001[Music] All right here, but I will call this meeting to order. Roll call, please. Dr. Beckley here, Mrs. Spock here, Mrs. Song here, Mr. Sharp, Mrs. Young here. Aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Item there is to approve the agenda as amended. There were some changes from the original one that was sent out some highlighted one tonight. Is there a motion for that? [Music] Missy seconds. Discussion. Roll call. Mrs. Song. Yes. Mrs. Sptock. Yes. Dr. Ruckley? Yes. Mrs. Young? Yes. Mr. Sharp? Yes. Communications recognition of achievement there. Go ahead. Thank you, Mr. Sharp. Uh, hi everyone. My name is Erin Hinchliff and I have the pleasure of serving as your central region
002manager with the Ohio School Boards Association. OSBA is the leading voice of public education in the state of Ohio. And with that, we'd like to recognize school board members who have given years of service and which is the reason I'm here this evening to recognize Mrs. Song who has dedicated 10 years to public education here in the state of Ohio. uh which is a significant gift a gift to the students um here at Amanda Clickery. So on behalf of the Ohio School Boards Association and our board of trustees we congratulate you and we thank you for your [Applause] service. Take a quick picture here and I'll go this way. Here we go. All right. Ready? One, two, three. Couple. Excellent. All right, congratulations. Thank you. Appreciate it. And again, Mr. Song, just like Aaron had
003said, thank you for your years of service with the the district and everything you've done for us. Thank you. Thank you for coming down. Always a pleasure. I'm waiting an extra 15 minutes. No, no worries. Okay. Thanks. Congrats to Robin. Thank you. All right. Um, so Mr. Sharp, one of the things I'd like to uh recognizes our uh military liaison, military family liaison. Um, April is the month of the military child and uh, the principles, principal Freillley, her her team over there and and all the principles work to do a combined effort with recognition this week and a spirit week with month of the military child. So, um, we have individuals within the district that serve as reps not only at the district level but also at each individual school level. Um, as you may
004remember, we receive designation as a purple star district. Uh, and each of our schools are purple star schools. Um, and what that does is in order to receive that award, we had to demonstrate ways that we recognize and support um, military students, military families. Um, that could be not only like active current active duty military families, but other ones that, you know, maybe they're adjusting and they were used to maybe mom or dad or somebody being away for a while when they're younger. and to continue to recognize the um their service that they put in, the efforts that they put in as a family uh whenever their mom, dad, whoever may have been um you know providing their service to our country. So, first of all, like to recognize Kina Rich. Kina is our um
005district military family liaison. Um and thank you. and Kina at the district level with Kina serving as our district registar as well. Um she's able to be that first face whenever they come in and and she's able to get that information and then connect them with our school liaison. Next we have um Mrs. Feliciano. I think this might be um close and dear to your heart. Absolutely. Um and thank you for serving. you're the middle, she serves as the middle school, high school uh military uh liaison. So, thank you for what you do to help support our families. Mr. Brovich and theme with purpling up uh has his purple up shirt on for military kids. Um Mr. Brovich serves as the elementary uh military family liaison. Um and finally um Ashley Mount. Ashley Mount was
006unable to be here tonight. Uh but Ashley Mount is the primary secretary and she is the primary school uh military liaison. So one thing that I do want to mention is that each one of these representatives to be designated as the military school and district liaison is um they had to complete specialized training. So, there was a course that they had to go on and and view and and find out more about how they can serve those military families. Um, I know Mrs. Rich and Mr. Brovich both have attended a state level conference um of different schools coming together to determine how they can support military families. And we were also able to all three of them were involved in a state level visit. Um, I don't know if you guys want to talk a
007little bit about that whenever the they came down. Uh that it was just a state visit just to see what we're doing and provide us other ideas have uh we had about four or five students um come down express what we could do as a staff to recognize the them as students. Um so it was just it's kind of a round table discussion for about an hour hour and a half and it was an honor to have Pete Leviva was down and I don't know I'm trying to remember her name her name. Um yes, but it was a great conversation that we had with them and um they were very complimentary and in recognizing some of the the ideas that we had and also Mrs. Carpenter um who is a you know military has a
008military spouse and has several kids in the district got to join us and that was awesome to hear things from her perspective and um recognizing some of the things that uh had been done at the primary and elementary levels for her kids which was great to hear. and she also brought some really good ideas to the table to kind of fuel some things for the future as did Amber Williams. Amber Williams is staff person here. Yeah, it was great. Um, so some of the cool things that we've seen this week, you know, not only the spirit week, but um, I was fortunate enough to be at the the primary the other day whenever they came, all of the military connected students came down and they had their purple shirts that, you know, they were a
009military connected family and it was just really cool and it was a a point that that they were proud and I think Mr. Bros, you've seen where um, just that recognition that the students, they are proud of what their families have have done from from a military perspective. So, anything else that you guys would like to add? Okay. Well, thank you for um Yeah, we got to grab a picture real quick and let's see. Just want to go right there. Yeah, you can go in there. Okay. I was going to say, do you want to get in the picture, Kyle? Yeah, why not? I mean, you are the president now. Exactly. We'll let you in. Very good. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Someone's heartbeat. All right. Well, thank you all
010all of you. I very much appreciate whenever I hear about the stuff we're doing military families and kids. I appreciate hearing that. It's great. Good stuff. Um, on to public participation. We have FFA report Ariana. Hi, my name is Ariana Norris and I'm currently serving as secretary for the Amanda Clear Creek FFA chapter. I am filling in for Emma Strickler as she is competing in a track meet tonight. Since the last board meeting, our chapter has kept busy as we finish up our contest season and activities for the year. Some information that I would like to provide would be the FFA banquet date is officially set for May 5th. We would like to invite the school board and administration to our banquet as we reflect on another successful year. The banquet will start at 6
011p.m. The FFA chapter will be t taking members to the Ohio State FFA convention on May 1st and 2nd to celebrate the success of FFA members all across the state and to hear from several keynote speakers. Additionally, the annual AC FFA baby animal farm and a day will be held on May 15th. We are super excited to continue this activity and to teach young kids in our school about agriculture. We wrapped up the raffle we do for half of a process haul. We raised over $740 to be donated to Nationwide Children's Hospital during FFA camp this summer. Along with that, the FFA chapter is in the midst of the mulch sale. This is a fundraiser we do every year that is crucial to our chapter activities. If anyone is interested interested in purchasing mulch, please
012feel free to reach out to myself or one of the adviserss for questions. The officer team attended the Pickway County a breakfast on April 2nd. This is a great opportunity for members to connect with FFA members from local schools. Current cities that are um that we are currently doing is the state outdoor power equipment contest that will take place tomorrow, April 17th. The state meet CD will take place on April 26th. The state agriculture issues forum CD will also take place on April 26th. Just recently, members on this team travel to the state house and spoke with House Representative Kevin Miller, Kevin Miller, and Senator Tim Schaefer about their topic. They also got to speak to representatives from Ohio Farm Bureau and Ohio Corn. We are super excited for the FFA chapter to finish the
013year strong with these fun activities and we want to thank the school board and administration for their continuous support. Before I leave, I have invitations for the FFA banquet to hand out. [Music] Thank you, Ariana. I will uh stop eating right now in preparation for May 5th. Um, next, curriculum council. Curriculum council. Um, so curriculum council um be impact agenda tonight. A lot of good stuff. Um, we had department reports um across across all schools. I think to be honest the I think the one singular thing that probably came out of each of the department report outs is that kids are improving across the board whether it be in ELA math um we're just seeing a lot of improvement in test scores benchmarks um and whatnot um some of the um I guess finer points
014the anatomage is that how you pronounce anatom lots and not Yes, it's whatever. The fancy table, uh, no, the science table is coming in. Uh, everybody's very excited about that. I personally am excited about that because I want to see what that thing can do. Um, Scott is developing the business program and some business extracurriculars. Um, I thought this was interesting at the K235 intervention report out. Eight kids tested off of their IEPs. person. I thought that was uh pretty pretty neat. And um I also thought within that section just there was a note about um some kids in kindergarten, a deaf um student and a student who's wheelchair bound and just the the gains that they're making and the little things which I thought was a very very neat story. Um but again all
015across um uh the grades and the different departments a lot of success stories as it relates to um uh improvement. Uh we got a report out on ELA tiered intervention at the 612 level. Um, I personally think this is going to be a great program just identifying those kids that are off, so to speak, uh, that need remediation and targeted interventions, uh, so that they meet grade level expectations at the ELA, uh, within the curriculum. Um, and I think there's going to be a lot of, to your point, there's some work in progress there, but I I think there's a lot of potential there. I think that's going to be great. We looked at AP historical data and some of the scores on the AP test. Um talked a little bit about struggles and enrollment
016in the AP courses. um and encouraging kids to to take the challenge of an AP course. And then kind of finished with handle with care, which um is essentially a program that enhances communication between first responders and school personnel that perhaps there was an event that EMS or a firefighter was involved with a student the night before. and and having a clear line of communication for school personnel to say, "Hey, this kid had an event last night and handle with care and be aware that they don't get any particulars, but essentially just, you know, identifying that child the next day that they may need a little more support for whatever the event was that those first responders were." Um, or it could be grace. What's that? Or it could be grace. Yes. So give them
017some grace. Yes. Uh and then just a brief update on state personel development grant and [Music] uh student achievement. Actually I got an email from Miss Child. She got it apparently. I still did not get an email. I got what you sent to me. Um there wasn't a lot of stuff, but the one thing that did um catch my eye because it was with the Ohio FFA students. Um students from Talana City and Butler Tech's FFA program used federal grant to replace fire extinguishers and um test runs. They they retired 20 including one that was from 1963. So that that was what I found very detail whether or not it was still functional, but I'm just glad that whoever had that did not have to ever chance it to try it. It's still there, right?
018It's a good thing. Right. Legislative. They're still batting around the budget. Um, they've passed it on, I believe, to the house. Now, they have added a new wrinkle that has to do with cash balances and um where um they expect it to be 25 to 30% of the previous year fiscal year expenditures or they change the tax bills. Um, some of the the legislators, our constituents are being encouraged to contact your legislator to say that schools are unique and that sometimes we hold cash balances because, you know, if you need to replace a roof, I'm not talking about Clear Creek specifically, but there are or you know, resurfacing a a parking lot. There's all kinds of reasons why cash balances. Not to say that we don't maintain it or that we don't watch it, but
019um this is something new that they've put into that legislation that I'm not sure that they understand how schools work. Yes. So it did it left the house and was now to the Senate. And they um the finance committee and the house had recommended 25%. The House did up it to 30% but that's at the school year end. And it's problematic because most schools um are close to their highest cash at fiscal year end because of the way the tax deposits are made. But most schools, more than half the schools would actually be in fiscal emergency by January at 30%. because um spring is like right now we have more money um cash than we normally hold because we've got both our income tax deposits as well as our property tax deposits. So, and with
020only 60 days remaining, those will stay relatively high for our average at 6:30. So, that's why it's a problematic. And what they've done is directed the auditor of each county to lower the millillage for school districts that are above that 30% by the amount that um they are over. So we'll see if the Senate understand that that that is a a problematic approach. Um we were told last week at conference that auditors, many county auditors are very opposed to it because it's basically making them the bad guy and they're not even sure how they're going to do that. That's right. So, thank you for filling in the blank. Yeah. Because then there's the other side of that. If you have less than 30% and they lowered you last year and they're bringing you back up
021the village, you that's what they're concerned about. You know what I'm saying? Like once you're below, you're always Yeah. Yeah. Because they're talking about operating revenue and there's a difference between paying an electric bill, operating revenue, and you paying staff members and doing a major capital project. and many school districts do not have other funds to do that from. Um the other thing is that the the house did I'm going to call abandon the fair school funding plan. So they basically um they kept it in law but then they ordered OD not to pay it. So it's still there. They didn't like scrap it. They left it there but they ordered them not to pay it. they ordered them to pay temporary funding. So, we basically would come off a formula again and basically they're
022just spending a dollar around out there. So, um which is not good because I don't how I don't know how we do any planning by not knowing. We're kind of back to square one which we spent several years before with no formula. So, we'll see what the Senate does and then of course after the Senate it'll go back to conference. sort of between the House and the Senate and then it'll go to the governor's office after that. So, do you have any sense that they will get back on board with the fair school funding? I can't see anything in the reporting, but I my suspicion is it's gone, but they're done with it. That's the I can quite say that. I think everybody including our rep would have been was shocked when they came out
023with what they did because when we were two weeks ago we were talking to our house representative Mr. Miller and he I can tell you he had no idea they would come up with that. So I think at this point it's anything goes. Um and then because the question is then will the governor even sign it if it's not the fair school funding plan because he wanted the full fair school funding plan fully implemented. But those are so right if they are that adamant that so we could be in for a long haul of I know it's hard to was trim entering fiscal emergency this week a reflection of what you were saying where no that's a different issue that's a different issue um and that's what kind of the focus This is now is
024there is such a turnover in treasures and people understanding school accounting and school finance and it's that we've seen this now this is like the third school district second or third school district that basically the board was maybe not getting accurate figures by and they were spending not realizing that they really didn't have it to spend. Um, but that's another big concern because they're big numbers and Triple is a very small school. So, it's true. I say big numbers for any community $10 million is a lot of money. But, um, so, but no, that wasn't that's nothing's been put into place yet. So, nothing's really been affected at this point. You have anything else? Sorry. No, I appreciate you. your office. Yes, Dr. Edwards and I too also anytime anything's coming out. Um I'm going
025to um OSU South Centers in Pike next week um Aaron Roush who is the um director of budget management. He's speaking again which I think he'll because now the shock is over what they did. He'll start talking about you know kind of what the Senate may do or what the next step is that's anticipated. So, um, at this point, we've got nothing about what the Senate's even talking about that we keep we will keep, you know, kind of a breast of what's going on as much as we can. [Music] Thank you. Thank you both. Building principles. All right. The primary preschool, um, we have been celebrating the month of Military Child this week. Tomorrow, our students will get to engage in some military stations with some reserve and retired members of the military. They'll get
026to do an obstacle course, try an MRE. Um they'll get to do some military equipment and vehicles. They're even be bringing in their um night vision goggles, which should be really cool. We're going to also be writing postcards to military families. Um we're going to have a special surprise at the flag pole at 9:00 a.m. in the morning. So, if anybody's out and about, um, it should be pretty exciting. The students are going to be super pumped up. And if you're not out and about, ask your grandchildren or local kiddos. Um, I just want to give a shout out to Mrs. Mount. She is our military liaison at the primary, and she does a wonderful job just um, keeping us in the loop, making sure our families feel supported and um, that they know that
027we're there for them always. Uh, it was a great day today um, celebrating the world of day play at the primary. I want to talk about pure joy. Um, some people may have thought a little chaos because there were paper airplanes flying in the hallways that the kids had made and Lego buildings as tall as they were. But it was really cool to see all the different things that they brought in and just they played all day long and there's such value in kids just playing. They're working hard. So to see them kind of cut loose, it was pretty exciting. Um, I cannot even believe I'm getting ready to say this, but we're getting ready for the end of the year, and I don't know how that's possible. Um, you know, they've been working hard
028all year. Now, we're ready to gather that data and see the fruits of our labor. Um, students and families have been working super hard and staff as well. We're going to try to stay the course hopefully a couple weeks after spring break if we can. Uh routine is important, but I'm going to be honest, the the last, you know, 20 days or so, we've got field trips and grand friends day and community day and pop in and pop out. We've got field day and the a petting zoo. Um our second grade clapout. We're going to do something new this year. Um we're going to seriously miss our students. Um we're going to have every student bring in a box of cereal and in the parking lot make a ginormous domino space. We're hoping we can
029find a drone to take a video of it and we can watch those dominoes fall and then we're going to donate all the cereal boxes to a local food pantry. So, that should be pretty exciting. And also just our Aces way prizes. Our students have been working hard getting their Aces way cards and their tickets both in the classroom and the bus. So, um it's going to be very exciting next several days. So, if you're bored, come on up to the primary. Moving on to Mr. Provich. Uh our teacher of the month this month for March was uh Mr. Dwa. Mr. Dwa is our resource room teacher. He raised a calm presence to our classroom. Uh it's a majority of boys. So having a male figure in there is a great role model for them.
030Uh he's built great relationships with his students. Uh and he's learning so much in this new role. Uh OST ELA uh happened this week on Tuesday and Wednesday. um uh in two weeks they will take the math test and then the fifth graders will also finish up their test day season with their science test. Uh in March, at the end of March, we had what's called World Maths Day. Um this is a competition that's put on by a U math program that's based out of Australia. It's very similar, their program is very similar to what we now have adopted in our math pack lab. um where now students are are building their their fluency with numbers. Um the the competition is 20 rounds at different levels ba based on their grade level and in that
03120 in the f in their first round they have 60 seconds to do as many math problems as possible and this is math fact fluency. Uh if they get three strikes the round is over or if they make it to that minute mark their round is over. So they're trying every question is one point. Um, so students are competing. When looking at the tallies, it's about in each grade level anywhere from 30,000 to 50,000 people participating in that uh activity. Um, as a school, third grade, fifth, fourth grade, and fifth grade. We place 58th in the world with a score of 68 average points per round. Um, so kudos to our first, this is our first year we've ever done this. Our third graders placed 58. Our fourth graders were 97th in the world. and
032our fifth graders were 64th in the world placing. Just some shout outs to some of our students. Third grade we had five students in the top 50 in the country and five of those students were also top 500 in the entire world. Um Judah placed 15th in the nation and 124th in the c in the world. Our fourth graders we had four students placed in the top 100 in the country. I didn't have the doubt for the na n of the world but Jason uh placed 15th in the country and 77th in the world. That was our highest score in our building. Pretty amazing. Uh fifth grade student uh fifth grade we had two students placed in the top 100. Um Connor was 45th in the nation and 443rd in the world. When you look
033at the world scores and the nation scores in fifth grade, those groups of students scored much much higher than fourth third grade and fourth grade. So Conor having being 45th in the nation is a pretty sweet deal. Um our PTO also will be hosting their kiss breakfast April 24th and 25th. This year we're because of it's such a big event we've split into two categories on Thursday. Last names A through J will go and then K through Z will go on Friday. That way we can squeeze that population down a little bit. And that's all for elementary. Great. Um at the middle school the master schedule is done. So that is exciting and huge relief and it's always a a major work in progress with so many shared staff members and intricate parts. Um as
034Dr. Buckley said from the curriculum council we added the two new English courses um the foundations of reading course for each grade level as well as the foundations of English types of reading and English. Um so that is on the master schedule for next school year. Um we are today Mrs. McFarland and I did scheduling meetings for incoming sixth and eighth grade students. So that occurred this afternoon. Um and students received anformational letter just as they have in years past. So their homework for tonight was to take that letter home and share it with their parents and guardians. Um, tomorrow the scheduling form does go live for incoming seventh and eighth grade students. Um, since those parents, guardians have experienced that process before, they're going to start the formal shutdown um, next Friday. That will
035mark the beginning of hand scheduling for Mrs. McFarland and I, which is a another lengthy process, but it gives us control um, of of how to place students. Um, and the big thing is with the scheduling form, it's the fairest way to allow students to pick what their preferences are. Um, and and to get those students into a schedule. So, we were very um blatant today when we said it's first come, first serve. So, certain classes do max out because of safety reasons. Um, you know, we have max numbers. Um, once those numbers are hit, we can't add any more students into those classes. Uh, as far as incoming sixth graders, um, their scheduling form will go live next Thursday and on Wednesday night of next week, I will have an orientation for those parents
036and students. Um, that orientation will be at 6 pm in the cafeteria and um talk about just things that will help with us to move our transition to middle school. So, not only scheduling, that will be the big piece because there'll be a lot of questions with scheduling um, but just some other pieces as students enter middle school. Um, we will still have our back to school bash in August. That that event is a little more free as far as we we don't give a lot of information out. Students pick up their schedule at that point and they can visit the different stations, but this event really is to help with that transition in middle school. Um, as Mr. Ros said, we are working on completing the high state test. So, currently sixth and seventh
037graders are finished if they've taken both parts of ELA and math. They just finished yesterday. Um, eighth grade students will still have to take the science test and that is not next Tuesday but the following Tuesday after spring break. U Mr. Dennis. So his is short and sweet very similar to middle school. Again the master schedule for high school is done. Student requests have been collected and Mrs. Singleton is working on individual schedules right now. So, their goal is before teachers leave for the summer is that they have students in schedules, that will be our goal at the middle school, but we um because of the foundations of reading in ELA courses, we're going to have some flexibility there to move kids in and out of those courses pending OST scores. So, we're going to
038be looking at that data point, which I think may come in. There's this coming forward for the end of May. Um, so hopefully we get that those results sooner than later and we can make those adjustments. Put the continue testing and all that and schedule all that fun stuff. We move on then. Consent agenda number one which includes minutes from last meeting approving the April substitute list as presented as presented by the Fairfield County ESC and the Pickway County ESC. Then also accepting donations Davis battery sales $100 for the ESCO site and express 250 kids and meal certificates and Kiki lanes for 40 game passes. Is there a motion? Seconds. Any discussion? Always appreciate the donations and thanks to those on the list there. Roll call. Mrs. Pinktock. Yes. Dr. Beckley. Yes. Mrs. S. Yes.
039Mrs. Young. Yes. Mr. Shir. Yes. Treasure recommendations. I believe my report starts on page 19. Um, so the month of March we received um a little over $4 and a.5 million. So as you should see it's a big month for getting um both income and property tax. Um I shouldn't I apologize if we get income tax property tax but we also got the pilot which is the payment and loan taxes from the um agreement with the city for um income sharing for the Google property. Um our investment earnings were up as well um significantly and then um of course uh revenue from the state foundation. The um that again is one of the reasons why our cash balances at the school year end typically are a little higher um because we do get a lot
040of revenue in the spring. So, it's a little over 1.5 million from last March, but that was due to the way we received the advances. Um, last March, um, we received more money in February. So, last Febru February was a little bit lower and I explained that earlier. Um, we did receive 135,000 um, which actually is pretty close to what we were expecting from the income tax sharing. um that is calculated annually. So we only get it one time a year but after and it's supposed to be payable by March 31st according to the agreement. Um the city also provides us the data that they how they um calculate. The other thing is it's not guaranteed each year. Um Ohio law says if the um gross um income from that property is less than 2
041million then we would not get any of the income tax sharing. Um so once it hits 2 million then we would get get part of that. We also share that with Eastland Fairfield and that's a that's a again statutory. Um, looking at our enrollment, um, as you know, we started the year approximately 40 students less than than last March, which is is back on the guarantee. Um, but we're down to about 30 students, so 29.9 at this point. So, typically your highest enrollment is early in the school year and then you kind of lose students throughout the year. Um, what this says to me is we're not losing as many students as we did last year. So, um hopefully that that means that our enrollment is going to um rebound like we we think it
042will. Interest earnings for the month was 182,000. Um 119 of that was for the cops investments. Um so we have three um areas we have that money invested in. One of them is Red Tree. So they have commercial paper and um I think they have a bond and some other stuff we invest in there. um when those mature differently than CDs and Star Ohio. So that's why that is so high. We did have two CDs that we talked about last month um that I moved out of Red Tree. They matured. So we moved them out of Red Tree into Star Ohio and then we renewed one of the um CDs that um that's why that's so much higher this month. So when that happens, they recognize their that income differently. um also provided um um
043the construction report at the end of your of your report there. Um if you have any questions or anything, basically what I do is just take the expenses that we did that month. So you can see how much we paid on each of the individual projects and then anything else that's come up that's different like um the tap fee that we had for the or for the village. Um so that's in there. If there's something you'd like to see differently, let me know. I just like to keep you a breast of of, you know, kind of where we are. We're well over halfway through the project. Um, but we're right at like halfway for paying for the project. So, even though the project be done in October, we'll probably still be paying for it for
044the next couple months following that. So, um, our expenditures in March were, um, just shy of $2 million and total track checks written for 3,339,127. Um, and that includes our payments for construction. So, that's payments from all funds. So, checks from all funds. Um, our expenditures are up slightly. uh just $51,56 which is mostly in is going to be in salaries and benefits. Um this month our revenues exceeded our expenditures by 2,561,000. Our salaries and benefits are our largest expenditure. They're running about 75% of our monthly total. Um our current general fund balance is 12,519,000. We have encumbrances of 2,247,000 and the available cash balance is um 10,271,622. Um and we also then in the capital projects fund which is our 070 fund um we have 9,325,000. Um, we have encumbrances or POS outstanding of
045$674,226 and that leaves us an unencumbered balance of 8,651,663. Um, just for reference to um if the legislator would use the end of fiscal year 24, we were about 38%. Is about what our cash was. So 30 is the cut off. So, we're about 38 in the general fund and they're only looking at the general fund. So, how do you move that money so that we stay at 30% or less? Um, we would move it. Okay. So, we'll just request we'll see what they're doing in May. My guess would be they would I mean it's just so obvious to everybody that you just move the money. So, if they're ever going to look at general funds, I'm sure that they're going to try to if they're really trying to get at this, they're going to
046put a caveat in there of some kind of but now are they looking at 24? Well, that's the way it's worded would be they would be looking at this year. Yeah. Okay. But I don't think they're going to leave it like that for that purpose because who would be dumb enough to leave it there? You just move it. So, we'll see what that looks like because it'll be for fiscal year 25, it'll be higher than that um because we've received some revenues that we haven't received um in years past. Me personally, just if I'm going to comment on it, I don't understand why the if I were a school board member, I'd be offended because they're basically trying to run the school. And it's like that's what you guys were elected to do. You were
047elected to say how much cash we should have. You were elected to say what we invest in. You were elected to say what happens. And they're trying to do that. And I I don't I don't understand. Um the other part of that is voters have voted that millillage and once we allow our legislators to usurp the voting process what have we gotten ourselves into like that's why I think the auditors are kind of like wait a minute they voted this I can't do I can't not do what the voters said to do. So that's all I have what the goal is. [Music] I honest I've been reading Ohio Capital Journal. I just can't I can't see the through line in all of this. I beyond allocating for vouchers. Yeah. And there was a very good
048article in the dispatch Sunday about that. And that's the only through line that I can see in this whole thing is they want to move more money into vouchers. [Music] That's some people say they're trying to destroy public schools and I don't I I don't think that that's the intention is to destroy public schools because 90% of our students are still in public schools and there's been no evidence to say that because the voucher money is available that students have flocked to our private schools. They have not. They've stayed in public school. So yes, there I agree with Dr. Buckley. It's a funding source. It's it's where can we reduce to come up with another billion dollars to hand back to people that I did not realize that taxes have to build a stadium in
049Cleveland's got to come from somewhere and so I think we should we should the children was interested the newest legislation that I saw was proposed was legislation that said in order for these public funds to invest in professional sports facility. They had to have a wedding season. Yeah. Three out of five years, I think, is what I heard. Oh, is that right? So, not just No, it was it was like in the aggregate. Yes. So, that's what the the opposition to school funding and going to the vouchers and saying, well, the schools are failing. And that was one of the things they were talking about in the conference like how can you invest in a failing sports team if you're not invested in your schools that were not failing. But um the other thing is
050my big comment is I I didn't know that taxes were out of cart meaning if you're not using something when did you when could you just say I'd like that back. If I don't get a clean grant, can I have my share? Where's the other side of that bill where it says voters voted on this amount of tax? You had more than 30%. So, we decrease that millillage, but next year we're only at 20%. Are you going to increase our mill back up to what voters voted for? Are we going to be stuck there? Yeah. Like, and then it's just a yo-yo. I mean, we have no idea. How can you plan? Yeah. as a district. How could you plan as a homeowner if you don't know what your taxes will be? You just got
051to put blinders on for that. Don't pull it out. So, the simulations I think I sent out to to that and then I'll be done financially. Um it's so we would actually and this is one of the things that we would get more money with the house's past version than we would with the original from the governor. Um however it's not significant. It's more and we come back to zero. Um, one of the provisions in that bill from the House is that nobody will receive less money than they received in 25. So, we would be guaranteed at least what we got this year. It actually ends up being um a few thousand dollars more. I mean, a very few thousand dollars more, but so that doesn't negate the fact that we go back to adding
052no formula at all. We're not we're just at the mercy of whatever they want to throw our way. So I it is concerning but anyway I wanted to throw that in and make sure that you didn't see that email. Okay. All right. Um is there a motion to approve financial reports? Any other discussion that roll call Mrs. Young? Yes. Dr. Beckley. Yes. Mrs. Pink. Yes. Mrs. S. Yes. Mr. for sure. Yes. Second part there is appropriations. Go around first. Yeah. I'd like to hit some high points of what um actually was amended. Um and again when I submit the appropriations I always give you the amended official certificate of estimated resources. Um that's not something that the board approves. is something that I provide um the budget commission and the county auditor. Um they have
053started a new process in Fairfield County where the budget commission actually reviews our appropriations and things as we send them in. So they will be looking at both um the changes. So I did have some changes on the image official certificate which is our um revenues. I included um the monies that we received. we had not really reflected the monies we received from um the city of Lancaster anywhere. So that changed as well as um in our student activity accounts and our grant accounts. Um we have not amended since um the permanent appropriation. So we have received more monies or anticipate receiving more monies in those accounts and that's quite normal that we change those. Um that is all that was changed um on the amended certificate. The appropriations are um our budget numbers and
054again it will follow um kind of what we changed in the revenue. So the flip side of that um most of our my changes were in the student managed activities. So, um, FFA, like I can't always guesstimate how much mulch they're going to sell, things like that. And because we have, um, those are such big numbers for, um, you know, I know NHS does a really good job of strawberries and things. Those are what normally, um, changes. Uh, this year we did in food service, I had some changes due to the, um, fresh fruits and vegetable program, which is not something we knew about. um when we did the permanent appropriations. Are there any questions on those? The exciting stuff. Is there a motion to approve the amended appropriations for fiscal year 25? Mr. I'll
055second discussion roll. Mrs. Pigtock, yes. Mrs. Young, yes. Dr. Buckley, yes. Mrs. Song, yes. Mr. Sharp, yes. Can I say okay, in this case, and I put this in my um email to you all. Um they are uh the auditor of state is what do I say updating the SAS manual which is not something that hasn't been done for maybe two decades. It's been a long time. Um we will be getting that in May. So it's so per the temporary appropriations and the final appropriations. Um final appropriations will have the old coding. the temporary appropriations will probably have the new coding. Um there are some things that are they're trying to work out to finish up that are attached to the um restricted funds that we receive. Um the when I say restricted funds, the
056student wellness, the gifted, the um DPI, which is um um disadvantaged. Um, so you'll probably see I don't know that you'll notice. I'll try to point those differences out when we do those. So it'll be interesting. May I probably will have no left the time they over. So nice and cold for summer. Yeah, it'll be great. That'd be great. I'm sorry. That's all I want to mention that. All right. Uh, on to item five, which is a nice long list of things. consent agenda number two personnel includes accepting resignations in retirements for those is listed and Cyer who is longtime music uh band instructor who has decided to retire here. So thank you Corey for all that you've done and all the rest of people who are moving on to thanks for their contributions to
057the district but Corey certainly has been here for quite a while. Um item B is uh approved certified substitutes for 2125 as listed. Approving certified contracts for 2526 to new teachers as listed. Approving renewal of certified contracts. There's a whole nice long list of certifi certified contracts for one-year renewals as well as three-year renewals. I'm approving the ASL interpreter for 2526. Approving the school psychologist for 2526. Approving a speech therapist for 2526 for three-year renewal. Uh approve education experience update uh 2526 and approving renewal of classified contracts for 2526. There are list of two years. Keep going. Approve extended service contracts uh for 2526. Uh proven extended service contracts for 2526. again. Um, just got two different day levels. Approving administrative contracts, a two-year contract, and a three-year contract for assisted principles. Approving supplemental employment
058for 2526, a list of coaches. Approving supplemental employment for 2526, an additional list of coaches there. And then the final is approving volunteers for 2526 uh class. It says classroom volunteers. Well, classroom volunteers for a baseball field trip. Cluster volunteers 49. Oh, and then athletics is the ones volunteers attachment on page 49 there. And then all the athletics ones on the baseball field trip. So number of things there. Is there a motion? [Music] Move. Second. Second. Any discussion? I have questions. Those items. Uh, first one is I need to abstain from approved supplemental contracts. Chad, I missed that. I'm sorry. No, it's okay. I don't mind saying that. And then I have a question. I saw um our high school counselors getting five additional days this year and then 10 additional days for the coming
059year 26 school year and we've had counselors off on extended leave and then whatever. So we had two high school counselors and a middle school counselor. So when this is all said and done, is that what we're having for the 2526 school year? 2526 we will have um because part of our work with incorporating MTSS putting early interventions um having additional support um within our teams. So if you remember we had we worked this year with two school psychologists and then we have a middle school counselor and a high school counselor. So going into next year, the plan is that we'll continue with the two school psychologists and continue with the middle school counselor and high school counselor. So we're going to lose a counselor uh within within that direct service role um that second
060school psychologist. Um the thought is that they would be providing supports to um whether it's academic or behavioral supports early on in the intervention process. um whether it's through classroom observations completing um uh like checklist I don't want to say diagnosis but um observations to provide data on what's currently happening in classrooms and then what things we can put in place to correct those within the classroom I'm very concerned that we would go down the counselor because they we use the term counselor but they're not really that type of counselor They're an academic counselor more than anything. Um, helping them with their school schedules, figuring out what they need to go to college, you know, what they're going to do after school, which is very different than a psychologist would do because they're not going
061to play that part. Um, I just don't see how we could go without those three people. Um so one of the things that that is included in here because for example with Mrs. Singleton um and and we talked earlier about the number of CCP students and and how we've the number of AP has went down but the number of CCPs went up. So one of the components in there is adding in some additional days related to Mrs. Singleton because there's a lot of um administrative type work that goes into CCP to help support some of that. And that's part of my concern. We have the CCP, we have the class scheduling, all that kind of stuff. And I just don't see how we're going to do it with one less counselor. Um I'm very concerned
062that we have enough to do that. I'm telling you, enrollment's busy. We're busy. Things are changing all the time, but yet we're asking one high school counselor to cover four grades. And you could argue for a school counselor, those are the four most important years in a student's career in picking the classes that they're going to take. CCP stuff. I mean, I know when we had one, they struggled. When we had two, they divided it. One had nth and 10th and one had 11th and 12th. Um, and students seem pretty felt like they were heard and they were able to get their classes and stuff like that that they needed. [Music] Um, I'm just opposed to going down one. Not sure how that happened because we had three, then one went on a longterm leave
063and now we're just not going to hire that position. had three that were co. So we paid for one with user and so then we went to two and then well we went to two because somebody went on a longterm leave like a year leave because of military or attorney or something like that. Well, and we somebody through the ESC. Yes. So cover that. Lincoln left and then we brought somebody in and then we added another counselor that was actually had a background in counseling not in academics and so she didn't do a lot of academics she did clinical counseling and that was Esser and then Esser went away so she went to another school district I believe so this year we've only had two all year right and Lincoln is back but she's from
064the ESC because we still have somebody on leave so we have three this year with Linda because she's not back yet. So when the full-time comes back, we'll have two again like we traditionally had we only added the third from my knowledge during co that directly right after that and she my understanding didn't do as much academic as she did the other counseling because that's where her background was in the one that was in here. Yes. That left. Yeah. Yeah. Um and we have also worked to develop partnerships with um uh with outside clinical. Um I'm not concerned about the clinical part. I'm concerned about the academic part and whether our students are going that one person is going to be able to academically advise for grades, especially with all the changes in the CCP
065and all that that they have to keep up with. And I know there's been some challenges with that um in the past, especially when we've only had one. Yeah. So, so part of that conversation was looking at where where the supports are and and right now I think one of our focus areas is looking at some of those those intervention pieces to make sure that those are getting one put in place early um to providing support to teachers in the classroom and then there aren't as big preventive ative so that there aren't struggles coming up through or or we aren't on target. So then that alleviates some of the offtrack conversations that they're having in grades 9 through 12 so that they can concentrate more on the what are those post-secary options that you're having
066at 9 through 12. You said we only had two counselors this year. This year we've had two council which is what it would continue to be. Yes. Were they able to do all the stuff I needed to do? So like one of the things there was a request that came in and that's why Mrs. Singleton with a lot of the the pieces with CCP um to give her the extended extra ext because because of the number of students that are involved in either on campus or off-campus CCP discussion. Do we need to pull out the chat thing to do separate. I've noted it. Okay. I think I can note it and he understood that she was I think without creating a whole another thing. You should have done that to be Yeah. Any other discussion?
067I remember you first and second we did. We did. Yes. Dr. Beckley and Mrs. All right. Any other discussion? Roll call. Dr. Beckley. Yes. Mrs. Song. Yes. With an extension for Okay. Mrs. Pock. Yes. Mrs. Young. Yes. Mr. Yes. All right. Um, item O is to approve volunteers for athletics as listed for football folks, which we appreciate volunteers always. Was there a motion? Mr. moves. 30 seconds. Any discussion? And roll call. Mrs. King. Yes. Dr. Buckley. Yes. Mrs. Song. Yes. Mrs. Young. Yes. Mr. Shir. Yes. Superintendent. Uh, I recommend that we approve extended service contracts for 2526 to Scott Sharp location agriculture teacher 45 days. This is your motion. Susan seconds. Discussion. I need to abstain. Roll call. U. Mrs. Young. Yes. Mrs. Sptock. Yes. Dr. Buckley? Yes. Mrs. S? Yes. Mr. Sharp. Recommend that
068we uh approve that you approve classified contracts of one year for classify 2526 for utility bus driver. Step zero and ext extended service contract for 2526 for Jeff Tilly vocational agriculture teacher 45 days. Is there a motion moves? Robin seconds discussion [Music] roll and yes. Okay. Sorry, I was reading that clear. Dr. Buckley, yes. Mrs. S. Yes. Mrs. Pinktock. Mrs. Young. Yes. Mr. Sharp. Yes. All right. We go to old business. Policy update. Second reading. The ones we've been looking at for the last couple meetings. Attachment eight as listed. I guess I need a motion to second. Although there's not a little box there. Yes. All right. Is there a motion to uh approve those? J moves to the seconds. Discussion and roll call. Dr. Buckley. Yes. Mrs. Young. Yes. Mrs. Spangtock. Yes. Mrs. S.
069Yes. Mr. Sharp. Yes. All right. In the new business item A is approving the Pickway County ESC agreement with Pickway County Academic Success Solutions Program, which is explained in section 9. Is there a motion? Moves. Susan seconds. Any discussion? Uh, it's continued um a collaboration partnership that we have with county ESC. Um, it is an alternative placement for some students that may be at risk in their primarily 9 through 12 years. Sometimes there's a 73. This is the same program we have this year. Yes. And are we doing it the same way we've done in the past by seat? Yes. Okay. Yeah. So, we we commit to five seats. And then if we happen to go over that, then we could elect to do another per seat amount, but we we stay within our five
070seats. Thank you. Any discussion? Roll call. Mrs. S. Yes. Mrs. Young. Yes. Dr. Bley. Yes. Mrs. Pink. Yes, Mr. Sharp. Yes. Item B is approving a resolution to adopt special education model policies and procedures previously adopted special modest and policy procedure documents attached for reference attachment number 10. Is there a motion as listed there? [Music] Jeremy seconds discussion. Um so this after we we were being proactive with um the ODU the ODO policies model special education policies that had to be uploaded by spec specific date um as a result OSBA worked at their policy update um and they provided some of this additional language. Um it doesn't change the policies only adds clarification for some of the definitions um and more clearly aligned to state and federal law. Discussion. Mrs. Song. Yes. Dr. Buckley. Yes.
071Mrs. Sp. Yes. Mrs. Young. Yes. Mr. Sharp. Yes. Right. Item C is approve the FFA FFA participation in the water Washington leadership conference in Washington DC. 224 to 28. Long time trip. Is there a motion? moves. Second, Mr. Seconds. Any discussion? Roll call. Dr. Beckley. Yes. Mrs. Btock. Yes. Mrs. Song. Yes. Mrs. John. Yes. Mr. Sharp. Yes. Item D is approve a three-year agreement with Code HS. Is that how you say that? Code HS. $3,735 annually. Attachment 11. Is there a motion? moves. Robin seconds discussion. Uh this is a multi-year contract to link lock in the price. Um this is a piece of curriculum that Mr. Isles uses readily in his IT courses which are a career pathway set courses multi-year agreement. Thank you. Discussion call. Dr. Buckley. Yes. Mrs. S. Yes. Mrs. Bigtock. Yes.
072Mrs. Sharp. Mrs. Sharp. Mrs. Young. Yes. Mr. Sharp. Hey. At least twice a year I call you Mrs. All right. Reading along. Item A is approve a contract with Ideal Integrations July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026 attachment 12 second discussion. So this is for the internal wiring. Uh one thing to note is this is also contingent uponate funding. Um we are I believe we're 70% is that correct? 70% would be essentially discounted off um and federal rate funds would cover that. The district who responsible for the 30%. The internal connections um if you think it's it's cat 6 or the the internet connectivity lines. This is an upgrade of those cat um cables um to the next generation cabling. essentially um it's able to you know carry data quicker faster but then also the
073level of power that's able to be pulled. One of the things Mr. Hawk and I have talked about is the the amount of power with essentially everything going wireless and routers and everything the wireless routers the amount of power that's having to be pulled through um to to go along with those. So this would be reabling both buildings. Internal cabling. Yes. Our IT folks upgraded our servers and reading stations at the hospital yesterday in the middle of the day while we were reading. So don't do it in the middle of the day. We're testing. We will strategically schedule that. I guess I can do it a little bit into the summer. Whoa. Great. We are here and we are busy. Do not do it in June. I I think the end of June is fine.
074Yeah, let's do it. The June 30th and July 1st be great. Any discussion? Roll call. Mrs. Song? Yes. Mrs. Jones? Yes. Dr. Buckley? Yes, Mrs. Pink. Yes, Mr. Sharp. Yes. Yes. All right. Uh, item F. Approve a four-year contract with Northern Buckeye Education Council from July 1, 25 to June 30 of 29. Is there a motion? Mr. Moves. Second. Sus discussion. Um, this is I'm trying to get here. This is the MIBS which is the management of the internal broadband again funding uh goes into this as well. So that's 7%. Okay. How do you get that scheduled so that it doesn't hit her fiscal year end and you don't have students don't these people have to come in here to like every school that wants this? Yeah. Yes. So with the cabling uh whenever they
075have done some other work they come in on nights and weekends sometimes too they can segment off different sections of the building. So they're able to keep district office up and running while they're doing other and then do patches and tie-ins. Okay. Discussion Mrs. Spark. Yes. Mrs. Young. Yes. Dr. Bley. Yes. Mrs. Song. Yes. Mr. S. Yes. Item G is to authorize the treasur to post public notice of retire hearing for June 18, 2025 and the language according to that. Is there a motion? Moves second. I see seconds. There's any discussion. So this is the first step to authorize publication of the meeting that we would have to um do a retire rehire. Um as we've talked many times um the we have a phenomenal group of intervention specialists. Um what for a long time
076we have struggled with ensuring that we have properly licensed people in those positions. Um so that continues to be a struggle of finding properly licensed individuals and um this would be the opportunity for to rehire Mrs. Connley, which is a properly licensed and experienced uh teacher into that um and then do so in accordance with the negotiated agreement. Further discussion and again I want to emphasize specifically to a very hard to find licensed area. Dr. Buckley. Yes. Mrs. Pink. Yes. Mrs. Song. Yes. Mrs. Young. Yes. Mr. Sharp. Yes. Item H is to approve an MLU with Koma State Community College for college credit plus courses for fiscal year 26 14. Is there a motion? M seconds. Discussion. Oklahoma State University. Oklahoma State College uh community college has been a great partner for many years with
077the district. Uh continue to partner with them. We will have another coming through next month for the Hawking College, a similar thing. But can we is Ohio State available for CCP? Yes. I'm not sure what exactly their off the top of my head what the requirements are. At one time there was restrictions on on campus versus online and things like that. So I can inquire about just curious. I mean, you know, we kind of got into rigor of CCP a little bit in curriculum council and um you know, OCU isn't recognized at Texas&M. You know what I mean? They are. Is that right? Um Hannah took CCP through Christian um she did three um state and we had trouble um her they we did the dual credit class here for um what's Mr. Highell teach
078history American history. Yes. And his syllabus doesn't match Hawking College's syllabus. So they wouldn't accept accept it. Hyel's matches what they would have accept at H at&m. That doesn't surprise. But Hawkings Yeah. No. No surprise at all. Hawkings syllabus doesn't match ours. So, they wouldn't accept it because the what's in it is different. Um, that's the only one because we thought that OCU they wouldn't take. Did they take any or Yeah, they did. They didn't recognize at either one. Either one. They recognized AP, but they didn't recognize. The other thing that does is too, and I don't know about other colleges, I only have that experience. Um, so for math, so say you took a class that a CCP class that qualifies for calculus 140, they'll accept that credit. However, no. Yeah, they'll Nope. They'll
079accept it credit for credit. No worries. However, you still had to do a math test, a proctor math test and prove that you could do those skills. if you didn't, you still had to take the class and those those credits then would just then move to elective credits. So, I mean, there's a little bit of a cushion for that. Um, I don't think Hannah took my kids dual math credit. I don't know. My kids are feral, so I don't say my kid wasn't feral. She tested out There are CCP classes through Hawking College that are ma math classes. She took Mrs. Stroke. Yes. And those were dual credit because she got credit for them and she was able to test out which is really a testament to our teachers here in the math because there's
080a Aggie parents page um on Facebook. So, it's interesting. I don't know if any of you guys have your universities have those, but um there were many parents um that year that commented that their children had CCP credits for math, but they couldn't test out of the math. Wow. At&m [Music] testament to Mrs. Yes. And Mrs. James, one of our kids were in Mrs. James class. She fifth grade. She's sixth grade. James, yes, she is sixth grade. Sixth grade. She had five or six students that scored a perfect on the state test. Wow. We're doing some things really good. You know, the only problem we had um but I think um when my one nephew went to college, they did not take the OCU and he went to Ohio State and Ohio State wouldn't take
081it. Yeah, I'll follow up. Yeah, I follow with um Mr. I I don't think it works for college to so that their syllabuses are the same and it really needs to be I or something else AP he did when he was here history yeah listen what did he teach government some government I'm not sure I just he impressed by him does great work he changed though him and Mr. were switched. So, right. Yes. Um, last year, this year, Mr. Highell has history. Mrs. Parker has government. Okay. Yeah. I knew somebody switched. Any discussion? Sorry, you took me down a road. It's all right. It's all right. Good stuff. Roll call. Mrs. Spintock. Yes. Dr. Buckley. Yes. Mrs. S. Yes. Mrs. Young Mr. Shir. Yes. Itemized to approve a three-year contract with instructure which is previous
082parchment. Correct. Aspect. Yes. For transcript services for 41725 to 41628 the cost there attachment 15. Is there a motion? Probably moves. Second. Seconds. discussion. Again, it's a three-year contract, so that's why um it's on here. It's it's a service that we've continued to provide transcript discussion call. Mrs. Song, yes. Mrs. Pink, yes. Dr. Buckley, yes. Mrs. John, yes. Mr. Sharp, yes. Item J is to approve staff leave without pay which is as listed in attachment 16. Is there a motion? All [Music] right. I'm looking around. There's somebody. Sorry. It's all good. All right. Any discussion? Roll call. Uh, Mrs. Song, yes. Dr. Beckley, yes. Mrs. Pinktock, yes. Mrs. Young, yes. Mr. Sh, yes. Uh, discussion policies. There are two attachment 17 starting on 156. These are all state language. Yes. So, the first one, health
083education, I believe my computer died. I believe it is related to um language around it used to be termed as venerial disease and then changed it to sexually infection. Yes. So um it's just a a language difference as reflected by law. And then the family life education, sex education policy, um it adds in the component where um parents have the ability to um opt out of of that and kind of the process that is along with that. So it connects back to the parents right to know legislation. [Music] There's more on their way. I have a question though. Um, not about this in particular, but with the new federal government and I, you know, we had to call the city schools and start listing their kids by their name. Did that affect anybody here? And
084then, um, we call our kids by their names. Well, there's been a couple that our practice has been aligned with with what it and you know, it's been a couple years ago now or last year that the one parent came before the board and way down in something on the Ohio website had some stuff on there that you could teach certain things in school. from the church. Oh, it was linked because it was a state resource and we added the resource onto the website. So, is that did they change that with the new initiative, the new administration? Is that didn't really align with the only two sexes kind of thing? I don't I'm I'm not sure, but we don't have that resource. I don't believe we don't have it on there anymore. Okay. I just
085want to make sure that you know there's some states that are not going to do that or stay or not. I just wanted to make sure our district was keeping up with all the being rapidly changing things. There are a multitude of things to double check aligned with. Yeah. I was just curious. And that is also like I said whenever I said that there were many more policy updates on their way um poor Mrs. Carner is continuing to work on those, but um going back and continually refining language and it may just be changing a word here or there, but yeah, I was just I'm sure OSBA is on it, but it's potential good news with the athletic trainer. So I do want to report that uh we received word from Ohio Health that we
086they have offered to a candidate and they have accepted. So um pending final graduation and lure assessments we will have an athletic trainer at Quick Creek next year. So all good news and I don't want to quite announce yet um who and everything but um they did come out the the candidate did come out and met with Mr. justice and toward facilities and we'll be reconnecting after they graduate. So, everything is aligned and we are on track to have an athletic trainer here. Thank you to um Ohio Health for their partnership. Um thank you to those that helped um with some of the communications that went along the way and it puts definitely puts our athletes in a in a good spot. So, Yes. Very good. I don't know how many times over the course
087I've heard people say, "Are you going to fill that position?" Well, it's not because of lack of trying. It's like we don't want. And I had conversations as recent as today with another school district with an athletic director that commented on they don't have an athletic trainer and aren't able to find one. um just with changes in education and universities dropping programs and things like that, the candidates just aren't out there to fill those positions. So, it's defin we are definitely fortunate that we're able to attract and get this candidate construction construction update. I don't have my PowerPoint up there for today. Um but just uh as we went around our last meeting, things are still on track. um continue to look in the end of May is still our go no-go for next fall
088as to whether we think we'll be able to receive a temporary occupancy for the bottom floor or not. So, more update on that. Um they have prepped the floors in the K2 expansion. Um so they will be starting to lay tile um possibly as soon as spring break. Um but that's on its way. Cabinetry is in place. Um things are really really coming together there. So um good news. Um our baseball and softball teams were able to go into the batting cages. Uh they were able to swing some bats and throw some balls in there. So that's great news. Uh the boosters have been very excited about being able to get in the concession area. And I think the most popular aspect are the actual restrooms um out at the baseball softball fields that they're
089able to go in. Are those open when other team like younger teams have practices? Probably not. That okay. My husband and I drove all around to inspect all of the stuff Sunday after church and it's looking really good. I'm just I was amazed because it had only been it's just a few days since I went past the big like along. Uh if there's if there is interest in another walkth through um I'd be happy to schedule another time if you let me know I can do another walkth through and see you guys can see what progress probably they have the stairs now don't they um walking track that's very cool wait until it warms up a little bit more next next week which could be three days from now then a week and a half
090from three weeks from now maybe we'll do Maybe maybe what is that building in grounds in May? When's the next building in grounds coming? That's what we did the last one because the K2 we're going to get that in June, right? Great. Yeah, it's done. And we're having day preschool. So, just for clarification on that, the half day preschool, it is an option of half day preschool. So, Mrs. Bickley, you're here and you can join in on some of this conversation, but uh the half day preschool, we will still have full day. Um they they made some adjustments this year and they've seen great success out of kind of moving a 34 classroom and a four five classroom, the ones that we know are going to be going on in kindergarten, kind of grouping them
091together and having the young ones in in a room uh in a separate room. So within that 3 4 year old classroom having some of those spots be half day spots. Um the feedback that we got from parents and community was that if that half day option was available they would take advantage of that. Many of our families will still continue to do full day but we think that we will be able to serve more students um based upon the availability of having a half day slot. So without expansion of additional teachers or anything like that, just servicing students in a in a different way. So we have four classrooms now. Yes. One of those is going to go to half day. Part of them will be half day. So there may be some students
092that are still service full day in there, but the option would be that some of those students would be half day. So, I just want to be sure like if a student wants full full day and those slots are all full, they're going to have to do a half day or not come here. That's my concern. I don't think there's tons of people who are going to just love half day. That's a huge commitment on the parents part. It is. It is. So, um we aren't necessarily holding back spots. We're not saying this classroom is only half day. We're going to service as many students as we can. But if a student says, "Hey, I want if a parent says, "Hey, I really want half day. I'm not going to participate if I can't do
093half day." Then to give them that option that they could do half day. And that option wouldn't that would be for the younger kids. It wouldn't be for the kids targeted to go to kindergarten. So it could be for the ones targeted that would go to kindergarten the next year because what we found was some stu some parents are saying, "I don't want to send my kid four days a week all day. Even though I know that they're going to be going to kindergarten next year, I still I'm not ready for that to happen yet. So, there could be some, it's less likely that it's going to be those students that are getting ready to progress to kindergarten next year. Um, but having that mixture in one of the classes. So, in the afternoon, that
094one class would have less students. It would have it would have. So we may say if you want a half day we may say okay there are only afternoon half day spots available morning a morning half day and an afternoon half day. Yes. So the kids will either ride the bus in the morning or ride the bus in the afternoon. Correct. And the parents would know that they would be responsible for the other half of that transportation. Okay. That was because we we won't we won't do a half day transportation back. So they either ride the bus in and then parents pick them up or parents bring them and they ride the bus home. We could serve two kids. Correct. And how many kids are in a classroom? Max of 20. Max of 20. Currently
095our average is about I would say 14 right now which is low. In years past the average has been um closer to 17 18. There are some there are some things that are making us anticipate that our numbers will increase for next year due to a couple situations that are that are coming forward. So I I think that we will see increases in numbers next year. Um the other thing is with our ECE funds that we received, we have the number of slots that we receive funding for from the uh from the state. we're able to with a half day, we're able to still count that as one full slot because we're actually servicing beyond the number of hours that are required for the minimum number of hours. So, if we service two half days,
096instead of that formally being one slot for ECE funds, now that could potentially be two slots or twice the amount of money that we would receive in funding from the state to support that. And like back when we first started our preschool program, it was a lot of parents when they would come in, they would ask if we had half day slots available. Um, just because a lot of the other preschool programs that are available in the area are half days. And some parents did not quite want to let go of their babies. Um, so they either wanted like a shortened like two day a week or three day a week program or just a half of a day, four days a week. and we did we weren't able to offer that especially for our
097young three-year-olds. Now, um we're noticing our three-year-old classroom is is a is a handful because they are fresh. They are our babies and um trying to I mean it's just it's a lot on just one teacher for an extended period of a day. Um so she's noticing like they're requiring longer naps and they're requiring things like that. This will open up the opportunity for them just to get a little bit of exposure. Um, a lot of these kiddos are coming in, if they come in on an IEP, they can start at the age of three. So, they're there for almost three whole years with us. So, this will kind of ease them in. And have we looked at an option of doing that instead? like three days, one week and two days like it was
098always discussed. But I'm just asking just for parent like transportation and like child care and that kind of thing like I know a lot of part-time parents try to work the days their kids go to preschool, right? Um, is that something we've looked at versus a We haven't we haven't looked at at at the modified just because there's so many variables then um and trying to make sure that we maximize the availability that we have to to parents. When my kids were in kindergarten here, they had that go three days and go two days. You had to have the calendar on your refrigerator. Oh, I'm not talking about like the every night. Yeah. No, I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about just three days a week, not three days this week, two days next
099week. No, no, no, no. I agree. That's that's a nightmare. I work still there. Yes. She goes to they they are still doing the two days one week, three days the next. She goes Tuesday, Thursday, every other Friday and it's a nightmare. Yeah. Where's that I thought the state mandated all day every day unless you could get a w you got a waiver for that. I'm surprised we're getting waivers. Whatever. It is a lot for little three and four year olds to go. No, these are kindergarteners. Oh, kindergarters. These are kindergarteners. And it's hard on them. It's hard on these kids because this they this little girl she needs the structure of every Yeah. the continuity the continuity. It's like where am I today? What are you doing today? Yeah. Another component is um lost.
100Oh, continu continuum services. So there may be a student that let's say they're on itinerate services so they only come on Fridays. Well, then the half day option would be easing them in and see how they respond to that and then building them up to um all day every day. [Music] That's all I got to move. Jeremy seconds discussion roll call. Yes, Dr. Mrs. Mrs. Young. Yes, [Music] Mr. Yeah.