001e e e hold [Music] oh for for do we want to sit out the you said no what's come out there first oh that's right right let's do that together us together yes we have a new member good evening good evening I like to call this December 17th business meeting to order Madame treasure maybe have a roll call don't look at me I made me some nervous Smith present Miss Wick present Dr Bailey here uh Mr Lacy I'm here Mr Walker present Miss rard present Dr goodwine Dr goodwine has an excused absence okay six in attendance yes okay Zakia would you come up to the mic and thank you so much and would you walk us through briefly the election process and then bring up our new ex official student Senate President yes so I
002would like to introduce um our newly elected president and vice president of our superintendent um student Senate Mr nellan Scott who is our pres president you can come on [Music] up and madam vice president of ponet high school if you could come on so these two will represent our district um the student body within the district and they'll be our representatives for the city of Dayton through the Montgomery County um young delegates so I would give these two the chance to um introduce themselves and tell them your their plans of action thank you okay hello so as she said I'm nilon scottt um I'm honored to be chosen to be uh this District student Senate President this year um and I'm honored to come and uh bring my ideas for my high school th Good
003Marshall as well as uh work with the other students at the senate senate like my vice president right here thank you I'm NAA Woods I'm a junior opponent and I'm really happy to be vice president for superintendent student Senate and I just want to I just want to help open new doors and be guided through new doors so give them a round of applause we are very excited to have them on board this year thank you and next Dr Lawrence can introduce our lovely guests here and C the board and treasure and then superintendent join us down so we can we can all sit back and enjoy our our lovely guest this is going to be exciting the bill Haven choir led by Brother Stephen Reeves and let's go down on the floor here and
004enjoy this Dr Bailey is already threatened to jump in so watch out he's already there you [Applause] [Music] the mission of the Bell Haven School is provide a safe haven and a focus on individual and inclusive education through collaboration and Community involvement and now for the I am respectful I am responsible I am sa so [Music] very this is the [Music] bast I believe I believe [Music] I believe in me I believe again I believe I believe I believe in me I'm going to make it I'm going to make it I believe in me put a smile on your face I'm going to make it I'm going to make it I'm going to make itou I believe in me around I can't turn around I can't turn around I believe in me you turn around
005I can't turn around I can't turn around I believe in me I believe I [Music] believe I believe I believe in me I I believe I believe I believe in me let's gr a little bit [Music] this school this school yes my school yes my school it's the best school it's the best school yes the best school it's the best school I believe in me two more time I believe in [Music] me I believe in [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] me just sing loud I believe in me I believe in me sing it two more times I I believe in me for meend and I believe I believe in me do y'all hear what the kids are saying they believe in themselves do you believe in him I believe in me let bring it on
006home I believe I believe in me [Applause] [Music] pick it [Applause] up want to sing [Music] we want to tell the world we want them to know that they are love with them music we can make the world a better place for everyone we want to sing We want to tell the world we want to know where they are love with our music we can make the world a better place where you are the songs that we sing have a special ring the people that we meet can't be beat the days that we spend we hope will never end so join in now my friend we want to sing We want to tell the world want them to know with they our love with our music we can make world a better place for everyone
007the songs that we sing have a special ring the people that we meet can't be beat the days that we we SP we hope will'll never end so join in now my friend we want to sing We want to tell the world want our love with our [Music] music we can make the world a better place for everyone for every for [Music] [Applause] everyone can we just give another round of applause for the Bell Haven it's good to see you Bell Haven Unified chorus come on this is Dayton's very own Bell Haven 4401 free pipe where after it becomes after steepen thaler it becomes free pip and it becomes Bell Haven Elementary School I'm so thankful for the opportunity I know that the hour has grown late and I just can't thank you enough it's
008not a a right but a privilege to serve and an honor uh to be uh the music teacher at B Haven Elementary School thank you so much for your time and your patience peace be with you happy holidays until we meet again thank you so much guys [Applause] you doing oh can we give another hand to our students from Bell Haven just I want to give another thank you to those that work with him every day and I want to definitely lift up their parents family members Community because that's what really this is about and we talk about keeping the main thing the main thing that's what it's really about if the things we're doing up here on this day is don't directly impact those students that we just saw here then something's missing so
009I just want us to always realize that no matter where we're at in the district it's about those kids there because when we see the things that we see in the news and we see the things that we see in the paper and online all of these students started out as preschoolers and kindergarteners and first graders and it's our duty to make sure that we're providing everything we can so I just want to thank everyone that let us have that moment to really refocus on while we're here and then e next we want to go on to more celebratory news Dr Lawrence take it away thank you so much president Smith next uh we want I went Dr Shear Gill and one of her last oh no her last uh meeting point of information we
010did not do the pledge according to board member Lacy board member Lacy gonna get on us thank you board member Walker thank you so much he already beat me too can we stand for the Pledge of Allegiance States am man I just want to say that uh president Smith is usually always very calm the one thing that gets him going is kids he loves that so that's kind of why we got out of order he was caught up in children no I love him that's how you do man so yes I'm want to bring up Dr Sher Gil this is her last board meeting before she goes on to become CEO of House of Bread U we are going to miss her dearly uh but she has been phenomenal she's going out uh like she
011came in uh she's managed the counselors and all those amazing kidss that they supervise and every time I look up there's a program or award so um here we are again backtack years in Dayton public schools with the prestigious WS Macintosh um Memorial Scholarship and she's going to talk about our winner uh and the work that went into this uh thank you Dr Lawrence it is an honor to be here tonight to be with you all and I do want to just say thank you for a great three and a half year run with Dayton public schools and I appreciate the support and all that I've learned and all the growth I've had in this time that's made it possible for me to take this next step um I'm very excited the Macintosh scholarship is
012something um we keep striving to uh keep in Dayton public schools it has alternated most recently it kind of alternated years in DPS out of DPS there's a time not too long ago it went two years in a row out of DPS and um I can tell you the counselors have been working really really hard to get this thing back in DPS and um so we have backtack years of DPS and uh I am so excited last year it was with Meadowdale and this year with th good and this is the first time in the history of thir Good Marshall uh High School stem High School um that they have received I believe uh the Mac had Macintosh winner so neon Scott is the winner of this year's uh award he is an amazing student
013I don't know him as personally as some other people in this room like his principal but I can tell you I've seen him in about every CCP classroom I've walked into um always doing his work asking about what else there is out there for him um just an amazing student taking advantage of all the opportunities that we have at D Dayton public schools he's uh I mean he's just he's a joy to be around and um the University of Dayton is having they've got something great coming their way with you being there so um we are proud of you and we know that you're going to make a difference at the University of Dayton and in this city because a part it's a it's a full scholarship with the whole works tuition room and board
014books you name it and an internship a paid internship with the city and so he is going to be making a difference on that campus but also across our city and um we are so proud of you and nobody walks alone and I I don't know about some of your other supports but I do know that your principal and your counselor are amazing supports for you and all of those uh students so I also want to give a shout out to them um they've done amazing work Stacy staca burong has been coaching students in this so well for years and I'm so glad that one of hers um That Neon you you you brought it home for for all of us and for her so thank you do Dr Gale briefly um for people who
015don't know your U dissertation uh is about 58 Pages uh it's in abstract mathematics could you quickly calculate the cost of that scholarship I'm an abstract mathematics I do nothing with numbers but um uh it's about 60,000 a year for at least for um UD times 4 MH um Plus books so yeah over $250,000 I'm sure plus the internship so yeah uh I'd like to ask uh the amazing principal to come up shavin Lewis from third grd Marshall High School stem High School um I know this is a proud moment for you so you I want you to come on up say a few words about neon and this is a proud moment for a board member uh board member Walker was a graduate and certainly as a former principal third grou Marshall High School
016was a proud proud moment for me too yeah I was at third good um we are so proud of nilon um congratulations as everyone has said um and that everyone is getting to witness the young men that we have come in love that has been so amazing for us um he's done so many good things been a model student right now he's currently in office a helping us in the office in the mornings um one of the proudest moments was watching him last year bring us home the uh District debate City Championship he defended in the final round and was amazing that was amazing to watch that was my first time at a debate I didn't know that it could get so heated and so just him bringing that home and seeing him perform so
017I mean we're just honored that he's our student we're honored that he was able to get this award and we're so so so proud of you congratulations thank you so much superintendent if I may absolutely I would like to add my voice to this I've actually known uh Mr Scott and his mom for about a year um I've worked with him um and have been impressed from the moment I met him um when I heard that he was the recipient of the scholarship I knew immediately that it was the right choice and I am so proud of thg good but I'm so proud of Mr Scott congratulations [Applause] just want me to you know I don't know why I mean I I I just uh congratulations I think witnessing that last week I think it
018was um was really good um we actually got to take a picture as um him being the first Macintosh Dr Lawrence being um the principal there and then me being a student there of now being superintendent and a school board member it it just is a lot of thir Marshall here now so I feel pretty good about that um and I I look forward to debating you on this floor occasion he G he gonna lose he gonna lose so I'm gonna say thank you principal Lewis so principal Lewis this first Macintosh right Dr Lawrence you had no macintoshes right uh point of order excuse me she got you Dr Lawrence I we had Gates Millennium and Coca-Cola Scholars as Welling wasn't going I will say th Marshall is the first school in the district to
019have all three now of gates Millennial thank you so principal Davis we got something got to get over to meale get that black and gold rolling but I want to say thank you and I appreciate us as a district taking the time to honor our students in these moments because we know we have to lift up our stories we have to lift up our students we have to let them know that they're loved that they're appreciated and understanding that the whole village that goes behind these successes we have to lift ours up so I'm glad we can have these moments and I don't know if you can beat Mr Scott uh Walker went over there for voot of registration and I was about to walk out the room you got it so glad to have
020you join us um just want to wish you the best in your future and just those are the things we're here for and next as we keep moving along we've got the hearing of the bargaining units are there any bargaining units present that would wish to speak this evening evening well all right next I will go to hearing of the public Madame treasur do we have anybody registered to speak this evening no oh we don't have anyone registered to speak this evening oh now we'll get to the slow part of the evening the superintendent agenda than president uh I recommend the approval of the following administrative appointments for vote so moved second it's been moved and second do we have any questions on superintendent's agenda item a can I yeah oh go ahead I pull
021A2 till after executive session all right A2 will be moved till after executive session Dr Bailey I'd like to pull A4 until after uh executive session as well okay A2 A4 so now we're left with A1 A3 any questions comments on the motion seeing none I will want to just echo in We Appreciate You Dr Gail love the work you've done and we know we'll see you around you can't leave us alone too much seeing no other questions Madam treasur may we have a vote president Smith yes Miss Wick yes Dr Bailey yes Mr lazy yes Mr Walker yes M rard yes Mr Scott seven NES okay Dr Lawrence I recommend approval of the following DEA after July 10th for a vote so moved it's been moved moved and properly second by The Honorable Dr
022Bailey we have any questions on the motion in the spirit of the holiday sir seeing no questions may we have a vote president Smith yes Miss Wick yes Dr Bailey yes Mr Lacy yes Mr Walker yes M rard no yeah can can we do a is Scott go ahead Walker can can we do a motion to reconsider superintendent's Item B you have a second I'll second all right yeah the one that we just did typically that the board votes no on this not Walker I'm just usually the only one that votes yes so that's why I was shocked I didn't know if you all wanted to stick with that if you were like I am fine been moved in second do we have a questions on seeing none may we have a vote president Smith
023yes Miss Wick yes Dr Bailey yes Mr Lacy yes Mr Walker yes Miss reard no Mr Scott no five yeses two no all right Mr so then I would like to do superintendent's Item B all right I'll motion for superintendent's Item B all second it any questions seeing none maybe we have a vote okay president Smith no Miss Wick no Dr Bailey no Mr Lacy no Mr Walker yes Mr Scot is SC no and rard votes no as well miss rer Dr Lawrence I recommend approval of the following certified appointments for a vote so moved second who move it did it was moved and properly second by my esteemed colleague Mr Walker do we have any questions on the motion seeing now maybe we have a vote president Smith yes Miss Wick yes Dr Bailey
024yes Mr Lacy yes Mr Walker yes M rard yes Mr Scott yes seven yeses not more I recommend approval of the following classified appointments for vote so moved second it's been moved and second by Mr Lacy do we have any questions on the motion seeing none may we have a vote president Smith yes Miss Wick yes Dr Bailey yes Mr Lacy yes Mr Walker yes Miss reard yes Mr Scott sevenes Law I recommend approval of the following classified exempt appointments for a votee uh pres can I make a motion that we take this e through G together oh if you have a second do we have a second a second it's been moved and properly second by vice president Wick I'll give everyone a moment to look through if they have any questions on the
025motion okay ready to vote anyone have any any questions get a chance to look through Dr Bailey were able to look through if you have any questions all right seeing no questions may we have a vote president Smith yes Miss Wick yes Dr Bailey yes Mr Lacy yes Mr Walker yes M reinard yes Mr Scot yes seven yeses law I recommend approv of the following 48 hour rule so moved second moving second do we have any questions yeah can we pull um H2 until after uh exact okay we also ask for H1 and H3 to go into exact and make make sure that we have a decision on it we come out of executive session sorry I didn't mean to cut you off brother Walker you about to say something okay thought I cut you
026off any other questions seeing none may we have a vote president Smith yes Miss Wick yes Dr Bailey yes Mr Lacy yes Mr worker yes yes M rhinard yes Mr Scot seven yeses I recommend approval of the following which is I4 only for now so moved second I'm sry we voted on the 48 hour waiver butol three yeah so just voted so we're just voting on the initial two actually just the one p oh you're right yeah so just I4 okay one two and three right so everyone four just four all right Madam treasure I mean up you have your do we have a motion yes yes I think K treasure okay president Smith yes Miss Wick yes Dr Bailey yes Mr Lacy yes Mr Walker yes M reard yes Mr Scott yes seven yeses
027all right David that's you know what president Smith I want to miss you I'm miss you in January man look all the way down there I recommend the approval of the following contracts and agreements so move second move in second do we have any questions on the motion yeah I think I do okay take the time can uh with this um Bradley pay what what exactly is that I will ask our business manager to come up it's not ratifying nothing yet not yet so uh Bradley Payne is the organization that we'll be working with uh to help us develop our uh Capital Improvement plan and develop um a financial plan that uh butresses uh that Capital Improvement plan over a 10-year period it's something that we have have not done um historically uh when you
028look at our preventive maintenance plans they're they're just not in place you know the issues that we've had at a couple of our schools with our HVAC um duct cleaning it'll include all of that oh okay yes sir so to be clear this is only playing paying him to assist in developing that plan for us to use for 10 years and also and also helping us to uh secure um fiscal resources as well and I actually invited uh Dan Shaw if he would like to hear from him as well might as well I'd love to all right brother Dan come on down you got for you got to forgive our Junior board member well good to see you again sir good to see you hi I don't have a formal presentation or anything um I'm
029just said to be here in case you had some questions or anything you would like me to address for the Board of Education we will go through the process of identifying what your needs are from a capital standpoint and putting that together prior to next year's budgeting cycle uh so that we can identify what resources the district needs to have lined up each of the next 5 to 10 years um and and be able to get a comprehensive financial plan that your entire leadership team can kind of work around and understand what's on the docket what's on the docket for later what needs to be on the docket in the future uh so we'll be able bring that forward for you to consider and look at going into 2030 2031 so did I also hear
030him say that you'll be helping us to find the finances to do that as well right so Bradley Payne we've been a long time partner with the district and helping put your finances together whether it's uh new buildings or Capital Improv improvements or whatever it is that we find throughout the plan uh we act as your Municipal adviser in securing the funds uh from the banks in order to make sure you've got the dollars that you need when you need them okay thank you any other questions Mr Lacy so will so will there be like projections of like student population and so forth okay there will yes okay I'll look forward to seeing that any other questions where you get those shoes from ah Macy's pretty good right send me the link that's forgive forgive
031him I start to ask the same thing all right any other questions for Dr Jones good all right any other questions on contracts seeing no other questions mam treasure may we have a vote president Smith yes m week yes Dr Bailey yes Mr Lacy yes Mr Walker yes M rard yes Mr Scott yes seven yeses all right thank you Madame treasure I mean Mr superintendent I just saw Miss Winfrey and Miss Karan Thompson come in uh see you looking mighty Christmas Christmasy holiday spirit let me say holiday spirit that's it's better uh would you like to come up and speak bargaining units no well all right it's good to see you all right I recommend the approve you're right on time I recommend the approval of the following resolution opsy local 626 bus drivers for
032a vote 6 627 made 627 yeah 62 627 let me make this bigger about that there it is I can see it now Mar you second yes okay see moving properly second move Lacy Mr Lacy are there any questions no questions just thank um the leadership uh Mr Anderson Dr Jones Calon Dr Lawrence and the treasure for getting this done um and really appreciate the work and you know Miss Winfrey next time I go to a basketball game I don't got to avoid her so glad this is done be ducking smoke seeing no other questions maybe we have a vote president Smith yes Miss Wick yes Dr Bailey yes Mr Lacy yes Mr Walker yes M rard yes Mr Scott yes sevenes thank you Dr Lawrence and president Smith this is my final superintendent's recommendation
033with you up here my eyes are watering up uh I recommend the approval of the following memorandum of understanding DPS University in Cincinnati DPS DPS and University of Cincinnati my m so moved second been moving second do we have any questions I can't even say nothing because you see B Xavier over the weekend no you can't say first time in three years that happens maybe we have a vote president Smith yes Miss Wick yes Dr Bailey yes Mr Lacy yes Mr Walker yes Mr yes Mr scottt yes seven yeses that concludes my recommendations all right Madam treasure I recommend the the approval of the certificate of estimated resources as reviewed last week some of been moved do we have a second moved and properly seconded by vice president Wick we have any questions seeing no
034questions may we have a vote president Smith yes Miss Wick yes Dr Bailey yes Mr Lacy yes Mr Walker yes M reinard yes Mr Scott yes seven yeses all right Madam treasure yes I will I recommend the approval of amended Appropriations for fiscal year 2025 as reviewed last week some I will second it it's been moved and seconded do we have any questions seeing none may we have a vote president Smith yes Miss Wick yes Dr Bailey yes Mr Lacy yes Mr Walker yes M rard yes Mr Scott yes seven yeses Madam treasurer I recommend the approval of advances for December 2024 as reviewed last week some moved second it's been moved and properly second by Dr Bailey do we have any questions on the motion seeing none may we have a vote president Smith
035yes Miss Wick yes Dr Bailey yes Mr Lacy yes Mr Walker yes M reinard yes Mr Scott yes seven yeses Madam Treasurer I recommend the approval of a monthly Financial for November 2024 as reviewed by the finance committee on Thursday so move second it's been moved and properly second you have any questions seeing none may we have a vote president Smith yes Miss Wick yes Dr Bailey yes Mr Lacy yes Mr Walker yes Miss rard yes Mr Scott yes seven yeses all right Madam treasure uh think we need it to refresh refresh just to get I recommend the approval of donations for December 17 2024 so moved second been moving properly second by Mr Walker we have any questions on the motion seeing none I want to thank all of those that donated appreciate that
036may we have a vote president Smith yes Miss Wick yes Dr B yes yes Bailey Mr Lacy yes Mr Walker yes M rard yes Mr Scott yes seven yeses thank you madam treasure I recommend the approval of the following purchase requisitions as reviewed last week so move second it's been moved in second we'll open it up I did have a question and not so much for an answer right now but um shortly from Dr lawence um Dr Jones Madam treasure seeing that we have the RTA bus passes on there if there I know we've been having some meetings um with various entities around various Transportation kind of conversations um just youth in general and I know we've been talking about some various plans various things we're looking at and how we're using passes in general
037if we could um put together if you all collaborate um pretty shortly on what are some of the things that you're looking into as we move forward what are some of the expectations that the board could could face as far as uh costs um just kind of put that together nothing for a vote at that time just really letting us know kind of where these things are as we move forward I appreciate that done any other questions yeah I was kind of on that myself I just want to know how much we're paying for bus passes cuz I looked up today how much a regular bus pass cost for a year it's not like it used to be right dollar with a transfer yeah it was it's $55 for a uh typical Community member but
038we pay 75 and actually that went up to 85 right 80 January January 1st it goes up to 80 885 so so why do we pay more when you can just so supposed buy regular bus passes for uh Enterprise pricing so for organizations that uh have X number or purchase U passes in bulk uh that you charge premium so like I'm just sitting here thinking if it's you said how much is regular 55 and we're paying 85 per student and why can't we just buy bus passes regular bus passes and give them to our students so it's partially how the system is set up when you're buying a p any government program they actually sell them for $80 a pass and I do agree that that is a price difference I've looked into that for
039a while um but any government program they actually charge that am for RTA but the one thing I do want to point out if we're looking at how much it will cost us to transport the students currently after last year um with our current cost we were looking at about $1,600 a year to transport a student why we do not currently have the fleet or the drivers to do so so if we're looking at the $800 a year compared to the $1,600 a year compared to the uncovered routes that we've had every day it's still a much cheaper consistent cost to currently transport them RTA so I get that part as far as we're not able to transport because we don't we we just can't do it but I I I just have an issue
040and I'm trying to I'm trying to understand this that we could go to RTA and purchas let's just say we got a 100 students and purchase a 100 passes at $55 to give to our students but yet we are purchasing it from them for $85 a student yes we actually looked into that as well but there is a couple issues there one I just will say that it's part of how the systems communicate um two it's also a amount of passes that RTA will actually buy and purchase to sell to the public so most of the public they actually give out they allow them to sign up and use their cell phones they use the email addresses our systems do not currently merge to do that uh they have not currently wanted us to do
041it I understand there are administrative costs that go into doing the pass those are the answers that we've actually gotten behind there um and it has been a question over the last couple years of is there any other way for us to work it out or to figure out to get the system to merge properly Dr Bailey man I just want to add that when I came back I started in transportation operations and it'll be in my weekly update and then when the treasurer and the business manager I get together we'll give it to the board but just in general we need help legislatively with this directive around um transporting charter school students we don't have to do that we have the capability also miss Winfrey I sorry shaking her head over there when I
042was in transportation we talked about a fourth tier uh adding a fourth tier and there's some other um other things we talked about in terms of trying to be able to transport all of our students and get out of the RTA game so to speak so you'll see all that in writing I'm just talking about in a general level right now okay I just think that's a lot of money uh that's like 30 $30 per student that we're paying extra that they can yeah buy a go buy a bus pass I'd rather give them $55 myself and let them buy a bus pass instead of paying $85 and it would seem like RTA being that we are as large as we are and have the students would cut us a deal instead of making us
043pay more and the other question I have is too with our students um are they restricted with the bus pass or can they use the bus pass anytime they want uh unrestricted so they got the same restrictions that if I go buy me a $55 bus pass they have the same level of access the same level of access and but we're going to pay $85 as opposed to $55 I think somebody needs to look into that most definitely yes sir for real that's that's a lot of money I I I'm not the mathematician over here but I do have a calculator if you want me to uh start adding up how many students we got riding a bus RTA was it roughly uh 3,500 3,500 because we do uh not only our high school I'll
044get with the math with you after after we get done okay U yeah so 35 that that'll buy exactly 3500 uh monthly passes or yeah pass per month is that enough is that yes sir okay yes sir does now as far as do you know as far as um so we're paying some sort of institutional Enterprise pricing are there any other Enterprises that come even close to that uh that are buying bus passes from RTA or does this could just become a de facto um separate price for Dayton public schools yeah so when we looked into that we were actually U first I do want to say that rta's prices go up for everyone in January and I do understand that that is a cost that's something that we've been looking into for years uh
045Dr Lawrence and I Dr Jones and I have also talked about this in different times but Montgomery County and all the other programs who I told were paying the exact same cost and we were all charged the same thing for bus passes U and just kind of going into that that 3500 students that we look at we look at what we are required transport what we're required to give our bus passes for any high schooler in the area we actually are required to provide these bus passes for they're looking for transportation even if they're at a school that's within 30 minutes of dating public schools and the student wants to go within 30 minutes of the TR House resident and they want to go there so we've made sure to balance that portion um we
046make sure that we spoke with all the teachers uh we spoke with all the principes Dr Lawrence and I talked about that Dr Jones I talked about that at the beginning of the year as well as U missg and uh Chief Dy when it came towards making sure that they're not just giving out the bus passage just because the child's eligible If the child wants it they come up and get it and they use it and I I think that part of it comes towards making sure that our children do have access but I have acknowledged that is a cost that was a cost when we found out that every public entity is being charged that but RTA also BR up the fact that of course their rates don't even pay for them to sustain
047themselves as well so those are some of the issues that going along with it so so it's just public entities yes so if a private organization or let me let me speak to that one I know about the public entities I won't speak to something that I don't know okay yes and you know that what Montgomery County buys some is that's one of the the public entities that buy them yes sir and I guess they buy them for social services or something like absolutely okay Y and they actually got rid of the temporary um time limit passes several years ago we originally were buying those and now our students are able to use the passes for going to work going home going to where they need to go on the weekends and things like that
048NAA would you come up for just a moment she's in my focus group at opponents and they've had some conversations around Transportation let's hear from some of our students I see a wonderful principal back there in the back smiling H Miss Christian so we you're in my focus group opponents and we talked about David H opponents we've talked about transportation and RTA would you like to make a few comments as the vice president of student Senate I was actually just talking about that um I feel like I don't feel like we should use the RTA for our transportation purposes if possible I do feel like the yellow bus should come back only because um students get in trouble for being late sometimes and it's it's not our fault because if our first bus that gets
049us from home to downtown is late and then we miss the bus that gets us from downtown to our school now we're getting at school around 8:30 past 8 and then we're getting in trouble by like our success leaders and stuff and I don't feel like that's really fair on our end because it's not we can't rush the driver we're not behind the wheel and stuff like that and then other times we can't get a bus pass because either we're too late and it's just like oh you should have came when we were all passing them out now you're not getting one at all and now oh how am I going to get home I feel like it's a lot of issues that come with riding the RTA and getting a bus pass from the
050school with the RTA oh that was pretty low that does seem so much better that seems so much better I wasar that feels so much better um what was I saying oh I feel like overall I feel like the yellow bus should come back because it was more we could trust it more and we were going from one place to the other safely downtown when I'm sitting downtown waiting on my bus I could get hit in my face and I'm not even the person that they trying to hit I can get yelled at and I'm not even a person that they arguing with the workers they're disrespectful and now we're arguing the students are arguing with the workers because you just called me out my name and I didn't even do nothing to you so
051I just feel like if the yellow bus is were to come back it would be so much more safer and less less of a issue like in the um in the student C group we talked about why kids aren't coming to school and one of the reasons were transportation and we all said that we feel like the yellow bus should come back because you don't have a reason to not come to school you can't say you don't have a ride because this bus is coming in front of your house waiting at least 5 minutes for you unlike the RTA you're on a strict time you have to get up at this certain time to get out the house at at this certain time so I can see the issue with riding the RTA but if
052the yellow bus was provided for us it's not really an issue just like when you order a lift you know you have to be outside at this time so you know this is taking you from this place to this place it's no reason for you to be late unless that bus is running late and the yellow buses rarely run late so that's just my I knew you would have something to say I do have a question for youe with I'm curious go ahead cuz as someone who is a car rider and doesn't use the RTA I'm curious you always have to uh get another bus downtown at the Hub so let's if I was it's certain buses that go right past um opponent's dumbar opponents dumbar they're good um sometimes we can walk because opponents
053isn't that far from down from the RC because we are downtown yeah but we can walk sometimes but I usually ride bus 12 from my house to the hub and then from The Hub to my school I right 19 or n and it's a lot of us plus the adults so that's another reason that we're late sometimes because we get kicked off the bus because it's too crowded because the bus only has a certain number of seats and they don't try to accommodate for the students sometimes which honestly they don't really have to because it's for people who aren't in school and people in school would you think you would have an easier and Safer travel if your RT but at RTA bus was able to take you straight to not maybe not straight to
054your school but close enough to your school where you wouldn't have to get a transition bus I do feel like it would be safer because you're not getting off anywhere but that's just two then we would have to focus on the from from school to home because if it was like a bus that drops us off at the school then takes us home like the yellow bus per se then I feel like it would be safer unless fights would occur downtown because you have no reason to get off the bus you have no reason to get off and say oh that's that girl I've been wanting to fight now you have to go straight home because you are on the same bus what are you getting off the bus for you get what I'm saying
055MH I have one last thing do you cuz again I don't know is it a mixture of students when you get on in the morning and on in the evening or is it just mostly students and not non- students guess is my question it depends on the bus right our bus the bus that Mo mainly all the opponent students ride it's half and half and a lot of the adults start to push the kids and then the students may push the adults and say I have to get to school then now we argue because I have to get to school you have to get to work and now we both just we're not coming to Common Ground and now it's an unsafe environment yeah I guess what I'm getting at is I had actually talked
056to her and she said that I think Cincinnati or Cleveland had their own personal buses for some students correct so it's um they work with the Cincinnati transport Authority um it's complicated and we we tried that a few years ago with having the limited service lines um RTA ran the the ls buses um and then that ended during Co so I think it would be nice if there were student specific buses During certain periods in the morning and the in the evenings that's that's kind of how it was for what all of your high school my high school yeah it's kind of the way it went and then RTA said no if we're being honest not just a few years ago this year last year before that and let us not forget the bus P
057the stops in some spaces were moved further away from the schools that's like um one of the stops at our one of house one of the stops at my school it did get moved and a lot of us had to stop using I think it was bus eight we had to stop was right in front of the building yeah and we had to stop using it because now it's by the gas station by the school I think that's marathon and a lot of one is getting really cold and I know me I don't like the cold at all like at all and I think that's another reason that attendance issues may come in may come into play because it's getting really cold and since the stops are farther away it's like that's too far for
058me to walk that's like I live off Main Street but seven stop is by Dollar General I'll say that's at least if I walk slow 10 minute walk if I walk fast five minute walk but that's still far to me and other children so I feel like how can I put it I really feel like writing the RTA equals attendance issues so I feel like to if we could if we could partner up with maybe like well you already said you we can't partner up with the RTA the way that you were because they keep saying no so I feel like if we could like I've been saying like the yellow bus not treat us like middle school but treat us like middle school because it it's safer and more convenient in our hands and
059our in our parents' Minds if they just came closer to us we get on we get dropped off right at school and then boom and the same thing from into home and I think that would better up with the RTA and then it's like oh we can trust DPS now and maybe the conversation about the other buses may come into play appreciate and I think that goes that goes into what um some of the conversations I will say that we have had better conversations I would say Dr Lawrence yes significantly with um different entities and really thinking about just ways to Target things um I know in my conversations with people understanding that the RTA Transportation at opponents is different from the RTA conversation at Styers where you have a pickup line that goes out
060on the Fifth Street so us being mindful when we're having those discussions and not trying to do some of the things that we just can't do notice I know that Mr Calhoun said we don't have the fleet we don't have the drivers understanding in their small defense on sometimes they also do not have the the fleet do not have the drivers don't have the stops don't have the same amount of things that went on in those times but I think that it is on us to be creative about those things because your school is different because you have a school where you have people walking through in the winter leaving from opponents walking down to the hub well that creates a whole different set of issues with things going on at BP McDonald's those kind
061of things so it's a it we can't look at the district as a one-sized fits-all solution I think um and I've talked to Dr Jones about it and Dr Lawrence so we're looking into some things and that's why we really love having you guys' input because kind of go get to tap them and be like I told you I told you I told you so definitely appreciate you I got one more thing first a sidebar uh Dr Scott I'm G speak that into existence right now I think you're going to give Mr Walker run for his money already I hear it uh two if I did the math right we're it's like a $100,000 that we over and it would be nice if we could take that $100,000 if RTA is watching us tonight to
062to cut us a break uh and maybe that $100,000 can go into uh helping keep our kids safe uh and maybe us being able to put more money into downtown with them transfers and everything else $100,000 is a lot of money uh to me it is at least um so I think that's just something that we need to really look into uh if you could and just keep me a breast thank you appreciate it any other questions comments yes Walker I'll let Mr ly it's more than 100,000 it's what 3500 students times $25 difference is if that's what you were Computing times four times five months interesting having a CPA on the board that yeah so that would be that's closer to what that's close 400 that's closer to 450,000 no I didn't do time
063he did great I'm glad he said that because again that's how much did you say Joe is it $430,500 $430,500 $400,000 that we can put into our students right so to to add to that there's another cost that's not included in that because we also have SRO that go there in the morning and in the afternoon as well as to the library that neither the library or RTA is giving s and funding to cover this um so now we're close to a million dollars just in extra like that we're putting out for downtown yeah that numbers uh with overtime and the number of individuals we send down there is close to like $35,000 a month maybe so so um and to n's Point school bus transportation is the safest form of transportation um and so
064uh We've we've been recruiting pretty heavily uh we've gotten some some drivers from uh first student thanks to uh Craig and his team um hey 14 14 we got a new staff member coming in January from them so hopefully we can get more yeah so uh and from what I'm hearing there our contracts uh our salary uh schedule and the CBA has been shown uh to recruit and they're they're coming so uh just as a note if anybody's watching uh we do have the best uh Transportation uh Fleet in mcgury County so if you want to work for a great team come on DPS I I'll add to that I think at the osba we even heard that I think we have the best Fleet because we have Wi-Fi and air conditioning on the buses
065yes we do Wi-Fi and AC um so my question is a little bit different so for me it would be when you look at charter schools in like the greater Dayton area with regards to scheduling um for instance let's say a charter school starts at 8:00 does the district school times take priority over the charter school route so first off I do I want to say this thank y'all to the student Senate I love speaking with the kids that is amazing seriously uh but yes we always do look at making sure that our schools are taking care of but there are many factors involved with it um I want to say I'm so thankful to the board um for Mr Walker being at the osba conference when we got up to spoke um speak on
066that there is one really important portion to mention as Dr Lawrence said legislatively we have to look at some changes that need to be made um the um oap has been actually looking at making some changes as well when we're looking at how we're allowed to schedule the charter schools the charter schools have to be scheduled within 30 minutes of their start time or their arrival or else those parents as well as some our other parents not just Charter can actually go out this for compliance complaints and if found true can actually address and attack our official funding so some of the changes that I suggested that we will look at is if we can legislate and make some of those Charter Schools conform to our bill schedule after so many years right now they
067can't have they don't have to do it and I'm not saying that hey if you want the transportation you need to align somewhere right now there is no legal way saying that you have to do that and we can take the students to school 30 minutes early technically what if no one there's no penalty for the schools not letting them in 30 minutes early and what if one of our bus drivers leaves the kids there 30 minutes early and something happens so there's many things that we balance we also balance the the more that uh the more we open this up the bigger the liability and the bigger the responsibility is on dating public transportation so I love saying that hey of course I was a school bus driver now I'm a school bus administrator
068it's the safest thing to do it's the safest thing on the planet but it's more of a planned long-term goal when we're working with legislation and we're also working with our resources to make sure that we're aligning those things properly because what happens let's say and I talked to Dr Jones about this before if we shut down first student and we took all their drivers I'm not against that let me clear that up I'm DPS all of those Charter Schools we now required to start transporting them and US RTA first student are all competing as well as cing other school districts around are all competing for the same employees the same pool of employees is what we're competing for and we're now also competing with Amazon chewy all all these other different environments so the
069board has done great as it's come towards um financing the bus drivers making sure that everything is great getting them the resources Miss Winfrey is really big on making sure that we're over here talking about it and really pushing it on but there's layers that we have to address so yes we are always going to schedule DPS we are the pr primary thing that we're focused on but when we do schedule DPS and we say hey we're going to forget this then we can't fund either one of them we lose funding so for me it's not saying to forget them what I'm saying is let's say that we have a high school we put out our school calendar way in advance we put out our bail schedule way in advance and we say that we're
070going to transport high school students now and this is their times does the charter school now say here's our time and it has to be after our times or can it be how does that work well speaking towards the school speaking towards the school board this is one thing that I really can ask you all directly and it will come from the routers it will come from the dispatchers one way that the school board can help us is some of these plans being made in advance what happens is every year we changed the bell schedule now the routers have to figure out how to readjust the routes within the bell schedule and then we have to figure out hey we we don't get that time to plan and make everything as efficient as it needs
071to be so since I've been Administration last four years I would love to say that we do that but sadly DPS over the last several years have been the last official Bell schedules that DPS Transportation gets okay um for me to to wrap up oh just to reiterate um I I think um more specifically to your question about uh other school entities Charters broi if they have to align with our bell schedule no uh there's no legislation in place uh that dictates uh that they have to do that so they could keep their own you know their Veil schedules and change them whenever they want so um two part three parts for me number one um I'm interested to see how the Columbus City Schools um impractical to transport like situation unfolds and how other
072districts would then look at that as an option for charter school routes um number two I think that it's important for community members to know that your elected officials that are on the mcgomery County Commission and the City of Dayton mayor and Commissioners they appoint the members who sit on the RTA board I think it's best for people to know that and that they can reach out to them and advise them you want your kid off of RTA we want you to have RTE be a better partner of hey we're going to bring back LS routs to take them directly from their house to the school avoid downtown and things like that I think the school district is one voice um that a board over there decides to do what they want to which their
073meetings are public you can go and speak at those um and then lastly for me is I I appreciate transportation for all of the work um I think this number is a lot with regards to paying out if it was up to me I would just say pay the parent monthly here's a stip and go buy your kid a bus pass saves US money puts it on to the parent to get them to the school their rate is $60 ours is 85 that's just me but thank you any other questions for Doc uh Dr Jones appreciate you Dr yes sir appreciate you brother coun any other questions on purchase requisitions yes I just want to know what uh what does a sap concur what is that it's the system we use to tr travel and
074reimbursements for mileage Oh okay I'm done all right Mr walker uh for I I guess I was curious on the whole XX piece I mean are is this still issues here is this resolved now are we still investing in them what is the plan here so we have rearranged how we're working with them today so like the one you're seeing on here is more of a labor side of doing installs at the hide building this is not them managing the servers or anything like that we're kind of taking that over internally that's all I needed thank you thank you sir any other questions appreciate the conversation I appreciate all the W and I think that Transportation conversation is a large piece that has a lot of moving Parts um so I just appreciate giving the
075context to that appreciate Mr Calhoun putting some of those things out knowing that when we see numbers sometimes they're large but the the number on our end to make up for that would be equally if not larger as well so it's that piece of how do we have those also understanding where when we deal with these these government purchase costs if we're not getting them we also do not get credit for getting them and then we would also then lose funding so it's it's that weird way where when it comes back to how do we get back to our government for some of these things it's that darned if you do darned if you don't because if we did go out and get them ourselves outside of this then we wouldn't get District funding back
076to get some of these things so it's a large conversation I look forward to us really working together with some of our partners because the the main thing is really keeping our kids safe one and then making sure that they're getting to and from school in timely Fashions and then that's a whole another whole another conversation when we talk about Charters and things like that but appreciate having so many people here in the room so people are here now we can have those conversations M have people here seeing no further questions uhuh look got you before you said something this ain't your recommendation may we have a vote president Smith yes Miss Wick yes uh Dr Bailey yes Mr Lacy yes Mr Walker yes Miss rard yes and Mr Scott yes seven yearses Madam treasure
077I recommend the approval of the following Zen now as they reviewed last week so move second beenin moved in second do we have any questions on then announc seeing none may we have a vote president Smith yes Miss Wick yes yes Dr Bailey yes Mr Lacy yes Mr Walker yes M rard yes Mr Scott yes seven yeses does this include your recommendations Madam Treasurer yes thank you madam Treasurer you're much appreciate it Dr Jones yes sir I recommend a waiver of the 48 hour rule uh to present the uh appointment or the administrative appointment as listed so move second it's been moved and properly second by Mr Lacy any questions see none may we have a vote president Smith yes Miss Wick yes Dr Bailey yes Mr Lacy yes Mr Walker yes M rard yes
078Mr Scott yes seven yeses all right Dr Jones uh I recommend ratification of the following individual so moving second it's been moved and properly second by Mr Lacy any questions seeing none maybe we have a vote president Smith yes Miss Wick yes Dr Bailey yes Mr Lacy yes Mr Walker yes Miss reinard yes Mr Scott yes seven yeses thank you this concludes your recommendation yes sir it does thank you sir you're appreciate it we have some other things we'll move that back pursuant to section 12122 G2 of the Ohio Revis code I move this board going to Executive session this meeting is being held to consider the appointment and employment of a Public Employee do I have a second second it's been moved improperly second do we have any questions uh I don't know if
079Mr Scott Stan or he set up do you want to do new business first I with dra then I even let Mr Walker go first ah looks like it's some policy stuff I know oh you want me to go first you can go first all right um before we start I would like to make a motion um I would like to make a motion that we like to make a motion to pay all admin and DSs employees at step 0 to2 with the Retro back to July 1 of the new salary schedule we have a second second it's been moved and properly second do we have any questions on the motion any comments on the motion is there if I may um if there's any um guidance or um thoughts on this from our Treasurer
080or superintendent or business manager um if they have any of those they'd like to share with us I would welcome those at this point good no I don't I I'll just share um briefly that um I think it's I think it's a really good idea we have been dealing with this since June since June and I think there's a lot of um angst out there and a lot of chatter around the salary schedule and how we're paying our administrators and so we've been effectively kind of holding their pay for for for months now and then we have a plan to continue to move forward um once the our our fourth teammate comes to work through um where those people will be placed on the schedule so this is not the end this is just the
081middle but we got to get the ball rolling uh for sure okay I would like to um if possible just add a friendly amendment to that motion Mr Walker absolutely all right I would like to add that with paying out at these Z to two of the new Step that we then also authorize that back payment uh an expedient fashion as well with making sure that our staff Works collaboratively to follow the policy on where we place people in steps and have that done before the end of the year is that meable to you sir end of the fiscal year fiscal year yes sir yeah all right appreciate that I will add that I do appreciate all the work that's been going into changing what on Surface may seem like a very easy thing but
082this is something that hadn't been done in dayon public but I do feel that while our team is working on some things that we still need to recognize the people that are out here working every day in the district and I think it's just it's only fair that we make sure that we take care of the those that are taking care of our most precious thing and it's that's the students and families of this District so I appreciate that motion Mr Walker appreciate the work like I said that's going forward and I appreciate everyone that will continue to work for it but I do think as we come into this Christmas season um having that I think that works out to about a 3% yeah still a 3% a 3% that then that 3% we
083want to make sure that that 3% going back to the beginning of this fiscal year gets sent back to our staff Mr Walker I just want to add um to that as well uh with the motion to be processed as a separate check payment yes okay as a special check run or special however that's classified all right do we have any other questions on Mr Walker's motion seeing none maybe we have a vote president Smith yes Miss Wick yes Dr Bailey yes Mr Lacy yes Mr Walker yes M reinard yes Mr Scott yes seven yeses thank you Mr Walker did you have anything else uh yes I would just like to um send prayers out to the uh family and students over at bar uh for the loss of yet another student here in Dayton
084um as well as um yeah at some point hopefully something is done around gun violence with youth I think um just looking at Dayton public overall this year we've seen a lot of tragedies with the students that are here and um I appreciate you know Dr Lawrence and your team and um getting the mental help support out to those buildings and things like that during these type of incidents um and then secondly um Styers I did happen to go to their showcase last week um first time there and it was uh a great experience I will say um and then lastly for me happy holidays to everyone um looking forward to next year and what we will do here as a school district and a community and thanks thank you Mr Walker thank you do
085I have someone from policy committee that will read out Mr President may I yes sir thank you Mr Lacy okay I have a I have uh first readings resolutions to adop board policy in as much as the board of education is committed to the continued updating of its policies rules and regulations manually and the committee which was appointed has been working toward that goal the following are brought at this time for first reading in compliance with the board file BFC policy adoption now therefore be it resolved that the Board of Education of the Dayton City School District Montgomery County Ohio hereby accepts and adopts the following policies that have been codified for inclusion in the handbook of policies rules and regulations one new policy GB CBA staff conduct prohibition of derogatory or harm inducing language
086and staff interactions another new policy is gbcb also g j excuse me jgc staff conduct prohibition of derogatory or harm inducing language towards students um uh revised to align with a third policy to revised to align with District's preference gcpc gcca retirement of professional staff members and a new policy g j excuse me jgc also GB CBB staff conduct prohibition of derogatory or harm inducing language towards students these policies are being read for the first time as such a motion or second is not required the policies will be available in the superintendent's office for review and comment prior to their second reading and adoption by the Board of Education furthermore the policy will be reviewed by the superintendent's office the the board's office and the legal department of the Dayton Public School District prior to
087the second reading thank you thank you Mr Lacy did you have any other comments this evening sir uh the finance committee met last Thursday and reviewed the the uh financial statements for November and uh and everything was in great order thank you sir thank you than you sir on I recommend the approval of following board member expense reimbursement as listed second second and mooving second any questions saying none may we have a vote president Smith yes Miss Wick yes Dr Bailey yes Mr Lacy yes Mr Walker yes Miss rard yes and M Scott yes seven yeses all right M rard um a couple of updates I mentioned last week that I attended the winter School Finance Workshop um this morning I um attended a webinar on the effects of the newly passed bathroom bill um
088which I will Express ex I will once again express my extreme disappointment that the state house has chosen to to harm a an incredibly vulnerable population at this point um I've been communicating with state house uh legislators both current and future about the bian banal budget that is going to start um it is already started um but we should see the first um draft in February from the governor's office and this is where we really push for a lot of the budget um um priorities that we know is good for our district um particularly in regards to public education the general assembly is expected to wrap up this week uh there is still a House and Senate session that is yet to finish I'm not going to bring a final update on legislation seen as
089how you know it's the last week and it's lame duck anything and everything can and could happen um but I will tell you there are a number of bills that a lot of people in education are watching very closely House Bill 8 um Senate Bill 295 House Bill 206 uh Senate Bill 208 um and then uh a few other uh bills as well too I will bring a final update in January on the uh end of the general assembly and how it will affect public education um lastly I would like to wish everybody a happy holiday season there are many holidays that people celebrate this time of year um I would like to wish everybody uh my favorite holiday which is winter solstice I hope everybody has a lovely winter solstice thank you Dr Bailey
090uh first I want to welcome uh Mr Scott uh for be being a part of us now uh I'm really uh I'm thankful to have B Haven choir come and uh present to us today I thought that was wonderful I thank them again for coming out and rendering us those songs uh I am also glad to see that uh from my eyes that that our culture is starting to change uh David Lawrence is kind of in his team uh with the students teachers I'm glad and I hope that it continues to change uh I'm also glad about the culture that's changed on this board as well uh being able to communicate better with each other um and being able to communicate when things are going on to reach out to staff and and whoever else
091we need to reach out to to resolve some things before we come to the dasis which helps us to go into exec instead of at 9 at 7 so uh I'm I hope that continues um and us to be able to uh just get along better communicate better uh and get things resolved and I would like to see us start to talk more about the students than all of this business stuff all the time and what we're going to do for these students and how to make the um schools better so that's all I got appreciate happy holidays Mr Scott it is your turn all righty you can take Dr Goodwin's time too so you got a while you got a hour know she want all right she watching you know um I didn't have
092much planned but I'd like to IR irritate uh again that I'm honored to be chosen as the uh student Senate President this year and again I'm excited for the opportunity to work with these wonderful people here on this Das and help represent some of the student voices in our district um as well as I look forward to learning from all of you and sharing ideas as well as making uh a positive impact on our school so thank you for having me today thank you yeah Chris just watching I know she is txting T Dr Jones I'll be quick uh first I want to give a shout out to uh Rick Rayford um Lenny Allen and the operations team uh for the work that they've been uh performing on the Hyde building uh and I'm really
093looking forward to uh updating the board in January on the progress that we've made there um and also happy holidays everyone thank you sir Madam treasure okay uh this is the year uh year end calendar uh for us uh this is the last payroll it will show on our W2s and 1019 on W2s the payroll and the invoices will show on our 1099 uh the amount you the they see on um December 20th will reflect onto the W2 so this is very critical for us to make sure everything is correct so that that W2 is correct um also it's critical because we closing the calendar year we cannot do an inter room check after Friday we will close it for the calendar year so everything has to be correct um we have um a lot
094of supplementals paid about $700,000 uh and everything is going to be paid in um December 20th besides that I would like to say happy holidays to our students employees and DPS family and have fun but be safe thank you madam treasure and appreciate the work you guys about to be buckled down and doing getting us out of here for Miss Wick thank you um the conversation around Transportation um is a very active conversation in the community too our business Community within our city leadership um so I really appreciate all the reflection there and I love having our student voices be heard um and Dr Lawrence and I are in several meetings along with President Smith uh having conversations about all of this stuff and it is a complex issue uh we go back to the
095legislative piece of it and I do believe that the solution really lies there that we can get some legislature around uh the charter schools uh that's where our solution lies Dr Lawrence and I are working hard to uh try to get on our Governor's calendar because our leadership is going to change change and we're all going to be looking at um new regulations first of the year when new leadership takes office so these these conversations are super important and it's a it's an honor and a pleasure to serve in the capacity to keep driving forward to Solutions so thank you all for being here uh happy holidays to all of our our staff who work so hard all of our families our DPS families these can be difficult times a year too so um lifting
096everybody up through through all of it I hope that we can remember heard something this week and I think this is a beautiful thing um that peace and joy are a choice uh you know the world is hard life is hard but uh we can certainly choose to approach all of the people that we do throughout the day as we have an opportunity to uh greet somebody on the street to greet our staff to greet our our our community uh with peace and joy so um I wish you all peace and joy through the holiday season thank you all for your hard work and I'm looking forward to 2025 and the exciting work that we have ahead of us and thank you all for your service thank you Miss Wick Dr Lawrence uh thanks president
097Smith uh student Senate is has been amazing some amazing voices we can't wait to see you in January um NAA and Mr Scott welcome uh I'm going to double down on third good theme or Shay Smith she was SRO at third good and Dr Mar Jones I'd be remiss if I didn't mention he was also the principal of th martial stem high school so there's a lot of th good in the house today president Smith not metale um and here after we doubled down on that uh I would say that uh board M Walker I appreciate your comments about violence and even though um we're the school system we are partnering with the city and we're trying to stay involved in that space and other entities so Miss Miner and her team uh strike again
098I sent this to Dr Bailey the other day but I would just say to everyone now um DPS will be um co-leading with atomus the countywide SIM planning Sim is sequential intercept model uh and its implementation will be with adamus and it deals with um tracking students very young and looking for um um how shall we say variables that may lead them to violence and then working with them through four different portals Safety and Security mental health um and two other spaces so it'll be in my update this week but we'll be working with adamus to be the first in the county to lead that effort so great job Miss Miner thank you sir um I really really did enjoy starting our day off our evening off here listening to Bell Haven's choir that was
099one of the joys of my young time in in the district was B Haven had the choir back when we were kids they they had their own little song and you couldn't tell B Haven nothing so just comes full circle I'm glad to see that um I'm glad to see so many people come out and support our youth I want to welcome Mr Scott to our day I appreciate everything you bring uh M Woods I appreciate the Insight that you gave us and I think we would do ourselves better service if we lean more towards hearing the words from our youth and reacting in the spaces that we can I think too many times we we hear what the youth say and we immediately go to well well this is what has to happen instead
100of saying let's be creative and find solutions to get to the bottom of these things um appreciate Dr Lawrence uh Dr Jones Madam treasur for the work that you all do as the um employees of the board which I want to reiterate are the only employees of the board and I think that is part of when Dr Bailey say we work on creating that culture I think having those things to understand how we line up and how we work and who we work for and as a board member I know who I work for which are the people of this community and so when I'm sitting here I I choose to represent those that do not always have a voice um cannot always speak and include the staff that works for this District um I
101think that's the thing that we have to focus on I'm glad that we have had a board that openly talks about a lot of things we we don't always agree we do always try to get out and see what's going on in this community um because that is how we have to move and I think we talk I talk a lot about keeping the main thing the main thing which is our kids but the next thing is our staff um just being around I've seen people really don't leave education for the kids they don't leave education because of the children a lot of people leave education because of things adults do and that is what we have to keep in mind is how do we make sure we're not getting in our own way and
102bogging things down with talks about things that do nothing for our staff or our children so I encourage us to to make sure that we're having those bold conversations around how do we make these things better because that is what it's about um I appreciate you bringing third good to the Forefront I really love that I wish michay was in here to hear you talk about her being over at third good because then I can tell you that her boss went to metale cuz you know met El around that's what we do that's right that's right Mr Walker that's a fact so I just want everybody to enjoy their time enjoy your friends enjoy your family enjoy just not being around some people turn your phone off for a little bit sometimes don't answer text
103messages me I'm not answering y'all anyway um I do call I call I call Walker back sometimes but I just really appreciate you all um you all really truly are are like loved by me for what you do you all do an exceptional job every single one of you day in and day out and that cannot be understated so I just want to say as we leave out of here in our last meeting of this year but not of the school year because y'all be right back in January it seemed like a long time y'all got about a week and a half for y'all see these kids but I appreciate that and with that pursuing to section 12122 G2 the Ohio Revised Code I now move that this board go on to Executive session meeting
104is being held to consider the appointment employment of a Public Employee do I have a second second it's been moved in second do I have any questions seeing none may we have a vote president Smith yes Miss Wick yes Dr Bailey yes Mr Lacy yes Mr Walker yes M rard yes Mr Scott yes seven nases e e e