001foreign good evening I'd like to call to order this November 15 2022 business meeting Madam treasure maybe we have a roll call present weekend thank you I'm here Dr Pickett present Dr Goodwin here Mr Lacy here 7 present thank you may we rise with the Pledge of Allegiance once again I'd like to say thank you for everybody for coming out we will start our business meeting with a special presentation Dr Lawley could you give us a brief introduction please yes we have some wonderful neighborhood School Center Partners and tonight we're going to hear from Demetria Thomas about the neighborhood School Center at Omega we were supposed to hear from Easton also but the presenter is ill tonight so we'll catch her at a different time and have her present on East End but at this
002time I'd like to invite her to the podium good evening thank you so much Dr Lolly good to see you all Dayton school board members um before I share specific information about our out of school program we just again want to say thank you so much for the partnership that we do have we're dating a part in School Dayton public schools Additionally the last time I was here last year I was the out of school time director since then we have been able to expand and increase our capacity in leadership and my title now is director of program compliance and my partner co- director who's over director of program operations is Courtney George Wright and she's not here tonight but I did want to give you all that update as we know Dayton public schools
003is an important partner you can yes thank you so much um and the success of neighborhood schools centers includes not only our partnership with Dayton public schools but us as a as a non-profit organization as well as University partners and funders one of the main components of our blessing to partner with the public schools as a neighborhood School Center is to have our family resource coordinator and again we've been able to expand we now today wait who will come up in a moment has been holding down for Fairview and EJ Brown Edwin Joe Brown Middle School last year and we appreciate that we're also grateful to be able to expand to have a family resource coordinator at assigned to Edwin Joel Brown Middle School Mr amateo is his name and Tanae will come up and
004share more information about the great work that they are both doing between Fairview and Edward Joel Brown as frcs good evening you are as dormitoria shared my name is Tanae Waits and I am the Family Resource coordinator assigned to Fairview Elementary School so I would like to share with you all this evening just a little bit about the work that we are doing inside of Fairview Elementary in Edwin Joel Brown we started off the beginning of this school year with a back to school bash and that back to school bash involve families from Edwin Joel Brown Middle School as well as families from Fairview we saw about 80 families participate in that event families were given backpacks full of school supplies our young men were given free haircuts we also were able to give away
005uniform vouchers so between both schools we were able to give away 150 school uniform vouchers for JC Penney's we have also been able to give out 121 vouchers for coats and shoes this year as well we had a car seat giveaway back in September at Fairview Elementary School we were able to service 23 families giving away car seats we also recently had our fall festival an opportunity for families to have fun to share with one another we provided them with a meal they played various different games and 82 students and their families participated in that event Omega CDC is happy and proud to participate as a member of the PSC team in the building and we were happy to organize a PSC event this year with our Phoenix officers they actually provided popsicles to our
006kids who met their mind play and success maker goals we were very excited to see that we recently implemented something called talk about it Tuesdays at Fairview this is an opportunity for Omega CDC staff to be in the building and available to parents all day on Tuesdays to meet their various different needs so we have our Workforce Development coach in the building to help parents with resume building job applications all of those employment skills that they need we also have our family coaches available to assist with some of those case management needs that our parents have we recently implemented a program called parent Cafe we just finished our first series two weeks ago we had a total a total of eight parents participate in that program at Fairview it was an opportunity for parents to
007come together to share with one another to build community amongst each other and just learn from each other in terms of what their parenting experiences have been um we were also able to support a parent and giving her a gas card and we were also able to um make a rent payment for a parent as a part of that program as well so we will continue to support families that are in crisis we are referring our families to Omega CDC programming we have about 15 Fairview parents that are actively engaged in Omega CDC wrap around and supportive services and we are constantly working to address barriers to attendance we have given bus passes to students that need them we are assisting families with trying to find housing resources in the community as we look Beyond
008this month we have shoes for the shoeless that will be coming to Fairview in March we will be providing holiday gifts and basic support basic needs support to our families we will also be taking our first and second graders to Christmas on campus they are very excited about that we are doing quarterly family engagement events tomorrow we will be having the longest table event to support our families at Fairview and EJ Brown that are engaged in the scholars of Hope program we are hoping to specifically Target our our fathers in both buildings to get them engaged and active with their child's learning process and we are offering ready to work employment classes to our parents as we move into the new year thank you so much thank you today another example of us expanding is
009we know that all Scholars are important we know previously we've only served kindergarten through eighth graders we really want to make sure that we were holding on to those Scholars who have aged out of our freedom schools as well as our Scots of Hope after school program and so we have implemented something called scholar University for our ninth graders in this program and it's an initiative as part of what we do for those Scholars who have been with us previously and they meet twice a month one time of the of the month they meet for a field trip um the other time they have something they come together as a connection section session at the Hope Center for Families just to bond because they're used to seeing each other literally like every single day or
010for six weeks um in the summer and so um there our main focus is career exploration for those Scholars helping them to navigate not just high school but what is life beyond High School I mean as the slide shows it shows all different areas so that includes working helping them with their fafsas acts SATs of course we know that academics are great but social emotional wellness and awareness is just as important and so scholar University is led by shamia Knight who is a prevention specialist and and we also focus in on that additionally within scholar University providing information about Labor the labor market and career opportunities um is also part of what they do for scholar University and they have taken field trips as I mentioned and these field trips are it's not we know
011that exposure is important so it's not in one particular area it's the the goal is to cover a plethora of areas because you just never know as Jeffrey Canada mentioned last night at our Gala what part will actually intersect and make a difference for Scholars lives and so already since August they have been on several field trips they had gone to Camp Kern and I was at that one it was very interesting seeing them navigate just thinking skills team building and all of that and then taking risks you know what is it like to actually zip line and overcoming those fears was pretty powerful they also experienced entrepreneurship by being able to be at Dayton arcade half of the day as well as going to Picture Perfect Painting downtown in Dayton the scholars in scholar
012University have also this past Tuesday when DPS did not have school they went to Bowling Green State University for a college tour additionally some future field trips that skull University will include volunteering with Habitat for Humanity in Dayton they're going to be doing later on this month they're doing a gym City Market cooking class as well as adopting a park as well as as well as getting them involved in youth Works last summer we did have three of our Scholars who were involved and our freedom schools at Edwin Joel Brown Middle School who actually were also part of Youth works and so the goal is to help those scholars in the scholar University make sure that they have a placement within youth works and of course prayerfully at one of our sites the next slide
013you'll actually see um them looking like Scholars at Dayton arcade pictures are always great the next slide is at pitcher uh perfect paint parties and um you can move to the next slide yes and then the one after that actually highlights one of our Scholars Darren who actually you see him enjoying painting their reactions one of our individuals who got to actually introduce Jeffrey Canada last night as well as the next slide shows our other person that got to speak last night introducing Jeffrey Canada so they of course really enjoyed those um gatherings in community building so now I'm going to move on to the Skies of Hope enrichment and our academics and what our enrollment looks like so at Fairview we currently have 79 Scholars but we have a wait list of just as
014many scholars as we have enrolled you'll see there's 65 waiting that is because we are needing more teachers as there's a shortage everywhere we too are affected by that so we're continuing to look for ways to actively employ high quality phenomenal teachers and assistant teachers who most importantly have a heart to serve our Scholars at Edwin Joel Brown we currently have 25 enrolled and we do not have a waiting list and we are definitely actively trying to encourage enrollment also at Edwin Joel Brown Middle School in terms of academics um because we are a 21st century site at Edward Joel brown but we're not at Fairview we still are holding true to the same high quality standards even though we are not a 21st century site at Fairview I think that's really important that we
015give our Scholars Excellence no matter what the requirement is and so all of our curricula is focused on being evidence-based the lesson plans are aligned with DPS pacing guides additionally our certified lead teachers that are DPS teachers provide whole class one-on-one and small group instructions we are currently using Focus math passport to literacy and language live as our curriculas at those two sites in terms of enrichments the scholars love enrichments and we know that's just as important because it's world view it's new opportunities it Sparks and interests and so at Fairview this semester we have yoga martial arts theater and agriculture at EJ Brown we currently have martial arts again media arts which is a partnership we have with Dayton Metro libraries that particular contractor works for Dayton Metro libraries during the day at Northwest
016Dayton branch and career exploration that's actually being done by a member of Omega CDC staff by Eleanor now I'm going to get into everyone's favorite topic which is data so there are two main uh Focus areas I'm going to focus on the day within data and that is our learner's learning circle data as well as our Desa data so Omega CDC is really grateful again for our partnership with Dayton public schools and be able to share data is really helpful and so learning circles supports not only the academic and the social growth of all the scholars it is um an interface that links student data with participating Dayton Regional School Districts with supporting non-profits providing out of school time I.E Omega CDC in terms of the Desa it focuses in on social emotional learning so
017let's look at this really quickly at Fairview um there are 58 of the 72 Scholars who are currently attending our program that are above the 90 90 percentile with school day data as of today additionally attendance at school is slightly higher in November than it was in September in terms of looking at the learning circuit Circle data for Behavior 62 of the 72 Scholars who participate in our program have not received any documented disciplinary actions from the school district 8 out of 72 of these Scholars have received minor documented disciplinary action with two of 72 receiving moderate to mild or minor documented disciplinary actions in terms of academics at this time we are not at the elementary school level able to um this data is inconclusive because we're not able to get the academic data
018for the younger for the younger grades however Dr Stock who is our local evaluator um is our partner and takes a look at all of our data points for all of us for both of our sites now in terms of Dessa the Deborah Rowe Student Success assessment you'll I'm not going to go through all of this for the sake of time but I think it is important to highlight and you'll see it again when we look at the Desa information for EJ Brown um we're grateful for the high number we do see that's in the green here um and it's 15 of our Scholars that are at uh Fairview who need a little bit of assistance which we're grateful for our partnership with Goodwill Easter seals we have a licensed counselor who will be part
019of our event intervention team to help those Scholars who need a little bit extra support social emotional support I will also say we do have at both sites that license social worker has beginning to hold groups for individuals who need a little extra support but I want to highlight the third through sixth grade um I thought was very it's really interesting and you'll see it again in the upper grades as well that in terms of the areas of least strength being the optimistic thinking area you'll see that quite a bit in this data thought that was very interesting and at the same time there's a great strength in terms of relationship skills in quite a few of the grades as well now moving on to Edwin Joel Brown Middle School in terms of their attendance
020um 21 of our 24 Scholars are above the 90 percent tile in terms of school day school time data as of today additionally for Behavior 13 of the 24 scholars particing in our program have not received any documented disciplinary actions from the School District 9 out of 24 Scholars have received minor documented disciplinary actions and two out of the 24 have received moderate to minor documented disciplinary actions now here for academics we are able to look at this data um Scholars academic data for seventh and 8th grade Scholars is currently available thankfully with this partnership and we're able to gather this from learning circles so nine of 24 Scholars are within the a b range academically 9 of 24 are within the C range academically three of 24 are within the D range academically and
021three of the 24 we have our data is not unavailable for which we will continue to try to get that particular all the data points that we need to put them into the system in terms of Dessa the social emotional tool we use at Edwin Joel Brown our seventh graders showed the highest strength in Social awareness and personal responsibility and here we go again the least strength of optimistic thinking I'm sure covet again has a I believe I believe has a great impact on this some Scholars were struggling before covid um it just became worse for a lot of people and how they their outlook on life right and that includes our young scholars whether that's kindergarten all the way through eighth grade additionally our eighth grade Scholars showed strengths in decision making which is
022great and here we go again the least strength just as in seventh grade is an optimistic thinking as today has already mentioned we do have our longest table event that's going to happen tomorrow in terms of upcoming events we're very excited that that's going to be held at Fairview but both sites um the families are encouraged to come it's great to be able to do that I know the city used to do that all around the city um pre-cubus we're really excited about that activity we do have some volunteers that are part of our program that of course will also be there as well to help serve another upcoming event that will take place on Thursday I thought it was really important that our scholars in scholar University have a mentor because I know that
023that can also make a difference evidence has shown even if you have a high a score if you have even one caring adult in your life you can mitigate a higher a score and so with that we are going to have informational on this Thursday for those who are interested in mentoring a one-on-one mentoring ship with our scholars in scholar University of course they can also come in chaperone grown and do other things like that so those are the two upcoming events thank you all so much for your time it's always a pleasure to be with you on to share the great work that we're doing at Omega Community Development Corporation and more specifically at our two schools that we serve at Fairview and Edward Jones Brown middle school and with that thank you thank
024you um I know you just bailed on us all right well um but I want to First say thank you just for what you guys are doing um just seeing the growth the growth in the program I'm aging myself remember we were working across the hall from each other when all this stuff was coming to fruition and the Hope Center and just seeing so I'm really proud of that work um just want to say we appreciate it first of all now um before I turn it over to the board I did want to ask when we look at Edwin Joe Brown in your estimation what are some of the challenges around trying to get some of our Scholars at that middle school Range to be able to come stay after school what are some of
025the things that you see that maybe even we could help out and assist in I thought of it is we the dynamic that's in middle school and even high ER and that is extracurricular activities and so as we're building um at Edwin Joel Brown they don't know unless they came from Fairview they don't even they don't know we even exist right because it was a soft start at EJ a couple years ago and then last year we just started the program and then we have a different principle and so it's starting afresh really in a lot of ways because they some of those have moved on to scholar University and so really getting the young people to and the families to understand that you don't have to choose football for example or basketball to be
026in scars of hope you can do both we've tried to communicate this in a variety of different ways to families into the scholars into the administrator in the building right that we can you can do it all so of course because for compliance reasons you you have to be with us a certain amount of hours per week right but if they come there's there when they do study tables right and then if they were to come to us for example and then they're with us until they have practice those dosage times still count the days that they don't have football practice or football games they are they should be expected of course to come to our after-school program so it really is getting get you know helping everyone understand that they can do that you
027can do both that's that's been one I would say the biggest challenge okay appreciate it any other questions from the board Dr Pickett thank you mentioned universities as partners partners what is the role of the University students in the program yes so we have had a long history with the united with the United States yes with the United States but also university University of Dayton um and recently we were able to get another um intern from UD and so that's you know one example of our Partnerships thank you Mr Mr Lacy so the 65 wait list um how many how many teachers would it take how many teachers do you need so our our model has shifted this year in years past we we use a model of um two to ten or two to
028twelve in terms of The Scholar teacher ratio in the classroom what we've done this year is shifted we still have our lead certified teachers but as I mentioned we're using them differently than in the past so the assistant teachers are doing the whole class instruction with the lead certified teachers doing small group or one-on-one so that model you know we don't need as many certified teachers with the model we're using now on you know compared to the old model we were using um I mean I mean it's hard to I I would I would say at least if we could get 10 it would be great so so really it's a it's not a question of money it's just you're you're having trouble finding you're trying you're finding people well I mean we would always
029love more resources in terms of money but um yes it's just you know also finding teachers and there's interesting like you know we we just hired somebody and then unfortunately somebody else um we there was a transition with somebody else was like going back and forth a little bit for a couple positions um but yes it's a capacity challenge in terms of just really getting um teachers into our program and as Ms Thompson uh indicated um this is also happening in the other uh programs as well the YMCA is short staffed as well as East End okay have any difficult time finding teachers and final and um have you guys looked into summer programming at all in terms of having a summer program oh we have something or do you do okay I just didn't
030focus in on summer because I had a short time period um but I thought you can go over I don't care but we we have a long style to say we are um very much we had our camphoe freedom schools last last year we served uh 75 at Fairview and 35 I think 35 to 50. at um at Edwin Joe Brown Middle School but we've we've and we've done we're one of the longest running Freedom schools in the city and so we absolutely will uh be doing that again this summer I've we've already been notified we are official site we are grateful for our partnership with Montgomery County United Way and so there'll be more Freedom School sites again this summer so even when covet hit and there was no Freedom School sites in the
031city of Dayton or in Montgomery County we still did Summer programming virtually the first summer and then the second summer in person even when we have not done Freedom schools using the same model but not calling it Freedom school and that would include using easy CBM as our reading tool pre and post assessments progress monitoring all those things took place even we have not been a freedom school but we pride ourselves and being a part of the Freedom School move and we'll be doing that again this summer great thank you and thank you Mr President thank you Mr Sampson thank you Mr President um first let me say um presentation I'm excited about what I'm hearing um and to Mrs Wade uh keep on doing it um I didn't know they running you ragged but
032you just uh keep on serving a couple questions Dr Lawley one question is as relates to the shortage of teachers do do our partners have the access to utilize like our email where we can go out and solicit teachers for them letting them know that there's a need we actually posted those positions and excuse me the YMCA had asked um if um we could send those regularly to them so we can also do that um to Ms Thompson and make sure she has that but we have posted the positions internally I also spoke at a uh an event um on Saturday and announced to uh um it was a large number of retired teachers and I announced to them that we also were looking for after school teachers if they had an interest in coming
033just for a few hours and working with any of our neighborhood schools that we would be very willing to have them return all right and then my last question um Mr President is for you Miss Thompson um you kept on saying that you're we're grateful for the partnership what could we do to be better partners I think right if we were of exposure of course like you just mentioned Dr Lolly of literally helping with recruitment for teachers um and I'm glad you asked that question because it ties into what Dr Lolly said which is what I was going to make a comment is that the other thing about for example retired teachers in years past they have had to submit lesson plans in our old model they've had to submit that's some plans and do
034all the instruction all of that we have given that a lift so that the co-teachers who are not the certified teachers they are they're doing the lesson plans and the lead certified teacher serves as a consultant a mentor helping them with their lesson plans and having been a teacher it is you you appreciate you still want to be in the work but for retired people they may be more willing to do and knowing they don't have to literally formulate lesson plans four days a week but they're serving more as a mentor to an assistant teacher and looking over lesson plans to make sure things will be being done at with Fidelity and doing small group instruction so I think that that is definitely um one thing and and again just additional help trying to get
035Scholars we want to make sure that we have more Scholars at Edwin Joe Brown Middle School our goal at that site is a hundred and right now like I said our number is 25 strong we would love those that we have but we really we know that the need is great um we know that Scholars brains are still developing so they don't know sometimes that they need something like this and so as much support that we can get to help with that would be also great thank you so much thank you Mr President Dr Goodwin thank you it's always good to see you it'd be nice if you can wear those Edward Joe colors or Fairview you know absolutely I'm saying neither one of them got red and they come but I know two questions
036for you I did hear about the actually I saw in here the career exploration and just exposing individuals to colleges and things like that are you guys also doing anything with trade careers partnering with any apprenticeship programs or things like that just to expose individuals to those so that is on the list we have not done it yet in other words it is on the list absolutely as something that's also be focused in on um like I said we started in August and so we just because we don't have them every single day for the field trips or whatever and even the the connection section sessions another opportunity to bring an individual to come and actually speak about their career for example that they're doing um this intervocational trade so that is definitely on the
037list okay another question okay and my second question in regards to the teacher shortage which everyone has a teacher shortage right now and I continue to ask this not only of people who come up to us after stuff but of our superintendents are you guys looking at any innovative ways to get beyond the traditional path of finding someone that's already ready to go as a teacher knowing that even in the field itself there is a shortage of individuals entering and there is a large amount of people exiting right do you have any type of programs with those co-teachers that may not have teaching credentials but they're displaying that they can handle what you need and if so because we need some tips so like [ __ ] I wish I had the answer uh Dr Goodwin I
038don't but I will say this it ties into our goal of not only serving and keeping our hands and our hearts on our Scholars but that includes our staff and an example of this is our server leader interns who are a part of our freedom School movement we will we always try to reach out to those that are local those are college students so a lot of times they they can work with us in the summertime but they can't do the school year because they're away um at different schools outside of the Dayton area but an example of that is we have one of our co-teachers who does go to Sinclair Community College who is local obviously um serving as a co-teacher um so you know we don't have it all figured out but we
039we've been trying to find um because for the co-teachers you don't need to have a teacher's teacher's license it's just a certified teachers and so trying to we we have found um that also trying to encourage those that have already a part of the organization already a part of the culture of what we do um to apply for other positions has been one way that's been helpful as I mentioned to you the one young lady we have right now that's a co-teacher who actually was a server leader intern this past school year okay and I have two more questions for you with the fall semester enrichment have you seen even the things that you put on here like I see martial arts and is there a big interest in martial arts at this is it
040because Cobra Kai is out now it is absolutely huge so our Master uh our martial arts instructor Master Steve Allen has been with us actually since the very beginning of scars of Hope and some years I've been able to bring him on as a contractor in the summer as well his class is extremely popular um and the good thing about that you know that um whether it's supposed to be doing with the Arts um continuity and consistency is super important so we so it's both and we want to expose Scholars to different enrichments at the same time give those who may be really interested for example in a martial arts opportunity to continue with the same instructor semester after semester summer after summer has been really helpful okay that's good to hear I mean this
041may be an opportunity for us at DPS if if they're a program out there where martial arts is an interest I mean I know Judo is a thing that people go on and us actually expanding our I don't even know if it was I mean it still following their Athletics of expanding some of these career and our these athletic paths to things that you are finding kids are interested because where else would they do it outside of here right can I say something else about that doctor good wine another example of that is our radical blooming um agriculture class is taught by um is Jasmine Stewart she again they love that class they absolutely love that enrichment it's Hands-On and she's very creative she gets into ecosystems so it's not just them planting flowers I
042love flowers and they do plant flowers but she really gets into all kinds of area areas that they definitely would not be exposed to if it wasn't for the opportunity to be in in that radical blooming enrichment class okay and then just my final question for you because I heard you mention that you guys are partnering with you University of Dayton are you having any Partnerships with the public institutions like Wright State Central State University Ohio State even with the agricultural Partridge saying right there those extension programs or any of that on your radar at all well of course they're of course they're on our radio as a matter of fact again talking about trying to be year-round one of the main places that we actually recruit for our summer servant leader interns in Central
043State so we attend for example the career fairs um at Central State last year we'll do that again this year um we um haven't we did last year take the seventh and 8th graders to to Central State University and Wright State University in the same day for college tours so we continue to look for ways to partner with the local pwis and hbcus as well all right thank you that's all right thank you um one quick question on my end looking at how we talk about some of those enrollment pieces and Outreach has there been any connections at Edwin Joe Brown to try to work through with the office of males of color and the females of color not intentionally I know that they are in a building but not not the way that we
044need to we definitely that is definitely um something we need to do um intentionally for sure because again it's not a conflict it's interesting you say that because I I was dropping off some supplies last Thursday to the building at AJ Brown and a young man real nice young man was helping me the secretary got him to help me bring the stuff inside the building really nice young man and I just began to talk to him um and I said so I was I said you know you'll be great in skulls of Hope right and he was like oh I said I can't do that here we go I said why he said because I'm already in a program I said what's the program he said males of color and I said no it's not
045a conflict so it's that's they just don't know that there's not a conflict and so I said no they need it's a great that's a great program I'm so glad you're in it they meet during the day we're after school so it's again as again goes back to continuing to make the case and make sure that people understand that where you think there may be a conflict there really isn't a conflict we're we're another added resource to the wellness and wholeness of that particular child appreciate that I think that's something on our end that we can probably connect and try to create those connections to help out with like I said it's not a competition it actually enhances both programs right and I do know Dr Worley has um uh he actually the clap in
046I mean he he uh actually he a very strong presence um I came out again this school year or last school year he had his whole staff out um at our clap in so um you know I know of course Dr Worley is definitely amenable to a partnership and like I said I know he has supported the work that we're doing because he definitely has brought his staff out to our clapping before appreciate it any other questions Dr Goodwin the comment like even with that partnership I see that you have the mentorship thing on here it may be a good thing to if you're not already working with Angela Worley because her volunteer base is one of the largest I've seen so if even putting the three of you all the three programs together to
047see how they can help each other that's a good idea I'm gonna talk to Angela today thank you anybody else Miss wiganier thank you nice to see you Dory to you um I was just going to request too that you know with the significant open opportunities at EJ Brown that perhaps could we I know we have many students that would deeply benefit by these wonderful services that you're offering and how we at DPS could can we get these fam I mean these this is just this that you should not have open seats so um yeah um bringing these opportunities together so I'm going to work to make sure those things get filled thank you thank you anything else from the board I see there's none look forward to seeing you again got to get out
048there this summer Freedom School absolutely get Mr Lacy to do harambe one time yes you see Mr Sampson over there on the show she's ready too thank you all so much thank you thank you next next up is the hearing of the bargaining units do we have any bargaining units present to speak president Smith vice president reinert board members superintendent Lolly Treasurer Braha and DPS staff and families good evening I am Neil Mahoney the president of the Dayton Education Association I would like to take this time to thank all the individuals who played a role in bringing the recently completed tentative agreement before you tonight the preparation began last fall for our negotiations team moved into negotiation sessions that began in May and continued throughout the summer and concluded with a tentative agreement being ratified
049by 86 percent of our membership at an All-City meeting held November 1st on behalf of the membership of the Dayton Education Association I'd like to thank the DEA negotiation team members Langston Watrous Whitney Dewberry Felicia Hill Felicia Thompson and Bridget Petersfield for your time your efforts and the sacrifices you made for the members of the Dayton Education Association I also would like to thank this board for your support of our members it has been felt and is truly appreciated thank you thank you sir are there any other bargaining units present to speak ing that they are none we will move on to the hearing of the public as always like to remind you of three minutes when you come up please identify yourself state your name and address also address the board as a whole
050if you have any materials for distribution please hand to the treasurer and she will distribute it to us also lastly as inappropriate to address any matter involving pending disputes grievances under a labor agreement disciplinary action involving employee or student ongoing labor negotiations concerns are matters that have already been settled and or any matter which because of its nature is deemed appropriate to be discussed in executive session Madam Treasures do we have any members of the public registered to speak yes I have one Jamie Ryan Miss Ryan come on down you know you got your assigned seat right there you need to come to my house I live at 2137 East 5th Street good evening members of the board I'm here tonight to express my thoughts on a few issues first of all I am really
051intrigued by the professional development from think take think tank that is planned for Kaiser next week I would really be interested in hearing feedback from the teachers and staff regarding their experience maybe at next month's business meeting secondly as I did last year I am advocating for all teachers and staff to get the entire week of Thanksgiving off I understand it is built into the calendar calendar for professional development like the one I just mentioned but I think it would go a long way for building morale with it within the district I would like the administration to give thought to this idea if not for this year than for the next school year and those that follow thirdly I would like to share my thoughts about one the state thoughts about one the State Board
052of Education quote resolution to support parents schools and districts in rejecting harmful coercive and burdensome gender identity policies end quote to the resolution passed by this board last week opposing the aforementioned policy three how it was passed and for the amended resolution passed yesterday I think by the State Board of Education or at least the executive Council I don't have much time but I do think all of the resolutions from the state board and the DPS board have some Merit and have some flaws looking out for the interests of all the stakeholders in the school Community students parents teachers is not a simple dance especially regarding the complex issue of gender identity the original resolution put forth by State Board of Education member Shea was flawed in many ways and the amended version submitted by
053state board member Mike toll is a move in the right direction what I appreciate about toll's amended version is the emphasis on local control I encourage you to read the amended resolution if you haven't and I have copies here I think it is worth our time to read it in order to inform any future resolution or policy decisions within DPS my main concern with here is how hastily this body passed last week's resolution with little discussion or Community input I understand the sense of urgency that motivated last week's action however I do think a fuller conversation is necessary to provide an adequate response to the state board's resolution I would welcome being part of that conversation thank you thank you as we move on next I want to say thank you again Miss Ryan for
054coming out and also extend the invitation to anyone from our public to come out for our hearing of the public at our business meetings next we'll move on to Dr Lawley your recommendations thank you I'd like to recommend the approval of the HR agenda move to accept superintendent recommendation a do I have a second second it's been moved in second any questions on the motion Dr Goodwin yes line 20-23 can you tell me what steps we took as a district to help these individuals go from support Specialists to long-term Subs I'll ask Chief Harmon to come forward those three individuals actually were specifically requested by their principal and so she has some direct supports in place at the building and they are already familiar with the students and have been built you know been working
055with those groups of kids but based on their degree they were able to take on that um the uh substitute teaching license and so they could be moved to a long-term sub but we also have um I think you're aware of this we have a new staff orientation every two weeks and so I I can't tell you that honestly if they're at the next one or if they you know but I can look to see what orientation that they are either have attended or are about to attend that also works our curriculum Team Works directly with those folks in that orientation okay I mean that's great that I see people going in because I know we need subs so if there is something that that team did that can be mirrored in other places then
056we should mirror it to try to fill some of our gaps I got a couple more questions I do see that I see some spring coaches on here it's really good to see that we're thinking ahead like to see that in us um I believe last time there were a couple I think it was like one or two openings left for the winter sports have those been filled um so yeah I was given the Athletics update again and this is their report I'm happy to share with that um so they have four bowling coaches in place opponent Stivers Dunbar and Thurgood this is for winter they have wrestling coaches in place at all six high schools with two high schools having enough female students for a separate team and we have swim coaches in place
057at two buildings opponents and Stivers students from Meadowdale and Belmont have also been participating in as well with those swim teams and there are no other vacancies for the winter in any other building beyond that and then there's also been significant progress as you've mentioned on some of the spring hires already so they're out in front of things okay thank you my question is for Dr Lively I hired four bowling coaches but we have six high schools can you let me know what happened with the other two schools and either there was no interest or I'll be glad to check that yes and then my final question I do see a lot of the DEA extra duties it's been four years since we've had debate in this District are there any plans to bring debate
058back to this District debate teams our debate programs the the debate uh supplemental is still available it's just a matter of finding someone in the buildings to actually do the debate and there have been some students that have expressed that in my leadership lunches that they would like to have a debate team uh so hopefully we're going to be able to get a couple in place at least this year okay thank you thank you um for me Chief I know you come before us and talked about the work that your team was doing um getting out into the schools and speaking to your staff can you give me an update on some of the updated numbers of you circled back and repeated talking to somebody how are we at with that well thank you for
059asking that question actually because there's several bullet points I have ready for you that I'd love to share so one of the things that I you know I highlight so tons of credit to our whole team but there's some individuals I want to call out directly and specifically so Cindy Timmer um had and she had a couple folks in our team help her as well Stacy mobs and Dr rashara Richardson as well as a few others but Cindy went out to many many buildings I don't know if I can say for sure every single building but she directly met with 527 individuals to help enroll them in their insurance um from you know so it's time to open role for next year and she she met with 527 people to help them navigate that process
060and I will just be proud to tell you that's something we've not done that before and so that's a ton of ton of credit to uh Cindy for her tremendous effort and a few folks who helped her as well um so 73 of the individuals in the district who have insurance did that whole process the other 27 automatically roll over but you know it's important for people to take a look at what what am I paying for what do I need to be paying for so that was a huge undertaking um yesterday at Stivers we had a event which was for our long-term Subs meeting with our long-term Subs to help them navigate the process if they so choose to do so to move from long-term sub into a full licensed teacher teacher credentials and
061that there's a number of Pathways that you can do that it's not easy but a ton of credit to the folks who came out for that as well as our team for putting that event together so there were 100 more than 100 staff were invited 53 folks 53 current long-term Subs expressed interest in this we did have because of last week's event with Dr Lawley getting the superintendent of the year we did move that date so 31 actually attended yesterday last last evening and then we are going to do that event again in the spring just because we think it was pretty good um and Stacy Maney our executive director also sent out today a survey back to everyone who attended and just said hey kind of give us your feedback you know what what
062worked for you did we answer your questions um what else should we have said you know so asking for feedback from those folks but really excited to to say that we're you know maybe moving down the path with possibly as many as 31 people who um there's a partnership with Ohio State University and Bluffton uh College Bluffton University now and how you can do that process and so there's some choices that individuals get to make if they wish to do that but it's that's a we've not done that before either so and then in the last week we have decreased our vacancies by 20 individuals so our number of vacancies is down by 20 in a week so I'm pretty proud of that as well so did you have specific questions beyond that um so
063you talked about lowering our vacancies where is our biggest need right now in your estimation paraprofessionals not an estimation who's going to guess that and that's all we had lost a few on this one so I take it that's kind of this area you're zoning in on as well it is everything else appreciate that yes yes appreciate that any other questions for chief Dr Goodwin what's your I don't know what you call them but the popping HR sessions the ones on site have you guys done any of that in the transportation department we did yeah we did go out to Transportation um they had their one individual event I think one thing we learned from that event is based on when routes come back we probably needed to do maybe two or at least two
064maybe more than two um to get the groups of folks that are coming in because of the space there so we were there at the beginning of when Ralphs were coming back and and the first wave of drivers coming in and um actually went through a lot of a lot of times we have swag we'll have a water bottles or you know DPS gear went through a lot of of DPS gear and then we were scheduled to move on to the next building and you know I think we have learned that we cut probably could have had another second session there as well and we will be we're doing that again in the spring as well so okay and how how did the online the little anime series go for you guys have you rolled
065that out yet the online the you as a character oh uh open enrollment so yeah that's what I was talking about earlier so 73 of our staff went through an active process and and again a ton of credit to Cindy for helping make that happen no I mean how the views on it how were the views on watching that video I'll have to look to see after watching it once I never looked at it again because it's a little weird to watch yourself but uh okay and then my final question because I just heard you mention the partnership with Ohio State and I don't remember the other colors Bluffton not Ohio State you know the other place all right have you guys been exploring working with any of these the surrounding universities to offer on-site
066cohort for individuals that want to go in that path so we are yes uh we are also in the works with Central State to put together a paraprofessionals to uh in this case it will be the intervention Specialists process that uh is in it's in its infancy I would say that's existed in Prior years but we're you know we've had we've met with the Dr Drakeford um and we're working on that we have a survey out for the number of folks and that's a huge number of individuals as well that are potentially interested in that so they would be putting together a specialized program um a very very limited cost to the individuals that are involved okay and I have one final question is with the program that I heard here I believe I heard
067metaldale and Belmont have swim swim teams but they don't have coaches I believe this question may be for our business manager on the transportation of how those kids are getting to and from practice or if you know I don't but just the specifics of it there are swim coaches in place at both opponents and Stivers and you're right that Meadowdale and Belmont have students that are participating as well angle are you joining me coming up yeah we can easily transport the students on Saturdays right now we're working to you have to have a coach so we're working on transporting all the students from the other schools to opponents and then having a coach ride with them all the way to the YMCA during the week so that's um that's in the process and works now
068okay and are you guys how are you communicating like where you are with that with the parents at those other schools that I mean don't know how they know I just talked to him today so we haven't started that yet okay so right now the parents are required to get them there if they want them to participate until we get something solidified on our side correct any other questions for chief Harmon appreciate it thank you appreciate it um I did have a question Dr Lolly with um us going into our winter sports um what is that process looking like if getting not only just evaluations just from coaches and people involved uh in our fall sports but how are we creating this feedback loop to kind of see some of their input and then implement
069it not just in the next season next year but how's that some of that rolling over to the winter season are you talking about how are the coaches being evaluated not how they're being but not the uh per se evaluation of what they're doing but their input on just needs and things that they see that could improve the the Athletics how are we you know capturing that and then having that turn around not until you know say not talking to volleyball coaches and then fixing it for next volleyball season but some of those things that could be implemented for wrestling now so is that something that Athletics is currently doing um I can't answer that but I will find out and let the board know I appreciate that any other questions from the board concerning
070HR if there are no other questions maybe we have a vote presidents Miss yes Miss Reinhardt yes Mr Samson yes Miss sweet Kenny yes Dr Pickett yes Dr Goodwin yes Mr Lacy yes seven yeses thank you next recommendation Dr Lolly Dr rickerman the board approve uh the DEA after July 10th Human Resources agenda thank you I'll move to approve superintendent recommendation B is there a second second second it's been moved in second any questions seeing there are no questions maybe we have a vote president Smith no Miss reinert no Mr Samson no Miss swigani no Dr Pickett no Dr Goodwin no Mr Lacy no seven no thank you next recommendation Dr Allen I'd like to recommend the approval of uh the contracts listed uh that were reviewed last week at the review session move to
071approve recently recommendation C do we have a second second it's been moving seconded any questions one question Dr good wine has there been any update on any of the other schools securing Prime locations since last week no do they have a timeline of when they need to secure them locations um many of them will finish that uh process in December and and there are a couple that do it in January that's all any other questions [Music] seeing there or not maybe we have a vote president Smith yes Mrs reinab yes Mr Samson yes this week Annie yes Dr Pickett yes Dr Goodwin yes Mr Lacy yes seven yeses next recommendation Dr Lolly I'd like to recommend the approval of the DEA contract as listed move to accept superintendent recommendation D is there a second second
072it's been moved and seconded are any questions seeing there are none I do want to Echo Sentiments of Mr Mahoney president Mahoney I appreciate everybody that worked to get this done um appreciate this work going forward and understanding that we appreciate our teachers and all our staff that work with us here at DPS things there are no other questions maybe have a vote president Smith yes Miss reinert yes or something yes swigani yes yes Dr Goodwin yes Mr Lacy yes seven yeses next recommendation Dr Allen I'd like to recommend that the board approved the memorandum of understanding with West Ed move to accept superintendent recommendation e do we have a second second it's been moved and seconded are there any questions seeing there are none may we have a vote president Smith yes Mrs reinert
073yes Mr Samson yes Miss swegany yes Dr Pickett yes Dr Goodwin yes Mr Lacy yes seven yeses next recommendation Dr Lonnie I'd like to recommend the approval of the resolution for administrative DSS salary increases listed in the agenda okay move to accept superintendent recommendation F do I have a second taken it's been moved in second is there any questions seeing there are none may we have a vote president Smith yes Mrs reinert yes Mr Samson yes Miss swegany yes Dr Pickett yes Dr Goodwin yes Mr Lacy yes seven years next recommendation Dr Lolly I'd like to recommend the approval of the organizational chart school year 23. move to accept superintendent recommendation G do we have a second second it's been moving second are there any questions seeing there are none may we have a vote
074president Smith yes Miss reinab yes Mr Samson yes Miss swegany yes Dr Pickett yes Dr Goodwin yes Mr Lacy yes seven years next recommendation Dr Lolly I'd like to recommend the approval of the affiliation agreement with Sinclair nursing just a point of clarification uh the board approved this earlier in June and when it was sent back to Sinclair they found an error in it so they corrected the error but essentially it's the same memorandum of understanding move to accept superintendent's recommendation H do I have a second second it's been moved in second are there any questions seeing there are none maybe we have a vote president Smith yes Miss reinab yes Mr Samson yes Mr swigani yes Dr Pickett yes Dr Goodwin yes Mr Lacy yes did I miss anyone I don't think so okay
075seven yeses thank you madam charger because that concludes your recommendation it does and I would ask that the board refresh their screens all right that concludes your recommendation to Dr Riley yes it does thank you we'll move on to Madam treasure your recommendations please okay um I have five year forecast presentation and five-year forecast to be approved in detail so we'll start with the presentation cherries okay this five-year forecast is for this year November and the school list all the school districts in Ohio are required for to five five year forecasts in November 30th and May 31st of each year The Five-Year forecast includes three years of actual and five years of projected general fund revenues and expenditures physically here 2023 is the first year of the five-year forecast and its score considered the Baseline
076of the year our forecast is being considered and updated to reflect the most current economic data available to us for the November 2022 filing when we say the most current economic data is what we did is we reviewed since we have our biggest revenues are from the state foundation and taxes we evaluated the tax evaluations and the history of the collections and we came to our assumption the same way and the historical datas as the same way with the state Foundation revenues since we are very heavily dependent on school Foundation we reviewed the calculation we reviewed the historical data and everything and we assumed what we think is going or we're going to get the same way with our expenditures we reviewed the historical data and went uh looked at the needs of our departments
077and see what we can afford or we cannot afford to educate our children next so purpose and objectives of this forecast to engage the Board of Education and the community in Long planning and discussions of financial issues facing the school district to serve as a basis of determining the school ability to sign the certificate required by orc 5705. 412 commonly known for 12 certificates to provide a method for the Department of Education and auditor of state to identify school districts with potential financial problems next before we get to the numbers a financial forecast is somewhat like a painting of the feature based upon a snapshot of today The Five-Year forecast is viewed as a key management tool and should be updated periodically in financial forecasts and numbers only tell a small part of the story
078for the numbers to be meaningful one must be reviewed and consider the notes and assumptions before drawing calculations or using the data as basis of other calculations The Five-Year forecast encourages District management teams to examine future gears projections and identify the challenges will arise the this helps District management to be proactive in meeting those challenges next slide please key lines key line items The Five-Year forecast is divided into two sections revenue and expenditures a District's revenue is made up two main sources which are local local taxes mainly and state funding the expenditures are mainly salary and wages benefits purchase services and supplies and materials next slide okay now what I put in this one is a small snapshot of the five-year forecast The Five-Year forecast and the assumptions are going to be approved and it's
079included in this voter agenda after I finish with this presentation so as you can see in here is the first three years are actual and the next five years are projected as you can see in 2020 we were spending more than we collect our revenues so you see 7 million dollars over their revenue so what we do in that when it happens that one is we get it from our Reserve fund balances but we moved some expenditures and the next year we came into a positive but we are projecting deficit spending they've said spending meaning is we spend more than we collect so we'll go to the bottom of this page and we have these are actually the first three years the first three years showed 67 .1 million unreserved cash balance 69.5 and reserved
080with cash balance and 90.7 unreserved cash balance for those actuals but we are projecting positive is up to 2025 but after 2025 we projecting will go into a deficit next slide please next slide it shows our revenues and ex revenues expenditures and final cash balance as you can see in here is cash balance is positive through 2025 but Falling quickly after that the fund balance the fund balance Reserve policy is funded in 20 for physical year 2024 but 25 and Beyond cannot be funded those years next slide please local revenues versus the state revenues this is just to show you our main revenues as you can see our we are heavily dependent on the state the yellow shows the state and the red shows the local so HP 110 house build 110 restores funding to
081physically year 2021 levels win considering direct payments declines in 2022-2027 do the results declines they are due to the HP house bill of one 110 funding School choices where students are educated and not flow through their District so the payments are going directly to them next slide this slide shows estimated general fund Revenue sources fiscal year 2023 as you can see in here on this pie chart 62.9 percent of the district's Revenue comes from State sources and 37.2 percent comes from local so and here we since we are a very heavy dependent on the state understanding the formulas and the understanding um the changes is very critical to our district slide please this one is estimated general fund expenditures for fiscal year 2023 so it shows our wages is 52 percent benefits is 19 purchased
082Services is 19 percent uh three percent capital and one percent other purchase Services failed drastically in physical year 22. 22 due to HP uh wanting pain School choices directly where the students are educated instead of passing through us 71 percent of the costs are are for our wages and benefits which is in line next slide please estimated general fund expenditures for fiscal year 2023 by object for the forecast period so we're showing the first two years we show the high because those expenditures were the pass through through the district but physical year 22 to 27 is ours only so as you can see we're showing our expenditures are getting increasing and our revenues are decreasing it's not decreasing flat so next slide okay this slide is very good one ending cash balance as through cash
083days and this one is if we don't what we are trying to show is if we don't have any money coming in how long can we stay with the fund balance we have so as you can see 30 to 60 day cash balance as a responsible Target to end the year no less than zero required by Ohio law we fall below 30 days in physical year 2025. gfoa recommend the 60 day or two months of unencumbered Reserve so you can see in 2025 we only can survive 22 days after that we cannot even uh go in business so this one is good so what next slide please general fund concerns what we have in here is HP 110 Fair school funding plan made many changes to the funding payments and expenses but left us were
084on the guarantee when we say left at the guarantee the money we get from the state Foundation is according according to 2020 one year eliminates open enrollment revenues and the implements paying districts directly where students swear the educated student wellness and success guaranteed as part of Base funding amount so it used to come in different funds but now they included it into the base funding and that means it's coming to the general fund we must continue to review costs and just adjust budget because we are still projecting to spend more than we receive long term sr2 and the research three funds are the largest source of new money for our district over the next two years strategic use of Sr funds can help our general fund balances sustain HP 126 just pass it into a
085low will eliminate our ability to defend our tax basis from boards and BTA claims generals General Financial concerns new state budget House Bill 110 not providing substantial not net new money we are on a guarantee so two years ago what we were getting two years ago that's what they gave us for these two years there is no increase for guarantees districts Esser funds may help reduce general fund costs in 2021 to in 2021 to 2024 to help offset the car the cats feature funding is uncertain still for 2012 for 2024 to 2027 as Fair school funding plan is not funded beyond the 2024. other proposals like college credit plus excess costs tuition and are expected to increase our costs going forward so those are the concerns we have we have but really it looks good
086our financials since we have projecting positive for the next three years which is required by Audi thank you madam chair I move to accept treasurer's recommendation hey do I have a second second with that do we have any questions on the motion Mr license foreign I mean I'll just comment quickly yeah so yeah of course it's I'm and when we whenever we look at this it it does look um it it often looks Stark but that that's mostly because of require we have requirements for for us for making assumptions about expenditures and our assumptions about Revenue um are pretty much that our rev we can assume that that our main source of Revenue is going to increase and that's State eight um the state does is going to be working on the next by on
087biennium over the next few months and we'll be monitoring that closely thank you Mr Lacy anything else from the board if not maybe we have a vote president Smith yes Miss reinert yes Mr Samson yes Miss swaikany yes Dr Pickett yes Dr Goodwin yes Mr Lacy yes seven yeses the next recommendation Madame treasure I recommend the approval of the monthly financial report for October 2022 as reviewed by the finance committee today at five o'clock a move to accept treasurer's recommendation C do we have a second second it's been moved in second any questions seeing there now may we have a vote president Smith yes Miss reinab yes Mr Samson yes Miss swegany yes Dr Pickett yes Dr Goodwin yes Mr Lacy yes seven years thank you your next recommendation Madam treasure I'd recommend the approval
088of the official minutes for October October 11 October and October 18. move to accept treasury recommendation indeed do we have a second been moved and second if you have any questions may we have a vote president Smith yes Miss reinert yes Mr Samson yes Mr Speaker name yes Dr Pickett yes Dr Goodwin yes Mr Lacy yes seven yeses next recommendation Madame treasure I recommend the approval of the resolution to reinstate the 457 different Compensation Plan as reviewed last week thank you move to accept treasurer's recommendation e do I have a second remove the second do we have any questions may we have a vote president Smith yes Miss reinert yes Mr Samson yes Miss wikane yes Dr Pickett yes Dr Goodwin yes Mr Lacy yes seven years your next recommendation Madame treasure I recommend the
089approval of the following 48 hour waiver purchase requisitions a move to accept treasurer's recommendation F do I have a second second it's been moved in a second are there any questions for the treasurer not maybe I will vote no I have a question oh Dr Goodwin yes what are the changes to the long jump track and field good evening good evening so the original scope was just to Simply replace what was existing but it limited our ability to plan for future larger events so what we did is we actually adjusted the height and the width after getting feedback from our track coaches so that we could start to have larger events so just as an example in the future we're going to have the Edwin C Moses relays and Edwin Moses will be here himself
090this will also bring in Roosevelt Memorial teams from across the Midwest so the idea was to take this and extend it from the high school regulations and enlarge everything so that in the future we can grow in size and host larger events so that's why this change order is done specifically it's removal and Grading prep it's adding sand and reconfiguring what was there and if I can answer any questions I'd be more than welcome to any questions appreciate you thank you are there any other questions on the motion may we have a vote president Smith yes is reinert yes Mr Samson yes Miss sweet candy yes Dr Pickett yes Dr Goodwin yes Mr Lacy yes seven years next recommendation Madame treasure I recommend the approval of the purchase requisitions as reviewed last week a move
091to accept treasurer's recommendation G do we have a second second remove the second are there any questions may we have a vote president Smith yes Miss reinert yes Mr Samson yes yes Dr Pickett yes Dr Goodwin yes Mr lazy yes seven yeses your next recommendation Madam treasure I recommend approval of the Zen in now as reviewed last week moves to accept treasurer's recommendation H do I have a second second are there any questions on the motion maybe we have a vote yes there's a question why do I not see Dr Goodwin's here not the good one pick your head up look at this look down at the screen yeah just following up last week I asked a question about final forms and having the team look into the academic side of it Dr Lolly has
092your team been able to do that um we can't do that in just a week's turnaround so we've started that process but we don't uh we don't have any answers yet for you okay any other questions my apologies Dr Goodwin may we have a vote president Smith yes Miss reinert yes Mr Samson yes Miss wigani yes Dr Pickett yes Dr Dwayne yes Mr Lacy yes seven yeses that concludes your recommendations Madam chair yes thank you moving on I recommend the approval of the following expense reimbursement there are corrections to announce that were first listed on October 11 2022 we will have a second second and moved in second any questions may we have a vote president Smith yes Miss Reynard yes Mr Samson yes this weekend here yes Dr Pickett yes Dr Goodwin yes Mr
093lazy yes seven esses thank you next I'll go down to Mr Lacy okay um I went to the osba conference so I got to get credit here for stuff I did Sunday I I attended a um a meeting a learning session crisis management for Education leaders that was by the legal division um and then I came back went back today and I spent the morning in learning about Sunshine Law and then I went on from there to Hot Topics in school law um I enjoy the the legal sessions because they give you a lot of information in a short period of time and then after that I went to uh the session about tips tax increment financing tips can affect your bottom line was the name of the session so that's that was my day
094today thank you Mr President thank you Mr Macy Dr Pickett thank you Mr President um well I wasn't here last week and I know that Dr Lolly got a superintendent of the state and I just want to say congratulations I heard all the reasons why you got it I did not hear anything about the international school and I want to say thank you so much I wish they would include that there I attended also the Ohio School Board Association State conference and I had the pleasure of doing that presentation with vice president Reiner and Rachel Underwood our senior academic coordinator and we talked about the creation of the the international school all the struggles and how it came about to be in some um that's all I have Mr President thank you Dr Pickett um
095let us go to board member Samson thank you Mr President um I had an opportunity to review um the attendance suspension and expulsion data for the first quarter and I do have a question uh Dr Lolly for you for um do all of our schools have in-school suspension opportunities or is it just based on um the administrator yeah I'm sorry um they're supposed to have an in-school suspension person um and I would need to ask HR if there are any openings in those positions in the elementary school it's the media specialist who doubles over into that position a couple days a week and then media the other days for our middle school and high school they're supposed to have a paraprofessional who does that do you know if we have any openings the only um
096it's not really an opening the only one that I'm aware that is not staff is wagaman and that's because they the choice of the principle okay and then the second question I have Dr Lolly is um what roles do the males and females of color play if any four students who are in school suspension in lieu of expulsion do they have any um contact or programming that they do with those students they do not thank you so much uh Mr President that is the only questions I have thank you so much thank you I I returned this morning from the Ohio School Board Association Capital conference um it's one of the events that I look forward to every year the connection and the communication and the collaboration with school board members and superintendents and treasurers
097and administrators across the state is so invaluable we are so siled sometimes and knowing what other people do in their in their District some of the struggles that they're facing they're in many ways similar to ours in many ways different and it's such a really wonderful opportunity to connect and collaborate I'm really grateful that I get to do that every year I attempted I attended a number of sessions as well I don't have the list in front of me like board member Lacey um but I attended a number of legal sessions as well there are many legal updates and legislative updates that we have to face there will be a very tall stack of policies that we will be reviewing and policy committee soon um and we're not sure what this lame duck session of
098the State House will bring us um but we had lots of updates about that I attended a few sessions this morning one was about the difficulty about students and the gender identity which was a really interesting session to attend as well as the um the legislative update with a few of our lawmakers in the state house and so that's always an interesting perspective to hear the the legislators come out and speak to us directly about some of their work with the with the public education legislation um I I do want to mention the resolution that um Jamie Ryan mentioned um yesterday the committee reviewed the resolution at the State Board of Education and passed the resolution the amended resolution out of committee and it will be in front of the State Board soon um I
099thank you Ms Ryan for your feedback it is still my personal opinion that the resolution is deeply flawed it might be amended and it might be less harmful less explicitly harmful I still find it to be harmful and misguided I don't I do not know what the intent is I do not see how this amended resolution is in any way making students lives better is in any way supporting them and so I still stand firm with the resolution that was passed last week we need to do everything we can to support these children again the the session I attended this morning talking about about parental rights and students rights it's very it's very messy there is a lot of disagreeing legal precedent and there's a lot of legal issues that are in the courts right
100now that we we have no precedent for um I will never claim that it is that it is simple and that it is easy as a parent as somebody who is once a student who looks at my children as students I understand the very different ways that people approach this much less the very different backgrounds and and philosophical perspectives that we have but overall our work here on this Deus is to improve the lives of students and that includes supporting their emotional well-being and it includes supporting their um physical well-being um we have a very very sacred Duty here and I take that very seriously and so I I just urge that in all the conversations that we have here I urge that in all the conversations that the state board has that we refocus
101every once in a while are we doing what's right for students are we doing what's right for our kids um other than that I want to officially congratulate superintendent Lolly on her award I had a great time this weekend um showing her off and bragging about the work that she's doing among all the people that gathered together in Columbus I was grateful for that opportunity and that is all I have thank you um Miss thank you president Smith thank you all for being here tonight um I attended osba yesterday I specifically wanted to go to support our colleagues up here board member Jocelyn Spencer reinert and board member Dr Gabriella Pickett as they presented their work on the international school there was really some wonderful information presented I would welcome the opportunity for them to
102share the presentation to the board I thought it was really enlightening so the work that is being done in that building is remarkable truly truly remarkable Rachel Underwood her passion for from which she serves is if you could bottle that and move it across the district it's really a beautiful thing I think her lived experience in an immigration immigrant family has really brought value to that program there um in in that regard it left me wondering um or wanting those I mean we spoke of one-to-one services that these families are receiving these families that have been traumatized and I'm so grateful to have the opportunity to provide those services to these families as I look across the district in our buildings and my our families at Edison Elementary and Kaiser and all of our elementary
103schools and our middle schools I'd like to understand a little more deeply the per student ratio and the funds that are being spent on these one-to-one Services because I would like it to be offered to all of our students if we are a community that serves a highly uh community that is in poverty families that have lots of needs as well and I just want to make sure that our students are all receiving that same service so I'd really like to request our our our team our financial team to do a little bit of analysis on a per student ratio the funds that are being spent per student in that scenario as opposed to our other buildings and requests that that same amount of equity be provided to all of our students it's really wonderful
104and I can see the benefits and I just want to make sure that all of our students are receiving those same benefits so thank you for your work board member reinert and Dr Pickett and you know really exposing some of these gaps more deeply so that we can make sure that all of our students receive these same Services I continue to appreciate the opportunity to serve and thank you for allowing me to I had hoped to report a little more on business advisory efforts I haven't been able to get a meeting set up yet I'm still working towards that end president Smith and I have been doing some work along the lines of a lot of those efforts wanted to I want to form them around Welcome Stadium and our our campaign to raise funds
105around those efforts so we're just still kind of developing some of that work but in that regard We Are For the First Time developing our alumni our Sports alumni program so I would invite our community at large for all this is the first time in Dayton Public School history that we will have a Alumni Association and as you all know we have so many talented beautiful alumni that I know want to share their experience with us so are all of our alumni out there sports alumni keep watching because we we certainly want you to be a part of this exciting opportunity at DPS so again thank you for the time to serve I appreciate you all and thank you Happy Thanksgiving too because we're not going to be back so Happy Thanksgiving appreciate you anything
106before we um go to doctor's outline Dr Lonnie did you have something um I just want uh to ask clarification for the analysis for you mentioned Kaiser and the neighborhood School Centers do you mean for the international school or for the neighborhood School centers or both no I would like to understand that the the funding that's being allocated to the international school on a per student ratio what that number equates to to make sure that all of our students are receiving that equity thank you for clarifying Dr Cassandra Goodwin forget that you can recognize me down here I appreciate that first is we are giving out assignments today I got a couple assignments myself uh the first one we have concluded the first quarter and as you all know this board took some risks in
107the first quarter and we changed some things and we requested some data so I am actually going to go ahead and request that that data is brought to us in a presentation style from each school with I'm hoping to honestly see a joint effort between our athletic team and our academic team of just presenting out really what happened in the first semester with our student athletes what happened with their grades their attendance their theirs is any you know suspensions all those things how did those students compare to our non-student athletes just some data points so we can actually have a rubric of seeing how do we do on this first year and since we are now grades are out people should have received them by now we can go ahead and finally see all that
108great information and I just like to see it per School in a way that we can digest at this meeting that's not super long but informative in the same way you know nothing special second program a study I know this is my 11th month on the board and I believe it came out either in my second or third month but there's some things that I think that we need to talk about and include some people like even with the resolution that came last week and to clarify for any individual the reason I didn't vote in favor of it is because I've taken the stance not to vote in favor of things that we as a board and as a district we don't take an affirmative action in this District we need to have classes in
109professional developments in this District that kind of go towards the light of what we're talking about because we have the ability to do that as a local District so even with our program is study there's a great person in the audience today that can help us identify and put together some type of gender identity generative studies women's studies all these type of classes that we can do right now but with that one Dr Lolly my question more so is with the conversation I know we have our experts on our team who have this but how do how can we bring it together not only what our staff is thinking we should do in the next program study along with what our community experts would like to see is just some of those individuals so we
110can start talking about it before we get to the that meeting where we get it at a review session and then a week later we got a vote on it when we got a lot of ideas out here in the community can we set something up to start talking about this stuff yes and typically what happens is and I can't say that it's happened in the last two years because I haven't done the program of studies myself um but um whenever I did the program of studies we always ask the teachers if there were courses they wanted to teach specifically and then we would talk about the design of the course of study so we can do that model as well as bring in community members who might be interested in helping out so if
111you want to shoot me those names we can get get something designed so we can talk about that that'd be great and even if we can just have a town hall to just talk about some things you know let's just hear from people they may it may be some stuff out there that we're unaware of but it comes out because we just have a good old-fashioned town hall with a topic on the border what do you want to see out here we won't have to take all the suggestions but something might come out there so that would be great uh I want to say another first in our district as we are talking about the things we're doing here I love it there are some people who give time there are a lot of people
112who win their talents and we finally have a way for people to give financially with not major strings in there on the page you can now in the year of 2022 of Our Lord PayPal donation button has been added to our website it's beautiful share it I mean you never have to use it I hope you use it because all those things go in different programs to help us as you guys saw our five-year forecast donations are one of those things that are unpredictable but that help us in multiple ways I think there are three ways which since we won't see you again giving Tuesday it's coming up it's the Tuesday after Thanksgiving you know after you get the deals on Friday and Monday take that little extra change throw it back into the district
113help us out we appreciate it there on the page you'll see it a couple things that are out there for our Welcome Stadium renovation our band programs the Dayton Public School foundation and you also can just donate to anything you think you want to put your money in in our district we'll take it and we will make sure it is utilized to benefit the growth of not only our students but to also help just enrich this whole Institution I also got to go to what did y'all call it it was like that right there and it was a eye-opening experience because as you all know last Tuesday Ohio became Irrelevant in the voting pool as we did not we do not bear our neighbor and states and it was a very eye-opening experience to see
114that in a sea of red as a school board we are this little speck of blue and just hearing them talk about being purple but seeing like the ideologies and the way that other school board members debate on what I consider to be very minor points in a larger discussion it was I would say that the school board you have before you is a very very Innovative School Board compared to some of our neighboring districts and I mean I think those type of things when we talk about what's going on and us trying to not only have conversations with each other but share and bring our Community into their thought process when we make these decisions it is this isn't happening everywhere there aren't a lot of people who ask questions that actually get to
115filling a gap in our district there are a lot of individuals who spend a lot of time again focusing on the process of something that doesn't lead to the end vote but once yeah it's it was different guys it was different I wouldn't recommend it for anyone to to go to the delegate meeting unless actually no I wouldn't recommend it I mean Dion blessed me with that fortune and I'll be forever for grateful for him but it was it was good to hear some of the things that were on the plate but it was disheartening to hear that this body of individuals couldn't move forward in a way that actually really completed the task that they were we were assigned so I think that's everything I wanted to tell you guys I got a lot
116in there so I really appreciate your timing you know thank you all for being out oh no I have one more thing I always say this yeah that's why I had to make a note one more thing I as I always I hear all the time that board members don't come around they don't do this they don't do that I don't think that's true of this board at all because I have seen or heard about multiple sightings of multiple individuals on this board not only together but with our acts of staff I want to continue to invite individuals in our district to come see us at work we come to your job we come see you we're here every two well second and third Tuesday of the month come visit us talk to us put
117a name with a face help us make this more of a relationship of a district versus individuals who sit high on the dance because we're people just like everyone else you can come see us and talk to us anytime there's not a vegetable Shield between us and I personally welcome welcome all conversations I may not have solutions to things you say it's okay to just talk to me about regular stuff out here in the world but yeah just come come visit us sometime come stop by and see how the board conducts business and give us feedback the same way we give plenty of feedback of ways to fill gaps through this District we'll take it from you thank you Dr good wine Madame treasure thank you the board for uh approving the DEA contractor and
118the DEA Administration I demonstrator to send DSS um this will the treasurer's office will work to make sure their pay is calculated and reflected correctly and paid from before Christmas we are working on our annual comprehensive financial report to meet the deadline by the end of November for to the state auditor's office also we are working we are under audits from the Auditors of state and we are working with them the deadline is going to be December 31st um now in a positive note we just finished it and approved the five-year forecast I'm so pleased to announce that we are in a positive note for the next three years that's it thank you madam treasure Dr Lolly thank you we had a really successful professional development day on November 8th and we also have two
119more scheduled for Monday and Tuesday next week students are off but we have the professional development scheduled for that those two days the curriculum team and oec team need to be congratulated and thanked for all the work that they do to to make sure that there's enough room and enough topics that are appropriate and based upon what is needed in the district each time that we have a professional development day so I want to send out a thank you to both of those teams as well as the Chiefs that help plan those had the privilege of seeing Jeff Canada again last night at the Omega Gala the first time I met him I was extremely impressed and awed and again last night extremely impressed and awed with his um commitment and his drive and his
120determination to make sure that all students count and all students are taken care of and and I I truly appreciate that and have tried to emulate that throughout my career as well but his passion was um was just so um refreshing and and just moving very very moving and then Dr goodwine took my last thing I was going to say giving Tuesday is coming up so please feel free to donate to Dayton public schools to Welcome Stadium Renovations the band and instrumental program in the district or the Dayton schools Foundation which actually gives grants to our teachers and also pays for different projects so any of those three are on our website as well as as something else of your choice so thank you for all the donations that will be coming in on giving
121Tuesday don't spend all your money on Black Friday just bring some money in for giving Tuesday and we will thank you ahead of time and I do want to say while the people are actually in the room uh thank you to everyone for the reception last week and for the um the privilege of being superintendent in Dayton public and working with each of you staff students forgot to thank my family who was sitting right there as well so I'm still paying for that as we go through this next week but I wanted to thank everybody for that I will actually take the the position of being the Ohio State superintendent of the year uh January 1st because the person who's superintendent of the year for 2022 is finishing out uh his his time to uh
122wear the crown and be the superintendent of the state of Ohio so just have a couple more months and then I actually will be the official one so thank you all very much for that and thank you for the work that we've all done together to achieve that thank you Mr President thank you Dr Lawley um first off I want to say that it was a it was a great moment last night attending uh the gala for the Omega CDC and their Hope Center I mean it was a fantastic time I do not think I've been to a a larger crowd in that facility I mean there was no room for anything no seats for anyone else that was sold out what really was my takeaway from listening to Mr Canada was understanding that the
123children that he was advocating for are the children that we see in our district every day those are those children those are those children when he speaks of how do we provide for poor children for children that have been left behind by Society for the socioeconomic ills of our nation and these are the byproducts of what we've seen and to see that many people in the room I really wanted to go around and like wave a DPS flag and say hey this is what he's talking about the work that we do in this district is that kind of work um so I really really had a great time I want to say thank you to our staff that were there special shout out to our Fairview and Edwin Joe Brown team that were there to
124support as they have a partnership with Omega CDC and the Hope Scholars Program which Miss Thompson came out and spoke about so I really want to thank them it was a great time just hearing what their stories are and what they're seeing and I mean there was just so many people in that room uh me and Dr lolly I'm told I was about to get my hat out and say hey we're giving money let's go ahead and do it but understanding that and I really want people want our community to understand that when people get together for these great causes and I'm glad we have this donation button and things because we are seriously in need and that is why our people come to work every day because they they see the need and I
125appreciate that um also this morning I had the additional pleasure of being able to sit down at a small breakfast uh with Mr Canada so being able to pick his brain some more and actually having some one-on-one time to talk about the things that we're doing in Dayton public um so I was very very honored to have that moment with somebody who is doing this work around this country and for him to take note of our city and of note our district and say what can I do to help out Dayton public schools with something that you know you can't pass that up even if it means I have to get up at 7 30 for breakfast can't pass it up um on another note I just want everybody to have a happy holidays um
126on the topic of Thanksgiving I'm thankful myself for everything that this district has done for me that is why I have my Meadowdale lion shirt on today because that gave me my start here um as a person this District I'm thankful for everybody we see in here I'm thankful for the human beings that I see out there all the time on the day so I always love looking at Amit because he's always happy I love Chief Harmon with his updates I love hearing from Dr Burton I love hearing from uh from Sam I love the fact that we have a Pio Department that when we have these kind of ideas that they turn around things like the giving Tuesday and also another thing that I'm thankful for is the fact that we're starting now a
127DPS alumni newsletter so if you go follow our page go online you can leave your email address and that's another way we're trying to make sure that we touch people that even aren't in Dayton so people that are not in Dayton anymore if you have that send that out and I'll make sure that we get that up on our Facebook page soon so if you oh see we they move quickly here I love it but being able to put that out so we want our alumni to know what's going on because a lot a lot of our alumni don't have children in DPS anymore but they truly care about this district and being able to have that immediate touch with them I'm very thankful for that I'm thankful for the group that has been working
128together um like Miss wig gagne said about our Hall of Fame and we'll probably have some more of that next month I am proud to say that those meetings have been some of the most rewarding times to spend with people from different eras so on those meetings there have been people um that graduated from DPS in the 70s the 80s the 90s the after the 90s like me don't age me but if you want to see a real conversation and knock knock down drag out argument about Athletics and what they do for this District those conversations and then you threw Dr good wine in the mix so you know how those conversations went so just being able to have people all talk about not only honoring this but a big portion of those conversations was
129about how do we turn this Hall of Fame into something that provides for the district so to see these people that are no longer in the district people that have come back from professional careers that have gone on to college to play and come back and say hey you know what and look at ourselves in the mirror and say you know maybe we can do better for this district and that's what it's really all about is honoring our past but having them come together and say hey we were here anything that I might want to say negatively about what we're not doing anymore or what we used to have we can be the answer and a lot of times we look around everywhere for the answer and we don't realize we're the answers and so
130that's what I've Loved about that is that that group really fights to say hey how can we make this a fantastic thing to honor our culture honor our history honor people who are not no longer here but how do we make it work for the kids that we have here today and so that has been amazing so just seeing all those new things that have come just this year um lastly we're going into our winter sports season so please please please it's not football anymore you don't have to be out in the cold it's not just basketball go to a girls basketball game go to a wrestling meet we have bowling teams now we have swimming uh teams please please please support these children they truly truly love seeing faces there um on another note
131a new addition that we're having this year are Spirit squads and pep bands on our basketball games so really trying to give these kids that that feel of I can belong to something and that is the goal of of our athletic advisory committee is really trying to see how can we find places for you know a child that you might not play a sport but I want you to be on this activity I want you to play in the pep band and I want to note that those things also follow those that same eligibility guidelines because now I want a kid to be able to say I'm on pep band but I still get to go to study tables and so now we're holding those things accountable in all those ways so so all of
132those new things are coming that I am so incredibly thankful for everybody that worked so hard in this District to make things these things happen um because our our students really enjoy it they really have had so much fun doing some of these things and lastly I did want to note give a shout out to our athletic team they had a fantastic Post online I want to say last night this morning uh that showed our all district so far that came out football players and you know we talked about we had a meeting about some of the things that were going on this football season so I want to shout out when things go well every single team in this District had at least two players be all district and to put that out there
133and say hey even if you have we don't care about this win loss record look at what we're we're producing look at what we're doing and to show that every team had that a big shout out to their coaches big shout outs to the athletic department big shout out to their teachers and staff and people that pour into them so be thankful be thankful and please remember in these times those who do not have their family members or loved ones because this is a hard time for a lot of people in our community so while we are being thankful please take time to love on some folk make sure everybody's loved one because this can be really really trying and triggering and traumatic for people who do not have those people that we we talk
134about when we say spend time with your family so with that I motion to adjourn and get out of here do I have a second then moved and seconded I see no questions let me look for Dr Goodwin for no questions may we have a vote president Smith thank you yes Miss Reiner yes Mr Sampson yes swigani yes Dr Pickett yes Dr Goodwin yes Mr Lacy yes seven years