Chardon BOE Meeting 05-18-2026

001Okay I call the order of the meeting of the Chardon Board of Education May 16th, 2026 regular meeting. It's called order. The meeting is being held in accordance with section 3313.15 of the Ohio revised code. Deb would you please call the roll. Mrs. Blankenship? Here. Mr. Gallagher? Here. And Mr. Midgott? Here. Okay welcome to the May 18th, 2026 regular meeting of the Chardon Local Schools Board of Education. Prior to this meeting each board member received for their review and consideration the agenda and materials associated with each agenda item for the board's consideration via the Electronic Board of Education Agenda System Board Docs. The public can access the agenda through the school district's website one day prior to the board meeting. Pursuant to the Board of Education Policy 0165, this meeting is a meeting of the

002Board of Education in public for the purpose of conducting the school district's business and is not to be considered a public community meeting. There are two opportunities for public participation during the meeting as indicated the agenda items designated as public participation. Board members have the opportunity to call the superintendent and chief financial officer for information concerning agenda items and to request if needed additional information. Upon request to the superintendent the district shall make reasonable accommodation for a disabled person to be able to participate in this activity. This meeting may also be replayed for later viewing on GTV network and video on demand site. The Chardon Local School District is not responsible for the video and or audio quality or future availability of such recording. So the item on the agenda first item is the adoption

003of the agenda but I just want to make clear about the agenda tonight. It is important to note that after a lot of consideration the 27-28 calendar is on tonight's agenda. In my mind there are two different issues brought up. One being the starting date of the calendar and the other being instructional time. After Mike's presentation at the March meeting on what goes into creating the calendar, I asked Mike to try and schedule a work session because it was suggested that we needed further discussion on these issues. There was no lack of trying on Mike's part. He did everything he could to get something scheduled but we were unable to schedule a work session because of conflicts with board members schedules or even in some cases lack of responses. Since March Mike has spent a

004lot of time addressing the method used to create the calendar and communicating to the board the reasons behind it. To the best of my knowledge since the March meeting and because we could not get a work session scheduled, I believe that Mike has addressed all the board's questions and concerns about the calendar. I asked to have it added to tonight's agenda because tonight is the first time that I thought we were going to have all five board members together since the March meeting. I feel we owe it to the staff, parents, community to take action on the calendar and not to prolong it any longer. When we get to that agenda item tonight we can continue our conversation after a motion and a second. I hope everyone brought your calendars so if needed we can

005schedule a work session to discuss instructional time. So with that being said, I'm asking for a motion and a second to adopt the agenda as presented. Make a motion. We have a motion and a second. Any questions about the agenda that's presented? Hearing none, would you please call the roll? Mr. Midyat? Yes. Mr. Gehocher? Yes. And Mrs. Blankenship? Yes. Okay that brings us to the Pledge of Allegiance. Tonight Michaela Snyder, a CHS graduate or grade 12, I'm assuming you're a graduate this year, will be leading us in the Pledge of Allegiance. Michaela? 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. In recognition of 12th grade Chardon High School student Michaela Snyder, for

006your contribution and commitment in serving as the Board of Education's Pledge of Allegiance leader on this 18th day of May 2026. Thank you. And I guess I'll see you at your entrance in twilight. Thank you Michaela. The mission of the Chardon local school district we commit to high achievement for all students. Thanks Mike. First hearing of the public for agenda items only. I think I know we have one so if you want to. Oh do we have one? Okay the Board of Education provides for public participation of residents of the school district. Individuals and business owners in the district are elected and are appointed public officials whose jurisdiction includes the school district. I'm just going to cut to the chase. State your name, where you're from, and you have three minutes. Mark Javich. I live

007here in the city of Chardon. I have two children that come to Chardon High School. I just want to address the board briefly. I hear that we are also moving the craft team from a club to a sport because it's on the agenda tonight so I just wanted to talk briefly in that, ask for your support in that, answer any questions that may be had. I've been coaching the craft team now since its inception in 2024. We are in our third year which is our fifth season. We currently have 56 active athletes on our team that come from grade six through 12. We meet in the spring and in the fall falls our practice. Spring is our competition season. We meet for about 12 weeks in the spring. We are three quarters of the way

008through at this point. We finish up in June at the state competition. We've had great results with our team, a great learning experience for our youth. Estimated at this point because we've come and gone with some of our athletes that have started but about 60 percent of the athletes on our team had never handled a firearm previous to being part of this team and now we have put in both years we've gone to the state to put athletes on the podium for their divisions and they have not been firearm shooters previous to that. They come into it with a great respect for the safety. Our team is organized with safety is number one as is the league. We have a very large influence on our team of local first responders. We have four police officers,

009three firefighters, corrections officers that are the coaches on our team. We are all trained as range safety officers so that that is the focus. The league itself is the largest play sports league for high school and college-age students in the U.S. There's 55,000 athletes in it. The bulk of that are high school, we call it high school, six through 12. About 40,000 of those are in the high school bracket. 1,175 high schools right now. We have three in Jogger County. We're hoping to have more. We compete virtually as you would say each week. Our scores are tallied since it's very difficult to get that many people together on a shooting range and then we have in-person tournaments throughout the summer and the spring and summer and a few in the fall. It's a great opportunity

010for athletes, students that might not be your traditional athlete that don't want to be out on a field sweating and lifting weights that can still get out in a competitive manner. We've had many parents come to us and express their gratitude for having a sport that their child can get involved in and be competitive and have school spirit. We varsity letter, we go to the state. It's a great opportunity for students that might not have that sport, that athletic ability and it opens up some opportunities on top of the importance of them learning firearm safety, training their families, teaching their parents when we have a great opportunity. Thank you. Thank you. Okay next we have Jenny Pavlik. You can say your name and where you're from I'm Jenny Pavlik. I'm from Chardon. I'm a parent

011of Chardon students. I wanted to express my disappointment today regarding the handling of the 26-27 school calendar process. In March the board voted to postpone the approval of the calendar in order to hold a special meeting and allow for additional discussion regarding the proposed start date. Many families, myself included, appreciated that decision and felt truly helpful that our concerns were being heard and would be genuinely considered before the final vote took place. And while I appreciate you trying to get everyone together, unfortunately that meeting never happened. Over the last two months there has been no opportunity then for the broader community to participate in an open discussion or ask questions. Families who signed our petition and voiced concerns did so respectfully and in good faith because they believed there would be a continued dialogue. Instead

012it now appears the calendar forward exactly as originally proposed without any visible consideration of the feedback that was. I also want to emphasize that this was never an all-or-nothing issue for many of us. While the original request was to begin school after Labor Day, many families were open to a compromise. Even pushing the start date back by one or two weeks in August would have demonstrated that community input was valued and that the board was willing to meet families somewhere in the middle. Instead there doesn't appear to have been any compromise at all. For many parents this issue is more is about more than just a date on the calendar. It's about family time, childhood, and balance. Summer has continued to shrink for students over the last several years and many families feel strongly that

013children benefit from having adequate time to rest, spend time outdoors, travel with family, work summer jobs, or simply enjoy being kids before returning to the structure and demands of the school year. I understand that creating a school calendar is complicated and that there are many factors the board must consider, and I also understand that not everyone will agree on an ideal start date. However, when the board publicly commits to further discussion and community engagement, families expect that commitment to be honest. Holding the vote tonight without the promised special meeting leaves many of us feeling unheard and discouraged from participating in future discussions. I hope that moving forward there can be greater transparency, follow-through, and genuine collaboration with the families and community members who care deeply about our schools and our children, and that when the

014next calendar is being planned the community feedback will be considered. Thank you for your time. Thank you, Jenny. Okay, that takes us to the consent agenda. Thank you, Madam President, members of the board. We have 10 items on tonight's consent agenda. First item 3.1 is approval of minutes as detailed in the associated enclosures. 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 and non-contractual personnel and compensation related items as detailed in the enclosure. Item 3.4, approval of the tiny toppers calc preschool handbook for 26-27 as detailed in the enclosure. Item 3.5, approval of the Chardon High School program of studies for 26-27 school year as detailed in the enclosure. Item 3.6, approval of the learn well agreement as detailed in the

015enclosure. Item 3.7, approval of the inner district service agreements with Berkshire schools for extended school year services as detailed in the enclosures. Item 3.8, approval of the extended school year services agreements for students through the cardinal cares program as detailed in the enclosure. Item 3.9, approval of the agreement with applewood centers for student services as detailed in the enclosure. And item 3.10, approval of the district's annual membership with the alliance for high quality education as detailed in the enclosure. I am recommending your approval of these items. Do we have a motion and a second for the consent agenda? So moved. Second. Any questions or comments considering the consent agenda? No. Hearing none, then would you please call the roll. Mrs. Clark? Yes. Mr. Gohautra? Yes. Mr. Majat? Yes. And Mrs. Buckinshott? Yes. Next we have

016item four which is our Chardon High School student liaison report and T.J. Adair and Walter Sweeter with us this evening. I'm T.J. Adair. I'm Walter Sweeter. And we're here to give you the board liaison officer's last presentation on the events that have been happening at the high school for this year. So prom just happened last week and prom king queen, our tate of carpenter, it's already on right there in the right picture. It was a lot of fun. After prom was a huge success, we want to give a huge thank you to Ms. Michelle Fitcher, Ms. Lori Kelpeck, and Ms. Julie Fechik and also the army of volunteers that offered to stay late, staying past 3 a.m. and setting up games, buying food and drinks for us to have a great time. Everybody enjoyed it

017and it was a safe fun night for everybody. A couple weeks ago was powder club and the atmosphere was really physical. The juniors did take the win and in the bottom left corner you can see me and T.J. announcing the game and it was a lot of fun. It was a lot of fun. Here's a quick update from all of our spring sports. Baseball is heading in the playoffs on Thursday. We're looking to make it all the way to regionals this year. Softball won their first playoff game by a score of 30 to 0. Boys lacrosse won their first round as well. They're playing at Gilmore this week. Girls lacrosse beat aurora 19 to 3. Girls like football. They fought hard in their inaugural season. It was a good first year for them. Volleyball is

018two wins away from going to states and they are graduating nine seniors out of the 13 members of the team. Track they won the WRC and they beat Riverside 141 to 140.5. So huge win and tennis took second in the WRC to Mayfield. They only had one loss the entire season. So really good year for our spring sports. AP testing just happened and huge thank you to UFC for funding us to use their facilities. Hopefully we see a lot of fives in July. Today was final or oh finals week was last week. Seniors walked out the doors of schools getting ready to take their finals this week. Senior mentoring last Friday. The seniors didn't have to go to school but all the senior mentors decided that they would go in and spend some time with

019their eighth graders for one last fun day Friday which included a lot of fun activities including water balloons, sweet treats, and even a field trip to Chips Clubhouse for some. It was a really fun time and all the senior mentors enjoyed their eighth graders as much as their eighth graders enjoyed having them as senior mentors. And then lastly on behalf of all the board liaison officers we wanted to say thank you for giving us the opportunity to share our school year with you. We hope you've enjoyed hearing about it as much as we've enjoyed living it and we wrote down some little bios about ourselves and where we're going to be going over the next year. So Hopper Fetchig is going to Washington Jefferson to play volleyball. Jordan Fisher is going to go to the

020University of Miami Ohio along with Henry Walter who will be going to study engineering. TJ Adair is going to West Point the United States Military Academy and lastly Hayden Hopper is attending DePaul University in Chicago. That's all we have for you. Thank you very much for this opportunity and have a great day. Well thank you. Thanks gentlemen. It's been a yeah you could just give it to me that'd be great. It's been a pleasure to have the student liaisons we've had this year. You guys have been outstanding every month and it's been great learning about the things that have been happening and are you guys heading out the door? If you could just hang on for like two minutes. All right. Just let me jump into my report so I want to brag about you

021guys for one second. So we'll slide into superintendent's report. First off I just want to share with the board that preliminary Ohio State testing and end of course testing results this year are starting to come in. We received mathematics scores and some other tested areas. ELA scores will I believe be populating this evening and I just want to point out some of the notable increases that we saw this year from last year. Algebra 1 has been making steady growth increased to 93 percent passage rate this year. Math 6 saw a nice jump of almost 20 percentage points. Math 4 increased to 94 percent biology. Seven percentage points growth to 96 percent passage rate. American history another seven percentage point increase to 96 percent passage rate and American government saw an increase to 92 percent. These

022are all notable accomplishments in these tested areas and they are the work of our staff. Certainly the the efforts of our students and our continued focus on aligning to curricular standards and the alignment of instructional materials and professional development to support that mission. A quick update on capital improvement projects just so the community understands the kinds of things that will be happening this summer. As soon as school ends this week they'll be mobilizing to replace the roof at the park auditorium. Also the next phase of the masonry reconstruction primarily the east wall at park elementary school will be completed this this summer. The tennis and pickleball court renovation being done in partnership with the city of Chardon will get underway as soon as school is out and probably about be completed right around the beginning

023of July and those courts should be playable at that point. We'll be seeing underground storage tank remediation at Chardon high school in the back parking area where the buses were. That'll be going on this summer as well as the maintenance building and trailer demolition behind that building. We we don't have the resources yet to move forward with the the envisioned parking area back there and second traffic flow and so on but that's the long-term goal for that area and then we'll be seeing some miscellaneous paving and concrete repairs and so on going on throughout the district. So again a lot of capital improvement activity. Commencement were again as noted in in our student liaison presentation coming to the close of the school year. A lot of year-end activities that are occurring in commencement will be

024tomorrow evening. Again that'll be at Parkside church in Chagrin Falls. I want to congratulate the 224 members of the class of 2026 and I just thought it was worth noting some of the accomplishments in in addition to all of the others of this class. They're certainly very remarkable. All of our governor's merit scholarship awardees, Sarah Eads, Aubrey Fechik, Jordan Fisher, Aidan Gurlicka, Auden Houter, Joe Molesky, Alex Monkevich, Liliana Pagano, Claire Stevenson, Rachel Suszynski, Henry Sweet and Walter Sweet. That is a four-year five thousand dollar commitment through the governor's merit scholarship program. So that's certainly a notable accomplishment for those students. And then the number of students that we have through college credit plus that have earned associate's degrees this year or upon graduation. Austin Clute, Logan Dillon, Auden Houter has both a associates of art

025and arts and science. Lily Pagano, Selena Sparker, Henry Toth and then Claire Stevenson and Madison Frost are completing one course this summer and will be also joining that list of students that earned associate's degrees through CCP. And I also want to note our military enlistments with TJ Adair as we heard this evening. Simply remarkable going to West Point. That'll be I'm sure an outstanding experience for TJ. Caden Bednar in the Navy, Riley Dewey in the Army, Lily Wasley in Navy and Lucas Zelsnick who is also going into the Army. So we want to thank all of those students for their commitment to our country and for their enlistment. And as everyone knows we you know we continue to try to support the four E's, enrollment, enlistment, entrepreneurship and employment. And you can see from this

026list that we have a number of students that are going forward in various paths but all kind of supporting that four E's vision of the school district. So all the students that are with us this evening on this list if you just stand up I just want to give you a quick round of applause and thank you. And with that we're moving forward to recognition of the Science Olympia team and Emily I believe you're ready to help us with that right? So Emily Tusig who's and is going to join Karen Blankenship the board president. So I put Emily on the spot just a little bit and said she was going to give us a quick overview of Science Olympia. So and she agreed to do that. Hi my name is Emily Tusig. I actually graduated

027from Sheridan High School and completed the seven years of Science Olympiad as well through the Sheridan Schools program. But for those of you who don't know Science Olympiad is one of the largest science-based extracurricular activities that you can participate in the nation. It is a national program and it covers all of the forms of science whether it's biology, chemistry, engineering. We have a technical writing event. What else am I missing? It's like an academic track for engineers. It is it's very much a track and field event in which literally lowest score wins. But there's 23 events that a team of anywhere we had 12 this year competing until states but 12 to 15 can compete and they cover all of those events in like a school day style competition day. So the other thing I

028would like to mention is that we took 14th at this state tournament this year and in competing in northeast Ohio let alone the state of Ohio is one of the most competitive states that you can participate in. So if these students competed in pretty much any other state they would go to the national tournament every single year. So coming in 14th in the state of Ohio is a very very big deal for them. So thank you. Thank you. We have some certificates. So I had, oh sorry, 16 students in total this year competed for the team. 15 went to states. One student couldn't make it unfortunately for a family commitment but we'll name all of the students here that were on the team. So we have Antonio Baldwin, Adriana Baldwin, Riley Dewey, Joshua Flam, Daniel

029Flam, Julia Fuchs, Benjamin Majedic, Alex Moncovich, congratulations, Samuel Moncovich, and then William Moncovich, Colby Sapp, Benjamin Turnis, Austin Walker, Timothy Wilder, and then James Robleski. I would just like to mention that we will miss Alex and Tim as they go off to college. They've been in the program for the past seven years and it has been a pleasure to have them. Our Science Olympiad teams will continue to perform at a very high level every year and it's great that we have the opportunity to recognize some of our students for participating in that. I think the one thing that Emily probably short-sold a little bit is the commitment that parents and coaches and everyone that's involved with Science Olympiad contributes to the program but these these volunteers and coaches meeting on weekends and homes and training

030and practicing for events and it's remarkable and we're certainly proud of the accomplishment so thank you. Our next item is item 5.3, this is recognition of the state support team awards and we have one student award and one staff award. This is the recognition of Emily Doolittle for the Raymond A. Horn award and Janet Sapp for the Franklin B. Walter award. So first we'll recognize Emily. This year Chardon Local Schools recognizes Emily Doolittle as its recipient of the Raymond A. Horn Outstanding Student Award. Emily you here? Okay come on up please. Join Mrs. Blanketship, I should have been invited you first. This award honors students with disabilities who have demonstrated remarkable achievement in academics, arts, athletics, community service, employment, extracurricular activities or self-management. Named for Dr. Raymond A. Horn, Assistant Superintendent of Public Instruction Meritus,

031this award honors students whose achievements reflect resilience, excellence, and the belief that every student deserves respect and opportunity. Emily Doolittle is an exceptional young woman who has demonstrated remarkable growth and resiliency through her years of job training. She has transformed into a highly independent worker who truly thrives in food preparation environments showcasing both her technical skills and her dedication. Beyond her professional progress, Emily is known for her kind and humorous personality, always showing genuine care for those around her. Her passion for helping others extends to her personal life where she finds great joy in babysitting for her family members. With a clear vision of her future, she aspires to one day work in the produce department at Hynans preparing food for our community. Emily's flexibility and selfless nature make her a standout nominee as she

032consistently steps up to help others without a second thought. Congratulations, Emily. And next we have Janet Sapp. Janet, would you like to join us please? We're also recognizing Janet Sapp as Chardon's recipient of the Franklin B. Walter Outstanding Educator Award. This award celebrates an educator who has made significant contributions to the education of students with disabilities named in honor of Dr. Franklin B. Walter, Ohio's longest-serving superintendent of public instruction. This award recognizes leadership, dedication, and impact across more than 50 years of service. Intervention specialist Janet Sapp excels in her unwavering dedication to supporting students with behavioral needs at Munson Elementary. She's able to de-escalate high stress situations while maintaining warmth and empathy as she helps students regulate their actions and emotions. Mrs. Sapp recognizes the importance of connecting with her students as an integral part

033of teaching through shared enjoyment of pets, music, or other common interests. She is a strong communicator as she emphasizes wins, no matter how small, while still addressing areas for growth. Families, staff, and students feel celebrated and supported. Mrs. Sapp creates a classroom setting where students can safely navigate their emotions while they learn skills to help them grow socially and academically. Mrs. Sapp doesn't just provide education, she provides a learning environment where students feel seen, heard, and capable. Janet, congratulations. Thank you, Janet. Item 5.4 is our teacher spotlight presentation, Kristen Seronan and Sarah Gatto from Kelk will be our teacher spotlights for the seat. Hi, I'm Sarah Gatto. I'm a preschool intervention specialist at the Chardon Early Learning Center. I'll be talking about our new playground equipment. First and foremost, I want to thank you guys

034for allowing this and approving it. We just got a new playground back in the spring and it was completed in this, after spring break, so the kids were super excited. They saw the construction and everything being taken down. They kept asking questions and we kept saying wait until after spring break and they just, they adore it. They go on it all the time. We're out there every single, every single day that we can, today especially, it was super hot, but they still just love going on it. So we really want to highlight that it's so developmentally appropriate nowadays for our children and it also is widely accessible for all abilities that we have at the Early Learning Center. So thank you again. We really do enjoy it and those smiling faces can say everything. I'm

035Kristen Seronin. I wanted to highlight our, we had a Tiny Tepper spring concert this year. Last year we did one closer to Valentine's Day, but we had a stressful year so we pushed it off a little bit and then kind of fell in love with it and it ended up to be really cute. The weather was a lot better. It was better for parents to get there. So on a personal note, I was able to take on the task of planning the spring concert and including a parent resource night. I am going to school to get my principal's license and so preschool supervisor Atlanta Ruska has been very great at mentoring me and allowing me these opportunities. So we chose five songs including our Tiny Tepper promises song and four kind of spring related songs

036and it was very well received and the kids did a fantastic job. They worked so hard. So these are some of our morning kids and also the afternoon classes. So that's it. Thank you. You'll have to share the words to the Tiny Tepper promises song. It was, I'll give note, it was created by a previous classroom assistant who no longer works for the district but she came up with the lyrics and the tune. So it's Tiny Tepper promises we will, we, or wait no, no. We put you in the spot now it's hard. So it goes with our PBIS. Our PBIS for the little learners is we have the three promises. Our Tiny Tepper promises are to be kind, be safe, and try our best. And so the song just reiterates that. You can search

037it up on YouTube. But it's very well received at all the concerts. We'll be singing it this week at graduation as well. If anyone is bored, feel free to swing by. There's two tomorrow, 10 and 10 30. One Thursday and two. And then also on Thursday we will have a graduation at 10 o'clock and one Thursday. Come on back. Thank you ladies. I'm probably a little biased but the the most handsome grandchild on the one playground picture. But I could just be biased. I've got the grandson in the second one. Yeah you guys each had one out there. Moving on. Item 5.5. This recommendation to approve the academic calendar for the 27-28 school year as detailed in the enclosure. Okay. Once we have a motion and a second we can continue discussing the calendar. Do

038we have a motion in a second? So moved. I'll second it. Okay so does anyone have any continued questions, comments, concerns about the calendar? I have something to say if that's okay. So I do want to say that I appreciate that the parents brought this petition up. I was an elementary parent not very long ago and I understood. It seems like you're taking summer away really really fast. But as we move into the middle school years and as I talk to all the community members beyond just the elementary parents I need and as Dr. Hanlon presented it became very apparent to me that when you get to those high school levels this is way more about elementary schools and their state testing and about high school sports, middle school sports, high school band, middle school

039band, AP schedules, CCP schedules. So I am glad the conversation was open and I learned a lot in that process. I don't think from everything I've learned especially the academic hours where we were saying just take hours out of the calendar that this is at all possible I think to be the best and continue to strive for achievement we need to approve the calendar as is. But I do think there are several conversations to be had out of this beyond the start and end date and I've expressed this to Mrs. Lincolnship. I would still like to see an academic hours discussion on our fourth through sixth graders. Are they benefiting from their extra hours in school? Is there anything we can do to take them down 10 minutes, 15 minutes, extra sleep in the morning?

040So that would be that work session that we're still looking to have if we can all get in on the same time and then I think today presents the most fabulous example. It is 85 degrees today. We are in school. You cannot outsmart the weather with a school calendar so there's going to be a presentation from TDA coming up. We need AC in these buildings whether it be renovation or new buildings. So we need to come together as a community and figure out how we're going to put AC in these buildings because we can't outsmart weather with the school calendar. And then of course go to your state legislators. State testing is linked to funding. We cannot give away that funding. Make sure we're properly funding schools. And if you're at it move the state

041to states back and then we can move school back. So I appreciate the open conversation. I think there's still movement to be made here but I think the start and end date we have to move forward with. Anyone else have any questions or comments or concerns they would like to voice? I'll add the same part. I think we have a key which is students. We cannot play around with the hours to impact their tests but at the same time if we have a community request to look into it. Unfortunate we couldn't meet. We should find time for this discussion. My part is that we have a deadline for April for that test. We cannot steal time for it from in the front and give it in the back. That won't work. But at the same

042time is there is an opportunity during the school year when we could steal days, hours, whatever we can to meet the demand to be we are going a little bit more showing flexibility if it's possible without impacting education. So unfortunate we didn't have that meeting. I think we should look into some options wherever we can get couple days. James do you have anything that? Yeah, I think that I largely agree with what Andrea and Ash said. I think the situation at Berkshire was a very unique situation. This is something that I've really looked in too hard. The situation at Berkshire you know they're faced with the Chiaga County Fair right there next to their campus. They've got traffic issues. And the fact is is that you know when they when they change their calendar they

043did push their end date back which is really ineffective when it comes to the state testing schedule. And as Andrea noted that is out of our hands. So Berkshire was in a very a very much a very unique situation one that we are not really in. The calendar that Mike has developed with his staff is very I think it's very consistent with the rest of the state. And the other thing too is you know just with the research I've done I do think that we can look into the instructional hours. You know I am just of the view right now obviously I mean it's a fact we are over the state minimum. And you can call the state minimum or you can call it you know just a recommended work-life balance by the state if

044you want to. We are over that level. And I think that you know Karen said that we could have a work session for that. I'm just you know yeah I mean a longer summer does sound great but I feel like I have just I've just got to do the responsible thing and say you know I think that it's going to be more effective to cut hours out of every day rather than to cut the number of days. And I don't know where that's all going to end up but I'm saying for now I think that that's the path that we'd be most responsible to go with. We only have the certain grades that you can cut hours from that's where we have to look at if it's possible because you know our seniors with their

045three days off don't have time our kindergartners have no extra time right now. So it's a very interesting situation with our buildings and I think in the work session we could also bring up the fact that I don't know if we're gonna have to reconfigure our buildings again in the next five years. That may play into an academic calendar too. I think yeah I mean we can have the conversation in the work session or wherever it is. We can have the conversation about what we can cut. I mean the fact is we are over the state level for every grade level. I think grade six was more than others. I think it was over 120 hours. I'm not mistaken don't quote me on that but yeah I mean if it turns out that we can't

046make any cuts because of transportation schedules or whatever we just need to have that conversation and we all need to understand why. And I think another part of the air conditioning situation is something we can address. What bugs me is we say these kids start your academia life, these little kids and we send them to a building like nothing we can do at this. I get it. It's not in our control the financial burden it takes but it is important as a community what is the plan, how soon we can do it and what is going to look like. I know we are putting money on this building now but is that right? I think there's a bigger discussion that we need to have for these kids. We expect them to compete in a global

047level when they start their life in this heated building in park it's it's painful to see. Okay well I just want to address one of our speakers tonight a public hearing. I guess my thing is we can be communicated with via email, phone calls, catching us at the grocery store. What's interesting is with a lot of our other issues that we have had in the past we have received a lot of emails, phone calls, even letters and we haven't seen that this time or I haven't seen that this time. I don't know about the other board members. I've seen a couple in sort of in support of moving the calendar but I've actually seen a couple more or heard from a couple more to keep it the way it is. So I apologize that we

048could not get a work session together. Like I said Mike tried his best but we also owe it to everyone to move forward with this and I just for sake of reiterating a lot of things that we've heard especially from Mike's presentation and everything I think it's important that we need to listen to our educators. That is why we hire them. They spend a lot of time compiling this calendar to fit all the state mandates and testing requirements and at the same time meeting contractual obligations along with scheduling the transportation needs with the privates and parochials. So let's think about not only state testing and what those front-loaded days mean to the students test scores but there is also advanced placement testing, third grade testing, ACT and SATs, English language arts and algebra 1 graduation

049requirements and the students taking CCP classes that align with college calendars. There are the Auburn Career Center students to consider. Then there are students competing for summer jobs and seniors getting ready for college and not let's forget about those that would impact how this would impact working parents needing to line up child care. My kids went to school when we didn't end the first semester until after the winter break. That meant during the holidays they had homework, book reports and projects to do. Then they'd go back after the first of the year to finish the first semester testing. We are not an outlier. If you look at the list that was created by the board office of over 300 school districts in Ohio and their start and stop times, we are in the majority and

050it lines with other top performing school districts that we like to compare ourselves to. Being a school board member means making tough decisions that not everyone is going to agree with. Trust me, I learned a long time ago that there is no pleasing everyone all the time and I know that I have made enemies along the way. No matter what the board ultimately decides to do, this is one of those issues where there will be people that don't agree with the decision and we won't hear from most of them unless we make a change. Our responsibility is to all of our 2,300 students and to make sure that we give them the best possible education we can. Remember, our core mission is we commit to high achievement for all students. So Mike, I do have

051a question for you. Don't we offer flexibility for parents to pull their kids out for vacation time and if they want to use that time at the beginning of the school year? Isn't that available? Yeah, I would say as a backdrop to that, the number one instructional time is very important to us and what we do in the district but I also recognize the value of experiences outside of the classroom and we do have families that pull their children out for vacations during the year and I would say that this could be one of those, you know, if there's a concern about start time of the calendar that that could be a flexibility that that is given there as well. You know, our staff bends over backwards to provide work and make up activities and

052things for students that are doing those kinds of experiences and support them in that and I don't see that, you know, whether it's at the beginning of the year, the middle of the year, the end of the year, that they're really any different from each other. Anyone else have anything that they want to comment on or questions that they have for Mike or anyone concerning the calendar as it's presented? Mike, don't we also allow the students that are involved in fair or give them that time off as well? Yeah, students that participate in the fair are supported by the district. We encourage them to to do that. Actually, I was talking to one of the kids who went to states with my daughter today. He's also a fair kid. He's going to take a turkey

053and a chicken I learned today and his mom says he takes Wednesday and Thursday off and it's fully supported. So I was glad to hear an actual parent today say that. So that was good to hear. So I see Jenny's in the room. I just wanted to thank you for getting this conversation started. It doesn't sound like it's going to be the outcome that you were advocating for tonight. However, you did get the conversation started and that's really important. I mean, this is the public's school district and I just wanted to thank you for the conversation. I think there are more conversations to be had too. Yeah, absolutely. Are we going to schedule the work session? Yeah, we need to schedule the work session. Surprise board and welcome. I guess does everybody bring their calendar

054so we could get it something scheduled tonight? Okay, we can do that. Yeah, we can. Gordon, do you have anything you want to say about the calendar before we take action on it? I just missed the preliminary conversation there, but the work session is going to be for instructional time. Yeah, instructional time. Now, I think that's a very important issue that's tied into that and I don't have any other comments to make. Okay, well let's take action on the calendar and then we'll discuss the time for the work session for instructional time. So, that being said, then would you please call the roll? Mr. Galhotra? I have to say no. Mr. Midgett? Yes. Mr. Landis? Yes. Mrs. Clark? Yes. And Mrs. Blakenship? Yes. Okay, so let's everybody get your calendars out. Let's work on scheduling

055a work session for instructional time. Ash, I know you're going to be leaving town. When will you be back, Ash? Just a question for the time. Could this be participation online or has to be in person? I just know there was a request to have all the board in person. It's a public meeting, right? It's a public meeting. We have to have a quorum of at least three. Correct. So, the only day this week I'm back in town is Friday, any time before three, and then I'm traveling for the whole week after. So, June first week would be available for me. Not traveling that week. Okay, well unfortunately I have family coming in town this weekend. I'm not here Friday. Friday would be a holiday weekend. Yeah, this weekend would be bad. So, now we're

056first week of June. So, now we're looking at the first week in June. How does that affect everyone? Works for me. I have a commitment on, I think, June first. So, it's Monday. Monday, June first, I believe. Tuesday is, June second is an Auburn meeting, so I will be at Auburn. I have a commitment that evening as well. Wednesday, June third is where we're at. Wednesday, June third. Does that work? That works for me. June third, fourth, or fifth, I can do any one of those days. Yeah, works for me. Yeah. Okay, I can do the third. I can't do the fourth or fifth. I'll be out of town. What time would you like to start? Wednesday, June third. It's four o'clock, okay? Baseball, actually. Does four work for everyone? It works for me. Third

057works. At four o'clock. Yeah. So, we can do four o'clock on June third, correct? Yes. And where would that be held? At the board office? Probably. It would be helpful if we could do it there. That way we got all of our resources and everything. Okay, so at 428 North Street. Okay. Mike, can you send out an invitation thing? Four o'clock on the third. Yep, at North Street. Okay, I'm just going to, anybody who has any specific information that you would like Mike and Deb to get together for that night, please let them know in advance so they can be prepared with anything. I know we've got the information that Diane put together with our instructional time, that spreadsheet that she did, our emails coordinator, so I'm assuming we can start with that, but yeah,

058if there's any additional information that you would like, please let them know so that we can move forward with this and have a conversation. Everybody good? Yeah, I mean I think it's going to be a conversation around the different grade levels, there's different overages for different grade levels, so you know, whatever information we would need to address. I plan to have representatives from all the buildings there. Okay. But we'll be able to answer any questions that you might have. Okay. And Josh will be there to speak to transportation. And if there's any other resources, you can look in the calendar invite that I sent you, who all have available, if there's someone else that you think would be helpful, happy to line them up. I mean, Jenny, are you interested in attending this meeting? Yeah.

059Does that time work for you? Yeah. That time works for you? Okay, we'll see everybody on June 3rd then. Okay, I guess we can move on from calendar then. Item 5.6, approval of agreement between Shardin Schools and Speed Strength Systems for student athlete services as detailed in the enclosure. I'm recommending your approval. Do we have a motion and a second? I'll make a motion. I'll second. Any questions or comments? I apologize, I was scattered this week. Is this weight room training services come with a fee yet or is that not? Yes, it comes with a $25 per student annual fee. So each student that uses the weight room will have that fee? Yes. Cool. Middle school and high school. Still seems pretty cheap for weight room, but yes, perfect. Thank you. And that's a one-time

060fee? One time at the beginning of the year, yeah, for no matter how many sports you're going to have to use. Any other questions or comments? Deb, would you please call the roll? Mr. Midyat? Yes. Mr. Landys? Yes. Mr. Gautra? Yes. Mrs. Clark? Yes. And Mrs. Blankenship? Yes. Thank you, Madam President, members of the board. 5.7 approval of service agreement with FedLogic as detailed in the enclosure. I am recommending your approval. Do we have a motion and a second? I'll second. Any questions or comments? No. Deb, would you please call the roll? Mr. Midyat? Yes. Mrs. Clark? Yes. Mr. Gautra? Yes. Mr. Landys? Yes. And Mrs. Blankenship? Yes. Thank you, Madam President, members of the board. Next item is item 5.8. This is approval of the 26-27 school meal rates and student fees as detailed

061in the associated enclosures. I'll have a brief comment following motion and second. I am recommending your approval. So moved. Do we have a second? Second. Okay, Mike? Thank you, Madam President, members of the board. So we are recommending a few items on this action. First off, by way of background, our school lunch, school meal prices had been frozen a number of years ago, reduced and frozen right down. Yes. And that was in response to the balance that we had in our food service fund. That balance is starting to go down and at the projected rate, we need to resume a new meal expense fee and begin kind of replenishing those funds over time. So that's the rationale behind the food service piece. The other than the regular fees that you see on here for the

062usual exams and so on, we are now recommending reinstituting an athletic fee and a student activity fee. If you recall, our student activity fee was significantly higher before the board suspended it. And I do want to take a moment to note that with the suspension of fees that the previous board and current board sustained, we've now returned approximately $2 million. $1.8 million, yeah. $1.8 million to the families in our school district during that period of time. So that is not an insignificant number. And when we're in the kind of the whole question of property taxes and so on, that does represent real financial resources that were returned to taxpayers in the community. Nevertheless, we again, based on the fiscal projections that Deb has been working on, we've now arrived at that place where we need

063to return to an athletic activity fee. We're recommending $100. And that will just begin to start to drip into that account, if you will, and offset again, just as a reminder to the board, we do do an athletic transfer at the end of each school year, fairly significant transfer that the board makes from the general fund to supplement all of our athletic programs. So with that, I'm happy to answer any questions that you might have. But those were the notable recommendations in these fees. Well, remind me, I think that we used to charge for athletic fees or extracurriculars, we were like over $300. It was $350 for the first sport, $250 for the second sport, $150 for the third sport. I know because my son did all three. So it still is a considerable savings

064to families. And Mike, if you don't mind if I add, we also suspended supply fees three years ago, those we still have on suspension. We're not adding back the supply fees, just a reduced activity and athletic fee. And I'm sure, Mike and Deb, you can both speak to this. I'm sure that our cost, transportation costs, our fees for officials and all that has probably gone up. Yes. And this does not pay for the program by any stretch. All this will do is, like Mike mentioned, reduce the growth of our transfer from the general fund. I think when you were talking, you've said there's a budget increase associated with feet reps and all of the continued costs up. So just try to offset that at this point. Exactly. Will the fee be $100 per sport? Yes.

065So if you have like soccer, basketball, track and field, you're $300 for the year. Okay. Is there any provision, or have we thought about any provision for kids where there's a hardship where they can't afford the $100, $200? Yeah, our booster clubs have been very good with supplementing that and addressing fees for students. So there is a type of scholarship from the gridiron club or the boosters club? Right. Anyone else? Okay. Did we get a motion in a second? Yes, we did. Okay. Just need to vote. Okay. Then would you please call the roll? Mr. Landis? Yes. Mr. Gehotra? Yes. Mr. Magiat? Yes. And Mrs. Clark? Yes. And yes. Mrs. Blank, I'm sorry. You are on there. Thank you, Madam President, members of the board, next item is item 5-9. This is approval of resolution

0662026-15, approving clay target as a varsity sport for Chardon High School's detailed enclosure. I'm recommending your approval. Do we have a motion and a second? So moved. A second. Any questions or comments concerning clay targets? I was gone at the beginning. Did we cover that it's like super big and growing and everybody wants to be on there? Yeah, Mr. Johnovich participated. I walked in at the end of his, so I wanted to make sure. I was impressed to see the numbers of how big it was. He covered everything. Okay. Yes. Any other questions or? I wasn't here when the program started. What gauge of shotguns are they using? 410s? 12-gauge is the majority. Wow. Okay. Out of the 56 we have. Okay. And school is providing all the supplies for this? No, at this time

067we get funding from sponsors, Wild Turkey Federation, when the majority of our funding and then the students of Pullman and Beth was supplied. We've also discussed with this transition that there's kind of the special nature, the consumable nature with ammunition and clay targets and so on that we'll have to continue on with kind of a special consumable fee for this particular sport. It is on the fee schedule we just approved. Yeah. And it's more than the regular sports. $300. Yeah, but other sports supplies are not charged. Okay. Any other questions or comments concerning clay targets? Nope. Which way will we? Oh, go ahead. What schools will we be competing against? So it's part of an Ohio state and it's really a national program so when Mark registers our team we are slotted based on, you

068know, because again this is done virtually for the most, for the competitions. Everybody turns in their scores. Oh, so they don't travel? No. However, there are in-person events that they do go to, the team goes to as well, but we're just kind of slotted in and I don't know, Mark, can you speak to the methodology? The conferences are done differently than most of your high schools. We have the second largest team in the state of Ohio. Really? Yes, the newest team is the second largest. Wow. We're only limited to our size. We have 114 students interested. We can't fit that many at the gong club that we use. So we compete, we're in the larger conference, 2A, and so there's, we directly compete with eight schools that are in a size, four-year office actually, athletes,

069and so we compete virtually, tweak against them. Then when we go to the state shoot, we shoot side by side with them for a very large trap event. At the couple other tournaments, we do this in-person competition like that, but each individual athlete competes against every athlete in Ohio, both in our conference and outside that they rank them throughout this year. In the spring, I think we have 1,200 athletes in our conference that we're competing against weekly. Okay. I assume the kids go through like a firearm safety certification? Yes, they all do. They're all required to have the Ohio Hunters education, which is the supplemental to this firearm safety that the league requires. It's an equivalent, and it's what our gun club, the Wesley and the Sportsmen Association, requires that. Then they do an in-person

070training, which I teach along with our A-certified instructors. And you mentioned when you were speaking that you were introducing kids, like this was their first use of firearms, right? So they're starting at the right way, you know? Yes, we had a friend who had a shotgun going to get them safely, and we see that quite often in the field outside of us. We see that the two safe-fire shooting clay pigeons and getting a high score first, they have to be safe. And I know when we talked about the club starting, we had specified, or I had asked about firearms on school property, and Dr. Hanlon specified they are only at the range. No glands, no ammunition. I assume that stays the same here? Yes, absolutely. We haven't had any instances made it else, because we

071would have heard about it. Okay, I'm sure we would have. And your range is out in Hampton? Yes, on the opposite side. The Wesley and the Sportsmen Association is a private members only club, and they allow us to inundate them. There's a couple of other districts in the county that have this program, right? Are they at the same level we're going to be at with this boat, the varsity level? Berkshire is pushing for varsity based on the accelerated pace that we have. They've been doing this, it'll be their sixth year possibly. We stirred them up quite a bit when we got varsity lettering in, so they're pushing pretty hard. Kenston's team is smaller. They started out a little larger, but they're having difficulty getting a range that's close and keep attraction with it. The next

072closest would be like Grand Valley. I believe they'd have gone varsity, but I haven't talked to their mom. It's a little newer in northeast Ohio, but central Ohio down Hawkeye district and such that's really pretty prevalent. Thank you. Thank you. I think it's important to support any of the extracurriculars that our students have an interest in. Any other questions or comments? Hearing none, would you please call the roll? Mr. Gehoce? Yes. Mrs. Clark? Yes. Mr. Landis? Yes. Mr. Medjatt? Yes. Mrs. Bynkenshaw? Yes. Thank you, Madam President, members of the board. Item 5.10, approval of resolution 2026-16, approving payment and lieu of transportation for the 25-26 school year. This is an additional recommendation as detailed in the enclosure, recommending your approval. So moved. Do we have a second? Second. James can take it. Okay, any questions

073or comments about the payment and lieu of transportation? Hearing none, would you please call the roll? Mr. Landis? Yes. Mrs. Clark? Yes. Mr. Gehoce? Yes. Mr. Medjatt? Yes. And Mrs. Bynkenshaw? Yes. Thank you, Madam President, members of the board. Item 5.11, this is approval of resolution 2026-17, the acceptance of bids for school buses and authorization to purchase three buses as outlined in the enclosure. I am recommending your approval. Do we have a motion and a second? So moved. I'll second. Any questions or comments? I just want to say this has been an important thing for us. I believe every year we've done some replacement of our fleet, especially in the area that we live in. I'm sure that, you know, they get inundated with salt and everything else. So being able to continuously replace them,

074one, two, maybe three a year, I think is an important thing. I mean, we can walk outside and count, but do you know how many buses are in our total fleet right now? Approximately 42 with some other spares, including spares, and then there are a few that we'll probably be transitioning out of. That was my next question. Do we buy three new ones? Do we sell the other ones? We do. We usually do. I mean, we look for a variety of sources to get the most revenue from those vehicles that were offlining. Anybody else? Hearing none, Deb, would you please cover all? Mr. Medjap? Yes. Mrs. Clark? Yes. Mr. Gajotra? Yes. Mr. Landis? Yes. And Mrs. Blankenship? Yes. Thank you, Madam President, Members Board. Final item is item 5.12. This is a second reading and

075approval of board policies as detailed in the enclosures associated with this item. I am recommending your approval. Do we have a motion in the second? Second. I just have a quick question, Mike. Have you heard anything from anybody? No. In regards to the policies? Okay. Anybody have any questions or comments about policies? Most of these follow legislation once again. Correct. Anyone else? Would you please cover all? Mr. Medjap? Yes. Mr. Landis? Yes. Mrs. Clark? Yes. Mr. Gajotra? Yes. And Mrs. Blankenship? Yes. Thanks, Mike. Thank you, Madam President, Members of the Board. First item on my agenda, 6.1, which is my report. And again, I have an AI report in here, a really brief one, like a minute, 48 seconds on the financials from April. Let's go up to the beginning. We always look at the

076cash reconciliation. We have 30 million, 284 in the bank. We did balance book to bank. The only thing outstanding were the city taxes that we pay quarterly, so everything looks really good as we're getting close to the end of the fiscal year. Our financial summary, we always look at next. We look at the third column from the right, hoping there are no negatives. The only negatives we see are in 300, which is district athletics, which we already have a planned transfer. Mike talked about it earlier. We plan that every year. At the end of the year, we'll see that in June. And then grants, which, of course, we use first and are reimbursed. At the bottom of our financial summary, we would balance right to the bank at 30 million, 284. Can I interrupt back

077on that slide for a second? You got it. You say district managed activities. Is that sports or is that band and stuff too? Athletics activity. It's band, it's drama, it's free harmony, it's choir. So more than just the sports? It's more than just sports, yeah. So the first thing we always do is we compare to our spending plan. And I don't want to spend a lot of time on these numbers right now, because this is comparing where we're at right now with the February forecast. And I did prepare a May forecast we're going to look at here in a little bit. And we're going to go through and explain these exact differences when we look at our five-year forecast. So actual fiscal year to date, we've received 38 million, 874. And then our total that

078we've projected is 4947, which we're right on track to hit that by fiscal year end. Actual expenditures, we spent 31 million, 234. We're projected to spend 41. And we are on track to spend that by the end of the fiscal year. Again, these differences, we're going to look at these in more detail when we look at the May forecast. For monthly, we received 683,718. That was primarily in state revenue. We talked about this last month, how we received more than we did the previous March. And I saw in April, you're going to see where we did less. And of course we did. Last year, our home center rollback came in in April. This year, it came in in March. So that's why we received more last April than we did this April. For expenditures, we

079spent 3 million, 123. We spent way less in April of this year than we did last year. And you see that big yellow bar across the bottom? That was capital outlay. We were spending a lot of money on this building last year. So that's where the big difference is between last year and this year. Salaries, we've completed 21, 26 pays. April salaries, about 1.6 million. That's a little lower than usual because we had a week of spring break. So we had a little bit of a dip. And then next month, or the month we're in right now, May is what we call a three-pay month because our employees are paid every two weeks. So we'll spend a little more in May. And then June actually was estimated a little higher because we do have summer

080school built into this model. I always look at days of cash. We're going to see this drop clear to fiscal year end. It has dropped from last month to this month. After open encumbrances, we're down to 197 on this chart in the bottom left. We are right here in April. So we're going to start seeing our cash drop along with our days of cash. So this number at the end here, 197, is going to look more like 139 by the time we close the year. Food service, we've been talking about food service. We want to see a balance of about 300,000. We are on our way. We had deficit spending of 100,000. We are buying some new equipment in food service like we had planned to do. So that's why there's a deficit, nothing to

081worry about. We're getting to the goal that we want to see at the end of the year. Permanent improvement. If you remember, last month we came out of the red in permanent improvement because we had our second half tax collection. So now we're right here. So now we're spending that second half tax collection. We do not project not that much more revenue. There's little bits and pieces. So we have a plan already and purchase orders in place to get this down just right about zero by the end of the fiscal year. So our revenue was a walloping $1,907. That was from some scrap and salvage. We got a little bit from the city of Chardon on some TIF properties, but yet in April we spent $109,000. That was on elevator maintenance. I was smiling when

082the ladies were in from Kelk because the playground equipment was on my report tonight that they were so excited about. Park windows, CMS floor scrubber, some new equipment in the maintenance area of this building, and an ADA ramp at Kelk is what we spent that $109,000 on. Self-insurance fund. Claims are low. So the claims were low in April. I see claims low again in May. Our balance has climbed to $3,094,000. You can see on the chart over here it's high, but as you can also see on the chart here, come June, July, and August, you see how it dipped. So I am expecting a dip. I'm expecting summer months to bring in higher claims. So it's really awesome that we have a good healthy balance in that fund right now. Do you think that we

083can attribute some of this to a lot of the what I'll call programs that we have in place for our employees to shop around? Right. I hope so. I don't think so. I think a little bit of it is we are on one insurance plan now. So the individuals that were on the PPO plan now have a deductible. So we are, instead of seeing their claims like we always have in January and March, they're spending from their deductible first. So I think that's more, we're turning more to that than we are our programs. So you're saying maybe the second half of 26 we're going to see? An increase, right. So when they get their deductible we start paying that portion? Exactly. We do that for everyone, yes, exactly. Two quick questions, Deb. Do you think

084that you mentioned six months ago or something, last year we had a significant number of people retire and the significant number of younger new employees. Don't you think that that would be impacting this while we're having less claims, number one, or could be? Could be. And then number two would be if we were to move some of this, if we were to reduce this reserve by some number, would you move it into another restricted fund or where would it go if you took $500,000? It would have to stay here. All we could do is we could give, we could take a holiday and reduce costs for not only us contributing to this fund but the employees as well. Which would then be an improvement to the actual operating expenses? Yes, yes, that is an option

085for sure. But there is a certain amount that we have to maintain. Right, the reserve amount that's on here, I guess. Is that two million I see? Yeah, about two million. Again, we're substantially over, I'm not saying, it's just something I'm sure we're watching, but. Right, and that's why we look at this every month Gordon, a very good point, but as you can see from this chart, look at how many times we've dipped down to the reserve amount. It just depends what claims are coming in at. We do have two more programs, one that you approved on tonight's agenda to exercise more cost containment in this area moving forward, so we're hoping to see see these claim costs stay at a low amount. So my top are facts. One question I see as I'm, you

086know, coming social media, a lot of people talk about, you know, when the district enrollment declines, you know, schools keep all the same staff and they're paying all these teachers and they're not as many students. Well, that's not the case here and it's never been the case here. Every year we do deep analytics on our student count, both Dr. Klein, Dr. Hanlon, take a look at how many students we have per grade, per subject, and figure out the staff we need. In fact, I was in a class last week where they brought this graph up, and this is a very popular graph amongst districts, and you can tell by this, this graph tells a story. You can tell, I can tell when Dr. Hanlon started, okay? Dr. Hanlon started right here. So you can see

087when he started the leadership at the school, this is something he concentrated on to save and right-sized the staff together with the ADM. I can also tell you COVID happened here, so we had to increase during COVID because we wanted our kids in school where a lot of other people were at home, right? And they were doing remote. We had our kids in the building. And then this third spike over here, I had to look it up, and that was when we added some engineering and some CCP classes and the crew program and that kind of stuff. We added it at first and then took a look at the students and right-sized it. So all of those dips and spikes tell a story. So anyways, I just wanted to review that. Does the board have

088any questions on that? This is also teachers, just so you know. This is teachers to students. Does this include like, we've seen a rise in behavioral, so you arguably need like aids and stuff in those type of classrooms. Would that be staff level too? You know, it's a great question because I have a whole set of analytics on special education. Okay. So I will get you some analytics on behavioral and categories and how many students and I have all that data. This is just actually teachers to students. Okay. So the next thing I wanted to look at, and this is kind of from a neighboring school district who had a levy on the ballot and they didn't pass. So a lot of people were wondering, why is this district only cutting 3.8 million when they

089ask for a 10 million dollar levy? So what I kind of wanted to talk about was our bell curve. So a school district levy creates what we call a bell curve and you can see it in this chart here. And I just want to point out here, you can also tell where Dr. Hanlon started. Okay. So Dr. Hanlon started right here and you can see where Chardon had built over time while he was in leadership. But once you pass a levy and we passed an operating levy in 18. We also did reconfiguration in 19. We built our cash balance but now we're on the backside. We're on the backside of the hill or the backside of the bell curve. So that's, so when a district asks for levy money, it's not just for one year.

090It's for a period of time and we try to stretch it as long as we can before we come back. And honestly, this is a board decision. Do they want to stretch it for three years? Do they want to stretch it for five years? Do they want to go back to the taxpayer every year and just ask for one year of money? I mean, those are all options the board of education has. But I wanted to take this opportunity to kind of talk about some options that the board, I would like the board to start thinking about our tools that we have to address the backside of our bell curve. So certainly we can add fees back and we've started, you know, with Dr. Hallin's recommendation earlier to add some fees, activity fees. But adding

091back all supply fees and putting the activity fees back to what they were before certainly will help the general fund. Another option is to move the one mill of inside mill from the PI fund back to the general fund. If you recall, we did this about three years ago to concentrate on our buildings. We've done 2.3 million at park. We, you know, to the windows, the roofs, doing a lot of really core improvements to all of our buildings. But maybe we need to dial that back and bring that money back into the general fund. It's almost a million. So if I added a million to my forecast right now, it's a five-year forecast that adds five million to my forecast. And we'll take a look at that in a little bit when we look at

092the May forecast. Also, I don't know if you'll come back to this, but we're also paying the TAN loan, which means we can't spend that money towards PI. When is that? 2030. So arguably if we could get to 2030 before rolling that back, we could kind of offset. Yeah, yeah, the TAN loan is about half of that. Is it possible to move half a mil back? Yes. Okay. It is, and it would be half of that. Like cover the TAN loan, but still bring... That is an option. Yes, that is. We should be looking into what more we need to spend on facilities because they really need upgrade, right? So that's a bigger discussion. Right. They really are in a place where... So that's what makes it hard to move it back to the general

093fund, but we also have to consider operating costs, right? I agree. Upgrading is more important, but at the same time, we need to balance that so we don't... We just had that discussion. Right. But it's interesting as we have a balance. So these are just options to think about, right? And you could argue if we get into the discussion when TDA presents bond and then bringing PI back because with bond issues, you can build that type of stuff too, arguably, like renovation and stuff into there. Correct. So yeah, definitely all options. Another option is considering reconfiguration 2.0. And Andrea, you kind of touched on this earlier. We do have a declining student count. There's a point where we might be able to fit seventh grade into the high school and fit another grade into the

094middle school. I'm not recommending we do this. I'm just saying it's just another consideration. Getting students in one building, having all the teachers in one spot is a definite savings. We saw... What was it, Mike? Over $7 million savings, 2019 to 2023, just from reconfiguring before. That's probably worth it. Closing buildings that saves operating costs. Was that $7 million overall or here? $7 million overall. It was $7 million overall at the point we pulled the numbers. I think it was a few months ago when it was presented to the board. I forget if it was you or Mike, but we now have few... If I recall correctly, we have fewer students in our high school building now with five grade levels than we did in 2018 before we brought in the eighth grade. Correct. But

095remember, two of your biggest classes in the districts are coming up through there, fifth and seventh grade. Oh. Yeah, my part... Mostly the seventh graders are going to come down. My part is the speed of this discussion. We have this option. We would love to explore it, but at the same time, we are spending on maintaining and investing in these facilities. I think sooner we have this discussion, better we are. Otherwise, good money after bad money. We replace window head as the new roof, and then future looks different. I think we should make this as a priority to figure out what our path is. This is why I'm bringing these things up. These are things I think they're considerations we need to start talking about. We have PDA coming soon, right? Yes. Then the last

096one is, of course, to ask the community for a levy for consideration. That's another way to get new money. Keep it status quo and then ask for new operating money, which is what we talk about. I've talked about that in the assumptions where we would need something like that. I just wanted to elaborate on maybe some other things that are in the toolbox that we could stretch our tax dollar. I have a question on it. I think we should explore anything and everything we can before we go to the last option. No question. But the point here is, if we do any and all of these above and explore, we still have to go to the last option. You're thinking we can save enough that we don't. Is that an option? It depends. I can

097model this. Once we talk about these options, I'd be more than happy to model it in a forecast and tell you what that would actually do for us. I think that would be great because my gut feel is, without knowing numbers, that no matter what we do, we cannot come to that balance without a levy based on lost numbers. But if you think that modeling can help us and explore our three options first, let's do that. I can definitely. It's so easy to model the one mil move back. That's very simple. It's easy to model the fees because I have data from when we charged fees before. I think that would be great information to have so we can see if levy's needed. Absolutely. I'd be happy to do that. Is the reconfiguration discussion part

098of the TDA discussion with buildings? Would that be where that falls into modeling or discussion? It could. Because the modeling's easy. I don't know how you model reconfiguration, especially because I feel like we might be moving around in the buildings we have but not closing another building necessarily. The quick response to that is that was the one concept behind building the new elementary school, would have achieved kind of the next level of reconfiguration. That makes sense. Okay. That's why they included that as one of the new school reconfiguration. Right and that would save an operating cost which would help the situation we need for operating money. And what, sorry, you said this is already part, reconfiguration is part of the discussion already coming up? Well it was, the last time we did it was 2018

099and we continue to have those discussions internally. Looking at enrollment figures and so on and when it might be appropriate to look at 2.0 reconfiguration. So is that is that we can put it on the agenda for a board discussion at some point? Sure. I mean I think it folds into like you said the new elementary school or if we want a new high school instead can we make it a six through 12 high school when we build it. So I think they kind of go hand in hand very quickly. Correct. I'm thinking different part that there are some other topics involved in this. The reconfiguration is good from one angle but then another part is the opinions and community part. So I think a discussion without even that part from that building that's internal.

100Are we going to explore that? Do we want to go in that direction pros and cons? That's the first discussion before we even walk that path. This is in my head. Well yeah when you're I mean we just had this conversation about instructional time. You know I never thought about before but the state has different hours for different grade levels. They've got different number of hours for seventh grade, eighth grade versus ninth grade, the high school. So if you put when you do reconfiguration you're kind of putting all those grade levels. As I say Mr. Tomko is going to kill us in the back of the room but if we put the seventh graders at the high school they're at the same grade hours as everyone else. So yeah but I have not stepped in

101high school. I cannot attribute if we can fit them in the high school. That's not a conversation I want to you know open up without really doing a research. But that's something that definitely is a possibility to me. That's something that I had never thought about before before this instructional hours thing came up. I think we should have our discussion on this reconfiguration internally before we engage with building and all that. That's a separate as a fundamental discussion. So do you want to have this discussion at a board meeting or do you want to have a discussion at another work session that we scheduled? I think that's a super untimely committee meeting for the board if we can find time. It's not again tomorrow but are we is it next imminent? I don't know. I

102don't know how close we are to even talking going down this road. Ed might be able to I mean I know he follows the spot. So could we go with like presenting TDA and him and then community work session type thing? Hear them out on both standpoints and then more of a community work session? Yeah my advice to you is that we have a lot of parallel tracks that are operating right now. Let's get some information together and then I can bring something back to the board versus chasing one thing or another. Yeah no I'm my only point is having a discussion as a board so we are aligning in yes it makes sense to explore because you're here in community oh I don't want fourth grader to be in a middle school and it's

103a big deal and here we are talking some of other classes moving. I personally am good with that. I've been you know seen one school and all but that's a discussion would help us align so we can respond to it and see what direction we want. So a working session that's what I'm suggesting but I'm open to the sequence whether this one happens first or that one doesn't matter to me as long as it's on our agenda for discussion. And remember we have to have all our discussions in public meetings. That's fine we're part of the community and public. All right well we'll definitely keep that in mind and as we get more information we can explore you know what direction we want to go. That's right to me I didn't I don't even know

104if it's an option so that's where. Right those are just tools that we have to think about. You can model your fees and money can you model reconfiguration. That one's hard to battle that one's tough. We're going to throw that punch out there today. Okay we ready to move on. Next item my agenda 6.2. 6.2 is very generous donations is detailed in associated enclosures. I am recommending for your approval. Let's get them on the screen. So moved do we have a second? Second. Any questions or comments about donations? Thank you. Yeah as always especially the scholarships I'm sure the seniors appreciate that. It's always heartening or heartwarming to see what our district our community members donate to our district. So it's greatly appreciated. Any other questions or comments? Then would you please call the roll.

105Mr. Landys? Yes. Mr. Medjatt? Yes. Mrs. Clark? Yes. Mr. Gajotra? And Mrs. Blankenship? Yes. Thank you Madam President members of the board. Next item on my agenda equipment disposal is detailed the associated enclosures. I'm recommending your approval. Do we have a motion and a second? So moved. Second. Any questions or comments about equipment disposal? I think it's interesting we got description here blue fabric chairs. I know very detailed. Very detailed. I couldn't tell you we sold this tri-axle trailer today for $1,200. It doesn't even have a title. I think it was made. Okay well alternative revenue. I like it. Okay any questions or comments about the equipment disposal? I don't know about these wooden reception chairs. They're in fair condition. They've probably got some more use out of them. Are they the last four in

106the district? Okay anybody else? And remember that's probably grading that stuff. The condition of is probably all subjective to the person who's looking at it. That's true. Based on the fact that they're in the CMS lobby I have a feeling I know what chairs you're talking about. We walk by and those can go away. Please. Okay can you please call the roll. Mr. Gajotra? Yes. Mr. Medjatt? Yes. Mrs. Clark? Yes. And Mr. Landys? Yes. And Mrs. Blankenshaw? Yes. Thank you Madam President, members of the board. Next item my agenda is final appropriations. Detailed this amendment number seven is detailed in the associated enclosure. I'm recommending your approval. Do we have a motion and a second? So moved. Seconded. Any questions or comments? Bless you. No hearing none. Would you please call the roll. Mrs. Clark?

107Yes. Mr. Medjatt? Yes. Mr. Gajotra? Yes. Mr. Landys? Yes. And Mrs. Blankenshaw? Yes. Thank you Madam President, members of the board. Last item on my agenda is a financial forecast. This is basically just an update from the May forecast. I didn't prepare a formal presentation but what I do have is a document that shows the differences and these are the numbers that we kind of talked about a little bit earlier when I said we'll dive into those later and we'll get bigger. So we collected so far this year I have 10 months of actual and two months of estimates. Pretty much know how the year is going to end. We collected 307 more thousand dollars in revenue than anticipated. I have moved 355,000 so 300 of that thousand plus another 48 to additional expenditures so

108that we will come in basically within 48,000 dollars of our target for the the February forecast. So in a nutshell February forecast was ending at 16 million 101. We're going to come in about 16,053. Now what I do want to promise this with is I think we're going to still come in a little higher than 16,1. We have a lot of open purchase orders right now like 1.8 million of open purchase orders. A lot of times some of those are closed and the money isn't spent which will increase our cash balance a little. So I'm being conservative here. So let's look at our differences and I don't know why it won't let me expand this. Perfect. So let's look at revenue. So tax revenue came in and this is property tax revenue came in 62,794

109less than anticipated. You still can't see that Kenya. Let's go bigger. Can you see that? Yes. What that is is delinquent taxes. Okay that's commercial property and residential property that went into delinquent status. The second line down is public utility. We didn't collect you know it came in short 19,705. That's public utility and that's primarily Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company and we talked about them before. They're having their pipeline revaluated so they they halted paying taxes which typically is what happens. State funding unrestricted grants is coming in a little bit over and restricted grants just a little bit more over but the really big difference here you can see in 1.06 is the 357,000 additional. Most of this is what's in a fund called tuition in. It's that MRDD money we've been talking about this year.

110We coded more kids. There's a pass through state funds through Jogga County MRDD. We got 100,000 last year. We got 380,000 this year. It was a considerable difference and I see that moving forward. We're going to keep with this program as long as MRDD does this pass through program. Keep with this program moving forward. Also interest. I projected interest was going to come down. Interest is holding pretty steady so most of that additional revenue you see in that 357,000 are those two items plus we talked about it a little bit last month. We are billing ourselves for athletic transportation so there's some revenue in there paid from athletic fund also included. For the MRDD is that state funds like yes it's state funds passing through the county. Okay correct. It's at a 499 state fund

111account. Yes so now we move down to expenditures. I almost thought about not doing the forecast because the bottom line is only 48,000 but in the detail is where we saw all the changes and I just wanted to take time to explain those. So salaries it looks like we're going to come in about 81,000 less than anticipated and benefits were coming in way over at 147. Well why would that happen? It's really hard to determine who's going to do family, who's going to do single benefits, who's going to go on their spouse's benefit. It's an estimate right and as I see it coming in it looks like I was under 147. Now purchase services is on the opposite side. I was way under budget on purchase services and Andrea I think you pointed this out

112last month. We are paying a little more in salaries because we decided to use OSTS for our teacher sub this year and this was the first year we ever did it. So it was a little difficult to estimate exactly how much this was going to be. How you know how do I estimate how many days the teacher is going to take off sick and I'm going to need a substitute for that right. Very difficult. We do have building subs in each of our buildings. We were going to pay them through OSTS. We decided not to and we kept them on our payroll. So in essence I was understated. So we were under budget. So I had a shift in purchase services. Supplies and materials I was under 161,000. Oh yes. So one question on the

113subs for that is are there agencies that who provide? Yes. They are for them. Oh they are agencies. Yes. So that's what we did is we provided through OSTS which is Ohio's Substitute Teachers Association I believe it stands for. And so yeah we get our subs through them. But then they have good supply? Yes they have a great supply. That was new this year right? Yes that was new this year. This was the first year we were getting them we were still getting the substitutes through the ESC of the Western Reserve. They were getting the mic and you can probably help me better with this. They were getting the substitutes to make sure they had their license and providing us with a list and then we would use that list to substitute. That's the hardest

114part to fill. I'm glad you had the mic. Right where this company actually gets the substitutes and onboards them and then makes sure they have the appropriate license and then provides them to several different school districts so they get more subs because they get good options for their employees. So another large change so with all this money that we saved within expenditures and we received 300,000 more I have a planned additional transfer and what I'd like to do is move and I have 600,000 on here but I believe it's going to be 300 to 600,000. I would like to plan to transfer this to an 070 fund to hold it for the parking lot behind the high school. Now an 070 fund you can move it there it can stay there for 10 years if

115you don't use it in 10 years for the specific use it goes back to the general fund. So it's kind of a win-win and we'd really like to do that parking lot behind the high school. I know we'd like to do it sooner we're already starting there's 300,000 in Steve's PI budget for that project. We'd like to continue doing more work on that so this would provide some funding for that work. Do we have a full proposal cost of that yet? No we're working on it. Okay so that's the part maybe it's been a discussion so parking lot prioritized versus other air conditioning discussion if we have maintenance money going where would we rather spend that might be something we can this is why I say I think bigger picture would help. So I know

116the parking lot has been discussed in our safety and security plan and you know we've had issues in the past because we have all the the high school kids crossing the road there's been a lot of dangerous situations there and this was all part of the plan and moving the transportation out of there it all has to do with our safety and security plan too. Yeah have you ever driven down the street between the high school and maple avenue at the end of the day I have to cut around cars to turn to get to c.o.s so we could get that traffic flow like. Yeah my part is you know when you work there are we all manage 50,000 projects but what is the priority out of 30 which one is the top two top

117three I don't know that part I haven't seen it so I trust the team which is doing it but my part is if you're talking health and safety issue versus this that's fine I'm just trying to say that may help to have. We do have a cap plan where a lot of our correct mike a lot of our projects are within the cap plan and are planned out for each year over the next five years so I'll be happy to share that with you. Deb would it be possible to just pause on the three hundred thousand dollar transfer are you trying to get that in this fiscal year or? Yes. Okay anyway we could get back to what he's saying basically it's like what other there are other funds because again once it goes in

118there it can only it's only can come back with the general fund but. Right well it can always come back to the general fund and get transferred into another specific type of 07-0. Right okay so we could transfer between. Yes. One and another one. Yes. Hear that? So that would be. So if we discuss it more and want to go. Or the turf suddenly takes a crack. Right exactly that's why I can sit there for 10 years and then it comes back or the board can resend this transfer at any future time bring it back and spend it on something else but but put it in the 07-0 I have to dedicate it to a specific project. I'm choosing the parking lot project because that's one we already started working on and one that we've

119had in our plan for years. When do we have Steve come and present? Usually in the fall. In the fall okay. So could how soon you have to do it could you wait. This fiscal year by June 30th. Right. She wants to but we can move it back out or move to another fund in the next fiscal year. Right it doesn't have to be it's got 10 years to be spent what's in moves there. Can you spend on another project? No I can I can resume you but the board can resend the motion and then transfer it again for a different project. Okay then. It's versatile that's why I like the 07-0 fund it gives us some some flexibility. I believe there's some level of you want to tell the state we have a plan

120for this money. Yes. So the county commissioners and the state doesn't come back to us and say you have too much money. Right. So if we have all of that planned. Right. We can always pull it back and say we want to use it here instead but we're not just sitting on the money to sit on it. It's flexible right. Well it's obvious we have several plans right. So we don't know which one to put our money on first but what I do know is I'd like to keep the general fund at 40 percent. I don't want the cash balance to be over 40 percent of our expenditures. Also attached here is the assumptions. The assumptions are 59 pages long. It gives all the detail right down to different things in our community. Here's February

121planned on ending at 16 million one oh one. Here's May. It's only a forty eight thousand dollar difference. Here's a chart that shows the difference between the two. So again this isn't a very big change from the February forecast. I just wanted to show the details in the object lines of some things that we were moving around and and of course bring up the transfer. So are there any additional questions? Okay. I think we need a motion in a second. We do. So do we have a motion in a second to accept the five-year forecast? Is it a five-year or is it a three-year? Well it's a three-year forecast so we're just calling it the May forecast. Okay. Why do you see five I see yeah different things. The seat wants three now right. Yep.

122Also moved. I'll second. Do we have any questions or comments? No well thank you Deb for going through this. I know that the May isn't something we are required to do but I'm sure it helps with planning things out for the next school year. So definitely. So okay any other questions or comments? Deb would you please call the roll? Mr. Midyat? Yes. Mrs. Clark? Yes. Mr. Landys? Yes. Mr. Gehotra? Yes. And Mrs. Blankenship? Yes. Thank you. That concludes my section. Okay thanks Deb. So that brings us to the board reports and recommendations. Sheridan Schools Foundation. Gordon? Yeah there's two grants that were in process. Both of them are they're both from the middle school. One is a new 3D printer and both these grants are will be approved by the end of this month. So

123it's going to total about seven thousand five hundred dollars that's going to come into this school from the Sheridan Schools Foundation. The other one is the second one is for it's called the Science Olympic Club. It's it's a STEM program for science technology and engineering and we'd actually pay fees for some of these the outstanding students to be part of the club. Part of that I think it sounds like a state club or national club and provide supplies for them. So combined these are both STEM programs the 3D printer is a great idea. I sent it back to them and showed how the US government is highly recommending especially in the military area that all vendors become very increase their 3D printing immediately. So it's a big deal I have a bunch of links you

124get there's a link that's three days old from the US military saying it's and not that these kids are just going to use it for that but it's for aerospace and everything else. It's a fantastic thing that we're providing this STEM program and a new 3D printer for them which is great and again the funding will come back to the school before year end. Thank you Gordon. Legislative Andrea? All right I tried to make presentation this time so let's see how this goes. They handed me the clicker. So our legislators came back from spring break last week so we had some movement this week. The first one and this is big and I mentioned this I must say it was two months ago house bill 420 it's still only in the house it hasn't passed

125the senate but if you want to oppose anything from it we have to do it by tomorrow. So they want to sunset all continuing property tax levies aka all the funding sharding gets all of our levies have been continuing so if they go ahead and do this it's basically the same as taking property taxes away for the school district. I'm not against this I just think there needs to be better planning so if you see at the bottom we would have to go for 35 mils and we would have to ask the same of our residential and our commercial we cannot ask more of the commercial versus the residential like we do right now if this were to go forward. So we will keep an eye on that but if anyone would like to oppose

126it you can send a letter to your representatives or the representatives sponsoring it by tomorrow. And I think it's important to note that that's one of the things that we've got to keep an eye on before we have some of our other conversations that we just talked about earlier so. And there are there are school districts I mean Kirtland they see it all the time they have their continual approval levies and I think that's where these legislators are starting to push for but I mean just the drastic effect it has on these communities who already have these continuing levies and those continuing levies earn less money every time so it's not like we're still earning the same as we passed on a levy 20 years ago. So does it say how often so if they're

127going away continuing so the replacement levy would have to go on every year every five years or they haven't decided that yet? It didn't say this one at least from what I read and I read it quickly today just sunsetting the continuing levies so you would have to go to those non-continuing options. So that would be a big big ask. And I mean I don't know Mike can speak to this but I swear I see Kirtland every two or three years. Well they have a number of renewals, renewal levies that they have to pursue. So again not entirely against it but for our district it would definitely be a huge hit. We need a better plan if you ask me personally. Senate Bill 311. Mike emailed us about this in our board report. He gives

128us a weekly board report and my brain was shocked. So the Senate Bill 311 they're trying to say if the schools are under occupied by their figures or their formulas that we have to have the opportunity to sell them to vacate them and sell them to charter schools or non-public schools. And right now at the numbers with the formula they're using Kelk and Park are both at or below 60% and Manson is fast approaching. And if you've ever had your elementary school kids and you've stepped in Manson and Park you're going to say what are you talking about Andrea? We have no space in either of those buildings. So this shocked me and I asked Dr. Hanlon are they considering special education? We need more classrooms for these behavioral kids. Are they talking about STEM?

129All of these beautiful STEM things take up a lot of space and so my there in the fourth hearing you can email about it. You can advocate for those exceptions because they're not I think our skills are built schools are built so long ago they're not considering any of this new changing use of our buildings over the time or really you just vote down the bill and give us local control. Our district knows what we need in these buildings. We know how many special ed rooms you need but to see two of our elementary schools already at the level where they say they're under capacity and being a parent who's been in Manson, no. Are they counting classrooms or how let's say you have 20 classrooms and two science labs and others are they all

130counted as a room or a lab? It's based on the occupancy rating at the time of construction. So when park was built it was all just classrooms you didn't have the special ed rooms you don't have those special classrooms necessarily so those are spaces that as education develops we use differently and they're not factoring for that from what I understand. So if we have reclassification and say okay it was designed for these money but this these three rooms are dedicated for lab or whatever that doesn't matter. At least by their current factor not the way it's being proposed that's why I said you can email for or email letter whatever you want phone call for those exceptions so that they're actually looking at how we use the buildings or you can just say this is

131shenanigans use my language let me tell use my classrooms how we see fit especially because we'll come along there's a computer science to stand for it in here. So they're not looking at the total square footage of a building or anything they're looking at the individual rooms is that what you're? It's how it was originally designed and with our buildings being so old that's how they were designed to be used from what I understand. Yeah I don't know if there is a place this information is updated generally speaking if you have the occupancy permit and other permits with the time you can go back someplace I don't know where it will be update that information then it's more realistic real time but if you build it five years or ten years ago to a building

132and you added more or reduced more I don't know where would you update that this might be something we can look now before this passes so we have time and that might be a Steve question who's not here sorry to put him on the you know how are we so but it just to get that email and see that we're I personally think we're popping out at Monson and them saying you're fine I just don't like the state legislator saying you're fine I guess. Senate bill 326 so this is requiring a computer science graduation requirement originally it was a full unit now it's back down to a half unit but still requiring that I did ask Dr. Hanlon Day and looked it up our computer science requirement is a or with Algebra 2 so it's

133not 100 required so if this would go through that might be a little bit of a curriculum update for us I have a computer science degree I'm all for this I read a lot of the proponent testimony and like Willoughby Eastlake emailed Cleveland State emailed they're all saying you know computers are part of our children's lives now they need to be taking one of these classes so if you have an opinion on this like I said my opinion is that this is okay to go but that might require a small little thing in our curriculum down the road but it was an interesting because I mean computers then you get into AI and we I kind of wonder if they're doing that because I think computer science is one of the areas where AI is

134really reducing the workforce yeah I'm not sure like I said reading the proponents they're all just saying we have computers in our classrooms we need to keep continue teaching this to our students it's going to be everywhere in their workforce whether they're in marketing fashion they're going to be doing everything on a computer they need to know it so yeah it was an interesting read so yeah that could but with ours down here could tweak us a little bit I don't know if anyone I know there are people that are like anti-kids staring at screens I get that but I think staring at screens and computer science programming are also two very different things if my kid goes to program his robot on his computer he can have his computer for as long as he

135wants Senate bill 328 it's just passed reported to committee so it looks like it may pass the Senate but then it has to go to house and this is just developing better career exploration there's multiple options they've now listed there I know Chardon has the career exploration classes for our middle schoolers I've talked to Joe Dr. Glavin sorry at Auburn he's fine with what Chardon is doing but they're continuing to push that career exploration down to the middle school they want the kids to start thinking sooner where they're going what they're doing are we graduating are we be graduating going to college are we being employed are we enlisting there was not a single opponent to this when I was reading through it today so that kind of impressed me no one is like no

136don't do this at least yet this I had touched on before it's continuing to progress forward originally it was a math improvement plan they kind of backed that off and they're putting different standards in I have pointed out before and I have it in the corner there funding question mark we're going to throw new math standards at you like we did reading with the science of reading but we're not going to fund the training you need for them good times for the state house and I was not able to get this link to load I apologize Dr. Hanlon for the 90 bill house bill 96 budget with the draft changes for early literacy did you know anything about that well the big thing is changes in how we're assessing students to qualify it at the

137kindergarten entry level for reading improvement monitoring plans ramps and so on so those those would be the big changes that are being proposed right now I was on a crappy internet connection I apologize so are they positive changes to how we're or do you see them being too much shall you say well I think some of the some of it we'll have to see how it shakes out with respect to the assessments that we're able to use and because certain assessments maybe have a tendency to over qualify students for reading improvement plans and others maybe under and we want to you know we want to make sure we're identifying the student that requires an intervention plan appropriately but I think the other piece is how they are calculating then districts like ours that are making

138progress when students are placed on those reading plans and giving districts appropriate credit for that and again in a fair way in the context of the state and now this is part of the budget bill so like all the other legislation it has the process through this would this follow a similar process is or well this is was tied to the budget bill so it was this it was done as a component of that okay and it the budget bill follows the same process so yes so this was passed and now we're just trying to work out now we're working that's why they're they're down to the rule changes and what and you know what typically happens in something like that is the legislature passes what it thinks is appropriate and then hands it to

139the department to develop the rules for implementation so that's that's where we're at right if we had opinion this is a due email yes okay so if we have opinions on that and i can post these on my facebook page once i get them to load like i said i was on a poor internet connection today putting this together and then the last one we wanted to mention um because we had received some comments about house bill 304 and it has an increase in recess time as part of it and i looked it up and there has not been any movement since last october so they came back from spring break but this wasn't one of their priorities right now so again all four extra resets just not sure how we're going to fit it

140in the day so if there is movement on i'll be sure to bring it back up yeah i think that's it thank you now we got albert career center oh okay let me see if i have my notes here i i can do this off the top of my head um so we had an over meeting last week um we had a handful of risks um as well as replacements two of the i don't want to say they're creating new roles because they're renaming roles and read the script realigning job descriptions in their high school um admin and they're getting rid of one um but he left so they didn't really get rid of him so they're realigning how they do at the high school but that goes along with dr glavin's reduction in admin

141and overall auburn does have a very high admin overhead for career centers in ohio so that continues to be um so he plans to present a new organizational chart and job descriptions in august to his board um but there are moving pieces because two of the folks left one went to riverside one is an intervention going back into the classroom as an intervention specialist um there was approval for the new contract i believe was the public uh forgetting the word now but their public safety public safety building there we go and then they had a drawn out report for a drawn out mock-up for their second cosmetology lab so that proposal will be coming in and he said their cosmetology labs have not been updated since the early 90s so that's super exciting so not

142only are they building the new one they're updating the old one and the students coming out of there are basically going to be getting the same training if you went to like a brown evada training school so that's really awesome for the students and um he also went through the skills usa winners auburn had nine skills usa winners the way he explained it there are 30 to 40 competitions so to bring nine first place tribe trophies home was phenomenal when he was back in mentor and they did similars he would see one every third year maybe so dr glavin was super excited about all nine of his kids um we did have one was this only a second place well not only a second place it was a second place um actually i saw the

143same name he's going into the navy in one of the computer science and programming kaden okay i think that's the same bednar um did place at second in skills usa so that's pretty cool for chardon but overall seeing all that talent coming out of auburn which is here what we partner with is pretty awesome so dr glavin keeps hitting it hard and that man has so much energy it amazes me all right well thank you andrea uh james student staff yeah before i start i don't know if you guys addressed i was at the i was absent for the last meeting so i don't know if this was addressed it it may have been but um i just want to recognize a change in the agenda tonight um and give karen credit um in terms

144of parliamentary procedure it's not a big deal but if anyone's noticed anybody in the public i know the board members were made over anybody in the in the public um karen has called her name karen's name has been called last every time and that is very much in line with robert's rules of order um and i don't know why i guess it's just so that the person presiding doesn't influence the vote exactly that's that's the reasoning behind it but i did want to recognize that i think that's a smart move and i just wanted to you know recognize karen for that so um okay so seniors in the senior book club uh students at the high school and members of the charlin community come together once again for the seniors and senior book club earlier

145this school year the book club provided hilltop for students with the opportunity to engage directly with community members from outside the classroom and discuss their shared love of literature this year the club read and discussed george orwell's 1984 good book students once again had a fantastic time learning about career various careers in a hands-on environment during chardon school's annual career on wheels day students got to engage with and ask questions of speakers who work in a variety of career fields including law enforcement construction plumbing lawn care services and more thank you to all the community partners who volunteered their time to speak with our students as part of this event it always amazes me how many vehicles you can link to different professions too you can like the ice cream truck the plumbing truck things

146i never paid attention to yep that's right so uh last night uh the the county commissioners and the department of veteran services recently recognized local students who plan to enlist for military service after high school i know we touched on this earlier this evening five five hilltopper students were recognized as part of this event tj adair kaden bedner riley dewey lucas zelsnick and lily wasley this evening thank you james um i just got one more thing i want to bring up tonight um i'm sure the board all read it in the board update that dr handlin has been named the 2026 jennings superintendent of the year this is the martha holden jennings foundation um i believe yeah thursday the july 23rd is when the awards banquet is but i just wanted to bring this to

147everyone's attention as part of his recognition he'll receive a ten thousand dollar check to be used for a project or an initiative initiative with his choosing within the district so i just want to congratulate dr handlin on this achievement thank you i'm sure we will hear more about this later but i just wanted this just came out on friday so that's why we got the letter on friday so i thought it was important to uh make sure everyone was aware of it congratulations okay so that takes us to the hearing of the public for non-agenda items do we have anything no no i didn't even see you get up okay we have reason to recess to executive session uh conferences with an attorney concerning disputes which are the subject of pending or imminent court action

148do we have a motion in a second to go into executive session so moved second okay um any questions or comments i just want to state there will be action after we come out of executive session so just anyone who wants to stay tuned um anyway that being said um deb would you please call the roll mr midyop yes this is clark yes mr landis yes mr gahotra yes and mrs blankenship yes so excuses we're going to go down the hall we're out of executive session yes so we're back in open president members of the board we have item number 10.1 which is approval of resolution 2026-14 authorizing approval of a negotiated settlement agreement as detailed in the enclosure recommending your approval so moved do we have a second second any questions or comments hearing

149none deb would you please call the roll mr landis yes mrs clark yes mr midyop yes mr gahotra yes and mrs blankenship yes so under new business we really are having new business but i just wanted to bring up a reminder by week graduation tomorrow evening for those of us that are going to be there graduation starts at seven so if you could be there i would say before six thirty at least the students have to be there graduates have to be there around six so um i i just wanted to give everybody a heads up um other than that six thirty adams had six thirty six party yeah yeah that'd be fine i mean we just got to get your flower and whatever yeah everybody so james will be there i'm gonna be there

150andrea ash is out of town so it'll be myself okay so um okay so we'll uh see everybody there tomorrow night so that brings us to adjournment our next meeting is june 25th do we have a motion and a second to adjourn i move to adjourn second okay then would you please call roll mr gahotra yes this is clark yes mr majat yes mr landis yes mrs blankenship adjourn time is eight oh nine p.m