001We're back. All right, I think we're ready to reconvene. Dr. Buckley has found his new favorite toy. Giggle at one point. People are like, "What are we talking about?" Like the table back there. Very nice. Very nice. All right. Um, thank you again to the retirees who came tonight. I will just say no need to be courteous. If you want to not have to stay the whole meeting, you're welcome to go. So, but uh again, we appreciate all the years of service you brought to the the district and and all the kids you've impacted, including my own. So, I can speak from personal experience. So, well done those jobs. Thank you. All right, public participation. And the only thing I have down is Sophia Dossman, new FFA. So, hello everybody. I'm Sophia Dossman. I'm currently
002serving as the treasurer for the Amanda Clear Creek FFA chapter. Um, I I'm filling in for Emma Strickler tonight. She's our president, but she's currently competing at a track meet tonight. Uh, so since the last board meeting, our chapter has kept very busy as we just finish up some activities for the year. So AC FFA members have attended the Ohio State FFA convention on May 1st and 2nd. Students attended the sessions and watched some of our members get recognized for their successes over the year. The chapter also toured the Ohio historical museum. Um on May 5th, the chapter held its annual awards banquet where we celebrated the success of our chapter as a whole over the past year. The Amanda uh FFA chapter would like to thank all the administration for their continuous support that
003makes our banquet and our success possible. So, thank you guys very much. On May 7th, Emma Strickler, Catherine Buckley, Madison Cordal, and Healey Robinson were recognized on the Senate floor for their success at the National FFA Convention last fall. They placed ninth in the nation in the Agricultural Communications Career Development event. and they also got to meet Governor DeWine, Senator Schaefer, and even Coach Ryan Day. Thank you, Dr. Edwards, and Mr. Dennis for um just going with these members. And we would like to thank the AC FFA advisors Scott Sharp and Jeff Tilly for their dedication for to the chapter. The annual baby animal farm and a day was held on May 15th. The chapter had a great turnout of students coming to visit the A classroom and see all of the animals. And additionally,
004the officer team hosted an a day for the third grade classes to learn more about the agricultural industry and farming. This was a very fun event to wrap up the school year. We would also like to congratulate this year's agricultural issues forum CDE team consisting of Grace Martin, Bella Mets, Reese Melton, Maddie Graph, and Alana Benjamin for placing second in the state of Ohio. This freshman team has a bright future ahead of them. Looking forward to the summer, there are several trips the chapter will be attending, such as mulch camping trip, Ohio leadership camp, Washington leadership conference, and FFA camp. As the school year comes to an end, the Amanda Clear Creek FFA chapter would like to extend a thank you to the school board and administration. Without your guys' continuous support for our chapter,
005we we wouldn't be as successful as we are and our students wouldn't have the opportunities that they do. It has been a great year and we cannot wait to see what next year's holds. Thank you. Thank you. the athletic council update can give or we're here. Uh key thing is discussed during that Logan High School or Logan School in general has petitioned to join the state league. So clearly there'll be some discussion over the next couple months relating related to that and whether or not the league will admit to him. um see winners sports. There's a recap in terms of the athletes who were all league and all district and so forth. And we had 21 I think that were all academic which was always a good thing to see. Mentioned Brody Martin finished six
006in the state with wrestling. Terms of spring sports, our baseball numbers were really good. Uh softball numbers, um I think the goal I said is trying to get them trimmed up even more to where we would have a JV to varsity. softball like we have for baseball which I think they first time in a while they've been both baseball so baseball numbers are are looking good. Um track the nice thing they mentioned that Jamie mentioned was that the construction of the track uh didn't impact any of the track meets that things went really well in terms of how it runs because if you don't been to school for a track meet anyways all the everything happens kind of on the on the visitor side in terms of the sprints and all that. So, um, but
007they said the concessions and everything went really well and so there was no impact with any construction going on to get those things done. Uh, they had three regular meets and they hosted a a middle school state qualifier meet and then the Cole McCaffrey meet. So, the middle school meet there were 18 boys and girls teams each that night. Cole McAffrey 10 boys 10 girls teams and so some good gate and good entry fees from those. So, and lots of good volunteers to make those things happen. Um, we also served as the site for the high school uh, Buckeye Division League meet last Tuesday and Thursday with a little bit of rain adventure on Tuesday, but managed to get it all done by Thursday night. Um then couple uh upgrades or things the boosters had
008purchased new padding uh installed for the back stops up at the baseball and softball and also the new wind screens which are ones on the outfield fence with the new logo and stuff on look really nice. If you haven't been out there they do look really nice. Then the last thing mentioned was that we had two college students um two students who signed with college sports uh wrestling Payton Beavers to at Otterbine and Haley Robinson for softball at Robert Morris which is a division one school. So that's kind of the update. So, anything else? Student achievement sent everybody out in an email. It's pretty uneventful, but I did find the um it interesting about the cell phone cell phone ban um improving engagement and attendance. And um a school in Washington made a point of
009getting all of the students involved in an after school activity to keep that that interactive. So there was like no isolation since the cell phon we've seen great improvements in taking the cell school [Music] there's been a lot of activity but the main thing is the house bill 96 it is currently heading to the senate finance committee uh next week um several days of testimony I can get down. [Music] All right. Thank you, Building Principles. All right. It's hard to believe that we've wrapped up another year, but it has been an exciting week at the primary between Grandpar's Day, community day. Um, today we had our second grade family cookout and clap out. Um, there were a few tears shed, but most left with smiles. So, we're excited for them to come over and take
010on the big building in third grade. We'll definitely miss our second graders for sure. Um, we're excited about our end of the year data and how it's looking and looking forward to diving into it a little more deeper to celebrate the successes and to just to continue to make adjustments to support all students um, no matter where you're at on your academic journey. Last but not least, just want to say thanks to the board and AC families for supporting our staff this year. And I hope everybody has a wonderful summer. Um, get out and enjoy life, whether that's the zoo or going down and and playing with your family in a creek. Um, just get out and have some fun and engage your kiddos. Um, that's pretty much where we're at at the primary. Let
011me pivot to Mr. Rosovich. [Music] Teacher of the month for the elementary, Mrs. Morgan. Mrs. Morgan is a fifth grade math teacher who comes to work consistently. She actively seeks out new strategies to strengthen her math instruction, always striving to grow her craft. Just as importantly, she is intentional about building meaningful relationships with her students, creating a classroom where every child can feel successful learning math. our OST results. We have our OST results in and we have been many things to celebrate in the elementary school world. We're looking forward to continuing this momentum into next year. We celebrated our student success at our assembly this past Monday with many students reaching new milestones. Over 30 students completed all 21 levels of Lexia. 79 students walked away walked away words read signs most ever. That's wordy.
012Two students with two million words read. Two students with three million words read. And one student with six million words read. Wow, that's awesome. 15 students will be added to our millionword club. We recognize three of our fifth grade students who are military children with a special certificate and medal. Hope you all have a great summer. Now on to the uh middle school and high school. All right, Mr. and I are actually going to do our separate tonight. So just at the middle school, some recent events that students participated in. Um we had 16 students who went to the STEM day at OD well. So they were able to um listen to a keynote keynote speaker from COI and then participate in um a couple session hands-on sessions. That was a really great experience for
013those 16 students and the seven volunteer to take those students um and they had a really great time. We had six students participate in Battle of the Books. Um what was that a week and a half ago at Capital University and then we also concluded our year with our eighth grade awards ceremony um back on May 8th. Um and that was a really great turnout. We had about a 100 parents um and grandparents attend um that ceremony for those eighth grade students who were um who received an award. Um, up next with uh students leaving today and staff um closing out tomorrow, Mr. Dennis and I have a lot of collaborating to do in the next couple of weeks um just to get some things started for next school year um get that those terminations
014with our shared staff and and things organized. Um we're planning um to finish our spend documents for 612. So we've got that on our calendar and then we spoke with Mrs. Kelly today. um some focuses for next year um that we uh have we're looking at our our handbook and um kind of diving in and really focusing on that piece um to really motivate um some or say better attendance but improved attendance. Uh recently we had sixth grade orientation um thought that was great from sixth grade parents and students. So, we were able um to go through what a scheduling looked like since it's a brand new process for them and some of the things that looks um just a lot different from elementary school to get those kids a little bit acclimated with with
015transitioning to middle school. Um we have our back to school bash plan. been working on um finalizing a few things, but with that event um there's not a lot of specific focus for each building, especially those kids that are in transition years. So, we try to do something um to get them in the building and for parents to be able to ask questions. Um I want to um Miss Scouts wasn't able to come tonight, but I wanted to give her a shout out. So, we just had data released late last night and our seventh grade test scores. If you remember, probably a couple months ago, I told you as students were going to be taking their STAR test and how that was going to determine their English courses for next year and the kids theme
016was lock in. That was kind of their motto of Miss Cochran, I'm locked in. Um, I can tell you the seventh graders were locked in based on the data that we got back. Um so again we're dive deeper into that but I think you said 71% which was above the state average is extremely high compared to where we have been scoring. Um so we're going to look at comparing that not just that seventh grade class from sixth grade fifth grade but the other classes as well. Look at that growth. And then finally Miss McFarland and I have been working really hard on student schedules. So those are in progress. eighth grade is done. Um we are close to being halfway done with the incoming sixth graders and then we'll move on to to seventh grade.
017So um we've made a couple um modifications with our master schedule just based on the hand scheduling with that and um where students need to be placed as far as honors courses and um inclusion courses and things like that. So, well, we are wrapping up the school year. Obviously, we graduation. Thank you for all being here for tonight evening. Um, some highlights from there. We we did graduate high number. I'll have an exact percentage for you in our graduation rate, but we're somewhere in that 98% range this year around. So, that's an improvement for where we have been the last year. So, we're going to be up on that report. So, that's a good thing. A lot of hard work goes into what we do every year and the teachers and Mr. Sharp, Mrs. Richardson
018and the other stuff we we it shows because again while some of our test scores we look at and like oh what are we going to do if you but we're looking for victories and we have a lot of small victories where we're seeing some steady growth and and one of the most important things is look at cohorts look at how this class performed on previous years and you're seeing growth from year to year in that group of kids sometimes it's hard to do that compared to other groups so we try to compare them to themselves and see growth within the group and we're seeing a lot of that happen and that's due to a lot of factors including the instruction the guidance they get from the teachers and then it comes down to the
019guidance that the teachers get from people like Terry who is an advocate for student performance and wants the students here to do well. So thank you for that. We thank you both for that there. Um, in a school our size, it is often hard to give uh all the things that all the kids want, need to let them be the best they can be. So, we get creative. Uh, Dr. Buckley is I'm not going to call out too many things, but was a good example of email from Dr. Buckley about helping one of his children come up with a creative solution to help figure out a schedule where she can get everything she needs to do what she wants to do. um we work together and try to collaborate and make all these things happen
020in ways that sometimes are a little bit out of the ordinary because we are a small school. We can't offer every class that we want to all the time. So it is a give and take. In doing that and trying to offer the best that we can, we are providing some one good instruction and two tools that will help expand the experience for those students at that level as well. One of those tools was back here. you watched us play with it a little bit. Dr. Buckley got deep into it and was showing off quite a bit. I can't even spell twothirds of things. So, those that tool covers a good portion is biology and anatomy, but it also picks up on on the other sciences too, physics and chemistry. There's pieces there. Gets us
021a good way to look at those things without, you know, blowing things up. That's fine. But we can do it kind of a safe and change the parameters with it. You're welcome to take a look at at the management board and play with it, touch it. It's upstairs in the science rooms. It's mobile, so we do share it around upstairs. So, thank you for your the support on that giving our students good access to to top-notch [Music] technology. That's where we are. the the anatomy board. So, if you want to take a look at here that a few of you have um you like dive into it, let me know and then I've already invited Dr. B to come back and do a do a lecture in the anatomy class next year and show how
022it works. So, thank you. Thank you all. Congrats on another year complete. appreciate all your leadership in that regard. All right, we move on to consent agenda number one, which includes accepting minutes from the last month's meeting approving the May substantive list as presented by the Fairfield County and Pickway County ESC's and also accepting donations uh which includes from the ACPTO for a third grade field trip and also a nice large one in kind from Zinc USA was an elementary promotional item. Is there a motion? Seconds. Any discussion? Mrs. Young. Yes. Dr. Buckley. Yes. Mrs. Kingtock. Yes. Mrs. Song. Yes. Mr. Yes. I have a lot of documents for you. this time. Um, what's the first thing I add? Well, I don't have all the preschools yet. I need some more data before I actually
023I'm trying to go back to 2018 precoid to get those numbers as well. So, I'm still waiting on those. So, let's start with the financial health indicators be item C. Um, and then I can go over the reports with you. um the auditor of state released um they're not I don't think they're available for the public yet. Um they are in our eervices accounts. That's where I got these reports. Um other local governments have um this financial health indicator and has had for many years. Um it's different from fiscal caution and everything else. It's just really a snapshot for um the public to see how a local government is performing. So your your townships and your cities and your counties, everybody has these financial health indicators. Schools did not have them because we have the
024five-year forecast and we have some other things. Um but author Faber um felt that he wanted to also have schools a part of part of this everybody was uniform. Um so those were released based on the 2023 and 2024 audit. So once the audit they'll do um they'll do some pre-mbs and then they'll do post numbers once the audit um for that fiscal year is released. So I provided you in the report um what that looked like for Amanda. Um there really wasn't anything that was alarming at all. I think he's done this too because um in some instances across the state, there's been some school boards that have maybe had some misinformation um internally and made some decisions about some funding and things and they've gotten into trouble. So, this just is one more
025set of eyes looking at what your fund balances are um things like that without it being an internal report. It is um I believe mostly based on the general fund and not completely based on the general fund. Um but anyway, if you have questions about if you have time to review those, look them over. Um again, they'll be available on the audates website in the coming future um along with all the other local governments. So I think it's a nice one more check. Um, you know, they did as treasures. When they did release these, they did a big webinar and he was like, "Do not get excited if you see yellow as treasures." We all get excited. He said, "Everybody's got yellow because it'll change year to year." So, some of the things that we
026have done like transferring um money into the 070 account would create a yellow um from time to time. So, um, as you read through them, if you have questions about like what our story is, why is it like that, please feel free to give me a call. Um, but I want to make sure you were aware of that. The, um, the next report in your thing is actually the financial reports for the month of April. Um, we did receive our, um, income tax and our homestead roll back payments um, from the state. And then um we did get manufacturing home taxes which that is very minimal. Um our revenue was up approximately 280,000 um from last April and that was basically because of the homestead roll back and when we received those payments um we
027did not get them till June of last year. So when we look at June's numbers they will be missing those payments. So, I'll probably say, "Oh, we were down 288,000." Um, as of April, I'm still tracking enrollment to make sure that um you know, those students that we had um lost last year that we have got those numbers and keeping eye on those. So, as of April um our enrollment was 1,424 and 63, but um this is approximately 31 students less than last year in April. So, um, kind of what I I've extrapolated from it was we started lower, but we didn't, um, lose as many students throughout the school year as we had last year. Um, so I find that a little interesting because obviously students come and go throughout the school year and
028I find that to be that usually remains about constant because you usually about have the same amount move out as you have moved in. Um but this year we had less students move out so we we finished uh higher than we started. Um so interest earnings for the month um were $88,839. we um includes our cops investments. Um that was $22,887.36. And then the income tax um does create um in interest as well, income for us that is receeded as interest, and it was $9,531. Um to date, we've received $1,180,000 in interest on the money that was financed to pay for the construction project. Most of that money um did has remained in the general fund. Some of it we did um transferred to the 070, but that can only be transferred with board action.
029So, we did that a few times early on um but I haven't done that for a while. So, that's something that you guys approved to do. Expenditures for the month of April um were 2,439,000 uh with total checks written for 4,317,669. Checks were written um are are written from all funds. So that's not just general fund. That's all funds including construction. Um our expenditures are up um 641,000 from April. Um it's a little bit skewed because in April of 24 we did do the transfer of $5 million of the 070. So I did take that out when reporting that they're up um 641,000. Part of that almost half of that is because we did do a moratorum uh last April on health insurance. So we didn't have a health insurance payment. Um so and then
030we also this month made our interest payment for um our certificates of participation for the 23 and the 24. Um school debt is paid twice a year in December um and in June. The um we make a principal and an interest payment in December and then we just make an interest payment in June. Um and when I say June, they have to receive it and be able to disperse it. So, it's really due 51. So, um we did just actually the day before yesterday I made the interest payment for the original lease purchase we did. Um I think that was very $16,000 was the interest on that. So, and if you recall, we financed that at 1.67. So, that interest rate is like super low. So, overall, our general fund revenues exceeded our expenditures by
031217,000. Our salary and benefits um continue to be our largest expenditure obviously and the current general fund balance is $12,736 946 with incumbrances of 1,426,74. Um our available cash balance is 11,310,872. Um and then of course as always the balance in the 070 capital projects fund is [Music] 9,247,892 and we have incumbrances of 649,000 leaving an unac balance of 8,598,000 and change in that fund. Um, were there any questions or anything on the on the monthly reports? I know there was a lot this month and I apologize. I didn't have um, as I put in my notes to you, I did not have Carrie include some of the documents. Um, we we did a supplemental packet that way. There wasn't quite as much in the board packet because it was getting rather large to begin
032with um with the forecast and um some of the other report the financial health indicators which were long reports as well. think that I will have that for you um next month. What I've done is try to line up year-over-year kind of how many students we've had in preschool and then what the costs associated with it were and then what revenues we had um back in 2018 in 19 and 20 21 actually um we purchased the service of preschool from the ESC. Um, so I think it's important we have enough data now that we can kind of really look at what is preschool c um costing us. um as we're looking at data and seeing the improvements that have been made in early childhood and the test scores that are coming out of kindergarten and
033first grade and second grade being so much higher. Um, I think it's important that we, you know, we know that comes at a cost and that's a good, you know, it's a good thing of what what's going on, but I just want to make sure everybody's aware. Here's what here's what preschool um does cost the district, which in my opinion is well worth it. And the preliminary data that we've pulled has is the K assessment and then beginning a cadence assessment data. And we continue to see improvements in in that of those. We're comparing those that have went through our preschool program versus those that went through another preschool program and or no preschool program. So I I'm just waiting on some information. I actually have asked the ESC for a few pieces of data
034because I I don't have an exact number of kids we had in the preschool um in the earlier years. So I was trying to get that to make some comparison to you know how many kids were educating almost like a cost per student. So, are you moving on? No. Okay. All right. Is there a motion to approve the financial reports? Seconds. Any just any other [Music] discussion? Roll call. Mrs. Young. Yes. Dr. Beckley. Yes. Mrs. Htock. Yes. Mrs. S. Yes. Mr. Shark. Yes. An IME is to approve that at the time the merchandise or service was purchased and at the time the purchase order was executed to cover the purchase sufficient sum appropriated for the purpose of such contract and in the treasury or in the process of collection of the credit of an appropriated
035fund from any previous incumbrances according to RC code Gordon food service $10,000. Is there a motion? Mr. Moves, Susan seconds discussion. Um it's what we refer to as a then and now. So um our Gordon Food Service bill went over our PO um for the month. And so because it's over $3,000, um it has to be approved by the board. Fortunately, we don't have a whole lot of these. Um, so, um, as Mrs. Deerfield has tried to kind of move some stuff, do some things a little differently and, um, also change. Yes, like chicken legs. Our bills, it's hard for her to guess kind of what that PO should be open for because it needs to be open before the month starts. So, um, yeah, we knew we possibly could do this, but it doesn't
036happen very often. So, I told her we give our time. Any discussion? Roll call. Mrs. Pock. Yes. Mrs. Young. Yes. Dr. Buckley. Yes. Mrs. S. Yes. Mr. Sharp. Yes. Item F is to approve health insurance rate increase for fiscal year 26 of 3%. Dental insurance increase of 6% and vision insurance staying stable 0%. That is not correct. That is not correct. No, it's 3% for medical. She's missing medical in there. Shame on us for not catching it. So the it should read approve health insurance rate increase for fiscal year 26 at 3% for medical uh 6% for dental and zero for vision. She's just worth missing the word. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry about that. I didn't realize the medical word was missing. Yeah. So, health health insurance rate increase for FY26 of 3%. That's so And
037then dental insurance for FY26 of 6%. And vision insurance for FY26 of 0%. So, it's just Okay. Yeah. It's there. there. But backwards. Yeah, but it says that the numbers correspond with what it is to be. Okay. Sorry. Second thing. They think we have 6% increase in health insurance. Yeah. No, I understand. Motion moves. She seconds. [Music] discussion roll call. Well, I just want I need to say because um we have historic I mean the highest I've been we've had since I've been here for six years has been 5% and we are self-insured. So, it's truly a testament to the staff's um use of health insurance in an appropriate manner. Um and I tell them often I I appreciate what they do. um like going to primary care physicians versus heading straight to BR every
038time and everything. So um it's been very nice that our insuranceances have stayed very low on the increase because most school districts are not seeing this right now and it could be um quite burdensome. So good job to the staff. Sorry. Now you move on. All right. You ready for get the motion in a second? Yep. All right. Roll call. Dr. Beckley, yes. Mrs. Ptock, yes. Mrs. Songs, yes. Mrs. Young, yes. Mr. Sh, yes. Right. Item G is to approve 412 certificates, which is attachments seven and 897 for BFish and Gordon Flesh. Is there a motion? Susan seconds discussion. So, a 412 certificate is for a multi-year contract. Um, Bonefish, and this is kind of backwards, and they don't have to be board approved. They usually go with the contract. Bonefish is a contract that's
039later in the agenda. Gordon Flasho was approved um it is our um copier leases and it was approved in 2023 um and it did not include a 412. I forgot to put it on the end. And so Gordon Flesh asked for that and I felt it was more prudent to have the board go ahead and approve that we are um it's a multi-year lease. It's a five-year lease on those. And 12 refers to the Ohio Revised Code section that mandates that this certificate, this treasur certificate be attached to those contracts. Um it centers around that you only appropriate funds one year at a time. Um, so we only have a one-year budget. Um, therefore, a five-year lease really or a five-year contract could not be signed because you really are only guaranteeing one year. The
040412 says yes, we have money in the treasury to pay this over the five years. Discussion call. Mrs. Song, yes. Mrs. Young, yes. Dr. Beckley, yes. Mrs. Hangtock, yes. Mr. Sharp, yes. Right. Item H is to approve the May submission of the FY forecast attachment nine. Is there a motion? Seconds. Discussion. Okay. Um although we know that this is not the final version of the budget from the state, I kind of wanted to review review a few things um because some things won't change which is um our estimates for property tax and income tax and um our expenses. Those those should remain the same. So I kind of wanted to go over those. Um I won't spend God bless you a tremendous amount of time but um there's a couple it's a it's a long
041report. Um while you're reading this report keep in mind many of the graphs talk about the um the change or the difference. So they're not the big numbers, they're a smaller number of like why did this change, why did that change um to kind of more put things in perspective. Um so our revenue um it has remained kind of con constant um with the fair school funding plan and not updating the base cost those percentages will change quite a bit because the state will be paying a lot less. Um so for this forecast I used um as most school districts did across the state we use the house version because that's the only past legislation we have. Um and the house version remember um did a basically abandon the fair school funding plan and put
042into place a temporary funding that was guaranteed from the previous year. that this is basically holding our state share constant. Um the Senate um has been very very vocal that they will not be doing that. They will go back to the fair school funding plan. I mean nobody knows what they'll do until they actually vote, but they have been very vocal saying they will they will go back to the fair school funding plan. They want a funding formula in place. Um as early as this morning, I listened to a senator say they were going to fully fund schools. So, who knows what's going to happen after it. So, just so you know, after it goes to the Senate and whatever they vote out of the Senate, it'll go into conference committee and that's where um
043the budget will be born to go back to the the government to be signed. Um so, at this point, you know, the House and the Senate are going to have people say in the conference committee, so we don't know really what's going to happen. there's a lot of um they call it horse trading will be going on. Um so when they talk about the cap, the 30% cap, who knows where that'll end up, everybody says that will come into play. Um I did meet with our county auditor last week. Um she and I had a great discussion about what they're hearing on the auditor's side, what they're they've been at the county auditors have been asked to for their input on school funding and you know where should that cap be? Um, Mrs. Brown was
044very upfront to say or Dr. Brown that she said the cap should be 100%. These are really large economies that that you know, and she's like, why are why would we only pick out schools and not cap every local government? And so she said she went she said she went in at 100%. Because she's like, they're only going to come down from there. So at least give everybody a fair shot. Um so in the forecast um we are not right now looking to move any money. Um there's a lot of speculation that that 30% won't make it. It'll be 40 50 60%. Um we were at I believe 38% um in this forecast that we'd have to move about $2.5 million. We didn't forecast to move that money. Um, if for some reason June 25th
045at that meeting, this is in place, we will move that money into the 070 fund. If they are like, "Yep, we're going to 30%. This is what we're going to do." Um, the House has who introduced that part of the the bill, they um the leadership has said, "Well, just move the money." I I don't understand it. I don't know why they're so focused on it. They're like, "Tell everybody, keep the money, move it." So, I don't kind of get that, but whatever. Um, but we will do that. So, I'd come back to you in June and say, put a transfer on there for two and a half million, and we would put that into the capital budget. Um, so this forecast does not have that in there. So, I wanted to talk about that.
046Um, right now, our, um, income tax is performing about where we thought it would with collections. um the differences in some of these graphs you'll see because it'll say well income tax is the biggest change. It's the biggest change because it it looks at historical data to predict the future. So we're looking at historical data which we all know we just started full collections on the income tax. So the change yearover-year for the income tax was quite large in its first few years. we will see that taper off and we'll only see, you know, a couple percent increase year-over-year. Um, it's not going to be as drastic as, you know, the first year it was like 500,000, the second year it's like 1.4 million. We're up to about 2 and a.5 million and that's where
047it's probably going to stay. Um, the real estate taxes, this is um an appraisal year. The appraisals are done. Um I did talk to um Auditor Brown about those. Um in the preliminary thing they the state came back at 32% increase on appraisals um for collection year 26 of the next year. She pushed back and she said I I'm not one of these auditors that are going to deal with um a motion. I I give them facts and the facts do not support 32%. She said I came back at them at 28. she's waiting to hear back from the state and she said it's not a lot but it's something because that's what our data shows from the sales of homes in Fairville County. So most likely um she said she's been successful with the
048state by that approach though she feels that she will get that down to 28%. So that will be um the valuation increase. Valuation increase doesn't ex does not um equate to increase in your taxes. Um so that valuation is part of a formula. So only part of that is going up. So I don't want to alarm anybody to think that the taxes are going up 30 28% practically 30% because that is that's not the case. Um so those are the first few pages of the forecast. Um again mostly talking about the change. What is the change in real estate? What's the change in income tax? Trying to predict future change to see okay what what could potentially be changing. Um then we move into the um expenditures. So we we basically forecast our revenue and
049then forecast our expenditures um as we talk about changes and we approve whether we're hiring people or moving people or adding things but and then um to Mrs. S last meeting she had asked about the guidance counselor because we've kind of vacasillated back and forth between a um school psychologist and a and an extra guidance counselor because they kind of work hand in hand. um those are the types of changes that I put into the expenditures. So, we're capturing that. So, for example, with all the retirements we had based on the SDRs changes, um I had to quantify what that number was going to look like um to the district by bringing in um younger shouldn't say younger, less experienced teachers um and and retiring older teachers. Um we also have some incentiviz incentives and
050things that we we model inside the forecast to make sure that we are accounting for those expenditures. Um as we move um uh special education students from different placements, those often have impact on our forecast as well because some of those placements are rather um expensive. Um, as I've probably dr for the last couple years about those expenditures, um, almost doubling in our school district over the last several years, um, we model those as well. So, I meet with Mr. Hanning. We go through some things of of what's going on, um, trying to best guess what next year looks like and then pushing it out through the rest of the years. Um the rest of those um C there they're also let me add the other thing and I forgot to mention revenue. Um the
051last part of the revenue change that's been so big has been our interest. Um I think last year at this time we we were really predicting that the Fed would cut more than they have. So I you know did not not have us still at four and a half 5% come the next year. Um and that's basically been what um what has happened. So um I think it's line 84 page 82 that includes our um interest. That's kind of all over the place. That's the one graph that drives me nuts because it's everywhere because that's our biggest part of that is interest. And as you can see, you know, back to 2020, it's only at 1.3 and in 2025 it's it's 2.8. That's interest page 82 or whatever. Do you know what page it is
052on the board? It is page 12 on the Thank you. So, I forgot to mention that too. That was the one ball little graph that doesn't look like it's a strutddy uphill. It's like a more scatter. Um, all indications are the Fed isn't going to cut now till the end of the year is what we have been told repeatedly. Um so we expect interest kind of to remain constant. We have had some reductions in our IC account. Um however they are. Um Kingston I think I told you last month has moved us into our own class of um commercial. So they we get a different rate than um their standard ICS which that's helped tremendously. But um Star Ohio still is holding strong. Um so we have some assets there as well. Are there any
053questions? We did prepare. Um I did prepare five I think forecast just with different scenarios. Um there is everything from C which is for lunches. it will affect our forecast because if they would force everybody into C um which we are on provision two so we talk had talked about the difference between the two um that would increase our DPIA which is a restricting funding the state gives us it's an automatic um so we ran scenarios of what that would look like so we may be getting less money on food service where we're going to get more money in the foundation restricted funding where we could transfer that money into food service. So, if that gain was greater on the foundation side than what we were going to lose in food service, it would be
054a good thing to do. Ours is is basically a break even. It's not really going to change it that much. But some school districts went to C and started getting a million dollars more in the foundation because they they had that many more students that they once you go C your DPIA number which ours is in the 40s 40% 40% um automatically goes to 100%. So you're getting 100% of your students are getting this extra DPIA restricted funding which is disadvantaged. Um that's why you know it's just all these little things that are going on inside this budget bill is just wreaking havoc on school funding. So just trying to get a handle on okay we really want to be informed we have the data what's going to be best for our district um that
055we can continue to have free lunches and we're able to get enough money from the other end to reimburse food service so we are still um um balanced in that department. Um, so that's why there was a need to do so many different um, we did a I did one um, to see the effect of moving two and a half million dollars out of the general fund and how that would um, affect the future years and to make sure there wasn't any surprises to make sure that there wasn't, you know, anything crazy going on by doing that that we were um, not putting ourselves in a bad position over another decision we were making because obviously they're all and are related to that. So if you go to the most important line on the forecast
056which is 6.010, it is page 23 in the forecast and page 93 in the packet. Um this shows um that is our excess of revenue. The o what we call the over underline. Um we do have um several years of declining balances, but they're not horribly significant. 23 in the actual 93. [Music] So that's it. No, mine all say page 93 and it's nothing like what we're talking about year because when they saved it, they didn't save this. So, you can do anything with it. Oh, I So, you can't take notes on it. I use it in my application. But, a third from the last page. Does that help of her financial packet? Uh forecast. Okay. page 23. Yeah, none of it has the pages on it this time. I mean, then page numbers are
057here, but in the agenda, you don't have the pages listed, so it's kind of hard to follow along. Almost there. That's what I'm saying. It's all over the place. Are you in the agenda or you in something else? [Music] Find your report. [Music] Mine was a separate attachment. Are you in a separate attachment? Mine's embedded within my agenda. Mine's not embedded in my agenda. I Carrie sent it out. Carrie sent it out. I don't check though because it was like she sent it out with a supplemental and board binder. And then after that, Lana sent out another one that has just So, you're not in the agenda then. You're in something different. No, she put she then went put it in the agenda. She put it in the updated binder. Okay. Yeah. Just the updated
058binder that we got Monday evening. They consolidated it again together. I can download that because that's too much. I can't read 300 pages in less than 48 hours. So, it's not in the regular agenda that you sent on Friday. It's somewhere else. So she sent the agenda and about 45 seconds later I sent the forecast because she So that's where it's at. It's in that first email. It's in the So you're not in the agenda. Okay. You're in the supplemental. Correct. It wasn't It was after the supplemental. It was called. I mean, it just says it was Oh, she replied to all on that same email and it says forecast report May 2025. Okay. Yeah. Thank you. I just I can't find it in the agenda. You're saying it's on page 93 and it's not
059on page 93. Yeah. She whenever she made the updated updated binder to consolidate together, that's where it's probably at. So page 23 of that document is where we are. Page 23. Yep. [Music] There we go. Thank you. Okay. So the over underlined is at 6.010, which is about threequarters of the way down the page. um the actual which is 24 because we've completed that fiscal year. Um we see a negative 3,51,000 which is um where we transferred the $5 million into the 070 account. And then 2025 is um that will finish the year$213,844. Um 2026 will finish 587,234. And then in 27 will be positive 100,000 and then 28 negative 566 and then 29 is negative83. Um and this again is based on the so basically we're holding state funding constant in this version. It's
060changing very little which that's what it does with giving our staff raises and everything else. So, are there questions about that? If you ever go to the um OD website where all of the forecasts live, this is what you'll get to compare school district to school district is this last this page 23. That's actually what's considered the forecast. The rest of it supplemental information um and assumptions. You think um the state will have a move to make charter schools and private schools play this game? I think they'll have to. They get money. Yeah, I think they'll have to. I think the community I think that constituents will eventually demand it. It's been talked about a lot. Yeah. Um in which case then I don't know then it doesn't make any sense because if they have
061to comply with this they might as well public schools. Right. Right. So I I don't just out of curiosity there's not an answer you know. Yeah, right. They'll be accountable. I don't know that it would be to the level because they won't be 100% funded, right? But they have to have they're going to have to have some kind because there's too many people, you know, very agitated about that at this point that there is no accountability with that money. There's no it's given away and then it's just gone. Hope so. Any other discussion here? I don't think we'll do an update to this one. Um, November is the first forecast of 26. So, whatever happens in the state, that'll be captured in the November forecast. Um, if if you would like to see one, we'd
062be happy I'd be happy to prepare one. um after they vote and we have a state budget and we actually know what what the state shoe is going to look like. Um we can certain you know I could certainly do that but I hadn't planned on really doing it because we'll capture all those changes on the November forecast. Sorry I wanted to add that because that's always something called Mrs. Pink. Yes, Dr. Buckley. Yes, Mrs. S. Yes, Mrs. Young. Yes, Mr. Sharp. Yes. Itemized to approve the capital improvement plan as a flexible working document with the understanding that each project will require separate screening by the board when the district decides to proceed with its implementation. That's attachment 10, page 96. Is there a motion? Second. Any seconds discussion? I have a question. Yes. I
063don't see on that forecast where for the renovation of your offices. Is that somewhere separate? Did I miss that in the forecast or in the in the budget in the capital improvement plan? Um let me let me hold on a second. projects because we haven't started that. Correct. No, they will start um next week in that. And what was the I forgot to put it in there. That's why it's a working document. 2003. I need to look that up. or I'm missing it. No, I don't. I think now they read it up. So, would it be it would be in the FY26? It'll be in FY26 because yeah, it will be completed before the end of summer, but it'll be after 71. It'll definitely not be in 25. Um because we were missing I'm also
064missing a couple of um Um, I did not put the actual cost of the school bus in there yet. There were a couple things that I've got to update. Um, I tried to take what we had before and reorganized it so it's a little easier to read because the one we had before was colorcoded and it Yeah, I appreciate no color. Um, didn't separate it by fiscal year. So, we we were just kind of running the dates along the side and it it was really hard to keep track of what we're trying to do in this school year. Um, so it's probably missing. I need to put that in there. Which again, the point of doing this with kind of with the forecast. I want to get in the habit that we're always doing it
065with the forecast because we have the 07 fund and that fund is utilized for our capital projects. You know, some of them are um things we absolutely have to do, like we can't go without heating in the building if we have to replace um a boiler or something like that, but some things are like, you know, are we going to do this project or we could, you know, vote to move it down to the next year or take it off completely. Um, but I think it's important because that plan for what we're doing with the money we have in EO70 is statutoily required. And I think it's important to show to the community that here's the things we got coming up, right? But we just need to probably need to amend this then before we
066approve it because those things aren't in there. Well, the the GMP4, so we can we can add that in. The GMP4 was that was approved November 2024. So, so sorry. Sorry. Um the the approval of projects every time like we had the GMP1 which started out with which is the guaranteed maximum price. So that was whenever we had the divider curtains in the cafeteria. And then we approved GMP2 which added in the facilities project. And then GMP3 added in the district the main office renovations and then GMP4. None of that is in here. Those are some of those were part of the 26 million. Not the 70 though. Those are out of O4 because we financed that money and it's not really in capital. That's what I'm saying. What he's talking about is not in
067this capital because that's in a different fund. Correct. But the the So in this one should be the renovation needed out here. Yes. And the district office and the one that's going on at the elementary and I don't primary. Am I missing those in here? I don't think I think I forgot them. I guess I didn't realize you were doing the primary, which I don't care. It would just be nice if we reflected because that's got to be we're talking 700,000 all three of those projects together or more. The primary is only 32,000. They just got paid. Okay. Your is almost 250 back in your offices. And this up here was what 3 something 4 298 is what's in my mind. like by the time you deal with the new furniture and everything. 253. I
068think it was four. Well, anyway, it just needs to be added. Yeah. Yes. I don't think I don't think we should vote on this as an affirmative until those are there. These would be ticket items. We're not talking $5,000. We're talking 500,000. Well, it's actually we asked it to be approved as a working document because we use it all the time. like tomorrow it'll change. So incorrect today. Okay. Okay. I mean these are projects that should be on there and should be reflected document. Yeah. There's actually more like that we've completed. I just haven't been able to get through all of them because there's there's probably 15 more that still missing because we have okay approval if those are missing. What we should have on there is what we're using out of that fund. if
069that's what you're but it's not your approval that we're using this out of that fund. That's not your approval to do that. But this is our tracking that you're bringing to the board to look at and it's not there and these are big ticket items. They're not little. I don't think it's fair to send that out to the community and say we only did $11.1 million in capital improvements and plan for fiscal year 26 and we've got all this other stuff that's gone on here. We well the district office one we actually haven't there it hasn't started so it's not that it should be on here these are things for the next year you're showing us your fiscal stuff for the coming year and you showed us the stuff for last fiscal year which should
070have been this stuff so it should be on this document yes it should be and yes I forgot it just I want to make sure you know I don't I that's fine if we only approve this once a year this document will change once a week because we'll still be adding stuff to it and it's I understand that or you're asking us to approve something that the document's incorrect. Okay. So, you should bring it back to the next meeting and we should improve it there or whatever you want to do because there's big ticket items. We're not on this document. But, we're not actually approving funds. That's just civil working document so that they can work it throughout that document. I understand that but there's big things that aren't on this document that we have
071approved. We approved for that. It's been done. It should be on the document. So when you said annually did you was the intent for us to approve because you're also doing the fiveyear forecast but next okay but next month we're still in the same fiscal year. So, can we get the updates and just approve it next month? Yeah. Yeah. That way we're still, you know, saying and and we'll have them. It's fine. I just want to make sure a working document is it I I don't because we do put publish on the website and it's not what the board approved. It's the working document that we're working off of. So, we're going to make changes to it and it's going to be published, but this is kind of what we have in in the capital
072plan. Well, I I just didn't want you to the website and go, "Oh my gosh, that's not what we approved." Because it won't be because of the other things like there's things we have approved that aren't on this document. It's not a really good representation of what we've done over the last 12 months or things that are planning in the future that we have approved already that are not on here. Okay, that's fine. Is there a motion to table? Just vote no. I mean, if we're going to do it next month, move the table to next month or whatever. Second discussion. Uh, Mrs. Young, yes. Mrs. Spark, yes. Dr. Buckley, yes. Mrs. Song, yes. Mr. Sharp, yes. All right. Next item. This will be a doozy trying to read for a while. Consent agenda number
073two, which includes accepting resignations as retirements as listed. Approving classified substitutes as listed. Approving the certified contracts. One-year certified contracts. One year certified renewals. Approving the school psych for 2526 one-year contract. enhances approving them uh to non-renew the educational aids like we do every year and then turning around and proven classified contracts for renewals for next year including the uh 101 aids let's see classroom educational aids educational aid for nurse library aid technology aidcurricular aid approving extended service for high school band director approving supplemental employment for those as listed. Coaching contracts, other extracurriculars, approving supplemental employment for 2526, some additional coaching contracts and approving the summer school teachers for 2425 as listed. Is there a motion? [Music] moves second discussion on any of those items. Uh just a note there on the summer school teachers
074that is middle school high school summer school teachers and that is grant funded this year. discussion. Dr. Buckley, yes. Mrs. Sptock, yes. Mrs. Song, yes. Mrs. Young, Mr. Sharp, yes. Item K is to approve volunteers for 242 classroom volunteers attachment 11 and for band camp as listed. And I always appreciate volunteers helping out with stuff. Motion. Second. Second. Seconds. Any other discussion? Roll call. Mrs. Pink. Yes. Mrs. Young. Yes. Dr. Bucky. Yes. Mrs. S. Yes. Mr. Short. Yes. The next item there is to approve volunteers for 2526 which includes athletics Michael Baker and Pton Madison for football. Is there a motion? Move second. Robin seconds. Any discussion? Roll call. Dr. Buckley. Yes. Mrs. Song. Yes. Mrs. Mrs. Young. Yes. Mr. Sharp. Yes. All right. Uh on to old business. First item there is the second
075reading of the policy updates which we've kind of looked at before regarding health education and the family life education sex ed. Sorry. Sorry. Uh is there a motion to I guess approve those on second reading. Second, Missy seconds. Discussion and roll call. Dr. Beckley. Yes. Mrs. Ktock. Yes. Mrs. Song. Yes. Mrs. Young. Yes. Mr. Sh. Yes. On the new business. Item A is to approve Goardian a three-year contract July 125 to June 3028. Attachment 13. Is there a motion? Mr. Moves. Second second discussion. So this is the program that's used to um facilitate Chromebooks and the usage in the classrooms um being able to monitor while students are on the class. Also to push out things to students that they um teachers are able to better control the electronic devices. Um this is a three-year
076contract. um we're able to get a reduced price, save some save um money for not only moving to meta with consortium pricing but also locking the price for three years discussion thanks yes Mr. Young yes Dr. Buckley yes Mrs. Song yes Mr. Sure. Yes. Item B is to approve with Hawking College for CCP courses for fiscal year 26. Motion moves second discussion. H college is a great partner. Uh many CC classes that we offer are through Hawking College. Just real quick, I know we had talked last go around Ohio State, are they in network, so to speak? So, I followed up. Yes, they do offer CCP classes. Um, and I need to get some more clarification from Mr. Sign, you sent me some information. Um, but we can go through them. Um, it's just what
077they offer could be limited. But also, you know, is it onsite versus remote and online? So um I started that discussion roll call Mrs. S. Yes. Dr. Buckley. Yes. Mrs. Pink. Yes. Mrs. Young. Yes. Mr. Sharp. Yes. Item C is approving with ASA regarding retirement. Is there a motion? Second. Seconds. discussion. Um this working with ASA is because of the late change with uh retirement. Um some teachers were having to make that decision to retire at 32 years for full retirement for the retirement incentive um within just months. So um this opens it up so teachers uh rolls that retirement incentive um for this year 32 or 33 years and the next year 32 or 33 years so that our our staff for the years of service are not um caught by any discussion. [Music]
078Roll call. Mrs. Spangto, yes. Mrs. Young, yes. Dr. Buckley, yes. Mrs. Song, yes. Mr. Sharp, yes. It D is approved new story contracts for 2526 attachment 16. A [Music] motion move. [Music] Second discussion. Um, these are specialized services. um for district placement. Um and again, Mr. Hanning works um very well with the uh parents, the students, and these um outside placements such as new story schools to determine progress uh look at data on how the student has progressed and then what the next placement would be. Um we are going to have some that are going to be able to transition back um from that out of industry placement. So it's a speaks to the growth and the success that they've made. [Music] Discussion roll call. Mrs. Pto. Yes. Mrs. Song. Yes. Dr. Buckley. Yes. Mrs.
079Sh. Yes. Mr. Sh. Yes. Is approving Bonefish 5-year contract from July 125 to June 30. Is there a motion? moves. Susa seconds discussion. Benefit is a compliance software that we use in the fiscal office. Um it does automatic checks on everything from um federal requirements to state requirements to um lensure um for payroll. So um they are aligning their contracts to align with the fiscal year. Um we were in our last year of contract with them. It was supposed to expire May of 206. Um so to align they are um giving us a credit back. So I'll start that new cycle and then actually this is uh less per year than what we've paid in the past. That didn't happen. Yeah. I don't expect that this day. Any discussion? Roll call. Mrs. Song. Yes. Mrs.
080Young. Yes. Dr. Buckley? Yes. Mrs. Spinktock? Yes. Mr. Sharp? Yes. Item F, approve to wave all pay to participate fees, school fees, book fees, and class fees with the exception of class dues for the 2526 academic year. Is there a motion? moves seconds discussion year three year three call Mrs. Pto. Yes. Mrs. Song. Yes. Dr. Buckley. Yes. Mrs. John. Yes. Mr. Sharp. Yes. Item G. Approve strategic planning agreement with Shy Center. I want to say 36,750 enjoyable which is grant funded. So attachment 18 is there [Music] motion seconds discussion. Um so I had spoken about this at a previous meeting um looking at the comparison between different strategic planning uh organizations did uh receive a quote from OSBA for their services looked at uh another organization that Fairfield um uses in their strategic planning and
081again going back to Schlei um and one uh looking at the product that Schlei would provide um in comparison of the different products I see that Schlei it's more of an action planning strategic planning um you walk away with a product that I believe is very um clean and clear that you can communicate communicate to not only staff members but also um stakeholders of the direction that the district's going and how you're going to meet that um meet what you're trying to do. Um, another unique feature that I've noticed with or that I I saw with Schlei is the pictures of success. So, in the conversations whenever you go through that process of the different teams, you really outline what success looks like and where you want to go and then you're able to clearly
082define have you met what you're trying to do. Um, it breaks down your action steps into each academic year. Um, so how are you going to, like I said, it's action planning. what actions you're going to take to achieve those goals. Um, working between a couple different grants, um, we're able I was able to, um, marry those grants together and, uh, be able to cover the services through grant funds. So the timeline with this would be um starting out with in the fall fall 2025 and um that starts again with that up to 50 um stakeholders um but it doesn't have to be that big but we can have up to 50 and then go through that process continuously um meeting in large groups, small groups and communicating back and forth with the board of
083how we're moving through that process. ultimately um having that product that final product in spring of 2026. Um I believe that I emailed out those products. One example was from Licking Heights um that is is very a very good product um to communicate the actions and the work we're trying to [Music] do. Discussion roll call. Mrs. Yes. Mrs. Young. Yes. Dr. Buckley. Yes. Mr. Songs? Yes. Mr. Sh? Yes. Item H is to approve staff leave without pay attention 19 as listed there. Is there a motion? Move. Second. M seconds. Discussion. Roll call. Mrs. H. Yes. Mrs. Ptock. Yes. Dr. Buckley. Yes. Mrs. Young. Yes. Mr. Shir. Yes. Right. On to discussion items. Policy updates. First read. So basically with the schoolboard meeting it's just saying you can't meet virtually you don't meet virtually anymore. The
084per it's permissive. So um this would be that um it's permissive if we would choose to allow for that but um we typically don't take the permissive language. We don't currently do that. So um that is just with the um house bill 257. So it was a law that changed Yeah. I was going to say because we've never allowed that, not just us, but like because during co it became an issue. Yeah. Yeah. So this this allows it to. Um so he's putting that in there that the permissive language would allow you to do that, but we're just we're saying that no, we are we are not going to add in the permissive language. And then um Mrs. Miss Fairchild will go into probably more detail about the general revenue cash balance. Um so provided
085in this supplemental packet I went ahead and gave you the last cash balance policy we had. Um and then also guidance from OSBA which basically said to look at the white paper from OASDO. Um and so I also provided you the white paper um from OASBO that had sample policies. Um what I tried to do is take um the sample policies from the white paper. Um I looked at some other school districts policies. I thought about what you know what was under current legislation um are being considered and then also what would actually you know work with work for us. Um and this is what I what I came up with. Um, Mrs. uh, Young provided um, some good feedback um, on that because what I think then would be was a good comment which
086is what kind of the intent is is when I review monthly the um, financial packet, we would talk about what our cash balance is at that time in terms of um, percentage of our expenditures. um we would be able to calculate that you know what we're forecasting and how it's change you know how those numbers have changed so we could accurately say okay we're we're going to be at we should be in this range um I tried to include the if this happens then um but gave enough flexibility that as a board you could really decide what what you want to do moving um forward with those funds whether it be it was under the threshold or under the threshold similar triggers with the old let us know we'll figure it out this point let
087us know we'll figure it out so concept um yeah I think there were some additions that um would make it's kind of a clarifying um so under uh policy statement um adding some language that would just clarify what that is and then um monitoring that Was it there were some good um and to show your work? Yeah. Insights of how how we calculate giving the two numbers off the financials to get that percentage right. It's this number to everybody. Yeah. Because I've tried to do that in the past with certain things and I I get confused. Well, that's yes, that's a great point because that's what our frustration is many times when OD pulls stuff and then they post it and we're like, well, where did you get those numbers and show me what line
088item, you know, show me exactly what fun codes you pulled or whatever, you know, to get to that number. Um, I think that's important, too, because statistics are statistics and they're skewable to anything you want to say. Right. So, it's important that we consistently pull those and show how we're getting to that number. And the finance committee meetings that we've had where the public comes in, we have them, I think, quarterly. That's something that they ask about what's our cash balance and where this is. So, I would be help [Music] related to that, right? The nice thing on there is handbook stuff. I just wanted to uh make sure that um you saw the links. I attached the updated handbooks so it would give you a little more time to review um for the student
089handbooks, preschool, K5, 612, and then the program studies for 612. Um, so those will be on the next board agenda. Um, but just give you an extended period of time to review those. You have any questions, please let me know. Um, the main changes are reflection in law. Uh, law changes such as the religious holidays and things like that. They're included in one of the changes in elementary is reflection of smart watches. um there's beginning to be a problem with um because 612 the watches their phones are in their lockers so it doesn't connect versus elementary their backpacks are in cubbies that are in the classrooms that are right there able to connect. So, um just a a reflection to clarify um what's going on with the in the elementary. So, that they that they
090can't have to to specify that they can't have the connection. Um construction update. Um we went toward the construction sites. Um, I guess just in general, any comments or feedback? We're making great progress. I'm still on track that the end of June we should be making a transition into the primary edition that's well on its way. We are in the baseball softball um concession batting building and uh students have already started using that that facility. Um and the fieldhouse multi-purpose fieldhouse um that's coming along making making great progress. Um still do not know the uh go no go for next fall but by the end of May they are supposed to be able to give me a a yes or no. A lot of it is contingent upon full electricity being transferred over to the
091building. They think once they are able to know when and how and that that is able to happen um they can give a more definite answer. Did we ever wait for permanent doors for this video? The permanent doors are on there now. Yes. Um the cameras have been mounted and the door access controls are are installed. So they're not functional yet, but correct. But they're mounted there on there. Have you seen? I have not. Yes. logos on both sides. On Sundays when we're driving back from church, Greg and I always come through to look at updates. Uh it's been it's been exciting for the last year. There's been a lot of lot of movements. So, it's it's a great thing. And again, BSWC and um Summit have been great partners in this great to work
092with. Um wanted to mention just really quickly, uh Mrs. Pink stock mentioned and some of the principles mentioned actually one of the principles uh tenative data from state assessments. So we did receive just last night um ELA assessment data. So overall right now tenatively it looks like um we are increasing across 13 of the 20 areas um on this report card increasing our percentages of performance. Um if we're looking at cohorts um overall math increasing like from third graders to fourth grade, fourth grade or fifth grade um of those five areas for the five had increases of cohort data as well. So wherever they were at as third graders, whenever they went to fourth graders, there was an increase in their percentage. Um the ELA um was not as high as we hoped, but we
093had some great things to celebrate. Uh we talked about how 7th grade definitely knocked it out of the park this year going from um last year seventh graders at 58% up to this year seventh graders at 71%. Um so that's a great great um growth, but also when they were sixth graders, they went from 54 to seventh graders at 71. So lots of good growth there. There's a couple uh areas in ELA we didn't see the growth we thought we would but overall if I'm looking at third through 8th um cohort increases this year um we had increases in cohort for both ELA and for math um the average increases math overall the average increase was 5.72 across those grade levels percentage points um I ran quick numbers on our performance index which performance index
094is where are they scoring are they scoring limited basic accelerated proficient accelerated advance. You receive more points the higher you go in that um raw numbers right now we are higher which means that our students as a whole are scoring higher um at higher levels than what they have previously over the past five years. the preliminary data that doesn't include any um advancing grade advanced students which add more points um is higher than what it has been um all but one in the past five years and that's without that extra added in there. So um I'm very encouraged and I think that it's you know a testament to the work that the teachers have done this year. Um we're there's lots of things to celebrate. Um lots of things still to work on and uh
095continue to implement um our continuum of instruction from K12. But uh lots of lots of great things to celebrate and move into next year to be continued. Standing up is always good. Any other discussion items motion to return seconds? Discussion roll call. Mrs. Yes. Dr. Buckley, yes. Mrs. Mrs. Young, yes. Mr. [Music] Yes. Thank you all. I am secondg guessing myself right now, but one thing that Mr. be neglected to have mentioned was that I know two, if not three of our third graders