ACLSD BOE Regular Meeting February 2026

001I think we changed the camera. >> We'll call this meeting to order. Um, roll call please. >> Dr. Beckley >> here. >> Mr. H >> here. >> Mrs. Song here. Mr. Sharp >> here. >> Mrs. Young here stand to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands. One nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Get a motion to approve the present Mr. Any discussion? >> Dr. Mr. Har. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Song. >> Yes. >> Mr. Sir, >> yes. >> Mrs. Yes. Uh, next is for communication. Uh, public participation. We have two um signed up. Do you want to go first? >> She'll be in a minute. >> Yes. >> But well, hello everyone. Um I'm currently serving as the vice president um of our

002Creek FA chapter which is c um soon going to change as officer elections take place this evening with the new officer team um being installed tonight. So you won't see me or Emma's faces here anymore but there will be a new group coming in. Um in regards to um some recent activities that our chapter has participated in since the last board meeting our public speaking team has competed at the Wilmington Speak to Lead Invitational. the county speaking contest and the district speaking contest. Of our eight speakers, five advanced to the state level, which is a new record for um having that amount of speakers advanced to the states. Um and this contest will take place on March 7th. Our agricultural communications team competed in the state contest this past weekend where they had to complete

003four practice films and a team media plan. The team is still currently waiting for results. Um, additionally, our a sales team uh made it to the district level and placed third overall. We're excited to see what our see what our team has in store for the next year. Along with that, our senior a um capstone welding class has started their visits to Columbus State and are working to gain their welding certifications which they will complete in March. Um, several of our spring CDs are in preparation such as poultry, general livestock, nature interpretation, equin management, a issues, aronomy, a mechanics, outdoor power, and a green hand quiz. To say the least, our chapter is busy. Additionally, um, along with that, oh, excuse me, pardon me. Over the weekend, several students traveled to Louisville, Kentucky, um, for

004the National Farm and Machinery Show. Uh to qualify for this trip, members had to sell over 25 boxes of fruit and snacks in our fall fundraiser. Members got to tour agricultural exhibits, um visit several museums, and form memories that will last a a lifetime. Um tomorrow, our chapter is sending students uh 15 of them to be exact, uh to the Young Leaders Conference at Ohio State University to engage in workshop activities and meet FA members from across the state. Overall, we have a lot of activities coming up and we're excited to see what the rest of the year holds. And we want to thank you board and all administrators for helping us make that possible. Mary, hi. Hi. Um, so, um, I think I've met most of you. Um, Mr. Hair, I'm looking forward to

005getting a chance to get to know you. I am Mary Collson. I am the lifewise director for Lifewise Man Creek. Um we are once again getting ready to have our evening of impact um which is our one night of highlighting our program talking about the things that we have done on the year highlighting our volunteers our staff and just kind of talking about what we've done and what we have planned for the future. So, um I have invitations. I would love um our board and myself would love to have you. Uh the administration and the um board members to attend this if you can. We're um we did schedule it. It's a little earlier this year. It's in March with the hopes that we won't be um conflicting with some sporting events that we always

006seem to uh see conflicting with. Um we are very excited about the growth that we've seen over the last this is our third year um going into our fourth year we have doubled where we started and so getting to highlight this program and show off to you exactly where we started three years ago and where we are and just to hear from um the kids that have been in the program for three years and to hear from the junior high. the junior high program has exploded from um the three kids that we started with last year to 14 kids this year and it's been phenomenal for them and we absolutely have loved it. So um we're truly hoping that you can all attend. Thank you. Next is the curriculum council. Would you like to student?

007I'm sorry. >> My name is Kayen D. I'm one of the three people on the student leaison. Um we'll start off the academics and instruction. Um in the primary there were four kindergarten kids and 12 second grade students who participated in the ice cream karaoke machine incentive. Um came pettit won the karaoke machine. So far the primary has given out over 500 PBIS cards this year. Kindergarten registration has begun with kids being born or being born before August 17th can now register. Math and science night is next week and the PTA carnival is March 6th. Also, the right three week camp out is the week of March 9th. Middle school eighth graders will be visiting the career center on Wednesday, February 18th. Information about the Dwiser defined scant has been shared via the weekly announcements

008and will continue to happen. The algebra prognosis test will be scheduled for March 16th and is open to any sixth or seventh grader who is not currently enrolled in pre-al pre-alggebra or algebra. Master schedule planning will happen soon with scheduling information being sent out in the spring. High School. The juniors will be taking the ACT in on February 24th. Additionally, the ASPAB is coming up soon and will also be taken by juniors. Social social probation letters have been sent out as well as steps that can be taken to get off it. The freshman will be taking a career exploration field trip on Thursday, February 26, in which they will be exposed in various colleges, businesses, and public service organizations to showcase their uh options after high school. Then student life and extracurriculars, athletics, winter sports

009are starting to wrap up as the season comes to an end. Um we want to recognize our student athletes for their hard work and commitment. The varsity girls basketball team has their first tournament game this Saturday, February 21st at Art Union. The varsity boys basketball team has their first tournament game on February 28th at Central. The varsity wrestling team has their MSL tournament at Hamilton Township Saturday, February 21st. Additionally, the competition cheer team has one has the state has the state competition this Saturday at Big W High School. Good luck to all of our winter athletes as they finish their seasons. For clubs, our student body has multiple different clubs and school organizations that they can join. Um, for music, our band our band and choir wrapped up their winter concerts and both groups are

010starting to learn music for the spring concert that will take place later this year. Drama, the drama club is in full swing preparing for their play. They are performing the box, which is a comedy based on Greek mythology on April 10th and 11th in the cafeteria. There are five students on the casting crew and six people on the backstage crew. We are all very excited for the outcome of of this play. NHS currently the NHS is preparing to induct new senior and juniors in March. Students who who applied to be NHS have received their letters to determine if they were accepted into the NHS. Additionally, the NHS strawberry sale ends this Friday. If you are interested in strawberries, please reach out to an NHS member or Miss Parker. Student council, the student council is staying

011staying busy by preparing the upcoming winter formal dance which will be held at the school this upcoming Saturday. Community participation in addition to many of our clubs, the student body as a whole has kept busy. Several AC students has have been enrolled through the workforce center and college classes are in full good this semester. Along with that, our juniors are preparing to take the ACT test this month. We want to wish the best students to wish the best luck to these students. And then just to kind of wrap it all up, something I'd like to say to the community and culture. Um, with all these accomplishments K through 12, none of this would be possible without our community and support they have for our students. Uh, my personal experience is this past week I was

012permitted to play football for JCU and being in the community and with the support of this community has been outstanding with my but knowing that like going from a family to another family like I know that I will always be supported. Um, and I don't always like to talk about myself. I feel like that's stuff, but I just felt like that was like a big support, something that help definitely helped me make the decision a lot lighter. And that's something that I felt was very important to me as a community as a whole and a culture of the school was just like no matter where I was, I always knew that I had a community to fall back to no matter what happened. And like I said, that was a major decision. And even now,

013um I might just not it might just now be noticing that, but even in kindergarten when we always took our co-side trips and we had a thousand uh like a lot of people from the community supervising all of us and all our different groups. like I'm just not realizing it, but the way our community and the culture of the school is just outstanding. And I just want to take this time to kind of appreciate all the parents and everybody that's taken time and days days off of work or whatever for us students and just being there to support all of us. And that's something that I just wanted to thank all of you that are here and ultimately our whole community. >> Thank you. curriculum curriculum council. Yes. So curriculum council was seeming jam-packed agenda

014just to kind of summarize some of the stuff we talked about. We talked about the bridg the bridges workplace which is a um in the K5 level. It's a math curriculum and it's games and activity based um both on Chromebooks through Google Classroom and then packets that the kids can use uh in the uh in those classrooms as well. They are essentially um games for lack of a better word that teach math skills. Uh we had um two groups of kids um demonstrate how those uh games kind of build on the math curriculum and help augment what they're already learning in the classroom. Uh we talked about math fact lab which is third through fifth graders um builds math fluency. It is computer-based. It is 10 minutes a day um two to three times per

015week. Yeah. Yeah. >> Um and what's unique about that program is it allows for it identifies kids that need remediation, but it also identifies kids who can accelerate uh simultaneously. Uh World Math Day is coming up March 25th. I thought this was actually pretty cool. I didn't realize this. So, it's a worldwide math competition. Um it is across multiple countries. It is across multiple states. It is agebased. um and um you log in and you start doing problems and you can see in real time how you are uh doing across the world with kids from India, Australia, so on and so forth. Mandicle Creek in the past has had kids top plac in the top 100 in the US and top 1000 in the world with that event. I got some a brief update on

016I Ready, which is a pilot currently. It's an ELA assessment tool. Um again allows targeted intervention. Um and then the brief update >> yes the legislative >> legis. So uh legislative report there's some things coming through um recently uh at the state level at the house and senate. So, House Bill 671 got a lot of requests this week. Jamie Calendarer, you guys may have heard, introduced a bill to withhold state funding uh from any school participating in the Ed Choice lawsuit. So, under his uh bill, um all state funding to any public school that is participating in the lawsuit would be withheld until they dropped out of the lawsuit. that didn't go over very well. Um, and so then he backed it off to just the money you put in to pay for the lawsuit

017would be withheld. Uh, it's getting a lot of press across the state. It has not gone over well at all. It is a violation of personal rights. So my suspicion is he will withdraw it. He's not the most popular representative right now in the public school space. Um, some other bills of note, House Bill 420, um, and L, I'm going to lean on you a little bit on this, would eliminate, um, continuing levies by 2030. Um, no reference in that bill as to how they would make up the difference in loss of funding to schools. But this is part of property tax reform and there are many bills like this that we're going to see over the next few years especially with the proposed amendment to eliminate property taxes that again has not gained the

018the signatures but if it were to go to the voters and we do eliminate property tax that would have huge ramifications. The um Senate and the House have a series of bills trying to alleviate property tax. It's a real thing. I don't deny that. But this is one of the ones that would have direct impact on us. Um, again, it's going to be going to the finance committee. It is early in the process. Uh, Senate Bill 326 mandates computer science courses in high school. I think that's actually a really great idea. Uh, Senate Bill 328 u mandates a middle school career exploration. And then the last thing I want to mention, um, L, Mr. Church, um, presented at the county budget >> budget commission. Uh, just a nice outline of kind of what we do

019here, Amanda, how we're funded, just to keep them in the loop because they now have more say in appropriations of tax dollars. Um, and I don't think there's any worry that they would withhold, but because of some of the recent property tax revisions, uh, they now have a say in how fire departments or the library or schools receive their minds. Uh, and they can look and say, well, you don't need that much. Maybe we can pull back a little bit in certain areas, but they do have more to say. So to M Fairchild's credit, um just getting us out there in front of them to know we're doing good work in the Clear Creek. >> Thank you. Um the building principal, you'd like to go first. Let's start. I'm covering preschool primary and elementary tonight.

020Okay. >> All right. Starting with preschool, I just want to really um focus on um you know the ASUS way. It just really shows like the community and our preschool program that the we have first year teacher Jaylen Rose who the team has really rallied together and they have uplifted her and they supported her kind of intimidating and she has a great um lesson mentor. So, I just wanted to give um a shout out to to Miss Bros that she really comes to school, really shows up as an ace and shows that and models that with his students and is pulling that piece in and she really um cultivates that that warm classroom with her students and she really sets the tone and teaches and models with students um to have that warm warm environment

021to learn in. Um looking at the data, I was really excited to to share this that for our four-year-olds coming into kindergarten in our three four-y old classes, um 78% of the students can identify 18 or more uppercase letters and it's only February. So that time like they grow really fast between now to the end of the year. So I can only imagine what the end of the year data is going to look like. Uh 72% of those students can identify 18 or more lowercase letters. So, I just um that just to me that speaks volume about our preschool program that they're really this isn't the only piece that they work on. There's a lot of components of preschool. Um but just just put a little bit of data piece in to show that our

022preschoolers are academically they're they're ready to they're ready for kindergarten when they come to us. Um stay tuned. Preschool um our students with disability transition meetings are on the books. So, we're already trying to plan and make placement, you know, thinking ahead uh for those students. uh preschool team is preparing for also the you know transitions into kindergarten. other parent teacher conferences that teachers having conversations with parents. Hey, kindergarten's right around the corner. This is XYZ. This is what you need to do. Kind of start having these conversations and what you can do about home. They gave great handouts um to work with, you know, kind of kind of tips and points to work with the families. Um and then later in the month of March, um OD and I will be visiting preschool. So,

023that's always a fun time for the community and the kids just love it because I'm sure they're going to bring all the fun stuff for the kids. And then we will open preschool registration for March 2nd to the 4th and then again um right before school starts. So with our primary uh we're going to be sharing that we had our ice cream sauna and karaoke machine that we have four kindergarteners, zero first graders and 12 second graders that were able to participate this with their um their perfect attendance and pain pot. The kids at first didn't know. They're like what's this? like they were kind of thrown off and and I kind of had to explain to them like listen to the speaker and you have microphones and you can just share your songs with

024mom and dad and they're going to love it. They're like and you see the the wheels turn on their head. They're like I got it. I got it. And so um because you know it just came in a box. They're like I don't know how to do this. I'm like oh you will. Um and then um since the beginning of school year we have handed out 500 PJs parts. So, we really focus on that and it's really cool to see the kids coming down. They love to share their their their um their their Aces way cards when they come into the office and say, "Look what I got. Look what I got. They work for it." And we want to celebrate with them because it's a big moment for those kiddos. Uh looking at data,

025we had in there that 40 kindergarters registered for kindergarten yesterday. That I can only imagine because I was at conferences over here in this building like it was a Miss Mount was very busy um doing all that that work. So, that's a great piece that I that to start with. Um, and then we have the changes in Ohio state law with kindergarten age has now become the first day of school and um for whatever your district is. And so, for our district, it'll be August 17th. And that's kind we could adjust a little bit on the preschool end with a few pieces, but it's a great thing that that we'll be able to move forward with. And we'll have another registration day for kindergarten on May 14th from 5:30 to 6:30. And stay tuned. We

026are excited for math and science night. Mrs. primary or from preschool to to fifth grade. That this will be coming up on um February 25th. And then on March 6, we'll also have our PTO carnival. And then to top it off, we'll have the right to read week and the primary we're going to um our our theme is a camp out week. So we have the um county parks coming in. And then I know we have um a troop boy scout troop to come in. So do a tent demonstration and kind of set up and have a little bit for the kids to have a little space to read and and kind of have their right to read and we have that go. Oops. So moving to elementary. So um thinking about our students have

027perfect attendance. Uh we had eight students from the third grade attend. Uh four students from the fourth grade, seven students from the fifth grade attend. And we want to congratulate Nora Mayor who won the machine. And once again, she was also kind of like had kind of walk her through how to how to use that little contraption. And um they were really the kids were really excited about that. Um and then we also did uh the beginning of the month or we did the um ACES way um or PBIS reboot in January where we walked through the matrix in every location in the building of expectations and um expected behavior. And so it was really nice. I think we had some really good feedback with the staff and the students that they kind of got

028to move around and and certain staff were assigned to kind of reive those expectations and practice. Um that's always good especially in January because the retach has to happen sometimes. Uh looking at our data December attendance percentages were um overall 97% third grade with 94% fourth grade with 95 and fifth grade with 94. Um and that's just kind of surprising especially with some of our sicknesses coming through. there. So hang in tight with that. Um or stay tuned. We are excited to have our third and fifth grade parents attend our spring OST testing night on February 25th. So we're going to have that. Um so Dr. Sher's going to pull the families in and have you just expectations of what to expect the state testing, how to prepare your kids, make sure they're nutrition, have

029nutritional breakfast, and you know, make sure they get good, you know, those nights sleep a few nights prior to that test. So she's going to bring that piece in um right before math and science night. So then it's a one-stop time so the parents don't have to come on two different nights and so already be there um for math and science which will be from 5:30 to 7 and um for the our right to read week at the elementary we will be doing a roundup camp out that week as well. So it's kind of a western theme where the the staff's really excited they brought in some really cool things for the kids to to excite them about their right to read. Um, at the medical school, as far as ACES away goes, we also,

030um, rewarded students with perfect attendance. Um, from October 13th through February 12th, there were 19 students um, sixth, seventh grade in eighth grade total um, that participated in the ice cream event. And then, um, instead of a karaoke machine, the PTO sponsored um, a JBL flip speaker. Um, so if you looked at the weekly announcements that I emailed, I put a picture of Toby. Um, she's a eighth grade student, so she won um that speaker. Um, just to say thank you. I did email the PTO the other day because they sponsored um that reward. So I really appreciate, you know, we don't have a lot of connections with PTO at the middle school, high school level. So I I appreciate that they were able to provide that speaker um for one for a middle school

031student and one for high school students. So, thank you PTO. Um, another incentive that we're doing to continue to um incentivize students for attendance. So, we have um the skating party at the end of the year. Um, and I think that's in my stay tuned. But for at the middle school for the month of February, March, and April at the end of each of those months, um, we're doing gift card drawings for perfect detectives. will give perks in the month in the month of February. Their name will all go into a raffle um for gift cards. So that was also shared with students um in a recent class meeting that I had with them during the intervention and then in the weekly announcements um I know your student organizations asked to sponsor. >> Yes. Yes.

032Thank you. Um so our student council is sponsoring that um and the money um that they make you know from our our school dances and things like that. So they are purchasing the gift cards and they came to me the students said we want to we want to do this. Um I told Mrs. Offerman, our student council adviser to email the drivers, make sure I was good with it, make sure he was good with it um with the gift cards and um they they're ready to to hand out gift cards um here at the end of this month. So um this is just the data for attendance. This was just this past week. So I I I guess I didn't really consider doing it monthly but I have been tracking it weekly and we have

033um been above the 90% which is you know our goal is minimally is 90%. Um what I like to do is I like to see who how many students kind of fluctuate that are considered um below that 90%. that that can kind of fluctuate each week. And then in the weekly options, I'll kind of give a off to the side if we had a decrease from week from this grade from week to week or an increase um in attendance or um a no change. So I do like to look at that weekly. Um I mentioned this in a previous meeting board meeting is that um we talked about in admin about attendance and building a calendar. like we notice that there's days that students are missing um you know and kind of looking at that

034across the board to see um you know and as we plan for more um district calendars. Okay. Uh and stay tuned again highlighting the monthly attendance gift card winners. Um, we've got the skating party. Um, as um, not Brian, sorry. Payton, as Peyton mentioned, um, the scheduling information. So, as soon as we make some decisions as an admin team, Mr. Dennis and I will will start a master scheduling um, process, which is pretty extensive when we have a lot of shared staff members and shared space. So, it takes us kind of a a lot of time to, you know, think about that and where where staff's at, um, between middle school and high school. So, once we get that figured out, um, in electives, I'll be sharing that out with middle school students in class

035meetings and just like in class, they'll get a letter to take home. Um, and then that'll be to EC out to parents, the scheduling form so parents actually complete the scheduling process so they know what classes their students are are wanting to be in. um uh toward the end of the year I'll have um remediation data um which is our our ELA remediation data which is kind of what I talked about in um the curriculum council with phonics for reading. So I'll have that data as far as um how many kids we've had in the program, who's tested out the program and what it looks like at the beginning of next school year. And then lastly um our career day. So Mrs. Letterly one of our sixth grade teachers who um is teaching careers this

036year and business. Um she has made it her passion project is to bring back be bring back career day um which we did pre-COVID and um we're going to be sending out letters with students um and inviting community members in. So students this semester who are in careers just completed the Ohio's job survey said they got to see what career cluster they align with. Um, and then they're doing a research project right now where they had to choose a career within that cluster and then a career they could choose two careers within that cluster or if they didn't want to stay in that cluster, a career outside of that cluster and they're doing some comparing and contrasting. They're writing um they just wrote an essay and then they are going to do a job advertisement

037um and then going to like mock interviews and but it's a whole unit of that film. So yeah, so be on the lookout for that. And if you know anybody that want that wants to come in and talk to our kids when they alone. >> Oh yeah, I guess I'm going to do sorry. Okay, so at the high school um getting going along with the attendance um there are 14 students who um had perfect attendance at the high school. You can see the breakdown by grade. Toby Shelton is the winner of the JBL flip speaker. Um, again, thank you to the ACE PTO. Um, I'm gonna I'm not sure. Mr. D may have copied my slide because I'm not sure if the high school is doing the um Do you know that Hen >> if

038Okay, I think he may have copied what I put in. Delete that part because it's very very similar to what I wrote. And then attendance, you'll see um attendance similar to middle school. There's a concern right now much about 12th grade at um 89.9%. This was last going off last week's attendance. Um and you can see by the grade level they're hovering right at 90% or slightly above 90%. So um last thing ACT um so all high school juniors um we'll take the ACT here coming up on February 24th. Um that'll be in the 77 gym. you can read more fine detail with that. And then there the ninth grade students will do a career explor exploration field trip on Thursday, February 26. Um where they're going to go and some local college or local

039colleges, businesses, and public service organizations to gain exposure to a variety of career pathways. Um and then lastly, a scheduling interest form. Um so here in the upcoming days a Google form will go out to students and it's not to schedule it's just to gain an idea of how many students are interested in various electives so we can get an idea on the master schedule um how many sections of different courses. So thank you next is the superintendent report. Well, um I I would present that, but my computer just died. >> So, um so a few things here. >> Yeah. So tell me and get ready and I'll get my power and get you up there. Okay. up. Yeah. Forgot my Yep. Nice. So the first part of my superintendent report I uh Kate Buckley

040has worked over the past uh year to last year she conducted a survey. Um there was a lot of new new things happening in regard to the cell phone um restrictions across Amanda Clair Creek and the state. So um at that time as Kate Buckley does she says I want to find out more about that and um really did a great job. U it was it was really awesome to in the summer have a student come to you and say hey I want to I want to dive more into this. How can I uh conduct a survey? How can I conduct a study? Um, and I'm excited to hear some of the results that she's gonna share with us tonight. >> So, um, as cell phone popularity, um, continues to increase across modern generations, the

041impact of their usage on mental health, um, specifically grades 7 through 12 is, um, really unknown. So being part of that demographic um as I'm actively living and surrounding myself with individuals such as those kind of motivated me to like study and learn more about what impact it does and specifically in an academic setting. >> Sorry. >> Go back one more. Yeah, >> I think where my computer shut down it's all um so we uh based off the hypothesis um limiting cell phone use in school will improve mental health. So I worked in conjunction with Mr. Dennis, Dr. Edwards and our school psychologist um to uh format a anonymous cell phone questionnaire to gain insight into how these students are feeling as the um and it was focused here on students here grades 7 through

04212 at Amanda Clear Creek and um the questionnaire consisted of basic demographic questions um while remaining anonymous but also had a mental health survey and um roughly 10 other questions pertaining to cell phone usage. It was sent out periodically um throughout the um throughout the um 2024 2025 um school year. And um after once the data was collected um I worked with um Miss Strobe and a data analyst to compile the data and use variety of statistical tests such as um the PI squared and crus test to truly get an understanding of what we had presented in front of us. And then through that that provided a synopsis of the mental health trends of growing from like grade gender and just the overall population as a whole. So um as according so according to numerous

043research studies high cell phone usage and poor mental um health have a strong correlation and it is that relationship that carries over to school. Um, as you know, the Ohio legislature passed House Bill 250 in 2024 that mandated um a cell phone policy that banned cell phones in public school settings across the states. Um, Amanda Krie implemented this ban and being a part of one um being an individual who had almost total pre-eniency with my um cell phones in an academic setting to then the stark contrast of it being your phone that's attention. So wasn't that extreme but um but still like um bridging that gap and like having that transition is something that I truly wanted to study and see um how statistically it impacts my peers. Um so with the um previously um

044mentioned um administrators we seek to qual quantify the unique um uh uh situation we had in front of us. So with that in August of 2024, I worked with the school psychologist to um create and format um a questionnaire and so it was 16 questions in a Google form. It remained anonymous and um it included one ba basic mental health screening which was provided by the school psychologist that they had used in um various other outlets as well. Um and then the other questions were just and we left it blank um in regards to gender so that the individual can respond to that whether they were male, female, non-binary, binary, whatever they wanted to put in. There were no limitations to that. Um we did get Walmart bag which was really fun. Um so a

045lot of freedom. Um and then uh then we also um the answer or the answers were quantified in using the liyker scale which um so it was like a one through five scale um excuse me one through four scale and it was those ratings that helped us like truly add a number to what these people were feeling and um as you know grades um students often don't like confrontation. So knowing that it is anonymous there is bound to be some intrinsic error as not every student was honest and some other error occurs in the fact that um not since it was anonymous we couldn't track who responded each time and if they responded if the same person responded every time and so there is some error in regards to that but nonetheless it does give

046us a pretty solid overview of the population as a whole. So this um so we me a data analyst in M stroke used um a crucible Wallace test to fully understand the grasp of what the population was doing over time. And so interesting enough mental health scores did not increase or improve over time. Um and so as you can tell there so let me preface this by saying a higher score is a worse mental health. So with the mental health screenings, your goal is to score as low as possible. And so as you can tell, there is a significant downward trend, especially with the non-binary students, but also there is a very small population of non-binary students. So in um in like retrospect to the other populations, it seems more significant, but nonetheless, that's a

047very big drop from the beginning to end. So as there the drop isn't statistically significant, but it is still there. there's a clear downward trend with it. Um, so continuing to the next slide, this shows a mental health score by grade and gender. And so when you run a critical wallet test, um, as you can see the p value, you want to have like 95% confidence. And so you want your p value to be less than 0 point less than 5%. And so with that confidence with that confidence interval you can assume so by greater than by gender it was statistically significant that they had um changes in their mental health over time. So while the population didn't like increase or like the pop excuse me the mental health scores didn't decrease over time by

048grade and gender there were significant um scores that were lower or higher than one another. So as you can tell um through this graph um so it's like broken up by seventh grade, eighth grade, black grade and then gender as well. And there's almost like um a stairstepping effect. And that is something that you really want with this data as it shows how like for example the eighth grade um males they were really high in the baseline data but then as the year progressed their scores got lower meaning that their mental health improved as that which can be seen through a variety of these different um demographics but it wasn't overall. So there are certain areas that are improving but the population as a whole is not improved in positively impacted by the cell phone

049ban in regards to mental health. Um so yeah so what does this mean? Well so if you continue to the um sorry so um so with like there are numerous factors that go into the mental health of students. I mainly focused on how the cell phone ban impacted that, but there are many other things that are out of my control in regards to family matters, friends, other social things that can also impact a student's mental health. And so there wasn't um there wasn't enough like consistency and like only focusing on one factor for this to prove as like oh it's only cell phones that are making the difference. But nonetheless, a continuous downward trend in all of these proves that there is some sort of impact. but whether it's not statistically proven but nonetheless a

050downward trend in scores shows that students mental health is improving but further research needs to be conducted. Um and then continuing back to like looking back at the graphs by grade and gender again. So the gender graph had um a p value of less than 0.00001. So it's almost a statistical certainty that by gender there are significant um mental health um like correlations. And so specifically um within like seventh and eighth graders and especially seventh and eighth grade female and non-binary students, they tended to score worse on the mental health um surveys. And that shows where the targeted areas of need are. And so while this survey didn't accomplish much in like fully showing that the um that it was the cell phone ban that impacted mental health, it did show us where targeted need

051or where targeted support is needed. Um, so what happens from here? So now that I now that we have all this data, what does it mean and how do we continue moving on from this? Um, so with the next slide so obviously this wasn't a perfect study. there's a large room for error but with um like who responded other outside factors but nonetheless it does give us a good baseline data to work from and it shows us where areas of need are and where targeted help can be given um and it aids in future decisions regarding cell phone usage as while cell phones are a clearly hot topic while they don't impact mental health you can obviously do another study with this but focus on teachers and students and knowledge like um retention and things

052of that nature. So that while it so now that we know that cell phones don't really impact mental health in like not not in a nor positive nor um negative way we do we can flip that to this flip side and focus on a more academic side of that. So overall this study um it showed that mental health does not improve um or decrease so much um over the tren over the course of a cell phone ban but it did show us like targeted areas such as the seventh and eighth grade um female non-binary students who are in need of help and how we can give targeted support to those areas. >> Are there any questions? Is this customized a Stanford study then? >> Yeah, >> I I would like to know more just like

053from when you say especially you know you said nonbinary students just um you know not right now but they sit down with you. So I can can you know do what I need to do at that level because obviously there wasn't there at that point at all. >> So for sure like and also meeting with like counselors and like you can continue this on a course like over years and follow these students as they progress through high school and how how like if once we do provide support, how does that actually impact their mental health scores? And so I think this is definitely something that can be continued on for years down the road. >> And Kate, this is just general self in general, right? not specific to like social media or anything like that,

054just the everything is. >> Yeah. So, for like some of the questions, it was like when you're away from your phone, how often do you think about it? Like how often do you want it back? And and it also did focus more in like an academic setting. That was like um how many times per class period do you think about getting on your phone? And which was also very interesting to see as that decreased as the year went on. Um, so like at the initial band like I'm know myself like I was always looking for my phone. So I was like, "Oh, did I leave it in class or like no, but like it was actually in my locker, but now I'm perfectly fine without it." And so I think that harsh transition at the

055be beginning is now starting to like um like mellow out. And so >> so what I'm hearing you say is keep the banditation. >> You didn't hear that from me. Um I and again Kate I was uh impressed just with the overall um research lens that you came at this and you wanted to you know collect data and then draw conclusions based on hypothesis. So um the other thing is I think that once you go through a research study at the end though it seems like a lot of times or at least to me I was always like okay I should have changed this question to that or you know you you go back and say well I I wish I would have you know narrowed the topic or asked questions a certain way to

056get more at your um direct into your conclusion. So um I think it was great work. I I you know great job on wanting to pull in different resources and and talk to people about a few items for my report. Just wanted to go through u just touch base real quick. Um, we went through different meetings with the strategic change agenda. I sent out that video to the board and just kind of a brief overview. Um, try to hit high points of where we've been, where we're going. Um we did have our discovery team reconvened last week on February 12th and um we're gearing up pulling things together to be able to present to the board a draft on March the March board meeting and then hopefully work toward approval by the April board meeting.

057Few items for construction. Um first of all there was an issue on the athletic of a fieldhouse. um that one of the train units or rooftop units um had had some issues with it. So, working with Summit and Summit is working with train to come in um they're actually going to be setting some large new large pieces of equipment up there. Um we requested that they replace the entire unit. I don't think I don't know that that the entire unit is going to be placed, but there is going to be a crane on site on Saturday 21st where they're going to be lifting up some major new components to one of those train rooftop units um to fix the items that everything was still under warranty and everything. So, uh the second thing is they

058are working right now to repair and put in some additional drainage in the plaza. So, the concrete part, portions of the concrete have been tore up and they're working to add in some additional drainage to take away some of the pooling that we were having in different areas there in the plaza. Uh, district office, we still have a few items on that final punch list. As you can see, they had to come in and do some more work and and one of the doors is still going up, but we're getting close on that. We do have our upcoming 11-month walkthroughs for um some of the projects that were completed earlier. um those are scheduled and then we have you know a little bit further out while the other projects go back through that 11 month

059and just make sure um I do want to say again that someone's been a great partner with um you know as things have come up they we've we've sent that information they came back and and made sure that it was up to the level that it should be um the emergency response system installation that was one of the components as we've going through the inspection with the fieldhouse um there were areas in there that did not meet the um correct level for like responsiveness for um like cell phone connection like data connection um so that if you're in a certain area of the fieldhouse and you needed to call let's say 911 you wouldn't there were I'll call them dead zones or you know limited reception um so with that we we had to add

060that emergency response system and that is being installed um that's in progress this week the first part It was just installing the um like the the components that hold it and then they're going to be finalizing that should be this week is my understanding. >> Um we are continuing to hold 103,000 for final closeouts. Um so that as they're finishing things up uh before we close out the end of the project. Wait room equipment is scheduled to be to ship in April. um the new equipment which fortunately or we're thankful that the athletic boosters contributed a large portion of money to um add to that and uh the old weight room the old bus bar and the old weight room um which in our plan we are going to be utilizing that. Also the batting

061building um both had heat installed um that was completed two weeks ago was when that was finalized. So those have uh heat in those two buildings as well. >> The old weight room also has air. So it's heat and air. And then is just heat. >> Um as Mrs. Tac uh mentioned during her presentation, just wanted to highlight here one more time. kindergarten entrance age. House Bill 114 that that will go into effect in March um is changing the date for kindergarten entrance to five years five years old on the day first day of instruction. So that date does change based upon what district you're in and what your calendar is is are they five on the first day of instruction. Uh for 26 27 that is August 17th is our first day of instruction.

062So, if they're five by that date, um I anticipate, and that's what I went back one more time to double check, but I anticipate that board policy Jed, which will need to be updated as right now it says um August 1st, um that will have to fluctuate and say by the first day of instruction to coincide with House Bill 114. Um our early entrance rules and policies do still remain in effect with House Bill 114. So, um if they are not five on the first day of instruction, depending upon when they would turn five, there's different um rules for early entrance and those would still be in effect. So, look forward to another policy revision coming your way. Thank you. Moving on to consent agenda number one. Um to accept the minutes from the previous

063meeting which was January 26th attached and approve the substitute list as presented by the county and the county discussion. Mr. Sharp. >> Yes. >> Dr. Buffin. >> Yes. >> Mr. Heron. >> Yes. >> Mrs. S. >> Yes. Mr. Yes. >> Treasurer recommendations. Uh, financial status reports to be given by the treasurer and approve the financial reports. Okay. The report starts on page 13. Um and it's for the month of January. Um we did receive um an income tax payment um a quarterly payment. Um also casino revenue. Both of those were increases over the last payments we received. Um not significant but they were they were increases. So our income tax is continuing to hold strong. And then um casino was up a couple thousand dollars which with the increase we've basically seen um period over

064period we get casino revenue twice a year. Um you can follow that in the um fiveyear board report which is the report right after the overview. Um and you can kind of see the history of that and how that has floated. Um revenue is up about $14,000 over last January. Um and that's um income tax a little bit of the casino. Interest earnings for the month were $59,20. Um this includes costs. We still have some money in Star Ohio once we have we're hoping um I met with the construction manager Weiss this week. um he is hoping to have things back up by the first of March. So hopefully um in the April report we will be able to finish up all of um the construction and then at that time we will move the

065monies out of the Star Ohio construction fund and close that account and that will go into um back either into K&B or we'll put that in Star Ohio um our regular general account for Star. there should be approximately $400,000 left in that account. And that is um we reported the interest income into um the general fund, but that is not related to what account it was sitting in. So for example, if it was earning money in red tree, that interest stayed in red tree and pull that interest actually out. So star Ohio is basically the um interest that was earned in Star Ohio over the period that we haven't spent thus far. Um so if you have questions about that let me know and how that moves. Um so today we have received 1.379 million

066in interest. Um that was finance to pay for the construction project. Um and I reiterated that the K&B treaty accounts have been dissolved and they're remaining on the start Ohio expenditures for the month of January. um that was 1.75 million. Um and total checks written were 3.139 million. Checks written um again is from all funds um which includes our construction which is in the O4 fund. Um most of our expenses align to January 25. There wasn't any um kind of outliers that were concerning. um overall they were up about 111,000 and that's typically what our um payroll expenses from um steps and salary increases for the year has been running. So overall the general fund revenue exceeded our expenses um by $456,000 down to $4. Salary and benefits continue to be our largest expenditure. Uh

067this month they were 82% of our monthly total. The current general fund balance is 10,151,79 with incumbrances of um a little over 2.1 million. Um the available cash balance then is8 bill31,431. Um as always, we report the 07 capital projects funds. Um, as the money is in the fund, it is restricted um to capital projects, but the board does have the ability at any time to move that money back to the general fund if you make it unrestricted unrestricted funds. So that balance is $8,14,429.95. Um, and there are incumbrances of $567,220. Um the income balance in that fund is about 7.4 million. Um our carryover balance um as we talk about our cash policy is about 31% of our projected expenditures um for fiscal year 26. Um because we did not have approved um forecast

068which will ask for approval later tonight that is still based on the expenses from October 25 forecast. So um which those are about 25 million. Are there any questions on that portion? I did provide um a construction report at the end with a little more information for you. Um kind of showing you what's left to pay. So this is on page 34. Um, I also put in like the purchase orders that were board approved for each phase. Um, is a little more complicated than a straight construction project because we actually had four projects um rolled into one and we I track them separately. So, we know pretty much what we spent on um the K2 edition, what we spent on the fieldhouse. Um the third column at the bottom of the page, um total expenditure.

069Um if you follow that down, they'll tell you approximately what we spent to date on each of those projects. Um some of the expenses at the bottom, for example, the builder's risk insurance. Um I didn't divide those out. My project just showed you as a whole what those amounts were. So I didn't go back and then reallocate those. um they're not significant amounts um to the total project. So I just want to make sure you know that here's what we spent on this and when we made changes um kind of what that was costing as well. So as you can see the we still owe um the construction company about $103,000. Um the project will end at completion at 21.895 895 million and we will um be under budget. We will have about $75,000 left

070of monies that we had had earmarked for this project that we did not spend. So 22 million and under budget. Yay. Thank you. Um do I have a motion to approve the financial reports? Just questions on the like page 15 the cash balance. Is there a reason we do a 10 year look back? Seems like we're going back to 2016. >> I just didn't know if that was required or >> Oh, so it's not required. This is just for your records and your information. Um I feel like I leave it in there because to me it's significant. it's pre passing the income tax levy >> and then you can see the cycle of then we pass the income tax levy and then kind of where things are flowing. There's also um two different funding models

071for state funds in that picture too. So you can kind of see what the foundation payment looks like. I also find so if you go to the line um um it's probably the first quarter way down where it says foundation program um it's on kind of two lines you can kind of follow it across >> it starts lower at the other because that's kind of when it changed. Um, I find it interesting that if you compare January 26 to January 2016, um, you're within $30,000. So, the state has increased their funding to us or if you want to say they increased it to $30,000 in 10 years. And I find that's a significant talking point that if you wanted to look at that, that's that's what schools are faced with that there's just been no

072increase in school funding in the 10 years that you have things like this. Um January 2016 is the first information I had available to me. I just left it on there because I once it falls off the page and gets too small, I'll probably just I saw that the initial cash balances for some funds are still negative. Do we have a we like for example like the band that's still do occasionally meet? Is there a reminder for that saying hey that you know first name is Mr. Zoom? Um yes, do you >> we do throughout the year um talk to our student activities especially in the 200s. So the 200 student activities they um raise money and then spend money. Um in particular the band that has been negative for years because of we used

073to put the um paytoplay fees in there. Um, and then we have annual expenses like for OMAS and some things that weren't necessarily whole class things. They were more band specific. Um, so we've continued to take expenses out there and they have no revenue because they don't go in fundraising. Um, we have had some discussion about what we're going to do with that. >> Yeah. It's not so much just the individual counselor just going do we >> meet with them to remind them, hey, there are negatives. Hey, there are >> what are your steps to to remediate that? >> Right. And typically they don't. If you notice the only other ones like outdoor sixth grade camp and that's only because it's the sign it's the conference. >> Yeah. >> Right. So, um, now I will

074say last year, at the end of last year, that account was negative. And I have spoken briefly with, um, Mrs. Scoffin about potentially using her O8 account to to fund that only because typically it's when maybe a student doesn't have enough support for picking up and because it should be just a password. Um but yeah, for the most part they don't. The encountered part of the uh SW accounts are typically what will drive them to a negative. Um the FFA does a significant amount of fundraising and then has a significant amount of expenses which are six figures. You don't usually see that. It's usually the stuff that's like two or$3,000 a year, $400,000 later. It's not usually that significant but yes we do talk to them. We also have some uh Mr. Dennis and I

075met last month and he identified some of these student activities um do not exist anymore and they have fun balances. Um anything on this sheet belongs to the board. Um so when that particular student activity became defunct and no longer met that money the board has a right to do something with that money. So at some point before we do fiscal year end I'll be having you saying hey we like to dissolve these and like take this money and do this and one of the ideas we have was to go ahead and negative for reasons of changes like pay to play things like that that we possibly would just pay those down get those to zero and then think about how we're taking expenses out of that if we know there's no revenue >> and

076this poor is also different in that he inherits that because he's the man director where all the rest of student activities like student council this is all she left Morgan Williams student council um they apply to be that he gets it de facto because he's so part of his job like we're not really in a position where like well you've got to do fundraising like he may or may not have that ability to do fundraising because before only thing that went in there was that like so that's one of the things that we're kind of looking at was an operational change together >> and then the forecast 37 page 37 >> we will probably want to do that now it >> I'm usually the one that just keeps one is like I'm not there yet.

077So for the financial reports, do I have a motion to approve those? >> Yes, Mr. Har. Any other discussion? Roll call, please. >> Mr. H. >> Yes. >> Dr. Buckley. >> Yes. >> Mrs. S. >> Yes. >> Mr. Fur. >> Yes. Mrs. Yes. >> Next item is to approve a then purchase order to approve the following expenditures declaring at the time of the contract the obligation was lawfully appropriated or was in the treasury of the appropriate fund free from previous incumbrances. Um that's ci,000 and some change. Um do I have a motion? move and second. Any discussion? So, SCI is South Central Ohio Insurance Consortium. This is our insurance payment. Um, this is a keying error. Um, it wasn't that we got an invoice that we weren't expecting. This is about what we pay monthly

078for our insurance. Um, we just didn't put the right date. We basically create our own invoice and we can come date on the invoice and so it looked like the purchase order was after the date of the invoice um creating a then now so it's actually not a true then now basically a keying error but because of the ball it's has to appear on here. So once I close the month we can't change the dates back we can't correct anything so my apologies. >> Okay. Thank you. Any other questions? Roll call, please. Mr. Sir, >> yes. >> Mr. H. >> Yes. >> Dr. Buckley. >> Yes. >> Mrs. S. Yes. Mrs. Young. Yes. And item D to approve the February forecast. I can have a motion. >> Dr. Buckley moved. Second. No discussion. Okay. Um

079so as you guys know um as part of the budget bill last June um the Ohio legislators changed um the forecasting timelines and um from now on it will be the forecast will be um required in February. Um so in this forecast um we also have the four um tax reform bills um that we were able to model in the forecast. What we weren't able to model in the forecast is basically changes coming up in 27 which would be retirements, resignations, significant changes to payroll and salaries which is our biggest expenses. Um because basically people haven't really tended. we've only gotten a couple so we don't kind of know what we're doing um in that regard. Before it was required in May the forecast you got forecast in May at by May we pretty much

080know what's going on and there was some significant changes. Um we are also going into um negotiations with all three of our um unions. So we don't have any amounts to propose for increases or anything like that. So um we did um so it's kind of a bare bones forecast. We we've got the new valuations which came in in December for Fairfield County. Um 2025 was a reappraisal year. Um those valuations, property valuations did go up significantly. Um so from October um we did not have those valuations. So I did provide a graph at the end because I really wanted to talk about what what how this four bills um house bills but this four changes in law like for the end of break. Um, so with that said, um, I I did have some

081questions that were asked regarding and I'll get to Mr. H for sure. I think when we do the forecast again in August, I will I'm going to change this report. This is a can report that comes from our consultants. Um, some of these because we don't have renewal re we're not renewing levies. This the different pages are a little confusing because they're talking about the change. They're not talking about the actual number. They're talking about the change. And with our income taxes in particular, um because we started collections in 20 and then we ramped up this collections, the change yearover-year historically is significantly different than the change we'll see from now moving forward. So, one of the pages spec specifically talks about that in the way it's worded, it comes across as if we're going

082to be not collecting $700,000 less. We're not collecting $700 less in the forecast. You can see it it's going to continue to increase. What that's saying is the historical change is different. And um so from 2020 to 2025, we went from zero to just over $5 million. that growth is faster than what the growth from today moving forward will be at the rate of the $720ome thousand dollars. So that's I don't find that important for our report. Um so I think what I'll do is just customize this and take some of these pages out and actually put stuff in that makes sense for us. If we were renewing levies and things you would want to see that we would want to kind of be tracking some of those changes. Um, but the way we're structured

083um, financially, it's not something that really has an impact other than just to be confusing, I think. So, Mr. Hering, can I answer your question? >> Well, that answered one of the questions I was. >> Yes. Um, yeah, that's when they start talking about the change, it really I even me I have to sit down. I have to think about what are they exactly saying as a as a Yeah. So >> um on slide 39 page >> just at the very bottom all other operating revenues that has a significant change as well just almost as much as the income tax. What what drives that's a huge do you know on the top of your head the >> where are we looking to last it starts off 264,000 all of our operating revenue then it goes

084down to negative 204 for a change of 468,000 >> um >> just do I know you don't have your detail >> um I would I would really have to look what that is >> usually other operating revenue venue is going to be preschool tuition and umh that's one of the biggest interest um I think that particular line is actually the interest which because we were up to 5% for almost a year and a half >> we no longer have this >> we're going to see yeah so we have more money but we also have 5% interest over five >> um for a long time and that will give some volatility to those numbers, but I was able seemed like everything towards the end like page >> and 46 seems like we've plateaued at 2005 2006

085and then everything is starting to a step decrease like restricted state aid revenue accounts. We're predicting it's going to continue to go down. >> Restricted what major >> um >> yeah same thing on 46. Yes, that they have um we just so for these because they're not controlled by us. They're not, you know, restricted state aid um is those career tech, student wellness, all those restricted funds that we have. What what the software what the consultant will do is they'll take the history and then they try to reproduce the history into the future. >> Okay. So it's not because of like a house bill that just passed but we know we're going to anticipate receiving less funding. It's >> no we will get so the the state passes a bianium budget. So we do know

086more about 27. So 26.7. So they it was passed in June of 25 which would have been for um fiscal year 26 and fiscal year 27. Fiscal year 28 will be another one that will be like we don't know if they're going to continue to fund the fair school funding plan, if they're going to update base costs, if they're going to change those restricted um with Governor DeWine being on his last term. Those restricted funds were really kind of his baby. If you remember, he started the student wellness and then we had the fun 67 and we had all this stuff. I don't know if they'll continue that stuff. So that's where they um are very conservative when we're predicting revenue that we know has volatility if that makes sense. >> So um um so

087if you go to page 57 this is the actual forecast itself. Um this is not the numbers will be what we give to the state but if you recall they also lower the number of years we provide them. So um I think it's current year plus three. So we'll continue to do a five-year forecast because I am a big I want to give you more information than I as much information I can when it comes to actually what I submit to the state. So be current year plus three. So it'll be 2026 plus 728 and 29. We won't get to 2030 um on what's submitted. So that'll be what you can find if you look on the OD website. That's what they'll have available for all schools across Ohio. Um the significant line into the

088forecast um that we always look at is the is line 6.0. Um I mean I can look at all the lines but as a whole and that tells us our kind over under and what impact basically on the bottom line our different changes going to make. So um the report that I provided you at the end just highlights revenue. I can have some more reports given to you that will show you what the impact of that um that 6.0 10, you know, in the October, what we were expecting after the valuations came in in December and then now what we're predicting after those um legislative pieces passed um and are now law. So our overall I think that we're still in an okay position. Um, it's not as strong as I'd like to see going

089into negotiations, but it it's what we have. And compared to other schools, there are a lot of schools that are in a lot of financial trouble and to the point where they're going to run out of money this year. Like, they don't have any another fund. There's nothing else. They're going to run out of money. So, they are going back to taxpayers um asking for more property taxes. there. People, some school districts that just passed levies are having to go back again May and November because these four bills or these four new laws have reduced what they're going to collect so much that now new levies harming the meeting the needs of their of their expenses. Um so it's it's going to be an interesting time. Um but for us, you know, it's it's definitely

090a weaker forecast than what we've had, but we can survive this. Um we are in a position where we can, you know, we can eb and flow. Um we've preserved some cash in this because we're able to, you know, a lot of schools are um cutting staff. a lot of staff are getting rough and you know we're not gonna have to do that and I'm I feel very fortunate and the board's been very conservative and very um mindful of what we've been doing. So I you know felt pretty good about it. Our consultant was even like I wish I had more forecast like this. He's like it's doom and gloom. Like there's a lot of really bad forecasts out there because people are cutting you know 5% of their staff 10% of their staff because

091they they're going to run out of money. So um >> you know the question I asked about the revenue they were a small percentage of the revenue but as you can see we're the trend of our lines I guess is going down. So we're in a great position now to start with we don't have to worry about that immediately but >> that trend is >> it's down so we're going to have to um in the future. Yes, Mr. um our representative is actually coming into the district on March 4th. Um so we wanted to have some conversations about what this looks like for us and because June of 27 is going to be here before we know it and we're we need some leadership. Like the state's got to step up. They're going to have

092to do something like we can't we can't log off the same funding they've had for 10 years. Like base cost models have to change the calculations I should say. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Yeah. And so we'll we'll see, but he's going to come in um come visit the school district and then um we just found out today so we haven't like four o'clock. So um those are the things and we'll continue to reach out and talk to Senator Schaer probably the next three days in just a tour or just >> we reached out specifically well welcome you know you can come in and see district but the purpose of it was just talk about how these things have impacted >> um position He was >> he seemed more engaged in what was really going on,

093but he was very clear that his children are in private schools. >> I was impressed with the conversation of the questions that you he was asking good questions of us when we went out. He he he he was working very hard to understand school funding and going into it with like knowledge not just I'm going to believe whatever tells me >> and he understands that he represents all of us not just private school children correct >> yes because we don't really I mean for us in county and that's been what was just like the budget commission they are supportive of public schools we have predominantly public schools in county and you know their children are in public schools. He wasn't committed to I'm going to fight for you but then neither was Senator Schaefer. Um

094but I will also say and I I will continue to say this hearing from you guys is a lot more impactful than hearing from Dr. Edwards and I who do not live in this. we can't vote for them and they want to hear from us because I think they both want to learn more and have more knowledge. But when it comes to I'm a voter in the district and open your eyes that have to come to people who can actually vote for them. Um to me I think that that's something that would have you know you don't have to do those things. It's just hey and the other thing and I did tell the tax budget commission because so from my understanding of the law I was prior they've always had the authority to reduce

095levies. They didn't necessarily and then there was always some question about how much authority they really had to do that. Most people including myself think the law was very clear on us that they could do it. the law that was passed really doesn't change that. It just clarifies it that says they can't um without question they can reduce them if they're excessive or um not needed excessive and something else is the two words that has been used individually and and one of the things I said to them is you're elected officials all three of them are elected officials and I said basically you're telling five elected officials they don't know what they're doing. How would you feel if you were in that position? And they're like, well, we didn't think about it that way. And

096I'm like, that's what's happening at this point is you have equally elected officials making judgment calls over others where they may or may not have any expertise. And and and they were both very or all three were very like, yeah, you're exactly I mean, the prosecutor was very upfront. I have no idea what I'm looking at and I'm not comfortable with this because I don't want to be in this position that I don't understand what's going on. Um, but he also was like, you know, our commission has no intention of starting cut people without public hearings and things like that. Auditor Brown has put together a proposal for them. I think they will pass it in March and it outlines what happens if they have questions about reasonability of a levy and it starts with

097public hearings. So they they will not do what you're hearing some other counties doing. She wants some things in place, some guard rails to make everybody feel comfortable that if they would question something, they would start with public hearings on tell us why. let let us understand what you're thinking, how you're doing this and you know and she went back to fire districts if they're planning on buying a new fire truck. Fire trucks are very expensive. They're way more expensive than even school buses. Um that they may be stockpiling money to buy that. So they may look like they have three times the budgeted amount, but that's because they need to buy a truck. And that's the kind of conversations um she really indicated it was much much more geared towards other local governments than

098it was schools because we have forecast, we have documents, we have things where we keep them informed of what's going on in school. So um yeah, but so Mr. Miller was very very nice and he was very engaged. Um but he didn't make a point to tell us that his children were in private schools. I guess to that point though I would remind him that less than I would say 5% of his district attends private schools. >> I mean he is a rural district and there are not many private schools in his district cath. >> Yeah. >> And so for him to come at this with a bias >> Yes. >> alarms me. I I just uh that alarms me. And um >> I didn't get the impression he had. He also has retired state

099highway department. Sure. So he's retired from a state agency, >> right? >> Um so I wouldn't I don't think it'd be fair for me to say that he was biased in the conversation. >> That's fair. >> Transparent maybe is better. >> Yeah, I think he was being transparent. It made me it gave me pause when he said that his kids are in. I'm like, "Oh, this isn't good." Um I But I didn't get I didn't get that impression. Now, with that said, the House did some whackadoodle things and I'm like, I want to know how he voted like they were doing some crazy things in the budget in their version of it. And I was like, what what is going on? Um, and but I do believe too. I I think he's relatively new. >>

100Yeah. Um, but I do think that's he's the type of person that's open a conversation and one store is what I kind of got. I just brought it. Um, but so we will once we have more details of like when he's going to be here during the day and stuff, we'll get that out to you. >> I don't mean to go down rabbit holes. Certainly the agenda, but >> well and I think it's good, Dr. and I try as much as we can to invite our legislators in. Come see what we're doing. I mean, you guys are incredible. We have some great kids doing some great things. And Hayden speech about feeling supported and thanking the community for everything. And that's our that's what we want people to see. This is what public education is

101producing like some dag kids that will be you know contributing members of society and you know don't'll cut us off at the means and stop funding us because 90% of the kids in Ohio were in public schools. So um >> so on p can you do that up? So, on page 60, um, what I just wanted to show you in a quick, this is just a, and it doesn't, it looked really good on the screen, but then when I printed, I'm like, this is kind of hard to read in print. Um, I wanted to show you. So, there's three line items. Um, actually, I did put the excess revenue in there. There's two line items that kind of for us encapsulates the four pieces of legislation and that be the general property tax and the

102state share local property tax. So one of the things they did is expand as a relief temporary relief or over the isanding the homestead exemption. Um they did in the final stages of that bill once it was once it was ready to be passed include reimbursement back to the school district. So they continue to hold school districts harmless. So as they've expanded that we will get that money back from the state. So they didn't initially they were going to discount it to homeowners with no reimbursement back to schools. So that would have been additional revenue that we've seen in the past that would just go away. Um, so I made sure I wanted to include that because that expansion does add some tax dollars um, back to our bottom line. Where is the page? >>

103Yes. So, there's three line items on the forecast that I specifically pulled out and showed you what we forecasted in October. Um, make it bigger. I want >> um what we forecast in October, what would have been this forecast without those four house bills. So what the new um valuations would have included and then actually what we forecasted post legislation um which is where I came up with the $4.6 million loss of revenue from fiscal year 27 through30. Um, now I also want you to see it because I want you to have a true picture of what's going on. So the those bills were very confusing because depending on when your reappraisal or your update was, which is when we actually look at the values, um, depended on what happened to your school district. for

104us because we were 25. We don't have to do a retro. School districts said their update was in 24 and 23. They had to look back and actually pay the money back to the state. We did not to the taxpayers. We did not have to do that because we were in 25. So 26 is elevated because we got to see those increases in 26, but then they took them in 27. So if you go to the first three lines and you look at fiscal year 26, what we were proposing as a forecasted number in October um and then what we were forecasting with the new valuation that new valuation actually equals what we were we will get in 26. Then when you move on to 27, you see that that new valuation number drops significantly

105even below what we had put in the October forecast. But then from 27 on it starts building back up. We remain at the 20 mil floor which means that when we have increases in value we will see that growth. The reason we stay at the 20 mil floor is because we do not have any levies that they changed in those four bills. So we only have continuing levies. When Dr. Beckley was talking about if they eliminate those continuing levies, it's it's going to be awful. >> We have 35 we have overall 35 mills. 4.75 are inside millillage and then the rest is outside millage. Everything we have outside is considered levies. So if those are eliminated, there will be no property tax revenue. So um the losses have come from the inside millage used to

106be unreduced. So the 4.75 ms we got the full value of that 4.75 ms. And I'm simplifying this. It's a little more complicated, but this is the simplified version. um the outside village. So now the inside village instead of getting that full value when the values change um it's capped at um inflation. So I can't remember where the inflationary number is coming from um but it'll be the same for everybody. Um that's the same with the outside millillage. It's capped at inflation. because that's where the losses are coming from. Um, so with that said, we don't know what the inflation number will be in 28. We do not know what it will be in 29. So we're guessing. So that's why we're doing the best we can at trying to say this is what because

107again in a couple months we're going to ask you to certify a contract with our unions that's probably going to be a three-year contract. So I need to to certify that I have to know we're going to have some revenue. So it it is what it is. we've got to at least put our best guess together to say this is what the revenues are going to be. So, um the second portion of that is then that state that local share of property tax. Um obviously this isn't as those numbers are not as big. Um, but I wanted to see how because in 27 they're expanding the homestead exemption and we're getting reimbursed that money from the state, that number is actually going up um over what we forecasted. So, that is something where we'll see,

108you know, a little bit more revenue, $150,000, but you know what, everything counts. And so, I wanted to make sure that they pointed that out. Um and then the final thing there is how volatile our bottom line looks. That 6.0 that excess of revenue. I mean that's truly all over the board. So it started in October. Um you know probably worse I wouldn't say probably it's worse than what we're looking at now. But without those four h those four um pieces of legislation, you know, we were in a pretty good spot where we, you know, I know this board's talked many many many times about reducing um or rolling back the income tax. Had those property tax changes not happened, you guys would have definitely been in position to roll back that property tax as

109promised to our taxpayers. Um, as you can see from our bottom line that was now that's virtually impossible. So that was the point of the graph and then I just or the the little chart and then I just put it on a graph just to make it really visually easy to see that the gray line is where we are right now. And it's kind of crazy because we never want to see those. We want to see kind of smooth lines. And so you, you know, you're up in 26 and then significantly down in 27. And then we'll start to build again, you know, backward. We're anticipating values to continue to um rise at a much lower levels, but then also to have that cap for inflation. Um the orange line is without those property tax

110bills. Um and the blue line is what we forecasted in October. So, I hope that have value to you. I wanted to give you something that was digestible because property taxes are complicated and it's a lot to take in. And I'm very for we're very fortunate we have state associations like OSBA and OAS that that have attorney that will, you know, break it down so we can really get an idea of what the impact will be. So all that good news. Are there any questions? Call please to approve the February forecast. Dr. Ruckling. >> Yes. >> Mrs. S. >> Yes. >> Mr. Ham. >> Yes. >> Mr. Sharp. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Young. >> Yes. Uh consent agenda number two on personnel um accept resignations andor retirements um noted that David Hanning, director of special

111services for the purposes purpose of retirement effective at the end of this school year and Teresa Timmons a bus driver for the purpose of retirement effective March 1st. Um B is to approve the supplemental employment for 2526 for a boys basketball reserve boys basketball coach and a varsity softball coach to approve classified substitute contracts for 2526 for those listed and to approve the volunteers for 2526 in the classroom as well as athletic. And again, we always want to thank our volunteers for putting in the time and helping us out. Do I have a motion? >> Mr. Discussion, >> just like you said, um, wanted to speak to Mr. Hanning. uh he's retiring and training has um done a fantastic job in the special education department um and it'll be he'll be missed but just want

112to shout out to him um and what he has done and then um this is Mrs. Tim Simmons drives the dolphin bus. Um she always comes around, always has a smile on her face. Um she tells me every time I walk up on her bus that she has the best students in the entire district that ride her bus. Um but just a very happy face. I talk a lot about a bus driver is the one person that a child may see every day for 13 years. um you know every morning they see you know what they're coming out right running out of the house and and what their day is like and then they they send them back to the house at the end of the day so they have an incredible amount of responsibility

113and this best of wishes to Miss Timmons Terry Timmons and just very very fortunate to have her for many years in the district call Mr. Sharp. >> Yes. >> Dr. Beth. >> Yes. >> Mr. Heron. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Song. Yes. Mrs. Young. >> Yes. >> On to new business. Um to approve a resolution for membership in the Ohio High School Athletic Association for and membership dues for high school sports at $50 per sport. Um with a lot of wherees and now therefore that we can all >> listed. Yeah. >> Do I have a motion? I'll move >> a second discussion. >> Um not a rate that increase same rate that we have previously paid for sports. So >> this used to be free. >> True statement. >> So we're hoping they go back to

114that at some point. So um postco they started implementing these again. So, I hope they make enough money off the tournaments to go back to being free because every dollar helps. >> Welcome, please. >> Mrs. Song, yes. Mr. Sharp, >> yes. >> Dr. Buckley, >> yes. >> Mr. Haron, >> yes. >> Mrs. Young, yes. Item B, uh, approve the FFA top spring mulch sellers field trip June 1st through the 3 to Lewisburg, West Virginia. Do I have a motion? Dr. Any discussion? Roll call, please. >> Mrs. Song, >> yes. >> Dr. Darkley, >> yes. >> Mr. Haron, >> yes. >> Mr. Sharp, >> yes. >> Mrs. Young, >> yes. Item C, approve policy updates. This will be the second read for all of those listed that we've all reviewed before. Do I have a motion?

115>> Mr. Is there a second? Second. Any discussion? >> I had two quick comments. Um the cyber security the there's it makes mention of a whole list of critical functions and cyber security risks and we have identified those and those I'm assuming the IT department has those listed out somewhere. >> Yes. Um and also >> not listed here on purpose. >> Well that and you know your policies are purposely written broad. Um we are part of a consortium. There are I believe 13 school districts um through meta which is our ITC um that we are collaboratively working on that cyber security plan response plan um so it's a larger organization that's coming in and supporting um because of the cyber security rules that are being implemented for all government agencies. There's a lot of small

116townships and things like that they're just they're trying to pick up with the small things. Um you know we have And actually I was talking with Mrs. Pac some today again about some of our cy cyber security protections we have in place. So continuing to develop that. Um there will be a cyber security adoption. There are two different national models that um governmental organizations through recent legislation that we would pick one of the two. So that'll be coming in as well um of which model we will be following. And do we have like every couple years where we go in and we mandatory to reiterate or re-evaluate that or >> um so I yeah moving forward I would say that that that is going to be part of that process that we have to update.

117Um it's right now it's just getting making sure that everybody's getting up to that minimum threshold. >> Okay. I have one other comment on the >> one of the key pieces I was going to say is that um with the recent legislation like you it does not allow boards to submit payment for yes the only other ones the criminal records check just real quick it says for we have it for for all school employees for every so often but then there's is a unique for bus drivers and for motor van drivers that we don't do a check for except every six years. I was wondering why are they segregated out? Why are they excluded and I would just rethinking why would they not be more often? Why would you not want to catch certain things

118like OBI offenses or or something? So um we are our our van and bus drivers um they are part of a state system that anytime that if a member is pulled over for an OVI or something like that then they are flagged and sent to us. So that's kind of a constant check in the background. It's an automatic process get notified um in addition to the other checks that we >> So this will be redundant anyway. >> Yeah. And then the rules are different because they have US Department of Transportation rules have to be followed and they're different. So that's why they're six years versus five years. So they kind of have their own little set of totals because of their >> big licenses. >> One of the big changes this past year um well

119actually was the end of the year before is we had to ensure that all of our bus drivers were in the wrapback system. And the RAVEX system is a system through the state where they're they're constantly it ties the pieces together and then we are notified. So every year we have to verify that employ teachers aids but now also bus drivers that they are part of linked to our district. >> That's it. Thank you. >> Welcome Mr. Sharp. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Song. >> Yes. >> Dr. Bley. >> Yes. Mr. Heron, >> yes. >> Mrs. Young, yes. Item B, approve staff eating without pay as listed. >> Do I have a motion? >> Dr. Buckley moves. Second, >> Mr. Discussion. Roll call. >> Dr. Buckley. >> Yes. >> Mr. Heron. >> Yes. >> Mrs. S.

120Yes. Mr. Sharp. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Yes. Item seven is um to approve a motion to enter into executive session to consider the appointment of a public employee or an official. Uh do I have a motion? Mr. Sharp and Dr. >> Any discussion? Uh one thing do you want to note that there will be no other voting or anything after session? >> Yeah, that's the last um that we'll have last item we'll have. Also wanted to note that the March meeting is moved up. Um it's March 11th I believe. So just keep that in mind. It's no longer a regular schedule. >> Any other discussions? She's spoken to you. >> Okay. Okay. >> Oh, no. That's okay. Roll call, please. M. >> Yes. >> Dr. Buckley. >> Yes. >> Um, Mr. Hon. >> Mrs. Song.

121Yes. And yes. So, we're in executive session at 9. Guys, >> construction. >> I'm sorry.