001e e it is 7 o'clock and we will uh now say our bud no we will we will do our roll call yep Miss Barnes present Mr George here miss green here Mrs tally here Mr twist and now we will do our Pledge of Allegiance tonight there is excuse me there is one deletion um F6 under consent agenda and supplemental Personnel resignation the resignation that was not me thank you okay okay and um moving on to the next agenda item the approval of the agenda for the regular meeting um well to the approval of the agenda I move to approve the agenda thank you second take the roll call please Mr George yes Mrs tally yes M Barnes yes M green yes next on the agenda is presentations um we having a presentation tonight for
002the Ohio Auditor Award with distinction um Scott Brown Ohio auditor of the state of Ohio one correction real quick I am not the auditor of the state of Ohio I was about say you don't look like Scott um he's much smarter than I am um but uh I do Ser I do work for him so and what is your name my name is Scott Brown okay so um I appreciate a few minutes on your agenda this evening to celebrate a job well done my name is Scott Brown and I serve as the auditor of State Keith fabers Central Ohio liaison or as the auditor would tell you your personal customer service representative it's great to see all these people here recognizing you tonight Todd it's full room it's Fant it's my honor to be here
003uh on behalf of auditor Faber to present the auditor of state of Award with distinction to the Canal Winchester local school district each year our office is responsible for conducting more than 4200 audits out of 6,000 clients Statewide this award places your organization in a very select select group as just 4% of our clients qualify for this award the auditor of State award distinction is presented to local governments and school districts upon the completion of a financial audit that meet the following criteria defined as a clean audit report The Entity must file Financial reports with the auditor's office by a statutory due date without extension on a gap accounting basis and prepare a comprehensive annual financial report the audit report does not contain any findings for Recovery material citations material weaknesses significant deficiencies uniform guidance
004findings um or other costs along with a whole other slew of boxes we have to check off right yeah this award represents a hard work of all of CW's staff and employees who make every effort each day to attain accounting Excellence we'd like to recognize the board the administration and the finance department theyve done an outstanding job watching over every dollar what this truly means is that across the entire organization you have the people and processes in place that understand fiscal accountability specifically we want to recognize Nick Roberts for his leadership his professionalism an exceptional commitment to fiscal Integrity so on behalf of state auditor Keith Faber I would like to present the Canal Winchester local school district the auditor of State Award with distinction congratulations and I'll save my cheer for later um I'm
005happy to answer any questions you may have and then this is where the recipient stands up and walks up here and receives the come on finance staff you're in the back of the [Applause] room do that you want where you want I'll stick my face through no in front of the podium come on yeah last time I held it all my friends I got the award I was Pres I was stuck at the door nobody answered my text looks like just for next we'll see you soon congratulations all of you you do a wonderful job and we really appreciate everything that you do for our school district next on the agenda uh for presentations is the Canal Winchester cheer program 2025 o OA cheer state champions [Applause] all right it is with great pride and
006enthusiasm that we recognize the exceptional achievements of the Canal Winchester cheer program on Sunday February 23rd our cheer team became the 2025 OA SSA cheer state champions this remarkable accomplishment reflects the dedication skill and teamwork of our student athletes as well as the exemplary leadership of our coaching staff at this time we want to recognize our coaches and our athletes as official state champions we'll start off first with Jody clampi than you we have Robin duncle and we have Britney Lee at this time I'm going to pass on to coach clampi and let her provide the certificates to the student athletes I would love to present them to you all right these are now order santiana Bass Sloan Beverly can stay up here if you don't mind just kind of make a way we're gonna
007get a picture so Kira chers audre [Applause] cauldron Addy deur [Applause] I'll use the scouts nonformal name Scout [Applause] Suter Gracie [Applause] gildo Avery Graham Anna haes followa by her sister Emily PES Abby Josephson Samantha love Kaye merel [Applause] Ava [Applause] molet Jenna North Chloe Russell c r c toaya Thompson Natalie Tyler Cameron Wilson poor little Ayanna here Ayanna wife and we're missing mallerie mhler who was at work mallerie all right all right I know you guys know this drill let's kind of Y you know the drill might take him a second front row get down yeah you can we can get in here with him we'll try to be tall there we go there was a window I could see Thea you congratulations ladies you guys did an excellent job say just a couple
008words if that's okay we just want to say I I always have a hard time talking about the girls because I'm pretty attached to them so but we just want to say how proud We Are of them and how hard they worked this year and um our goal was to be top five so if you've seen their video the counting down it's hilarious you know they're on a p i don't think we we ever heard our name because when they called second place they just started screaming it was great so we're and I I've told them we've been chasing everyone they're chasing us so we're excited we're going to work for back to back there go well congratulations thank you [Applause] congratulations you all are more than welcome to stay however we understand if we'll
009give everybody a couple minutes if you're okay Le yeah you're you're so welcome thank you okay next we have on our our agenda um the 2024 2025 behavioral discipline data um being presented by our superintendent K hunt awesome well thank you I don't know if it's me but the room definitely cleared out quick but congratulations also to the treasures Department that was awesome 4% that is a that's impressive so um we just want to spend some time sharing some Behavior data that we have um comparing our numbers from this year to our last year numbers one of the things you'll notice is we really reflected on first semester of this school year um and compared it to first semester of last school year so that you can really see an Apples to Apples comparison um
010behavior and discipline data is is a useful tool for us uh the administrators the teachers um and just the district in large because it allows us to identify Trends uh support students and improve interventions so we try to look at it not to point out specific students in that behavior but really look at an overall picture that tells us how we can improve and the things that we're doing that are working about the data here um discipline and behavior data are recorded throughout each school year by teachers staff and administrators the state collects some discipline data for the school districts in Ohio um some of the data that the school collects is more of the major infractions that we have uh that would lead to suspensions and expulsions these would be incidents including fights drugs
011alcohol um Natures that are incidents that are very uh major in nature and the data is reviewed as part of our multi-tiered systems of supports and throughout the presentation you'll hear me say mtss and that is our multi-tiered systems of support it allows us to look at the data and make decisions for our students in our buildings when looking at data there are some things that could imp impact the the usefulness of the data so just like to kind of point out some of the challenges that we might have because of the small number of incidents in some areas it's difficult to evaluate data or Trends or patterns I'll point out some of this in a couple of these areas to show what I'm talking about uh throughout the presentation also our previous year's data
012does not include students who have withdrawn from the district so as we're comparing information of our students the data that we include would be students that are still here with us um so if they transferred out or moved away that information would not be included in last year's data and there are differences in recording data at each building level and I'll highlight those as well we'll start off first here with Canal Winchester High School um if you notice at the bottom of each of these slides as we get to the building I do have definitions that we have for uh the different items that I'm going to share at the high school and office referral is behavior that's referred by a teacher or a staff member to a building administrator office referrals can result in
013discipline actions like abip which is our inch school learning alternative or an after school detention or a lunch detention some of those smaller discipline uh re infractions that we would give and then discipline is behavior that resulted in a suspension or an expulsion so the data overview as I mentioned we're really comparing 24 25 sem first semester to 23 24 1 semester to really compare apples to apples so our total number of discipline actions again that would be suspensions or expulsions first semester of this year we had 66 and last year we had 86 so that would be a decrease of 23% the total number of students then that would have had those discipline actions would have been 54 this year and 65 from last year again a decrease of 17% total number of office
014referrals and again just a reminder this would be where our teachers would submit that uh incident to the administrators it could also be a dis uh I'm sorry A detention or abip this would be 379 for this semester from a 481 which gives us a 21% increase and that would account for 165 students from 203 so as you can see the numbers have decreased um significantly from those different uh from the discipline actions and our office referrals the number of students who had a discipline action or an office referral was 187 so we included that number so if you look at the number of students for a discipline action and an office referral 165 plus 54 gives you somewhere around 200 and oh let's see here 200 something I could probably 219 yep there we
015go 219 thank you and the number of students is actually 187 that means that there are students who could be account counted in both of those numbers for an office referral and a discipline action so we wanted to give an idea of how many students out would have been 187 and the percentage of students who had only one discipline action or an office referral was 53% so that number we like to we would think that that means that 53% of our students that did receive a discipline or an office referral it did not happen again so it's not a recurring so hopefully that would show that number one it was just an incident that was not normal incident or that that is something that the consequence did help to um cause that not to happen
016again as we look at our discipline actions uh we look at AIP again AIP is the alternative Behavior placement that would be an in school alternative placement instead of the students going to their classes um they would have an alternate placement this year we had 58 in first semester and last year we had 60 for our suspensions we went from 74 to 62 and our expulsions did go from 2 to 5 again when we talk about our numbers um kind of what I mentioned earlier about the data and the challenges that we have with it you are looking at small numbers of two to five so if we put a percentage on that that would look like an increase of over 100% um when we are talking such a small number of students from two
017to five some of the infractions that resulted in discipline again we talked about the state reporting the these are all reported to the state so we have alcohol and drugs and you can see there we had zero from the last two years in first semester alcohol and drugs which would be specific drugs we have eight this year from 11 last year which is a decrease possession or use of weapons was 2 to2 threats of violence or actions of violence went from 13 to 16 and again just highlighting when you have small numbers it shows a major increase here of 23% and the same could be said with the net Theus 27 % just such small numbers that you might not find Trends in that disruption of the educational process we did go from 16 to
018zero we do believe that we are reporting some of these items differently or being more clear in what the disruption was so it could have been a threat of violence that caused the disruption and we would report that there in the threat of violence we have acts of disrespect to a staff member that went from 23 to 16 fighting and physical abuse 20 to8 tobacco and or nicotine vaping is 15 to 16 again a 7% increase but that's one student differ and then intimidation or bullying did go from zero this year and we had one last year about the data discipline I'm sorry at the high school discipline and behavior data is reviewed by the administration team and our building leadership team and these reviews can lead to interventions to improve Student Success some of
019them that we already put into place like hallway sleeps that sweeps that are happening at the high school and cell phone policy changes so we believe when we can find something that maybe will help deter the behavior or that then we see a success rate in it by some of the things that we're doing including the cell phone policy and the cell phone Suite moving on to Canal Winchester Middle School again at the bottom and we talked a little bit about how each building reports or um gathers their information differently at Canal Winchester Middle School they do not track office referrals so office referrals are put in just as they would in other buildings however office referrals are converted to discipline and that allows the building to track the actions taken to address behaviors so
020you will not see office referrals as a data point on the Middle School's chart discipline is behavior that resulted in a discipline action unlike the high school where the discipline is only suspensions and expulsions at the middle school it could be any of the discipline um that could happen such as suspensions and expulsions as well as Alternative Learning placements lunch detentions after school detentions Etc so if you're looking here at 2425 uh number of total discipline actions for first semester was 154 and that decreased from 231 uh from last year that's a 23% decrease total number of students that had those discipline actions went from 122 to 87 and then again just to highlight the percent of students who had only one discipline action or office referral that number is 64% Below on the same
021chart you'll see the Alternative Learning Center we had 90 students this first semester assigned to an Alternative Learning Center last year we had 153 out of school suspensions went from 64 to 46 and expulsions went from 2 to three so again you see decreases across the board um other than again the expulsions which was an increase of one again the data overview and these are a the reportable to State you have the alcohol and drugs I'm not going to go through all of these you do notice that we had zero incidents of alcohol or drugs the first semester uh possession or use of weapons St the same with just one threats of violence did go from three or I'm sorry from 17 to three so that is a very large decrease disruption of the educational
022process from 18 to8 and the assaulting of another student went from 3 to zero acts of disrespect insubordination to a staff member here we did have 35 this year and last year we only had 20 so that is obviously an increase and then moving on to fighting 19 this Year from 15 last year tobacco Andor nicotine vaping device went up 100% however it won student versus zero last year and then intimidation or bullying if you could just stay on this slide for a minute one of the things just to highlight is this is where we really will look at the information and why we look at data so obviously you see that acts of disrespect insubordination to a staff member and School employee that's a big increase we don't want to see that happening but
023we really need to dive into what is happening what is the disrespect um what is the insub ation how can we you know either work with our students to ensure that um those behaviors are not happening but also is there something that we can continue to work on with professional development um on you know how we also interact with students is it Poss yeah is it POS is it possible that b takes it more seriously when they're being when they are the subject of the discipline than when there's a bullying activity um because I see 20 on the staff but only one on the students and I've heard multiple complaints about student bullying so is it that the staff may not be reporting the student bullying but more or less reporting when they're being approached
024or when they can clearly think that it's just that it's a an infringement upon them because they're the subject I think we have to be careful on the definitions so again the definition of bullying is repeated violation so that means in order for it to be considered bullying it means I've done something to you we have addressed it and said that is behavior that is considered bullying if it's repeated then we can address it again okay if it happens more than once repeated or uh very and there's other terms there's a word I'm looking like pretty significant in in the actions when you look at acts of disrespect in subordination that does not mean bullying that means they're being disrespected yeah so if you looked into um like disrespect of other students you're going to
025see definitely a higher number okay now could it happen that I mean I think anywhere if it's directly to me that I'm going to be offended and I make like but I don't I don't believe that it's in a nature of oh we're not worrying about the students we're you know it's happening to us but when it's reported especially with bullying specifically it is a very specific definition that we're looking at there thank you you're welcome and about data here at the middle school discipline and behavior data is reviewed monthly by the building leadership team and the building leadership teams I should have clarified is a team of not only our administrators but also our teaching staff and other staff members in the building um and it's looked at at the semester change and over
026the summer as students progress throughout the middle school they understand accountability and expectations for their choices so as we continue to teach behaviors uh the students are learning them as they move through the middle school and onto High School moving on to Winchester Trail Elementary our definitions here our office referral is behavior referred by a teacher or staff member to building administrators and the discipline then is behavior that results into discipline action the discipline action can include suspensions after school detentions in school alternative placements Etc so again definitely at Winchester Trail more similar to the discipline at the middle school where it's not just suspensions and expulsions if you notice here win Mr Trail has had a great year uh when comparing to last school year so our total our total discipline actions were at
027five this year we were at 28 last year for a decrease of 82% total number of students that received those discipline actions are five this year 23 last year number of total off total office referrals went from 164 to 144 um and the total number of students went from 94 to 77% and again the percentage of students who had only one dis action or office referral was 63% at Winchester Trail if you look across our discipline action here we had zero after school detentions this year we had two last year emergency removal zero this year one last year and our out of school suspensions have dropped from 25 to four and our in school alternative placement has we did have one this year and zero last year at Winchester Trail we have welcomed a new
028principal this year uh tra Dr Trac Dyer and he has revamped their mtss which I mentioned earlier and their RTI processes Winchester Trail is also incorporating restored practices and the mtss process to improve student outcomes restored practices is instead of when there is a dis a con I'm sorry when there is a behavior that happens and a lot of times you say okay this behavior is going to cause you this discipline action uh restored practices allows for more focus and discussion around the behavior so students are able to reflect more and learn about that behavior and choose or at least discuss how they could have handled it differently and think through how they could handle it handle it differently in the future so we believe those restored practices that are happening um are also helping
029that number lower and then last but certainly not least is Indian Trail Elementary again here office referral is behavior referred by a teacher or staff member to the building administrators and the discipline would be behavior that resulted in discipline action first semester um we had 21 discipline actions last year we had zero I am going to explain a little bit of this um our number of students this year we had seven last year we had zero and number of total office referrals we had 233 this year for first semester and 79 office referrals last year for 52 students this year and 41 students last year there is definitely an increase you see um this can be chocked up to a couple of different things number one we did go to a full day kindergarten which
030with behaviors if students are not used to doing school last year they were able to go into a halfday setting which allows them more time to not be there all day a short period of time and this year we obviously have students who went from no school and into a full day so that could account and probably does account for um The increased number of students and the increased number of office referrals the other thing is um the building had used a tool uh a behavior reporting tool that was communicating with the parents um and they were putting in those behaviors We Believe into that system and maybe weren't reporting it to the office as much last year so we also believe that the numbers could possibly be a little skilled sched skewed that's what
031I meant skewed um or schooled either one but the numbers could be skewed from that again but it is something that we're definitely looking into um we also know that there has been an increase in our um students being able to regulate their own behaviors and so those are things that obviously at the K2 building we're working on every day um I think our teachers could tell you that it's it's non-stop you're just continuing to teach those behaviors with students we don't include p uh prek we do not include prek in these numbers okay I would think since we' haven't ever had all day kindergarten that we can't really say that it's the students or we can't compare the students this year from last year because it's their first year being in school period like
032they may not even been to preschool I I just wonder too could it Al and I think we might have discussed this in the past but um you know even our teachers have to adjust because they are clearly the ones who have been used to half day and now they're doing all day where the kids just they're they're not last year's kids they're the they're new yeah so um you know they don't know what they don't know yet and they're just doing an all day day and no different than any other school that they that a kid would go to that has all day kindergarten that's their first year in school so it just is more of our teachers getting used to having kids all day rather than half a day and being able to
033do deal with the things that the kids go through by the time afternoon comes absolutely and I think I think one of the things to Just note is like the two and a half two and a half plus hour day when a student comes in they get breakfast and if they're having a bad day that two and a half hours is going to they are able to get on the bus and go home whereas this year that's not the case so again the regulating of the behaviors and working through what that looks like that is something that we're definitely Focus focusing on um one other piece that can you go back to the last slide are you able to I hope I didn't forget this thought we did have 47 students who only had one
034discipline you do notice the numbers though so of the students that had office referrals in 23 24 there were 41 students that accounted for 79 office referrals and this year we had 52 students that accounted for 233 office referrals I think that's something else to look at um it if you're looking at we had a 195% increase in the office referral but only a 27 increase in the students that were being referred so obviously the behaviors that the students same kid being same kid is repeating um behaviors so that is definitely something that those numbers uh are are raised for but again the administrative team at Indian Trail is continuing to review that and work with the that information and about the data here counselors and mental health staff at Indian Trail review Behavior data
035monthly Indian Trail does use the MTS process as well to offer student interventions and support and as we've discussed here already in 2425 we did um begin all day kindergarten so we believe that that data does uh increase because the students are there for a longer period of time key insights so we had 405 total students K12 who had an office referral or discipline action during the first semester of 2014 or 25 that is 10% of students total students so 10% of our students had office referrals or a discipline action and overall with all the buildings combined 56.5% of students who had a discipline action or an office referral had only one incident during the first semester so again that number is High We believe that that is telling us that of our 5 56%
036of our students had one issue sorry that had discipline 56 % of the students that had discipline only had one so we believe that the U discipline or the restorative practices that we're reporting out is working key insights from the data discipline in incidents have declined across most schools indicating that progress in student behavior um and interventions are happening fewer discipline actions and referrals across all buildings except Indian Trail and obviously we implement a new Behavior tracking system and introduced all day kindergarten while many incidents have decreased at Canal Winchester Middle School we have seen an increase in discipline due to disrespect and subordination um and that will require continued attention which the building will review and discipline and behavior supports are working more than half of our students who had an office referral discipline
037actions only had one entry in the first semester and questions I do um thank you Mrs hunt for your presentation um I think it's evident by your presentation that it would be worthy to continue to look at the data um further than the first semesters so I hope that's something that the district intends to do 100% so that's a great Point throughout the present or throughout putting the presentation together we pretty much have a template now um and so we would expect that at the end of the year we'll do one that would include not only second semester but we could actually review the whole year uh we could do both second semester and then look at the whole year as a report and then that would be something we would do after each semester
038so we could do it again next year um in February to look at first semester and then again at the end of the year to look at the full year and second semester so thank you that's a very good point great and then secondly um with the additions to um in our safety plan and um the addition of cameras we have more cameras um I would like to see if there's any kind of correlation between the the decreases in certain behaviors um that can be attributed to the cameras and then with that I'm kind of concerned in that it just my perception it appears that there m there might be behavioral offenses well I'm sure that there are behavioral offenses committed like in bathrooms where there are no cameras and I know you mentioned in
039your presentation that there are hallway sweeps and things like that so is that something that um the district is paying attention to as far as making sure that they have staff that are routinely you know looking in the bathrooms because students could be vaping they start fights in there all kind of things so just wondering what the what kind of interventions are being done so I don't want to put Mr pcus on the spot or Mr Lan or nether of you prepared to speak on that and it's okay Mr stanovich is at the OCC um executive meeting tonight if not I just know that there's been some conversations that we've had around those points and what they do at the buildings thank you you're welcome uh great question so a lot of things have been
040put into place at all the at all the buildings uh to your question specifically she had mentioned hallway sweeps and things of that M uh nature as well as the weapon detection sensors that we put in that we do on a weekly basis so we are much more showing a presence with our adults when they sweep during hallway sweeps and also at at class change at the middle school and the high school we utilizer sros as well and we also have a pair of professional that really focuses on the camera usage and really does a really good job seeing what things might happen or predicting where they may happen or at the beginning of the day trying to circle around certain restrooms where kids might congregate so we're trying to be as proactive as possible
041utilizing the cameras and the technology from a safety perspective overall is it perfect absolutely not but we're always trying to evolve and get get better at any at any any chance that we can um and we're also looking at potentially implementing additional cameras because we want to continue to stay above the track so we are definitely looking at some things and you you will see in my report I was recently awarded the uh Grant from the attorney general so we're going to be implementing some additional things utilizing that money as well to be proactive as possible okay awesome thank you Mr law something else that popped in mind congratulations something else that popped into my mind when he was speaking we also have is it called Hall Pass is that e-hall pass um we also
042have a a software that we use called e-hall pass and um yeah you guys we're not going to go there um but it allows you so let's say that there's two students who happen to have an issue with each other and the building administrators are able to just put those names in so if they're both out of their class not in a hall change at the same time it would notify the administration to say hey just so you know these two kids are out there might be an an altercation or whatnot um and so that's something that they also are able to use to be proactive very good thank you yes yes so even better yet so yeah it doesn't so look major proactive it doesn't allow the student out it says Noe you you
043need to wait five or 10 minutes until you can go so I think that's move movement in the right direction so thank you any other questions all right thank you so much for your time thank you uh next on the agenda is our cwea um report e e for thank you our next on the agenda is public comments and um Vice President George is going to take over yep so we do have public comment tonight so just a couple of notes on public comment um we do limit it to three minutes so I'll be keeping time and once we get down to to about a minute somewhere between a minute and 30 seconds I'll let you know time is coming up um we do we have two public comments and the rest of our agenda
044should go relatively quick so we'll be uh a little bit uh we'll allow some Grace with that as we can um first public comment is from Mr Rob stemman yep also please address theard board president just is it don't address any of the board members individually thank you and also can you make sure that your the buttons on green hi my name is Rob stemman I live on Buckner street um I'm lifelong resident of canal graduated here in the mid 90s uh and my comment is more on the long-term Improvement plan um and just to remind the school board that until shovels are in the ground and the facilities are finished there still students here that have to utilize the existing facilities um here's a picture of what the baseball field currently looks like as
045you can see it's very green that's because the parents spent a lot of time and effort over the winter and so far the spring to de de embarrass the baseball field I think that was one of the comments that was received during the longterm uh meetings with the students um when they walked up to practice today I happened to be there they said hey it's no longer a sand lot and they were really excited about it but then when they see the wind screen and are told that the district didn't really want to invest a lot of resources into facilities when they're ultimately potentially going to be replaced that kind of took the excitement of the field away from them so again until everything's finished I think the school system needs to continue to invest
046in the seniors the Juniors and probably the sophomores that aren't going to see any of this it's they're not going to be able to use any of it so so I don't think the students are really asking for a lot they're just asking for something you know to to make that be proud to compete for the school system I mean there's only four seniors on the baseball team there's zero seniors on the softball varsity team and I think some of that is because there's no pride in the facilities in which they're playing in um too often the parents are asked to support the facilities uh particularly for spring Sports and I think that's unfair uh and I would just like to see the school system you know commit to those students that are here that
047aren't going to see these facilities if if they're done again I've lived here my whole life and I've seen a lot of things and heard a lot of things uh some things never come to fruition so again just a commitment to the students to the seniors to the Juniors my son's a freshman so he's not even a part of that group so I just want to make sure that this body is is doing whatever they can within reason again like I said they're not asking for millions of dollars in a professional major leue ground screw but you know fix the fence with legit fixes without zip ties invest in a windscreen that's not torn to shreds um you know spend the time to repair things and take care of things uh to allow these students
048the the best possible experience that they can have thank you Mr St appreciate it just leave it just leave it um next uh Eric McGee so I'm Eric McGee I live on uh bronfield Drive um been a resident here 25 years um piggyback on some of what Rob said you know I was part of a group of gentlemen we moved forward on a capital campaign back in 2019 2020 um some of the faces have changed up here since then and I know we had a lot of momentum going with that and it seemed like it was getting to a peak and then all of a sudden we all know Co hit slowed things down a little bit but it seemed like everything just went away so now we're starting from scratch all over again trying
049to come up with some solution or whatever to try to catch up our facilities with every other facility that you know the schools that we play now are a lot closer in proximity so therefore that brings more fans into our Stadium you know the uh bleacher expansion I hear has been pushed back even another year so you know when the bigger schools come for instance we played Groveport well over the loudspeaker they say hey can you go back to your seats where there's no seats so you know we got Tay coming we got Pickerington coming those schools are pretty close you know they want to come to our Stadium regardless of what sport it is you know we want to treat them to a cozy environment like when we go to their place the way
050we're treated so we see these projects that are happening or supposed to be happening coming up well then you know we get the excitement going with the kids in the in the community and everything and then all of a sudden you don't hear anything about it it goes away or it just doesn't happen at all so you know we're we're trying to you know up our standard and I know at the meeting you mentioned the word embarrassed from hearing from the students well when when you're an MSL school and then you're going to an OCC school that's a that's a kind of a big deal you know you want to kind of prepare yourself for that change well I feel you know here at Canal Winchester we haven't done a whole lot to make that
051adjustment yet and we've been in the OCC longer than a lot of other schools that are coming into this conference so you know it's it's just been one thing after another where you know we get it going get it going kick the ball down the road and then all of a sudden everything's coming to a hole well you know I think it's you know we we have money here it's not asking to spend all of it but slow improvements over time help to get that excitement going you know if you look across our numbers and sports wise they're down we don't know why I think it's more or less you know parents aren't wanting to volunteer to get involved in sports and I think as a community we Flatline and I I think that goes
052with the city as well and everything's just at a standstill it's like we Flatline so I think if we get that driving force going I think you'll start seeing more Community involvement along with partner with the city to make things comparable with um you know the kids the school AED kids having an outlet because if you also look around the city there's nothing for the middle-aged kids to do that may change some of those numbers that were up there you know these kids don't have an outlet so they act out when they're around their peers in school and things like that because they don't have an outlet once the evening comes and they get out of school every kid doesn't play sports so therefore what is there for them to do I know us as
053adults we have number of places we can go but if you look at the facilities and things that these kids have within Canal Winchester what is there for them to do we have a park here but we're in Central High the weather is Hit or Miss that's an outdoor facility but you know how how often is it being used with the weather that we have here so these these are just important things that you know been driving me since I've been here and living in close proximity that I do to the school I don't see a lot of change you know we put Turf in but if you look around most most schools have turf now so that that kind of buzz just goes away but slow improvements I think you know help out with
054you know the vision of what we're trying to do in Canal Winchester and to get to that next level with the kids the students staff facil in the city thank you thank you guys thank you um next on the agenda we have executive reports uh the treasur please good evening thank you congratulations M on thank you uh I just want to say that award is not not for me that's a big undertaking from my staff from the superintendent staff to Human direct or Human Resources Director staff the building secretaries there's a lot of moving pieces and a lot of data entry points in the district uh and all of those people are watchdogs for us to make sure that things are being entered correctly make sure things are being done correctly um so that's a
055testament to the people that work here um I just happen to have my name on it um obviously I do a lot to make sure things are right U that we're following the legal the laws and all the different accounting practices and all those things but the people that are actually doing the work and entering the data they're the Watchdogs that make sure things are are going well here so I just want to say thank you to all of them um financials um it's obviously general f it's not speaking to uh to the facilities and Athletics and and all those things uh I do want to point out that uh our booster is bring in about $300,000 a year our athletic fund is bringing in about $350,000 uh this is my ninth year being here
056um that's the really the first time I've heard anything about the baseball field um I don't know if Mr Bridge has I'll check with him tomorrow um a lot of other things always come to our attention Middle School gym for example uh it it was missed in re in refurbishing it's being redone next year um taken down to the to the wood um we've addressed locker rooms the turf uh the bleacher project is happening we're collapsing it into the $18 million project that's happening on the High School site that's combined with the PAC uh so I think people will be impressed with what we're about to do uh and it's and it's not a we're going to do this it's going to be done we borrowed $15 million to to mainly do these projects which
057phc is a big part athletic Fieldhouse softball fields baseball fields are a big priority on those uh two additional Tenn tennis courts so our tennis programs can have eight courts host invitationals do all those things that that they need to uh the tracks taken care of and then we've talked about in the past the Middle School site will be taken care of if we have to pass a levy uh we've been a disadvantage it's been great that we haven't had to Levy money since 2009 but it's also a disadvantage because some of these other schools are building new buildings and a part of those new buildings Pickerington for example they're levying dollars to be able to take care of those athletic facilities so it's it's tax dollars that are covering those costs um we're continuing
058to allocate the resources to it and and we're going to take care of it uh hopefully by mid 2026 all of these improvements are going to be done um as we go throughout this year you're going to see renderings and drawings and all of those things we've already got a pretty good site plan uh that's completed um so I wanted to touch on that um since you gentleman spoke about that and really to inform the board that it's it's not in the dark uh we're aware we've just got to take steps to get there um would love to learn more about the baseball field in its current state know the football field at the middle school has been very contentious we've looked at that we're looking at ways to improve that um I know the
059softball Field's got some drainage issues out in left field we became aware of that I think facilities Department's been working on trying to fix that so just to just wanted to touch on that for a second um general fund year-over-year uh revenues are trending up they're $5.4 million up part of that's uh real estate tax um income taxes up 88.3% uh as you are aware we did the C program which inherently increased our restricted State uh while providing free lunch to all of our students in the district um interest continues to be up at least for the next year or so um but expenditures are also up 3.7 million uh with most of that 5.4 uh being up in salaries and benefits uh transfer we won't transfer all of this but we will have some
060transfers we've got to get uh some money moved over to the sance fund U but we are not doing this permanent Improvement huge transfer that we had done over the last couple years with moving the inside millage like we did last month uh so that will stop that transfer but overall uh up 8.6 million on the cash balance um 84.5 million overall in all funds include special Revenue athletic funds uh all of that interest we've earned 1.6 million uh to dat through 8 months um that's going to really ramp up we invested the $15 million that we borrowed U and that interest is going to start coming in uh it's going to really drive up our Revenue uh fairly quick any questions um on the income statement for the month any of this impacted by
061the reduction this impacted by the uh the changes in the market right now changing the interest rate is it going to change with that it'll say about the same uh I know the the fed's not over their first two meetings they're not expecting to cut the interest rate that's what they're saying as of now so uh they cut it what 0.25 three different times last year uh they're saying through the first half of the year they're not expecting to cut it that could change quickly based on the omy based on the Tariff news based on anything when the fair Fed chair comes out you never know exactly what they're going to do um but right now they're not expecting the interest rates to be cut thank you anybody else have any questions next next on
062the agenda is our super uh superintendent report all right thank you good evening board members and community members I'm excited to share some great updates from across Canal Winchester schools first we are excited to welcome the class of 2038 to Canal Winchester schools in the fall kindergarten enrollment for the 2526 school year is now open families with children who will be 5 years old by August 1st 2025 can now begin the enrollment process for our all day kindergarten program we look forward to welcoming our newest Learners and their families to Canal Winchester schools and helping them get off to a great start in their educational Journey our Canal Winchester High School School Science Olympiad team had an outstanding performance this past Saturday at the Ohio University Invitational placing sixth overall as a team competing in
06323 stem events these students demonstrated their problem solving skills scientific knowledge and teamwork special congratulations to our students who placed in their events including third place in fossils and top six finishes in air trajectory forensics and write it do it a special connection to this competition was Canal Winchester High School alum Tristan rean who co-directed the event we wish the team the best of luck as they head to Regionals on March 15th in New Albany where they'll be competing for a spot at the state tournament we also want to recognize the Canal Winchester Middle School C Science Olympiad team for their impressive sixth place finish at their tournament great work by all students in February our fourth grade students had the opportunity to hear from Ron Derry who shared his inspiring good presentation a former
064teacher who became blind Ron now dedicates his life to showing students how challenges can be overcome with perseverance and a positive mindset at the end of the school year two students from each fourth grade class will be recognized with a special good shirt for demonstrating resilience making this an important and meaningful lesson for our students finally our Indian Trail students and staff have been having a fantastic time celebrating Right to Read Week each day has been filled with fun literacy activities including themed dress up days and a daily name that book contest where students listen to the first lines of a book and try to guess the title from Dr Seuss characters to Eric Carl's The Very Hungry Caterpillar students have been connecting with great literature in exciting ways tomorrow they'll wrap up the week
065by celebrating author Jory John showing their Canal Winchester Pride a big thank you to our staff for making readings so much fun for our students that concludes my report for this evening thank you for your ongoing support of our students staff and schools thank you Miss hunt next um the board committee reports do we have any um can you start with legislative Le legislative please thank you president Barnes good even good evening everyone um I first like to state that public education leaders in school districts across Ohio are all calling for adjustments to be made to the governor's proposed School funding budget because the way I see it it is inadequate and it falls short of providing the necessary Fair funding that is required to support and educate the whole child in public schools a
066central and critical factor is that the proposal doesn't consider the real or actual cost to educate a child the proposed formula uses economic data from 2022 and does not adjust for years of inflation however it does use updated property values to determine the local share therefore the equation is imbalanced the state has an obligation to pay their fair share although almost 90% of Ohio's children across all demographics grow up learn and attend one of Ohio's Public Schools over half of the districts would see a decrease in funding in the next two years while the other 10% of students attending a private or non-public school would receive a double- digigit increase and uh they would see that in state funding another way to look at this is that the 90% of the students in public school
067districts only receive about 76% of the funding so what are we asking we need our governor and our legislators to deliver on their promise of Fairly and fully funding public schools that means fully implementing the fair school funding plan that is in law and it was a bipartisan effort that considered the perspectives of superintendents treasurers and Educators when it was developed and it is considered to be an objective need based and transparent funding formula for Ohio schools so this week we are gearing up for a final push through the house with the house finance committee scheduled to hear testimony tomorrow Wednesday and Thursday this week um our own Treasurer Mr Roberts has submitted written testimony and our board president Miss Barnes has also uh planned to speak and deliver testimony and I think you're doing
068it on Wednesday yeah I am submitting um written testimony as as well and possibly other members um of our board um plan to engage with legislators about this very critical issue so I implore that those listening and tuning in to this meeting do the same let your voices be heard our students deserve better and our legislators need to hear from you this concludes my report thank you thank you um cwjrd yep um not much to report from cwjrd we have our uh March board meeting uh March jrd meeting is next Thursday uh we are investigating starting an orts program through the jrd um we'll be discussing that and voting on that at our next meeting but I think that'll be uh a very interesting um addition to our prog programming uh for residents in in
069the district thank you the youth I just have one thing um it's talking about Ohio's Career and Technical education programs they are rapidly expanding with a $200 million State investment aimed at training students for high demand manufacturing roles like welding Machining and Robotics enrollment is currently surging Statewide with over 136,000 Juniors and seniors participating thank you not really a report but um I would like to um ditto um what board member Monica has said about the legislation the the um budget and I will be speaking um and it's very important that our residents if if you have the time or you can do that that you write your state legislation and and and provide your input too because um this is how when we don't get funded like we need to be how we have
070to come back to our residents and ask them to help with the funding that's necessary to run our public schools and we don't want to have to do that we've been very fiscally responsible at Canal Winchester um and we would like to keep it that way so um you know it takes five minutes maybe 10 minutes of your time but please write your legislator and tell them that um you would like to keep the fair funding the way it's supposed to be and how the law was written for um Fair funding for our Public Schools um also the only other thing I wanted to kind of announce I guess is if you haven't seen it um um a lot of you were talking about what do our kids have to do after school and we're
071not that far away from Columbus we're we're neck and neck with them and I also do some other services uh with the community and the Eastland for everyone just unveiled their plan if you have time to go out and look at it on the city of Columbus's website it's call Eastland for everyone one of the things that we're planning on is a Rec Center so the more input we can get from our neighboring residents the better we're always looking for input for that so I W I ask you to go out and take a look at that and we welcome your input and the next thing on the uh agenda is District reports um Indian Trails no they submit actually everybody's already submitted there's are there any changes or anybody have anything else for district
072reports I just want to highlight a few things that I noticed I was reading a lot so looks like we're doing some amazing things but I wanted to highlight the ballet met discover dance scholarship opportunity um it looks like there's a preliminary audition this Friday from 10: a.m. to 11:00 a.m. for the first and second grade students that are interested in ballet training um so I wanted to make sure that everyone listening knows that that is this Friday coming up and then also to congratulate our Canal Winchester Middle School 7th grade girls basketball team onon their undefeated season and tournament championship and wishing our um wrestlers going on to the state qualifiers good luck at States thank you that's that's um I like to didle that on that too because um I had several Sons
073wrestle and I'm just so proud of the two young ladies that are going to the state championships and wrestling um I wish them a lot of luck and I hope that they win um I remember when my son was 105 pounds and he had to wrestle a girl and so it's just exciting to see how far um the young ladies have come and we did have a lot of um student of the month this to tonight and uh teacher of the month T um today for was also recognize um Miss Kelly Bowden boen a school psychologist so I just wanted to bring that up we didn't do knock your socks off tonight but uh we'll catch up on that um so is there any anybody else yes I just would like to um acknowledge all
074of our school social workers I know last week was a school social worker week and just wanted to acknowledge them for everything that they do um they're very uh essential to the work that's done in our schools so uh we appreciate them thank you just a quick note I know our board reports because of when the agenda goes live they have to be done previous but the state wrestling tournament was this past weekend oh okay did they yeah they didn't place but they competed well okay great it was awesome that they um I had I had a couple things from the board report so um just wanted to show some appreciation to uh Mr uh notice that you've gotten your uh tickets down to one day resolution and and coming from the it space I
075understand uh the challenge that that can present so appreciate that uh also appreciate the strides that your Department's made in the past six months it's it's uh it's nice to see and I think that our security posture and our overall it posture has gotten uh much improved um along with uh Miss Green's uh mention of the middle school basketball team that was you right okay um I did notice the basketball the high school boys team had a great season um and one of the things that the coach mentioned uh in in that in that up date was that there's a strong pipeline of students coming up through the middle school so uh it seems like we will uh we will have strong teams going forward and uh coaches in our recre programs coaches in our
076middle school programs coaches in the other programs that aren't wreck um and aren't school programs they're helping to develop our students so I'd like to show appreciation to to those who are involved in in our kids' lives that may not necessarily be affiliated with the school [Music] uh the uh CWS band this is from last week so it would have been after the reports were already sent out they participated in the Oma State uh State performance and they rated straight Superior ratings which is the highest rating the band can receive so wanted to congratulate the band for that and then in addition to our Mental Health Services um I also wanted to call out our special services team um they work with a quarter of all of our district students and do a really good
077job so we really appreciate the effort that's put in by by both our Mental Health Services and our special services teams that's all I've got thank you Mr George next on the agenda is the consent agenda um going to take a motion for the approval of the agenda so moved second all right we will get started first we have uh the minutes from the February 10th regular meeting and the February 26 special meeting number three we have donations we do have two donations one from Daniel and Teresa Chapman to the Middle School DC trip and an anonymous donation to the high school star scholarship number four is our certified person now we do have uh a few resignations also an Extended leave request and we are approving our psychologists to serve as special ed District
078Representatives that does not mean anything really to a dollar amount but if they're in meetings they can serve in that role to uh sit in on special ed meetings to be able to serve as a district rep number five is our classified Personnel again we have a few resignations leave of absence for um two staff members and we are recommending um a classified staff as our library Aid position and if you notice that is for the 25th 5 26 school year so we're beginning hiring uh now for next school year in the meetings to come you're going to be seeing a lot of this uh our technology internship we're approving Preston Bolan who will serve as a unpaid intern this year in the tech department number six is our supplemental Personnel we are approving uh
079supplementals for both spring Athletics as well as our Musical and our theater positions we're resending contracts for stiens that were previously approved at the February 10th board meeting and we are approving volunteer coaches for spring Sports number seven we're approving a new student activity Charter for tennis club at the middle school and Leighton maias will be the adviser number eight is our overnight fi trips we do have two overnight fi trip requests one is for the host of future health professional State leadership conference and competition and Stacy Fletcher is the adviser for that they will be going to Toledo April 9th and 10th and then for our BPA National leadership conference they will be going to Orlando Florida May 7th through the 11th number nine and the last thing for the consent agenda is on
080an early graduation request for Carter McGarvey from Canal Winchester High School which item was it the changed that was we deleted it so it was already deleted um it was a supplemental resignation uh it was a letter from a track coach that was never approved to be a coach so there was no need to do the resignation than you right above weend contracts yes sorry y thank you oh perfect thank you okay um can you call the RO please Mrs T yes Miss Barnes yes Mr George yes Miss green yes thank you many pages here all right uh next on the agenda I didn't miss my spot here um is the action item um the resolution selecting construction manager at risk for districtwide improvements um can we get a motion I move second uh this
081is the last piece of our project we interviewed uh two firms uh selected Summit to be the construction manager at risk uh they are going to come on preconstruction to begin uh prep with the architect uh so the Project's really start going to start taking uh strides um it already has I mean Shores come on board and uh we already have a full sight plan uh now we're going to start getting the CMR involved to start putting some cost to those site plans uh to know exactly what we can do what we can't do um so uh last phase of that kind of exciting uh to be done we're going to have some other resolutions coming forward it's going to be more money related um but now we've got the design architect on board the
082CMR on board great a v Mr George yes Miss Barnes yes Miss green yes Mrs tally yes my next on the agenda is the board of revision complaint um parcel number [Music] 11170 um can we have a a motion so moved second uh so this is the second year we've had to do this uh law changed two years ago uh where it made it tougher for us to um appeal uh values to the board of revisions um we have certain dollar amount that we look at uh we don't challenge residential values these are all commercial industrial companies uh they've got to be over a certain amount usually over a half million dollars or a certain percentage these next two resolutions met that threshold uh so all this is doing is giving um us authority to
083go file an appeal against the uh to the board of Provisions that the sell um was more than half million dollar more than what the value of the property is um so we just want to make sure the steps are taken to fairly assess the value of the property on the sale of property so that raises the taxable value that we get correct that we get income from yes okay um take a vote M St yes Mr George yes Miss Barnes yes Miss green yes and the same with the next one it's for property parcel number 0 4203 89070 and 0427 389 070 I move second no additional comments no take vote Mr George yes Miss green yes Mrs Barnes yes okay and the next one is to accept the amended tax amounts and rates
084for FIS schal year 2020 I move to approve the amended amounts second it uh this is another standard procedure uh these rates come from the Franklin County Auditor's office uh it's dictated by the budget commission um tax levies are about the same they've just changed the dollar amount slightly uh from the original version take the vote Mr George yes M stally yes M Barnes yes Miss green yes accept the tax amounts for fiscal year rates for 2026 a motion second V yes same resolution just for 2026 tax year okay Miss Barnes yes Mr George yes Miss green yes Mrs tally yes next is the substitute pay rates there's a motion to approve and revise the classified and certified substitute pay rates for fiscal year 2025 um I'll say yes I do the motion second here's
085the schedule but it documented the changes um we added a van driver uh that was recently added last year um but they were getting the bus driver U substitute rate van driver substitute rates uh a little bit lower when you attach it to level one of classified schedule uh we were at $15 an hour for the custodial we found that that wasn't competitive and we were having a really really hard time of getting any c custodians the custodians that we had subbing uh went to other districts um because of the rate uh so we went ahead and attach that to level one so I feel like now we've got the bus drivers van driver and the custodians attached to level one of a schedule that should help us stay competitive uh throughout the years that
086will kind of Auto change along the way with that so any questions on the substitute pay rate everything else stayed the same no can we take vote Miss Barnes yes Mr George yes Miss green yes Mrs tally yes the next thing on the agenda is the payment and L of Transportation which we've seen multiple times so it's just to approve the additional payment in L of transportation for applicants based on the terms of the 2020 2425 payment in L of Transportation resolution as presented so moved second any questions take a row Mr Robert Mr Robert can you at some point over the next month or so not critical but can you put together something that shows us how much we're paying yeah on an annual basis I'll shoot you an email tomorrow it was was
087about 20,000 I think that's up to about 35 okay but I can I'll verify that tomorrow I know this one really gets you like we have to keep repeating this um when you do that will you show us to like how much is increased like yeah I'll show you the last few years yeah that okay um can we take a roll M tally yes Miss Barnes yes Mr George yes Miss green yes we have to pay for transportation to kids that unenroll and go to a charter school of their own on their own even if the even if there's no issues with them here or yes that's why it's gone up so much payment L is is just outside the threshold of feasible Transportation so they're able to get in Lee of Transportation okay uh
088next on the agenda agenda is um to enter into executive session at 8:30 um we will end the meeting for now take a little break and start executive session at 8:30 um a motion for um so moved second this means that um we will come back to regular session after the exec session and then we will dismiss so if you want to leave now you're free to leave we can call you if you want to come back there'll be no no additional actions there'll be no additional actions to be taken during the uh executive session we'll take roll call M green thank you