001question next Hi how are you book of Isaiah right now it's been very busy i guess signed in good sorry I missed the meeting yesterday i was in the car it's all right huh texted me you mean yesterday about Oh I didn't have it on my calendar I guess y'all ready everybody else i'm I'm getting there i now call to order this March 18th business meeting madam Treasure may we have a roll call president Goodwin here dr bailey here mr lacy here mr smith he is walking in right now can you say here from there please miss Rhinard present mr walker present miss Wick present i'm going to wait for Mr scott was he okay seven present please stand for the pledge of allegiance one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all
002our mission is to inspire educate and empower our vision is to inspire educate and empower scholars for a lasting impact and our purpose is to cultivate a supportive and engaging educational experience dr lawrence can you please tell us about district events this week absolutely let's start off with it's coming the debate semi-final competition Saturday April 5th at Wright Brothers Middle School starts at 8:00 and I'd like to say the kids are going to look amazing i think the jackets are going to make it in and this has been an experience we've started out months and months ago so the debate used to be one day now we building up to it and I think it's going to be a really high quality event and looking forward to seeing everybody in the semi-finals and in the
003finals it's kind of like the NCAA tournament thank you dr jones you have special recognitions for us and I believe we have some from Dr lawrence's team too so the floor is yours Dr jones and would you like us to come down lay on there all right board members and team can you all join us down uh good evening uh first I would like to thank Madame President Dr goodwine and the entire school board for your leadership and governance of DPS uh much of what we do in the district would not be possible uh without you so we thank you uh additionally I want to thank Chief Jones uh her athletic team as well as Mindy Clark for weaving all of this together uh at this junction tonight we want to celebrate and recognize our
004student athletes who excel athletically and in the classroom uh we celebrate athletic victories all the time uh however we haven't and I believe uh celebrated our student athletes for their outstanding academic efforts and performance um the average GPA for a student athlete in Dayton public schools is a 2.7 uh while the average GPA of a non-athlete is a 2.2 two our student athletes on average have higher GPA and exhibit behavior consistent with higher learning in our schools in comparison to students do that do not participate uh in athletics or extracurricular activities therefore this is a plug and a plea uh to get involved if you're a teacher administrator staff member parent or guardian uh watching this board meeting encourage as many students as you can to get active uh we need you and we need
005your talents and your efforts students uh the students standing here for their hard work and dedication on and off the fields in course of competition uh we want to reward them uh each student athlete here will receive a brand new uh MacBook Air top academic awards yes top academic awards correction yes the students with the top academic GPA okay seniors uh will receive a MacBook Air a plaque and a certificate for their performance in the classroom uh students you deserve this and again we are so so very proud of you um at this time I extend the floor to Chief Jones we didn't know Dr jones was a comedian so we had some good laughter there um I'm Victoria Jones the chief of athletics and I just want to just um just say congratulations to
006all our award winners our top athletes academically and our coaches too who labor with them every day and the support of the board our principles as well so he kind of did the speech so I'm going to get the show going we have some athletes that are going to all-star game tonight so we're going to start out with our top female and male athletes the ads and the principles will join and then they'll come and join the board and then following that we'll recognize our city champions our indoor track winners and our cheer competition um champions come on first I'm DeAndre W AD at Belmont High School and I'm with Miss Blackman AP at Belmont High School um so our first student is Ariana [Applause] Canales next we have Sudin Ortiz Escobar [Applause] and we
007have Norman Sorio [Applause] hello everyone my name is Brandon McKenna AD at Dumbar High School and this is uh Principal Bailey uh principal at Dumbar High School our first uh recipient is Blessing Preston with a 3.86 GPA our next recipient is Chris Star with a 4.29 GPA he is actually on a college tour right now hi everyone i'm Yoshi i'm the uh AD at Ponents and I have um my full staff i have our principal Miss Lolita Christian uh Javian King and uh Roie or sorry Roenberg and America Hson um we have two students as well we have uh Mafett [Applause] Mahari and Al Kenzie Harris she could not be here today she is actually on a tour as well [Applause] hello everyone i'm Greg Moore i'm the AD at Meale and um I have
008my principal here Mr eddie Davis and assistant principal Indy Thomas Thompson uh one of our kids couldn't be here today he is at the Skills USA up in Columbus and competition and uh his name is Ian Thomas and we have Miriam Ibraham her GPA was a 4.12 [Applause] good evening my name is Anthony Petty i'm the uh AD at Third Good Marshall i have with me here our assistant principal Miss Lamb today we have uh two recipients our first recipient is uh Lizma Nunees and her GPA is a [Applause] [Music] 4.2 our next recipient and one of and and also uh a top student at third good Marshall is Mr justin Lee with a 4.23 GPA [Applause] hello U Nan Goddard athletic director at Styver i'm here with uh Miss Davis our print building principal
009and our two athletes uh for the highest GPA amongst the senior class is going to be uh Cotton Thorp and Gabrielle May [Applause] okay now I want to introduce the girls basketball coach at Dumbar High School Coach Erica Guy [Applause] go ahead and give them Yeah sorry all these things Right congratulations [Applause] all right everyone my name is Erica Guy head coach at Dumbar High School thanks for having us um I just want to say it was a rough season but we made it through hard work and dedication got us here i'm going introduce my young ladies as we have uh three young ladies participating in a district 15 all-star game here in about the next 30 minutes at Centerville so we're going to go a little quick um my assistant coach Jason Slaughter going
010to be here with us today um we have Blessing Preston Rain Manson Sere Ridley i just want to recognize those are three of our four seniors miss Danisha Davis Demaya [Applause] Hogan Kimari [Applause] Wolfford last but not least Somaya Everett and we had a quite a few young ladies couldn't be here thank you all [Applause] hi again hi again i'm Yoshi i am going to introduce my uh head coach Coach Ray Dudley and coach assistant coach Jana Curtis [Applause] hello everyone i'm Coach Rihanna Dudley um I just want to say thank you to these young ladies for working so hard this year um we are co- champions this year but we made it so I will now introduce these young ladies we have Nina Cosby [Applause] first liah Wright shaniah Miller joy [Applause] U antonya
011Bratis [Applause] somaya Chambers Jamaiah Johnson [Applause] we do have a couple that couldn't make it mariah Corner Jayla Nose and Miracle um sorry Miracle Jacobs congratulations [Applause] how everybody do how everybody doing i'm AD Watts over middle school and this is uh Walker seventh grade basketball coach Cunningham how y'all doing today um all right our first person is uh DeAnthony McDonald [Applause] Shamar Casey Edward King [Applause] Jr and Dorian Harris congratulations congratulations [Applause] and next we will have Walker man eighth grade basketball by Coach Lane hey I'm eighth grade basketball coach my name Davon Lane first we have Tyler Hilton [Applause] next we have Justin Lori next we have Tion Pounds and last we have Deron [Applause] Williams very good all right next up I'm going to introduce uh our coach Jessica Cade and uh
012middle school girls basketball uh who won city champs how y'all doing i'm going to announce our uh our team coach uh my assistant coach uh Shells Justin Shells he couldn't be present tonight but um the first one is going to be Celia Everett [Applause] then we have Evelyn Brainer Tama Morton Payton Riggs A Dream Core Desiah Dancer Savannah Smith Blair Sharp and Autumn Shacklefort five other players they couldn't be here tonight elelliana Couch Yatty Pereira Shaniah Castle Amir Harris Maria Iselis and Shaniah Stewart thank you board members next we'll have our uh our cheer coach Johnita Hurt [Applause] good evening everybody board members President Goodwin rest of the board members Dr jones Chief Jones um so as I always say every time we get the uh privilege and honor of being in front of you
013guys um as support to our basketball teams um uh we appreciate being getting the recognition for particip for participate alongside these guys so um a lot of the girls couldn't be here for a couple different reasons but the ones that are here I will start with um Timberland Heftlin Amaya [Music] Raboner Destin Nevin [Applause] London McLemore Jeremiah Cunning and Cheyenne Stewart [Applause] woo perks you get [Applause] next we'll have our boys basketball coach coach Tony Dixon hello everyone thank you guys um um I'm excited to be here again uh this is our fifth year here in a row so um we're excited um we got a lot of kids out AAOU working we had a couple that said they were two minutes away but you know we got to start on time but um again
014thank you for being thanking Thank you for allowing us to be here um I got one guy here my floor general um he won our DPS award this year um he carries a 3.2 GPA moses Sanford first team all city [Applause] two congratul And last but not least we have our our city champs for wrestling Coach Marcus Wright [Applause] how y'all doing coach Marcus right have uh two of my guys here um a lot of them same thing it's two minutes away uh work and a few of my guys are actually on the college tour right now so but I do have two of my captains uh first one senior Acer Barnes um and my second captain sophomore Albert Pal oh he he's going to be mad at me if I didn't say this but
015Albert Pal has a 4.1 as well he got beat out by Chris Star but yeah thank you Two one more next up we have the Styver Middle School track team indoor track team uh here with coach Body uh she's going to recognize all our athletes that made a podium uh this past weekend state track meet good afternoon uh my name is Coach Z uh this is our first year doing indoor I guess for middle school and I had to I had the pleasure of coaching this amazing team it was a co-ed team um so we made it to the state and everyone as long as their times were up to par I put them in the meet and they showed up and they showed out so we had multiple athletes u make it onto the
016podium we had some PRs so I'm I'm very glad they're able to be here today and be represented uh so we have Deja Garrett Eric Johnson Abraham Ramirez Kennedy Thomas Maria Wilson Ray Quas Jamir Dudley Kievon Clark Thaddius Avery [Applause] Kobe Thompson Brooklyn Sllayton Naelli Curtis Siobhan Owensby Omari Greer Hadesia Omari Huh oh sorry mckenzie we got McKenzie and Shyana and they made the podium in shot put we had long jump 4x4 4x2 uh 400 um and I think I believe that's it but they worked hard so indoor is over and now it's time for outdoor so thank you [Applause] [Music] are you ready [Applause] all right next up we have our middle school uh cheer team they won the DPS cheer competition so middle school coach McKenna Pitman i'm a little short okay i'm
017coach Kenna um I'm middle school's cheer head coach um I would like to thank my team here Coach Mack and Coach Raja um the high school cheer coaches um I would also like to applaud our middle school cheerleaders for delivering um our comp routine in two weeks a winning comp routine in two weeks um our first award is Mackenzie [Applause] Harvey and then Ally Burke zabria Ivy um Alana Carr Alana Bookie Aubrey Lewis Nishay [Applause] Cochran Trey Zoe Smith And then Karen Foster couldn't be here today and then Samaya Smith thank you i don't know what's up i don't care [Applause] all right next up we have our high school uh cheer team who once again won the DPS cheer competition for the second year in a row uh we have coach uh Raja uh
018Brookshshire and uh Britney Magnum good evening everyone i am coach Raja and I just want to start by thanking my girls we have had a trying season um we started in August our first competition was in November it was the Baka competition is the Black American Cheer Association which they placed first place and they were also grand champions um which are the highest award our second competition that we competed in was in state so this is the OSHA competition cheer for state they place placed second in a hype cheer category and they placed third in large non-traditional non-built uh non-tumbling category um and then our final award was of course the DPS champions and this again is our second year in a row so I just really want to applaud my girls they worked really
019really hard um to get to where they are a lot of them couldn't make it because they are at school still dancing or um yeah they're dance magnets so they're at school still um and or in track so um but I do want to recognize the the ones that are here starting with Mariah Streety [Applause] Bates Samara Butler hold them flags up girl tia Mclardy Aaria Carr D Deja Scott Alexia NS Kiora Jackson and Annayiah Lawson [Applause] thank you can we shift this a little bit all right one two three [Applause] next we will have the inner mirror ran by Willie Bailey all right good evening people we're going to start off with our third place winners in inner murals cleveland Elementary and the plaque is being received by Miss Mims principal Mims and Aushi
020Aushi she was second place in chess for sixth grade this year [Applause] second place is Kaiser Elementary inter leader Mary Brooks hello i would like to recognize our contestants james Mcome sixth grade from Kaiser he participated in like two or three of the competitions and came back with a trophy jasmine Bar our fourth grader she competed in a g about three of them and Samir fifth grade Samir Duban he was our second place in chess amir Islam he competed in four different championships fourth grade and he was also a champion and we have another boy that's not here James Hensley that was the champion of checkards that's in the fourth grade and our principal Mr alex Robinson and Miss Sherry W our assistant principal [Applause] all right in your 20,000 Congratulations [Music] [Applause] in our
021inter mural uh 2025 champions is Valerie Elementary decade long I may add um we have uh Aaron and David Dudley they were both the uh inter mural bowling champions for Valley Elementary they also participated in chess soccer football god knows what else um they did they were everything all right and also we have our assistant principal Dr richardson to receive the plaque [Applause] one two three one more congratulations [Applause] all right our next presence Science science fair good evening board president Goodwine Vice President Bailey board members Superintendent Lawrence and Treasure Abro raha we held our annual Dayton public schools science technology and invention fair on February the 8th 2025 we are proud to announce that over 300 students from 100% of the schools participated in this event thank you to the building administrators teachers science
022fair coordinators parents chief shehi the curriculum team and especially our students for making this year's fair a huge success at this time we are honored to present to you the classes and the students with exemplary projects that placed first second and third place in competition class projects from preschool through third grade preschool class projects third place Rosa Parks miss Ranch Miss Raqu Miss Jones and Miss Mr burning's class the title of their project was Cloud in a Jar everybody's name is second place is Charity Adams charity Adams Miss Pinquit's class Fun Friction [Applause] first place will be Rosa Parks Miss Tiger and Miss Brown's class the title of their project was Tall [Applause] Tower division one was kindergarten and first grade third place was Valerie miss Foreman's class the title of their project was worms
023second place was Kent Miss Barl's class the day the crayons melted [Applause] and first place was Kaiser miss Swinhart's class the title of their project was Sand Castle Science [Applause] you guys [Applause] next we have division two second and third grade individual projects third place Kim Aiden Spencer and the title of his project was Crystals [Applause] second place was Valerie Braden Rafford The Good Burger [Applause] Experiment first place was Kemp Shamar Barker the title of the project was Wind Power [Applause] class projects for division two uh second and third grade third third place goes to Roosevelt Miss Lewis's class the title of the project was plant powerhouse second place was Louise Troy miss Hofffield's class the title of the project was magnetic Christmas decoration and first place was Bell Haven miss Stevens class the title
024of the project was which liquid damages teeth the most [Applause] team projects for division two first place was River's Edge Monosaurus Josiah Halby Alice Neil and Cavon Davis the title of their project the title of their project was "Can we build a train that floats?" And that ends division two congratulations to division two center one more and [Applause] two divi division three fourth grade individual project winners third place was horse mans Benjamin warf [Applause] Second place was Ruskin Davidson RmIrez bubble gum showdown first place Valerie Aaron Dudley title of this project was paper towel team projects third place Roosevelt Charlotte McDonald Arabella Ross McCory Wilson and the title of their project is Loen for dry skin students make sure you pick up your certificates before you walk over that's it second place River's Edge Beatatric
025Edy Naomi Hill Charlotte Harrison and the title of their project was Gummy Bear Growth [Applause] first place was Westwood Damian Barnes and Allayia Anne White rethink what you drink congratulations to division three [Applause] you guys all shift down nice job guys take a sec all right next is division four fifth and sixth grade some great things happened in this division so for individual winners third place is Valerie Ava Boseman title of the project was body lotions second place was Kim Brilan Taylor the title of the project was DNA from a strawberry [Applause] the first place winner is from Cleveland and the student is Ishi Patel and the title for her project was can different liquids help plants this young lady can you hold your applause just a minute and can she stand there just a
026second okay so this young young lady competed in the regional fair um at Miami Valley Science and Engineering Fair on Saturday March 15th and received a superior rating she will be competing in the state science fair this is going to be virtual between April the 7th and 14th and the celebration of the science will be hosted in at Ohio House at the Ohio State University on May 10th 2025 [Applause] congratulations next we have the um team winners in division four third place River's Edge Monosaurus Lim Matthysse and Quinn Simon and the title of their project was Mold on Fruit [Applause] second place winners Charity Adams Jordan Buchanan and Payton Daniels and the title of their project was Sunshine Pizza Oven the first place winners in the team project Kaiser the students are Jaylen Miller and
027Vanessa Sanchez water acidification and can I have these two students to stand here for just a second so once again this division four these two young ladies are also going to they competed at the regional science fair on Saturday representing Dayton public schools and they will be a part of the participating in the Ohio State Science Fair also virtually and hopefully you'll be invited to go to Ohio State on May the 10th so congratulations Congratulations okay we'll go ahead and move on got a whole lot of space on this side two one more two one thanks guys [Applause] we'll move on to division five which is grades seven and eight we'll begin with individual winners third place was from Belmont High School with the title of Bridge Charles [Applause] Howton second place is from International
028School Residence Park with the title of acidity test with different liquids mto MCO congratulations [Applause] and first place with a superior rating from Belmont Title Bridge L Lewis Vargas congratulations [Applause] We'll move on to division five team winners in third place from Edwin Joel Brown Middle School with the title of do different store bath bombs dissolve Kayana Wooden Riley Gibson and Diana Safi congratulations [Applause] team winners second place from the International School at Residence Park with the project title Turbo Drive lawrence Calvo Reyes Andandi Alva Ringa Sanchez and Nasarin Hassan congratulations [Applause] and first place team winner from Charity Adams Early Girls Academy with the title of Pretty Curls Alita Oba Demo Damaria McMan and Taniah Turner congratulations [Applause] That concludes the awards for division five we'll pause here for a picture all the way
029down the middle two more two thanks guys next we move to the final division division six for grades 9 through 12 we'll begin with the individual winners third place from the David H ponent CTC with the title of caffeinated chocoliers shayla Shila Davis congratulations [Applause] second place from Dunar High School with the title uh project title of how incubation temperature affects hatching time we have Tim Stewart congratulations and first place with a superior rating from Dunar High School with the project title comparison between a simulated pond Nessa Moyer congratulations [Applause] We'll move on to team winners for division six third place from Dunar High School project title monitoring ammonia of different sources we have um Jeremiah Jones Jamal Washington congratulations [Applause] second place in the team category Meadowdale CTC we have uh Nathley Flores and
030Charity Azone project title of colors congratulations congratulations okay okay great first place in the team winners superior rating they moved on to the regional at the Miami Valley CTC last weekend from Meadowdale CTC with a project title of scene Kingston Tyler and Thirsten Melson congratulations [Applause] We'll move on to the inventions category second place from Roosevelt invention title of Morse code we have Autumn Roush and Nimsy Portillo and Natalie Rodas Banila congratulations first place in the inventions category from Luis Troy with the invention title of Glossy Growth Somaya Crawford and Cara Hopson congratulations [Applause] in the materials and manufacturing category third place Horus man Elliot Buger project title The [Applause] Loop second place Luis Troy gotti Tumu Seiffue the title of strong [Applause] bridges first place horse man Benjamin Warf [Applause] congratulations to all of
031our 2025 Science Fair winners i think we'll pause here momentarily for a picture right in the middle three two one thanks guys [Applause] good morning thank you how are you doing oh my god always pay attention to you sir make sure you straight all right thank you everyone for joining us for that that was really good to see our students awarded in those ways we have two budget presentation the first one is under Dr jones's department with the chief of athletics and the second one is under Dr lawrence with college and career readiness chief Jones the floor is yours good evening everybody um we just want to thank you for allowing us to share our budget review and thanks for letting us recognize our student athletes today too we could just go straight into it
032the budget overview so for our fiscal year 26 requested budget we are requesting um 12 FTEES and that's going to be around $3 million i do want to note that that 3 million does reflect our supplementals which is around 1.5 million our nonpayroll we are requesting 1.8 million fiscal year 25 we requested um 12 FTEE so we are requesting the same amount and we were approved for 3.1 million for our total salary um for fiscal year 25 and then for our non-payroll 1.4 4 is what we were approved for for fiscal year 25 when we talk about the decrease and increase our salary did decrease 143,000 um after talking to Andrew I think there were some changes in benefits which reflects that decrease and then our non-payroll did increase slightly um 350,000 next slide our
033staffing and payroll requests so the top lines I just reviewed that with you guys so I'm just going to go into our job titles so the first one is chief of athletics the status is current for that associate ads we have two athletic coordinators we have five which does include the intramural partnership coordinator position we have a athletics facility coordinator which is currently vacant a budget specialist current executive assistant and administrative assistant and again our supplementals at 1.5 million that represents our coaches study table coordinators site coordinators and our intramural leaders and board approved concession um workers next slide so the non-payroll um object codes would be purchase services supplies equipment dues and fees we don't do advances so the fiscal year 25 budget for purchase services 618 supplies 402,000 equipment 261,000 and then for
034our dues and fees 167,000 fiscal year 26 our requested budget 865,000 which is an increase to 246,000 and then our supplies 460,000 um 57 a little 57,000 and then our equipment 250,000 um it actually decreased a little bit but supplies and equipment we kind of go back and forth with those when we do u materials and equipment and then for our dues and fees um 225,000 um did in increase to 57,000 so fiscal year budget 25 again we were approved for 1.4 million fiscal year 26 um we are requesting 1.8 million and then our um increase for nonpayroll is 350,000 our areas of focus this year professional development camps and clinics and then things with branding um equipment supplies and materials and a focus on game day experience the next slide when we talk about
035the department impacts professional development creating opportunities across all sports and levels for students and coaches to attend camps clinics and professional development programs that enhance skill development knowledge and overall growth these opportunities will promote engagement foster a sense of belonging build relationships and contribute to a winning culture the next impact branding and resources ensuring that staff and students have the necessary equipment supplies and resources to remain competitive with neighboring schools in all areas this will support introducing new sports the expansion of existing programs and providing the support needed to effectively implement and sustain these programs the game day experience enhancing competitive compos compensation while addressing the needs of game workers officials and assigners through strategies to secure retain and support personnel additionally creating a safe enjoyable and professional game day environment that fosters school spirit
036and ensures a positive and unified experience for our community and district and then the last thing I just want to note that um typically I have some kind of capital project i think you guys have been gracious with us with helping us with scoreboards and sound systems and things like that at this time no capital project has been identified i think the primary focus for fiscal year 26 is on human development prioritizing the growth and success of our students coaches and our staff thank you Chief Jones are there any questions i do go ahead Mr lacy um so do you do you have an number for supplementals like last year and this year or is it too hard or like a I guess well you you obviously budgeted something for supplementals so yeah I work
037with Andrew and we um do it based on each sport and I think he put a little bit more into just because of the increase of game workers um but I don't have a specific number because we usually it's based on what sports we're offering based on if we have numbers to add assistant coaches so it varies so I mean could Andrew share with us those numbers or something or how he computed those supplementals yeah I can talk to him for you i appreciate it mr walker uh thank you um just was looking at the increase for purchase services and what that was so purchase services um is a variety of things our premier health um contract comes through that um our accidental insurance dragonfly which is the third party system that we use for
038game workers u recondition of helmets can be in that category um our companies that we use for food can be in that category as far as SAMS DFS um um any kind of outside contracts um will fall into that category thank you and then um the increase for dues and fees so that's um like track participants um so as you uh saw today we had middle school was the first time we did indoor but that when we um have them in those kind of um events we have to um submit invoices for each student sometimes it could be per student sometimes it can be team and as we continue to grow and add sports we see that that line needs to go up okay thank you you're welcome any other questions thank you Chief Jones
039thanks chief Douly the floor is yours good evening everyone good evening good evening that's nice all right my first slide excuse me is to just kind of share with you who is in this department since this is a new department uh me obviously uh my this department includes career technical education with one director one academic coordinator.5 clerical and we have uh supplemental contracts that we pay for the radio TV uh person about $34,000 but is not a direct employee we have one person overseeing college credit plus scholarships and counselors one person in cultural engagement overseeing life coaches and two people in workforce development one is a teacher on special assignment who is general funded the second is grant funded as a workbased learning coordinator next slide all right this is an overview of our uh
040increase in uh both FTEES and in non-payroll requests let's go to the next slide so we can break that down a little bit so let's talk about staffing and payroll first we currently have 6.5 people in this department we are asking for two additional positions for a total of 8.5 FTEES those two positions are listed there an EMIS coordinator for CTE and a second CTE academic coordinator so if we look at the next slide we can see what it is that those people will be doing the EMS coordinator for CTE will report CTE data accurately to ensure maximum allocations financial allocations are secured will report CTA CTE data accurately to ensure that all local report card indicators for each building the district and the CTPD report card are correct and accounted for and will ensure
041that CTE data from all charters and non-pubs uh is collected and reported properly the academic coordinator will provide teacher support and coaching to help us uh assist our teachers and retain them we'll also work with the charters and nonpubs in our CTPD we'll assist with pathway expansion in 2526 and beyond and we'll ensure that CTE rules and regulations are followed and there are a lot of rules on the next page our non-payroll budget this shows you where the dollars are uh you can see that the bulk of the money in this budget is in career technical education so that $1.4 million supports 27 CTE programs and one industry credential only and then you can see how the other dollars are allocated within that department if you go to the next page our requests um I
042broke it down by the department and by career tech so if you look at the light yellow highlighted lines um the department which would be uh some of us are asking for an increase of uh dollars non-payroll dollars in the amount of 147,000 and career tech is asking for an increase uh of 509,000 so what is all this for our department is finishing its first year as a department uh I think now that we are congealing as a group and a team we have a very clear vision of where we need to go to support college and career readiness in Dayton public so focus areas for career tech programming our startup programs in 2526 and also to refresh programs equipment and so on focus areas for the overall department we need to better coordinate one-day
043college trips for all kids and college tours we need to provide career experiences for all on and offsite kindergarten through 12th grade we need to utilize more student incentives um to help students stay on track for graduation and to continue to provide college and career readiness experiences for all questions thank you dr lawrence you had something to add yeah I'd just like to uh Miss Miss Douly could you go back to the email screen very quickly thank you so much uh one more back one more the position uh perfect right there thank you Mr douly uh just a reminder that uh my very first year uh Lisa G minor associate superintendent identified with her team a loss of about a million dollars in in career tech funds because of an emus uh emis situation and
044we also had emis on for um a consultant to help us with our overall general emiss and we are in the process of um fixing correcting and putting systems in place so that's just that's just really really important I just wanted to add that to your presentation of of course always fantastic M douly but I just want to put that out there thank you sir thank you go first what you just said would this position replace the consultant or would we still have a consultant so the consultant is for there's two different emisses one for our district itself and then this emis so this we still need to pay attention to because CTE is such a complex and large um part of what we do now in high school because of the acceleration of programming
045and then emis on the other side that's we need is we have issues there that's why we got the consultant so is that a yes no maybe that's a yes no not consult not replacees we need both okay so we'll have this and a consultant still yes the consultant will finish but this will be fulltime okay Mr walker um to to piggyback off of that for this coordinator is it CTE dollars or is this general fund dollars where this position will come from general general fund general fund dollars however um Andrew did share that one of those two positions is potentially grant funded okay so we're presenting kind of the worst case scenario got it and then the second part is I don't see culture and engagement department i see the director but not the
046life coaches or anything like that they are also grant funded okay i just didn't see those positions yes sir okay mhm and just to be clear this is just for general funds correct this presentation correct okay that's correct yes are there any other questions thank you thank you right okay next up we have hearing of the bargaining units if there are any members of the bargaining units who would like to speak this is your moment okay Madam Treasur do we have anyone registered to speak yes okay give me one second it is inappropriate to address any matter involving pending disputes grievances under a labor agreement disciplinary actions involving an employee or a student ongoing labor negotiations concerns or matters that have already been settled and or any matter which because of its nature is deemed
047appropriate to be discussed in executive session you have three minutes to speak mr walker will indicate when that time is up thank you go ahead Janie Green jenny Green Zachary Green oh I think they're coming Madam Treasur oh okay and please state your name and address when you come up my name is Jeannie Green and my address is 45501 Way Meer Avenue in Dayton i am here as a very proud parent of a JOTC cadet and an ex Army wife my son is a corporal in the JOTC program at Meadowdale and he is the captain of the raid team he is one of the 56 cadets in the JOTC program at Meadowdale i stand here today and I beg you please hear me please don't take the JRTC program away from Meadowdale and my son
048my son is living walking proof of this success the JRTC program at Meadowdale it has him excited to go and learn and participate he was so excited when he came home and went to about making a flyer and making a team for Raid when he became the Raid team captain he loves JOTC jotc has made him decide what he wants in life and is shaping into a fantastic young man that sees his path in ROC in the military through college and his life plans and he plans to join the military after graduating it is not fair to take the JOTC program away from my son and the rest of the cadetses at Meadowdale if you take the program away from Meadowdale because my son is a firstear cadet he will lose his military seal that
049you have to have two years in JOTC to receive and his military advanced placement benefits which he needs to be able to advance at a higher rank when enlisting in the military after graduation and JOTC counts as a fizzed credit because of PT if the program is taken away he along with the other firstear cadets would have to take a fizzed to get the fizzed credit required for graduation if he continues in JOTC it will count towards the fizzed credit required for graduation to say it's a schedule issue is ridiculous it's just an excuse i don't want to hear excuses i want to see results my son and the cadets are currently in JOTC and it has worked they have attended JOTC and they need and the needed courses to graduate he volunteered as a
050JOTC cadet with the toys for tots and gave out toys to kids in need every day that gave out toys he has participated and led many color guards and earned his color guard cord and medal he is all about JOTC if the program is moved to Dunar then they would have to transport the cadets to Dunar to participate in JOTC and transport them back to Meadowdale and that would take more time out of the schedule and take more time out of the scheduled time and it would be a huge waste of time i will not transfer my son to Dunar for JOTC i shouldn't have to his program is at Meadowdale he is going for robotics engineering my son is really looking forward to the JOTC camp this summer and is very excited about going
051and participating my son has earned his combat uniform early and was so excited about that i purchased him name tape for his combat uniform and he was over the moon happy and excited wears it proudly i also purchased him a military uniform fleece rank and name tape to wear in the winter with his combat uniform that's your three minutes if you want to say some final comments just Yeah I have just a little bit more that would be okay um rank and name tape to wear in the winter with his combat uniform and he was so happy and excited about it y'all can look at my son standing here proud and his JOTC uniform and tell him you are going to take away his program military seal and his military advanced placement benefits and his
052rank and all his hard work time dreams and plans of joining the military at an advanced ranking i will not and I cannot do that to him i am his parent protector and his guide to success in life and helping him making a better life for himself so please don't take the JOTC program away from my baby and the other cadetses at Meadowdale thank you for taking the time to listen to me a very very proud JOTC cadet parent haha thank you very much our next speaker Brandon Wors good evening my name is Cadet Lieutenant Colonel Brandon Wadsworth and I have been a proud member of the Army Gerald TC program at Meadowdale for the past three years has been mo one of the most rewarding and impactful experiences of my high school career and
053I'm here tonight to urge you to keep our program at Meadowdale since sophomore year I've had to personally request GRTC to be added to my schedule because this program means so much to me rotc is not another class it has taught me discipline leadership teamwork and responsibility it has given me the confidence to lead and the skills to serve my community moving our program to a location that lacks the necessary resources will take away these same opportunities for future cadetses over the years I have had the privilege of leading numerous color guards in support of athletic events and community ceremonies proudly representing our school and our program i have also mentored junior cadets helping them grow into strong confident leaders this is what JCC is meant to do build leaders for tomorrow i have personally
054attended and completed the Geraldc Cadet Leadership Camp where I was able to take the lessons I learned at Meadowdale and put them into action in a real world environment gerald TC is about Jerc is about more than just uniforms and drills it is about preparing students for success in life if you move our program to a facility that lacks the space equipment and resources we currently have it will limit what our cadets can accomplish the color guard won't proper won't have proper ceiling clearance for the to train the air rifle team won't get or have a range to practice our entire program will be weakened and future cadets will miss out on the opportunities I had i strongly recommend that in students interested in GRTC be transported to Meadowdale rather than moving into Dumbar and
055having them transferred there man oh my bad at a loss right uh we already have the proper facilities and it makes more sense to bring cadets to the best equipped location than to strip away the resources that make our program great i am proof of what JTC can do for a student i want other cadets to have some the same chance to learn grow and succeed just as I have please make the right choice and keep JROTC at Medale thank you thank you Clion Humphrey good afternoon Madam President good morning my name is Sar Major Cleon Humphrey i currently live at uh Westchester Ohio um I've started at the program officially this uh January of this year prior to that I interned at um Meadowdale from September 23 working with Colonel Mason in a position
056as Army instructor which had a high turnover rate um being able to see the program before I committed fully committed to the program was um beneficial to me and to her she can assess my leadership to be able to pass on to the students the cadetses um and I felt it was a good opportunity to stay and continue um what we've what she's done to this point she's been there at least four years prior to the last move from the other school that she uh conducted the JOTC program at this current facility has exactly what we need the storage the range uh and everything that I can further develop my cadetses uh moving to a facility that lacks that equal space would greatly diminish what I can do with my students um it's not necessarily
057the students themselves but the area that we need um so we finally get our program up and running moving together working together as a team myself the colonel and the students and to move to another location and have to start all over again would just uh diminish the JOTC program as a whole um I strongly uh I strongly would uh like you guys to consider leaving the program in place so we can further develop and not take a step back appreciate your time thank you thank you Claudia Mason Senior uh good afternoon i appreciate this opportunity to speak with you i'm uh Lieutenant Colonel Claudia Mason i'm the senior Army instructor of the Army JOTC program at Menadale i have a few slides I'd like to uh show you uh this is the agenda I
058will follow uh next slide these slides uh focus on uh one response to the uh presentation that was made last uh week next please uh I wanted to elaborate uh that JOTC is recognized as a CTE pathway in 30 different states while it's not recognized in the state of Ohio um replicating the JRTC CTE pathway uh in those aligned states can be an option jrtc is also a common gened choice for our IEP students uh I believe that's really important u we have a lot of hands-on and it definitely has an appeal to IEP students uh cadets are not discouraged from joining other services so um if you look at enlistment just for one service that does not acknowledge that there are other services that they can join um completing just two years in the
059program uh yields significant benefits for our cadetses uh so three years is icing on the cake but if you do two years you get an uh graduation pathway you get a PE waiver and you also get an advanced enlistment placement there are some jobs in the military that require three years in JRTC but I just want to point out two years can be extremely beneficial to a student enlistment is not the only measure of a program success for our cadets i said that last week and um next slide please uh these are the numbers we if you just look at the JRTC classes we have 50 uh cadetses if you add our uh JRTC elective there's five additional so we have a total of 55 cadetses currently in our program the student enrollment is on
060the slide here so that's well within the contract of 10% of the overall population that we have even with CTE programming our JOTC program meets that contractual requirement of 10% of the overall student population next slide please i wanted to give you some next examples of schedules of actual cadetses in our program this is a four-year Oh this these are some recommendations that I recommend cte is offered two class periods first and second third and fourth sixth and seventh their CTE plan is always fifth in our building right now during that period we don't offer GRTC it is not on the schedule during the CTE plan period i recommend that that change i also recommend to allow uh students an opportunity to take take JRTC and maximize their opportunity to be able to take it
061that we stagger the uh planning periods for both instructors i think that'll yield uh more opportunities for our students that's I'm going to I'm gonna give you an extra 90 seconds all right the next few slides uh give you sample schedules where they actually work these are real students that exist that have taken our program for four to three years next slide this is an example of a live senior that's actually taking our program as you can see uh he had some uh a couple of semesters where he failed but he since recovered and he's on track to graduate he's doing quite well he's actually at Skills USA right now and again he complete he uh is on his way to completing all four years in JRTC next slide these are next three examples of
062juniors that are currently in our program they've been in the program three years uh again uh this is an example of a student that failed one semester but since recovered and he's well on his way to doing well in CTE um they've um attended HOSA did well in that they um this particular student has attended camp done numerous things next slide this is an example of a student that actually failed some classes has since recovered but somehow was able to complete three years in JRTC next slide and this is a student that just passed everything and was able to uh fit Army JROTC 1 through three in his schedule that's all I have appreciate your time thank you thank you very much ryan Jackson Ryan Jackson Angela Perry Daku good evening my name is Angela
063Pereuk um I am a parent of a student that also attends Meadowale um that is a cadet in the um ROC program i'm going to read you a little excerpt from a letter that I had written to the board the Army JOTC program provides the Meadowdale CTC students motivation and skills to become successful citizens by acquiring a sense of responsibility and respect for authority furthermore it motivates the Meadowdale students to improve physical fitness to remain drug-f free think critically and think creatively it develops the Meadowdale students abilities of communicating effectively working as team members in addition to taking responsibility for actions and choices the program encourages the students to come to school daily to work hard to graduate from high school and to pursue meaningful careers after graduation the Army ROC program at Meadowdale is
064extremely important for the students there my son is an exceptional child a student with disabilities and it's because of the Army Junior ROC program at Meadowdale that my son is actually thriving his freshman year of high school while the program at Meadowdale CTC is structured and rigorous it offers benefits to students with disabilities including leadership and life skill development um it accesses scholarships and structured environment that fosters discipline and teamwork relocating the Army Junior ROC program to Dumbar High School deny any Meadowdale CTC student with disabilities of being able to continue participating in the program my son looks forward to going to school every day because he loves the program and color guard activities at Meadowdale the Army ROC program supports the Dayton Public School's mission vision and purpose of inspiring educating and empowering students
065for a lasting impact while cultivating a supportive engaging education experience for all students my son since joining the ROC and going through his first year at Meadowdale in the program he has actually done community service he's on the autism spectrum it's huge for him to try new things it fosters a sense of community with the team team building actually being inclusive and fostering some relationships and social interaction skills he has done color guard and he loves it working with his teammates for that it's the thing that he actually looks forward to every day and I'm able to get him out the door to school because he is looking forward to going to that class um so I highly encourage you to please keep this at Meadowdale he is in one of the career pathways and
066he's looks forward to this every single day he looks forward to doing the different activities and events and just you know he will actually advocate and he wrote a letter himself for you know requesting that it would stay i don't know if you guys received a copy of the letter but for him it's huge to express his emotions and feelings to be able to advocate for something that he loves i thank you very much for your time and I please encourage you to keep it at Meadowdale thank you that concludes tonight's uh speakers thank you to everyone who came to speak out as Oh I called Zachary Green is Zachary Green here now yes okay zachary Green is the the other individual okay just Zachary yes oh you were up here you have just slid
067on over okay go ahead the floor is yours uh uh my name is Zach Green i'm part I'm the uh I'm in the I'm a cadet in the Army Junior RC cadet program and I'll be honest I don't I don't really like school i don't see how it's going to help me like when I join the military um I don't really think it was going to help me but once I heard about the uh Jarc program I thought like okay that's cool i'll do that that's pretty cool and now that I'm in it and I've met the people it helps me it helps me uh um it like it it helps me can't talk sorry it helps motivate me want to wake up in the morning uh get dressed go to school actually be there
068participate and do my stuff because you can't be in the program if your uh grades are down i think maybe but it just helps me motivate or helps motivate myself to go to school to do it and actually go through and it's motivated me to go to college now because there's a instead of JOTC there's a ROC program in college that can further help me um like further help me get higher rank and do like do better in the military when I enlist and if it moves to Dunar it's going to really throw off my plans and it's just not going to be very fun it's going to move it's going to remove more time out of my schedule and it's it's going to mess everything up um that's it uh thanks for hearing me
069thank you i I'll ask the other student would you like to speak come on come on up you got dressed for it and everything say your name for us please uh he was ready and he pulled out a speech my name is Cadet Major Arthur Thomas and I had I had an honor being a part of this Meadowdale Career Technology Center Army JTC program while also balancing my time as an athlete and a surgical tech CTE student and I am here today because this program has shaped me into the leader that I am today and I strongly urge you to keep the program at Middle where it is best equipped to serve cadets like me throughout my time in JTC I had incred I had an incredible experiments experience that had prepared me for my
070future i had completed the JTC cadet leadership camp twice pushing me pushing myself beyond limits and gaining skills that will help me both in my career and life recently me and cadet Lieutenant Colonel Brennan Wiseworth and I placed top 10 in the state of Ohio for the surgical technician the surgical technology at the health of occupation students and I'm sorry uh the health occupation students of America also known as hosta the hosta competition this experience has helped me develop the discipline confidence and leadership skills I to succeed as I consider a future in the armed forces known this program has given me the foundation I need to excel in whatever path I choose you good just keep going don't worry about that jtc has helped it jtc has helped me grow in a lead grow
071as a leader and a teammate and a mentor it has given me the opportunity to develop discipline and responsibility qualities that I have carried over into my academics and athletics and uh career training moving our program to a location that lacks the facilities we need will take away these opportunities for the next generation of cadets at Meadowdale we have the resources to train at a higher level including the the dedicated air rifle range proper drill space and the right accommodations for color guard training these are things that cannot be replaced at Dumbar without them the program will lose its effectiveness instead of relocating the JTC instead of relocating JTC to a facility that can now fully support it I strongly recommend that the students who want to participate be transported to Meadowdale CTC we also
072have the space the equipment and the structure to continue producing strong cadets and future leaders i have personally benefited from this program in me in more ways than I can count and want a future I want future cadets to have the same opportunity that I have please make the right decision and keep the Army JTC at Meadow CTC where it can continue to thrive and impact student lives thank you thank you appreciate everyone coming out who gave public comment i love to see when people are here to advocate on things that they believe in every person that's elected on this board has done the same thing and I look forward to when we get to that portion of the program how people are able to reflect not only on what you gave us today but
073also the research we did outside of the last meeting so moving on first now superintendent your first recommendation thank you so much i recommend the approval of the following certified appointments is there a motion um so moved can we move by Mr lacy second by board member Wick can I any questions on the motion can I add a friendly amendment um to take superintendents A through F together but pull B1 and B2 so after exec and then E2 for a separate vote first mr lacy do you accept the friendly amendment yes I'll accept it second miss Madam Treasurer did you get all the notes that Mr walker put out b1 and B2 b1 and B2 are pulled pull till after exec E2 for a separate vote e is in Edward too yes not necessary yeah
074not necessary okay so leave E2 leave it okay so don't worry about E2 so just B1 and B2 till after exact okay all right any questions on the motion only B1 and B2 have been pulled one moment please i had a question for I don't see Chief Jones i guess I'll ask Dr jones oh she right there she right there he's sitting on Oh couldn't see your past sentence no I try to try to try to go into the the positives good thank you i need some positive vibes so instead of vacancies I'll ask how many coaches do we have for the fall already in place i'd rather the vacancies so we've been diligent with trying to get them in um sooner because we do understand the impact of getting coaches in place earlier in
075the process i don't have the total number but I will say the next one I think Miss Tyler and Marie said that we have at least 50 on that next one so we're adjusting to this new deadline but you have seen some sprinkle in and it's going to be a lot of them coming soon appreciate you Chief you bet any other questions seeing none may we have a vote president Goodway abstain dr bailey yes mr lacy yes mr smith yes miss Reinard yes mr walker yes miss Wick yes six tss one abstain your next recommendation we're in 78 thank you so much i recommend the approval of the following by salary schedules is there a motion so moved is there a second second moved by board member Wick second by Dr bailey everything except for
076C and D you can Okay so Miss Wick can I offer a friendly amendment to take uh take A and B and then F G and H was off last week but C is they're both in there so we need to separate those up no C is just the 48 hour waiver for the Sinclair meal which would be C yeah so A through E and then B through H together for C for a separate you accept this friendly amendment yes ma'am all right all right are there any questions on the motion could you restate it restate just see second see See the only thing that's separate everything else can be in one any other questions on the motion seeing none we may we have a vote president Goodwin yes dr bailey yes mr lacy yes
077mr smith yes miss Rard yes mr walker yes miss Wick yes seven yeses i recommend the approval of the following 48 hour waiver memorandum of understanding second moved by Mr walker second by Mr lacy dr lawrence can you explain how we got this one late uh this is a transition dr sherry Gail was transitioning out to become House of Bread uh CEO and I just dropped the ball on this in the transition uh we had a new new um new employee coming in and we were dividing up the duties we just missed it okay and have we covered all our bases en sure we don't miss anything else we have all right and it's been illegal thank you any other questions on the motion seeing none may we have a vote president Goodwin yes dr
078bailey yes mr lacy yes mr smith yes Miss Reinard yes Mr walker yes Miss Wick yes seven yeses thank you Dr lawrence it is not on here but we do need you to make a motion to vote on the actualou well I was just going to do that uh I recommend the approval of the following sinclair Community College DPS and college credit plus rate and I called that so moved moved by Mr lacy second by Mr walker which one any questions on the motion it's not on there it's just for the we just wave so it's what we waved okay c and a half okay miss kid can you add a letter I or something to put it on add a second okay there you go appreciate it any questions seeing none may we have
079a vote president Goodwin yes dr bailey yes Mr lacy yes Mr smith yes Miss Reard yes Miss Wick yes uh Mr walker yes seven yeses does that conclude your recommendations dr goodwin that concludes my recommendations madam Treasur your first recommendation okay i recommend the the approval of accepting amounts and rates as revealed last week is there a second who moved it miss Wick Mr walker not moving fast enough okay so Miss Wick by Mr dr bailey another friendly amendment of taking A through H together i'm tired of your friendly amendment you want to do a second no it's fine so we are voting on A through H together little humor in there okay a to H okay okay any questions on the motion seeing none may we have a vote president Goodwin yes dr bailey
080yes mr lacy yes mr smith yes miss Reard yes mr walker yes miss Wick yes seven yeses thank you dr jones your first recommendation thank you Madam President uh I recommend ratification of the following Ohio High School Athletic Association membership 2526 i'd like to make a motion to take A and B together is there a second second moved by Mr walker second by Mr smith any questions on the motion that was M this was Mr bailey that just sounded alike second by Dr bailey i also received uh Temple Christians uh signed and we have another one on the way from the STEM school so I'd like to make the friendly emotion amendment to your thing i'd like to accept Temple Christians absolutely and a STEM school when it comes in allow Dr jones accept it
081perfect that's what I was gonna ask are there any Go ahead dr jones how many more non-public schools do we have left to have theus with in order five but five left right yes but um a lot of those students are not participating in spring sports it'll impact the fall okay thank you yes ma'am thank you madam thank you any questions to the motion yes oh my bad go Mr smith so with the ones that have been back in have there been any issues with them getting everything that they need to start participating because I know this is the first step but then once we do this then they still need to go through the non-enrolled paperwork correct some of that non-enrolled paperwork is already and that's what I was going to ask most of
082our our students they play multiple sports so some of them did them early on the ones that still may need to do it it's only spring they do have till um the 31st to get that done so and we will extend it due to this situation and then um second question with that so people know about getting that out when do the competitions for spring sports begin um it range based on the schedule and the sport so I think um one of the sports probably start in two weeks but all the league schedules we could adjust that because we control our schedules okay I appreciate that and then lastly Dr jones do have we had any any differences um with the formats with some of the needs from the non-publiclix one school yeah one school
083expressed that uh the document was a little bit more detailed than they anticipated and so they needed a little more time to review it okay uh and so I anticipate we won't have any issues with them signing all right appreciate you yes sir any other questions on the motion seeing none then we have a vote president Goodwin yes dr yes mr lacy yes mr smith in the affirmative miss Reinard yes mr walker yes miss Wick yes thank you thank you i recommend the approval to extend the treasur's employment contract for a two-year term and the retroact retroactive salary increase is there a motion so moved second moved by Miss Wick second by Mr walker any questions on the motion go ahead Mr smith no question just want to say I appreciate our treasure appreciate the
084work that you do look forward to continuing working with you and the rest of our team thank you any other comments Mr lacy because we voted to not renew we voted against renewal do we need to set aside vote to set aside we didn't vote against not renewal yeah we the the motion was to renew a contract and we voted that was the separate one though so because of the March 1st thing then I still So this is just establish I know it's not but the wording is the same i mean could we do can we just say we just wave our rule wave the ruling yeah wave the rule the motion person to please a motion we we wave the rule motion first yeah first need to withdraw the motion motion to wave our
085rule and then go back so can you please withdraw your motion miss I withdraw my motion thank you now Mr lacy can you give me a motion for us to I motion that we wave the rule um that when we vote on something it's done for the year that Yeah that Thank you we have we get to vote on this particular thing again thank you is there a second second second by Mr walker any questions on the motion i mean I'm just crossing tees here really that's 100% any other comments or questions on the motion 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 seven yeses all right moving back now i recommend the approval of
086the to extend the treasur's employment contract for a two-year term and I also recommend the approval of the following resolution retroactive salary increase for the treasure is there a motion so moved second moved by board member Wick second by board member Walker any questions on the motion seeing none may we have a vote president Goodwin yes dr bailey yes mr lacy yes mr smith yes miss Rer no mr walker yes miss Wick yes six yeses one no all right we missed this policy last time so this first one is for first reading resolution to adopt board policy in so much as the board of education is committed to the continuing updating of its policies rules and regulations manual and the committee which was appointed has been working toward that goal the following are brought at
087this time for first reading compliance for board file BFC policy adoption now therefore be it resolved that the board of education of the Dayton City School District McGomery County Ohio hereby accepts and adopts the following policies that have been codified for inclusion in the handbooks of policies rules and regulations BDC executive session these policies this is for second reading in so much as the board of education is committed to the continuing updating of its policies rules and regulations manual and the committee which was appointed has been working towards that goal the following is brought at this time for second reading and compliance for board file now therefore be it resolved that the board of education of Dayton City School District McGomery County Ohio hereby accepts and adopts the following policies that have been codified for
088inclusion in the handbook of policies rules and regulations dia Internal Audit Charter EDEC Social Media Policy gcbb supplemental compensation for administrators i recommend I motion that we accept these policies is there a second second move this moved by Dr goodwin second by Mr lacy are there any questions or comments on the motion seeing none may we have a vote president Goodwin yes dr bailey yes mr lacy yes mr smith yes miss Rher yes mr walker yes miss Wick yes seven yeses all right this next one is being first simultaneously for first and second reading this is a special education policy so you guys know we have to have this adopted by the 31st which is why it's there in so much as the board of education is committed to the continuing updating of its policies
089rules and regulations manual and the committee which was appointed has been working toward that goal the following is brought at this time for simultaneous first and second reading in compliance with board foul now therefore be it resolved the board of education of the day city school district mcgomery county Ohio hereby and accept and adopts the following policies which have been codified for inclusion in the handbook of policies rules and regulations multiple policies for special education policies i move that we adopt I'm motion that we adopt these policies is this a second second moved by Dr goodwine second by Mr lacy go ahead member um question President Goodwin was this passed through policy meeting at the previous policy committee meeting that we had because the one that we had yesterday we did not have a quorum
090and we were not able to pass this or the other policy that um we we wish to pass through it was not Miss Kidd gave it to me because we have a deadline that we have to put it in place so at this point it's just the board taking action okay just wanted to make sure that was clarified no no question it's not a rule we just It's a practice all right any other questions and for everyone the legal has did review this one before it went to the policy commission committee all right seeing none Madam Treasure may we have a vote president Goodwin yes dr bailey yes mr lacy yes mr smith yes miss Rhiner yes mr walker yes miss Wick yes seven yeses that was so much fun now we're at the moment
091of which we all have waited for to talk about the JOTC relocation metale high school to Dumbar High School so I will open up the floor to discussion before we do anything has anybody had anything that they would like to report back that they seen or any comments on what we saw last week as well as what we heard this week go ahead Dr bailey um so for me I I just think that this is being moved on a little bit quickly uh too quickly i went out to Meadowdale looked at the facility really like to talk to um the instructors out there uh the biggest thing was again talking to the students uh the cadetses um and getting the same same feedback that I got today um I did ask last week if the
092students had been spoken to at Meadowdale and Dumbar i've heard from students from Meadowdale but none from Dumbar heard from parents from Meadowdale but none from Dumbar um I would just like to see a little bit more information and how this would work what's going to be the difference in um clearly as to if you move it from Meadowdale to Dumbar what's going to be the clear difference that one um the instruction is going to be maybe better because I feel like they may be thinking that it's not as good at Meadowdale or something the other thing is will they have just as many students or more students um and then now today after listening to the cadetses um it would be the issue of these cadets being in for one or two years and
093them losing their um ability to have rank when they go into the military how is that going to work for them um especially when you have a parent saying that she's not going to transport or let her her child go to Dumbar so it's just some things that I'd like to see worked out before I can really get 100% on board um I talked to the instructors over there and like I told them I don't have a problem with whatever school it's at um I'd like to see JOTC still in our schools and to be honest with you I'd really like to see another JOTC program i'd like to see one at both schools but I would like to see a little bit more and I'd also talked to Dr lawrence about this so I
094I just like to see a little bit more that's very I want to echo that i'll get you after me because I might forget wait on you so I will say that I do appreciate everyone who came out today in addition to the emails that we have received we have gotten a good amount of feedback not only from the students students instructors and parents as well i did take up the offer to go look at both facilities myself and I sent the rest of you guys a video and pictures of what I saw there and I will say we have at this moment I don't think the move to Dumbar similar to what you said I think it it bears more conversation i honestly agree that I would love to see JTC at every school
095in that piece of it i do believe that when I looked at the data that was sent back to us about the interest at Dunar was 16 students and I think that's phenomenal that if 16 students are interested in it we should start working to build a program here for those students i don't think it's the best move for us at this moment to uproot something that's already there and since transportation was already put on the floor I don't see why the dumb bars the 16 students are interested why they couldn't go be a part of that one as we are trying to build something over at the other school i will also note too that additionally I look I always look at our footing in the marketplace and I look at our competitors and
096North Northridge and Horizon are competitors for us northridge has a JRTC program i would hate for like some people as our student back there I believe it was Zachary stated that this is the reason I go to school and I understand that because I went to school for softball and those other things that I had to do to get through the day in that piece of it and to lose your why is a big thing there and I don't think you can ignore or you should ignore when students come because it's one thing for adults to advocate we do it all the time we have so many opinions but to watch three young men come up today and tell you like this is a part of my why i make this in my schedule i
097request that they put it in there i think our team at this moment in life is very talented in the same way that we continue to figure out other programs we've gotten suggestions now of how to make this a pathway so more individuals can be involved in it so I I personally think our team like I want to challenge our team to figure out how to continue to invest in this program while building other ones in the district mr smith thank you uh first off I want to say thank you to the people that came and spoke um especially to our our young students that spoke i'm always proud of you guys to get up and advocate for yourselves and I don't want this to be the last time you do that i want you
098to always keep that voice that you show today as you move forward in life and understand that you do have a voice and that that's a big step for you and anyone as they come in here um I just think that there's more conversations that could be had i think there are some solutions that we can come to um and I don't want to take for granted the work that has been done so far from the superintendent team i think that is also good work i think sometimes we when we make decisions or we lean uh yay or nay sometimes it seems as if we're not valuing the work that people have put in so I want to value all the work on all sides i just feel like there is more work that can
099be done and I would encourage us as a board to to kick it over to our committee that is really specifically designed to do these this and have those conversations where I think we can dive deeper into not only this but some of the other offerings at buildings and understanding that we deal with constraints um we don't have the same size buildings as we used to have we don't have the space that we used to have in some of our buildings so when we come up with these ideas there's it sometimes seems like there's this zero sum game that we have to play because we don't have the space that we used to have and we've seen that with some of the the band programs we've tried to do we've seen it with choir programs
100we've seen it over at Belmont with different programs and people are constantly fighting for space as well inside of our buildings so I think that um bears more discussion to where we can look at down the road where sometimes it's a space thing sometimes it's a staff capacity thing sometimes it's a building alignment thing and I think it it it needs to have more conversations fleshed out i wouldn't want to have just a yay or a nay and then we stop talking about how we better our schools because I think that's the the end goal for everybody in this room be it you are for a move against a move you're still here for the betterment of our students and so I don't want us to have votes make those conversations stop so I would
101ask us to to push this conversation there as well um and really come up with uh better solutions on how we can serve our students that's all I have thank you Mr walker thank you um thank you to the the parents that came out and spoke as well as the students and um both of the instructors um as you know my my time at Colonel White going to Thood Good Marshall it was a part of that era of where the district was getting rid of marching band programs so once the district did get rid of marching band programs the next option was ROTC i hated it the first year major Graves kept me on it picked this up at six o'clock in the morning kept me engaged with it so as a student leader for
102that um I never like to see a program leave a building because of the actual impact that you have on the students that are there um I think I am definitely a proponent of if there are students at Dumbar that are interested then work out with transportation how to make those students be a part of the program at Mearddale for me um I was already familiar with the space at U Meddale i took it a step further and I was curious about the enrollment of the um Air Force RTC over at Belmont um it's Air Force or is it the Navy navy navy um and it was just interesting seeing on the wall their composite photo of the students involved in RTC and things like that and what I've seen from that is this is
103a building that actually push students to actually look at PE waiver and actual involvement into programs i think at we need to create those opportunities if they are not there how do we expand on those more to get more students engaged in it i think there's plenty of opportunities of rather looking at the freshman seminar how to add RLTC it's a career pathway let's look at that piece let's look at what Colonel Mason presented with other 30 states are doing i think CTE you just asked us for two other positions today look at how to create this type of program to expand on it and things like that thank you so much are there any other comments i just got one more go ahead and which is you know um I just I just want
104to make sure that this is going to be a because every I'm like Will I piggyback that the work that Dr lawrence and Miss Miner put into this was really good um I just want this to be a win-win situation not for for both sides um of this uh equation and I think as smart as everybody is um that's dealing with this I think that it it can happen that's it that's all thank you well I'd like to make a motion that for the 2526 school year we do not relocate Meale but we also kick this conversation to the school programming and curriculum to bring back and explore the discussion that we are looking for of what is happening not only with this program but in all the RTC programs in the district i'll second
105move the second moved by Dr goodwin second by Mr walker are there any questions on the motion seeing none there was no motion before this no we were just talking okay we just out here talking in new business shooting the breeze all right president Treasure may we have a vote president Goodwin yes dr bailey yes mr lacy no mr smith miss Reinard yes mr walker yes miss Wick yes six yes one no all right the next conversation piece on for tonight is the removal of middle school grades from Belmont dr lawrence can you tell us a little bit about this uh I can i just heard I just wrote down something board member Smith said fighting for space and let me say that all of these pieces actually were uh are connected the the meadow
106Dumbar they're all connected as part of a continuum and we look forward to having some conversations at the curriculum and school programming meeting on 326 2025 4 to 5:00 in the boardroom across the street at 136 South Lelo um fighting for space that's what we have at Belmont belmont has um extraordinary potential uh I was here 10 years ago when the middle schooler 10 or 11 when the middle schoolers were sent to um Belmont and it was a room full of folks out there who did not support it i guess some do now but we Belmont is our most populous high school and we have extraordinary expansion for Belmont in place belmont has been forsaken uh we went out to talk to the staff and that was what they kept repeating us we said it
107they've been forsaken from a programming standpoint for quite some time and so we have a laser-like focus on Belmont right now and we need the space from where the seventh and eighth graders are they're actually confined to one hallway um so that we can begin to expand out and have additional career tech pathways such as um sheet metal and other CTE pathways she saw the additional um teachers and instructors and fi and resources that uh chief douly asked for as we move to expand programming in the entire entire district so we are simply trying to uh make the city of Belmont um a you know great and so that's kind of a general overview of what what our thoughts are are there any any discussion the floor is open this is a discussion piece here
108my question is you can't just jump out there have got to raise your hand mr smith is first i don't see nobody raise their hand go ahead Mr smith go ahead Mr smith you wasn't you know I know they don't even look that way i made eye contact with you i saw you go ahead i appreciate that um so my first question would be where if we are saying we will be removing seventh and eighth grade from Belmont where are we expecting those children to go right now we're expecting to attend Wright Brothers um we uh I believe the number of rising seventh graders and Anise might be the team to correct me that are scheduled to go there is in the 60s is that correct seven to eight uh going from six to seven
109that would have got you got to come to the mic just grab it bring it back to the chair i don't have excuse me I don't have that data committed to memory um but our proposal was to uh not have seventh grade this year but retain the eighth graders until they can just roll up um into high school um so those seventh graders would be redistributed um to the three standalone middle schools but we have the numbers miss Burlac and I actually worked on that um with it so we can tell you exactly what the projections would be for each of the three middle schools um and the the buildings have the capacity to absorb those students currently um Miss Clark do you have those numbers i see you up there typing yeah and we're
110also you know there's state law that says that if buildings are below 60% they have to we have to investigate um closing those buildings and so we want to also make sure that our the buildings that we have are full at the middle school space while we continue to work through a transformation at the middle school go right ahead Miss Clark so the current projection for Wright brothers um is 500 students whereas the projection for Wagaman would be 37 375 376 and the projection for Yep just rolling up uh Edwin Joel is 490 491 okay that's going to be a tight school i know may I have a followup for that one my followup with that would be looking at when the seventh and eighth were put into Belmont part of the rationale for doing
111that was because we had a over populated Wright brothers um so my thought is if we're doing this then we would be going back to the same reason why we put the seventh and eighth graders in in the first place um and secondly with that the Wright brothers Wright brothers and you have a terrific memory uh so you remember this right brother was prek through eight then no when we put middle school in we just put middle school like Rhonda core you got to go back to because he was Yeah yeah i voted no it's the lazy no yeah so can I can I tap a thing on just for you just to follow go ahead the numbers you guys said exceed the building capacity like Wright brother's building capacity is 473 for just just
112general knowledge they said 500 and the building capacity is 473 uh EJ Brown's building capacity is 473 as well so it would also be over and what was the third one waggman Wagamman's I mean all the all the middle schools building capacity is just just go but let me kick it back to Smith answer that it was his oh I'm sorry then doing so then would leave to me a gap in just looking at the footprint of what we cover in our district um and I think you mentioned it the city of Belmont and understanding that is a it's a different place you go out to Belmont it's a different place one of the few places that the name of the neighborhood is on a lot of these these businesses they they rock with Belmont
113out there and seeing that just the history of that you know we no longer have Belmont was once an elementary school and then we built Belmont High School which is one of the last of the pre-rennovated buildings pre newbu buildings because of the growth just in that neighborhood and then just seeing how I look at just the landscape of middle schools and we have these conversations where you have two middle schools for the most part on the west side you have a space in Harrison Township uh that is for our young ladies at that middle school level and then this would create a gap in that side of Dayton to where we would have Wright Brothers and then to a certain extent possibly Styvers but that's a whole another another bag of students that are
114wanting to go into that art space so if you exclude the students that are going into that art space we have one middle school then on that side of town um and that's concerning to me so that would be my question is what are we doing to alleviate what would be seen then at Wright brothers and then also what are we doing to avoid what I could foresee as parents going okay not putting my kid here I don't want to send my kid to these ones so I'm going to leave the district so that is all I have for right now uh I want to go back to uh Mr lacy wasn't writing brothers prek through 8 and we took prek through six out yes yeah well yeah we did right yeah that was across
115the district that Yeah that was an across the district decision by Rhonda Core pretty much I think her first year or her which her only year yeah stuff like that the yearlet i think it might have been earlier actually because 2016 are we talking i told you she was I'm thinking about um she was in the middle of leader while Libby was doing something it was Rhonda Cor's idea yeah miss Clark how many middle schools you have there 120 how many middle schools at Belmont 120 130 currently it's more than that it's like 211 I think 12 can I yes well Miss Wick I'm my concern is the same as our board members have expressed and I certainly always appreciate the consideration of the team and the recommendations but as we've discussed before when we
116know that junior high is one of our most vulnerable uh opportunities at this for Dayton public schools um are we doing due diligence for our district as we talk about these you know um these potential solutions i mean I think oftentimes we respond we're responding right now to overcrowding we're responding to teachers and building capacity uh when I oftentimes wish we had a longer time to pause and really vision what a productive junior high campus within Dayton public schools should look like or what a productive junior high campus in today's world looks like and when we have students that are standing up speaking talking about you know being motivated to come to school whether it's ROC whether it's their sports whether it's the debate team you know what are we doing as a district to
117make sure our junior high kids want to come to school when we know that especially in Dayton public schools and probably across the country it is a really uh a space that all of our educators that do this work um I I really want to hear what everybody has to say and I want to take our time too i don't want to I don't want to always respond to I know that we have to do both you're kind of you're trying to fix things as we go and make things better so I just offer that as consideration when we're uh looking at these opportunities thank you thank you were you about to say something yeah I just want to say our this this is just writ large our focus is on expanding opportunities at at
118Belmont not uh and not not just around this idea i did mention that space but it's to be able to expand opportunities there and also building alignment in terms of what we're doing around the district and aligning all high school scheduling around our this idea around Ford NGO and providing these guaranteed pathways for kids in each one of these spaces and so we um certainly are listening and we'll we'll continue we'll continue to listen i will say that and I'll pass it to you next Mr walker here i do I hear that piece of it i mean I love the concept of 7 through 12 more than I like K through eight because I think you when you get out of elementary it's a sense of there's something different about my life and listening to
119to my team at charity us figuring out ways to do better but that's a whole another conversation i do wonder because you said the kids are in one location can you tell me why we haven't explored similar to Styver that has the seven through 12 of getting them out of that one location and bringing them to the building and my second thing that I love that we're thinking about concepts in the school again Dumbar and third good have the same lack that Belmont have and they all have the same programming according to the book that we saw last week so as we're thinking about these type of things and I know you guys are working with the Ford I don't remember the rest of the letters yes that piece of it i don't know if
120we as a board has bought have bought into the entire concept yet but I'm hopeful that these tools that you guys are using will help us make our schools more desirable in that sense of it and I I'll echo board member Wick middle school has been a struggle for us but there are some things that are happening at Belmont specifically like you're in the seventh grade i can be in the the mighty marching bison because I'm I go to Belmont it's right here and I think those pieces as we we continue to talk about like not just responding to like space has been an issue for a while it's obvious that at some point Dr jones we need to build onto these buildings especially some of those that are going up uh removing the middle
121school out is one solution but it's not the only solution and again the reason that we have a highly educated group of thinkers who run the cabinet who are here is because we we asked you guys to give us multiple variations of possibilities of what we can do and be successful and not just one so I say that piece to like the challenge to me i don't I don't I want to see more before we do these type of things and I'm happy that our committee is meeting soon to start talking about what we do first but I also don't want us to make moves until like this is we're talking about a building change and those type of things have to be approved at this level and I don't want I don't want to
122which I'm aware that there is information where you can't even choose seventh grade right now to go there because I I know some kids are going to seventh grade and wasn't on the thing so that piece of it right there we can't remove options until the board as a unit has made a decision on this one go Mr smith not Mr walker then Mr smith go ahead thank you um so for me I think looking at it um you know some parents who have a sixth grader that is going into the seventh grade and you have a 10th or 11th grader that is currently at Belmont you want to try to have your your children in the same building because it reduces on um transportation costs for that parent um after school activities you know
123where all your kids are at one time um you're not really worrying about like if your high schooler now has to go and then provide like that extra support because mom or dad is still at work for that middle schooler because you have those programs that are there in that one building i think when looking at Belmont and it's something I've said before and it may have changed um Styver's enrollment 700 and about 20 kids and they have 7 through 12 belmont enrollment 1,200 kids and they have 7 through 12 so at what point do you make it in again something I said beginning 141 oh 141 too many we have a district that continues to do equity work which I would love to see that report of the consultant that we paid to do
124equity work to see what are we actually doing how are we making things equitable i think Belmont as a whole um it is like I said it's it's a the city of Belmont i think the community there supports it i think um when we look at the space inside of Belmont yeah the district confines them to one specific area i think in and at the other building which is 7 to 12 they don't have that they are all over the place really um I think we just have to be better as far as what we're offering to those students um I think we're moving those grade levels out how does that affect those programs of the band program the athletic program um even the students that are involved in those after school activities inside of
125those buildings what does that say to them we had a student today that tell told us why they went to school was because of ROTC what do students go to school for at Belmont and I think that's the conversation that should be had i think um you know last year Dr lawrence I was not a supporter of the change with regards to transportation and I think it was only because we needed more information before doing something like that not sure of how it's working now um but then that becomes a question now with again looking at making another change how does that affect transportation with this change as well so those are my thoughts on it Mr smith all right um so I think when we talk about making changes it's incumbent on us to
126to realize when we're up here and people are here we're constantly making decisions based off of a mix of the now the future and then decisions that were made before we were here and I think that's why sometimes you have to cause for pause to at least sit and reflect but then there is that sweet spot of where if you do not make action then you will not make action and I think this is one of those situations where we talk about it uh like Mr l said we switched over from K through 8 when he was on the board but if you remember the conversation around Belmont High School having seven through 8 was when Belmont High School was being built kirk Stannick brought this conversation up these are not new conversations kurt Stannic
127said that when they built Belmont it would be likely to have seventh and eighth and that it should and at time our current mayor was on the school board and was heavily pushing to have that seventh and eighth in Belmont and when I say we're making decisions based on things that have happened that's how we kind of got in this whole middle school thing because when we went through K through 8 we changed the system when we changed away from K through eight we never looked back at the old system and so we made decisions that went a a skew from the way Dayton public schools was dayton public schools before was you had a lot of elementary schools which we have now then you had a lot of middle schools and then you had
128fewer high schools right now we have more high schools than we do middle schools so it creates this bottleneck where you have six high schools then a small middle school piece at Belmont a specialty middle school space that goes with the specialty high school and so you have three real standalone middle schools to go try to populate the rest of our high schools and so if you're losing these people then we're losing this whole discussion and that kind of is how we've got there we got that way we built buildings that were K through eight we turned around and then built middle schools and now we're trying to teach middle schoolers in rooms that were designed to have wings for kindergarten first second and third grade now and it's like because we make decisions and
129we just make them we go and we say to heck with it whoever's down the road y'all deal with it the same way when we built all these buildings shout out to Joe Lacy for trying to make them do the good thing joe Lacy was fighting the good fight back then but that's what we have we had a district that built tiny schools and now we look at it and we're saying our schools are bursting at the seams when in reality if our schools were the same size as the old schools we would have room in most of them to do some of these things and so for us it creates this need for me to say let us look at the whole totality does that look like building new buildings does it look like
130searching after um other properties and even when we look at the current middle schools we have two schools that right now that have the 7 through 12 model for the most part Styver is the same way they are on the same wing styiver middle schoolers are in the same wing for the most their day the only difference is they get to leave to do their their magnets outside of that so if you're a kid and you're doing piano you're on that same floor and unified arts and unified arts so if you're there it's not this space of trying to recreate the wheel but looking at our how do I how do I move these kids around how do I find ways that these students shift around because right now Belmont there's this space and even
131like we talked about we tried to make that change the structure of the principal ship was different until we changed that at Belmont you had a middle school principal at Ciphers you did not have a middle school principal and so looking at how do we do these key these students justice for me is the bigger conversation because we can always make quick decisions but are they always going to be the right decisions for when we're not here anymore and I think that kind of that happened so if you look at Kurt Stannic says we should have seventh through 8th in Belmont because we have a lot of kids in that community this is what we should do we didn't make uh middle school at Belmont until 2020 i only know because it was about a
132week or so before COVID hit messed up my whole first year so that's what um years of inaction because somebody says something someone leaves that idea dies no one picks it back up till years later and that is what happens a lot of times if is if we do not sit back and think and then come up with plans so I think this is a moment to really think of how do we really add to Belmont without just saying let's move these students out without having a full picture of where those students will go is this a similar recommendation for the school program and curriculum like what do you want to do with it like you said all that but what's the action for me I would kick it back to have these I I
133think this and the next conversation and any other conversation should go to that committee because then we can bring back to the board as a whole detailed work where we're saying okay these are the plans if we chose to move here this is what that space will look like if we choose to keep this this is some of the ideas that we're looking at doing these are some of the programs that we've looked at like we we do that work for other things i think we should do that same work when we're talking about buildings in totality because we take trips we talk people took trips to look at creating a elementary arts program we should be able to go around and see how do we fix the programs that we have here so I
134think kicking it to that committee in my opinion would be the best route to go so that we're actually doing the work and not coming to the board and then the board having these discussions about going back and doing the work because then we put the cart before the horse thank you Miss Ryan thank you President Goodwine um I really appreciate the ability to have this conversation here as a board um what I what I feel like we're missing with um this item and then the item after it that we did have with item D is the student and the community and the family voices i think you know I'm in the eighth year of my board service and I have been through some very difficult decisions and I recognize that change is hard and
135um sometimes understanding that it's hard and still making that change ends in a positive and um ends in a positive result and with growth but I also really really value the voices of the people who are highly impacted here the fact that we had um kids come students come and families come and talk about their reflection upon the Meadowdale JROTC program [Music] um makes an impact um I am curious about the thoughts of the community in the city of Belmont how they feel about this um I think that's that should be part of the discussion knowing that sometimes difficult decisions um communities can understand through those conversations um those hard sometimes conversations um the reasons why and they can hear the different viewpoints um and I think it's it's something that is relevant in the
136next item discussion item as well too um our responsibility to make the decisions that are beneficial for this district now and in the future does not go away with wanting to hear voices um but having the ability to balance that and make a measured thoughtful decision in my opinion is truly dependent upon getting a full picture of the decisions in front of us um so that's all I have to say dr okay are there any comments or something i have go ahead Mr lacy yeah it maybe it does need more discussion no yeah I've I've been here for two changes i I when I first got here it was a we had a a middle school system you were in middle school when I first was big deal but um that aside I mean one
137big question for me is I um are people are people who who maybe have their their kids at Wright Brothers if they don't get their is the is the one is the need the the demand to get into Belmont so great that we're turning people down or saying you you you'll need to go to another school and then they're just not going then they're dropping out of Dayton public and going elsewhere uh I want to say that um you know there are lots of other moving pieces this I think it's good actually that this happened and then we can we hear from all seven board members and then we go back to committee because now we we I'm watching the team out there we can hear your thoughts now all seven people and then we
138can come back and process this and synthesize what you've asked um and then come back to to to the committee and then come back and respond to to your thoughts actually this worked out better than I than I thought actually that it came to the full board first so that all seven people are here commenting and then back to the committee actually it would have gone to the committee first and then come here and typically it should and we'll process that and do more of that as we move forward in the future but it's worked out great can we I mean can you get back to us in time to do something for next year yes okay okay a lot of things you're talking about these pieces are already moving but I think instead of
139rehashing that out now we need to package it up in a digestible form for the board through the committee and then come back thank you any other comments or anything i would like to say I would be interested to follow up on Mr lacy's question the amount of sixth graders who are interested in going to Belmont I know that's not currently something are you guys advertising for them to be able to go there or have you removed that um we uh we knew how many are going there i don't know the exact number i'm looking at Mindy do you know the number we can get it to you yeah just interested in those families and like individuals who are looking to go there so I know exactly what we talking about here that's a real
140thing but I do want you guys to like check again i saw someone's form and the form did not have Belmont as an option at all on it so I think I don't want you just to make assumptions on numbers kind of want them to be able to tell you in that piece so if y'all can look at that go ahead Mr smith yeah um well two things to follow um definitely look at that cuz I too have seen those things and just the understanding that when people get information out and people's feelings change i know we've had that before where before we made any transportation change people got notices saying their kids could no longer get a bus to certain schools like those kind of things affect to Mr lacy's point also of people
141just leaving the district um and so I think those are two key things to look at are what sixth graders possibly would be going into Belmont Middle but then also and I think that's kind of where you were Mr lacy like parents going into the high school as well where's that yeah those students that would like to go to Belmont High School but seeing because we have the middle school seats that are missed at the high school level because of I think having that data too uh allows us and I think those kind of data points are key when we also then tap into a a Dr jones on his side about what does it look like to build or when they're looking at properties around like what what do those things look like what
142are those data points looking like what are these trends telling us um cuz taking pieces out to me is just it's a big thing it's a big thing to take pieces away and I just want us to know what we're looking at when we're having those discussions yeah we just need to get back follow up and get back with you because we are currently conducting a community survey um Miss Clark and Miss Goens have been working on that with PIO um we spoken to the teachers um I've had informal conversations with kids uh we we just need to package it up and bring it back to the committee and go from there and I'm going to say on that one too I was just going to ask and if any of the teachers at Belmont
143are watching tonight's video would love your thoughts because if there's no seventh and eighth grade I'm going to imagine if you're a seventh and eighth grade instructor you won't be there so talk to me talk to us a little bit about that i want to know is it Belmont or I leave am I willing to go to other schools i mean those to the DA president your turn tell them again tell them the rule but yeah that piece that piece right that piece right there which I I think it's I I'm going to imagine it's no more than two seventh grade and two eighth grade classes maybe there at that piece so that's four it's no more than 60 i have no idea see there i think it's less than 10 teachers but with that
144piece of it I would I would ask those individuals I mean you're part of this equation too when it comes to it you're part of the community that has been there you're part of the community as a whole in addition to wanting to know not only our students and our parents I want to know our staff because middle school is a hard place for us to feel right now and we are working middle school is just hard it's a lot going on at middle school with your how you change as a person so that's a piece right there i know I see you getting froggy not time to leave yet but that piece right there so if there are teachers who want to reach out and tell us like this like we're a board that
145does value feedback please send it to us now your turn uh we met with the middle school teachers and some high school teachers with the union president and so we've had direct communication with them we are aware HR was there as well we're aware of how many teachers it would affect and what their options are so again we'll package it all up and bring it back how did that meeting go were they happy were they like "Oh my god is this the best thing that ever happened?" or "I can't believe you doing this to me?" Uh it was not "I can't believe you're doing this to me." Uh it it was not that was it I'm happy wasn't that easy you skip past that i know was it like "You know I what I took
146from the meeting was um just they they like they were taking it all in you know I it did not look like dag this is what you um I I can't believe you're doing this to me and in fact typically when that happens you all get an immediate reaction by multiple people they just were listening and I I received some feedback on the way out and so did the rest of the team so again we started that process we'll we'll push through it and get to the committee and and and get back with you have they been transferred already no okay is Dr bailey Mr smith Mr walker uh my question is so how would that a transportation with the transport like if you took them out of the Belmont and they're going to the
147other two two schools how are how is that going crazy they're they become part of a system where they get on other routes and I noticed kudos to transportation there's about seven or eight bus drivers on there this time so yeah they just become part of the transportation system we pick them up as a person who drove a route in the last two weeks it's crazy right now so If I'm trying to tell you man you go clear across town like to the to Mr walker's point on the Northwest system we should have thought a little bit more about that because it that actually is not that's not so much northwest or northeast my bad northwest that until you hop on the bus and ride with somebody or drive you go like how did I
148end up by Clayton and now I'm on Riverside wow so yeah that's a that's a conversation we should go to routing and have because that's not the north south that's another question but yeah it's wild right now it was you and it was over all right so last one to kick back to that committee i would ask uh Dr lawrence currently do we have any students at Belmont Middle School taking high school courses yes that and I think because I think that is also a space to look at when we're talking about ways to move these students especially understanding that we have across our district but Belmont was pretty much at the forefront of this and having such an international flavor in our building understanding that this creates space down the road for these students
149schedules if they're in there taking say for for instance high school language classes seven fifth grade or having these poss possibilities to take some of because that's one of the things that we're able to do as a district is offer these high school courses to middle schools so I think as we look at that and finding ways to try to possibly incorporate that kind of piece of how we're making the city of Belmont grow by really getting them in those spaces i see your brain thinking that's what happens when you go to Meadowdale i I should clarify yeah that Yeah they do and we have lots of middle schoolers taking high school classes even schools kids who are not at 7 through 12 i mean they're taking right I mean algebra one algebra one considered
150high school right okay appreciate that Mr walker um so I'm just curious so currently with transportation it is 1.5 miles and above received transportation right yes okay so if I'm a sixth grader and I'm originally like planning to go to Belmont and now that it's changed and I'm no longer going to Belmont for seventh grade my parents now want transportation for that now as a parent that may change and I have to look at other alternatives that is a possibility okay so I think that goes to my point of when we have our conversations and I'm like if it's how you say taking it back to the team you know that A to C we can just look at B i think we'll be good all right any more comments on this one so I
151will say for us to change the structure of the school we have to vote on it so at this time we haven't voted yet on the structure because we didn't get a recommendation to vote on the structure of it so I we're we're hoping you guys take this to the committee i know there's a meeting scheduled soon on that one and we can start those things but until we make a vote the actual structure doesn't change of the school that requires a board vote all right next one i'm sure it's going to echo similar things about more information but Dr lawrence tell us a little bit about the addition of middle school to River's Edge Monasuri uh have already met with parents paras um had conversations with the community there's a survey currently out uh
152sixth grade students typically leave River's Edge and they head to uh STEM school DECA and now Shaman I will be starting 712 so in an attempt to avert that um in addition to the parents this has been an interest in that for a long time we did have operations involved and we do have room for I would it's not called seventh and eighth in Monasari but I'll say that for the sake of the general public seventh and eighth graders in Monasari starting with the rising sixth graders so all right floor is open to comments are you ready or you go ahead Mr walker mr lacy raised this i mean is there real real quick yes okay okay so River's Edges student capacity is 550 and today we are at just just so people have numbers
153544 so uh Mr smith um go ahead Mr lacy mr lacy is going well dr lawrence was going to respond to that i Yeah I was going to say that we um so we have capaca so those capacity numbers and we're going we'll send you the list when we talk about operations um there's three three different numbers and so one is capacity to build one is capacity based on attendance and there's a third number a third column actually I I sent that information to Miss Riner so we will send it to the full board but we did get operations to um work with us to determine that there was capacity and that is the report I got back they work with the academics to do so that's that's all I have yeah walking go first
154can I ask a question for you dr jones can you confirm this information that we talking about right now on the capacity piece he said he worked with you guys look at him with the spreadsheet up love it when he come with a spreadsheet there's nothing on his screen he doing something else he watching again ohio building occurs 750 okay and then uh Belmont is 1100 and Styver 1,000 wait a minute let me check that real quick yeah Styver is 1,000 what was Belmont 1,100 how many did that build 1,041 it's jumping over there we got space i thought And again that's the Ohio building code occupancy so what's the difference like if you take into account like gifted classrooms and do special needs we do can you take into account all the things we
155have and tell us what our capacity is i I will do that for you yes ma'am can you do it right now on the spot no man we can't forever no i wouldn't be saying your people at Joe Lacy could have did it on spot he a number of weeks he would have brought out his calculator jones had you you know just say no say no she told him to sit down like we went to Patter sit down that is a Patterson thing it's a Patterson thing listen Patterson's a great school bring that back for ratification if you would give us that though kind of with the other variables so we know the true capacity numbers for us that would be great mr smith um it was walk it um so okay so I know
156this conversation as far as um DECA losing students to DECA and things like that um for me we're already in March if a parent is looking at where their kid is going for middle school I've already made up my mind of where they're going because no opportunities currently exist for that type of thing um CJ adding middle school again CJ the place that I mean those are essentially vouchers now going to CJ and again Even if you say for me adding middle school at River's Edge okay what does that say about the students at Eastmont what does it say about the students at Horseman what does that say now about the population at Styver because generally the students that do stay here typically go to a Styver or something like that i don't know if
157they go anywhere else but that's generally where they're looking to go because of the enrichment they receive at River's Edge and what leads them to Styver and things like that um looking at River's Edge space-wise and things like that I being inside of River's Edge I I generally wanted to see where where this extra space is to add more to it i think River's Edge has a lot going on and it's great program and things like that i I just personally don't see where seventh eighth grade will fit um and yeah I think I I think that's why we had the conversation we certainly can take you in that journey and to your point parents teachers principal but really parents said "If you give us the option to stay here we'll stay." Um we don't
158we don't want to make that decision can I can I just say something about that yeah go ahead typically River's Edge parents come out and speak whenever there's something regarding River's Edge they do they like Yeah so I think if that's a conversation and they they support it I think that works for me in your favor and things like that thanks i appreciate it um I actually have a different stance on this than the last one for me I look at River's Edge and it's this little tucked off pocket where I don't know if you've ever been there for pickup it is hellacious over there trying to pick up them kids at River's Edge it's crazy over there so that's already an issue for me there's barely any green space over there then where I
159cannot avoid having this discussion is just the difference of the conversation that we just had where we had in one space we need to talk to people we need to talk to people who need to talk to people at River's Edge we have talked to people we have talked to people we have talked to people i have a great issue with that because around our city we look at that and we say we're going to listen to River's Edge parents and we'll listen to Styiver's parents so it's saying there are parents all if you asked parents at Eastmont if given the chance would you want your kid to stay at Eastmont they would say yes we'll stay at Eastmont because they've been there from preK through six and they love it there i do not
160like that space where we get into of well we need to add this because those kids are then leaving us to go outside of here they're leaving us to go outside of here because they view these other middle school options as better than the middle school options we currently have and if we continually just do that space of adding on for these people here what do we do for the Waggamman the EJ Brown the Wright brothers because it's like we're having okay we don't want the River's Edge parents to take their kids out of the district but we're not thinking about those parents that are taking vouchers because they don't want their kids to go to Waggamman so they'll get their kids out of there we're not we're we're not having those same conversations and
161I think as a district until we do that we will never get to the root because if unless we're saying okay we're opening River's Edge as a whole middle school space where everybody's applying to get over there which I do not think this would be this would be a caveat for a certain group at one school that does not change the fact also that what happens when they get done with their time at River's Edge and there's no River's Edge high school for them to go to and then they just they just moved off their time going to CJ or the STEM school or a DECA by two years that's it's unless we up what we already have we will continue to lose people and so I think that I do not like the conversation
162around trying to address a problem by avoiding the problem and the problem is what we do currently at Waggamin EJ Brown Wright brothers that's the issue the issue isn't giving a school the opportunity to stay at that school this conversation is far different than the conversation of charity charity was a school where it is already a specialty school that had really low numbers and trying to pro provide uh assistance there this is a different kind of conversation and I'm I think to Mr walker's point of what happens when Kent parents go "Okay well we want a middle school." Or a horse man says "Well we want a middle school." Or Valerie says "Well can we get a middle school?" Because I just don't see the number i don't see the value ad of keeping on
163the sixth graders at River's Edge which we already know they're not all going to stay some are still going to leave to some of these other schools but as a person who has been there some of the issues are internal and we have to fix that i've been to a middle school um informational at River's Edge before they were told by people who work for us about how to go to Styver and that is it i ask cuz I say "Okay well what if a CH kid doesn't go into Styver?" Well there's DECA where there's the STEM school where there's this and that and those are people who are internal in our spaces so that shows the mentality that we are already exhibiting to our parents so why would they not think of that so
164we have people at the sixth grade level who are going there's no way I'm sending my kid to Wright brothers EJ Brown or Waggam and to me the issue is well then how do we increase the middle school offerings or how do we increase what we're doing in this space i would even I would much rather us try to add a standalone middle school option than trying to create a middle school option because then at least that way we can add programming in and now you're taking the burden off of some of the things that are going and as an aside which I'll yield my time after that I would much rather us spend the time to dive into the alternative school that we have talked about before because that is also a resource for
165the students that we currently serve um and it's a higher number of students that we currently serve if we look at the impact of what's going on in some of these buildings where if you look at a Walgam and you look at a EJ Brown you look at a Wright brothers where you talk to teachers and you talk to administrators where they have amazing students they have amazing teachers and then they have to deal with the the the byproduct of what goes on in Dayton Ohio where I would gather people don't understand that space of being in a middle school you have 20ome kids seven of them are from group homes another three of them are coming from homes where there's a a lot of things going on and then some have some issues that
166aren't currently being addressed in a multitude of ways i would much rather us look at how to help those students and then by doing that we would help those teachers and administrators and other students in those buildings so that is my thoughts on the whole thing sorry for taking so long but I had to get that out i I'll just say that as the chair of the committee you know we'll be back to have the conversation we've had uh many of those conversations we the we would be us we have thought we have not forsaken the rest of the district um the we will be us the team we've not given up on the middle schools uh we have increased programming in the middle schools dramatically there are plans to continue to do that but
167that's a conversation as the chair of the school programming and curriculum committee uh we can dive deep with you to have that conversation to be clear board member Smith is the chair of that committee i know board member Walker as he was like who the chair as you said as the chair then he tried to use that proverbial wei on me like we had a couple more thoughts just to add to that one so with middle school in particular there a couple things that I wonder about when it comes to certified teachers when we get to secondary it kind of it takes a dip it takes a dip real hard for us in that piece of it on that one and I do although I think the monastery school will probably be more attractive i've
168never actually really heard how successful a monastery method is in seventh eighth grade because we've never had it so I would be interested to figure like learn is that really an effective way for individuals as well as where do we attract monetary teachers at i do have a question about our other monetary school if that's even still happening in that piece of it because I rarely hear about the one that's at the international school and that that's a piece of it there like I know they currently go K through six here is that is that still No that's the that's that's the other that's the other half half of it is supposed to be monastery but we rarely hear about it in that piece is that still is that still happening we got How's the
169teaching pool going for it their teachers are um they're excellent i don't know if they're monatory trained but I'm in their classrooms just they're phenomenal i have to ask Dr davis if they're monatory trained but from an instructional pedigogy standpoint they're spectacular if they not monitor trained is it really a monetary school okay look tell you that mind your business that's all just mind your business mind your business like some people over there okay but that priest right there cuz I mean we are we are actively trying to do things to get more certified teachers and as I've said on many occasions to you yourself and to members on your team I don't think any of your programs have a chance to be successful if we don't have the workforce to make them successful and
170our long-term subs do the best that they can and they try to keep us afloat but the reality is we need the other pieces for us to be successful in that way so I am interested in adding this to that piece what does that pull from another place already that's already struggling with certified teachers in that piece of it that's that's one piece for me on that one i think also too I mean I'mma echo if any of y'all energy went anywhere i'm going to echo board member Smith it's the alternative school because I think our workforce is stressed they're stressed out and they're stressed to the max about a concept we've been talking about for two years now which I hear Dr jones have been doing their part to get the building together i
171hope the plan that you guys gave us a year ago there's been some refining to it to see what's ever possible because the teacher workforce is very it's necessary for the many ideas that you guys bring forward to be successful because I don't want to go another year and hear that half of our secondary schools is coming just hold on keep hoping it's going to happen i want to see those type of things come to fruition for us in that piece of it i'm hopeful i mean I believe we're I mean we're going to bring it up i'm put it on the board for the April meeting for us to just vote if we want that to happen or not so we can actually give some clear directions because we've talked about it we've heard
172things and at this point as a group we have to make decisions and I will say to the middle school piece like if this again more conversation is definitely needed on it i'm not against it because I mean it is it may be something that's beneficial to us in that piece of it i'm still a proponent more so of 7 through 12 than I am of K through eight and as we talk about you talked about these communities that we talk about right now i also would like to see you guys explore adding middle school to Melddale particularly because when you leave Valerie I mean when you leave Valerie there's no gap there's no place for you to go to a charter school or to another side of town unless you are female you can
173go to charities down that's a real gap point for us there is our lowest school has the And again we talk about these programs and that connected we have seen success at this place that we have 712 but as you guys are exploring I asked too that you explore a middle school and our footprint in the Harrison Township area we don't have a we don't have a strong middle school footprint because we only have one school that's gender specific in that so I would ask to add that to to look at as you are exploring about dang Ryan my mom like always well nobody here right ryan just put me on static you see how I did he's like static it up so go ahead board member Riner thank you President Goodwine um I I
174welcome the voices of the River's Edge community just like I welcome the voices of the Belmont community and the voices of the JOTC community i think it's a valuable part of who we are and what we do here um I will say so I don't how I feel about this isn't necessarily the way in which I the the direction in which I feel we should go so I just want to say that but um I don't I don't feel right now I I don't I don't have a full understanding right now of what the right direction is but I will say that when I started sending my oldest child to River's Edge back in 2008 um it was Franklin back then and there were a couple monastery schools and it went up to eighth grade
175it it went up to 8th grade for a long time and I think it was just a year maybe two at the most that it went up to eighth grade before it switched back down to up to six um and I mean that change was hard i remember although I will say the difference between those teeny tiny little three-year-olds and the very tall seventh and eighth graders like terrified me as a parent of a kindergartener who is you know his first time in school now as a parent of older kids I realize that like the size doesn't matter they're they're still students and kids and they're excited to learn um but it I I welcome the discussion from staff and administration and the families um I think there's a possibility there uh but I I
176also will echo um this might be something we might want to explore in other schools extending the elementary um Dr goodwin if you're interested in monastery schools that go past sixth grade um Cincinnati public has multiple monatory schools that go all the way through 12th grade if you wanted to look towards um a system that does that pretty close to here and that's all I have thank you i have one more thing to add for you some feedback I got from the Charity Adams middle school children which I think you guys should talk to them about how they how they feel they don't feel necessarily a big difference of being in middle school and if we do ultimately go in this way I think that feedback will be very valuable to another school if it's
177middle school is added to our elementary definitely talk to some kids that have a lot of thoughts on how they would want middle school to feel even though they're in the same building that they were in elementary so I I would ask for you guys to talk to them on that piece too go ahead board members so my request would be that we take the same energy that we asked to talk to communities when we think of making changes we should talk to them about the changes they want to see around the district period the same way that we can talk to I would want to hear from a Belmont parent or a River's Edge parent i want to hear from a Kent parent who we're not talking about adding anything to camp but I
178want to know hey why is it that you took your kid from camp and then took them to the STEM school because I think that's just as valuable and maybe more valuable because so I think putting that piece and really putting a focus onto some of the things that we talk about um a key piece of that was looking just looking at the conversation that we had around the non-enrolled athlete piece a lot of people let us know loud and clear in different spaces I sent my kid to this school for this reason even though I want my kid to play sports over at Dayton Public i want my kid to even be involved in some activities there i sent my kid to this school because there was something I did not feel comfortable with
179over there with you guys that is a real discussion and is way more important to me than talking to people at certain schools because if I look across the landscape of all of our elementary schools there are certain feeders if I look at the middle schools there are certain feeders if you talk to some school kids and you ask them at the eighth grade level what school are you going to next year and these are our kids they're either um I might go to Ponent but if I don't go to Ponins I'm probably going to Northridge or I'm probably going I'm probably going to Fairmont i'm probably going to I'm probably going to Northmont i'm thinking about going to Horizon that is where we need to get to and having those discussions of what is
180it you need to see what is it is it a piece because some of the the choices that they make aren't even rooted in the real academic pieces because I look at our high schools and I see the great teachers we have i see the programming we have and I will put it up there against a lot of these programmings out here so then are we talking is it a marketing piece is it a culture piece it is a conversation piece that people have been having out there that is the real thing and like I look at this building I look at River's Edge it is hard to do some of the things as we grow in this time i mean it's a little pocket it's a pocket which once again it goes to those
181things we didn't make those decisions to put that school right there on the corner other people did it's here nor there but those are real things joe Lacy ain't for that joe Lacy kept kept some things he was a fighter but I think that is for me I would want that energy because we have to really dive into some of these things and then we also have to you figure out how do we have the conversation with community but couch it with the expertise of our staff because you cannot let one always dictate the other either i mean that is a real thing somebody could tell you that they we could have a group of people come in here and say we want candy for lunch and if a 100 people say it does not
182mean that we will then turn over and do candy for lunch because we have experts that will tell you that is not a healthy alternative so sometimes we have to really have this discussion of okay I heard from people I heard from parents I heard from students but let me now hear from my experts as well let me hear from my staff as well because what we cannot always do is go okay we're going to go the way the parents and students told us because that is also what this district has done before is we've went from what people pressure us and we create these spaces we go from what we're pressured to do by outside forces we go from pressure pieces that is why you don't have a Patterson because people told the district
183"We don't want kids downtown." We didn't talk to our people about that okay well if they don't want them downtown let's get them up out of here we didn't talk about that people did not want to send their kids to Colonel White we didn't figure out that part let's just close Colonel White we have to get away from this space of letting people dictate things on either side it has to be a collection together about what is best for our community and what it looks like moving forward i mean so I even look at that when we talk about our studies yes we say "Hey what do students want to do?" I want to marry that with what do the experts say is coming down the pipeline for our region because if we're letting students
184then tell us we want to learn XYZ and we only go with that and then we're missing out on what's coming down the road but then we also need to find something to keep students engaged while we try to teach them what is coming down the road and that is the beauty of some of our buildings where students love to come into that is the beauty of a styver where kids not of our kids are styvers are going to go on and play the cello for a career but playing that cello gets them excited about coming to school every day so maybe I can sneak in some math and science and history and things like that so when we're having these conversations I want us to go and talk to the Louise Troy parents as
185well i want us to go talk to Kent parents as well i want us to talk to East my parents as well because that conversation may be different you might have a conversation that says "Let us build on or keep seven at River's Edge." But then what if you talk to other people and they say "You know what if there was just any other Dayton public middle school I'd go there." And now we're talking about "Okay these people want a building." Now that's a whole different discussion so I would ask for us one to really look at what are we doing about the alternative school because we're having these discussions but we talked about the alternative school last year and we haven't had any followup heavily on that as a board but then secondly what
186does it look like to talk to all of these fourth fifth sixth grade parents to be ready to say hey what do we need to do as a district to keep you in our district in two years because that is going to be a huge thing as well that's it got a lot to say down here tonight it's a lot you got another speech going on i'm done for the day man all right i would ask too as we go into those committee talks cuz I think currently correct me if I'm incorrect we we stop accepting kids into River's Edge is it after third or fourth grade when do we stop accepting kids and my follow-up question is could other kids come to the seventh grade if they wanted to come we typically take students
187up through third grade um and then if they have monitor experience then we add them in four five and six will we take them in seventh grade um so for our recommendation for seventh grade we did attend um we said that we would just roll up our sixth graders to seventh grade um for that capacity we do have two classrooms on the top floor that we would use for that we did have a parent meeting that was very successful a lot of parents were very interested in that they said that they would reconsider their um decision to go someplace else to attend Rivers Edge for another year um the other piece of that is that um we they asked a lot of questions we were able to answer those questions um and we also had
188a lot of feedback um on um a parent square post as well in favor of having seventh grade um at River's Edge for another school year all right thank you so that's a maybe we'll accept seventh grade or no no we were just planning on rolling up the sixth graders 39 kids that's in sixth grade right now are the opening piece that we could possibly open this up to just the the current it's like we were just rolling those kids up okay but I'm sure that we could have discussions about something else all right go ahead Mr walker i'm I'm just curious um Chief Squarot or I don't know uh Mr simmons or what middle school usually has it's sixth or seventh periods right seven seven period so if they're only going to have two
189classroom like what would that schedule consist of just swapping back and forth so when you look at monatory programming we talked about that so they would have um between the two teachers they would um do that we've done that when we had seventh and eighth grade um in that classroom we switch between the two classrooms we would actually add an extra special um in an elective then we were kind of talking about what that look like um at the middle school level to give them something else additionally we needed another special at River's Edge as well okay thank you any other comments i feel like we hit this one so similar to the conversation we had before as Chief Spurlock Dr lawrence have stated that other individual have our parents have feedback on this feel
190free to send it to us feel free to come talk to us feel free to provide us with that information as we explore this opportunity as well and I will echo again again to change the structure of the school we have to vote on it so at this time we have not voted on it yet because we haven't received a formal recommendation so it is at this moment we haven't done we're just exploring the conversation on that piece of it all right let's go to comments mr lacy uh the finance committee met Thursday and went over the finances and found them in good order and I'm sorry I missed the the closing you'll be able to comment on the close yes great that's all I have thank you Mr miss Wick in the spirit of
191time I thank continue to thank everybody for all their work uh I have no updates but thank you thanks to my colleagues too Miss Reiner thank you President Goodwin um also in the spirit of time just a couple of things um I testified in the House Education Committee um in in regards to House Bill 96 which is the House Bianual Budget Bill um a large percentage of what the state does um with the budget is um in the interest of public education um and I submitted my testimony i would be happy to share that with the public um I just realized that I don't have it under my name but I will bring it up next month if people are curious as to what some of the priorities are that we have um in terms
192of public education funding um the engagement kid met we are looking forward to supporting each school having a PTO um this year this is a lot of work that um takes a lot of time and effort this is where I will ask community members um to step up we cannot do this the PTO's are run by parents and by volunteers it is not run by the principles it is not run by the teachers we need the parents to step up um please contact me if you have questions um and I will point you to the correct person um and then today I attended the state legislative conference out in Columbus um also in regards to House Bill 96 96 um and um yeah that's all I have mr smith um just want to shout out
193all the people that came out today i appreciated it i love being in this space because it means we have parents and students and everything with us here um so we're heading on to that home stretch it's the dog days of spring everybody hang tight uh make sure you're checking on each other and we got this appreciate you all keep the main thing the main thing mr walker thank you um so for me the um after school activities committee did meet um I charge Chief Shehy with something to try to create so we'll get back to that uh our meeting this month um and then um attended the uh I think I had numerous invitations for ReadAcross America i think I did four or five um and then this weekend I will be the uh
194keynote speaker at the Metale RTC's military ball so looking forward to that and then lastly um if uh my colleague Miss Riner said um currently it is budget season um in the state so please pay attention to that but I also want to um just put out there that in the Senate Senate Bill 113 currently is it had its first hearing and that is a bill that will pro basically prohibit DEI inside of public education so please pay attention to that bill as well thank you Dr bailey um I'd just like to say I thank everybody that came out today uh to speak u and say good job to everybody's working hard thank you thank you Miss Hamilton she back there i see you and Stacy matching today too i like that oh my god
195um I know it's been a long evening so I look forward to being brief uh I just wanted to say that I'm really excited that we got a chance to see so many students and staff members acknowledged in such a public fashion and I think that this is amazing that we we take care to um to celebrate to celebrate together as a community and so in lie of that um I wanted to make sure to formally introduce someone that I've added to the team you know through your all approval uh and that's Tina Cornet tina if you just want to wave she is our new internal audit executive secretary and she has a wealth of experience from not only project management and compliance experience exposure but then also of course with administrative experience as well
196uh and she's already been able to help out with some special projects including a risk assessment questionnaire which has already been sent out to staff and I'm really excited to see the results of that questionnaire so um I just want to say thank you and excited for Tina to be a part of the team thank you Dr jones what you need the laptop for closing comments got about a two-page uh No no for the sake of brevity I would not go into uh extreme details but I just wanted to share with the board and the community in general that uh we are very excited uh about engaging in uh the work of changing culture uh within our transportation department um we are building a strategic plan uh that is based on the voices of our
197uh transportation staff uh we sat down with them and um we beckoned for all of the struggles and frustrations uh that they experienced while working in transportation and I believe they were very candid yes very candid um and so we're going to utilize that data uh to develop a strategic plan of action uh our next step uh is to um actually Brandon uh Mr calhoun has been working with uh elementary and secondary leaders uh to gather groups of students uh to have conversations about not only transportation but how they experience operations in general uh so we have a captive audience and we can use their data for strategic plans that we're going to build uh later uh then uh we're going to go to the community uh do the same thing uh and then in
198phase two so that's part 1 A 1 B 1 C uh listening sessions in phase two we're going to go back to the drivers and share all of the uh data that we've gathered and have them inform us uh or or collaborate with us in terms of sharing or building strategic plans and action steps uh suggestions to what the strategic plan should look like again this is all based on their voices uh we'll create that strategic plan uh identify how it aligns with the district academic action plan and then we'll share the the final plan with the transportation staff and say "Hey look did we get this right?" Uh can you add value to what we developed and then uh the next step will be to bring it to you and present our strategic action
199plan you answered some of the questions yes you were there of course this is not Q&A to the audience dr jones I'm sorry Dr jones dr jones if you entertain people asking questions they'll keep doing it i will sit down but you can go over there and talk to him personally if you want to thank you all right this is not it we have order madam treasur today we had uh our post audit meeting and uh our financial audit came clean which is unmodified opinion uh the auditor's audit the accuracy of the financial statements internal control and compliance we received unmodified opinion on all three parts of the audit no citation no finding nothing these are the lists financial statements type of auditor's uh report issued unmodified internal control over financial reporting material weakness identified
200nothing a significant deficiency in compliance and material weakness nothing noted non-compliance material to financial statements noted none nothing federal awards internal control over major uh programs material weakness identified nothing significant deficiency identified not considered to be material nothing noted type of auditors reported issues on this uh report and unmodified any audit findings that are required to be reported in accordance with to CFR 251 no audit audit qualified as low a uh lowrisk audit yes this is a major part that means we are lowrisk audites and that means the the auditors don't have to uh audit 50% or more than 50% in addition because in addition because of the financial um financials and budgetary improvements of improvements our rating will stay a or it will be upgraded we will continue to work very hard to maintain
201this trend of excellence in the future this accomplishments could not have happened without the hardworking of the treasurer's team the support of the board and the district thank you team yes you are the best as always thank you how many years have you had what's your what's your streak right now how many clean outs oh four four years four pets out here you're better than the Kansas City Chiefs dr lawrence hey to my team let's continue to move forward and um and yeah we just continue to move forward and and get the work done and Eva Lawrence my mom I love you and Ann Robinson my aunt back at you i'll see you two Saturdays from now for dinner and get ready for convocation we got your seats ready what you having for dinner why
202two Saturdays man i I'll be in DC this Saturday at the council of Bay City Schools so next Saturday all right i thought you had a duo thing yeah yeah y'all presenting together or something like that i heard okay y'all can talk after this board member Smith you had a followup yes I did and talking with um I don't even know what to call them now because I don't want these the people up there to take away our stuff but they used to be engagement and inclusion but talking with that Yeah but their team they still have not been able to see any movement on those positions they're currently now at I think seven total guys throughout the whole district whereas they had more than that before and they're still waiting to get a posting
203up for one of the life coaches for the young ladies of the district and after meeting with all of them and the engagement group told them I would bring it back to the to report on it that was it thank you so thank you for everyone who has stayed with us on this long journey but it was a fun time first to the PIO team you got two boxes of pizza back here you know everybody in the room is hungry y'all could have offered somebody a slice just saying students were Everybody a slice maybe next time get squares divvy it up that's at least 24 slices we could have shared as a team we have to work on teamwork that That wasn't very customer service of you guys not to share that with us right
204right second this weekend I got to attend the math Olympics and I also got to attend the cheerleading competition always a great job that our team is doing you know I always have tips on how we could be more exciting but I do appreciate always seeing our kids out there and I'm going to share every single one of those tips of how we can make the math Olympics more exciting for the viewer cuz the the individuals they're doing some real intense math the entire time they're so thinking about the viewer but the watcher it was a bit long going like "All right did you win you got it." So good but I do appreciate the team and everything they did to put into that one the shout out to the athletics team and the cheerleading
205competition this is our second year and it continues to be a treat that people look forward to enjoying if you did not see being a cheerleader and if you win you get the biggest trophy in the district cuz the thing is taller than I am and I appreciate that the majority of our team It is saying something i'm 411 and a half baby don't come for me but I do appreciate that our that we have found a way to give our teams that do not go to competitions outside of the district a way to compete each year but I am hopeful that we'll see more of them go to competitions outside of here i did have some conversations with individuals as I vis visited a couple schools over the past couple weeks and one thing
206that I said I would bring back is us actually discussing the building subconcept that we used to have that kind of went away definitely worth a conversation of having because that familiarity of that individual being in the building and being able to serve in that piece is probably good for rapport with our kids so Dr lawrence if we can look into that concept of building a building sub not multiple building subs for some of our schools similar something that we've had before that would be great let's see other than that every committee that I am on that I chair we met we did stuff it was a time it's great there are minutes and some places for it if you want to come see him feel free to come every other meeting that I've had
207outside of here we met we keep doing that it's a thing i have nothing to report in detail on it i do believe that I'm doing something at Edison tomorrow i have no idea what it is speech contest i am doing a introduction at a speech contest for Edison tomorrow so thank you for Is this your time you had your time so I appreciate I do appreciate administrators when you do reach out to Miss Kid and Miss Garen because that is something that we should do as your elected officials is show up and show our support when we are able to in our schedule can make that accommodation other than that that is kind of everything we have going on in the district again I thank everyone who joined today's conversation i do hope that
208you continue to connect with us because again not only do we listen to our team here we listen to our teams in the community because you guys are important for us to make decisions and as we talk about schools I want us to make sure not only do we think about the instructional piece of it but we think about the transportation we think about the after school programming we think about athletics we think about every component that makes a school a school with that pursuant to section 121.22 22G2 of the Ohio Revised Code i move that this board goes into executive session this meeting is being held to consider the appointment employee consider the appointment employment of a public employee do I have a second second no attorney any questions on the motion moved by
209Dr goodwin second by Mr smith it was aggressive so that was you president Goodwin yes dr bailey yes mr lacy yes Mr smith yes Miss Reiner yes Mr walker yes Miss Wick yes seven yeses shall we go the 70