001Pledge of Allegiance, please. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nationisible. Do we have any additions or deletions to the agenda tonight? >> We do not. >> And I get a motion to approve the agenda. >> Go ahead. >> Second. >> Roberts. >> Mrs. Tally. >> Yes. >> Mr. Twist. >> Yes. >> Mr. George. >> Yes. >> Miss Green. >> Yes. Uh we will start off presentations with the Knock Your Socks Off staff recognition. >> Awesome. Thank you so much. We are excited to recognize several staff members as our December 2025 recipients of the Knock Your Socks Off awards. First up is Tara Morris who is our attendance secretary at Canal Winchester Middle School. And Miss Morris was nominated by
002Michelle Snyder. You can come on up. We're gonna we'll make you do exactly what happens with this student in the corner, right? You have to face and why I speak about you. All right. So, uh Tara is the first point of contact for our building and her dedication is evident in her consistently welcoming attitude. She greets every single guest with a genuine smile immediately creating a positive and warm atmosphere that sets the tone for visitors, parents, and students alike. Paris's commitment goes well beyond basic job requirements. She is always happy to step in and provide assistance wherever needed, demonstrating exceptional dedication to building efforts. This willingness to pivot and support various departmental needs makes the building run more smoothly for everyone. Tara consistently provides service above and beyond her job description through her proactive kindness
003and readiness to help. Her positive attitude and willingness to support families and students make a significant positive impact on the daily experience at Canal and Jester Schools. Congratulations. >> All right. Next up, we have Tiara Freelant, paraprofessional at Canal Winchester High School, and she was nominated by Steve Statanovich. All right. I don't believe she's here. I'm going to do a quick read. Um, Tiarra is new to the high school team this year. Daily, she goes above and beyond the call of duty to assist all of the students in the class. She does a great job of building relationships with the students in all of our classes together and provides support to all of the students in the room. Miss Freelance shows up every day with a smile on her face, ready to help anyone who
004may need it. Congratulations to Tiara. Next up, we have Madison Ament, who is our speech language pathologist at Indian Trail Elementary, and she was nominated by Patrice Haney. All right, she also is not here tonight. Miss Haning says that Miss Maddie, as she is called by the preschool students, brings an exceptional depth of knowledge in speech pathology to Canal Winchester local schools and adapts her expertise to meet the needs of preschoolers at every developmental level. Her dedication extends beyond the classroom as she collaborates closely with families to support communication growth across all environments. One unforgettable example is when she helped a family program their child's communication device, allowing the student to say, "I love you," to the parents for the very first time. Anyone who sees Miss Maddie with any of our preschool students can
005instantly feel how much she loves them and how much they adore her. Maddie is such a light in the preschool hallway, both to students and staff members. She's an amazing therapist and is always going the extra mile for her students. She collaborates with staff to ensure every student is reaching their maximum potential. Celebrates every success, big and small, and creates a warm, supportive space where the students can truly thrive. And congratulations to Miss Maddie. Next up, we have Dakota Farmer, our fifth grade teacher at Winchester Trail. And Dakota was nominated by Leanne Buitt. Dakota Farmer absolutely knocks my socks off. From the very beginning, he welcomed me into his classroom with genuine openness and an eagerness to collaborate that immediately put me at ease. His willingness to work side by side as true co-teers has
006meant more to me than he probably realizes. He didn't just make room for me, he invited me in, valued my present, and treated my ideas as meaningful contributions. What stands out most is Dakota's openness. He listens, he considers, and he never hesitates to try something new if it might benefit students. That kind of flexibility and trust is rare, and I appreciate it deeply. And then there's his expertise, especially with Google's Gemini and Notebook LM. The way he uses these tools to enhance learning, streamline instruction, and build meaningful connections with content is nothing short of impressive. He has taught me so much about these tools and they become part of my daily practice. They make my planning more efficient and my instruction more intentional. I'm grateful for the way he shares his knowledge so generously. Dakota
007has created an environment where collaboration feels natural, ideas flow freely, and everyone benefits. I am truly thankful to work alongside someone with his talent, humility, and heart. Congratulations, Dakota. Thank you so much. And last, but certainly not least, we have Ashley Brown, custodian at Winchester Trail Elementary, and she was nominated by Deanna Summers. Miss Ashley always has a smile on her face, even when it's the fifth time to do a cleanup after someone gets sick. She interacts with the students in positive ways, like being willing to show them what's behind a door that they have been wondering about at every restroom break. It's the electrical room. Ashley also makes sure to thank the students that help in the cafeteria. She dresses up with our theme days and has fun with the staff. Ashley always takes
008a moment to ask about your day and keeps our building looking great. She makes my day with the happiness and joy that she exudes whenever you see her. She makes Winchester Terrell Elementary School a better place to work. Congratulations, Ashley. >> Thank you so much. >> Thank you very much. And that concludes our um knock your socks off recipients. I will be making a trip around to the buildings uh this week to make sure that our other recipients that weren't able to make it get theirs. Thank you. >> Thank you, Miss Hunt. Um next will be the next presentation is the Canal Winchester High School cross country recognition as state qualifiers. Hello again. Switch it up. I'm excited to uh recognize our coaches and our members of the Canal Winchester cross country programs that participated
009at the state cross country meet this year. Uh first up, I'm going to introduce uh our head coach, Michelle Snyder. Our assistant coaches Mike Stoie and Jeff Klene. Come on up. Good evening, board of education, district staff members, and community members. I am Michelle Snyder, the high school cross country coach. It is a privilege to speak about the success we had as a team in 2025. Just one or two runners didn't define our girls team. It was defined by depth, commitment, and competitive fire and from the front of the pack through the entire roster. The team success in the postseason began with the group's commitment and talent at the district meet and it carried us deep into the postseason. At the district meet, our ladies proved their dominance in what was a tight and hard-fought
010battle with Big Walnut. Our team excelled and when accounted most emerging as our 2025 district champions. That that incredible performance set the tone for the rest of the postseason run. At the regional race, these ladies placed third, advancing them to the state meet for the first time since 2009. 2009 was the year that most of these ladies were born. Some of them were not even born. The team was compiled by the following ladies. Claire Speakman, Payton Huey, Lily Stepp, Quinn Cleoric, Zoe Smith. >> I'm sorry. Congratulations, >> Brown. >> I'm like not even out of >> and Jordan Parker as well as our alternates, Ella Fischer and Kate Plasters. In addition, on the boy side, Grant Hamilton, he is our senior and his season started out strong. Early in the season, Grant broke the school
011record at our home invitational, running a 1538. Later in the season, he broke his own school record again, running a 1526. He was the champion in seven races throughout the season, including the district and regional champion. The last individual boys race at the state meet was in 2010. Grant's phenomenal run at the state meet secured his place among the state's elite, earning him a podium finish by taking third place overall at the state meet. He is the highest cross country state finisher in our school history, both girls and boys. Thank you so much and congratulations again. We do want to get a picture. Um, so if I don't know if you can group together. I'm sure you guys can do it like you take a selfie. We'll just not take a selfie. I've seen you
012like point five it and see if you could get together and coaches too. Thank you so much. You guys can do it. I know you can. >> That big enough for you. Tell me about >> just us and Rob. Our next agenda item for the evening is an update on the CW performing arts center and athletic facilities project. >> Thank you so much. We're going to uh present from uh Amadeus from Shore. Yes, absolutely. I believe that I left the microphone on for you. >> Oh, okay. Um >> Oh, there's the mic. >> Nope, I didn't. Okay. >> Mic right here. >> It's Yeah, you can just leave it sit and it will pick up your >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Okay. Do I get socks with this presentation though? No. Okay. >> After
013after it's built. >> You're not see. >> Okay. I got to earn it. Okay. Well, uh good evening everyone. Uh thank you for the opportunity again, not just for the project, but also for the uh the moment and quick snapshot of where we are with the building um and the designer of the facility. Um, my name is Hamadeas Escodero. I'm with Shore Architects as senior project manager. Uh, any regrets not being here. Uh, but um, uh, he sends his best and I believe that, um, we're on the right track. The best best thing about Tony is the worst thing about him is that he keeps working. Um, okay. So, just to give you a quick snapshot of where we are in the design process. Um I'm sure you guys have kind of gone across this
014from your last edition in projects but just for everyone else not not in the know uh we have just passed our design development uh milestone which is the uh the third one from the left here. Um and we are also have started our construction documents phase of the design portion. So this is the the phase in which we are uh really dialing down our drawings and putting together the documents in which the builders will base all their construction off of. Um so in this phase um the design changes are fairly minimal so just FYI. Um and And right here, just to orient everyone, this is the overall site plan of the project. Uh, this same site plan has also been submitted to the planning and zoning department for their review and is in fact getting
015reviewed and hopefully getting approved uh this very night. So just a quick orientation again. Uh north is to your right. Um Washington Street is down south. Um the main crux of the project is the performing arts center which you see there which is which is on the northwest corner of the building. Um adjacent to that is um the main parking space. Um, north of that is, oh, sorry, sorry. Uh, west of that are the practice fields and then, um, adjacent to the football field is the new proposed fieldhouse. Then further west from that, across the new access drive, is some additional parking, our dry basin, then our brand new uh, baseball and softball fields. And just to give you a quick snapshot to on uh how the contractors are are phasing this uh essentially the
016very first thing that's being built right now phase one the early site starts very quickly on next year on January 19th. uh primarily this is just for uh the very base excavation and utility work that's going to get done. Immediately after that is when the actual fieldhouse and performing arts center foundations will get started. So that's basically all the red enclosed areas that you're seeing there. Um, so, uh, as this being built, as these items are being built, the main, uh, ball fields are being left to still finish out the rest of the season. And then come June 1st, the, uh, construction for the ball fields begin. And then at the very tail end of it, uh, which we're calling phase four, is the rest of the site work that finishes out the rest of
017the new access road and, um, practice fields on the right corner kind of in that green. And then also, please stop me if any at any time if you have any quick questions. Um, within this set to I've included a finer breakdown of the actual construction schedule should you need it, if you need um, uh, fine-tune specifics of when and what exactly is getting built when. Um, uh, very difficult to read at this point, but I think if I can just direct some of your attention to the orange arrows right there. Um, some of it's rehashing what I just mentioned, but our we're right now beginning construction documents and that should finish out in February 6. So, that's um will be in progress along with the beginning of the phase one of the site, the
018early site package. Um, construction will start in January 19th and go all the way to April of 2027. uh within that construction phase. The third arrow there again there's your early site work beginning on the 19th of January. And then uh fourth arrow is the PAC construction. Again, foundations and whatnot will start in April next year. Then again directing your attention to the orange arrows fieldhouse would start the same time as well on April 6. uh ball field construction again will start uh once they finish out the season the next year and then bleacher expansion. So again, uh we've been working very diligently with our designers, with our contractors, with the core team here, Ka, Nick, and Mike Rich, uh with our engineers to get this all done, uh to get it all all our
019uh authority of having having jurisdiction approvals done, meaning the building departments and the planning and zoning team. And again, just to give you guys um a quick overview of the floor plan of uh all the components here. This is our floor plan for the performing arts center. Uh 700 73 seats total. Uh over 20,000 square feet, a state-of-the-art fly loft and auditorium building. And this is your view of it on the northwest corner looking into the main entry foyer. Again, there'll be a spot for a waiting spot in the exteriors. Um, but there's also an interior lobby as you get in through the doors and then a drop off point for the vehicles. view from the other side. You can kind of see these uh general um scale and size of the auditorium at the
020back there. And again, um a little bit more as you're standing from the main parking lot, walking your way towards main entry. Um any questions on this so far before I move on to uh I'll be covering the fieldhouse and the ball fields as well. >> Yes. Um thank you. Uh I do have a question. Can you explain um in detail what the ADA accommodations will be? >> Absolutely. >> Uh so by code we are going to be required to have um uh a set amount percentage of the total parking area to have dedicated ADA spots. Uh those are always going to be located as close to the main entry as we can. And then from there there are striped um uh striped ways to get to uh the main entry. Uh and then you
021were specifically asking for the interior of the promoting art center. That's okay. Well, we'll get there. And then um Okay. Uh you can see in the main uh if you're entering from the main foyer um we the seats from the as you enter through the main lobby uh the slab itself will be angled down so uh anyone from the wheelchair can uh wield themselves down. Um there are specific ADA designated spots within the front row and also uh it can be accommodated on the very back row as well. Uh, additionally, we have an ADA ramp uh for for wheelchair accessibility on the as Nick's point up there at the top left corner. >> Will that be in addition to the 7003 seats or is that included in the 70? >> It's uh it's as you
022know required by code. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Yeah. So the ramp will also get you access to the stage itself. Um the only section here that probably would not have access ADA access would be a closer look at the interior of the performing arts center. Uh this is not the final final design. Just a quick caveat. Um we're working to get all the uh preferences and the uh feedback as much as we can with the uh theater staff and with with the core team here. But this should give you a pretty good idea on what the space feels like. Uh how big is it in scale? Um that is I believe a 20 foot datim um precinium. That's what they call the top of the uh stage. Um uh at the top of your
023scene there are acoustic baffles that are also uh state-of-the-art. And again, we're going to work through all the finish options uh and of course go through several rounds and maybe iterations with you guys' staff to make sure that we have exactly the way you guys want it. So, when you're looking at this picture, look more at the size, the the space, not so much the I don't want to say the design, but the colors on the wall. We're that's what we're still working on. >> So, the wall panelings and whatnot, that's that's that can certainly change to how we want it. Um, those panels do are functional in the sense that they they add some uh additional acoustic help with the space. um that's not going away. But the design of which is a little
024bit freer. Uh the number of seats and how big the space feels is is probably uh what is as accurate as it can be at this point. >> Will this include a balcony? It's not now. Um 700 seats is quite a bit too. I'm going to go back to here just to give you a a a sense of the scale of this. Um that first uh after the brick uh you have that sort of beige sandstone color for the metal panels. That first uh portion of that is the auditorium which is around 30 feet. Uh and then the second portion of that which is the flyoff. Just so you guys know what you're looking at. Uh the fly loft is what houses all of the stage rigging and equipment and items like that. Uh that
025is up in the 50 foot range here. Um and that's exactly what we got a variance approval for for padding and toning. So, it's it's uh quite big despite not having a a balcony section. Uh anything else before I move on? Right. Uh moving on to the uh south section uh where we have our ball fields and proposed fieldhouse. Uh this is your fieldhouse plan. We have about a roughly 16,000 square foot uh practice field which is all astroturf. Um a brand new uh locker room um and a training room adjacent to that. And also adjacent to all this is a brand new team meeting room that also has a supporting um uh viewing deck um right in the exterior of it which I'll show you here in just a second. So this is again
026adjacent to our football field. Uh the brick finish there is the team meeting room that I just mentioned. Um you can kind of view it as a place for uh a team to meet, but it's also a good spot for your VIP to kind of come in uh during game days. And also um the play the the spot where we have some of the tables and chairs is what we're imagining to be your um also a VIP space for when you're looking at games and whatnot. Um the finishes of the fieldhouse is basically essentially matching your existing fieldhouse. um forest could be several times larger. Again, this is a view to the meeting room at the corner of your house. And this is more or less sort of the the view as you're sitting at
027that mound or as you're sitting at that new um Uh inside um a practice field with a divider curtain and some uh uh batting cages for baseball/softball practices more or less the fieldhouse. Is there any questions on that fieldhouse before I move on? >> Yeah, the team meeting room. How many can fit into that? Uh let's see here for you if I can read that. Um let's see. It is I believe around 1,500 square feet which is um a normal classroom would just be about 900 square feet. So I guess it's it's a classroom and a half essentially. Um, I don't have a good I can I can get back to you about the specific number of maximum occupants in there. Was there any immediate concerns on it? >> No, I was just wondering, you
028know, if you can fit a full team of a full football team in it or um, you know, how how big it is just just how many people can get in there and watch can watch video or whatever it might be. Um, how about the locker room compared I don't know if you know the square footage of the current locker room. Uh the locker room is is designed to support uh a hundred lockers um plus some additional space as well just for the coach to you know um have their their boards and and pep talks and whatnot. Uh so it's it's quite sizable and pretty comfortable. Um and then within it, not shown here, is there's actually also a stairway uh that leads up to um a second floor. Um but that is primarily just
029storage and mechanical space. But within that space, it's also um a cloth storage for the uh most teams. The way we envisioned it um was if we're talking specific for football like you might be able to get your offense in there or your defense in there 100 people might be pushing it but um >> Oh, in the in the >> in the meeting room. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Meeting room. And then also like events that you know we would envision having there would be like our Hall of Fame event at the beginning of the year instead of being in the cafeteria. That would definitely be enough space to hold it there. >> Okay. attached to the current fieldhouse that we >> if you want to call it that. No. >> Yeah. No, it where
030the weight room is. It's not, but it's very close. I think you have a visual to show the space and how close it is to it. >> Uh are we talking about the existing fieldhouse and the new fieldhouse? Okay. Yeah. Um if you can direct your attention to the bottom of this page, uh there's your existing bleachers. The red is the fieldhouse we were just looking at the plan. So, uh right next to it is your existing fieldhouse right there. um very very close. Um in fact, it's close enough that we aligned uh both of our overhead doors to be uh aligned so that um good weather days or bad um both the coaches just open up their those doors and you to each one. Uh and then to the right of that is the
031current existing student activities building sessions in. >> Okay. And then my last question would be storage in that facility in that area. Um what's the the game plan there I guess? >> Uh Nick um we have again a a cloth storage on the what we call a mezzanine on the second floor. So apologies for not showing that particular floor. Uh but essentially um right here >> where my where the restroom basically ends uh all the way down to uh uh the edge of the training room that's essentially all cloth storage. So a good that gives you a substantial amount of new storage I believe are utilizing shower room cloth storage. So uh we recognize that and I think part of this not shown here in plan because we're just But we are also updating the
032student building. So we're that old gang shower room that's being used for storage right now is going to be converted a usable single use um shower room. So shower compartment private so the gang shower. So to give you perspective on size of this, this is essentially widthwise is is width of a normal football field or real close 50 yards and this is 30 yards. So you could essentially run like you're running two-minute offense inside the 20 20 yard line um this way. So 50 yards by about 30 yards. So it's pretty large inside. I have I have two questions. Um, can you go back to kind of the site overview, Nick? >> That one. >> So, um, currently the band the band enters the field through basically through the middle of the proposed fieldhouse. So,
033how do we envision the band entering the field as they're coming in at the start of the game? Because we're not going to want them coming in the main entrance. >> So, those are all details we're going to need to really work out. um whether it will be coming in the main gate or whether we'll bring them over um at the end. You also saw on one of the versions that uh there was like a sidewalk that stopped in front of the uh patio. That might be something that we take around and connect to the outside. So those decisions will all be made as we move forward on the like uh more what is it construction details on where we want them to enter. We'll definitely work with our directors to make sure that they're
034involved >> uh in the decision. You do have a door at the corner of the practice field uh that opens up down into the field. Um uh what we can do is we can even center that door a little bit further down so that it immediately opens up into that walkway that you're seeing right there. >> Okay. >> Um let me see here. Oh, sorry. >> I just I just of all the things to get overlooked, I'm I'm particular to the >> Absolutely. So, as you can see that the door right now is to the right that enters into the main practice field. We can shift that down a little bit because immediately uh further back down within this view is the walkway. >> Okay. >> That goes directly down into the field. >> Okay.
035>> Uh so, uh there's an opportunity here. So, you can set up your band within the practice field. Certainly, there's there's plenty of space in there and then when they're ready, they walk through. >> Okay. >> That is one of the other really great things about the space of the um turf. It's not just football. So, we envision that our band will be able to go in there and practice >> um >> at any time. Baseball, softball, track, all I mean really we look through and lacrosse, all of the sports should have should be able to get time here in this space >> really garage door here. >> Yeah. But yeah, they could definitely we can definitely work through that. But, you know, the football team can go in here, have their team meetings before
036going out, then the band can meet here, >> go out. So, the space definitely be able to be used. >> And then, um, also, I guess semi-selfishly, um, is there any, um, official locker room area maybe in the old fieldhouse or something or or not? I'm just wondering. >> Uh, the old fieldhouse will have a um new office and a new golf sim room. Um so no but we are also updating uh slightly the existing um student activities room. >> Okay. >> That that official football locker would be essentially be within the new proposed fieldhouse now. >> Okay. >> And an additional question. Will the old locker room then be utilized for other sports? Boys and girls soccer, lacrosse, I'm trying to think, track. >> Instead of being a one larger locker room, it's gonna
037be subdivided. >> Because it's exactly that, >> right? >> We'll have three locker rooms in this total. Right now, we're going to make the football two lockers, men's and women's, and then the visitors lockers will be revamped. So you'll have three locker spaces inside >> in the old >> area with the new restroom facil shower facilities that are single in the old which we call the activity center there. >> Yeah. >> Uh right after this meeting I can also provide those plans if you guys also need to see. I just wasn't sure what where where the interest lies. Um okay. And uh last but not least um uh on the west section of the south half of the site here is your new baseball and softball fields. Uh this new layout is is relatively new
038in which we work with the planning and zoning team to get their concerns and preferences. uh they really wanted these ball field ball fields to be consolidated into one spot so that uh it alleviated a lot of their uh parking concerns on Deets and Connor Avenue. Uh and I think it all worked out for the best. Um since it's all here, we were able to fence everything in as well. Also, it makes it easier for you guys to uh keep everything enclosed and also just uh uh have a controlled entry and ticketing uh point and not just everyone being able to come in that direction. Uh in blue there is just your our proposed dry basin for storm water management. Um it's it's blue, but for the most part this will remain uh dry. Uh
039here is the view uh looking at the far west uh straight down into the new softball press box and are basically consolidated baseball and softball fields. Um our one singular press box is able to look down both the uh varsity and JV fields. Uh this will include new back stops, um new new dugouts for both baseball and softball. And this is a view of our baseball new baseball. Uh looking down into towards the school. And then again on the right or right here, you can see the new parking lot as well as the new fieldhouse. So, that is essentially the update, guys. Um, let me know if you have any further questions. Again, thank you for the opportunity to put these together. We're pretty pleased and very excited and hope you guys are excited as
040well for the new updates. Yep. Thank you for coming in and uh letting everybody out there and our community know what's uh what's happening, where we're going with it. Appreciate it. So for just another like next step. So as Amadeas mentioned, we do have a team um right now at planning and zoning for approval. We will need to have a special meeting uh still in December to ensure that the project stays on track so that we can move forward with the January 19th I believe uh site work beginning. So we will need to approve that DD stage which we will bring to you then at the the meeting. We'll I'll send out some dates tomorrow, but looking at obviously we're running out of time, but probably nearer the end of next week to give them
041as much time as possible. >> But I'll send out a text tomorrow. >> Hopefully the week of the December 15 that that week there. If there's anything missing here that you guys want to see for that special board meeting, let me know and we can Thank you. Appreciate you coming in tonight. >> Good night. >> Uh the next item on our agenda is C.WEA presentation. >> Been a while since we've seen you, Carla. >> I know. I know. >> We thought you were avoiding us. Thank you for coming. >> Never. Never. Never. Um I'm Carla Shawinsky and this is Brady Brennan here tonight on behalf of C.WEA. Um we're pleased to share um three highlights from across the district that demonstrate our commitment to community service, the arts, and crosscurricular collaboration. >> First, regarding community
042engagement, our staff continues to lead by example when it comes to serving our local community. We're proud to report that C.WA recently organized a fundraising drive to support our neighbors in need. Uh through their collective generosity, staff members across the district raised $3,232.7. This entire sum is being donated directly to the Canal Winchester Human Services Food Pantry to assist families in our area. This donation will be used with the double match program that will provide almost $10,000 for the local food pantry. Next, an update for our elementary schools. Over the next week and a half, our second grade classes will be participating in a significant cultural experience. They will be attending a performance of the Nutcracker Ballet. This field trip was carefully designed to align with our arts and music curriculum while also crossing over
043into English language arts standards. Students will be analyzing how the visual arts, specifically dance and set design, interact with Tchaikovsky's classical score um to tell a story. This experience serves as a valuable introduction to classical performing arts, promoting cultural literacy and fostering an appreciation that we hope lasts well beyond their time in the classroom. Even our very own Dr. Cloel, right, I said that correct. Great. Even our very own Dr. Cl and Miss Mrs. Hunt are getting in on the festivities. And then there are some pictures. I have um a picture to show that they're getting ready for um our trip as all of our second creators get their picture taken um with Nutcracker Man that was created by Nancy Cron 25 years ago. Um if you know Nancy, she still checks in to make
044sure that we're using it. And these are all hanging in the hallway um outside my classroom. All pictures or so of the second graders. So if you're ever over there, stop by and look. It's a pretty cool wall. But we've added um our two um leaders here to that today. They were able they actually came by the classroom at the perfect day or well day depending on how you look at it so that they're included um in in our pictures. The kids are super excited um about that. And moving on from that, I get to share that the high school um has some exciting things happening. Um, we've seen a wonderful collaboration between our family and commuter consumer science and English departments. Students in the Canal Chester High School FCCLA program partnered with Miss Abram's
045honors English nine class to bring literature to life. As the English students read Harper Lee's Tequilla Mockingbird, they encountered a reference to a lane cake. Recognizing unique learning opportunity the FCCLA students researched and baked authentic lane cakes for the English students to taste. Since neither group was familiar with the specific dessert um prior to the lesson, it provided a genuine moment of discovery and a tangible connection to the historical setting of that novel. These highlights um showcase that our students are connecting with their community, the arts, and history in meaningful ways. Thank you for your time tonight. We appreciate that. >> Thank you. I love your shirt. Thank you. >> Thank you for coming in tonight. Uh the next item on our agenda is public voice. Do we have any public voice? >> We do
046not. >> And now we move on to executive report starting with the treasurer's report. Uh good evening. U sorry Mrs. Tally, I'm probably going to take some of your stuff. >> I'm sure you will. But uh November 19th, the Senate um was in their last day um before their break and they approved four different House bills uh relating to us that the House had previously approved. Uh Miss Hunt and I happen to be down meeting with Dave Thomas and Senator Reynolds on that day. Um I just want to go over a little bit of what it means um for us. Um, it's not made its way to the governor yet, but once it's delivered to him, he will have 10 days to sign it into law or veto it, and then I don't know the
047steps from there. Um, I'm assuming it goes away. Um, but the first one, House Bill 129, the House and the Senate had already vetoed the or overrode the the governor's veto of allowing or dismantling fixed sums to count towards the floor. So, that one's existing right now. This would override that and basically allow us to renew the existing substitute levy that we have. So, what's currently out there right now, we're not allowed to renew it. Um, the House and the Senate overrode the veto that the governor did. So, we actually want the governor to sign House Bill 129. So, we we'll be able to renew our substitute emergency levy in 2029. Um, House Bill 186. Does that allow for one more renewal of existing or does it allow for ongoing renewals? >> It it right
048now it reads as one time and it's different for substitute emergency versus emergency. So, okay, we're still trying to figure out the details on that. >> Um, our understanding is we can renew it >> uh with the roll back credits on there for at least one more time. Mr. Thomas acted like that was going they were going to be looking at that again to maybe allow districts to continue to that. >> I'm going to figure that they're going to get a lot of push back. I think there's 262 districts that have this type of levy, >> right? >> So, I think they're going to get a lot of kickback to make sure they're able to continue to renew this type of levy. Um, I'll save the big one for last, but um, House Bill 309
049basically gives County Budget Commission authority to override uh, elections that if if a school district was to pass a levy and they didn't feel it was necessary, they could override that levy. Um, which gives the county a lot of control. They would be controlling not only the values, they'd be controlling the the tax rates, but they'd also be controlling whether they felt you were it was necessary for you to have a new levy. Um, it was a little bit more stern in the language. I guess they softened it a little bit. I'm not sure exactly how they softened it. It's still really bad for us. I personally think um House Bill 335 inside millillage I personally think is is the worst of the four. Um they had talked about eliminating the inside millage. Um so
050there's 10 inside mills that have never been voted on. That's the only mills that Ohio taxes and then every other uh millage is voted upon. This has been in place since 1905. It went up to 15 mills in around 1915 and then it went back to 10 mills in the Great Depression 1934. So it survived the Great Depression. Everybody kicked back on eliminating inside millillage. But this is essentially over time will eliminate inside millillage because as values grow they are now allowed to reduce the inside millillage if it goes over and beyond the inflationary amount that they're going to set which to give you an example we're 4.5 inside mills had that been the case before the tax year 2023 reappraisal in Franklin County we went up $180 million from the reappraisal In Franklin County,
051we probably would have went from somewhere in the 4.5 range down to 2.5, if not less, inside Millage. We would have had an update from Fairfield County at during that time. That would have taken us down to closer to two, if not under two. And now this year, we would have had Fairfield County reappraisal, which probably would have taken us close to zero as our inside millillage would have been gone and eliminated within five years. My concern with this is there's no incentive for the counties to keep the values low. Now, it's an incentive for them to raise the values and make sure they are maintaining market values because inside millillage is reduced and with House Bill 186, other millage is reduced as well. The 20 mil floor still exists. However, they're still allowed in
052House Bill 186 to reduce your levies beyond below the 20 mil floor even though it takes you down. So for us, so House Bill 129 basically says we're going to take your 8 mills of emergency levy, we're going to combine it with your 20 mills. What the problem is is those are two different formulated levies. Fixed sum levy, it generates 6.2 2 million and then the millage is calculated off of that. 20 mil is a levy and then the dollars are calculated off of that millage. Combining the two methods though all they're doing to us is they're going to say you've got to generate 6.2 million with your fixed sum. We can only reduce the millillage at that so far. So, we're going to have to drop the 20 mills lower than the floor to
053get you to where you need to be, which is technically illegal. Um, I know a lot of districts are already talking filing lawsuits against the state on that issue. I think one or two may have already done so. Um, not sure exactly what the governor's going to do. I did on the Monday after they approved this, I sent a letter to him basically just asking to reconsider to not pass both 186 and 335. I think limiting the revenue on both of those is very detrimental to school. It essentially says you have no growth for the rest of your time with the property tax unless you're able to to do a new levy. I just don't think that's sustainable for school districts, but I don't think the state wants it to be sustainable. I think they
054want to suffocate certain districts to where they either are going to be in fiscal emergency or they have to consolidate with other districts to shrink down the overhead and share services overall. I mean, they're basically eliminating the 20 mil floor through House Bill 186 without saying they're eliminating the floor and they're eliminating the inside millage. Like I said, it's been around since 1905. And that doesn't just impact school districts. I mean, we're 4.5 of the 10 mills. That impacts cities, townships, um, MRDDs, the zoos, everybody that gets the inside millage. It impacts Not everyone is going to receive a tax credit. So you have to be at the floor during the 2023 2024 2025 cycle. People in Canal Winchester will see a credit. You're going to see anywhere from $200 to $350 probably on your
055tax bill. Won't happen until the second half settlement. So you won't see anything until the July bill of this year. So your your first settlement bill will look exactly as it always has and then your credit will show up on the second bill. You live in a district that's not on the 20 mil floor, which is funny because they prepare prepared to prepared a flowchart and the first question was is your district at the 20 mil floor? I'm like 98% of people don't know the answer to that from the very start. this flowchart is huge of trying to show you and calculate all this stuff. Um, that's what we told them was it's confusing. I mean, you're expecting somebody to understand why or why not they're getting credit. They're basically publicizing this statewide and I
056think there's 50% of the districts at the floor. So 50% of the districts are not going to see a tax credit. I think it was 28 of 31 districts in Kyhoga County that are not at the floor. So most of that county, most of Hamilton, most of Franklin are not are districts that are not at the floor. Most of your districts living at the floor is your rural districts, your most poor districts that are living at the floor. Um, I think it's going to be confusing. It's definitely going to impact us trying to figure out. It's so confusing. It's It's hard to They're providing simulations, but they're not showing you where the dollar figures are being calculated from. Um, so still trying to figure that out. We're kind of on a short timeline to figure
057it out with this project. Um, the project right now is over budget a little bit. We'll talk to you at the work session on that. So, we're have to make some decisions. So, I'm trying to gather as much information on this. So we can have a forecast that we can kind of base our decisions off of uh and feel comfortable about. Um the forecast I presented was was a worst case scenario. The good news is I think we're close to that. The bad news is we're close to that. >> Um no one knows they're saying they're holding districts harmless. No one can quite figure that part out yet. We're still trying to figure out what that means. Uh because the simulations they're releasing still shows losses for all these districts. So, we're still trying to
058figure out all the little nuances of these bills to because they all kind of counteract and entwine a little bit. Um with House Bill 129, we're technically not at the floor anymore. But they're saying you if you were at the floor at this certain time then you stay on the floor even though House Bill 129 brought the emergency levies in towards the floor. So going to get it figured out. Um it's great for taxpayers. It's not going to really add up anything unfortunately um the taxpayers. I mean you might see like I said a $200 tax credit. Most people aren't going to know what it is. not going to care what it is. Um but it's going to be very detrimental long term to school districts. Any questions? Um on any of the House bills?
059>> There was some rumblings kind of early in the conversation about um some legislation affecting bond authority at the school for the school district. I'm assuming that really never matured or moved forward into any into anything. >> No, because it was such a it was large. It was part of a larger >> Okay. >> Senate bill that Brener had introduced. Um, and that wasn't going to go anywhere at this point. >> I think they had already made their minds up on House Bill 186. It was just a matter of how were they going to get it and sell it. >> Okay. Um, and it took using h $500 million of sales tax holiday funds to get the buy in. >> There was also some conversation about consolidating transportation at county levels. >> That was in
060the same bill. >> Okay. So, that just kind of >> went away. Didn't didn't really move forward. >> Okay. >> Yeah. I don't think I don't think Senator Briner's done, >> right? I think he's going to keep trying to push that. Uh I think he was just late to the game. My understanding is this is House Bill 186 is a three-year a three-year fix. Um they're trying to get ahead of the ballot language, which is going to be on in November of 2026 to say property taxes are unconstitutional. So, they were trying to do something um to maybe offset that. Um I just think they did too many things at one time and they're all impacting us in different ways. We just happen to be a district where all these things impact us to where
061it like all four of these house bills. You might be a district like Fairfield Union that only one of these impact you all four of these impact us. It's just matter of where we are. We have a fixed sum. We're at the floor. Uh we we had a tax year 2023 that had large reappraisals. It was just perfect situation for us unfortunately. >> Well, we appreciate um you Nick and and Ka. I know you've been down to the state house and met with state legislators several times um kind of as all of this was working its way through. So, I appreciate your leadership in in this arena trying to help the district and maintain our finances as as best you could. Yeah, I echo that. Um, I also wanted to ask specifically, um, I know
062you said that you want the governor to sign House Bill 129. How does House Bill 309, um, relate to that in a positive way? Because I know House Bill um, 186 and 335 were were most detrimental according to um, your assessment. Um, can you reiterate how House Bill 309 can work to our advantage? If so, >> I don't know how it works to our advantage, but like I said, it basically gives the county full discretional control. Um, they control the values and we spoke with um Dave Thomas about this. We said, why are we touching the tax rates that are voted upon? all these rates are voted on by the tax bases. Why not maneuver the values and he's like it's causes inequitable it's inequitable unequitable. We're not going to touch the values. We have
063to maintain those with the market even though they're not market values. Um, so to give the county budget commission all what they're essentially doing is let's say we pass a levy and we have $32 million. They feel that that is too much cash reserves and we pass a 5 mil levy. They could they could come in and reduce that levy and say you have $32 million. We're not going to allow that levy to go through even though our people passed it and approved it. uh they could come in and say, "We're going to reduce that five mil levy to a 2 mill levy, or we're just going to not allow you to collect on it at all." So for districts like ours that straddle two counties, both county or or one county could say that
064for the entire >> one county could say it for the entire um because wherever your largest tax base sits is your home county. So Franklin's our home county. for us. Franklin County would be the one that would that would Okay. Okay. >> And it requires public testimony um to do that. >> it would um but essentially they still I mean still have the final say. I mean Senate and House takes testimony and we testified and I think most of the testimony was against this um and they still chose to pass it. It'll be interesting to see how that part plays out. Uh I don't think I think they put the county commissioners in a bad spot. I don't think they're used to this. They have the tax budget hearings, but no one that has been
065so old school that no one shows up and it's been the same in my inside millillage that's dedicated for each subdivision. So, they haven't really had to do anything. they hold hold those, but it doesn't mean anything. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out um from a budget. And I think it's going to play out from county to county. >> Who makes up the county budget commission? >> They're voted. They're county commissioners. >> It's the county commissioners. Okay. Okay. >> Do we have you have next moves in mind? figure this out and know where we stand for sure. Um, obviously we need to renew the 2029. That's the good news if if House Bill 129 goes goes into place. Um, that was bad news as it currently stands. Not being able to renew
066that was really going to put us in a bind. So, that's the one good piece out of this is that we're able to renew that and hopefully we're able to. Um, we had a levy plan that was most likely going to happen in 2030 to 2232 range anyway with the all of our debt falling off. Um, I'm hoping we can make it still to that point and then have a plan at that at that place or at that point. Um, we're probably leaning an income tax increase. Um, I think we're fighting an uphill battle with that. Um, that seems to be what everybody supports. Um, Thomas and uh, Brener and Reynolds were surprising to hear. That's what they were all in favor of moving forward, but they're asking school districts to pass income taxes, which
067is very, very, very challenging. So, we'll come up with a couple different strategies um, and then go from there. But I think the 2029 strategy still holds. I think we renew for at least 10 years, gets us out. Um, and I think we're still sitting in a good spot with having as much debt as we do. Um, with bonds falling off allows us to recoup some dollars without raising taxes. Matter of which angle we take. as everything stands, the worst thing we could probably do is go for a property tax because they're going to keep reducing. They're going to keep fighting against and even if we were to pass it, maybe they come in and say you don't need it. So, I think even then it's a risk to pass one. Um, so we'll see
068uh what the governor signs. Maybe he doesn't sign all these. I have a feeling he probably will. I think his tax um reform recommended 186. They recommended a version of 129. I don't think they wanted to I don't think they recommended to collapse it with the 20 mil floor, but they recommended changing the name uh the ability to renew. Um I don't know if he had 309 in their tax reform or not. Do you know? I know they definitely didn't have 335 in their tax reform. I could The one I could see him not signing is House Bill 335 with the inside. That's the one I'm hoping he doesn't they'll come back and try it again or do it again. So, we'll have a new governor in place some just hope that this is it
069for a while. I think they're on break until February >> or so, >> early next year. >> Um, and they were making a big push and they made it very alarming to us to say we had to get something done for tax year 25 because of the the ballot issue that's coming. So, they felt like they had to do something. Um, so I just hope they're done and they pump the brakes and let's let this play out how this works. Um, the problem is it's hard to plan. Nobody knows where they stand at this point. We had a system in place that was had the ability to plan. You knew what it was. You knew how to calculate your taxes. Now I feel like there's there's phantom inflation. It's 9 and a half% 8 and
070a half% it's a moving target with the value increase. I just feel like there's there's too much gray in the numbers that I feel like you can tweak any of that stuff. Say inflation is 9% or 8 and a half% or 8%. So I don't know exactly which number they're using. They keep throwing out a 9 and a half% number. I don't know exactly where that's coming from. So, we're working to figure it out. There's a lot of people trying to figure out exactly what it means. Um, how they work together is the big thing. Um, House Bill 309 doesn't have any immediate financial bearing on us. Um, but 335, 186, and 129 all do. >> What else, Nick? Anything good? >> Anything good? >> Well, could have been worse. So, I feel like it's
071somewhat good news. At least we know where we stand. >> I did notice from your November report, we're at about 1.4 million in uh interest >> revenue this year. Are you going to hit uh are you gonna get back up over three million this year? Um, no, probably not. >> Okay. >> I think they're going to cut rates again >> next week. So, >> 0.25. >> Okay. I >> think pal's got too much pressure on him to not cut. >> I appreciate that. I did also notice I mean expenditures and revenue and expenditures all seem to be on track for the year. So, just I know we didn't go into detail with the November numbers, but >> yeah, we're good. We're good for this year. We're not we're not going to react. Um Kai has
072talked we're not going to react. We made that decision at the beginning of this fiscal year. So whatever happens happens. We're not we're not going to be able to change anything for this year. Um let's get as much information as we can >> try to put a plan together uh and then go out. But we don't want to make any rea reactionary decisions based off of any of this. We obviously will need to react. We just don't want to do it without putting a plan together. >> Exactly. What's >> Yep. No. And I appreciate that. >> Anything else for us? >> Nope. >> Move on to superintendent report. >> I do have some good news. I've received word that we did get the approval from the planning and zoning through the city. So that is
073that's passed and that was big that's a big big passing. So that's good news. So there followup. Okay. Good evening. Uh, I'm excited to share some updates from across the district. On Friday, December 5th, now Winchester High School hosted a successful blood drive in partnership with HOSA and the American Red Cross. A total of 53 individuals donated, which included 35 students, eight staff members, and 10 community members, resulting in 44 units collected. This exceeded our goal of 30 units, and the school earned a $500 Red Cross scholarship for its participation. We appreciate We appreciate everyone who contributed to this effort. Indian Trail Elementary welcomed students and families for a literacy night designed to support and celebrate early reading on November 13th. Students move through the themed reading spaces listening to stories and participated in hands-on
074activities. The Columbus Metropolitan Library provided a free book for each child. And Friends for Life Animal Haven contributed to the evening by bringing foster kittens for students to meet. It was a strong family engagement event focused on building a love of reading. And we'd like to thank our LLC staff, Miss Janie Canner and Miss Valerie Yennady for organizing this fun opportunity for our families. At Winchester Trail Elementary, students are participating in the Tech Quest afterchool enrichment series led by LLC media specialist Cassie Dickinson. Each month centers on a different STEM theme and provides students with opportunities to explore technology in a hands-on setting. December's program, STEM snowflakes, allow students to design their own 3D snowflakes and take home a 3D printed ornament. Sessions are separated by grade level to support developmentally appropriate instruction with limited
075enrollment to ensure high quality learning experiences. The series will continue throughout the year with topics including Lego engineering, 3D design, and introductory coding. November and December are also busy months months for our performing arts programs. In November, the high school choirs and jazz band presented a Disney cabaret featuring a range of familiar selections. And the middle school choir held its first concert of the year. The Canow Winchester High School Theater Department announced the cast and crew for this year's musical Percy Jackson, The Lightning Thief, the Percy Jackson musical, which will be performed February 20th through the 22nd. This week, the high school and middle school bands will hold their winter concerts on December 10th and 11th. In addition, four Canal Winchester Middle School students were selected to perform in the Ohio Music Educational Association's District
07615 Middle School Honor Band. Students were nominated by their directors based on their musical achievement. Congratulations to Ava Schmeeltzer who plays the clarinet, Leila Han who plays the trombone, Emberllin Annibal who plays the trumpet, and Grant Jenkins who plays the trombone for representing our district at this event. And finally, the annual 2025 your school's your voice survey is now open. Family, staff, residents, and students are invited to share feedback on district priorities and future planning. All students in preschool through 12th grade are given the opportunity to participate during the school day with the survey modified as needed for our younger learners. The survey will remain open until 5:00 p.m. on January 12th of 2026 and results will be shared on our website. To take this survey, please visit our website at cwschools.org. That concludes my
077report and thank you for your continued support. >> Give us a shot. Do we have any questions from this? Okay, we're going to move on to board committee reports starting with CWJRD. As always, the I rest sound bath winter session is open. Uh if anybody wants to check that out and uh the only other thing to report, January registration opens for baseball, softball, adult soccer, and adult softball. So that's it. Thank you. Um, Mrs. Tally, the OSBA legislative liaison. >> Thank you, Mr. George. Um, good evening. Um, first I'd like to uh recognize and thank um our board president, Miss Barnes, for also attending um with our leaders, Miss Hunt and Mr. Roberts, to the state house um as the uh legislative alternate on my behalf. um and uh advocating for um better public funding
078uh for our schools. Um my report pretty much overlaps Mr. Roberts. So, I'm not going to go into the detail that I have prepared, but um just in general, just going to reiterate that uh our lawmakers, they wrapped up the year with um passing nearly 40 bills before they recessed for the remainder of this year. Um they are expected to return in uh February of 2026. And um as Mr. Roberts pointed out um a major focus was the uh passage of the four um property tax reform bills and it it uh will be sent to the governor for a signature. So, we'll see what happens. Um also to mention, uh the Senate passed four additional education bills and the House advanced five more to the Senate for consideration. Um they are a variety of bills
079um some concerning curriculum and um others uh but we are following them closely um as they move through the legislative process. Um I did want to point out that uh there's an issue here and it's been a long-standing issue of const constitutionality of the state sheriff funding our schools. Um, in 1999, the Ohio Supreme Court had ruled that the the uh funding allocation from the state share was deemed unconstitutional and they were they were contributing about 45% um funding and where we are right now in this climate, it's around 35%. So, just to give you an idea of where things are. So there is that uh piece working through our courts. Um Judge Jiza Page has ruled in favor of um the lawsuit that the districts have all subscribed to. But nonetheless, it's still being
080going through the judicial process through the um court of appeals. So that's something uh to follow as well. >> Vouch your lawsuit. >> Yeah, file your lawsuit. So we'll see what happens with that. So just giving you a broader spread uh perspective of the climate of what's going on. There is that in that issue of constitutionality. And that concludes my report. One other point to make which I think is interesting about the 99 and finding it to be unconstitutional. It never was made to be constitutional. So it's not even like we're going backwards. it. They never improved to make it constitutional. So, it still sits in that and getting worse. >> Thank you, Mr. Tally. Uh, Miss Green, student achievement liaison. >> Um, I don't really have much to report. Um, but in November, I
081was able to visit the OSBA capital conference. Um, I saw a few of you guys there. Um, but I got a chance to go to that student achievement fair. um just to see what the kids around the state have been working on and they have some pretty interesting projects that they've been doing um different school districts. Um still my goal and hope to have Canal Winchester represented there. So next year we'll probably be uh doing some things there. Um but I got a chance to go to the entrepreneurship section and see the different businesses. Lots of t-shirt businesses and different things like that. So for all the entrepreneur students out there, great job. Um even if your business is not known, continue working for it. So, that's all I had. >> Thank you, M. Green.
082Uh, the next section is the district reports. Um, and I'll start out real quick. I just wanted to um congratulate Mr. Culie on uh achieving the CISSP certification. If he's back there somewhere, um there he is. You're just you should sit at the front of the group because your your stature challenge. >> Yes. >> Um and and then in addition to that, I would just uh you know, from the technology report, some of the initiatives that you've undertaken and are in process right now um are are greatly benefiting the district, not just from a technology perspective, but also from a monetary perspective. So consolidating and and and innovating to to reduce the amount of technology spend while still um providing the a high maybe even a better level of technology coverage is uh we notice
083that and we appreciate that. So thank you. >> Um I would like to um just personally uh thank uh the awesome staff members. We have great staff members across all of our buildings. Um but specifically I wanted to acknowledge um Kim Shiplet, Alex Reid, Nick Funkhouser, and Tara Morris from the middle school on being selected as staff members of the month. Um they all do an awesome job. And I additionally I wanted to thank um the uh preschool uh leaders for including in the report the return um or response to uh intervention data because you provided comparison data from 2024 to 2025 to really show um the the the direction that we're going in as far as the need of our um special education students. Um we only had like five spaces left whereas last
084year we had 24. So it's it's a very stark um contrast. So I just wanted to um point that out that I appreciated that being in the report. That's all I had. And I just want to uh congratulate and uh uh say good luck to Jodie Good, the transportation director who's moving on and uh she's done a wonderful job and and continues as she's finishing up here to do a a wonderful job and uh I I call them the unsung heroes. So I appreciate all those bus drivers and what she has done for them. So thank you. This is good. That's all I have. Okay. Uh, moving on to the consent agenda. Can I get a motion to approve the consent agenda items? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Thank you so much. We are
085going to start with number two. Do uh the minutes from the uh November 10th regular meeting. Number three is donations. We do have two donations. Um, one was from the Wood Foundation to the professional development for the administrative team and we have a donation from Kim Boyc to Indian Trail for the Nutcracker Trip. So, thank you to both for their generous donations. Number four is our administrative personnel. And as uh Mr. Twist mentioned, we do have a resignation from Jod Good, who currently serves as our director of transportation, which is effective December 31st. We wish her the best of luck. um and she will definitely be missed. Number five is our certified personnel. Uh we do have recommendation uh for Jo Joseph Conrad as an intervention specialist uh who will be at middle school and
086that will be filling in a position um that was a resignation mid year. So that's we're excited about that and that will take us I want to look back but I'm pretty sure that makes us whole then at the middle school. Moving on to number six which is our classified personnel. Uh we do have two resignations, one from custodian, one from special ed aid. And then we are asking you to approve three positions, two custodians and a special ed aid. We have substitute classified recommendations for custodians and uh number seven is our supplemental. Yes, sorry that's all for our six is our classified personnel. Moving on then to number seven is our supplemental personnel and stipens. Uh as we mentioned there's a resignation of the assistant cross country coach and then as you see our
087rescending contracts. I just will remind you uh I'm sure we're used to it by now but this is a new process where we're approving all coaches in May. So there will be some resentions each month to keep that cleaned up um for positions. And then we go and we make sure that we're approving our athletic and our academic supplemental and stipens. We do have um theater positions, faculty managers, softball and uh baseball. We do on that position have new baseball coach uh which we had the resignation last month, but uh Trevor Raymond who will be our new varsity baseball coach. And then finishing off that uh then would be our volunteer coaches for softball, swim and dive, track and field and baseball. >> That's all for the consent agenda. >> I had one clarification I
088just wanted to ask. Um so a teaching position at this at this point is going to be half salary. Correct. Hired at that at that amount. Is that what it They will be paid at the so it's a annual rate but it will be prrated to the days that they work. >> Just wanted to clarify. >> Thank you. That's a good question. >> Any other questions on the consent agenda? >> Roberts. >> Yes. >> George, >> yes. >> Okay. Moving on to action items. The first action item is board member conference expense reimbursement for Miss Barnes. Um I'll approve uh motion to reimburse uh Miss Barnes $111.74 uh for expenses incurred at the OSBA capital conference. >> I'll second. >> Any questions or concerns? Robert. >> Yes. Sally, >> yes. >> Miss Green, >> yes.
089>> Mr. Twist, >> yes. >> The next action item is uh board member conference expense reimbursement for Mr. Twist. >> So moved. >> Mr. Roberts. >> Yes. >> Green. >> Yes. >> Mr. George. >> Yes. >> Mr. Chrisain. >> Uh, next action item is board member conference expense reimbursement for Mrs. Tally in the amount of $69.30. I will move a second. >> Any questions or concerns? Mr. Roberts. >> Mr. George. >> Yes. Mr. Twist. >> Yes. M. >> Green. >> Yes. M. >> Stally. >> Abstain. Next action item is a resolution to adopt NIST uh cyber security framework. >> I can get a motion from somebody. So move >> second. All right. Thank you. I'm gonna ask Miss uh Dr. Koulie to come up and just quickly share uh on this item. >> Good evening.
090So what this resolution uh it's a requirement of House Bill 96 um which requires uh school district to pass uh similar resolution uh for us to uh uh to implement the the cyber security framework. There are a few cyber security frameworks out there. The NIST stands for N National Institute of Standards and Technology. It's one of the major one used by uh used by the federal government but but for by many other organizations. The other one it's CIS um and uh we have chosen NIST um CSF version two as a cyber security framework for various reason. One of them it's it's one of the recognized frameworks. Number two, it is the framework that is pushed and encouraged by the Ohio Cyber Reserve. Uh, and I am a reserveist in the Ohio Cyber Reserve and I
091understand it well myself. Thus, it make it makes sense to implement a framework that is one of the recognizable uh good frameworks out there that we can understand and we have made uh great uh uh strides toward client missed CS again this is a requirement for us to move in this direction by house bill six and the department of technology it's it's working toward full compliance by basically by the end of the school. >> Are there any questions on this? This is a whole brand new framework, right? >> This is brand new framework for the uh public institutions. Uh but not for us because we've been working with this framework ever since I I came for >> what I thought. Right. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> We have any significant cost associated with implementing
092this framework? >> No, there will not be any cost. Um the framework will require some training will require some change changes in our technology. However, uh most of the resources are uh in in fact provided by by state agencies such as Ohio cyber reserve as well as the Ohio persistent cyber initiative as far as training is concerned. So the resources are out there. It's primarily time. >> Okay. >> Thank you. Mr. Roberts. >> Yes. >> Mr. Tally. >> Yes. >> Mr. George. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Green. >> Yes. >> Next action item is board policy final reading. Uh I'll move to approve the following policies. I had a first reading at the November board meeting. >> Second. >> Okay. Thank you. Um we did go through these in a work session prior to and then
093again presented them at the November board meeting. So uh no changes made to the when we presented in um November. There is one that we removed which was the attendance. We are still working on that. Uh we're also not going to implement um the attendance policy until uh next year the changes that came. So, we're going to wait until a little bit later in the spring to approve that. >> Any other questions on this group of policies? >> Mr. Roberts. >> Mr. George? >> Yes. >> Miss Green? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Styley? >> Yes. >> Mr. Twist? >> Yes. >> Next action item, uh, board policy final reading, anonymous complaints. Can I get a move? >> I'll motion. >> Second. >> I guess I'll start the discussion on this. Um I I uh spoke against
094this uh policy at the last meeting. Uh so I'll leave it to anyone who's watching this meeting to go back to the last meeting and and watch my primary concerns about this policy. Um, I will add uh to my to my comments from the last board meeting. Our staff are already protected by policy. They have legal protection and they have union protection. Uh, by passing this policy, we are adding a layer of protection for staff, which is generally a good idea in my mind. However, in this case, we are removing agency from our students and our and the citizens of the school district. So, we are removing the power that they have to make reports when they don't feel comfortable naming themselves to a report that they're making, which isn't unusual in a smaller district
095or a smaller town. So, um outside of that, I don't have any additional comments above and beyond my comments at the last meeting. I would only um add that um I do agree with the intent of this policy and that we want to be able to provide the uh safety and security for protecting our staff. Um however, I do feel that there's a better way to move forward with this. Um, and I would stand behind reformulating our existing policy and making that a little bit more suitable for what we're trying to accomplish. My only input on this is um I believe that as time goes on, Neiola constantly changes policy, updates policy. Um this would be no different. So as uh as we see needed or fit um you know, we we would amend this
096and change it along the way and I would have no problem with that as well. So I just want to I wanted that out there. >> Yeah. I think that policy 9130 is a little bit more developed um to be the basis for what we work on work off of. So that's where I I would stand. I would rather continue to draft uh and make our current policy a little bit more um better as far as strengthening how we're going to deal with the anonymous the anonymous um correspondence that we get. is there is room to improve that policy. >> Any other comments? >> Mr. Roberts. >> Mr. Twist. >> Yes. >> All >> Green. >> Yes. >> Moving on. The next action item we have uh payment in lie of transportation. So uh I
097will move to approve the additional payment in l of transportation applicants based on the terms of the 2526 payment in le of transportation resolution. >> Second. >> Any questions on this? Looks like there were just four or five additions to the existing list. Um, Mr. Roberts, take the role. >> Yes. M. >> Green. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Tally. >> Yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. >> Um, next action item is approving the organizational meeting date. >> Can I get a motion? I move to approve the organizational meeting date as January 12th, 2026 at 6:45 p.m. >> I'll second. >> Mr. Roberts, >> yes. >> Mr. Twist, >> yes. >> Mr. George, >> Miss Green, >> yes. And the final action item uh we need to elect a president prom uh for the organizational meeting. So I
098guess first we need to get um candidates. >> I will motion to appoint uh Monica Tally. >> I'll second. Mr. Mr. Roberts. >> Mr. George. >> It was Mr. Twist, wasn't it? >> Yeah, it was. >> Mr. Twist. >> Yes, >> Mrs. Tally. >> Yes, >> Mr. George. >> Miss Green. >> Yes. Okay, it is 8:37. I need a motion to enter into executive session to consider the dismissal or discipline of a public employee per division G1 of section 121.22 of the Ohio Revised Code. >> So moved. >> I'll second. >> Mr. Roberts, >> yes. >> Mr. Twist, >> yes. >> George, >> yes. >> Miss Green, >> yes. We'll be entering into executive session at this time. Um we will only reconvene into uh open session to adjourn the meeting. There will be no
099further action taken during the meeting tonight. Thank you.