001all aspects of school districts governoring through the equity lens a great discussion took place with the board members mr hankey mr sluka and miss hamilton and the constructive and collaborative dialogue is most certain to translate into actions and policies in the near future thank you to all who attended and for your participation and input finally as we all know the april ward meeting of the board of education is annually hosted in part to recognize some of the highest academic achievers in our district known as roses for teachers on the behalf of on behalf of the board of education i want to recognize rashad matthew ryan joseph charity haley and nathan tonight each of these individuals will graduate with summa laude recognition and what the district considers with highest honors congratulations to these individuals the teachers
002who were who will be recognized and their families your hard work determination and dedication is demonstrated with this honor that concludes my report this evening now we will move to our committee report do we have any committed reports this evening i have a mr report ms morrison the 2021-2022 student calendar has been approved and is available on the cbcc website the next cvcc board of education meeting will take place on april 26 at 6 30. on april 26 2021 cbcc will recognize outstanding students during a virtual senior recognition ceremony the following garfield heights students will be recognized as being outstanding students in their programs that would be melissa cosby kyle miller lanaya wiley and arthur sloan cuyahoga valley career center is proud to announce that 53 students have been recognized for their scholarship leadership service
003and character through induction into the national technical honor society and this year cbcc's nths induction ceremony will be held virtually on april 14th 2021 and film so that it could be shared with the students and their families and then gh students inducted into uh the nths include sophia fasone for medical administration specialist grade 11 raiona henderson sports medicine exercise science grade charity perry for digital design grade and india simmons for graphic imaging technology grade 12. and that concludes my report thank you miss morrison do we have any other committee reports this evening student activities report for april spring sports are up and running we experienced the decrease in participation numbers and had to eliminate our jv softball and freshman baseball teams this year we did have a positive token test on our jv baseball team
004you shut the team down monitored other players and quarantined hundreds of individuals the team has now been cleared to be doing competition our major recent purchases include game boss for softball and baseball additional practice track equipment game day supplies for baseball and softball tennis shirts track warm-ups and baseball hats that could move thank you miss thomas be there any more committee reports this evening madam president yes i have a committee report as a city liaison garfield heights city council met on april 12 2021. the announcement of the inaugural members of the community relations committee was made the members are pastor ian cox pastor ralph faulkner sarah lyons vanessa o'malley bob stemnock and minister kevin mchenry nora banks was ratified as an appointment by the mayor to the planning commission there will be a special city
005council meeting on thursday april 22nd and a regular board meeting on monday april 26th both can be viewed via zoom the meeting id is 893-1547-4985 i'd like to welcome and congratulate our scholars and their families congratulations to all of the teachers being recognized this evening and thank you to yolanda hamilton gina wilson and everyone that has worked on the dei week with that madam president that's the end of my report thank you miss kane any more reports this evening and the president i have another report for the finance committee chris morrison um i just want to let everyone know that we've had our first meeting of the finance committee to establish our framework and that our next meeting will be may 17 at five o'clock and that concludes march thank you miss morrison is there
006any more reports this evening with there being no more reports we will move on to our present presentation this evening and that is mr hankey i'll let you take that thank you madam president um just give us a couple seconds we're ready to call up the dei week video uh if we could uh it's a three minute video um and it's a uh it's a it was done by mr fruits it's just a wonderful wonderful kind of introduction it's coming [Laughter] [Music] long way for the video i would like to let the families know that this meeting is being broadcasted live on the district's youtube page i would like to let the fans know that this epc was being broadcasted live on the district's youth [Applause] [Laughter] we all have a role to play in
007shaping the world as it should be during the week of april 2021 the garfield heights city schools is celebrating the second annual diversity equity and inclusion we all have a role to play in shaping the world as it should be activities during the week of april 19 2021 the garfield heights city schools is celebrating the second annual diversity equity and inclusion we all have a role to play in shaping the world as it should be activities during the week of april 19 2021 the garfield heights city schools is celebrating the second annual in an effort to support encourage and promote diversity and inclusion everywhere as we share our thoughts with the community we've kept the question in mind what will you do to change the world the garfield heights city school believes that we all
008have a personal responsibility in embracing diversity practicing inclusion and advancing equity our individual mindsets and attitudes reveal themselves through our behaviors and our actions have an impact on the others around us in our school buildings jobs civic actions and communities [Music] when our mindset changes and we hold one another accountable to a higher more inclusive standard random acts of kindness will be on a rise individual actions toward one another will improve and diversity equity and inclusion will become more firmly embraced then ultimately we will see broad behavior change across society where we collectively consider all matters through the lens of diversity equity and inclusion we must all remain resilient respectful dedicated and reignited in our passions about changing our behaviors to make diversity equity and inclusion the top priority in our society perhaps the greater
009question is what will we all do to change the world taking personal responsibility holding ourselves and each other accountable and changing our individual actions to affect long-term behavioral change are a major part of our path forward be sure to see the activities events and opportunities to engage with our graphical heights families during diversity equity and inclusion in the garfield high city schools do your part to play your role to help the district in our community celebrate and embrace diversity equity and inclusion thank you yes please okay uh madam president uh during the uh april board meeting historically uh the garfield high city schools honors our highest academic achievers and we are so pleased to have our first in-person event for the public beyond some sporting events and celebrate to celebrate our students i'm going to
010now defer to ms hagar and her team to go through the roses for teacher ceremony thank you thank you mr hankey welcome to our roses for teacher ceremony we are all very proud of our school system but tonight we get to celebrate our biggest assets our students and our teachers i have the immense pleasure of introducing you to the very best our school system has to offer our four star award winners these students are all graduating with a 4.0 or higher and are graduating summa laude with highest honors these bright young men and women have accomplished much through their dedication and hard work throughout their school years and a portion of their success must be attributed to the guidance and support of their parents as i introduce each of these students please help me acknowledge
011their parents as well in their 13 years of school the students always seem to have that one special teacher or counselor that stands out this presentation is our little way of acknowledging the impact a teacher or counselor can have in helping to mold a young adult i will call the students up alphabetically students when you come up you will read your roses for teachers statement we'll take a picture right over here in the front with the teacher and then if you'll stay up in the front so we can give you give you your four-star award as well to start off off to start us off tonight we have richard brush did was born in california and soon afterwards moved to jordan with his family when rashed was 15 his family moved back to the united
012states he then had to adjust to a new culture and of course a new language luckily rashid is a quick learner he excelled in learning here at garfield heights high school and is now one of our eight students with the designation of summa laude with great honor rashid has accepted been accepted at csu where he's been offered an eighteen thousand dollar scholarship over four years he's also been offered the mandel scholarship and twenty seven hundred fifty dollars per year at tri-c richard hopes to study computer science in college tonight he gives his rose to mr baruchy who says that he is russian is the only student that has ever been taller than him okay he's a little shy about reading so i will read for him this is what he wrote a good teacher is
013like a candle it consumes itself to light the way for others mustafa kemal in 2019 i arrived in the usa then i entered garfield heights high school i was not really excited because my english language was not good so i could not understand or respond to some students who asked me basic questions for a new student honestly all of the teachers were great and they understood my situation and i appreciate their work and patience when i met my esl teacher mr buruki he was so friendly he tried his best to improve my english language and made me feel comfortable with my new environment he did a great job trying to find beneficial ways for me what suits me best but what way i prefer to learn i just want to thank mr rookie for his
014effort and for all other teachers thank you shukran jaziland okay thank you it's my honor to bring you before star wars our next student is matthew cervant matthew was unable to attend tonight but we're going to give you some information about him and read his rose as well mr swell could you come up please this is what matthew has to say okay let me just tell you a little bit about matt he's a very busy student he works two full-time jobs and more and more than manages a full-time schedule at school he also has been a member of academic challenge team here at the high school matt will attend either kent state or the university of akron he's been admitted to both schools honors programs he's been offered the maximum kent state guarantee scholarship and
015the obi down business scholarship akron has offered him the akron alumni scholarship the galen roush memorial scholarship and the financial advisory board scholarship matt's field of study will be financed and tonight he gives his rose to mr benjamin swope his math teacher and this is what matthew said about mr swell throughout my high school journey no teacher was as helpful or inspiring as benjamin swope i first took a class under mr swope in my sophomore year for honors algebra 2. he was incredibly useful as an aide and more than willing to answer each of my questions that class ended as one of my most enjoyable courses to date as a very challenging yet also well planned out moving past this one simple course mr swift has been able to impact other aspects of my life
016as well he was more than encouraging in my pursuit of college course college courses and figuring out my college plans even though i was only in the 10th grade swope was able to help show the importance of planning my future as i moved into my senior year and began to apply to multiple colleges scholarships and grants mr spoke generously provided a moving recommendation letter that has secured my spot in those multiple universities i cannot put into words how beneficial mr swope has been in putting my college plans into motion even with just a simple letter he has contributed more time and effort than ever required it is easy to see just how much mr swell cares about his students all in all i can confidently say i am a better student for having been in
017his class i have no doubt each of his future students will feel the same matthew cermak i'll get you on with him later our next student is ryan larson and ryan was not able to attend tonight either ryan will be attending bowling green state university he has received the thompson scholarship for working families and the cherie jones scholarship for future educators ryan will major in adolescent young adult education ryan's favorite after school club was academic team ryan couldn't be here tonight but i will read his reasons for nominating his favorite teacher mr lambert who taught chemistry in my 11th grade year it was his class that i first really found my love for science he always presented difficult material in a way that was easy to understand perhaps more importantly he always presented it in
018a manner that made topics interesting and enjoyable to learn it was through his class that i finally decided to go into a teaching career his class was always one of my favorites ryan larson our next student recognized tonight is joe leonard and please recognize his mother lisa goblins as well over here oh okay let me just tell you a little bit about joe he loves the outdoors in his spare time he loves to hunt fish camp and play all kinds of sports in school joe has played four years of varsity football one year of varsity baseball and one year of varsity bowling high school honors include national honor society maintain a 4.0 all through high school the most valuable player for baseball and the 10th grade defensive player of the year in baseball ninth grade
019joe has not yet decided on a college who is waiting to hear about scholarships so tonight joe gives his rose to his coach mr jeff pavish so um my respect he just goes like mr jeff patterson um i have the honor to acknowledge very special person that has touched me throughout my high school career mr jeff patterson inspired me as a coach and as a teacher here at garfield lakes high school i owe many thanks to this individual as a freshman i had the pleasure of playing on his baseball team and he welcomed me with open arms i was not treated like a professional player i was pushed to the limit and constantly challenged i know that i am a better player because of him the dedication and drive he showed was also carried into
020the classroom as one of the students i felt that coach patterson was a teacher that showed encouragement and pushed me to be my best in all aspects of my life i admire coach patterson wants to thank him for helping me to achieve greatness and for being someone that encouraged me at every step of the way sincerely [Applause] the next student we will recognize tonight is james newton and please help me recognize his parents as well robert and margaret newton [Applause] in addition to excelling in academics james james is also a great thespian his love is real for everything theater among the many awards james has received in high school are best supporting actor in a fall play best leading actor in a spring musical best male vocalist music express theater board president two years and
021a four four year member of the national honor society first reading of the first ring leadership committee james started his garfield heights theater career while still in middle school playing chip in our production of beauty and the beast i have enjoyed watching james in several of garfield heinz's productions tonight it will come as no surprise that james will present his roads to our drama department head and theater director mr steve benjamin [Applause] for my rose i am nominating mr benjamin i have known him for a very long time ever since he asked me to perform his chip in the theater department's production of beauty and the beast eight years ago i knew from that moment that i wanted to attend high school to perform in the theater program since then bench has been a nurturing
022mentor in our work together productions that he's created were wonderful and incredible and i am very grateful to have been a part of some of them but he has also aided me in other endeavors outside of performing as well from character work to sound and lighting and from holding books and being helpful in rehearsals to writing and directing scenes and shows myself he's encouraged me to do anything and everything theater related thank you mr benjamin for your help and the tuning of my craft yes the next student we will recognize tonight is charity perry and her mother tiffany perry okay when asked to say a few words about herself charity said that she loves studio ghibli so being an old boomer i had to look that one up studio ghibli is a japanese animation film
023company in tokyo in addition to animation she loves all kinds of music helping her family at home and describes herself as a huge empath while in high school charity had been active in national honor society in the national technical honor society where she earned a bpa advanced desktop publishing and placed first in regionals in fundamental desktop publishing 2021 she is also a derby adobe certified professional visual specialist charity's other high school activities include band anime club and academic challenge charity will attend wittenberg university where she has received a presidential scholarship priority tiger award and first year research award tonight charity gives her rose to her math teacher mrs masolini miss masolini has been by far one of my favorite teachers in this school she's made me believe in myself when nobody else would and was
024just an overall understanding teacher she has just been such a kind and gentle soul that you can just you can't help but smile around her she made every day better i know that while in her class i didn't do the best but she helped me become the best i can be in her class she would go out of her way to provide me with extra help so i can succeed and she even made me realize that science is what i wish to do with my life a teacher like her deserves a world because she's definitely made an impact on mine [Applause] oh so the next student we will recognize tonight is haley sobassinski and please help me in recognizing her parents david and barbara so this is a stellar student who has really taken advantage
025of her time at our philippines high school in her four years she has participated in national honor society tennis bowling marching and concert band haley will be attending ashland university where she received 160 thousand dollar scholarship okay so that's her overall scholarship she received for where she applied to school but she will attend ashland she'll study integrated mathematics for teaching maybe when she's done she'll come and work with some of her old teachers this evening haley will present her rose to her grade school teacher mrs kondash the teacher i'm writing about is mrs kondash i had her back in fifth grade for math and she helped me a lot even after i didn't have her as a teacher anymore when i had her i was ahead of most of my class and she would let
026me work on the next lessons during class or at least she never stopped me from doing it she would always answer any of the questions i had and i don't remember what grade i was in or what kind of meeting it was but it was in the auditorium here we ended up talking after the meeting ended about how i was doing at the point i was still deciding if i wanted to do college credit class and if i did when i would do it she believed that i could do it and when i made up my mind to actually do it she helped me figure out what the best time would be to start so and last but certainly not least we have nathan wickard and his parent shawna newman nathan's high school activities include
027marching in concert band music express and national honor society he has won the omea the ohio music education association award for both solo and ensemble competitions and is principal chair in the omea 7th district honor band in addition nathan was part of two winning grand champion medals for music express nathan will be attending ohio university and will double major in chemical engineering and trumpet performance nathan has chosen mr pope our band director as the teacher most influential to him all i remember it like yesterday a bright sunny day hair flowing in the breeze who am i kidding we both know i am not one for call forwarding but what i do know is that i would not have made it as far as i have without you i'm not sure if it was by pure
028chance or just a series of fortunate events but i'm happy to have spent the past years as your student having a teacher that listens nurtures and supports in the way you do is 100 a treasurer and and dhhs is extremely lucky to have you on your staff for your your influence is greater than you know and you will always be remembered i can't wait troy has yet to come in our journey so thank you for having [Applause] and that concludes our presentations of the roses for teacher ceremony and our four star awards thank you and again congratulations to both our scholars and our outstanding educators in the garfield heights city school district on behalf of the board of education it just does us um great honor and a privilege to be able to witness this
029this evening it has done my heart well and i'm sure my fellow board members we're just excited to be we're most definitely bulldog proud this evening thank you and we were wondering if it would be possible for us to take a few minutes to take some pictures with all the students with the board of education yes we could do that as well yes that is fine absolutely this evening is most definitely our scholars and our educators so whatever we need to do to accommodate just instruct us accordingly okay that would be great if we can get all of our students and parents if you want to take pictures feel free to come on out into the front lobby as well but if we can get you to come out here and the board member so
030we can get some pictures tonight thank you all right thank you everyone for your patience as we continue our celebration for our scholars and our educators this evening we will move forward with our agenda this evening our next item on the agenda is our superintendent's report mr hank thank you madam president the garfield heights city schools is proudly celebrating the week of april 19th through the 23rd as diversity equity and inclusion week throughout the district this is our annual effort to showcase our collective belief that diversity is celebrated and inclusion is promoted in all aspects of the garfield heights city schools a special online video demonstrates our love for one another and encourages us all to be and to live out the change we hope to see in the world by asking ourselves the question
031what can i do to promote diversity equity and inclusion a special thank you to yolanda hamilton and gina wilson and all the others who have helped to create meaningful activities and events for students staff and families to participate in throughout the week the testing season is forthcoming and the garfield heights city schools thanks all the students staff and families for their resilience patience and preparation as we approach these exams please ensure restful evenings avoiding stressful matters and eating properly during our testing duration to all of our students do the very best you can i know you will make us proud as bulldogs finally my highest congratulations goes out to the students of garfield heights high school comprise this year's academic honorees your diligence and hard work has paid off in a grand fashion i congratulate
032the teachers and staff members who were receiving roses as part of the annual time honored garfield heights tradition of roses for teachers our staff members have invested countless hours over the academic journeys to ensure that our students have the skills and understandings to succeed congratulations to all madam president that concludes my report thank you mr mckee do anyone have any questions regarding mr heinken's support this evening i just have one question do we know health attendance been with our students coming in um that are for testing um i just have an anecdotal note about that madam president uh we were pleasantly surprised to have over 400 middle school students attend the first day of testing we were concerned um obviously with the current situation with coven that there wouldn't be more that would have would
033have opted out so that was just this today is day one so we are uh encouraged by that um as doesn't move all right thank you mr hankey are there any more questions all right well our next um section of our agenda is um remarks from the public regarding agenda items mr sulka do you have any remarks this evening the next item on our agenda this evening is um i'm requesting that um we weighed the reading of items 9.1 through 0.3 can i have a motion to waive items 9.1 the reading of 9.1 to 9.3 second that was moved by miss thomas the second by miss king ronald please miss thomas yeah yes ms morrison yes daniel yes actually i have a motion this evening to wave the region of items 10 guru [Music] 15.
034don't move that was moved by miss morrison the second time thomas kind of a roll call police mr suka miss morrison yes miss thomas yes ms king yes yes is there any discussion on any of those items this evening okay and i would like a motion for item number 16 and those are the recommendations um of the superintendent to board miscellaneous items yes we have one can i have a motion for item number 15 which is the contract of north coast therapy associates second mister that was moved by miss thomas second by ms morrison roll call please miss thomas yes as morrison yes ms king yes this is dan yes is there any discussion on that item can i have a motion for item number 16 all the items of 116.1 through 16.3 that was
035moved by miss king second by miss thomas bro call please ms king yes miss thomas yes ms morrison yes mr daniels yes is there any discussion on number 16 just uh we are approving contracts and a financing for transformers here at the high school we are bringing those we are currently running those from first energy at a cost to the district we are now going to be purchasing these transformers and bringing them under the ownership of the school districts will allow the district to save roughly an annual savings of 159 000 we will be paid for these transformers free and clear in a period of five years from that point forward we will have annual savings um away from the financing piece so this is a good thing for the district it sets us up
036long term for savings thank you any questions then one more thing if i could i'm sorry 16.3 um the original contractor um had some financial difficulty about bankruptcy however um they did access some of our funds and use that for another purpose so 16.3 is authorizing me to go after this company to try to recruit some of the money that we gave them for equipment we did not receive and we will be pursuing that with the county prosecutor and the city prosecutor so we feel we need to do that because that was not right yeah thank you for authorizing me today okay thank you what was the procurement process for selecting the school contractor and i'm sure we won't want it to be the same issues well first of all we um we got three
037bids i'm sorry we've got two bids and the next thing is before we enter into a contract this time we're gonna ensure that this gentleman this contractor gives us a bond for the total cost of the project to ensure that they do the performance fine thank you only once item number 17 is um remarks from the public regarding miscellaneous items no emails on our agenda this evening is the announcement of our next board meeting our next board meeting is scheduled for may 10th at 6 00 pm that will be the board of education's work session and then we also have a regular board meeting scheduled for may 17 2021 at 6 00 pm and that is the regular board meeting for the garfield heights city school district if there is not any more comments can
038i have a motion to adjourn tonight's meeting madam president i moved that we adjourn tonight's meeting second mr spoka that was moved by miss king and second promise morrison roll call please ms king yes ms morrison yes miss thomas yes yes