beating burnout things like that is this the same thing that will be offered to the other high schools as well um this the one for Belmont all of the schools have designated title one funds and they have an opportunity to use it with certain vendors specialized for their school so this is this one the student engagement uh on here is just for Belmont i don't I don't we don't have uniform when it's title we don't do the same thing for other schools the principles are in theory supposed to do they're supposed to use their one plan and say these are the funds we want to use to do whatever we're doing for academic achievement for the year so they have different vendors different processes at different schools i was just at Belmont actually uh
087with seniors and they were working on last chance working on certificates um and trying to make sure that everybody graduated so I'm sure they'll be in that involved in that process i think the question I need to ask all the high school principles is what are you doing it doesn't have to be this but are you doing something like that appreciate it thank you Madam President miss Wood thank you along those lines with these the consultant contracts and I know I've talked about this before is implementing some sort of training um or education or learning experience for our children around conflict resolution around and it falls with under this I am possible enterprise so I would like to request or I am requesting that rather than giving um the individual buildings especially in our secondary
088schools not that you know we don't have as much violence or opportunity in our elementary schools as we do our junior high and high schools that we insert something that gives these students some skills and training around conflict resolution uh it think that you know we live in a we live in a time where it's necessary we have uh gaps in modeled behavior that our students and our families would certainly benefit with some additional training and I just I I want it to happen and I don't want it to be that every build and I know every building has its own personality its own needs but I think as a district there's something we could adopt that is district-wide that we can refer to all the time we talk about our five Cs part of
089our culture our communication and I just think this is a an area where we need to focus more um more of our our funding our dollars and our our our expertise to do better by our students so thank you thank you Mr scott you got something down there behavioral services of the behavior that we're seeing thank you Mr scott i love randomly calling on you just to see what'll happen can I go ahead Mr walker can I just add when we do this work that board member Wick is talking about can it be intentional that our academic scholars are not the target the population that we know is spending time at the hub spending time not going to school and things like that that is a target that I really want us to try to
090focus on and really figure out how do we move the needle with your population your generation things like that yeah one one thing we do have that is districtwide and and um the restorative practices that initiative that we have in the schools that we're building on is something that can work uh but we will look at a district-wide what does everyone get part of the competencies we're working on with our next generation learning initiative being very intentional on teaching those skills and making sure all graduates have that will also yield to that so as we're building that program that'll be that's a district-wide program so I appreciate the recommendations and I think piggybacking on what uh brother Walker says is that you know not that our academic scholars necessarily I mean you know different people
091have different skill sets but certainly peer mentoring in those opportunities that we can structure programs where yeah I mean uh there are all sorts of uh spectrum of behaviors here that we can use our our student per our high student performance is to outreach and to do work differently so peer mediation is a big part of PBIS restorative practices having that those leadership opportunities ambassadors for all children miss Miner I know that you and Miss Shei started a kind of a trend here maybe we should invite board members out to spend some time with the life coaches that report to Miss Douly and underneath Dr worldly because they're doing that work with some of with our students who are not the all the students who have A's and B's yeah that's right board me um
092I would say I think sometimes when we have these conversations we start new work and we forget the work that has been started and then gets diverted like we talk about the life coaches when we this board well not this board previous board abolished the previous positions and we added new positions and then we consistently added on to that staff to do this mentorship work and to get involved with our youth and then what happens is we then change directions we redirect staff they end up doing different work and then we circle back around and we say "Hey let's start working on this issue when we already have had people in to work on this issue and we tell people to go do something else." And I think that is where when we get in
093these spaces we keep having the same conversations because we don't we we we change priorities and it's very easy because we we we get to this reactive spaces where it's all right we need to work on credit recovery so we need to figure out who's going to do this truency becomes an issue okay now we need to go and see who's going to be working on this and I think it it takes a targeted effort to understand that these kind of things have to be done at a young age when we talked about having uh the roles that are now I want to say the life coaches that was the whole reason why we wanted to really start having them working at a elementary age and then you fast forward and they're working in high
094schools and it's one of those things if we're really going to be serious around conflict resolution this isn't something you're going to go and talk to 15 16 17 year olds about if we're talking about the 15 16 17 year olds that we see in some of these issues they've been in some of these behaviors since they were 9 10 11 years old so if we're not doing it at that young age then we're we're we're talking to people who are already letting to what Mr scott is saying that home life creep into their day-today activities so some of the things that we see play out at the high school are playing out at the elementary and middle schools and they just haven't reached that violent of a issue we've seen that where just you
095know I hate these things that have happened we had a shooting at Luise Troy in the parking lot little kids fighting i mean so if we're talking about this I do think if we're going to do it to really take a step back and look at what we already have here look at how we utilize the people we have here look at how we utilize some of the people that come in and want to help um I think that there's brilliant minds around and there are people who want to help and sometimes it's easy to get in our own way by creating things when we shouldn't have to recreate the wheel because there's programs here and we've had people here there are people that have been hired on to do some of these roles and
096over time their roles change and then you end up seeing that gap so I do think this is important but I think it's important to look at what we have because I wouldn't want us to then just spin on an issue when we're when we're spinning our wheels outside of where we need to go so I do think um I also want to piggyback on what Mr walker said i think often times there's we target individuals who are not in the demographic that the problem lies all the time and so being specific and being honest and being real and finding out where can we start doing this work and understanding it's not going to be a a a instant overnight turnaround but if we're really going to be serious about the work it's going to
097be have to be done at a really young age to create that dynamic in our children so that as they grow then we can step into that because if we're not we're going to go away from that and that's what I want to remind us that is like that is literally the model we set up for the life coaches and Dr worley's work when Dr orley came in it was to start them out in elementary school working them through and then having the high schools turn around and do mentorship with those students that have come up over time what we end up doing is we turn these things into ways to show photo ops for kids with 3.5 GPA we take the kids who have the best attendance or the best grades and we take
098them here and there and we get away from what the work was actually targeted to do and so I think if we're going to do it I want us to really hone in on why we're doing it and what's the purpose and if we're not going to get there we're just going to be back at this the next time something happens that is Thank you i just have one comment on it so I used to watch this show because it was amazing now we got four seasons called The Good Place it's a great show right but on the show they had it was the good place and the bad place and then it was the median place that you didn't go to the good or the bad to both of what they're saying our student
099center is a good place and I don't know how I don't want to be in the bad place at all but that medium place even if you guys looked at like a junior student centered program for those kids that they're not at student center level but they teetering on that line of I could be that or I can go the opposite way but those type of programs that kind of bring them in a little bit more and focused on that i would love it if you guys made like a meeting place that allows some of these students to be able to like pull themselves up and go on to essentially what the good place looks like did that help tear down it did it was an amazing show it's amazing shows on Netflix you can
100watch it now it's always smiles so so we appreciate all the comments and definitely the life coaches and their focus and making sure there's a direction our evidence you know we have evidence to show that where schools are implementing positive behavior inter intervention supports in addition to restorative practices have significantly changed the culture to help all students the ones that don't have problems the one that have severe problems they've totally transformed we have examples of that from elementary all the way to high school and culture shifts and so that's our goal um definitely improving and continuing though that's a system that's been around but it's not always been implemented with fidelity where it's happening we're seeing significant changes and children growing and doing extremely well so we're excited about that and we're going to continue
101that can I hold on you are next m Scott was next actually yeah I kind of wanted to like piggy back off what you said about kind of how you know if we had something like a junior for those who like aren't at that level but are like I think a lot of like behavioral issues comes from like a value of like how you see yourself and so many of our students are coming from home where they're not themselves and so they come into the educational spaces um still and not they have an option or the ability to pursue education seriously and so that's like taking shape to like behavior and I think if we had more of our focus on how we can like instill that self worth or like show students that they
102do have options regardless of their family life or their financial background um that they would kind of see that they do have a way So when you have like a value or a purpose like you're going to like kind of act a certain way to keep that self when you don't have a self there's no way to like you know what I'm saying always insightful Mr scott Mr walker ain't going to top that mhm i No pressure cuz he driving nuggets can I So when we look at this um a lot of times what what we end up seeing is these senior adults who've worked in the work unfortunately students don't want to always hear from them and work with those like individuals so if we're going to do the work can we at least
103get some individuals who may have come through some things that our students are going through and how they can move forward from that and I think a thing for me with the work is I'm not interested in work to please downtown business leaders or downtown other elected officials i'm interested in the work because it affects the community where our students actually live and reside play and everything like that so that's mine thank you thank you Mr lacy you got something down there no anything to add on all right anything else on the consultant piece we went into a whole deep dive all right dr lawrence your next recommendation for review please take a look at the memorandum of understanding NJOTC Navy at Belmont this is just an extension of an existing contract dang i thought
104it was a new program i did thought it was a new program too never mind all right thought we was going to have two of them uh we are working on that at another school i got you all right are there any questions on the extension of All right dr lawrence your next recommendation for a vote i recommend approval of the following resolution then Marshall science math signing bonus 2025 is there a motion so moved there second second moved by Mr lacy second by Miss Wick any questions on the motion i to be Mr walker go ahead to be clear this bonus is the bonus that staff will get for third good this is not to say that they will get this bonus and then the other bonus that we approved as well correct correct
105okay another question Mr smith how long do I have to be there to get it if I come over get 5,000 for one year then get it and I'm gone how much does it really help me if I come to third and I teach for one year and then request to be transferred well we have mechanisms around um transfers uh that associated with the contract the DA contract that suggests that the superintendent has the right to uh deny transfers so I wouldn't be granting any transfers after one year all right then second question would be what if I come over and I just decide I don't like it after 3 weeks well I think the beauty of us changing over to our changing on July 1st our pay schedule so before now we prepay people
106but we will no longer be doing that so we'll be able to hold their final check but and then but and the difference of that we go to subligation and see if we can get it back with that next question yeah I mean I hear your concern Mr smith because there's no language in here on like you at least have to have a length of time commitment i do also understand why that's not in there too but it still puts us in a a shifty position here what' you say shifty we just don't care anymore hey you did you did get your mind back because even with our uh with our professional development bonus of 5,000 a year we we still require a two-year commitment from individuals all right i trust y'all figure it out
107i trust these people are good people is there a way go ahead Mr walker is there a way to do this as a policy with perennials there's always a way to put policy in i mean because I I I just don't I would on Mr smith's point I think if even we look at and say "Hey you get 2500 after the first semester you get your another 2500 at the end but then on July 1st I'm out of here and going to another district." So are you recommending that a policy be established that sign on bonuses come with a commitment and it's based off of like the 2500 is that like a two-year commitment one year commitment or something like that in that scale piece is that what you're asking in the policy yes we
108will work on that thank you all right any you got another question i just want to say I do appreciate that part because I think well I wanted to say I appreciate this piece and the addition because I know to build up what we need and what we know we can have it's going to take having qualified staff but that other piece and we see that around our districts that have high performances it also takes dedicated staff and continuity with that staff so I think having staff that are there that are talented and then having staff that are there and being able to spend time together lends us towards success so I appreciate the conversation around that but I also appreciate the resolution thank you ma'am yes all right so we will get that and
109bring it back to the next meeting with you guys for a policy on sign bonuses all right are there any other questions love a good policy request rarely do that i've been slacking i've been slacking this year all right that concludes my recommendation we're voting oh I'm sorry about that slow down all right Madam Treasur may you got a question Mr scott you think it's going to benefit third good i mean you won't be there but Oh you're good all right Madam Chair may we have a vote president Goodwin yes dr mr bailey yes mr lacy yes mr smith yes miss Rard yes mr walker yes miss Wick yes no Mr scott eight yeses does that conclude your recommendations Dr lawrence that concludes my recommendations madam Treasur your first recommendation for review all my recommendations
110are for review and um okay all right are there any yes we are increasing the budget for general fund um general fund increases uh 260k for purchase ser uh services for snacks and extra duty and the other increase we are requesting is uh increase by $5 million for food service um uh construction and upgrading those are the two changes we are requesting thank you are there any questions on the first item for review all right your next item for review madam treasure next one is advances we are requesting to advance from general fund to to title uh six and title four title for $62,167 all right any questions your next recommendation for review uh next one is minutes minutes for February 11 February 18 February 25 and February 27 next one is purchase requisitions uh
111they are from different departments let's look at them and if you have a question we will answer all right I'll give you guys a second see where we kick tonight's party off at okay are there any questions you need more time to look more time to look mr scott are you looking you got some questions okay go ahead Mr scott so the CW CP I need yimar to the ones that are for the other class i lost either somebody stole it and got another computer in class at that time let me get give me let me get you somebody from it up here can talk about that mr williams you back there come on up our student senate president has brought a ballot concern that he needs you to reme remedy for his constituents he
112would actually be happy to know all the new ones that we are purchasing so how it shows right now Dayton public schools if they are for a specific program CTE CCP we're actually going to etch that on the bottom yes so you can't pull off a sticker or anything like that all right there you go i'm glad we got Glad you shared that with us sir all right Mr walker are you ready you want this emo you could do that too it's okay well don't feel the need well I'm just curious on the under 15,000 the use of charter schools is this outsourcing jobs in our district and why are we not using Say that again the use of charter schools charter buses charter buses like why are we not using our DPS transportation department
113for these programs we t we've typically done that and you going to call Dr i'm going to ask which one of you two cuz I told you we can tag team it come on up too let's talk as a as a unit fresh on the mic oh bought a piece of paper was right yeah we've typically done that historically in the three years I've been here um and uh we have chartered buses this time we sat down and met with uh Maria Winfrey and Karan uh what's Karan's last name taylor Thompson thompson yeah Thomas yeah Karan Thomas the sort of union leadership to talk about a plan for how we move forward to make sure that we have all field trips covered sometimes we have field trips and the scale of them u it gets
114past the capacity of our drivers to be able to effectively transport our kids to extended learning events so that's uh that's what we've been working on we have a meeting set up and uh we already had a premeating with Dr benson Taylor and myself and like I said union membership so Dr yes so oftent times when you have multiple schools going to multiple locations um because of our scheduling and our tiers we can't always accommodate and so that's where you'll find charter buses come into play um we are looking at how we can be more effective and efficient in that so we're looking at whether we need a field trip coordinator whether we need um to look at our scheduling and and offer um transportation earlier in the day so we're working through to try
115and eliminate that as much as possible so my follow-up question is after meeting with the union regarding this is the union okay with the action of what's being recommended so yeah they understand that there are sometimes I mean we have drivers that may not get done until 9 or 9:15 or 9:30 some trips leave early they leave at 9:00 or they may may leave earlier than that so there are certain situations and circumstances where a charter bus is the most feasible option now okay yay or nay obviously they would prefer we do not use charter buses um but they do recognize that in certain situations um if we are not able to provide the service then a charter bus would be the next option because we want to make sure that our students get to
116every educational opportunity as possible okay so with that same piece is it more of the trips are not getting fulfilled or the trip is coming at last minute and staff already has other plans so is this another alternative to combat last minute submission of field trips or anything like that um we have a scheduling system we're moving to a new scheduling system um so it it it could be a variety and it and it just depends on the situation i mean there isn't a one-sizefits-all um answer to the question cuz sometimes things come up and we want to you know the opportunity didn't exist and now it does exist and so we may already be scheduled for quite a few things and then we don't have the opportunity to accommodate that the answer is not
117the children should not go so it I mean it really just depends there are situations where it it may be something that that was not on our radar and then we're looking at we can't accommodate it or it could be something where it was early enough but we just already had things scheduled okay can I ask a follow-up question so I want to distinguish one of these items are for trips outside the state which is completely reasonable to use a charter bus because that'd be a long drive all the way to Tuskegee on DPS i mean we've gotten better but we not that comfortable as a rider i'm going tell you we got the air condition on it we got air condition buses are more comfortable we a lot of cushion seats with TVs and
118a bathroom on the bus that's a long drive people your knees to the side okay but the second one was this is this one just did this just only occur on this date listed the March 21st or are we expecting future occurrences as well i believe there are some additional ones scheduled um where there aren't other ones scheduled we are looking at them to see if there needs to be um end of the year trips things of that nature so there are conversations that are happening to determine whether or not we would need to have additional and this is a last resort not a first resort oh absolutely a last resort and I'm I'm talking about like we exhausted every option and made sure we had no one available and nothing else and then we
119had to go to that just to ensure the kids had the experience i still need a solid yes again i need to hear something uh can I add a let's just say don't make her don't make her say I just want to know it's like the last thing like we it was never our first option that's just the point that's typically the plan yeah i mean I value that's typically the plan and what they bring to us i I believe if there were an issue when it said hearing of the public as we well know Miss Winfrey would have been here and I mean I'm saying like you even called me to go can you fill in because we got just this one one down i'll be like yeah I can't do it either we
120will keep you on our list absolutely no I'm joking no all right go ahead mr gray shaking his head so can I just ask why are we using charter buses to transfer students to Sinclair and it's right here in the community i could see if this was a field trip going somewhere else but it's Sinclair so the parameters Dr that Benson Taylor talked earlier about the parameters we have tears and we can't always get you to where you need to be so we can't get you to Sinclair at 8:00 or 8:30 and we can't pick you up at 2:30 or 3:30 because that's within the tiers but I'm pretty sure Sinclair STEM exploration would be within the tier DPS transportation is there a schedule itinerary for that compound your question how many people are we
121doing that for because why would we use vans or something else or things that don't require the CDL driver yeah I don't I'm sorry go you i just say those are questions that we're working on answering when we have you know in our field trip discussion um because I don't think we've had pre previously had the discussions about alternative ways to do that can we send a van um we are looking at the number of van drivers that are certified a lot of our van drivers in the district didn't go back through certifications so a lot of people are not eligible and so we're looking at all of those things making sure that we have all of the options in place i got a followup it was your question so this is a career exploration
122day that is I'm probably sure this is under college and career readiness area you have life coaches who are van certified under the same area so life coaches cannot drive the vans for students uh I don't think that the number of life coaches and the number of kids going matches up and I don't believe STEM expiration day is is within a window i have every reason to believe it probably starts at 8 8:30 and probably ends at 2:33 which are both in the window that typically can't be done okay all right are there any other questions i have Go ahead Mr lacy on the in the 15,000 and less there's a there's a participants for participants a $10,000 um mileage travel and mileage reimbursement get out of here so that's it lacks um some of
123the specifics so is this this is an open PO are we adding to an existing open PO,000 that's interesting check it out here let's start with which department does this belong to let's start there then we can know who your question goes to mr lacy okay is this yours i want you all to find it is it yours madam treasur not madam treasur funds page five participant uh travel and mileage reimbursement general fund yeah I see blank stairs everywhere we need to add a column on here yeah I need to find out where that one is i I don't You can You can get back to me that's fine no okay go ahead for the Department of Which one department of We got that equity you're allowed to say that these days who is in
124the department of equity it's wild times out here york New York new York dr lawrence who's still in the Department of Equity we're a wild bunch uh no one right it's a fictitious purchase now speaking of the Department of Equity I'm still waiting on that update of the consultant we paid to do equity work yeah we can't do that anymore so okay so is this not is this a purchase order that was put in by mistake or error since that department doesn't actually have individuals out of it we'll have to look into it because it was actually approved last year i'm not sure why it was brought back huh can you tell who brought it forward good catch [Music] i think we're going to add a column to add the department that things go down
125that was a fun little Yeah add a column and take that one off for now well it's under 15,000 it's not something we vote on so that's why we have Miss Hamilton but I mean if if we if there was an an original I mean if this is adding to one but it's just an original one okay i was wondering if it Oh and it's title font no never mind different font yeah but there's no department anymore that's true okay so Dr lawrence has asked if we take that off he could have just said that on the mic but I'll say it for him because that's what we do up here uh yeah let's investigate that one a little bit more all right anything else still with the under 15,000 dr lawrence is this the
126entire staff at Charity Items going to Vegas and the entire staff at Edison going to St louis uh I'd have to ask the chief about charity and institute typically that's not the entire staff but yeah typically it's just the leadership team but I can have Miss Spurlock's on a way to confirm yeah we haven't sent the entire staff anymore good evening we have um multiple schools taking small groups of teachers normally they're building leadership team um that support the work of our p um our PLC's and what they're going to do is last year we sent administrators we're sending small groups um per building based on their needs and they're using their title one funds to do that to travel to various professional development and then they're going to use that information to plan for
127next school year and also bring that information and do PD within their building okay thank you any more for you all right your next recommendation for review madam treasur I have Zen and now they are from different departments oh it is one all right any questions on the Z then [Music] all right does that conclude your recommendations for review Madam Treasures yes thank you i'm actually gonna skip to item 10 dr ben Taylor approve these with the blanket approved thank you so we have two new resolutions to address um the athletic um grades and submissions um for the um charter schools and or non-enrolled students our first one for Dayton Business Technology High School and then the second one for Gym City Career Prep High School and so these are um um memorandums of understanding
128that mirror the ones that we have already approved for other other charter and non-attended schools non DPS schools to ensure that the athletics um programs that we have all of the information that we need from the students in those schools thank you is there a motion to take AB so moved second second who seconded it moved by Mr lacy second by Mr walker we are taking A and B together any questions on the motion go ahead Mr smith i'm trying to think is have I'm trying to think the other last one was the Do we ever get anything back in the STEM school i do not remember i don't think we have it back i know the conversation has occurred about the STEM school that's what I was thinking i had some parents reach out
129around that one all right so we'll make sure we reach out to to follow up on that appreciate you good all right any other questions seeing none may we have a vote president Goodwin yes so loud dr bailey yes mr lacy yes mr smith i will still ratify yes m reard yes mr walker yes miss Wick yes Mr scott ats's thank you going back up to item nine so let's see i recommend the approval of the following Dayton public school district to establish an alternative school so moved second moved by Mr walker second by Dr bailey questions on the motion mr smith um yes yes um first I would ask that we really really give serious uh consideration to putting some kind of vocational aspect at this school um definitely think if we're going to
130have that to make sure that no matter who's in this space they are still there working to better themselves in some kind of way that will help them once they leave D public schools and I think having some kind of vocational program um and even down the road I would also want uh something akin to our ROCC and some kind of program in that space i think it brings back some of the spaces we've had before um we talk about that Grace A green aspect and some spaces that actually did wonders for some of our children um so that would be my my request for this this school thank you i do want to thank both Dr lawrence and Dr jones and everyone has been involved this has been a two-year process of us bringing
131this idea and concept to fruition and we are still not at the finish line but we are going to get there and I do believe it's going to be impactful for our district go ahead Mr walker um to correct my original motion amend my original motion this will take place at Jackson Center for the 2526 school year all right any other comments questions oh go ahead mr scott you gota put your hand up or something he got it raise my hand i don't get all the way down here go ahead um I was wondering like is M Street not our alternative school or not it's not the alternative school it's actually credit recovery which is a little bit different in that piece but I'm going to pass it over to Dr lawrence so he can
132explain it more because he knows far more than I do about it and it also has a night school component too that many people don't know about and I like to plug it every opportunity i work backwards um students who are struggling with credit deficiency they're able to go there in the evening uh they may be working during the day and go from 4:00 to 7:00 to uh make up credits and they also uh use Apex during the day also credit recovery um and then um you know that's a space that um is not for students who have been expelled that's not typically where they go um and so it's not it's not an alternative school as as we know it you know staff are too you know but we're learning together and we're constantly
133trying to change the narrative that there are different functions of these schools isn't that your favorite class that's a nice marketing PO go ahead Mr smith i think that is another plug for people to tune in to our board meetings i will say Mound Street came out in force to let us know last year exactly what Mound Street does this is true and so I think that would help us tremendously maybe if we put some more pieces out to really separate those two and then highlight like you said that four to seven piece because there are a lot of programs that go on in the district but unless people know about those programs then they're not going to be as effective as they could be thank you all right no other questions or comments seeing
134none Madam Treasure may I have a vote president Goodway yes dr bailey yes mr lacy yes mr smith yes miss Reard yes mr walker yes miss Wick yes mr scott yes eight yes thank you i recommend Go ahead somebody say something all right i recommend the approval of the following board travel so moved second i feel like you shouldn't second since you were on there can somebody else Oh yeah i'll second it thank you moved by Mr lacy second by Miss Wick any questions i was on there let me do my job i mean you got to jump quickly you're not ready seeing none madam treasure may we have a vote president Goodwin yes dr bailey yes mr lacy yes mr smith yes miss Rhinard yes mr walker yes miss Wick yes and Mr scott
135they took his mic to put batteries in ats's all right thank you so now we are moving in we have two discussions for us dr lawrence are you you still presenting anything or are we just talking we're just talking all right so let's go first with Belmont restructure you already said school restructuring Belmont High School give us a little background uh the background as we spoke last month and we brought a proposal in we modified that proposal the proposal was that uh the seventh sixth graders from across the district be redispersed to other middle schools and that Belmont just have an eighth grade and then we move from that eighth grade to nth grade so that seventh and eth would be um uh removed from Belmont uh and we came back and revised that sent
136a revision to you all as an update to say that um we have an award-winning band program so we want to give the sixth graders an opportunity to go there in the seventh grade so they they can be in band and go be there for the whole six years kind of similar to Styver if you've seen Belmont's band you know it's spectacular and we spoke to the junior RTC Mr doc uh what's this is it lieutenant is he a lieutenant colonel walk me through a danger field about ROTC and the possibility of sixth graders entering who want to be in ROTC but the rest of the sixth graders being dispersed to the other middle schools all right I'll open up the floor to questions actually this is general discussion so people can just jump in
137on this so go ahead at the last meeting I believe the request was to add Belmont back to the student assignment student assignment enrollment forms for parents to be able to select if that was somewhere that their students wanted to go to my knowledge that has not been done since our last meeting is that a question or a statement i was just curious on what how do we know who which students are even interested in going to Belmont if the work that the board asks to be placed back hasn't even been done this product's coming up I think good evening seems like I've been up here a lot tonight um so we did have a meeting um Chief Douly and myself with student aroma to discuss what we do um we have indicated students that
138are in the zone um that could be in um the Belmont area um and that we would send a survey to to indicate if they would want to attend Belmont um for seventh grade and indicate if they're interested in either a band or um an JOTC I think make sure I know that the Navy it's the Navy um and so that we make sure that we understand that um and we can receive those surveys back and then we can enroll them into Belmont for seventh grade and we've already pulled all that information so we're ready for that to go i guess I'm confused because that's not what the board had asked to be done last time so that's different than what I thought you asked how would we get the information of who would be
139interested in Belmont no the first part of that question was at our meeting last month the directive from the board was to add Belmont back to the student enrollment forms for parents to select if that's what they wanted to oh yes i'm sorry that I thought there was two things how do we get people that are already interested and how do we get people new people that are interested that that would be both yes i'm sorry so the first thing that we asked was not done so so for students coming in to enroll into Belmont into seventh grade correct yes we we had a meeting with student enrollment and that's how we're going to do we're asking how will we get people that would would indicate that they're interested in either band or ROC that
140want to enroll that's why we're going to send out the survey to those families so that they can tell us which what are they interested because we have to do a schedule you know are they interested into band or um Navy ROTC ROC yes i'm sorry thanks Chief like I think I was directed to Dr lawrence on two weeks ago at our last board meeting and then there was an email that went out with saying to add that back was that done and I think I sent the follow-up email the day of the enrollment fair because I went over there and it was not added on there we didn't add it as a as a virtual piece we added it we're going to add it when we survey the parents to see where they want
141to go I guess I'm confused on that's not what we had said to do last time while you digesting that let me ask this in between on that piece and it's more so a little historical context and I'm gonna ask board member Wick and board member Ryder because you were on the board last time that and I asked you guys this still but you know you may know some things like the last time we made a change in that piece and kind of what the shift happened to i think it was only gone for a year last time they they we did something with the middle school piece right there i have my theories on what I believe happened but I don't know but I just want to know if you guys could add any
142context to kind of the 7th through 12 Belmont what that is and all that anything yeah so is it okay go for it um the decision to Belmont was um you know for a while the district had um really wanted to have freestanding middle schools um with the exception of Styvers because Styver's program is dependent upon um starting the the magnet programming at grade 7 um but uh having the freestanding high schools and having the freestanding middle schools and really being able to put resources um in those places you know all the all the ways in which districts try to make sure that they're serving the the middle school population best there's a lot of really intensive needs that happen with middle school um the reason why the shift to Belmont opening up to seventh
143and eighth grade um was purely out of running out of space at Wright Brothers um I did contact the previous superintendent and um checked with her to make sure that I was recalling quick uh correctly um and had a conversation with her and um she reminded me and um you know going over um my memory and trying to get the details right wright Brothers was bursting at the seams um and there was some um so the majority of the students came from Wright Brothers there were some from EJ Brown there were some from Wagamin as well too um and it really helped a lot of the issues that we were experiencing at Wright Brothers as well too not just overcrowding um but you know a lot of the really intensive needs that middle schoolers have
144um so the the reason for that was because there was space at Belmont and uh Wright Brothers was completely overloaded and and uh we did not have the space there thank you but why did did you get any why did we only do it for a year well we had Why was it only high school for a year we eliminated the program for only a year i can't I don't recall the reasons for that um but then we phased back in the middle school we did first eighth grade or we phased it the seventh grader just seventh grade then they became eighth graders and then we added seventh grade so we phased back in the middle school at Belmont is that helpful madam president yeah you know hey people who were here it's always a
145good to get your perspective joe wasn't here no that was a station year it was 2020 so that was my third month here also it was part of the issues that was created due to the quadrant system and accepting students that were outside of the quadrant that is what ended up happening as well because if we think back we had two on one side of town you had EJ Brown you had Wman on the other side of town you had Wright brothers what has happened historically was that it's just a piece of what Dayton is and we're going to be honest we got to be honest there are some people that do not like to travel across the river to go to school and so what happened was right brothers was very packed and there
146was a fear that if you did not have to somewhere from the kids from Wright Brothers to go they would not go to EJ Brown and Walderman um and so we we were bursting out that is why the next March 2020 of March March 2020 plus Belmont has very vocal citizens in that area that wanted some of their students to be able to be able to go over there that was what I brought up in the last discussion was those same issues and saying that if we went and changed that my fear was that you would run into the same problem and we would be just circling back and recreating history all over again and you because you see some of that at our schools when you look at our schools you see schools like
147Kaiser where you have neighborhoods where people want to stay in that neighborhood it becomes a system where if I do not get into this school then I run the risk of leaving the district in totality and so that is what we're up against and that is kind of where that came out thank did you pause or I'm done okay thank you uh I will say I am happy to hear that that middle school will be remaining there because again similar to what board member Smith just stated that community is really involved in that piece and Wright Brothers is our largest standalone middle school of the three that we have right there so it is good to hear that that'll be over there and a added bonus I love that we're having more musicians i mean
148RTCPS that's great too that's going to be fun but the musicians are really impactful in that piece i will ask because even though we allowed it to we're allowing it to remain there how does that help us with our size issue because that was that can I add to what you're saying though i didn't finish what I was saying i was talking about your original comment okay false i guess I'm false not a question add to the statement you want to wait for y'all yeah let me Yeah then I'm come back yeah so so to our original piece because even in looking at the numbers when the seventh grade was removed from this thing we only had about 37 seats as of April and again as I constantly state Belmont does not compete with our
149other schools because most people in the area stay in the area over there so even though we plan to talk about this in more depth and it's okay if you don't have an answer today we we do plan to talk about the size and what's happening atma at our board retreat but just any preliminary thoughts on how are we going to still address kind of some of the concerns that your team you guys have brought up and what you were trying to address with removing the middle school uh first of all I want to go back and answer uh Mr walker's question i directed the staff to get give us three buckets those kids that strictly wanted to go to Belmont those that wanted to go there for RTC and those that wanted to go
150there for um for band and music and then you know begin the conversation at the retreat around who they were and how we were going to move forward to answer your question around around size uh we have around space uh I think if we streamline that and then have band and RTC as the spaces for middle school I think it allows us to move forward with our Ford NGL work which is putting programming at Belmont when there is none uh that's one of the things we heard repeatedly from teachers and from kids um I don't know if the community knows but it's the only school where we don't have a portfolio of um CTE programming and we're trying to change that over there in fact that was one of the things that was said when
151we went ahead and talked to the staff i just want you to know Mr scott's face popped up like are you sure you you have some it's not robust but we're getting there what the manual says next year we're hot there so uh so yeah so we'll we'll be able to work around that i wish that I wish that you guys at home could see Mr scott's face when he said that that's the only school that didn't have like are you sure have you seen what I'm at okay go ahead mhm that was it that was it g go ahead Mr walker so I guess I'm confused because we have not as a board said we were changing Belmont and now what you're saying is students will only go to Belmont if they're interested in
152ban and RLTC so if five kids say that they're interested those five kids go and no one else goes i was asked what that would mean for for space and programming i was asked what that would mean if we did that and so I was giving them what it would mean okay so as of now students and families will be able to select oh if it if it's if it stays the same and nothing changes then we don't have any programming there we move we stay with the overcrowded overpacked on carts um jammed into one hallway we just keep it moving and keep stay with that so middle school is in one hallway Belmont yes top four actually I got to go talk to the the teachers over there which was always good when you
153get to talk to people who do it and similar to some of our board members who were on the board some of the teachers currently in Belmont right now were here when the phase out happened and they got transferred to other places and they also came back to that piece i will say the sentiment that I got from the teachers as a whole is even whatever does happen with this process they should be included because they are on the ground in that piece and they know a lot more about that space than any of us in that piece of it and they had several suggestions too of things to explore and I will tell you some of the things they asked for aren't realistic like getting rid of our one of our elementaryaries that's not
154gonna happen that's bread and butter right there's a good time we do really well and those schools are heavily populated they're doing really good things so that's not a thing they also brought up to us too like why haven't like the Belmont population has been expanding for years and we have trends why hasn't this board invested in the land and building kind of onto the school or building a middle school in this area or finding a way a building there to invest in for that piece and I'm like that's a great question well I'll take it back to the people who make that recommendation to us and we'll hear when they bring that to us so that's some piece of it and I mean they they had several different things that I do find value
155in them being in the conversations of how to figure out the space in a sense since they are the ones who go in there day in and day out and the rest of us are theorizing about it and we kind of see it in limited touch points because it is on our radar so they that team of individuals I would request that our team please bring them to the table because I mean they are valued and I am happy that again one of the the recommendation of it has changed to this side of instead of just eliminated because this would be the second time the individuals were transferred from a thing and I'm like that's a lot of commitment for you to stay with us and we broke up with you once and then you
156came back and then again we was like Hey I mean we had a good thing going it's not you it's us in that piece so I appreciate that they are continuing to work with us in that piece of just trusting that we are going to do right with them in that piece i might add they also we talked to them as well those are some of the things we heard but they also talked about being excited about um programming at Belmont and expanding programming that didn't exist um and they talked about also what happens uh about their job possibilities and could they be guaranteed jobs um after that middle school space was no longer middle school so yeah we we don't have a problem at all talking with the staff that are there we had
157one conversation but we can break that down and have focus groups and have more since we adding on what they also talked about too now they did talk about how much they enjoy working together and how the difference of what you see in a student who goes to Belmont from seventh and eighth grade and goes into the high school how significantly different those students are than the ones who come in starting in the ninth grade and that piece and it's like you just don't understand how vital those two years are of that pre-part of then you being able to go over to the big one but I am happy that you guys are willing to talk to them in that piece and I know that they talk to us differently they talk to us differently
158in the organization and and the high school teachers are obviously overwhelmingly in support of it because we we then free up space and we actually can have a functioning high school with again additional programming i did not talk to the high school teacher so I have no idea uh we we did but I know you'll get there mr walker go ahead who determines the space in the building where middle school goes dr morris and his team probably so your team put them into one hallway we did not we did not no actually I can give you some pictures we did not i see Miss Tingle shaking her head i did not so I'm just But what I recently learned the two principles ago they were on two floors and then they phased up to one
159floor and by the time the last principal was there they were they just kept them in that one hallway and it's just not changed since then so can so there's been no imagination yet to kind of what that is to your point they kind of just they kind of just have been moving with the system that we're dealt with okay so correct is there possible for the team to get together and look at the system and figure out how to change it it's on the board agenda for the board retreat 126 come out you know bring friends we got a damn battle that day we'll be out so yes it is something on there go ahead Mr smith i think where you're moving to kind of goes back to what one of our uh community
160members came and spoke about to us and that's really just clearing the lines of communication i think these kind of things become something because the lines of communication are blurred everywhere so people at Belmont and other schools hear one thing the board hears another thing the community hears one thing staff hears one thing and so then it comes down to no decisions have really been made but yet five or six decisions have already been made depending on who you talk to so we stand at a space where the board has not voted on anything but yet in multiple spaces from what Mr walker said something was changed on the form so the form already said seventh graders not going then you have teachers that are already wondering if I'm going to have this job here
161and then you have students wondering if I'm all and so I think where we need a reset as just the district especially when we talk our part is making sure we're having the conversations about what is needed on the landscape not about what the decisions will be but what the issues are first and then coming together collaboratively to work on what the solutions will be and I think that's where we would be better served if we were to say "Okay this is the issue belmont's overcrowded does not have these programs." Now we work on these things and there's conversations around what does that look like similar to the conversation where okay then maybe do we need to go look at at building things because what I also don't want or building or purchasing a space
162is for our staff then to be working on plans for months and months just to come back and go hey the board never knew about this and the community never knew about this because then I don't want them to feel like their work is in vain or you know because we have people that have been doing those things we have I know um Dr jones has been looking at space when we had the conversations last year about the alternative school that was one of the conversations about uh there was a opportunity to purchase another building there so I think we would be better served in these spaces if we spend the time on the front end doing the communications and doing the problem solving instead of moving and maneuvering while while we're in spaces to
163cover the things that we've already told other people and I think that's happened not only just in this situation but in other buildings and it's happened in other spaces where people have been told what's going to happen without any board action being done any work being done to make those things done and I think that's where you then create a lack of trust to where if we're saying the board has not moved anything but yet a person in the community can come up to you and say "Hey my child is in sixth grade want to go to seventh grade it says Belmont's not on there what's gone down and now you have this disconnect where a community member is telling a board member about something that a board member may have no clue about and
164all that will do is breed a lack of trust and a lack of communication around the district so I think as we move into these spaces using those times like the retreat and things to really from our leadership side explain to us what are the issues you guys see on the horizon and then what are some of the solutions you're proposing so that then we can do that work of looking into it talking to the community and now we're not trying to come up with changes or solutions or revisions to make people happy but we're coming up with things that even if people are not happy about they can say that they knew about beforehand that's all all right any other comments on Belmont go ahead Mr lacy can nutrition services take into consideration this
165the overcrowded building as it redesigns you're just redesigning a kitchen right and not the cafeteria you can't do anything with a cafeteria with O6 you just tables you could do something with or you got to come to the mic the people at home can't hear that's who we supposed to have a mic right here yeah we need a pass around we need a Ricky Lake mic [ __ ] around with so cafeteria tables are something that we can provide which is my next project that I have in my mind once we start getting some of this other stuff really rolling i don't want to do these nice designs everywhere and have tables that are 20 years old plus we do have a lot of schools that have don't have enough tables or I've seen broken seats so
166I really just want to start working on seating so yes we should be able to at least provide more tables if but yeah you're not going to add onto the building for your I wish we could okay that's all mr scott has something to say go ahead Mr scott if we stop with this whole cafeterium stuff and we actually had you know a stage for Belmont and also for third too and a dedicated like cafeteria why why why did we put the cafeteria in like the auditorium i got somebody you could talk to like they already have the seniors and stuff sitting on the stage lacy was here now Mr lacy was against it but his board did that i I saved one auditorium if you go into the I know y'all were trying to
167save some money with that but no i saved Wright brothers that's all I could say he did all he could to try he did save right brothers when you go in and see that plaque with those names on it you see Mr lacy on everything see Mr lacy's name right there you can ask those other people cuz I do not like cafeteriums either but we agree with you that we should it should be a little bit separate unfortunately we were not the people here at the time except for Mr lacy and he fought a good fight but he saved one which if you go to Wright brothers you can see I went right oh Mr thank Mr lacy for that auditorium mr scott how did you feel about Belmont having middle school um I mean
168it was weird because it was like forbidden to go into that hallway but I mean it never affected me i just feel like how many students could you truly fit in that one hallway and is it as significant enough to even have the middle school program there like if there's only like a hundred middle schoolers at Belmont like yeah it's going to be a hundred more students at Wright Brothers but like is it is there really is it that important to have 100 middle schoolers at Belmont just to say that you have them there it's like 27 something but yeah see that's not enough for me i think I just You couldn't even put that you couldn't even take those kids and create a new build school like you would have to have more kids
169it's not our smallest middle school i want you to know that Charity Adams is our smallest middle school well let's go to Charity Adams we can extend it a little bit add that 250 they need more space though they They got to go to school in there it's K oh my god it's K what's the name 72 all right same as Cyers okay any other comments on Belmont all right second discussion is River's Edge so we heard last month about the wanting to add the middle school to adding the seventh grade this year I believe it was and then next year the eighth grade and I believe the takeaways from the last meeting too were this was for the sixth grade that is there right now going up it was stated to us that other
170individuals wouldn't be able to transfer into the school because it's kind of building on what they already have right there so that was all I recall from the last meeting is there anything you want to add nope all right so this floor is open for discussion chief Chief Spurlock so the last meeting you had said that there was two classrooms identified for seventh grade what happens when they go to eighth grade do we not have another mic guys they all on their phone they can't hear me that's going to be Heard you Mr scott mr scott can float around with his mic oh man just go like this float around with your mic come on man be a team player got to be a team player mr sperlock having to come all the way around
171every time you can have my microphone hello it depends on how many students actually want to stay and join our classroom sizes at um at River's Edge are 25 per currently we have 39 um sixth graders when the parents were surveyed um right now about 30 parents are interested with an additional several that are waiting to hear what the board's decision is um so it could be two classrooms it could be one depending on how many students actually stay so if we do then we go our thoughts are we really want to just continue to grow um we have looked and and I'm sure Dr lawrence will actually talk about our plans um and that we've looked at other buildings to talk about how can we grow a middle school monastery program within um Dayton
172public schools so there's you said 30 are interested or aren't interested 30 are interested out of the 39 so out of the 39 30 are interested how many of those 30 are interested and have already committed to going to Styver so we have um so that's those are those other nine some that got into styvers and some that are that just auditioned um last weekend so they're kind of waiting that's why those are you know I don't want to quite commit right now yeah i guess I'm just you know I guess I would really be curious to see how this will affect those students who look forward to going to Styver to now this is out for you to stay and if I stay at River's Edge for another two years will I then get
173admitted to Styver for high school and what that turnaround looks like and again will we lose those students in the end right so I will tell you this um the parents that I spoke to um those that got into Styver wanted to go into Styver those that did not those students wanted to go to River's Edge the ones that I spoke to um so they were kind of waiting to see what is the decision of the April 3rd um to make to make their final decisions several of the families that we spoke to at our parent meeting had already committed to other schools other than Dayton public schools and those parents said "I would prefer to stay at River's Edge for seventh grade instead of going to a charter school other thoughts on the floor
174go ahead board member Ryan my biggest concern is just space um it is a fantastic idea um but I want to be very intentional about making sure that we are not um overshooting our desire to serve these students in a different way and um not actually having the capacity that we think that we have so I I will just put that out there absolutely i don't know if Dr lawrence wanted to share um some of the things that we've already done to to investigate the matter well I say operations has worked with us to look at several different properties to think about the expansion of uh River's Edge as a monastery school and in fact um Jun Monasuri Middle School open to students from all over i think Meg Thomas who's a former principal left
175us with a middle school monastery plan on her way to retirement and still continues to work with us as a consultant and I just went to look at a property in Dr jones's absence yesterday that um I was given a tip on by our board president Dr goodwine uh so we we continue to add a portfolio of places where we can kind of create this new space this new middle school space on the east side okay um Dr lawrence um we have some monastery programming in our international school but it's just for a small portion of the students that go there monastery doesn't work for everybody um it works for a lot of kids my brother was a monastery dropout and he's a thriving adult it ju it just it's not for everybody not every
176educational model is um for every child uh I am grateful for the wealth of opportunity we have and um understanding that every child is different and we serve them where they are um the the thing about Monasuri is it is more expensive there are additional materials um it costs uh additional financial restraints in terms of funding um for salaries monatory teachers are trained um at a higher level than regular teachers and so they cost more um can we have a conversation among the board about um if if we see a model that works can we duplicate it in a larger fashion um perhaps on the other side of town or in another school building um I fully I I think a Monasuri middle school is a great idea and I and I love having that
177conversation um do we have the resources do we have the ability to attract staff to um a school another monastery school cincinnati has a number of monastery public schools and right now we used to have three um they were consolidated we used to have Patterson we used to have Horus man and Franklin and then they were consolidated another edge um I would love to see if there's an ability to expand it the staff does currently have plans uh that uh we have drawn up to we can present we will present to the board during the retreat around my monastery on the west side and Monasuri Elementary um in addition uh we have investigated the monasari that's in the international school and it's not being implemented with fidelity i think when it was started it was
178a measure or a way to have the students from the community make sure there was a space for them what we're noticing is that there there could be an inclination to kind of have those spaces integrated so that we could then move to an ELLL model or dual language model rather so that the students that are there from the l from the neighborhood got a chance to interact and participate in dual language with the kids that are there these are just ideas that we've had but the monastery piece at the international school it's not um it does not look like River's Edge i will say I again I love the idea of expanding because I know that that has been a constant end point for people in our district when they get to sixth grade
179and they just they leave because we don't again our middle schools are improving but they have not improved to the rate where people know kind of good things which is why we try to highlight more of them here when we come to these meetings in that piece the area of concern for me is the the certified teacher number because we are constantly all out trying to improve that across our secondary and I do know I don't think represents would have an issue whatsoever getting a certified seventh and then eighth grade teacher how you do that piece but I do I wonder what that takes away from on schools that we are trying to bring up to part in that piece of it so that part and I I'll share board member Riner's concern with not
180only the the space of the building because and it was nice to hear the 2023 word fidelity back on the floor twice in one day it's been a minute since I thought y'all switched up to intentional this year good to hear that one again pulled that one out your back pocket but yeah that piece of us being able to ensure that if if this is a add-on that we don't lose what we have because I know this is our we have a new principal that's only in our first year there in that team and seeing that growth piece of just making sure that you don't lose by adding and you aren't moving too swiftly i hate to hear that people are going to leave our district if we don't move in that way but that's
181just been a reality for us because even though we're working at a fast pace we don't people don't see it all of how things are improving in some of our middle schools and where that piece is going to it so that's my thoughts you got one miss all right any other thoughts go ahead Mr d no oh I thought you said it was you Bailey he He said you said yes too he was like "Yeah." Oh go ahead did you want some Bailey um I appreciate the discussion i think for me it's really about where we choose to put our priorities um that's the biggest thing for me i think it's I don't want us to recreate some of the same things that have happened where we have programs and then in instead of finding
182ways to improve we insulate and you get smaller and smaller i mean that is how we ended up with just kind of that's over time that's how we get there like when I grew up the Monasuri school is the huge school in Dayton View Jefferson Monasuri over time if students don't want to go there then we find another space for them to go and then Jefferson gets demolished down the road and just that's that space we see that we see that from from Colonel White leading to why we have Styvers and so we don't I don't want us to keep recreating that thing where if we have parents at a river's age that say they would rather stay here than leave the district I would much rather put work in to really get to the
183core of what would make them stay instead of saying "Okay let's create this so you stay here for two more years." And we still haven't created a fix for if they'll just leave after 8th grade instead of after sixth grade and so it's we save a good 30 kids from leaving meanwhile we have hundreds that are in a system where they're yearning for more and so when I look at that I look at you could probably do the same and have the same conversation with parents from horse man that will say "Hey if I could stay at Horseman for seventh eighth grade I would if I could stay at camp I would if I could stay at Cleveland I would." And I don't want us to get into that space because then you just end
184up creating a whole bunch of K through8s everywhere again um so I think it behooves us to really look and say "What are the things the qualities at a river's edge that make someone want to be there what qualities can we replicate in a school that makes a family feel like that is a space that they would want their child to be?" And in that time I do think it's going to take at some point we're going to have to look at creating a new space somewhere because we're not going to get there keeping 25 to 30 here keeping 17 18 there it's going to take that so I'm I'm encouraged that we're looking at those spaces but we have to be mindful of that and then be mindful of just transportation is a barrier
185for folks being comfortable in your neighborhood is a real thing comfortable in your your family your environment the people that you're around so I think diving into all of those things to me would set us up better for success down the road when we try to do these things than instead of trying to instantly implement things i know we just had a vote on the alternative school which I hope we come up with a name because I don't want to call it the alternative school this just sounds like a dumping ground for people um but I would that's going to take work that's not going to be something you're going to instantly wave a magic wand and have done and so doing that at the same time as changing this building and changing that building
186to borrow the word that you just tried to bring back to our lexicon are we going to really be able to do it with fidelity if we do those things fourth time today for fidelity to look down at him and see him use it but that's my thought is that the thought that we're using in this space to me is more of a parents want to stay here and if they do not have here then they will leave the district where that's a real thing throughout the district i mean that's it's not like River's Edge is the only place we're going to lose elementary kids to middle school they're already leaving in fifth grade to go to the STEM school they're leaving before they get to middle school so I mean it's and then I
187think also we have to be understand we're in a business it's a business of getting students sometimes and we have to understand that because that's what dollars also come in at and look at some of the places look at parents talk to parents get in community groups and see hey why did you send your kid to DECA or to the STEM school or to Altar or to Carol why did you want to leave this space and when we really get in there and dive in there and use that data and then come up with answers for what we need to do to keep a higher number of people here and I promise I won't say nothing else the rest of the day just like Walker won't ask a question I closed my laptop all right
188any other comments on it Mr no I'm I'm not I was just listening i mean actually I mean another contribution is actually the buildings were designed for for preK8s mhm all right Miss Wick anything so what do you need from my second need you to vote you want us to vote yeah mhm cuz we want to move on to something else i need you to vote all right well you got to put a recommendation for us to vote it's not a recommendation there it's just conversation i mean you have to give us a Yeah can you change that to vote can I have a 48 hour waiver please and what would you like to say uh River's Edge uh we're going to move to preK through 7 moving on to pre-K through 8 the next
189year same thing for Belmont let's sit on Belmont right now okay can we just do prek to 7 for now and moved on and and not not say preK to 8 i I I would like to not commit to preK to 8 the following year i want to do the pre-K to 7 um thoroughly first and then we can have the conversation of moving it to pre-K8 does that make sense she's asking if that would be your recommendation Dr lauren that's fine thank you so moved are we moving a 48 hour waivers we got 48 hour waiver so first I got to wait for I was waiting for it to hop up there so we can do a 48 hour waiver yeah we know what's going to happen they technically recorded so we could go
190yes huh you know of a hardest can I make a motion to remove the 48 hour waiver for voting on restructuring River's Edge sure so I've made that motion there's a Is there a second second moved by board member Reiner second by board member Lacy any questions on the motion this is removing the 48 hour waiver to vote on it all right seeing none may we have a vote president Goodwin yes dr bailey yes mr lacy yes mr smith miss Reinard yes mr walker yes miss Wig yes mr scott yes eight yeses all right your recommendation uh I don't have any more today no you have a recommendation i thought you moved to get We got the I thought you want something yeah look at that 70 you know ain't no 70 you know this
191ain't about to be a 70 uh I I moved to take the language yeah you're right what am I thinking i move to take Yeah what am I thinking i move to take the language by this board me Riner around restructuring River's Edge to go prek through seven this year you recommend i recommend thank you all right is there a motion so moved second moved by Mr lacy second by Dr bailey any questions on the motion yes ma'am go ahead Dr lawrence so if you're saying preK through seven you're essentially then would be telling people that their students would be in limbo again next year right because they would then have to then go to an eighth grade unless the board comes back and votes to add an eighth grade on again we'd have to
192do this again yeah we would not something I want to do but we'd have to do it that's something extra okay any other questions seeing none may we have a vote president Goodwin no dr bailey yes mr lacy yes mr smith no miss Reard yes mr walker no miss Wig yes you got your four all right yes so can I ask a question then on that if 10 kids say that say that they want to stay what happens then we have a seventh grade with 10 kids the same thing we did with Charity Adams when we added seventh and eighth grade there how's that going Carrie no we going great it's actually a little different charity Adams had a population it's different they didn't population the votes happened though can we move yeah we done
193i was just All right let the Let the record show y'all ready yeah all right all right let the record show that the board of education the Dayton City School District has just completed an executive session during which it completed oh my bad i'm reading the wrong one that's the first one I Oh you know what that was the first one that's up they both It say first i clicked on it appreciate you though you did my job about time you did pursuant to section 121.22 G2 of the Ohio Revised Code i move that this board go into executive session this meeting is being held to consider the appointment employment of a public employee and consider and confer with an attorney involving pending or imminent court action second any questions on the motion seeing none
194may we have a vote president Goodwin yes dr bailey yes mr lacy yes mr smith yes miss Rainard yes mr walker yes miss Wick yes mr scott yes eight yeses all right let's go call me