001That was funny. All right, good evening everybody. Um, thank you for coming. Love to see a large crowd. I'm going to go ahead and formally call this meeting to order on December 17th. I'm Josh Hoster, vice president. Unfortunately, Laura McGraw is a little under the weather this evening. She's our president. Usually runs the meeting, so I'll be filling in for her, but I'm sure she's watching camera. Um, Mr. Blah, if you could please call the role. >> Mr. Davis, >> Mr. Fer >> here. >> Mr. Hotler >> here. >> Mrs. P >> here. >> All right, if we could all stand for the pledge of allegiance. I alian to slow it down. [laughter] >> All right. Next up is the adoption of the meeting agenda for this evening. Is there a motion to adopt the
002agenda? >> Second. >> Any discussion or changes? Hearing none, would you call the role, please? >> Mr. Davis, >> yes. >> Mr. Bowser, >> yes. >> Mr. Hostettler, >> yes. >> And Mrs. Pat, >> yes. >> Okay. And now we will review and approve the minutes from our regular meeting on November 19th. Is there a motion to review and show? >> Second. >> Anybody see any changes that needed to be made? >> Okay. Could you call the role, please? >> Mr. Davis? >> Yes. >> Mr. Fer? >> Yes. Mr. >> Ostler? >> Yes. >> And Mrs. Path? >> Yes. Okay, next on the agenda is district updates. >> So, first up, uh we have the last of our buildings for the first half of the year and the elementary schools here to share all of
003the exciting things that have been happening with >> Yes, we have a lot of exciting things to say. You can see we have a large crowd. So, I brought them along to kind of share what is happening at CES. Um, we're not gonna have everybody come up at once with the different presenters I have. So, there's about 40 people up here. Uh, but before we get into our presentation, I do want to recognize someone who thought she was just coming to support, but Mrs. Hedrickk is here. She was our uh savior in August uh when we ran into a bind with our first grade class sizes and needed to hire a new teacher. We're very lucky to find Mr. Cedric. That's why she's twinning. [laughter] [clears throat] >> All right. Our first set of presenters
004is Mrs. Lawrence and Mr. Theres. They're going to talk about our new steam clubs that we have at the elementary school. So we've been working on hydroponics such as the edrack flex farm beta buckets and desktop systems. So um here are some jobs we have to do. We have to check the water. We have to add water. We have to see if there's too many nutrients. And my one of my favorites, harvest. So um so for example I do the I I'm assigned to the ED rack. So we are all assigned to um one of the four um systems like I said the ED rack flex farms desktop and the bets. Uh fun fact, um it's 50% faster if you use hydroponics to grow plants. And um you can use 90% less water when you're
005using hy hydroponics. >> In maker space, we do a lot of cool things. We're going to be working on the 3D printer and lots more crafts. Um, we just finished making wooden ornaments and we're going to be doing lots more. [laughter] >> Our two clubs that we have were so fortunate enough to be able to do this starting this year. So, we have the green thumb club that obviously we're doing hydroponics. Maker Space is also another STEM club or STEAM club. And representing today, um, we have Mia >> and Parker and Brett and Cutting and Ava and she got a little bit nervous at the last second. Um, but it's been amazing. One of the things too um that has been that's helped us is we have written lots of grants and it allows us
006to get different systems continue to get supplies. Um we have lots of things donated and that's really helped too. So um and the kids have been outstanding. I think we have I for 80% of our fourth grade or something. I mean, it's a high percent of our entire fourth grade that um are in the clubs and how many of you are both maker space and greater thumb >> up here right now. So, um we have um quite a few that stay after and they have something. And do you guys have anything before? Did you guys have any questions? Can you guys make robots to help with the hydroponics? [laughter] >> I'm just kidding. >> Maybe someday. >> Hey, M. You maybe tell them a little bit what you guys have grown like in >> Yeah,
007I'll let Mike talk about the things. >> So, some of the things that we're growing, um, we harvested lettuce, uh, three different varieties of lettuce. Uh we tried cucumbers and it was a fail. It looked great but no cucumbers. Um basil and tomatoes. The tomatoes are are growing great. Hopefully we'll get to eat some of those soon. Um but they these guys stayed after today. They were part of uh we had a guest speaker come in front crop cake and uh they learned some cool things about hydroponics and got to harvest some lettuce today and they've enjoyed some of the lettuce that that we've had. They're very hard workers and they're doing an amazing job. And it's it's great that we can have these clubs um to bring something new to our students at the
008elementary school so they can work those brains and and think and grow and learn. >> Oh yeah. Um we uh so me and my mom like um like made like logos um with AI. This is how it turned out. They'll find an AI. She doesn't know her. >> So, what did you do? >> We created it by drawing and Miss Lawrence made it into a sticker for our lettuce and basil. >> So, that's that's going to end up going on our t-shirts and I thought it was great and it came out fantastic. Tell them all the things that you have got for like all your cricket. >> Oh my gosh. Cricket, t-shirt press, the smaller press, the hat press, vinyl, um 3D printers. We already had two and then we have two more. One I
009was able to to build myself that somebody donated time for me to go and paid for me to go and do that. Um parts of the creative partnerships and getting things and >> grants space grant grant. Um our Coventry foundation grants are fantastic. Um and we're going to try and write that one that's almost $10,000. So that's due in January. So I'm hoping we get that we'll just get more into >> all of our growing systems that we have, they were paid for through grants. >> Yes. So they're very expensive. We're lucky enough for the kids to be. >> Anything else? >> Yeah, they prepaid gifts for you guys. Wow. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you. I always wanted to try this out. Thank you so much. Seriously, it's perfect. >> He can
010get it to her. >> Thank you so much. >> Send [clears throat] you. >> All right. So, that is our green thumb. Thank you. Thank you so much for coming for bringing them. You guys are welcome to hang out for the rest of the presentation. If you don't want to, I totally understand. You can get out, get out to dinner, whatever you want to do. These are Steven Maker base. Folks, thank you for coming. All right. Next, we have Mrs. Gibson, one of our third grade teachers. She's gonna talk a little bit about uh what she does with uh CKLA and how she enhances it with all of the awesome things that she does. Before she starts though, we just got our third grade fall OST results back on Monday. Um, and we earned a
01151% passive rate, which is awesome for the fall. Last year we were 44%. So, we went up 7% from last year, but also the state average decreased, but yet we increased. So I think that uh luck be said with what the third grade teachers have done and everybody else below them it's our third year with CKLA. So I think we're really starting to see the benefits of this. >> So the you take the test in the fall so that's like the metric at the beginning of the year right and >> it's almost like a pre like it's it covers the entire year of curriculum. >> Yeah. So this is a test not supposed to pass until the spring. >> That was that was what I wanted to bring up. Yeah. after sign like, "Oh, that's
012failing. Oh, that's pretty good because they haven't even they weren't supposed to know this stuff yet." [clears throat] >> Right. >> Thank you. Hello. Thanks for having me. I appreciate it. Um, I'm typically talking to like eight year olds. So, you guys are a little bigger. Um, like you said, I'm here to talk to you about my favorite part of the favorite parts of the year at RO are we teach some of them in third grade. Uh, we classic tales, animal class pacification, human body, Roman civilization, light and sound, Vikings, astronomy, and ecology. And when I first saw this curriculum and I looked at that, I was like, that's a lot for eight-year-olds, I feel. Um, and not only do they love it and engage with it, they the vocabulary that they get from it
013is astonishing. um what they comprehend. But when I talked to people, when I told them I was going to become a teacher, I feel like all the negative things I heard was like, "Well, teachers didn't teach us this or we didn't learn this in school." And so when I got my own classroom, that was my goal was to make sure that kids left my classroom. I can't teach them taxes at 8 years old or whatever they say they wish to buy a car. But my some of the things I can show is like future careers or valleys that they can take like STEM things that Mr. Lawrence does. So, at the end of every unit, I do what I call like a classroom culminating activity um just to summarize what we learned and then make
014it relevant to them. So, I put a few of the examples up on the board that I do. Like for animals, we did habitats. Uh for ancient Rome, that's what we're doing now. At the end, we're going to make our own mini city with like aqueducts and roads since that's what they learn with their culture from the Roman civilization was really important. Um but why Mr. Savage asked me to come today was for our most recent one and my most favorite one is after human body. We did a hospital transformation. So I turned my classroom into like a surgical area. Um and this was my second year doing it. And I just posted on Facebook and asked my friends like, "Hey, does anyone have surgical masks they could donate or anything?" And what I got
015was amazing. I got hat covers, shoe covers, gloves, masks. uh some of my friends that I only graduated high school with gave me whole human body skeletons to bring in. Uh so then that's what I transformed. But then I reached out to parents in my classroom and asked if any of them had any careers in a hospital setting and I had four parents volunteer this year and I had about six last year. Uh but this year I had a labor and delivery nurse come in. I had two anesthesiologists which was really fun and I'll talk about that in a minute. um and a paramedic come in this year. And then my grandma was a retired nurse, so she was able to stop in this year. And my best friend is a lab tech, so she
016was able to come in as well so that we could have six centers. Uh the first center we did was the anesthesia center, which is the one, two, third, the fourth picture there with the woman in the scrubcap. They are anesthesiologists for Cleveland Clinic. And so they brought in every single tool that they use and let the kids like push water through the tubing and use the mouth opener. And they were able to teach so much more than I ever could or what our CKA books could. And a lot of my kids, they were like, "Oh, I had anesthesia when I got my teeth pulled or their top was out or whatever." So then they were able to teach them how they went to sleep and how they fell asleep for that. And I had
017like three kids leave my class that day like I think I would be anesthesiologist, which was really awesome. The second one was a sensory bin. So I had orbeez with bones hiding inside. Um they were able to look through those and then our paramedic was there as well and she did a stop with me lesson there. Um so she brought in a certificate that she uses on the EMS and tough and how to do that just because balloons are t most typical medical thing that students would maybe see. Um so that was a really fun thing that she they prepared for and for all of that. Next was our ASL center because that's a chapter that they read about in our CKA. So my student teacher was able to teach them some sign um which
018is really cool because we have some students in my class that utilize that as well. So then they have been able to use sign with their classmates. Then we did operating room which actually Ava's mom helped. She was in my class last year. I had Ava and Ava's mom brought in the germ soap, right? Wasn't that you? Um she brought in soap that you spray on your hands and you go wash and then you use a black light to make sure all the germs are gone. So the kids like scrubbed in and then they played the operation board game. And then my grandma did yearly checkup where she taught them how to check their blood pressure and just hear their heartbeat with a stethoscope. And then we had Miss Linsky shared her human body apron
019puzzle where they had to put the organs back because that was something else they wrote about. So it was a really fun day. All of these end of units are fun, but the end of units are the best. So thank you. All right, Mr. >> Can I just say something really quick? Sorry. I have to say like I need to stop in. I was going to email you. I loved your the habitat diaramas you did. >> Yes. They're so >> Those were awesome. So, thank you for coming out in the hallway first. So, I don't know who looks at what over there, but >> but I looked at a lot of that stuff and those were fantastic. >> Thank you. Feel free to stop at any time. I love guests. So, >> all right. Mr.
020Dennis also capitalized on an end of CKLA activity with something that he created. So I will turn it over to him as they talked about their medieval times. >> It's hard to follow. I didn't bring any kids or [laughter] >> Oh yeah, like Mr. Savage said, I I co-e with Mrs. Futrell and Miss Smith. So, we've got a big classroom and they kind of handled most of the language arts stuff through. Um, and while they were doing the empires of the Middle Ages, I was trying to think of something fun to do towards the end and uh came up with the medieval day. So, we had four stations and uh the whole fourth grade got to participate. It was kind of like a mini field day type thing. And uh the next slide kind of
021shows you some of the images. We had hatchet throwing. So all the kids got a chance to throw hatches. You see that in the top left and couple of those. That was one station. I was pretty impressed that most of the kids actually were able to stick the hatchet with a few tries that they had. That was a lot of fun. Um we did jousting. I think there's video. Yeah. >> Yeah. There's a video of some jousting. So I I got with the custodians and made the jousting lances and kind of just pieced things together. Mr. Breth Mill donated the scooters as our horses and came up with a somewhat safe way to to joust. See the video wasn't all pretty, but left. >> Everybody was okay. >> Y permission slips. >> The goal was
022to knock the ball off the cone with that relay races. couldn't say if she won. Um, and bottom right is Mrs. Raphael. She's trying to throw the hatchets there. And I bought it at Target from home. And we did have hatchet donated from a local blacksmith, which is pretty cool. And then I had some extras. Everybody got a chance at her dad was very good at teaching. like I missed my first time, but then you know, he gave pointers on how to do it. >> I mean, if they have a consistent throw, it's really just a matter of move up or move back a little bit and most of the kids were able to get it. They had plenty of opportunities. I think we had 40 minutes in each station, so worked out pretty well.
023So, those two were outside and then on the inside two classrooms, we had one group doing catapults with spoons and rubber bands and stuff. So, they were trying to What are they using? marshmallows. See that one? So, they were launching marshmallows. And then in the fourth station, they had bows and arrows and they were shooting like the little green army men, but we actually found knights and soldiers and stuff. So, they were using bows and arrows to shoot those in a different classroom. So, I think the kids had a lot of fun. My favorite part of teaching is trying to get kids to do something that they don't normally do in a regular classroom setting and have experiences that most kids, you know, never have the opportunity to do. >> A lot of fun. I
024think the kids liked it. We did have a parent reach out after what did they see it on Facebook? They saw these activities and pictures on Facebook and they reached out and said that they have a whole collection of medieval scripts. I guess a old parchment that was actually written out on animal skins from that time period. It's been a collector forever and volunteered to come in maybe for next year. So >> yeah, it was it was a former graduate. >> Oh yeah. >> Former former [laughter] >> say >> I'll just say former graduate. >> So yeah exciting day. Kids had fun. Weather held out. So, it was fun. Yeah. >> Thank you. >> So, those who just kind of showed what our teachers do with our curriculum, they it's not just read it out
025of the book and teach it. They really want to expand on it and make it valuable for the kids to have memories. They can pick up. All right. Next we have Miss Jet and Miss Speda [clears throat] and they're gonna talk they're kindergarten teachers and they're gonna talk a little bit about partnership that we have with uh child guidance and family solutions for this new program brick that they have worked with them are guinea pigs with them for this year. >> Um so as Mr. S said me and Miss Jeff Brley are like piloting a program through child guidance called brick. Um we actually do two different things through child guidance. Um one day a week on Tuesdays we do something called Incredible Years which is like a social emotional um program and then on
026Thursdays Miss Alexis who also teaches our diamond school or which is Incredible Years comes in into our classroom and does work with us. Um and then we also right now first grade is doing Incredible Years as well. So kindergarten and first grade are both. >> Yeah. So like the big idea is that for like building resilience in children. So we use conscious discipline to it's like a concrete comprehensive and trauma-informed social emotional learning program that is using adults to transform the um students schools and families and their social interaction. So yeah so we have a couple main concepts here and we're just going to tell you about it. I think that will give you a good background into how we actually are using this program in our classrooms. Um so one of the first main
027concepts is that safe it's safety connection and problem solving. So safety um is foundational in our classroom. So at the beginning of the year we're creating safe um classrooms by making like routines and procedures um making children feel safe knowing what they need to know to come into our classrooms. Um and then to be to be able to learn you have to feel safe. So kind of just creating that environment um and also making a connection with that as well. So those go hand in hand. Um having a connection allows you to build trust and cooperation and then that also helps reduce the behaviors alongside of that as well. Um and then the last part is problem solving. Um problem solving is kind of the goal of when there is a behavior in classroom, what
028can you do to problem solve that behavior out? Um we currently like we were talking about this today like what kind of we do for that and like a big one that we do is um if we are having something and or or anything small if a child comes up to us and oh I what do I need to do on this did you ask the person next to you first what what problem solving skills can you use that later can like kind of read out into the real as well. >> Yeah. So it's also like a lot of touch on that is when a student's coming up to me and howling it's well did you use your words first like how can you problem solve before you come and ask me so I look
029at them and I say did you use your words and usually I get told no and so I say okay you go try first if you can't fix it come back to me and then I observe how this child interacts with the problem at hand and then you know if I have to step in obviously I'm stepping in but the goal is to teach them the problem solving and through that we have also learned physics is great. She's been teaching us that like a student in a survival state so fight or flight is not going to be able to problem solve. A student who is emotional is not going to be able to self-regulate but we want them in that executive state and we as teachers and caregivers help to move that student into the
030lower brain state so that they are able to co-regulate with everybody around them. slide. Um so there are seven powers for us as adults to become conscious like have a conscious mindset. Um this mindset shifts us to help model these emotional regulations um and help us make better choices to respond wisely to children. Um the first one is perception. Um perception is just seeing the behavior more as a communication and not that they are it's a disrespect. Um if you look up on conscious discipline on the website, they have goals for each of these um sections. So the goal for this one is that either us as adults or our children, their responsibility, they're responsible for their own um upset or their own behavior. The next one with unity, um we're all in this together
031is what it says for unity. Um this is not only as just in our classroom, but we haven't started to use this as a team as well. Um, one of the big things that at the beginning of the year switching our verbiage instead of like I like to I notice. So even if Miss Jeff's class and my class is all in one room, um, I'll notice one of her kids um, instead of noticing one of my kids and we both are on that same page. So it kind of will progress through the rest of it as well. The goal for that one was to offer compassions to others and to ourselves um that we have attention power of attention. It's um what you focus on to be a poron. So creating images of expected behaviors
032in kids' brains. Um again we do that at the beginning of the year with expectations and routines. Um creating those expectations or routines then to kind of get them to be focused on what we are doing. Um power of free will. If you can't make a child behave but you can influence them. Um for that the goal of that is just connecting igniting them not for forcing them or coercing them um into doing what instead of their behavior into doing what is supposed to be happening. Um then power of acceptance seeing reality clearly and responding with compassion. Um for that the goal was to learn to respond with what life offers instead of attempting to make it go away. So there are things in life that happen um and most of the time we can't
033just make it go away. and we have to figure out how to deal with it and how to overcome those. Um, number six was power of love. Love not fear is our greatest motivator. Um, just seeing the best in others help us to consciously respond to our life event. Um, so allowing us to love on our children and all that as well. Then number seven was power and intention. Your intention determines your impact. Teaching new skills. So us teaching those new skills to students instead of uh punishing them for lacking skills that we have not taught to them that we're expecting them to have as well goes with that one. >> Yeah. So certainly I noticed part two last year my class was a little rough and we are moving on and we are doing
034great now and so this would have been amazing for last year. Um and I used a little bit of it when I was like struggling. So using that I notice behavior I've taken my emotion out of it. Instead of being like, "Oh, I like that this student is walking quietly in the hallway." Or, "I like this student sitting quietly on the carpet." When you change your verbage to, "I noticed that this student is sitting quietly." It's not me saying, "Oh, I love that about you." Or, "I like that you're doing this." It's saying, "I noticed." And then you can see as soon as I say that, all of the other students are noticing it. So, like we're sitting on the carpet and I notice a couple kids are kind of fidgeting, moving around. Um, I
035call a student out who is doing something good and I say, I notice they are sitting crisscross or they are sitting zip if they're flipped. I can see every single other student who isn't doing that. Fix it right away. So, it's like I'm calling out a good behavior, not a negative behavior. So, child really changed my mindset in that. So, it's the idea of we have to develop the skills to then give the students the skills to co-regulate and we're not putting a negative thing of no, you need to sit crisscross. We're creating positive atmospherics in Um so the different skills teachable skills are we have to teach composure, encouragement, assertiveness, choices, empathy, positive intent, consequences. So when we have those u guidelines for ourselves set in place then we are able to facilitate that
036to the students as well. Those are some sorry the pictures on there a couple of the goals we have to talk about pictures. >> No it's okay. You go back. Sorry, we forgot about the pictures. >> Like, can I do the whole thing? >> Okay, so um at the end of the year, uh we decided to put above both of our doors cuz our classrooms just happen to be right next to each other. So, we shared a little space there. We wrote all of the students names on little circle that says you belong here. So, that right away. So, showing that like we are a family, not only my classroom, her classroom. If you're coming to school to be in school, we're a family. So, this is also teaching a lot of we're a family.
037we are one. You come to school, you should feel loved. You should feel included. And so right away, they were able to see that they are included and they are welcomed. And and you can see open house the parents like looking up because they're like where's my name? Where's my name? >> Yeah, they still fun to like look up. >> The only thing they can recognize at that age is that's my name. And then that just shows the brain the brain state model of like different developmental areas too. Um, another thing that goes along with this program is we have like monthly tasks. Um, so the first one's actually in Miss J's room that is for calm down the quarter. That was our first task. Um, the next task was that we had to create
038a like family and friends board within like our classroom. And so that was my door around Thanksgiving. Um, all those were pictures from our field trip of like my class. I did have some parents send in pictures too as well from like home um of their families as well. So we did those. >> Um and then I did thankful thoughts. So I just thought of something that each of my the characters of each my student and I wrote like this student is this or the student is that. And then um another part is the good morning routine. So I we try our best. Some mornings are crazy. Uh but we try our best. We stand outside of our classroom and we greet each student that walks in the door. So they get to choose like
039on my door I have they can either choose a high five, a hug, fist bump or we will dance. and they get the choice of that as they walk in that morning and they love it. If I forget some mornings I notice they will come over to my desk and they're like, "Here's your hug, Miss Shet or I want a high five." And I'm like, "Yeah, I'm sorry." And then it like reminds me to get up out of my desk and stop what I'm doing and go and greet them in the morning. Um, and then we we're taught a lot of different regulation skills. So, a lot of breathing movements are good for them. So, a lot of rainbow breaths or I have words in my room at my calm quarter where they can like
040trace it with their finger and like breathe in and breathe out. H. And then as a school, we also have a family board. It's in our main hallway. And the goal was to take a picture of your family and then we'll put it up on that board. That board is lacking. So if you are willing, send us an email picture of your family. We would love to get it on that board. Um uh the first part of this though, uh it's just self-regulation that that is a teachable skill um that we as teachers need to teach it. That we need to teach it. have emotional self-regulation is not something that we are born with like it is something that we are taught um it must be modeled taught um and be practiced. So um we
041will do like mindfulness like either after like lunch um or after specials um and that we as adults also must regulate ourselves first before helping our children do the same. So I can't be regulated before I can regulate child as well. >> Yeah. And then I kind of already touched on my part. Let's skip ahead. But it is just like our classroom is seen as school family. We spend so much time with these kids that we need to create that loving atmosphere and we don't know what every student goes home to. We don't know what they're coming into school as. So our goal is to love them and foster that safety through routine and um allowing them to feel like they belong in our classroom. So there's just a couple of things that we have
042done and brick has created such a great program for us to learn ourselves but also to create a better learning experience for the students too. And it's about teaching like the children who lack those skills to control their behavior and not see it as much as a reward or a punishment but as a way to co-regulate themselves and get them back on the emotional page they need to be. Any questions? >> So we are very thankful for child guidance and for Christ stepping up and being willing to pilot that program. uh child guidance is coming in for our January PD day to uh give a training to the whole staff certified and classified on this so we can kind of see how we can work that into our daily routine and it's all free so
043that was nice too >> is there any considerations sending that to the families like it's like an after hour kind of activity I don't um >> to put more on >> but I'm like don't learn about >> that. Yeah. No, I think it would be a good thing and that's definitely something that I we should bring up to be her Friday. She would love that idea. She loves everything. >> I think that's something that we like are willing to stay after as well. >> I like that idea. >> All right. So, just a couple more things as we wrap this up. That's still fair. This year for our comic kid of the month assemblies, uh we started inviting parents in for them to see their child receive their award and hear what the teachers have
044to say about them. Um it is a surprise for their kid. So the first time we did it, we had all the parents back at this little room here, brought all the kids in and the parents kind of stuck out and when the kids got called up to see get the reward and then they saw their parent out there like just the smiles, everything was so awesome. Uh and then if a parent can't make it or something or they have other people that want to share, we have them like send a video in. So that's an example of one. Um, I just wanted to tell you that me and Nana and Palto and Katrina and Mario and your mommy and daddy are so proud of your hard work perfect school. We know that you're going
045to continue working hard so that you can reach your goals this year. We love you. >> So, it's just been a fun way to, you know, get more interaction with the families and write about our kids. And also, Dairy Queen has been a huge partner this year. The new Dairy Queen has been donating stuff left and right. Uh so that each kid who gets a award gets a honeymoon gift card and then Dairy Queen coupons. Then Dairy Queen also lets us pick two kids out of the 40 or so that get it each month and they get a a cool Dairy Queen next baby. So we love Dairy Queen. They donated one to my staff. We had to join a lot of cups. So, let's get [laughter] >> and they were bragging about it. >>
046Okay. >> Uh, this year too, we've also really been working on our theater over the course of last year and over the summer. U, Mrs. Porter, our secretary, and Mr. Nick, our custodian, really worked hard on this stage extension. So, it hadn't been used in a few years and it was kind of a little rickety. So, uh they put new boards all in there. Got little doors stop and wooden securements down low so it's usable. Mrs. Porter made the apron that goes all around it. Uh so, we are very thankful for their skills there. We got every single light on the stage working so we can see them. You can cl [laughter] out in the audience working more into there. There's a few like up here that I can't figure out, but we're getting there.
047It looks awesome. Our third graders just had their show. It was just so nice to be able to actually see every single kid from every spot versus where we had dark spots before. Um, so very thankful. This is Mrs. Galo. She took a a donation from the staff to give a little presents to the supporter and uh Mr. for their to thank them for their hard work um because they just they kind of did it on their own. So, we're very thankful for that. Uh Mrs. Buffalo could not be here tonight. Uh her son has a basketball game, but she wanted me to share what we have done at CES to help families this holiday season. Uh through her work, getting sponsors, working with our staff. Our staff has been awesome. we have been able
048to help uh 73 students that are part of 31 CES families um thanks to our staff and then she has got 17 community sponsors to be able to give families what they need this holiday season uh we were she just worked with the family west child down the road to get them beds they've just moved here they didn't have anything so she's been really really working hard on that our staff have been awesome taking care of our kids so Yeah, had one last chance to brag about us. We were nominated as the OASA Hall of Fame school. So, the OASA is the K8 principles association in Ohio and we received a nomination for the Hall of Fame school. Don't know who nominated us. We don't. They just got an email one day and the congratulation
049bubbles blew. So, that was super cool. Uh so what we've done with that nomination came a very intense application process. Um and so we formed a variety team that we met twice to kind of go through every single question see where we could you know set ourselves apart from other schools. We had a gallery walk. We had all the questions posted up in a room where teachers could add their input so we could incorporate all that there. So it is due uh January 7th. So we will submit it before that will submit it on Friday and then we'll find out if we receive a site visit. So if they like our application enough, if we score well enough on that, then they come out and do a site visit and then they'll pick us around
050eight or nine schools receive this award here. So we're very hopeful. We think we deserve it. You come to our school, you can know why we deserve it. if you listen to anything that people said tonight, you know that we deserve it. Um, so we'll we'll see how that goes. And then lastly, just a few upcoming dates. If you're bored on Friday, we got a lot going on. You are welcome to come to our PUBS assembly in the morning. This we will we'll do our awards and then we have a big mask reader out there. I know last year I shared with you guys our mask reader, some of the videos, some of the bloopers. We did it again. We got a lot better at it. So, we don't have very many bloopers, but blind
051master struggle with her actual video. [laughter] >> But so far, nobody classes have got a perfect score with the guest lead. and I sent it out in our parent newsletter this month so the parents could uh for this week so parents could watch the videos and try to guess along. So to have that big unveiling and then our troublemakers uh that had an awesome Christmas service couldn't be with us uh here tonight. She has got her church but they have been all over the place. Miss gone to all of them at Ava. The two started the last [laughter] Christmas tree fest church the ter house u Christmas tree lighting. So they'll see their performance for school on Friday and then that leads to our class Christmas parties. So that is what has been going on
052at CS. questions. I do want to thank I know there's some other faces here that I think that just speaks to our culture um at CS there's people here that just came to support their fellow people just to offer their support but thank you for supporting There you go. Ready to present? >> Thank you, CES and Mr. Savage. Um, having been a former elementary teacher, I'm a bit biased and I try not to play favorites, but the elementary is my favorite. Um, thank you for all you do. I think when you walk in that domain, you can feel the genuine passion and love and excitement that you bring every day. Um, and whether or not the elementary association picture or not, you know, you're all of favor of us. But thank you for all the
053good. Uh, next up under the spotlights, I just want to I I probably should have ordered these different. We had such great news and now we're going to give you bad news. Um, in this building here at the high school, 8-year-old, 8-ish year old building, u, this building is controlled air conditioning wise by two chillers. Uh >> we have one chiller performing perfectly and we have another one that has basically rotted from the inside out. Um there's a warranty on the chiller. So there was a warranty for one year for lab for um for materials and one year for labor. Um I've shared that proposal with you. The question that we have is um as we know with everything uh there's long leave times on equipment especially in a HBAC world. Um the House School
054Council is a um consortium that we're a part of and they go out and they do RFP bidding on behalf of all the members of the house school council. So we have two options. We can go out and RFP ourselves or we could use uh this proposal that they've given us that they've already RFP for us. Um after talking to Mr. Olson today. We're strongly encouraging that you would be okay with the OSC version um because there's a 3 to four month uh delay in getting the uh materials in. Um we if we did the RFP, we'd most likely not get that process started till January. We'd be looking at February most likely to order and we'd be pushing it to have the materials in. He would like to um have them come in and
055do this work uh the first week of June. This building, like I said, has two uh chillers. The one chiller can run and maintain the uh temperature in the building throughout the spring and get us to summer. Um so, we would like uh to proceed with uh the OSC version. Um if you're okay with that, we'd like to bring this back for our January 7th meeting um and ask you to approve it. Anybody have any thoughts? >> Yeah. I'm I'm okay with one thing I can share is Mr. Olsson has been working on this um since we learned of this and he actually provided me a new proposal today where he was able to work um with Gardner to use a few different parts and they were able to save us about $15,000 from the
056original version of this proposal which was 115. So now we're down to about 9900. Um, which is a lot of money. Um, and it's unfortunate. Uh, but it's our only option since the uh the inner workings of the uh the machine has u has rusted out. Then the last thing I have for you under uh uh district reports um each year we adopted a new calendar for the uh next school year. So for the 2026 2027 school year, it provides you a draft. Um this has been shared um with our teachers association with all the administrators. Um everybody at central office uh calendar is very similar to the one we got this year. It's very traditional. It matches uh all of the other PLCC schools for both uh Christmas break and spring break which is
057a benefit to our students that attend PLCC. If we don't match those two up, then the students get half a spring break and half a spring break. Half of our spring break, half PLC's, and they never really get an entire spring break. Um, so it's just beneficial to match those up. Uh, we start end roughly the same time period as all the other schools in PLC. Um, I believe unless somebody has a Eureka moment, I believe this is the calendar that we'll share uh for uh for your approval in January. And those are all the guidance I have under uh district reports. All right. Thank you, Mr. Fisk. Um, next up we have citizen participation. Did Lisa said, did we have anybody submit? >> They have anything they'd like to say quickly? >> Uh, next
058is board of education comments. So, we'll start with you, Dan. >> You always come down by Well, yeah, you're on the left. I tell you what, it was so so nice listening to the love that goes on in that building. I mean, the only only thing I was looking at is I don't know whether the the hospitalization transformation should have been before or after the medieval hatchet throwing capital and those which one goes first there. We're going to learn about how we're going to take care of us after we get the hatchet thrown or or we can learn it to do the medical after the but uh it was so good and the and the brick is good too. I mean just you you're thinking about the the kids. I mean duh it it's one
059of those things where you sit there and you go that's really good. I wonder if any other schools do this and and there's got to be somebody out there, but I've never heard of that going on with the kids as much as you guys do. I mean, it is so nice and and you're handling and and turning it into a family is it shouldn't be a great idea, but it is because people don't do that. The family is just one of those things and and we just use it as a word sometimes and kind of sad but I I I enjoyed it. The the the self-impact, you know, you the one with the problem solving building resiliences in children and it it's true though. You sit there and go, "Did you try this? Did you
060try that?" And they'll say no. They'll say no. At least they're being honest. But it it makes them think though, why didn't I before I had you? It It's It's great. I I don't know where to where to stop talking, but I'm I these guys these guys all Dan, you're done. Okay, I'm done. Thank you so much for coming in. It was very very enlightening. >> I'll go next. Um it's always great to see the elementary school. there's there's so much energy and good things happening there and that's solely because of the teachers and staff. So, thank you all for all you do. Um I've had two kids go through that building and it's been a fantastic experience. So, thank you. Um just want to say this is Chris Davis's last board meeting tonight. So,
061Chris has served on the board for what 12 years? Yeah. >> Yep. >> Um it's been a long run. been a lot of good things. Chris has been involved very heavily in the district. Um things like the elementary school fish tank that never would have happened without Chris. Um the boardwalk at the middle school, if you guys haven't seen it, he played a large part in that. Um he's been very instrumental in in helping to get grants for various things throughout the district. um he's really been an advocate for the schools and um on top of that he's always been an independent thinker and a voice here on the board that I truly appreciate. Um and he's seen us through all the way in the depths of fiscal emergency to where we are today. So
062appreciate everything you've done. Thank you. And I hope you come back and see us occasionally. [laughter] I'll see you at school functions. I always do because he's at a lot of things. So, >> um I would also like to add my thoughts. I've worked with Chris a few times on different projects and um I'd like to express my gratitude to him for his work and years of his service. Um like to also thank the staff. I mean, it's it's crazy Christmas season for you, too. And yet, you're you're still given 100% at school, and we really appreciate it. And I don't want you to think it goes unnoticed because it doesn't. So, um I really wish you all a very, very merry Christmas and the best in the new year. And let's all rest up
063and come back ready to to tackle some new ideas. So, um, we're always here if you have ideas you want to share with us or thoughts you want to share with us, but, um, we we do need to need you to know that you have our full support. So, we appreciate it. >> Yeah. And then, so, thank you. And, um, so usually it's pretty quick with me like, oh, you know, whatever. Thank you. But I have few few more comments today. I'm going to prepare this. It's been 12 years I've been in the school board. It's been crazy from day one. I have to say the brick presentation was awesome. I wish you'd done that like 12 years ago. Here's two of the quotes I particularly liked. How can you problem solve before you come
064and ask me? >> Yeah. >> Everybody here needs to remember that and just be thinking that in your head as we hear whatever we're hearing. And then did you use your words first? Not just for kids, for adults, too. So that was awesome. Um, and then the Hall of Fame thing, you kind of reference it, Dan, but I mean that's crazy. You guys, like seriously, you have to win. I don't know who's on Wells. Like, I mean, no joke, when you're talking about the axe throwing, no, seriously, like what kid is not going to love that and remember that forever. >> So, that was cool. Um, and then the the uh first aid medical that was awesome. So yeah, the whole vibe there coming to middle school, I mean elementary school has just changed. So
065thank you all. Um so I do want to first I'm going to say a few things about school board and a few about teachers and then just some kind of general comments about the district. Um first like as everybody up here knows everybody who's ever been on the school board knows this truly is like a thankless job. Um, I think I can literally count on one hand the times anybody has ever said even something that kind of was a synonymous with thank you. Um, so so I want to thank everybody up here. I want to thank everybody who's been on the school board. Um, it's a crazy job. Particularly anybody who's been president knows how nuts it is. Regular school board members, Dan, no offense, but you see a lot, but you don't see the
066craziness behind the scenes. Um, so one of these days hopefully you will, but um, so thank you. >> Um, >> I do want to also mention particularly a couple people by name. There was somebody who ran for the school board before I ran for the school board. Her name was Lorine Re. And a lot of people seriously, did you use your words first? So many people come and they just come here and they're like, sometimes they have informed comments. Sometimes they're making stuff up. Sometimes there's but we've had so many people over 20 years come to school where me just ranting and Loren was the first person who was kind of in kind of that group but who actually said I'm going to do something and ran for the school. She didn't win but that
067was a cool example that you don't just it's easy to complain start to try and make change. So she was the first person really coming from the outside who tried to do that. Um then kind of the third wave was you and Ron Josh. And so I want to thank you guys too because that was awesome. And I still remember that night of the election I was out doing deer spotlight surveys in the middle of nowhere and my wife's texting me saying, "Hey Josh and Ron and you were like that was crazy." So thank you for stepping up too and trying to do something instead just complaining about the situation. um some of the teachers. Chris Lawrence, I am so glad you're here. Um this isn't I'm not just adding you in like with Wait,
068hold on. >> But so something that I have worked and I'm just going to I will offer this again. My first week when I was on the schoolboard four years ago, it's the only time I've ever sent message out to everybody in the district. And one of the things I was like, "Hey, I just like to write grants. I write a lot of grants. I'm kind of okay at it. If anybody wants help with writing grants, let me know." Hardly anybody has taken me up on that in 12 years. I'm still going to be offering just the same thing. Um, but so people who have had I want to list them by names by name and I hope I'm not forgetting anybody who is really but Jim Trogden. He is a retired middle school science
069teacher. He was really big at getting grants. He and I worked together on some really big things like million plus. We didn't get those really big things but he was really involved. Um, Lisa Gvski was awesome. She is a former elementary school teacher, one of the best teachers we've ever had. Um, she worked with me on a couple of smaller grants that morphed into the big tank at the elementary school. We started that with Lisa Keski with a tiny little classroom tank and now we have that big thing with those crazy fish in it. So, Lisa, Renee Burkhart's been pretty consistent. Chris Lawrence, Missy Carr, another former teacher at the elementary school. um worked with on a couple things. Rebecca Rathmo has been really cool like proactively like saying hey can you try and help
070I've been happy to and then at the middle school Adam Schumanker and out of that list everybody that's awesome every all those people are going out of the way out of their box to try and bring in special funding to do cool stuff but um Chris you and Adam Shoemaker have definitely taken it to a different level and u something I really really appreciated was when you guys worked with me on that Lego grant a few years ago and that kind of I know you were doing your thing not diminishing that and Adam was doing his thing but that was a cool bridge between the elementary school STEM program and the middle school STEM so thank you for that and Adam Shoemaker if you guys don't know and if you elementary school teachers have not
071been to the boardwalk behind the middle school please go there it's super cool Adam Shoemaker who some of you may know now he's a counselor at the middle school he actually built a lot of that personally himself with his own hands. Nuts. Um but so thank you. And then hopefully Adam will hear about that. I'll talk to him personally too. But very cool. Um one spec I know there's so much stuff everybody's done with my gosh. 12 years is so long. But one thing that I really will never forget at least I was looking over all the crazy emails. But again, I'm so glad elementary school is here today because my kids did go to Comry Elementary School. My one son now is at the high school. Um, I'm most familiar with the elementary school.
072All of you, I think, are well, you all are new teachers with maybe a couple of ex exceptions since I've been on the school board, but [clears throat] um but so it would be hard for you guys to imagine, but a few years back, 2018, like we having some serious problems with our elementary school music teacher, and we were trying to do a play, Lion King Jr., and it just was getting crazier and crazier down the rabbit hole. So finally we had to intervene and basically just take that out of that teachers realm of like operations and we did it ourselves. So we ended up hiring an outside person to direct that and those emails are crazy related to Lion King Jr. um 2019. But something that I think hardly anybody even who was really
073involved to some extent didn't know was it really would not have happened without Renee Burka stepping up and she put in she was just she didn't get paid anything. She didn't do anything. She was there every night. Even when the person we hired to direct it was skipping or whatever weirdness was going on. She was there every night. Her kids Maddie and Logan stepped up. They ran all the lights at that crazy place. I mean, you know how it is. Can you imagine like two middle school kids running that whole thing for a whole production, but the Burkarts were just incredible. So, um, I will never forget that. Something else about the teachers, I thought it was awesome. I need Josh Commino better than others. I really love it when people come and talk and
074speak at schoolboard meets. even when they're saying crazy things or making whatever up or whatever, it's still just cool to have people stepping up. And so when all the teachers, what many teachers came a few months ago and gave, you know, some presentation about what they thought the district where we were headed, you know, that was awesome. I think the school board really in some ways and it's kind of by design. I mean, it really should be this way, but we're insulated a lot for what's going on at the field level in a lot of ways in the district. Um, so I thought that was great, but the only teacher that I remember in 12 years who came to a schoolboard meeting as an individual to talk about an issue publicly was Rich Dutton and
075he's at the middle school. So, I just want to acknowledge that that took a lot of courage for him. That was years ago. And he was having some serious problems with his classroom. It literally was like a third world. There was exposed wiring. It was insane. It wasn't that out of the norm at the time. But he came to a schoolboard meeting. He's like invited all the school board and every I think I was the only one who went. But I just thought that was awesome that he came as an individual without a big support crowd and gave his piece about the conditions of the classrooms at the middle school. So I really appreciated that. Um and I do want to say Lanking Jr. too. It wasn't Rene Burkhard really stepped up. Rebecca Deth also
076was like essential for making that happen. Um Sarah Wolf was essential. There was a lot of people were involved with that. Um, so I don't want to ignore others, but Renee was really, really the driver. Um, and then finally, this is like going to be the super tedious car. I just have to read stuff. I'm sorry, you guys are going to be held hostage here since you're still here. But every year we have multiple audits done in the district. Some are done by outside, well, they're all done by outside organizations, but one of them is done by the auditor of state. Every year we have to do this report. I started on a school board in 2014. So, we get these reports every year, independent auditors report, and I'm going to read the first paragraph
077that I'm going to skip. Here's how it starts. Report on the financial statements. If you can imagine a bureaucratic like document, this is it. We have audited the and it starts the same every single time. It's like, oh my god, can you get some imagination, creativity? No, they cannot. they need to learn about. Great. Um, we have audited the accompanying financial statements of the governmental activities, each major fund and the aggregate remaining fund information, country local school district, sum accounting, blah blah blah blah as of the year ending and related notes to the financial blah blah blah blah. It just goes on like that for pages, for dozens of pages. And then at the end, there's always something called findings. And for my first one in 2014, there were six findings. The description of what
078they were went over 12 pages and they included things like um material weakness, cash reconciliations. There were over hund there were hundreds of thousands of dollars of errors in 2013. Just how money was posted to what accounts? Um misposting of revenues, that was a different thing. $200,000 misposted. It's just goes on and on. Six things. This was my first report. I'm like, "What? I'm out of school boards going, "Huh? What? How did How did this happen?" Um, so it goes on. So the next year we get the ones, this is covering the year. The first year I was totally on the school board. Next time there were 10 findings that covered 14 pages. And at the beginning of each of these findings, there's always a table and it says it asks a bunch of questions.
079And then it says basically like were any of these, you know, things found. In 2013, it was six of six. These things were found to not comply. This was out of compliance. 2014, five of the six things. For instance, were there any significant deficiencies in internal controls reported at the financial statement level? That's pretty overarching. It's pretty huge. But Coventry, [clears throat] yes. Yes. It's just yes for years. Um the bottom line in that table is asking is the district a lowrisk audit? Meaning are there problems or are there not problems? Is the district a low-risisk audit 2014? No. That means we were high risk. The state is acknowledging right up front, we're high risk. And there's 10 things they found and they covered literally hundreds of thousands of dollars. It was insane how many
080dollars. One of them, the binding number four, transfers of funds. We had misallocated or misappropriated within the financial accounting system almost $900,000. We had taken funding from this script, you know, fund and put it in this fund and this fund and put it and almost all the money was going into the general fund from all these other funds. Um, so again, I'm like, "Oh my god, this is crazy." Um, it just goes on and on. Over the years, they started to get better. And so I just want to read you the one from this year, which covers last school year. So all of you, I think, were mostly here, part of it at least. Um, but so this is one covering last year. The same if I read the same. It's all the same. It
081starts with that same crazy bureaucratic paragraph about this blah blah blah. And then it go back at the end. It has the exact same table that was in there in 13, 14, 15, all the way through every year all the way back. And that one table that has those seven questions. It says blah blah blah. Are you this? Are you that? Were you this? Were there material control weaknesses? All those this past year, all of them. No, we aced it 100%. So, this goes from a solid zero to 100% passing. Teachers, everybody knows which is better. I'll tell you what, I noticed that in this year, we had zero to seven things called out. The bottom line about is this a high or low risk audit this past year? Yes, low risk. So went from
0820% passing, tons of findings over hundreds of thousands of dollars to none basically. And so those last two things in the past years we've had all those pages, dozens of pages covering the problems in the district. this past year. Those two sections, again, if I read the title, the first one's called findings related to financial statements required to be reported in accordance with the government accountability standards. This year, guess what? We had none. All it says none. The second one, findings and question cost for federal awards. In the past, we had multiple under each one. This year, none. So we went from that when I started in the school board to this and um probably that is the biggest change I have seen and I just want to say Lisa this is because of you.
083I know you get pillery and people are coming you know like everything you're getting jabbed from all sides. This is the change you have made in this school district. And I don't think there's anybody else here here like on earth who has followed Coventry's financial situation every month and looked at these audit reports and looked at the financial for 12 years and went from when we were $2 million in the hole to this. But that's because of you. So, thank you. Um, yes. amazing amazing transformation over the last 12 years. >> Thank you. >> So yes, so and thank you all the teachers who've done everything for this. I appreciate it and onward. Yeah, I will still be around somewhere but if not here. So that's it. Thank you. >> All right. Where are we?
084>> Okay, so next up is the business portion of our meeting where we go over all of the exciting and riveting contracts and things that you may not want to stick around for, but if you do, that's great. So, we usually take a quick break. You guys want to cut out, too. >> If anyone wants to check out the plaques that that we, the school district, want, you go to the treasur's office and as you enter, there'll be five plaques that they're designated for this. >> [clears throat] >> Thank you for Yeah. >> I was like >> pretty impressed. >> I know the Moody's the Moody's ones. The big one. >> You're an egg. There's just too many. >> Yeah. Have you seen the in the entryway? As soon as you go in, you'll see
085the drink continu. >> Oh my gosh. >> Her office card. >> Yeah, Laura said there was something that was blocking view of you on the camera. probably that one. So, I was looking at this one. >> They said it's the one. >> They don't like our back. over here. >> I don't know. >> Well, that's something I'm gonna bring with a balloon like that. >> Wait, are we recording? >> Oh, yeah. >> Thanks, Mr. Dash. back. >> Yeah, likewise. Yeah, >> hopefully. I mean, I still will be at the elementary school like every month. >> Taking care of the fish. Yes. >> Taking care of the fish. >> Yeah. >> They're me. Seriously. >> Okay. >> The fish bag. That's how you >> have eyes. >> All right. Thanks everybody. We'll see you Christmas if
086I don't see you. Thank you very much. Thanks, Miss Lawrence. I'll send that to you. >> Thank you. Yes. Yes. The break award. Now that's just that board. >> All right, let's get picked back up. >> And everything else is the third third Wednesday of pretty much I think. >> Okay, let's let's uh move forward with meeting. So next up is superintendent recommendations. George. Uh, item number one, certified personnel. A um I feel like a broken record every month reading these, but we have more again this uh this month. Uh regulations for retirement purposes. It's recommended that the board accept the resignation due to the retirement of the following employees indicated. That's for Mr. Murray and Mrs. Tucker who have both um given a lot to Commentary over the years and very dedicated comments and
087we wish them nothing but the best. Um, and then we have a number two, retirement resignation amendment. It's recommended the board accept the amended resignation date due to the retirement of the following employee. And as Miss Masters, as you remember, she told us, um, gave us a lot of, uh, leeway, uh, advanced notice that she was retiring. And once she did the final paperwork, uh, she needed to move it back to the end of December. Um, she originally was going to go in the middle of January, but after working with STRS, she needed to move it to the end of December. Um, so again, we wish her well and thanks for all that she's done. Number three, resend winter coaching supplemental. It's recommended that the board resend the following coaching supplemental contract approved at the
088October 15, 2025 board of education meeting. And then number four, it's a supplemental coaching contract for 25.6. It's recommended the board grant or reissue the following supplemental coaching contract for the 2526 school year. Non-stop staff contracts are contingent upon receipt of a clear record of required background checks. Number five is a separation agreement uh slashresation. It's recommended the board accept the following resignation separation agreement of the following employee. That's for Mrs. Phillips uh elementary school teacher effective February 24th, 2026. And [snorts] those are all of the items under personnel certified. >> All right. Thanks, George. Is there a motion to discuss and consider? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Any questions or comments? >> All right. Lisa, could you call the role, please? >> Yes. Mr. Davis? >> Yes. >> Mr. Bowser? >> Yes. >>
089Mr. Hostedler? >> Yes. >> And Mrs. Pap? >> Yes. >> Number two, personnel classified. Number one, employment. It's recommended the board approve the following for the position indicated. That's Mis Mrs. Risner three-hour CES cooks helper effective uh December 15, 2025. Number two's change in hours, buildings, and positions. It's recommended the board approve a change in the hours building and or positions for the following employee. And that's for Miss Carrie Meyers who is moving from two and a half hour CES lunch recess assistant to two and a half hour CES lunch recess assistant and 4-hour bus driver. Uh Mrs. Myers has been working um since early this year uh to get her bus driving license. We're excited that she was willing to jump from some of the other ranks that she was working for us into
090a position of high need. Uh so we're very excited to have her uh as a official part of our transportation team. And those are all of the items under personnel classifier. >> All right. Very good. Is there a motion? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Any questions or comments? >> It's just cool. We have some more help with bus driving. Absolutely. >> Very grateful. >> All right. Call the RO, please. >> Mr. Davis, >> yes. >> Mr. Bowser, >> yes. >> Mr. Hostler, >> yes. >> And Mrs. Pat, >> yes. >> Item number three, other business items. Any recommendations? Number one, contract with GCL Education Services. It's the board approve a contract with GCL Education Services to provide educational services for a Summit County Children's Services Place student. The cost of the service is $225
091per day and will be paid using general funds. Number two is a ACT modified testing schedule for Coventry High School. It's recommended that the board approve a modified testing schedule for Coventry High School students on Tuesday, February 24th, 2026. Number three is a modified testing schedule for Coventry High School and Coventry Middle School. It's recommended the board approve a modified schedule for CHS and CMS students on their designated testing day date. Testing calendar is exhibit S1. And just a reminder, uh this is a a requirement as um the board adopts our academic student calendar and then any changes to it then have to also be adopted uh by the uh the board of education. Number four is accept donations. It's recommended the board accept following donations. $500 for CMS student activities from the VFW, $500
092for Coventry Elementary School all school cookout from the VFW and $1,600 for needy families at CMS for Christmas. Um, and that person's anonymous. Uh, but I can't share that that person is a alumnest of Coventry. Um, I'm not sure the actual graduation, but don't want to give out too much information, but it is a a former comment. Number five is revised pol revised policies and procedures. It's recommended the board complete the first reading of the revised and or deleted policies and procedures for discussion only for exhibit S2. And with the mountain of legislative action that occurred uh last summer and last spring, these are all policies just catching up with all of those bills uh that were passed last spring and last summer as part of the budget bill and many of those other uh
093bills that the legislature passed. Number six, completion of inventory operations department. It's recommended that the board approve the following deletion of inventory from the operations department. As for the 2011 Ford van, 2007 International Bus, 2014 International Bus, nine Smartboards, and eight iPads uh that have all been declared obsolete. Man number seven, band choir Disney trip. It's recommended the board approve the following trip at no cost to the district. The entire trip is paid for by families andor through the choir funds uh band parent accounts. And as you know, Mr. Cummings, he's always ahead of schedule. So, he's getting his uh uh trip lined up for next March, March 3rd through the 9th, 2027. And those are all the items under other business. >> All right. Thank you, George. Is there a motion? Yep. Any comments
094or discussion? Just say it seems like we're getting quite a few more donations recently, which is very much appreciated. >> Yeah. >> Good. >> And for the board members that'll be here in January, um we do have quite a few policies to review. They always read those twice. Tonight's the first reading. So, make sure before we vote on them next month that you at least review them. Even though they are kind of mandated by the state mostly, but good to be familiar. >> Would you call the RO? >> Sure. Mr. Davis? >> Yes. >> Mr. Fouser? >> Yes. [clears throat] >> Mr. Hostettler? >> Yes. >> And Mrs. Path? >> Yes. [clears throat] And next is the treasurer's recommendations. Okay. Item number one, it is recommended that the board approve and place on file the
095November 25 financial report and reconciliation for exhibit T1. Item two, it is recommended that the board approve and place on file the revised October 2025 financial report and reconciliation for exhibit T2. Item three, the board, it is recommended that the board approve the POS over 5,000 per exhibit T3. Item four, it is recommended that the board approve and place on file the annual credit card rewards report in compliance with Ohio Code 3313.311 section G that states an annual report shall be filed detailing all rewards received based on the use of the district issued credit cards per exhibit T4. Item five, it is recommended that the board approve the resolution to participate in the Ohio School Board Association's legal assistance fund for the 2026 calendar year for a total cost of $250 as outlined in exhibit
096T5. >> All right. Is there a motion? So moved. [clears throat] I'll second. >> Okay. Any questions or comments on those items? >> No, but I'll just say the Ohio School Board Association. Well, I don't know if Dan or Terry if you guys have contacted them, but you can always call them and ask them legal questions. They're not our legal representatives. So they can't [clears throat] give us a legal like you know opinion really or instructions but they can give like general guidance and they have a lot of exposure to different >> sol very prompt so if there's ever an issue that you know you can just call them informally um and they're always very >> yeah Mr. Hford from the PLC is a big guy and he goes and he goes down and he
097he's in on a lot of the committees in uh in Columbus and he comes back to the PLC and shares his dismay at times with what >> but in essentially some slight fee but it's essentially free first. So it is my first couple of years I reached out to him several times just with questions and legal advice and >> where you ask those same things to a disco attorney then they're on like on the clock >> we're getting charged for it. So this is like a cool option >> okay anything else go ahead and call the roll. >> Mr. Davis >> yes. >> Mr. Fouser >> yes. >> Mr. Hostettler >> yes. >> And Mrs. Pap. >> Yes. All right. And finally, we have a couple of board of education housekeeping items, recommendations. Um, so
098we have discussion items for the January organizational and regular board meetings. Um, so [clears throat] the organizational meeting happens every January. It's typically where we u elect president, vice president, a bunch of um chairs and appointments and things. So, um, we usually do that, uh, like a half an hour before the first board meeting, but there is, uh, a note on here to propose Wednesday, January 7th, 2026 for the organizational meeting. Are we We're moving out the records retention meeting, right? >> Yes, we're take we're eliminating it. >> Okay. Yeah. Um, so >> we're not having it that day, >> right? Yeah. We're taking it to another day. So, we start organizational at 5:30 or 5:45. >> I would say 5:45. It usually when we start 5:30, we usually have a a dead period. So,
0995:45. >> All right. So, organizational meeting at 5:45 and regular meeting at 6:00. Does that work for everybody that be here >> on the 7th? >> The 7th. 5:45 and six o'clock. Yep. Thank. >> Yeah. Good. Okay. And then I believe for Laura, myself and you will have to take an oath again. Oath of office at that meeting. >> Yeah. >> First thing. Okay. Before we can do anything official. >> Okay. So there are three recommendations for the board of education. The first is it is recommended that the board set the date for the January board of education meeting as we just discussed. Um second recommendation is it is recommended that the board appoint a president prompor to preside at the January organizational board of education meeting. And third, it is recommended that the board
100approve the memorandum of understanding between Coventry Education Association and the Coventry Local School Board of Education per exhibit B1. >> Is there a motion to discuss and consider those? >> Second. >> Okay. I still feel like we're a little bit jumbled here in the order. So, we need to uh >> appoint the president. What's that? >> We should make a nomination for the president. >> Yeah. Is there a nomination for the president prompor who would oversee the organizational meeting in January? >> Going to nominate Josh Hedler. Second. >> Any other nominations? Okay. All right. So, we have the board of education meeting January 7th, 5:45. Um, we have a nomination for me as president prompor. And then the third item is the memorandum of understanding for the CA and the board. Is there any other
101discussion on those? >> Can I just share a few things? Um, girls wrestling is the fastest growing sport. Ohio High School Athletic Association. Um we have a number of girls um in our district that are phenomenal wrestlers. Um it's exciting to see girls um breaking down barriers and jumping into sports that have been traditionally boy dominated. Uh so it's exciting to have a girls the beginning of a girls team um which should do nothing but grow going forward. And if I put on your radar, one of the next fastest growing sports, uh, the club material right now, uh, is girls football, which is being supported by both the NFL and the Hall of Fame in Canton. Um, we have a number of girls that are trying to organize a team here. I understand some of
102our neighboring schools are trying to do the same. Um, so that'll be exciting to watch as that grows. um and the uh the girls and their families get behind that really grow that uh grow that into a sport here at Coventry. And last was competition cheerleading. Uh we were going to uh we didn't expect to have an MU. So Mr. Vgas and I were looking to u propose competition cheerleading in our next uh negotiation cycle which would have been next year uh with CA. But since we were um opening theou um in the coaching aspects and the supplementals uh we felt it was an appropriate time to also include competition cheerleading. Um what I've been told by uh parents uh over the last few years is there are a few things that the girls need
103to be able to compete and have a fair chance of making a college squad. Uh they need to have their varsity experience competition and experience tumbling or not tumbling stunting. Um, so with competition cheerleading becoming going from a club here to an actual recognized uh sport in in Coventry, it guarantees our our girls that have a chance or have the abilities to further their cheerleading skills at the next level. U we have all three of the aspects that I've been told by parents that our students need to have a fair chance of making those squads. So that's just the background on those two items. Okay. Thank you. Can I ask? So this So that's theouou. Is there anything in there like I cannot remember like other than the coaching? >> No, just just wrestling acknowledging
104that it's girls and boys now and then the competition here. >> Okay. Nothing else has been added to that. >> Thank you. >> All right, Lisa, could you call the role, please? >> Mr. Davis? >> Yes. >> Mr. Bowser? >> Yes. >> Mr. Mr. Houseler. >> Yes. >> And Mrs. Pap. >> Yes. >> Okay. And there's no need for executive session this evening. >> So, is there a motion to adjourn? >> Move. >> Second. >> All in favor say I. >> I. Any opposed? >> Okay. Good night, everybody. >> I'm glad to share. I'll try to get a picture of Mr. Cummings, but they revealed at the uh high school band concert this week the new marching band unicorns, don't they? So, I'll try to get a picture, share that with you. She did. I'll
105see them. They're pretty cool. Um a little more new weight than I've seen in the past, but the kids love them and they have uh they did a good job. >> They already got them. They just had one and they had one student where it was kind of the the culmination of the uh of the program was the reveal of the new band uniform. >> Is it your size? Should you model it for us, George, or I don't think anybody wants to see that. They're definitely made for high school kids. No, [laughter] >> my granddaughter's nine and she's big into wrestling. >> She's amazing. That's why >> she go she they they live in town. Then go to the so