001Board of Education is called to order. Deb, would you please call the roll? Mrs. Blankett, Dr. Hamlin, and I am here. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay, this brings us to the records commission agenda. First thing is the approval of the minutes from the January 27, 2025 records commission meeting. Moved. Second. Any questions or comments? Board, would you please call the roll? Dr. Hamlin? Yes. I say yes. Mrs. Blankett? Yes. And the next thing is approval of RC3 records disposal certificate. Second. Any questions or comments? This is just a yearly thing. It's a yearly thing, and from this point, once we approve here, we send it off to the
002Historical Society for their approval. They'll share it with the auditor state. Everything ties to our record retention schedule. And then once we get the confirmation from the Historical Society, we will dispose of the records. Any other questions or comments? Board, would you please call the roll? Dr. Hamlin? Yes. Mrs. Blankenship? Yes. And I say yes. So we can adjourn this meeting. I will make a motion to adjourn. I'll second. Would you please call the roll? I say yes. Mrs. Blankenship? Yes. And Dr. Hamlin? Yes. Being adjourned at 517. Is that your fastest name? I got 530. You ready? The June 23rd, 2025 regular meeting of the Charlotte Local Schools Board of Education is called to order. This meeting is being held in accordance with Section 3313.15 of the Ohio Revised Code. Deb, would you please
003call the roll? Mrs. Blankenship? Here. Mrs. Clark? Here. Mr. Albright? Here. And Mr. Midgett? Here. To the June 23rd, 2025 regular meeting of the Charlotte Local Schools Board of Education. I'll let everybody read everything else tonight. First thing on the agenda is the adoption of the agenda. Do we have a motion and a second to adopt the agenda? So moved. Seconded. Any questions or comments about the agenda as presented? Would you please call the roll? Mr. Midgett? Yes. Mrs. Blankenship? Yes. And Mr. Albright? Yes. Okay. Would everyone please join me in the pledge? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The mission of the Charlotte Local School District would commit to
004high achievement for all students. A hearing in the public for agenda items. There are none. Okay. It brings us to the consent agenda. Thank you, Madam President. Madam Speaker, we have a few items this evening on the consent agenda. Item 3.1 is approval of minutes as detailed in the enclosure. Item 3.2, approval of the warrantless check pay report as detailed in the enclosure. Item 3.3, approval of administrative certified license classified supplemental non-contractual personnel and compensation related items as detailed in the associated enclosure. Item 3.4, approval of agreement with Lake County Speech and Language Therapy LLC for summer services in 2025 as detailed in the enclosure. Item 3.5, approval of agreement with Crossroads Health Services as detailed in the enclosure. Item 3.6, approval of student accident insurance through Guarantee Trust Life Company as detailed in the
005enclosure. Item 3.7, approval of proposed coverage revision with the Ohio School Plan and Travelers Insurance Program as detailed in the enclosure. Item 3.8, approval of the student handbooks for the various school buildings as detailed in the associated enclosures. Item 3.9, approval of the interagency agreement for 2025 as detailed in the enclosure. And item 3.10, approval of service agreement for St. Mary's and PSI as detailed in the associated enclosure. I am recommending your approval of these items. So moved. Do we have a second? Seconded. Any questions or comments on the consent agenda? No. Hearing none, Debra, would you please call the roll? Mrs. Buckinshott? Yes. Mrs. Clark? Yes. Mr. Albright? Yes. And Mr. Majet? Yes. Thank you, Madam President, Members of the Board. Moving on to Item 4.1, Superintendent's Report. I will not go through in
006great detail, but this is included linked in to the Superintendent's Report if you want to review it in detail, which is what I'm referring to as the Construction Report. Just a quick flyby, Transportation Building B, which is the back building, is very near completion, and we should be in a situation of moving transportation vehicles and start using the back maintenance building here in just a couple of weeks, about three weeks from now. If everything stays on schedule, work will continue on the front building for approximately another six months until everything is completed there, but they're making great progress on that building as well. Park Elementary School Masonry continued work on the southern elevation of the main elementary building. That's going along okay. Making progress on that, and the security vestibule at the back of the
007building. That is moving along on schedule. They've a lot of work inside with the abatement and floor plan starting to get laid out with framing and so on, and again, so far working on schedule and optimistic that we'll see that at the beginning of the school year. And then finally, the Munson Elementary Masonry Restoration Project that is nearing completion at this point. Contractors weren't doing final cleanup, and I believe all we have to do, Steve, but yeah, painting should be beginning this week on that area. The only other topic that I have to report on relative to school funding, the biennial budget process is in its final stages with the legislature's conference committee meeting. Our understanding is that conference committee is meeting again this evening. Probably will come to closure tonight working out the differences
008between house and the Senate. The state and organizations along with the fair school funding work group have been, we were working through the weekend to try to influence that to give the stronger school funding picture from Columbus that we could accomplish. And just a reminder that our board will be holding a special meeting on July 8th then, which, you know, the ink should be drying on the budget bill by that time, and we will review the implications for that budget bill on our school district and what it looks like going forward. So that will be an important discussion for us. So with that, that concludes my report. We'll move to item 4.2, which is a commendation recognizing Doug Snyder, our recently retired athletic director for his years of service. And as Karen's moving to the
009front, and Doug would like to invite you up, I just, you know, I'd like to share that it's been great experience working with Doug in the years that I've been in the district. And he has tirelessly worked on behalf of our student athletes to build program. And I think we're one of the most highly regarded athletic programs in the area due in no small part to Doug's efforts. He's overseen the growth of athletic programs added to our roster of sports that we've done in our school district, and that also meant Doug taking on additional responsibilities every time we decided to add another sport. He did that with a smile because he knew that it was the right thing to do for our students and our student athletes. So, Doug, it's been a pleasure, and I'll
010let Karen read the resolution. Okay, so the Board of Education has special commendation for athletic director Doug Snyder, a commendation recognizing Doug Snyder for his long-time commitment to the success of our Hilltopper student athletes. Whereas, Doug Snyder recently retired from Shard Local Schools after 24 years with the district, including serving as athletic director from 2010 to 2025. And whereas, under his leadership and tireless efforts, Shard Athletics produced three Ohio School Athletic Association champions, two in football and one in baseball. And whereas, Doug Snyder managed a significant expansion of varsity sports at Chardon High School, including the addition of Boys and Girls Swimming and Boys and Girls Lacrosse teams. And whereas, Doug Snyder improved game accessibility for parents, guardians, and fans by implementing live streaming, extensive social media coverage, and other methods to share athletic events
011with our community, affectionately known as Topper Nation. And whereas, Doug Snyder oversaw important facility upgrades at Chardon Memorial Field, the Chardon High School Gymnasium, and the baseball and softball fields at Monson Township. And whereas, participation grew steadily throughout his tenure concept of these. Now, therefore, being acknowledged on this 23rd day of June, 2025, by the Shard Local Schools Board of Education, that Doug Snyder is hereby recognized and congratulated for his outstanding contributions to Hilton. In retirement, you get a little shake. Yeah, I said I won't make it hold two things. But, Doug, that's also something to commemorate. Thank you. Great. Thank you very much. And give me an opportunity if you want to share any thoughts. I know you're never usually short with words. It's Monday night in June, so I'll just say that it's
012been a privilege. And I'm very grateful for the opportunity to have served a generation of Hilltoppers in the district and the community and our Board of Education. We've been through the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. And it's been my pleasure. Thank you. Thanks, Doug. I certainly invite you to stay for the entire board meeting. I will say that I've been around long enough to have had Mrs. Blankenship's son, William, as my TA for two years. I think his boot marks are permanently etched on the top of my desk. Do you want me to see if I can find those boots since I retirement you? If you're one of those prawns, be sure. Thank you, Doug. Okay, moving ahead, item 4.3, a resolution 2025-14, which is an employment separation agreement and release as
013detailed in the enclosure. I am recommending your approval. Do we have a motion and a second? So moved. Second. Any questions or comments? Hearing none, Doug, would you please spell the roll? Mr. Albright? Yes. Mr. Medget? Yes. Mrs. Blankenship? Yes. And Mrs. Clark? Yes. Thank you, Madam President, members of the board. Next item is item 4.4, this approval of a graduating high school senior who has now met all requirements for graduation as specified by the Chardon Board of Education. This will be Violet off her height. With that, I'm recommending your approval. Do we have a motion and a second? So moved. Seconded. Any questions or comments? I'd just like to say congratulations, Violet. Anyone else? Doug, would you please call the roll? Okay, double check. Mr. Albright, did you second? Yes. Okay, thank you. Mrs.
014Clark? Yes. Mr. Albright? Yes. Mr. Medget? Yes. Mr. Patternetti? Yes. And Mrs. Blankenship? Yes. Thank you, Madam President, members of the board. Next item is item 4.5, approval of proposals with Tim Daggs asphalt and seal coating as detailed in the enclosures. I'm recommending your approval. So moved. Do we have a second? Seconded. Any questions or comments? I honestly haven't been backed by the tennis court. Is there a roadway there right now that we're fixing or it's just kind of a mess to get back there? I'll ask Steve. Would you like to? There is a roadway. Okay. It's not the best of roadways. There's some asphalt down there and putting two areas of asphalt where the teams stand waiting for the managers so they're not trudging through the mud and bringing one out of the courts
015and having just a nicer facility to stand around. So that's what we're going to be able to do. The grading work and then the seal coating. Okay, thank you. Next item is item 4.5, approval of proposals with Tim Daggs asphalt and seal coating as detailed in the enclosures. I'm recommending your approval. So moved. Mr. Patternetti? Yes. Mr. Patternetti? Yes. Ms. Blankenship? Here. Ms. Clark? Yes. Mr. Aubrey? Yes. Mr. Midyat? Yes. And Mr. Patternetti? Yes. Thank you, Madam President. I'll respond next time. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Patternetti? Yes. Thank you, Madam President. Members
016of the board, next item is item 4.6, approval of shared fleet maintenance vehicle maintenance service agreement with cardinal local schools. I will have a brief comment following motion and second. I'm recommending your approval. Do we have a motion and a second? So moved. Second. Thank you, Madam President, members of the board. This is just a renewal of the fleet agreement that we have with cardinal schools that was in place last year. That was a successful experience for both entities. There are some revisions to this agreement basically in terms of some additional costs moving forward, but otherwise the agreement is the same as last year. The only addition that I will also point out is that the transportation supervisor at Cardinal retired. They have hired someone new, but the superintendent and board president asked that we
017support them with some dispatch services and also that Josh serve in kind of a mentoring support capacity for their transportation supervisor. We are still working out the details of that arrangement and then we'll bring an addendum to this agreement to the board for approval, but basically it will be just a fee for service, you know, hours billed to the district that Josh will keep track of and we'll bill it to Cardinal and we're also working out a little bit how the dispatch services will work. So again, an additional addendum to this agreement will be presented as soon as we get all the details worked out. Any other questions or comments for Mike? Yeah, I think it is a good model and hopefully, you know, of course depending on how the state budget bill works out,
018it may serve as an incentive for other districts to perhaps get involved with the type of facility we're going to have and we'll be conducive to that. Would you please call the roll? Mr. Albright? Yes. Mr. Midyar? Yes. Mr. Paranetti? Yes. Mrs. Bikenship? Yes. And Mrs. Park? Yes. Thank you, Madam President, members. The final item I have this evening is item 4.7, this is approval of sports medicine and sponsorship agreement with University Hospitals as detailed in the enclosures. I'll have a brief comment following motion and second, recommending your approval. So moved. Do we have a second? Second. Thank you, Madam President, members of the board. As I had informed the board previously, we had had a long-standing relationship with Precision Orthopedic, which was a very good working relationship. Unfortunately, their business manager has found that
019it is just becoming very difficult to sustain that agreement due to the lack of availability of physical therapists and personnel to hire. It's not that they don't want to continue this, it's just difficult for them to find and they have to focus on their core business. So we did have a conversation with our partner at UH, essentially a very similar agreement, kind of a no-cost agreement with the corresponding sponsorship agreement, which is an exchange of advertising and so on, in exchange for the athletic training services. So with that, again, we've got a motion and second. If there's any questions, I'll be happy to answer them. Well, I just want to say, first of all, thank you to Precision. I don't know how many years that they did that for us, but I know when my
020kids were here, they were the ones out there. Spend the whole time I've been here. Yeah, so there was a number of years that they supplied the Sports Medicine Center on the sidelines for our kids. So thank you for that. Do we have any other questions or comments concerning this? No? Then would you please call the roll? Mrs. Blankenship? Yes. Mrs. Clark? Yes. Mr. Albright? Yes. Mr. Midgott? Yes. And Mr. Pedermann? Yes. Thank you. That concludes my section. Thanks, Mike. Deb? Thank you, Madam President. She's warmer. Yeah, right. All right. Thank you, Madam President, members of the Board. First item of my agenda, 5.1. 5.1 is the Treasurer's CFO Report. Hannah brought it up at a couple meetings, but we used to talk about it all the time. I just want to point out the
021Ohio Checkbook. There's a link here. It goes right to the Chardon section. And I just want everyone to know that every single transaction the school district has is uploaded to Ohio Checkbook for full transparency on everything that we spend our money on. So I just wanted to point that out again. So let's look at May Financial Summary presentation. Also, as you saw, there is a podcast. It's a good one. So let's move to the first report, which is our bank reconciliation. We ended May with $29,174,126. We did balance book to bank. If you recall, May was a three-pay month where we pay every two weeks. So we had to pay right at the end of the month. And that's why you see some adjustments because you had some state taxes that didn't clear and some
022of those payments that we pay. I can tell you since then they've all cleared our cash summary. We look at every month and we always look at the third column for negatives. And of course, this is very close to fiscal year and one month away. There are no negatives except for athletics, which you're going to see a transfer that I'll be asking you for here shortly. And grants, which you're going to be seeing in advance that I ask you shortly to bring both of those funds into the positive. This is the comparison to our spending plan or to our May forecast. We're right unfavorable, $22,000 under in revenue of what we said we were going to get and $154,000 under budget. So this is a positive effect on our cash balance of $132,000. May revenue
023came in at $660,000, basically state funding. We are done for the year in collecting property taxes. We did get some interest as well. When you compare it to last May, we got a little bit more state funding and a little bit less interest. For expenditures, we spent $5,220,000. Definitely was over what we spent last year. We did have a three-pay month, so a little bit more in salaries, but considerably less in purchase services. And of course, we spent more in capital outlay. That's why you see $888,000 more because we are spending money and we're doing regular pay apps on the transportation compound. Year to date, we collected $38,888,000. And the expenditures year to date are $39,727,000. This is where we're starting to see our deficit spending. So I always explain deficit spending is when you
024spend more than you get a revenue. And we haven't seen it yet until right now, and we're going to see it pretty heavy in these next two months. So if you look at revenue, we collected $1.3 million less than we did this time last year. It makes a lot of sense. We had a mill move over to PI. We also have to keep in mind that extra payment we got last year in public utility. If you look down at the expenditures, we're actually less than we were in salaries, less in purchase services. And where we spent a lot more than we did last year is capital outlay. And of course, that's because of the transportation compound. So here's our salaries. Again, we've been talking about it all year. May is a three-pay month. We spent
025$2,525,000 in salaries in the month of May. At the end of May, we've completed 24, 26 pays for a total of $19,688,000, which is just under. We have one month to go, and our annual budget is $21,484,000. So we're going to be very close in salaries. I did a new chart. So this is our true days. So we are at 116 days before open purchase orders and 101, 115. And we talked about this all year. As we get further away from receiving our tax collection, our true days start to go down. But what this chart shows on the bottom is it shows one, two, three, four, five years of a cash cycle by month for the year. So this blue line, this darker blue line is 2021. In 2021, our cash balance started a little
026lower, dipped down. And you can see, even with all five years, see how we have the same pattern, but it just depends on the ending cash balance. So 22 is orange, 24 is yellow, and fiscal year 25 is lighter blue that you see ending here. What it illustrates really well is the two times in the year that our property taxes collections occur. So this is the time where our true days are high. This is the time when our true days are low. And that's why we go on that up and down all year long. Food service had a surplus of 14,088.96. We did finally receive, if you recall, we were behind on receiving subsidy money. We did receive all the subsidy money that we applied for. And you can tell in the revenue that we
027got it all basically right in here. The ending balance, 721.69. I did talk to the food service supervisor today. They do have some new ovens for the elementary's plan. There's some more equipment that we're planning on putting in. It's a planning process to get the approved purchases. So that's what's going to be happening in the next year. Did you spend that down this year as you guys had planned? I'm sorry. We did. I didn't go back and look at the original number at the beginning of the year. We did, but we were hoping to see it go a little further. I was hoping by 500,000. But they are running, and like I told the food service supervisor, he's running so efficient. He's in and out. I wish we were running at this efficiency level with
028a balance of 300,000. And that's exactly what I told them the goal is today. So we are going to buy some more equipment. We're going to get that balance down to about 300,000 and keep up with this efficiency. We're in and out. Permanent improvement, we received $793. I could tell you that's scrap. We are done receiving taxes. So we do not receive much revenue in this fund for the rest of the school year. We did receive $2.4 million. And of course, most of it you can see from the chart. The blue is in property taxes. We did not spend much in May, but June is definitely going to make up for it. As you can see, June, it's stacked pretty heavy over here. But in May, we had storage containers. Actually, the storage containers go
029out to all the buildings so that they can move classrooms for the teachers that are moving around in the summer. We have instrument repair, which a lot of people don't know. Permanent improvement does pay for instrument repairs for the band. And then we had some pest control. Lastly is our self-insurance fund. Our self-insurance fund is up. It's actually up to before it was at the beginning of the fiscal year. It's up to a balance of $2,599,113. We were hoping, and we've been talking about this all year, that it gets back up there, and that's where I hope it hovers for a while. Are there any questions? Okay, great. Moving right along. Section 5.2, 5.2 is generous. Donations is detailed in the associated closures. I am recommending for your approval. Do we have a motion and
030a second? So moved. Second. Any questions or comments on donations? Thank you to the community. As always, we appreciate your kind contributions to the district. It's always humbling every month to see donations come in. Anyone else? Dad, would you please call the roll? Mr. Albright? Yes. Mrs. Clark? Yes. Mr. Medjatt? Yes. Mr. Paternetti? Yes. And Mrs. Blankenship? Yes. Thank you, Madam President, members of the board. The next item on my agenda is equipment disposal. Equipment disposal is detailed in the associated closures. I am recommending for your approval. There's a ton of it. Everybody starts cleaning in the summer. Mr. Albright, I'll let you know if there is a PCR on there. Tell your dad, Albright. Do we have a motion and a second for the disposal? So moved. Any questions or comments? What's actually interesting
031when you walk through the schools, when you compare the rating, the academic outcome rating, what you see in the hallways, how heavily used it is, it's pretty oppressive, actually. And there's like nothing on this list that like actually... We got our money's worth. Oh, you did. We try to use it, but you can't use it anymore. Any other questions or comments? Dad, would you please call the roll? Mr. Albright? Yes. Mrs. Clark? Yes. Mr. Medjatt? Yes. Mr. Paternetti? Yes. Thank you, Madam President, members of the board. Next item on my agenda is 5.5. 5.5 is a resolution 2025-16 for inter-fund transfers as detailed in the associated enclosures. Recommending for your approval. Just a brief paramount. So moved. Second. I think it was James. James. Thank you. Again, we've been talking about these transfers all year.
032Are these... I'm sorry, how many answers? Yeah. I skipped one. Okay, we're going to transfers. I'll go back to... Okay. I'll go back. So this is 2025-16, which is what I read. So we've been talking about these transfers all year, transfer to athletics, and then the only other transfer is an inter-fund transfer to preschool. Now, we're transferring a little more to athletics than we have in the past, but we've always, you know, for as long as I've been here, we've been transferring to athletics every June. Next year, we're going to start capturing transportation costs in athletics. So every time a bus takes an athletic trip, we're going to do inside billing. Okay? And now we're going to get a really true picture of every... you know, exactly what athletics costs the district. Any other questions
033or comments about the transfers? I had to look again. Yeah, no, I skipped one. Okay. Would you please call the roll? Mrs. Clark? Yes. Mr. Medget? Yes. Mr. Patternetti? Yes. Mrs. Buckinshott? Yes. And Mr. Albright? Yes. Okay, let's go back to... Advances. Advances. Section 524, approval of resolution 2025-17 for inter-fund advances as detailed in the associated enclosures. I am recommending for your approval. And again, just a brief comment. So moved. Do we have a second? Second. Okay, down. Advances, if you recall from previous years, this is what helps our grants come out of the negative. But as soon as we close the fiscal year, we get in July, we advance all the money back to the general fund. And this is because we can't close the year with negative accounts. Exactly. And you could use
034a hot checkbook to look up all those funds and all those transfers and see exactly what happens. Yes, it's all out there, exactly. Or would our grants that we're covering be negative because they're multi-year grants, or how do we get in the negative with those, I guess you would say? The reason we're in the negative with those is because we use the grants first and then we're reimbursed. Okay. And the reimbursement takes time. Okay. So we got a reimbursement last week, but we're not going to get another one because they shut it down because they're closing their fiscal year, right? Okay. And we're still spending. We have payroll going on, things are still going on, which puts us in the negative. Okay. So that's why we advance. It seems a little crazy that you've got
035to put money in and then take money out, but that's the way they've got it structured. So any questions, other questions or comments about advances? Deb, would you please call the roll? Mrs. Blankenship? Yes. Mr. Albright? Yes. Mrs. Clark? Yes. Mr. Midgett? Yes. And Mr. Cadennick? Yes. Okay. Okay, back on task. Section 5.6. 5.6 is approval of budget and purpose statements for fiscal year 2026 As detailed in the associated closures, I am recommending your approval. Do we have a motion and a second? So moved. I'll second. Any questions or comments? Or do you have something you want to? No, these are standard. We do these every year. Any questions or comments from anybody? No. Deb, would you please call the roll? Mr. Albright? Yes. Mrs. Clark? Yes. Mr. Midgett? Yes. Mr. Cadennick? Yes. And Mrs.
036Blankenship? Yes. Section 7.5.7 is approval of final permanent appropriation measure for fiscal year 2025. That's one we're in right now. As detailed in the associated closures, I am recommending your approval. Do we have a motion and a second? So moved. Second. Is that Mr. Midgett? Yes. Okay, thank you. And a motion. Todd? Todd or Andrea? I'd say the same. Was it Andrea? I'd say Todd can take it. It's fine. Oh, I thought. We both said it at the same time. Sorry. Any questions or comments? Then would you please call the roll? Mr. Midgett? Yes. Mr. Cadennick? Yes. Mrs. Blankenship? Yes. Mr. Albright? Yes. And Mrs. Clark? Yes. Final item in my agenda, section 5.8. 5.8 is approval of final permanent appropriation measure for fiscal year 2026, which is after July 1st. As detailed in the
037associated closures, I am recommending your approval. I have a brief comment after first and second. So moved. Do we have a second? Second. Okay. I just wanted to say the 2026 permanent appropriations, they're equal to the tax budget. This is our starting point for the next fiscal year. So the tax budget that went to the Budget Commission back in February, we gave them what we thought our revenue was going to be. We gave them what we thought our expenditures was going to be. So this document matches that to the T. Now, in July, we're going to come over top and make some changes. We have some changes that we have to appropriate for our 070 funds. You know, we have a lot of things to do. So don't be surprised if you see amendment number
038one, permanent appropriations in July. Okay. Any other questions or comments for Deb? Deb, would you please call the roll? Mrs. Blankenship? Yes. Mr. Albright? Yes. Mrs. Clark? Yes. Mr. Midgett? Yes. And Mr. Pedernich? Yes. Okay. That concludes my section. Thank you. Okay. I bring this to board reports. I didn't know if there was anybody that had anything for tonight. We'll start with Andrea and go down the line. I tried to drop something into the PowerPoint last minute, so I'm not sure if Deb has any access to that. Oh, sorry. I was just looking, realizing there wasn't a link there. Can you get into it? It's shared with you in Google board reports. I didn't get anything else. Sorry, I should have emailed you and give you a warning. I was putting it in there. Right
039there. All right. We'll pull the audible. Thank you. So the foundation sent this email out with pictures from the kindergartners. So last fall, one of the grants was to buy these Vox books. So this was just a couple of the informational slides. We had lots of pictures of smiling kindergartners, which was fantastic with their cute little signs. But it was great to see that those were going, and all of the foundation was excited to see those going into use, and Mrs. Kingsette and Setzer were obviously very excited for those. As a background, some of the other kindergartner teachers had gotten those in the past, so they were applying to use them as well. And then the next page I talk about, there were three spring grants, grant requests that came in. One was for CMS
040for her ELA classroom, Mrs. Culleton, I think it is. And she said when she first started teaching, it was her goal to make a very comfortable and inviting classroom, and she wanted to get back to that. So she had requested some different chairs that were kind of rocky, I would say, but very durable and better for the kids. And they decided to share funding with that along with, at the time Mr. Kareff, now Mrs. Sherwood, with the budget. So they will have that flexible seating in that ELA classroom. The CHS teacher for environmental science, biology, and the upper level classrooms asked for funding for a greenhouse, which will be pretty cool, so they approved that. And then another classroom for flexible seating, but at the high school level it seems to be like the ELA
041classrooms. They want them to be more approachable and more, I'll say, group talky, group work flexible, so they approved that one, and that was about half the price of the CMS, because she was aimed more at beanbags and stuff. So all of those were approved, and I will assume you'll probably have purchase orders if you don't already have them. I haven't seen purchase orders yet, but I did see the application for the greenhouse come through. Awesome. Thank you, Andrea. So that takes us to Todd. Do you have anything for legislative? Yeah, I mean, there's yes and no. It depends on what you want to hear, basically. I want to point something out. Really, it's Senate Bill 190, because I think this is going to be kind of the trend going forward. The language of this
042modifies the law governing property income, sales, use, severance, and lodging taxes to provide breakfast and lunch at no cost to public and chartered non-public school students. And it seems to me like there is, in the move to eliminate property tax, they're probably going to be putting a lot of things primarily on sales tax, would be my guess, but in this season with the Budget Commission, there was a debate about what they should be able to approve and not approve. There's also another bill to basically strip them of the authority to make those decisions and put that with an unelected official in the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce. So to me, the big picture legislatively looks like voters are going to lose pretty much all authority to determine what goes where and how, and then
043it'll be piled onto some sort of sales tax system or a variety of other taxes. And the sad part is, while the state is recognizing the need for more energy, and there's hydrogen projects being proposed, they're also stripping local entities' abilities to gather tax revenue from pipelines and power production, which is definitely going to be increased substantially. The conclusion to this is I really actually don't understand what they're trying to accomplish. And if somebody can help me understand it, I'd appreciate that. But I want to thank Dr. Halen, though, for going for the City of Chardon. I spoke with a city council member. They did draft a resolution and distribute it as well. He informed me that he thought House Bill 335 was losing traction, which is good. That is dead in the water, personally,
044but we'll see. And then I'll just jump right down to Auburn. Due to family-related issues, Sherry Williamson is going to be stepping down from Treasurer of Auburn. So we're in the midst of the process of finding a new treasurer. We have two candidates that have come forward. We're going to be meeting next week, I believe twice, to review or interview those candidates and be making a decision, hopefully, in the first meeting in July. That's that. Well, thank you, Todd. James, did you have anything for? No, I think with the summer months, I had no report at night. Yeah, I tried to take a look at it earlier. Mike had it up, and we didn't see anything new. Okay, just wanted to give everybody an opportunity. Thank you. Okay, 6.2. We have an amendment to the
045treasurer's employment contract. Do we have a motion and a second? So moved. Seconded. Is there any comments or questions concerning the amendment to the treasurer's contract? No? Then would you please call the roll? Mr. McGat? Yes. Mr. Katerini? Yes. Mrs. Blankenship? Yes. Mrs. Clark? Yes. And Mr. Albright? Yes. 6.3, we have an amendment to the superintendent's employment contract. So moved. Do we have a second? Seconded. Do we have any questions or comments concerning the amendment to the superintendent's? Oh, very none. Deb, would you please call the roll? Mrs. Blankenship? Yes. Mrs. Clark? Yes. Mr. Albright? Yes. Mr. McGat? Yes. Okay, number 7, new business. Do I think we have any new business tonight? Anybody? So that takes us to 8, hearing of the public for non-agenda items. And we have done. So now we go
046to meeting and adjournment. Our next meeting will be, well, our next regular meeting will be July 21st. Our next special meeting will be July 8th at 5pm. Okay, so do we have a motion and a second to adjourn? So moved. Second. Okay, Deb, would you please call the roll? Mr. Albright? Yes. Mr. McGat? Yes. Mr. Padanetti? Yes. Mrs. Blankenship? Yes. And Mrs. Clark? Yes. Meeting adjourned at 6.14pm. Thank you everyone.