001Good evening and welcome to the Garfield Heights City School District special board meeting work session. Today is Monday, August 11th, 2025. I call the meeting to order. >> Could I get roll call, please? >> Yes. Miss Cox? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Daniels. Miss Thomas >> here. >> Miss Morrison >> here. >> Dr. King >> here. >> Could I get a motion to adopt this evening's agenda? >> So move. >> Second. >> That was moved by Miss Thomas and second by Miss Morrison. Is there any discussion? >> Could I get roll call, please? >> Yes. Miss Thomas? >> Yes. >> Miss Morrison? >> Yes. >> Miss Cox? >> Yes. >> Dr. King? >> Yes. Now, I will turn the floor over to Dr. Reynolds for our strategic plan update. >> Thank you, Dr. King. Uh, on
002August 6 at 10:00 a.m., we met with Mr. Paul Pendleton to review the progress of our district's uh strategic plan. During this discussion, we revisited much of the work completed to date and outline our next steps. Uh in a previous meeting we identified key areas of focus and asked uh each committee uh to chair uh these subjects and the areas were funding uh which will be superintendent uh superintendent and treasurer uh academic focus was teaching and learning uh communications which came from our technology department uh student discipline special education department and parent uh engagement from our educational advancement. uh in all these areas uh they met with a smaller committee uh to really develop the strategies in order to respond to the plan. And during this process, each department committee had reported within their respective
003committees on the completion of their assigned goals and action steps. With this uh submission of their plans, there going to be two documents that are going to be developed. One is going to be the stakeholder brochure that is actually the end product for everyone to see and the other will be a comprehension uh comprehensive action plan which we'll be working from to ensure that we are staying on course. Mr. Pton will be able to present the final product at our September board meeting and as a reminder this process has been a true collaboration uh involving community members, parents, teachers, administrators and board members and all working together to shape to the direction of this district. Is there any questions for Dr. Reynolds? >> Thank you. Um, so funding, academic communication, parent engagement, student discipline. So
004those are our five pillars >> and uh parent engage is in there. >> Yes. >> I Yeah, I had them. >> Yes. >> Backwards. Um can you talk to us more about student discipline, how that came about and kind of where that focus? >> Yes. Regarding student discipline, it it's not as straightforward as we're we're looking at. What they are asking us to do is the committee and all the stakeholders. We're really focusing on consistency across um buildings making sure that one student received we're in the same grade level. one student receives one thing and another student will receive another. Uh we're the uh the push is to make sure that we're consistent in how we're delivering the the discipline in our buildings. >> Any other questions for Dr. Reynolds? I'm excited to see the
005end product. Um I know it's been a lot of hard work put into it, so I'm excited for our new vision moving forward. >> Yes, ma'am. All right. So, now we'll move into our tenative agenda review um for next next week's meeting. Is there any questions? >> President, Miss Thomas, um two questions. Um one, will a copy of the handbook be uploaded into board docs before next week? >> Yes. Yes, we'll make sure that happens. Thank you. And then secondly, under um section 15, there is a position for auxil auxiliary band director as well as auxiliary director. Are those possibly the same thing? >> I can take a look and check with HR where which page I'm sorry. Which section are you looking at? >> 15 >> supplemental. I think I'm reading back. I'll get
006that information for you. >> Thank you. >> And to go piggyback on the um student parent handbook, we want to make sure under the recommended action that it's the 2526 school year because it says 2425 school year. >> Yes, ma'am. So, we just want to make sure that we clean up our the wording on the actual our actual agenda. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Um, also, could you tell us a little bit about the ESC capstone academy? What that is? >> Yes. Uh, the Capstone Academy is actually uh a program from for our special ed department run through um uh the ESC. However, is housed in uh in Portage County. This is for our students >> particular student. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Yeah. So, the contract has students information. So, >>
007okay. No, that's fine. >> Okay. That makes sense. And then could you tell us about the Cleveland Clinic um agreement? Is that for um psychologists to come? pretty much it. It is a focus. >> Yes, it's in a focus on mental health for students. Uh they're usually housed at the high school. Uh so they have a a location at the at the building and they have a students come to visit them and work out some of the things that they're challenged with. >> Okay. >> Are there any other questions about our agenda for next week? Okay, hearing none, we'll move into board of education training updates. Any training updates? Um I attended the um Ohio's schoolboard associations, Northeast Ohio Executive Committee meeting last week and the um representative from OSBA, the legislative representative talked about
008um the platform plaint. So this is really for Miss Cox. You'll have um nine resolutions that came forward. So, those are going to be what you're going to vote on at capital conference at the um um general meeting, but you'll we'll all get those ahead of time for us to look at and provide input so that you'll know if we are a yay or nay on those resolutions. So, that was really the um main topic of our discussion last week and those should be coming out I think they said sometime in September. Any other training updates? All right, hearing none. Um, could I get a motion to enter into executive session at 7608? So, I got to finish the the rest of the sentence. to consider preparing for con preparing for conducting or reviewing collective
009bargaining strategy by division G4 of section 121.22 of the revised code moved second. >> That was moved by Miss Cox and second by Miss Thomas. Could I get roll call, please? >> Miss Cox? >> Yes. >> Miss Thomas? >> Yes. >> Miss Morrison? >> Yes. >> Dr. King? >> Yes. We'll enter into executive session and we will not be um doing any business after we adjourn.