001This regular meeting of the board of education is called to order. Please rise for the pledge. >> I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation indivisible and justice for all. Please call the role. >> Mr. Aim >> here. >> Mrs. Click >> here. >> Mrs. Schneider >> here. >> Mrs. Mahalis >> here. >> Mr. Sabolski >> here. >> All right, we'll begin tonight's meeting with hearing of the public. This period of the board meeting is allocated to hearing public comments on both agenda and non-aggenda items. The board and administration do not respond at board meetings typically, but if you'd like a response from one of us at the table, we'll be sure to get back to you. Individuals wishing to comment should
002have registered on the comment signup sheet which is placed at the entrance to this room. The public comment period is a maximum of 30 minutes. Each speaker is limited to a total time of three minutes. The board treasurer will keep the time and each person addressing the board is requested to provide his or her name and address upon being recognized by the chair and the treasurer will include that information in the minutes. So we have one person tonight wanting to speak and it is Sento Ragopathy. Am I saying that close? >> Pretty close. >> Okay. >> Good evening everyone. Um, superintendent, Mr. Paul, Dr. Paul actually, uh, assistant superintendent and Mr. Hayes, members of the board. My name is Senthal Ragupati and I'm joined today by our fellow coaches, um, Mr. Samir, uh, Satya and,
003uh, Wenut. Uh, we actually are coaches that lead a team of, uh, robotics t robotics program. We are actually standing in front of you guys today for representing all the competitive robotics teams that are participating in Aurora in a robotics program called FIRST. For those that may not be familiar with FIRST, FIRST stands for for inspiration and recognition of science and technology. This is a global uh organization which runs a robotics competition for students in K through 12 with more than 300,000 students participating in the program every year. Um it's run across more than 120 countries and Aurora itself has about nine first Lego League teams, three first tech challenge teams and our students also participate in what's called the first robotics challenge uh with in uh in coordination with the Beachwood schools and there
004is a a local nonprofit organization based out of Kent. So we run programs through them as well. And again, Aurora has a very rich history in this program. Uh we have always been very competitive at the state comp uh state level in this program and uh we have had numerous team winning the championship and representing Ohio at the world championship. Uh just last year uh Satya's first Lego League team Robocats they won the championship for the first Lego League and went on to represent Ohio at the uh world championship in Houston, Texas. Uh my own uh team first u 24 karat won the championship in the first tech challenge and we also were able to go and represent Ohio at the world competition. Um again all of this is because we want to run this
005continue to run this program uh in Aurora. In the past uh we had incredible support from the Aurora schools for us to have such a a rich history. Um Mrs. Shannon Gagel and Mr. to John Legalbo uh where our contacts uh that worked with us at the schools and we were able to run this program uh by hosting tournaments like we hosted two tournaments every year. One for the first Lego League and one for the first tech challenge. >> Oops. >> Go ahead. If you you want to just finish, go ahead. >> Okay. Um if you're close to being done. >> Okay. Uh with the departure of Mrs. Giggel and the retirement of Mr. John Lagalo. Uh we have lost our key advocate within the school and we are finding it difficult to schedule and
006run these programs. Uh while we understand uh to take this on in the current scenario may be a challenge for the school district. We as parents, coaches and volunteers, we are ready to run all the logistics, coordination, uh all the staffing that's required to run these events in the school district. What we are really requesting you guys today is the permission and support from the school district to continue to use the school facility for running these events. Again, this is a two events, so two days in a year where we will need access to the school facility um to set up and run this tournament. We typically run this late November, December time frame during a weekend when it does not conflict with any other school school events. So uh we are really looking to
007your help to allow us permission to use the facility during those days so that we can continue to run this program. Uh again this is something that not only benefits the local team the teams but it also puts Aurora in the map as a STEM education hub. So okay >> we're really looking forward to your support. Okay, thank you for that. And uh someone from the board or maybe all of us will talk to Dr. Milst to Mr. Hayes and one of us will go back to you. I see that you left your email address with us. So, >> Thank you very much. Thank you for coming. >> We're happy to take that one. >> We're happy to take make that contact follow up. I can do that. I can do that later. >> Yeah.
008Yeah. No, right now. >> Okay. Thank you. >> All right. Uh, next we have the approval of minutes from the special meeting of July 7th and the regular meeting of July 28th. May I have a motion for approval? >> Second. >> Are there any um comments, edits, additions to those minutes? Um, they've already been corrected and posted on the link. So, anything else? Okay. All right. Uh, Mr. Shiraldi, I'm going to save all this. Please call the role. Oh, it's going to happen. >> It's okay. 26 years is a long road, so it's >> uh Mr. Sabolski, >> yes. >> Uh Mr. Achim, >> yes. >> Mrs. Mahalis, >> yes. >> Mrs. Schneder, >> yes. >> Mrs. Click, >> yes. >> All right, minutes are approved. And now we will go to the superintendent report
009and the assistant superintendent report. >> Thank you very much. I will go ahead and get started then pass it over to Mr. Hayes. So, uh, for my report, there's, uh, essentially two different things that I want to talk about. Um, and, um, they're definitely directly tied. Uh, if you board members, if you notice, I did give you a little, uh, gift over there to the right as you sat down. This is your, uh, the green standard medal. Um, and you may have seen some of this in my communications already. Uh, but this was a big part of the opening convocation uh, in the message to the staff. actually they all they'll have those medals and they're appearing in some of the things uh you know with students and staff already. So we'll talk a little
010bit about the green standard uh and then how that ties into our district goals. And you'll notice you do have the goals in here and I'll put it up on the um display as well. The goal format looks a little bit different probably than you've seen the last number of years uh based on the feedback from the board and and some conversations. These district goals uh number one it's a little bit more of sort of a cabinet district goal. It's not uh superintendent's goals, assistant superintendent's goals. So really in uh these goals, it's my goals. It's my case for curriculum and communication. Uh Brian Schroy uh on the fiscal end and S also with operations. So we try to tie all that in uh in all the different areas. They do not include Mike Magnanico's
011goals. It just didn't really fit, but it does include the rest of the cabinet. The other thing that I tried to do uh and work on these with Mike Hayes is really tried to make it a little bit more of a strategic plan format. So you sort of have your different areas action steps time bound specific. So you'll see that in there. So I want to sort just give an overview of that. Um I know you have it in front of you so I don't want to take too much time. I know we prefer our our board meetings to be um concise. So that being said, uh let me just hop into maybe there we go there. Um, when we open convocation this year, my message, I don't know, it was maybe 30 minutes or
012so. So, I'm going to give you a really, really condensed version, but honestly, I don't think it's going to be uh a surprise to you at all because way back last January when you all interviewed me for the superintendent position, I talked a lot about uh this vision. I just didn't have a name for it yet. Uh, but that vision is the green standard. Uh, and so just want to define that a little bit tonight. So, uh, and this is, like I said, I gave the long version, uh, when I was with the staff, but we all know that there's all kinds of outside audits out there. You know, the gold standard, the report cards coming out, test scores, etc., and we do very well, and Mr. Hayes is going to talk to you a
013little bit about that uh tonight and later. However, uh, we also know that that's uh that's only one standard, and it's really just a part of what we do here. Um we recently like in the last five years we've defined the root competencies you know our strategic vision which sits up there as being something that fills that out a little bit a little bit more wellbalanced approach in terms of you know how we wanted our students to develop and grow as uh as they metriculate through the schools. But what I try to do with staff uh and this is the whole message behind the the green standard is that we're about so much more than that in this school district. Um, of course we want to do well with academics, but it's really a holistic
014and a humanistic approach. And going back to when I talked to the board last year, we talked about, you know, my vision and it's all about student growth and student well-being. And that's so much more than just academics, right? We know when students are in a district, they're way more than a test score. Uh, they develop as artists and musicians and leaders and really just as human beings. And so that was kind of the focus with our staff is that that's our standard. That's the green standard and that's the message behind uh these medals and what we're all about. Obviously wanted to share that with the board because we're champions of that cause and uh you know that's that's really what we stand for. So that's that's sort of the first piece um and the
015message that that that you'll see uh you know around the district moving forward. Not that we're moving away from the strategic vision. This just sort of explaining you know what our standard is which is which is encompasses all of that. Okay. Uh the uh next piece here getting into the goals. So uh and it should also look very familiar. So obviously I mentioned this in terms of the goals. Student growth and well-being is at the top and that's sort of the for uh forefront of all that we do here. But then there's other areas that support that and there's goals in all of these. But you'll see up there there's the leadership team on the the left, budget and finances in the the left uh hand corner, facilities and operations the right hand corner and
016then communications. So all those different areas with the four sort of lower segments supporting student growth and well-being. Not sure if this is working. Great. So that I I know that's a little bit uh small, but essentially what I did is I just tried to capture what's in your packet. So you can look up there. Uh you can look on your sheet as well. So the first one, student growth and well-being. Uh couple big action steps there. And I know that you can read, so I don't want to read off this and go through every uh bit, but there's really essentially two different pieces here. The first one is really our efforts to make sure that we're meeting the needs of all students through the MGS process through PBIS. So that's academic um that's behavioral
017and really looking at interventions and being diagnostic. That's the first goal. The second goal um really is about it is about those OSTs. uh is about the outside audits and making sure that we're staying strong with our student learning environments and also giving attention, special attention, coaching, professional development where needed if we're not necessarily seeing uh you know the outputs that we would like to see. So that's really what those two goals are related to in those action steps. Moving on to leadership team. Um as you all know we have had a ton of transition in this district. So I think this is a really important goal for our administrative team, for our leadership team, uh for all of our new teachers. So really the action steps of both these uh and it's this started
018back in the summer with our administrative team meeting was really making sure we're using all of our opportunities uh with the cabinet you know with us with our administrative team meetings with the coaches um with instructional leaders and staff meetings throughout the year PLC's to make sure that we're professionally developing and we're growing as a team and all of that is is underway. Um the other piece of this is just really making sure that uh when we're having those meetings and Mike and I are in the buildings and working with others, there's sort of two-way communication, there's feedback, time for question, time for coaching, and we do make sure that, you know, we are in the buildings, you know, every building every week. Um maybe not every single day, but very available and working closely
019with our administrative team. So that's kind of what that leadership team is about. And I think that's always important, but probably this year is is more important than ever just because we have had so much turnover and change. Uh third piece um has to do with facilities and operations and the board is obviously very wellversed in some of these and some again some of this has been under underway since last year. Obviously you know we're working on the essential plan and our facility plan. So that's underway with TDA and and I we'll keep you updated. The second um two things we're working on as a cabinet team um now that we do have our full PI funds. We're working to sort of put out a multiple multipleyear plan that's a capital improvement plan prioritized looking
020at what we can do per year uh because we can't do it all at once and quite honestly we we can't do it in any uh some of it we can't do anytime soon without a bond issue but we'll have that plan and then also looking at a preventative maintenance plan. So that's underway and we'll be presenting to that to the board at some point in time. And then the last one is the human resources tool. Uh we're trying to be a little bit more efficient at human resources with some of our processes. We've already adopted uh a new software. So my case is leading up with Amy Growth and Cindy Richards. So and that's another piece. So those goals are all underway. Budget and finances. Uh this also should not be a surprise but
021looking at what we can do in terms of personnel costs uh reducing that while you know maintaining our excellence uh using the negotiated agreement that we had last year and trying to bring that that down over the next number of years uh and then obviously having a plan with the PI funds with the bond issue which kind of ties in the facilities and then obviously ongoing updates along with the mortgage plan which will be Mr. Shaldi's wheelhouse in terms of your monthly updates and three-year forecasts as I think we'll be moving away from the five-year forecasts, although we'll continue to do those, but let's not get bogged down with that now because he's going to talk to you more about that later. >> Okay. >> Well, we can't answer that question. And then the last
022one, uh, communications. Uh, obviously we have a board communications committee and we've already been working on some of these things. Mr. Hayes is also going to be working on an internal audit. Uh, just trying to get better at using our website. uh trying to reach, you know, our parents, non-parents, the community as a whole, um using our website, you know, I guess to the best of its ability, which we're trying to do with some of the the board changes with the packet, which we've talked about recently. Um and then potentially going some surveying and and parent uh forums. Uh Pam had actually asked me about this earlier, but we have ongoing stakeholder um groups like the superintendent advisory committee, which I'm in the process of getting going, which will be it's actually more than quarterly.
023about every month. So, uh, a lot of these are already in works in the works and we're we're taking action steps. So, like I said, I think this is not a surprise based on my communication with the board, you know, since last January, but I did want to officially present you, you know, with these goals and obviously there'll be all kinds of updates and my um my weekly updates, board meetings, etc. as we go throughout the year. So, I know that was a lot in a short amount of time, but I do want to pause and there's a question about just the format or anything specific of any of those goal areas before I turn it over to Mr. Hayes. >> But I appreciate that these goals are in some way all aligned to um
024um you know, our our main objective, I think, of trying to provide or to create a a nurturing yet challenging environment. And um I appreciate that. >> Yeah, absolutely. That was the goal to make it align to what the overall mission is. So, thank you. >> Um I'm assuming that a lot of school year will be addressing a lot of these topics in possible ins. >> Absolutely. um however it is appropriate to have those. >> Yeah, we can sort of do it as as things come up and evolve or you know in the board notes uh or the weekly updates that I provide. If um you feel like you know what, we should probably have a a more official update on that board meeting, just let me know. But they'll come up naturally as as
025the year goes as well. >> All right. Thank you, Mr. Hayes. It's your show now. >> All right. All right. So, as has been customary over the last couple years, uh during the August report, uh from the assistant superintendent's office, we do an annual check on outside audits. And so, this will be a two-part series looking at first and foremost, um our AP advanced placement outcomes that were released in July, which I know I briefed the board about when they were released earlier this summer. Those connect into some of the other outside rankings like the US News and World Report, which just came out last week. Uh and then the second part of this update will come next month uh when we look at um OSTs or what we sometimes refer to as end of
026course exams, state-based uh tests. Uh and then that connecting into you know the other outside uh metric being our state report card. So with that uh looking at our AP results um I think it's important to look at things from a historical lens. So in everybody's in our board members packets I've got historical data dating back from 2010 each year. the number of tests taken, the number of uh scores that students received. Again, as a reminder, AP scores are um given on a one through five scale, uh three being considered a proficient or passing score. So, we want to see our students achieving a three, four, or five on those uh tests. Uh so, from a historical lens, you can see here dating back to 2010 with a very similar enrollment at Aurora High School,
027uh we gave a total of 460 AP exams and had a 79% passage rate. And then fast forward to 2025 with again a similar enrollment. We gave 998 AP exams with an 88.26% passage rate. And so both of those reflect the most exams in school history as well as the best passage rate in school history which eclipsed last year's mark by just a tad bit. Um but also as I mentioned before it's important to to look at our students who are scoring those three fours and fives. And when we look at our mean test score the average student received a score of 3.8. So essentially our kids are not only passing the test, they're doing incredibly well. Basically most kids are getting about a four. And again that at mean score is again the best
028in AHS history. U and so here's just a little thing that I know we've put together for uh in the past. So we had 460 students take an AP exam uh last year. So again dating back to 2010 when we gave 460 total exams. Now we have 460 students taking an AP exam. And I've often used the phrase, it's kind of representing um equity and access in action. Uh we've also had the most number of students on an IEP or 504 taking these uh tests and taking these classes. Uh and there's uh a great amount of data to showcase that even if a student doesn't receive a score of a 3, four, or five, the uh notion of being in those rigorous environments uh helps pro uh helps set them up for post-secary success uh
029and retention in college, things of that nature. So, we're really proud of uh our of our students and our staff really for just challenging themselves uh and our staff uh for setting up an environment where kids can feel believed in. Kids can want to take on that challenge. And that's a also a testament to our entire community of families who value education, want our students to challenge themselves every day in the classroom and are willing to uh you know go through a pretty rigorous course schedule. Um that led to another outcome that we had this summer. So in usually it's the first week of July the college board releases our AP scores and then a few weeks later they release what are known as our nationally recognized AP scholars and there are three designations there.
030So there's AP scholars, AP scholars with honor and AP scholars with distinction and those represent students who've taken a certain number of exams and and scored either a three or above on those exams. Um, and so when we had last year was actually our record number of AP national AP scholars with 199 and we eclipsed that in the 24-25 school year with 208. And you could see the the metrics there. But again, just a testament to our families instilling great values in our students, our staff members challenging our kids and our students rising to those challenges. Um, then that leads into um the US News World Report rankings, which all these things you probably maybe see on um news outlets. I know Cleveland.com just posted something the other day showcasing the schools in Northeast Ohio
031that were all ranked in the top 10 or top 20. Um, and sometimes you you might not see Aurora always included in those because they're lumped into the Akran metro area. So some depending on the news outlet, you might not see Aurora in that category. Um but when we look at the US News and World Reports rankings, they they evaluate schools on a variety of metrics including math reading scores at the state level, graduation rate, and then their their connection to AP scores is actually about the number of students in the senior class that take an AP exam and there's additional weight for students who receive certain scores in that uh senior class. Um so sometimes you might see some fluctuation in hey where's our ranking this year versus another year and sometimes it's just
032about a particular senior class taking more or uh less exams. Uh however I think a few years ago Mike Roberto made the analogy that it's sort of like Ohio State they're always uh in the top and they're always there's always in that that realm of a national championship. Some years it's the you know the rankings are going to be hey they're number two here they're number three here. Uh but ultimately when the US News and World Report ranks 18,000 high public high schools across the nation, we're falling in that top two to 3% or the 97th to 98th percentile. So um it's something to be extremely proud of. But um and then when we look at uh schools in Northeast Ohio, uh in the top 15 there were only four schools in Northeast Ohio and
033Aurora was one of those. So that's uh incredible. Uh but again it goes back to that that qualitative story behind the quantitative metric and u as I alluded to before it's about our families providing an excellent foundation for our students to come to school in every day. It's about our teachers providing the nurturing environment. We always are talking about nurturing the roots and that's not just a high school perspective. That's a PK-12 perspective of our students are being uh helped develop as human beings, as learners from a reading perspective, a math perspective, an interdisciplinary perspective from the time they step foot on our Greenman campus. Uh you know, at the preschool level all the way up until when they're taking uh high school courses. And even at the high school level, it doesn't just of
034course our AP teachers are committing themselves to, you know, staying up to date, maintaining uh their status as highly qualified teachers, but it's also in all the teachers across the board in that building who are helping develop our students from an executive functioning perspective so that they have the right study tools, how to, you know, one of our competencies or roots is balance, allowing our students to figure out the right amount of balance. So, going back to the ranking aspect of uh with US News, they're looking at the number of students in the senior class, sometimes it's about balance. What's the best thing for our students? Is it taking the most amount of APs their senior year, or is it about finding the right amount of balance throughout their course schedule, preparing them for what
035they want to do, uh, you know, in a post-secary career. So, we're incredibly proud of the outcomes, but I think what we're more proud of is the qualitative story that leads to those outcomes. So, again, I just want to say thank you to the board of education for all the support along the way. Thank you to all of our families and community and thank you to our our incredible staff and then uh of course to our wonderful students because they're the what makes it happen and they are uh the ones who are doing the work every single day and committing themselves. So that really concludes my report and happy to take any questions about it. >> I just want to say thank you. You you alluded to it but um the high school gets the
036accolades but it wouldn't happen without a strong foundation at the elementary grade. So, we thank the principles in elementary and middle school to get us there, too. Thank you. Any questions? >> Okay. Thank you for those reports. And now, Mr. Sheraldi, you're up. >> All right. Um, so I have two uh financial reports for you. One called the month end financial report and the other one called the monthly forecast report. Uh the first one, the month end financial report is probably typical to what you've seen u from Mr. Volison. Um if you flip through the first page is our bank reconciliation for the month of July. Um that includes um the funds we have in our bank account in our investment accounts. Um we have some other accounts like our Dragonfly account. That's where we
037pay uh some athletic expenses like for refs and stuff. Uh we include that on here. Um and then adjustments for like outstanding checks and stuff like that. Um moving through the first page in the actual report after the cash wreck shows um a monthto-ate update of the revenues um and also compares it to the prior two years. So you can kind of see the trends of a three-year trend of uh the revenues for the month of July. Um and then it also compares it against our fiscal year 20 our current year annual budget. So you can see the percent that um we've budgeted that we've brought in. Uh so for local taxes we've brought in about 27.78% of what we expect to bring in this year. Um the page after that is the same thing
038but for expenses. Um again you have the three-year comparison, the comparison against the annual budget and the percent of the budget year to date. Uh, and I'll go into a little more detail about what what it actually shows. I just wanted to get you familiar with the reports. Um, Mrs. Mahalis did point out that uh on this next page, all of the revenue shows zero up top in the graphs, but the numbers, if you look at the graph below that, it actually has a number. So, there was just a mistake in the system when it when it printed out. But um this shows the uh what it should be year-to-ate amounts um as opposed to just the month-to- date amounts compared to prior years as well and against the budget. Um, and then the back
039end is our cash position report, which just shows you uh the various funds we have on our books and um the beginning balance, any activity that's happened, any incumbrances that are still out there, and the current balance of it. Um, and then the other report is the monthly forecast report. Again, a lot of the numbers are the same because it's coming out of the same system. It's the same numbers, but this is more geared towards the the five-year forecast. what will eventually be the three-year forecast as uh Dr. Milsatic said uh because of House Bill 96, the new budget bill, they are adjusting how the forecast is done. So, I believe they're bringing it from a 5-year forecast down to a three-year and also they're moving up the dates of when it's due. So, the
040it was last year was due November and May. This year it's due October 15th and I don't know when the spring submission is. I do have to look at that. But then going forward, it's going to be due at the end of August and in February. Um, I'm not a big fan of that change because it kind of a lot of the information we get that we base the forecast on comes in August and stuff. So, we're going to miss out on a lot of that detail that's usually in the 5-year forecast um with those dates being moved up. But, obviously, it's something I take a look at all the time, monthly on a monthly basis. Um, so I'll continue to update it on it even though our submission to the state is going to
041look a little different than it has in years past. Um, but this report kind of goes through and shows um, again monthto date and year-to- date activity compared to prior years um, and compared to what we forecasted. So it shows the actual amounts and what we have estimated for the rest of the year compared to what we originally forecasted. Um so you can see uh the first page total revenues are 2.8 million higher than previous year. Um and revenue is also trending 2.7 favorable compared to forecast meaning we brought in 2.7 million more in July than we anticipated bringing in. That's likely just due to timing of when our tax advances came in um and nothing more than that. But um so you kind of can see how we're performing compared to our forecast. So
042that's what this report does and it also goes into expenditures as well. Again, expenditure trend is 439,000 unfavorable compared to forecast. So we had a little more expenditures than originally anticipated in our forecast for this month. Again, likely due to a lot of severances we had to pay out. Um but as for what the actual reports mean, you also have this write up that kind of gives a summary of it. uh the general fund financial report for the month of July. Revenues exceeded expenditures by uh 7.2 million. This increases the general fund cash balance to 21.8 million to start fiscal year 26. For the month of July, revenues were 5.38% greater than projected while expenditures were8% greater than projected. Um revenues for July came in higher than prior year as well as above projections for
043fiscal year 26. The increase mainly came from increased local tax revenue likely due to the timing of tax advance receipts which are received in July and August. Um there's also an increase in advances returned which is a result of increased advances out at the end of the previous year. So the end of June we uh sent a lot of advances to cover negative fund balances. Then in July those advances come back into the general fund. Um so that looks like we receeded a lot more money but it was just advances that we spent out at the end of last year. um expenditures uh for July came in higher than prior year as well as above projections for fiscal year 26. Um again this increase is mainly due to salary and benefits stemming from severance payments.
044Uh purchase services also saw an increase uh stemming from property insurance and finance purchase agreements. Um so property insurance increased a little bit compared to previous years. And then um the finance purchase agreements we have a bus lease that we made a payment on um that obviously increased that purchase service amount for the month. Uh the bank reconciliation report for June total cash balance for all funds is 23.9 million with the general fund having cash of 21.8. This overall cash balance is 6.7 million more than that at the end of June which again is um attributed to the receipt of the tax advances. Um, so that's kind of a gist of what those financial reports are. And then I also have then and now report uh approvals for you. These are for uh a reimbursement
045for the Texas robotic trip. Congrats, by the way. Um, uh, purchase from Amazon for computer replacement parts and then to uh for some legal services as part of a an agreement that we uh had approved. And part of that agreement was we we uh had to pay a portion of the legal fees and we just got the invoice now. >> Okay, we'll take exhibit D1 first resolution to approve financial statements and reports. May I have a motion, please? >> So moved. >> Second. >> All right. And just so the board knows, I did ask Mr. Shley to include this summary summary report in our um board packet next time so that we have a chance. He's had a lot going on. and I know he's starting to get settled and um so we'll have that.
046Are there any questions for him? All right, then please call the RO. >> Mrs. Mahalis, >> yes. >> Mr. Achim, >> yes. >> Mrs. Click, >> yes. >> Mrs. Schneider, >> yes. >> Mr. Sabolski, >> yes. >> And to the chair real quick, if you guys want to see any changes in the financial reports or anything additional, don't hesitate to reach out. I'm gonna try to keep changing it to to stuff that you want to see and is helpful and useful for you. So, make sure you reach out and let me know so we continue to adapt to what's beneficial for all of us. Okay. >> Thank you. >> All right. Exhibit D2 is a resolution to approve then and now statements. May I have a motion, please? >> Second. >> Um, any questions? I
047knew I had seen your name when when I saw this sign and I remember seeing where that I see it. All right. Any comments or questions? All right. Mr. Sheraldi, please call the role. I hope >> Mrs. Schneider. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Mahales. >> Yes. >> Mr. Sabolski? >> Yes. >> Mr. Achim? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Click? >> Yes. >> All right. That's it. Does that conclude your report? >> That does conclude my report. >> Thank you. All right. Moving on to new business, we have exhibit E1A, which is a resol resolution to accept gifts and contributions. I'll read through them first. Um, second, Soul Athletic Footwear donated $190.50 to Cross Country's runathon. Lori Kranski uh donated a popcorn machine and stand worth $100. Heather Watson don donated a new Nimbo posterior walker worth $175.
048and ASF donate donated $2,000 to the high school for the tennis backboard. May I have a motion, please? >> Move. Second. >> We thank everyone for their generous donations. Mr. Sheldy, please call the role. >> Mrs. Click, >> yes. >> Mr. Aim, >> yes. >> Mrs. Mahales, >> yes. >> Mrs. Schneider, >> yes. >> Mr. Sabolski, >> yes. >> Right. Okay. And I will take the nine personnel resolutions together without objection. Um, exhibit E1 B1 is a resolution to accept resignations. Exhibit E1 B2 is a resolution to award supplemental activity contracts to non-district personnel. Exhibit E1B3 is a resolution to approve the introductory appointments of support staff. Exhibit E1 B4 is a resolution to award teachers a one-year limited contract. Exhibit E1B5 is a resolution to employ a literacy specialist at Harmon for the school
049year. Exhibit E1B6 is a resolution to award supplemental contracts to district personnel. Exhibit E1B7 is a resolution to employ support staff substitutes for this school year. Exhibit E1B8 is a resolution to employ licensed substitute teachers for this school year. and exhibit E1B9 is a resolution to decrease the contract days of special services secretary position. May I have a motion, please? >> Second. >> Are there any comments or questions about any of those exhibits? All right, then. Mr. Please call the role. >> Mrs. Schneider, >> yes. >> Mrs. Mahalis, >> yes. >> Mr. Achim, >> yes. >> Mrs. Click, >> yes. >> Mr. Sabolski, >> yes. All right, resolutions are approved. Exhibit E1C, um, as it's stated in the agenda, it's marked D, but I'm it's it's supposed to be C, I'm sure. Uh, is a
050resolution to approve overnight trip for the softball team? May I have a motion, please? >> Move. >> Second. >> Are there any comments or questions regarding this trip? >> All right. And Mr. Shy, please call the role. >> Mr. Mr. Achim, >> yes. >> Mr. Sabolski, >> yes. >> Mrs. Mahalis, >> yes. >> Mrs. Click, >> yes. >> Mrs. Schneider, >> yes. All >> right, the trip is approved. Exhibit E1D is a resolution to approve changes to policy DHJ regarding credit cards. We were presented with this last month. May I have a motion, please? >> Chair seconds. Are there any comments or questions about this? a month to think about it. All right, Mr. Shrai, please call the RO. >> Mrs. Mahalis, >> yes. >> Mr. Sabolski, >> yes. >> Mrs. Schneider, >> yes. >>
051Mr. Aum, >> yes. >> Mrs. Click, >> yes. >> All right, that resolution is approved. And then we have exhibit E1E, which is a resolution to establish lunch prices for this school year. May I have a motion, please? >> Chair Seconds. Um I was wondering if these have increased or is this what it was last year? >> Yeah, ex they're they're fairly close except for the milk price. So uh the 340 for the um PK through five the K through5 lunch uh stayed the same and then 6 through8 9 through 12 only went up 10 cents from 370 to 380 and then I guess not surprisingly uh for all those going to grocery stores the milk price went from 50 cents to 75 cents. And it's, you know, really just due to inflationary prices with
052food. I'm actually surprised they didn't go up more with the lunches. I was pretty pleased with just a minimal increase. >> Okay. Any other questions about that? >> All right, then. Please call the RO. >> Mrs. Schneider, >> yes. >> Mrs. Click, >> yes. >> Mrs. Mahalis, >> yes. >> Mr. Sabolski, >> yes. >> Mr. Inum, >> yes. >> All right. Um, we have no discussion items tonight. Are there any board items? >> Yes. I have a question for Dr. >> Sure. >> Could you remind us on why we started school >> early this year >> on the 14th? >> Yes. >> Sure. That seems to be a hot topic. Um I will actually uh we'll we will go back to last January. Um and I'm looking over administrative team as well. We we had
053the same concerns when it was brought up. Um we brought it to administrators, we brought it to um AA, everybody took a look at it. Um unfortunately we could not seem to find a better solution given the guard rails or the parameters. So we always have tried um to have as much instructional time as possible before the OSTs and AP which is April and May. Um, we have also always tried to finish the semester uh before uh winter exam for high school students with exams. Well, I shouldn't say always, but I think that's been a good 10 10 years since since we've made that change. Uh, which has been a good one. Um, additionally, um, we hear from, you know, our teaching staff and parents and kids, everybody try not to start a with a
054full week. We try to start with a partial week to help them ease in just with how how tired they are in the transition, especially with Maria's and and Kim's bunches, you know, K through two. So, um, that's been another, uh, you know, piece of input that we've received over the years. So, we could have potentially not started that Thursday, which was the 14th, and we could have done gone Monday, which is the 18th, which was pretty much in line with everyone else. You know, it's really just give or take a few days. Uh but given the input we received over the years, we ended up starting on the 14th. We know it's early. Um we could not come up with a better solution. Um we hear you. I think it was early early for
055everybody involved. Um so we will uh you know as we get into this school year and we start to look to next, we'll get out the calendar for next year. We'll look we'll look at it. We'll take the feedback and see if there's anything we can do to to push it back. We don't want to continue to, you know, to push it up in the school year. Um, at the same point in time, I do think learning in the school year is more valuable prior to to June, you know, um, because I feel like that time is not necessarily, you know, always the most productive versus starting earlier. So, that's that's kind of where we are. I mean, at some point in time, the legislator could legislature could step in and dictate something. They dictate
056a lot of things uh these days. Uh, some states, you're not allowed to start school until after Labor Day, and you have to end by Memorial Day or a certain date. I think Michigan and some others do that, but that's not the case in Ohio. So, that's I guess all of the factors that were involved with that and we will take a look at um next year's uh coming coming soon and and do the best we can and and I certainly uh once we have a draft, I can I can bring it to the board even before it comes to the board me board meeting if if you'd like to see that. >> Yeah, that would be good. Yeah, I would I would like that because I've heard a lot about that, too. >> I
057did as well. >> Yeah. Okay. Anything else? Any other board items? All right. Then I will entertain a motion for adjournment. Please >> move. >> Second. >> Right. Mr. Sheldy, please call the role. >> Mr. Sabolski? >> Yes. >> Mr. Akum? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Mahales? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Click? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Schneider? >> Yes. >> Meeting is adjourned. Thank you all for coming.