001Lisa said she's on the I don't believe she's coming. She just texted. Oh, she um welcome to the um June 18th um board of education meeting for Coventry Local Schools. I'd like to call this meeting to order. Um you have a motion. Call for call. I don't know. We don't have to do a motion note in the meeting. Roll call. Mr. Power here. Mr. Davis here. Miss McGraw. Yes. Here. Mr. Hoster here. Miss Fav here. Standing for the pledge. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice of a motion to adopt um the meeting agenda. So move second. We'll second it. But I have one uh thing. I've talked Lisa Blower there today about removing
002the um Ber director recommendations for B for the personal items. That's the recommendation to executive assistant from the agenda. Okay. I did. Is that under the treasure or second? Yes. Okay. Section B. Uh number number B. Section B of um the treasures department. There's a personnel um recommendation to hire an executive assistant for the treasures department. Yes. So there needs to be more discussion about that. So we're going to remove it from the agenda for this for tonight. Oh, okay. Removed from the agenda. That's the proposal. Yeah. or table. What is that? Is there a difference? Just going to be removed for Yeah. Okay. And then um we're also add Yeah, that's kind of dirty on there. Yeah, it's one of the um we are also going to add a an executive session after the
003meeting. Um just needs to be for another action taken after that. Anything else? Okay. Mr. Power, yes. Mr. Davis, yes. Mr. McGraw, yes. Me? Yes. Mr. F? Yes. All right. Is there an approval um of the minutes? One meeting from last year. an approval of the um meeting minutes from the May meeting. Motion to approve. So moved. Second. Is there any discussion on those meeting minutes? Mr. Bowser. Yes. Mr. Davis. Yes. MRO. Yes. Me? Yes. In this fashion. Yes. Uh for this month, um since we're into the summer for our district report, uh we've invited Jason Dodson uh who's going to give you an update on the water nine housing development in our community uh and then take any questions that you may have. Mr. Dodson. Thank you. And these are copies of documents that
004I probably has. I sent them over to superintendent. You have to have perfect. Perfect. Um, as the superintendent uh said, uh, my name is JC Modson. I'm with the law firm Rutsswin Andress. Um, and represent Atkins PLX Holdings, which is the owner of what is now known as Turkeyfoot uh, golf course. Um, I know we met a few months ago uh, just to talk a little bit about the tiff. Wanted to give you an update of kind of where everything stands right now. I kind of walk through a little bit uh again the details related to the tiff and then kind of answer any questions that you all may have uh regarding what we are proposing there. Uh so um I think actually prior to when we had first met uh the city had approved
005the preliminary plan for the development. Uh it's a 112 unit development which is going to be everything from larger single family homes along the water uh coming back to smaller single family kind of lowmaintenance uh living homes and then uh there's a little bit more than 30 town homes that make up that development as well. So roughly about a third a third and a third between the lakefront larger homes the smaller homes off the lake and then the the town homes in the development. Uh we I think spent uh probably about eight months working through that process with the city uh to get that preliminary plan approved and we are currently working through the process right now of doing the final design for all of the infrastructure in the development and then putting the final
006plan together that'll go back to the city's planning commission and ultimately through council as well. And so we anticipate probably about August when we'd have those final drawings done, then we'd go back and finalize that planning process with the city. The other thing that we've had going on, and we introduced everything uh to the city, I think it was at the May 7th council meeting, a development agreement between the developer uh and the city for the development of the property. And under that development agreement, it requires the developer to put in 100% of the infrastructure. Uh so all the road, curb, gutter, sidewalk, street lighting that would be there, as well as water and sewer for the development. Now, that area of New Franklin and the Portage Lakes does not have sewer and water. the
007closest sewer and water. The sewer is located up on Main Street by the old uh drive in stand up there. And the water's down uh just east of Main Street or I'm sorry, west of Main Street on 619. And so both of those would be would be extended from the main street area all the way down the frontage of the golf course uh to the intersection of 619 and uh South Turkey Foot Road there and then extended down Point Comfort into the development and north of South Turkey Foot to do the town homes that'll be on the northern uh portion of the development. Uh all told the cost to install that infrastructure is about um it was originally $16.5 million. We had included the seaw wall in that through some negotiation back and forth with
008the city and the seaw wall while the developer is still going to be responsible for putting that in. Uh that's not going to be part of the infrastructure package if you will. Uh so the total infrastructure cost is about $15.5 million. Um, and we had those numbers updated by the developer both with the adjusted preliminary plan and with cost increases. They they updated those numbers uh last Thursday. So, they're pretty good numbers in terms of uh recency with construction. The um the the other piece then that the development agreement provides for is it provides for what's called a tax increment financing uh structure that helps fund the infrastructure for the development. The um and and if you look at the revised code, the code section is 5709.40. And we would create what are called two
009incentive districts. One incentive district would be phase one of the development and the other incentive district would be phases two and three. Phase one is essentially the southern portion of the development. Two is kind of the central portion and then three is north of 619. Um within those incentive districts then anything that's built within the incentive district. So those 112 homes um the taxes that would acrue on those properties uh the property owners rather than paying them as property taxes pay what's called a service payment in lie of taxes. It will be the exact same amount and I apologize we were golfing today and so I'm like sunburned and I'm like incredibly hot with a jacket on. Um, so the uh um in any event, the uh the property owners within the development, they'll pay
010the same amount on their tax bill, but rather than the tax bill being distributed to all of the taxing subdivisions, the amount that they pay goes, it's paid as a service payment and it goes into a tiff fund that's maintained by the city. That tiff fund then could be used for in this situation three things and three things only. one to make certain compensation payments back to the school district and we'll talk about that here in a minute. Uh the second thing is to pay for the cost of the infrastructure and the third thing is there is a small amount that would go to the city to essentially keep them whole on their firewood. Um the rest of the money that the city would ordinarily receive, it's going to give that up. So it would
011only keep the fire levy portion. Um and that's where as we talked with the administration where we kind of came up with the 5545 formula that kind of goes through the entire uh through the entire development. So for uh the school district what we have proposed is that the school district would receive 55% of the taxes that it otherwise would have received if the tiff did not happen at all. And from a dollar amount perspective, that is uh $528,000 annually that the school district would get even with the TIFF in place. Now, the question has, you know, the the question that we've talked about with the city quite a bit is um if the development were not to occur or or if we did not have a tip, what would the developer do? And the
012the simple matter is is that there's about 30 acres of land there. The developer would carve that 30 acres up into about 28 homes is about the number of homes you'd be able to get there. And so we as we put all of our numbers together, we've run it both as a as a 38 home or 28 home development and then as the 112 acre development and then we've run the tax calculations on both of those developments. If the smaller development is what were to happen, that would generate for the school district uh $48,000 annually and which is about $120,000 less than what the school district would get annually with the tip. The um unfortunately and and we've said this at public meetings before, there really isn't for the developer a middle ground there. Thank
013you, George. Uh there really isn't a middle ground there uh in terms of doing the smaller development and doing the larger development with without as much tiff as we have in the project. From a from a dollar amount perspective, what we're proposing would give the developer about $10 million in net present value money uh against that $15.5 million of infrastructure cost. So the developer still has to come up with the other $5.5 million in cost. Um you know there's still the seaw wall. There's a number of environmental remediation issues that have to go into place in order to be able to do the development. All of those are developer side costs. All of those are costs that the developer is not going to recover through the tip. Um, we put together both for you all
014as well as for the city a number of examples in other communities where these type of developments are happening. And quite frankly, between inflation and the interest rates we've seen over the last 5 years, developers can't do projects like this without some form of public assistance coming in and helping fund the the infrastructure improvements that are that are being undertaken. And so um you know we believe that obviously it it it will help the project move forward. It it will help the 112 home project happen without theund without the tiff. If that project doesn't go and we do go with the 30 acre development. Not only does the city get less money uh with that 30acre development, the school district gets less money with the the 30acre development. We don't have water extended down 619.
015We don't have sewer extended down 619. And um you know essentially when our client initially bought the property, that's what he was going to do. And he met with the city and the city said, "Hey, we need to be looking at a larger development." And so he went along and said, "Let's pursue the larger development." Um and the reason why the city said that is they knew by putting this project in you would get those utilities extended. You'd have a project that not only by itself is going to be more environmentally friendly for the area, but is ultimately going to be able to have water and sewer go to the other side of the channel and not only allow them to tie in, bring environmental benefits over there, but ultimately drive property value on property
016values on the west side of the channel as well. And so I think obviously our client, you know, as as that additional development occurs, I think they will benefit from it. I think the city will benefit benefit from it and ultimately I think the school district benefits from that increased property valuation from everything that would be west of the canal or channel as well. Um, so from our perspective, you know, I I I'm not a big fan of the win-winwin type of analogy, but certainly, you know, this enables the developer to move forward with the project. It does provide more revenue for the school than the smaller project would, and it does provide more revenue for the city than the smaller project would. Um and unfortunately trying to do the larger project with without the
017tiff um either at all or at this level uh it just doesn't pencil out and isn't financially feasible and our client would ultimately have to default to that small project. So with that um certainly my question sorry I have a question. So, are we talking about only Coventry School District? Yes, we are only talking about Coventry School District and you're only talking about this piece of property. Okay. And are we only talking about the city of New Franklin? Correct. So, the golf course involved with the city of Green. Correct. The golf course is divided partly in Coventry, partly in Green. There are three lots in the southoutheast corner of the development. Then a portion of the backyards of those lots will go into green. Other than that, the entire development is within the city of
018New Frank. So is that going to pull green in for that little part? Will they be involved in that? No. So only from an administrative perspective. There's a provision in the revised code that if a subdivision deals with less than five lots, they approve it at an administrative level within the city. So, we've had a conversation with Green. They know it's coming. They sign off on the plat, but it doesn't have to run through planning commission or their accounts. Okay. Thank you. I just wasn't clear about that. Sure. So, you're actually extending public utilities into a portion of Green though, correct? I mean, sewer and water down South Main Street, that's into Green. Correct. Correct. Is there any way for the developer or the district if if green benefits from that and they're able to
019hook into water and sewer in some jurisdictions you can recoup some of that money as a developer? Is that a possibility? So the right now if you're at the intersection of 619 and uh Turkey foot you've got the uh condo complex that's right there. They're already on sewer at water. Everything to the west of that is going to be served. It is essentially the golf course. Correct. And so at some point in time and and Tim has said in public meetings, I've heard him say it privately a hundred times, he doesn't have any plan to develop the balance of the golf course. His son's seven years old. His son and he played golf all the time. is not developing the golf course as long as the sun is, you know, still golfing there. So, at
020some point in time, theoretically, that water and sewer extension could allow the the the balance of the golf course to be developed. Um that said there was was that the county at the time uh so I think it was like probably around 7 2017 give or take a year. There was a court opinion that came out that said developer payback which is that concept you're talking about is not constitutional in Ohio. So you can no longer set up something where the developer down here needs to extend a sewer line from up here and they're going to pay the cost and as everybody else ties into it, they have to pay that developer back. Prior to that coordinate decision, that happened all the time. Um even existing agreements in place at the time were all struck
021out. Yeah. And so you can't do that in the future and you can't enforce those those holding agreements. Okay. because I again was at the county and I got a lot of unhappy calls about uh folks that thought they were going to get paid back and didn't get paid back. Okay. So, all right. So, the real concern we have is how this is going to schools obviously. So, we have 40 onwater honks approximately. Approximately yes 30-ish town hulks on the side. You've got 26 north of 619 and you've got I think we ended up finalizing at 6 south of 619. Okay. 32 nine south of 6. I'm sorry. Half the remaining all water lots are any of those going to be like singlestory condos or cluster homes that might be geared towards like 55 and
022up. I'm just trying to get a sense we might potentially if you have the drawing there. Yeah. All of the homes that are along Point Comfort are all going to be singlestory homes that are going to be what we call maintenance-free living that are targeted towards your 55 and older. Okay. And so, you know, as you look at the layout here, you know, you got the 32 town homes, which are going to primarily be targeted towards older individuals. You're not going to say you're not going to have a, you know, children in there at all. We're obviously not allowed to say only 55 and older, but generally that's what you're going to see in those. And then in those maintenance-free uh living ones along Point Comfort or the lowmaintenance living ones along Point Comfort, we
023believe you're going to have the same folks there. The homes that are going to be built around the lakefront, um those are certainly going to be large enough that I think you can expect families in those homes. I think um the one that is currently being built my understanding is probably north of $2 million in value. You know, I I think and and we've talked with the administration about this a little bit. The reality is some of those folks are probably going to have private school arrangements for their kids that they're going to undertake as well. So, I think you're going to pick up some kids from those lots, but I think some lots are going to go to whether it's Hoben or Walsh or wherever the the kids may go. Um I think you're
024right. But interestingly on lot 47 that's a Coventry grid there. Yeah, that will be built. But yeah, I tend to agree with I think they're probably going to be private schools on the lake front. So, because really for us, I mean, the break even is like 44 to 45 kids and then we start to lose money, it seems like. So, I think the dynamic here is much different than like the truce and farm development. You might do some work over in Barbership. You know, they're you're talking about 360,000 square foot or $360,000 homes. you're talking about families that have two, three kids that are going to be in those homes and you've got a large number of them. You know, I think the dynamic here with this development is you've got many less units that
025are going to have those two or three kid families um here within this development. Yeah, I just don't see us getting 40 plus kids out of this. Do you know what the current property tax revenue that the school gets off of that? The entire golf course is $36,000 for all tax and subdivisions. That's it. Yep. Yeah. So, it it's not a lot of money uh at all. And we're still going to get a portion of that for the golf course that isn't public. Yeah. And and what under the proposal that we have right now, um the the so kind of I guess from a legal perspective ultimately what we would ask that the school board vote on and what one of the things that the city council is voting on this evening that goes along
026with that development agreement is what's called a compensation agreement. And under that compensation agreement, it says that the school district in lie of in lie of getting all of the tax revenue you would get, you're agreeing to take blank percent. And we've proposed the 55% and I think the number was originally 53.5% uh because that tracked with that fire district buddy of the city. Um in talking with the treasurer, she said, "Can we use like round numbers here so that I don't have to worry about trying to carve that?" How about 60? That's right. There you go. There you go. More round. Um and um you know, so that was so we kind of increased it to the 55. Um so that agreement is would provide that. The other two pieces of that agreement uh
027that are important to keep in mind are um to a very small extent uh any of the income or any of the property tax revenue you all get now, albeit very small, you would continue to get all of that. you get 100% of that. Uh you also get a 100 the way we've drafted the agreement any new levies that you put in place any uh any millillage that you would get above what you have right now the school would get 100% of that millage as well. So that would sit outside of the tiff. So, if you guys ever have to go and do an addition a new a new levy or increase one of your existing levies, uh all of that that increase uh is going to entirely go to the school district. It would
028entirely go to the city as well under the language that we put together. Does it work? would when would year one be that we would be getting the tax the property taxes from that like the trusen were delayed and then it's like a big roll off thing over 15 years something I think yeah so so with so trusen farms so if you think about it from a 13-year perspective um with trusen farms because they have a a CRA there uh they have a 15-year 100% CRA so that means the school district gets zero money for the first 15 years. And because of the way because Trusome Farms is in the city of Barberton and there's different rules for different communities, um every home that is built in Trusen Farms, the first year it's picked up
029is the first year in which that happens. So if there if you've got a threeyear or fouryear lag between when the first home is built and the fourth home is built, that fourth home, it's still a 30-year run where the first 15 school district gets zero and then after that the school district would get I think it's all there's not a compensation agreement there. So the school district would get everything that they should get starting in year 16 and going forward. Um with this development because um uh New Franklin is not a bladed community. Uh you have to do this as what that incentive district that I referenced earlier. In an incentive district that 30 years starts on the first year that the first home is picked up for value. So if it takes you
030three or four years to build those homes, that home that gets built in year four only gets 26% of the tiff. So the school district and you know under what we're proposing would get 55% of the revenue that it otherwise would get for 26 years and then from there on out it would be 100% of the revenue going forward. And so it's a little bit it's more advantageous with the incentive districts for the schools and for the city because you only get that one 30-year window. And that's why we did the two different incentive districts because we know phase one is hopefully going to start within the next year. Phase two and three you're going to have a lag of one or two years before you would do that. And so you there's one I'm
031working on right now where I think we have four incentive districts because it's a large development that'll happen over time. Um but that that is kind of what you're looking at if you were comparing the two. Would that be retroactive? So don't you have a home that's already being built or is that is outside of the development? And so you guys would get 100% of that value. Yeah. And so that's built to completion but not necessarily sold. It's the year in which the county picks up the valuation. So it would be built to completion, the first tax year in which it's complet. So I want to say thank you for pulling out the seaw wall because that didn't sit well with me that the district was paying for seaw walls. Yes. That's a good move.
032Um, you said here was the thing. At the end of the day, we know that the developer is going to be paying far in excess of what the tiff would generate anyways. And so we said fine, we'll take that out so that it's not city council, I think, had a similar concern. Yeah. So you said any new money we get 100% of, right? There's currently legislation being proposed where emergency levies are not able to be renewed and probably what 5 million of our funding annually comes from emergency levies. So we're going to have to replace those. Yep. Those replacements, do we get 100%. The way So what we proposed is that anything that is above the current millage, you get 100%. So if you've got a four mil levy now and you replace it with
033a 4 mil, you'd lock in. Okay? If you replace it with a seven mil, four would be covered under the 55% and the other three would be the 100%. What I would also tell you is that if the current legislation as proposed were to pass, we will be going back to the drawing board because um not only will we be going back to the drawing board, but for uh critically there are hundreds of infrastructure related projects funded this way throughout the state of Ohio where bonds have already been issued that this is going to wipe out the repayment source for those bonds and all of those bonds would go into default immediately. There was um five of the larger law firms in Ohio sent a letter to the Ways and Means Committee two days ago
034outlining like this. You know, here are all the constitutional reasons why you can't do this, but then if you do it, here's the practical effects of, you know, the rating agencies are going to come in and immediately downgrade everybody. the bonds are all going to be technically in default that are connected to anything property tax related both tiffwise and cops for example you've got big problem there so um what I would tell you is that if that ball passes where um we we probably are starting over anyways but what we did in terms of working with the city and the mayor was personally involved in this is he wanted to make sure because they kind of have the same thing on the fire levy you know hey if we go in and we and we,
035you know, increase the levy. He wanted to make sure that any money that's quote unquote new money is gets the 100% treatment as opposed to the 55% treatment. And if you uh in the agreement there's a section that kind of carves out here's how much the school gets, here's how much the city gets, here's how much the developer gets, and it's the paragraph right below that, which is not if you pull 10 of these or 20 of these, you would not see that in in every agreement. But um you know, here we don't you know, there's no reason why we can't do that uh with this development. So it's it's in there for both the city and school's benefit. What if we do something crazy that never district no other district has ever done and
036reduce millage on a living? Then that would so um that would uh result in a shortfall in terms of the revenue that comes in. One of the ways when um when you have a tiff, there's one of two things that that you can do as a developer. The first one is you just get it as a grant annually and you know, you go and pay for all your infrastructure costs. You pay for it up front. You're done. And that's all you do. Um you then just get that money annually back over that stream of 30 years. The other thing you do is what's called monetizing the TIFF. And that's when you go to a port authority, have the port authority issue bonds, and you pledge the TIFF revenue against those bonds. There is a thing
037called a minimum service payment that gets then assessed on all of those property owners. And so if the amount of taxes that you know when everything gets put in place would would generate $5,000 annually to go into the tiff. What happens is if you do bonds you put a minimum service payment on equal to $5,000. So that if you ever would you know whether it's you guys or anybody else would ever go in and lower the millillage you at least have a floor to issue the bonds against. Now, what happens and and we actually when the developer came to Barberton uh recently, um we kind of went back and forth with the developer on the truce and farm deal who wanted a minimum service payment that was going to be more than we thought was
038needed for the bonds and potentially more than what property owners would pay. Yeah. And so you set that number lower to kind of take into account that you might have millage go down. And and if you look if you rerun those like spreadsheets from year to year, you know, with the TIFF calculation, you'll see the number fluctuate because you have the you have millage go up, you have millage go down for different communities. And so, but you set that number at a level that the bond uh holders and that the underwriters are comfortable with in order to issue against. You don't max it all the way out. So there's some give in there in case that were to happen. But um I can't practically tell you where we've actually dealt with the school district reducing
039the millillage for reasons you guys all know better than I do. So any questions? We're not voting on this tonight. We are not voting on this tonight. We just wanted we wanted it to be presented. So if people want to watch it and have questions to if they have questions, should they call? Um feel free to reach out to me. Um I think I've got I think I sent my email to George and George, I think you've got my number as well. Um go, you know, feel free to reach out with any questions, concerns, anything like that. More than happy to answer those for you. Um I the city council I think you all know is meeting right now. Uh so sometime this evening will know whether in fact they do pass it. Um if
040they do then uh we would like to move forward with the compensation agreement. Uh if they don't we'll be back at the drawing board and we'll need to go from there. When can we expect a copy of that compensation agreement? I um I can send it directly to you. I think there's a couple copies that the president all the information you sent to us last week. Yep. Yep. I can send you over a copy. That would be great. The CRA with truce and farms like we don't we didn't have any saying that at all. So I didn't do all the research about the difference between that and a tiff. Yep. Which you're proposing. But do we have to like does the school district in this case have to approve the proposal? Like why are we
041voting on this? So um under the under Ohio law, the any tiff that exceeds 10 years and 75% requires school district approval. And what we are proposing is a tiff that's a 30-year tiff for uh 100%. And then a compensation arrangement back with the school district for a portion of what the school district would receive. Um just to be direct about it. If if the if the deal doesn't happen with the TIF, then you know our client would not do the 112 unit development. they he would proceed with the 28 or 30 unit development. And the reality is from a dollar figure with the tiff, even with what we're proposing at the lower amount, it generates 528,000 for the school. If that smaller development generates $48,000 for the school. So it's about $120,000 a year
042less with that smaller development even with the tiff in place. And so we voted no. That's what taverns. I mean that's in state law unlike the CRA like yeah the CRA for whatever reason and I don't know what the reason is the CRA state didn't give the schools any rights for 15 years 100%. With the the tips the school the school district has that right to essentially get compensation of some sort for anything above 10 years and anything above 75%. And that's that is what that compensation agreement provides is you know hey we've triggered those and so let's work out a compensation arrangement that works for the school city and the development and that's what the compensation agreement uh that we're proposing is and so the 28 house option then what that's still proposed for
043what kind of tiff there would not be a tiff for that at all because there would not be any water extended That wouldn't be any sewer extended. The reason you get to the 28 is you need to do the acre lots because you're not going to have water or you're not going to have sewer. So, you've got to have lots large enough to do septic. And so not only does everybody invest money with that development, the in addition to that, you don't have the water extended down 619 and you don't have the sewer extended down 619 that the city can then pick up and take to the west side of the channel and be able to over there as well. And all the curves and stuff is just like regular old school development then with
04428 palace, right? Thanks. Yep. Anybody else? Thank you so much for your time. Thank you very much. Take care. Just have uh two more items. Um, OBC is going to meet um on Monday um to vote on their um the tenative agreement that we have and I believe Thursday the 26th at 9:00 a.m. Yes. Thursday 900 a.m. Did you We wanted to make sure everyone would be available to or at least three of you'd be available to attend. Uh the hope would be that we um take a we approve the oopsy contract after they ratify. Um there's a second reading of a policy that's on here today that we need to cover. Um and potentially if you're ready to um vote on the compensation agreement for the water dime, we would have that on the
045agenda as well. Thursday the 26 20. Is it the 26th? I said it wrong three times. It's okay. Um, and then the second one is to ask you to u find a mutual date for our annual summer end of summer walkthrough. Um, I was looking at potentially um two dates that um might one I think would be of interest if you were available. Um, August 14th is our new teacher orientation day. if you wanted to do it on that day, um we could stop in and we could introduce you and you could meet all of the new teachers. Um otherwise, um August 15th would also be a good day, uh to make sure that we're done and we have all of the projects ready to go before the start of school. Sorry, the first one
046is maybe the 14th. The 14th, that's new teacher orientation and then it's just a Friday. I'm good with the 14th. I can make it. It's far enough advantage. Not hours about four hours in advance. So, what time on Thursday? 8 on the 14th of August. 8:00. Sure. And then the new teacher orientation starts at 8:30. So, we could stop in there on our way around. Okay. We'll set that for the 14th at 8:00 a.m. and we'll start at the elementary school as we usually do. Yeah. And the special meeting will be in the treasur's office. Oh, I'm sorry. Yes, next Thursday it'll be in the treasur's office. And those are all the items I have for district reports and special guests. Sorry. Um, I just checked my phone, just FYI, and my sister said there's
047tornado warnings everywhere currently in town. And my husband just said sirens are going off at cab. No sirens in Lakemore. Sounds like building in meetings. That's nothing. It just keeps on. It's one Okay. If anybody hears a pray train duck, you have to go down and put your head on like the Do you have any side? Oh, yeah. They in front of the locker. at all. See, I don't remember what we actually had bomb that wasn't they actually had the uh the radiation seals stuff in the basement of the of the buildings. That's where we would go in case there was a nuclear attack. That's how far back I go. Okay. All right. So, are you done, George? Yes. Those are all available. Fantastic. We don't have any citizen participation. Laura, I have a conflict.
048It was Thursday. If I could change it, I will, but I won't know until tomorrow. So, that's a possibility. What's that cost? Uh, it's at 9:15 and that's a doctor's appointment. We never know. Is that tomorrow, Thursday, I do want to bring that up. Um, the board of education comments started. I'll start at Harry's. You have any comments here? I have I have today happy summer to everyone. Same. Okay. You good, too? I I'm fine. I I I just have more questions now about our our water dime. More questions we can talk this on all work. Thank you so much. Um I will say it was a nice end of the school year with all the festivities with all the graduates. That was pretty cool be able to witness the my kid graduating and also
049all the things that went along with it. So thanks to the high school and especially Mrs. Belnap. She was amazing and illustrating everything. Trust did a good job. Okay. Ready? Well, do I have to do a motion? Have to do a motion, don't I? What? Well, you have to say your stuff. Um, so item C, superintendent recommendations, certified personnel. Uh number one, I wish I could um not share this with you, but unfortunately we need to go through the uh resignations of these four individuals. So we have Dylan Angel, Megan Delor, Tiffany Writtenower, and Leslie Ger who are resigning um their positions with our district. Uh Mr. Angel's going to Green. Uh Mr. Delarm's going to Comply. Miss Rittenau's going back to her uh district that she graduated from Springfield. And Mr. Ger is going
050to the lake. Number two is resend administrative contract. It's recommended board resend two-year administrative contract approved at the April 16, 2025 board of education meeting. Number three, supplemental contracts 25. It's recommended the board grant the following CHS supplemental contract for the 2425 school year. And as for Miss Fallon, uh it's four 4.5%. um as she finished our yearbook um when we had a change in leadership there with the yearbook staff midway uh through uh April there. So she finished out the yearbook for the uh for students. Uh number four, CHS supplemental contracts is recommended the board grant following CHS supplemental contracts for the 2526 school year per exhibit S1. Number five, supplemental coaching contracts 202526. It's recommended the board grant or reissue the following supplemental coaching contracts for the 2526 school year per exhibit S2
051and S3 non-staff contracts are contingent upon receipts of a clear record of a required background check. Number six, employment one-year limited contract. It's recommended the board approve a one-year limited contract for the 2526 school year for the following individuals contingent on a receipt of a clear record of required background checks and drug screening. This is in accordance with board and CA agreement on the appropriate salary schedule. That's Miss Conrad who will be joining the middle school as an intervention specialist and Mr. France who will be joining the high school as a social studies teacher. And number seven, administrative contract. It's recommended the board grant a two-year administrative contract to the following for the position indicated effective August 1st, 2025 through July 31st, 2027. and that's Miss Talia Pavlage who here is with us uh and
052she'll be joining the middle school staff as our new assistant principal. Um one thing I can say I was sold on Talia after about five minutes of the interview. Um her energy, her excitement just it just exuded and uh I think she's going to make a great pair leadership pair with Mr. Johnson uh to take over for the first time in 20 years completely new leadership at our middle school. Uh so uh number eight is extend and I think I I don't need to point this out but uh she's coming back to us as she is a Coventry graduate. Uh number is eight extended time. It's recommended the board grant a supplemental contract for extended times to the following employee for the 2526 school year and that's Miss Mackey. uh she's a 4 day a
053week uh employee and she'll be using her Fridays uh 20 uh days to cover speech evaluations at St. Francis to sales. Number nine's resignation is recommended that the board accept the following resignation and authorize the board president and treasurer to take all actions necessary to facilitate the resignation process. And those are all of the items under personnel certified. Do a motion to approve these recommendations? Shake. You can't see that. What you're looking for? Peace off. Yeah. Yeah. What is the the protocol now for hiring like who's on the uh interview committees? How do we advertise for positions all that kind of stuff now for different for teaching or for coaching? For coaching positions. Yeah. Um so we um just recently uh I produced the best example we uh posted for 10 days all of our
054coaching positions um all of our coaches responded um and said if they're if they and their staffs were coming back um anyone that didn't um then we put together Mr. Voggas puts together an interview committee used for example our boys basketball position that was Mr. Boggas myself and Mr. Shenzh as we are the three administrators on staff that have experience coaching basketball. Right. And then how was that position advertised? It was advertised with all of our positions. I don't understand what you mean by all the positions. Like when I look there's a lot of I get a lot of emails Tina gave them posted. Yeah. And then it'll be a advertisement. There was one that listed all of our um fall and winter supplementals because spring was still going on. So it was a list
055of every single one of them. When does that go out? Uh that was a process we changed because we hadn't typically been doing that. So we hadn't been uh getting a response from our coaches to have a record that they were coming back. Um so we did that uh it would be towards the end of April, beginning of May and it was posted for a 10-day period. Okay. I some I just literally looked and I didn't see it. So I'm going to look again. Okay. Literally I can find you forward to you. So that was a listing for all of the coaching positions. Yes. And then all the internal candidates who already had the position and want, you know, were interested in coming back or anybody was interested in any other position, too. Okay. Anybody
056like in the district or outside of the district? Yes. We're required by law to offer it to certified personnel first. Okay. So you did like an internal posting for certified personnel. That's what you're saying. Yeah. for everyone inside the district. Yes. And then you get a list back. Of the people who, you know, whatever, um, who want to coach, connect. So he respond said, "Yeah, I'm still interested." And then we asked him to check with his assistants to make sure they were coming back too so that we could start looking for new assistants if we needed to. And we did that for all of the sports. Okay. So there's really no interview process for that for returners. No. Okay. And then so but for the new people like the basketball coach for instance, right? Um
057so you're saying that whole list was one that Tina Gable posted at all of the positions. Yes. And that would just go to all everybody like usual, right? Yes. All users. Okay. Somehow like I'm not getting that. Okay. Can you do you have access to it right now? It's possible somehow I'm I don't know. I guess the only thing I could delete it or maybe it has like a different title. We're subject heading for on May 5th. I have one for the varsity assisting pearl soccer standalone physician. That's the only position advertised on that announcement. I'm not sure what she posted the this I don't know what keyword to use. Um search by email find it. Okay. For most of the postings she just titles posting. That's what I mean. Unless there was something different
058about that one. And then for instance on May 6th I have one says coaching eighth grade volleyball for that position. Yeah I'm not I'm looking for I can't find it right. I can have her shoot it to you tomorrow. I'm just see it might know. Would it be safe to say that every coach is fired end of every year unless the internal person says they would like the same job again? All of our coaches work on a limited contract that expires automatically automatically every year. So yeah, so that's standard throughout the all schools. Yeah. So everyone's basically fired unless you sign you're going to come back. No one says they want to come back, then it will be an open. So if the if the crux of your question is we had three people apply
059for that position and we researched the three and we chose the one that was most qualified for basketball head correct coach. Okay. So I'm looking at the one for coaching eighth grade volleyball. is posting specifically for that position, Coventry staff and outside applicants. And you're saying there's another one that goes out that has all of the that has that basically the same two that's all of them on Coventry staff and outside applicants. It went to it had a the attachment was every single supplemental for fall and winter. Did anybody else on the school board see that notice posting? I mean, are you saying I didn't send it? No, I'm asking to see if anybody else saw it. I'm Okay. Well, you're accusatory, so I'm just asking. Well, I'm asking people if they got it, and
060I'm asking you to provide it. I told you I'll provide it tomorrow if I can't find it. Okay. So, I'm still like unclear. It's just I'm not choosing anything. I'm just asking. So, there's one that went out. The heading was two chemistry staff and outside applicants for every position. I'll text Mrs. Gabriel now and tell her to send it to me. I hopefully she gets this. Please. Yeah, maybe we can follow up on this the next meeting then because we're not going to have any time for supplements together. Okay. Laura P. Thank you. This is to Coventry staff, right? So this is a top two coventry staff coaching supplementals and then you're saying so in response to this the internal people were either saying yes, I'm still interested or not. Then we had no one
061respond to the basketball except for three external people. Okay. And that's why I'm trying to figure out like how that was just as a general procedure. Do you see one for somehow you found that one? I'm looking. Yeah. For just basketball for external outside sources. You're specialist. I did find the CMS assistant principal position, however, posting. Here you go. Thank you for applying. She found it. Yeah, somehow you saw that one, too. Thank you. I don't see another one that went to everyone either. Okay. So, yeah, if you could just forward the one that went out specifically about basketball coaching position. I guess it was it wasn't a specific. It was all the supplementals together is when we put that one out. Okay. But so Laur just so I'm just trying to understand. So showed
062me that one. Thank you for climbing up that one. But that just says Coventry staff doesn't say and outside applicants. And so it sounds like you're saying but if somebody doesn't respond to one of these like the basketball position then you reannounce it. Then we start searching for someone to say. Okay. But do you announce it? We announced it in that opening in that posting and that's where the three external people applied. So somehow three external people heard about it through the one that we sent for internal very popular position. Uh there's a lot of potential and I've asked about teams. So the word got out even before we posted it we were already getting interest in the position. Okay. I can see this is okay. Thank you for pointing that out. Appreciate it. So
063not a comment. I mean you're looking at me thought here something we need to discuss. It seems like there should be like again for the middle school whatever that uh volleyball coach or whatever there is a specific announcement that went out to external candidates and there's a personnel issue that's not appropriate for public um discussion that we could discuss in executive session that I could explain more of that issue to you. No, I'm just talking about the announcement process. It seems it relates to the announcement process. The whole process in general there's a person No, I mean in general I'm talking about Oh, not just that position. Exactly. I'm not talking about position trying to understand how this district announces positions in this case specifically coaching positions. It seems like we should have a general
064protocol where I understand announcing it internally. Aren't they posted on the website? That's what we're trying to figure out right now. So, as I said, this particular posting had a personnel issue related to it that caused I believe the suspicion that you have and how we posted it and we can talk about that in executive session. It's not appropriate for public discussion. Okay. All right. Sounds to me just kind of weird that we again generally that we don't really have a system for advertising announcing positions externally if we don't have an internal candidate who was the previous thing it would just be I think we should pass something that's here's the rule here we announce positions internally I get it then if they don't want the position. Somebody had it last year who was an
065internal candidate. And it seems like we should, it doesn't matter how many people have already preemptively contacted you about, hey, I'm interested in the position. Doesn't matter how many people did. Seems like we should still announce it to outside applicants to see who else who maybe doesn't have an inside source might be interested in that. And sounds like we don't always do that. This time we have a different procedure related to a personnel issue. It's not appropriate to talk about if this is advertising for coach, but based on the emails you've sent, this is about the basketball coaching position. So, we might as well be obvious and say that it's about that position. Am I correct? Yes. And we're trying to see how many applicants were interested in position. Has nothing to do with personnel,
066has nothing to do with uh executive session. It's just how did we solicit applicants for an open position. There's nothing nefarious about it. There's no bad deeds. Send out that posting. That's what we do. Joe, you keep saying the internal posting to internal applicants. Get three external people applied through the internal posting. They obviously going forward. We'll post everything on Apple track no matter what. If we're looking position through external sources, we should post the position. I you know the personnel issue that we're dealing with on this situation and that's why it was done differently. Okay. Nothing. Do we want to keep keep the supplemental? Do we want to pull that out separately? Do we need to table something? No. Okay. Um, is there any other conversation? Any other questions? Any other Mr. Davis? Yes.
067Mr. Fisher? Yes. Mr. Hostler? Yes. Mrs. Pat? Yes. And Mrs. McGraw? Yes. And now we collect in. Welcome. Number two, personnel classified extended school year transportation. It's recommended the board employ the following OC personnel to provide extended school year services their current rate of pay. That's bus driver exhibit S4 and bus attendant exhibit S5. Number two is employment. It's recommended that the board employ the following position indicated contingent upon receipt of a clear record of required background checks and drug screening. As Miss Linda Denko 4.25 hours bus driver effective 63 2025 and I would just like to take like to take a moment and u share with you this Denko has been a blessing to us an incredible blessing. uh she came back to us and stepped in when we had a number of difficult
068situations with our uh our bus staffing, our driver staffing. Um and she's uh coming willing to come back and take a regular route. Um it really is helpful to us. So if you run into Mrs. Go, please um help me and thank her and show our appreciation uh for coming back and really helping us out as we struggle as you know to find bus drivers. Um but in talking to Mrs. today. Um, as of now, we're set um for our bus routes. Um, so we at least have the breathing room to know that we have enough drivers to run the routes that we need to start the year. So, that's a positive in this uh bus driver shortage that's going on in our state. The last one there is change in hours, buildings, and positions.
069It's recommended the board approve a change in the hours, buildings, and or positions for the following employee effective August 20th, 2025. And that's Miss Stacker who is moving from a two and a half hour uh elementary lunch recess assistant to a three-hour elementary lunch recess assistant. And those are all the items under personnel classified. Is there a motion to approve these recommendations? So move second. Any comment questions? Davis. Yes, Mr. Bowser. Yes, Mr. Hostetler. Yes, yes, and Mrs. McGrath. Yes. Uh, number two, other business items. Number one, contract Kids Link School. It's recommended the board approved the contract with Summit ESC for one student to continue attending the Kids First Tops program for the 2526 school year. The cost is 63,000 per unit and will be paid for with general funds. we're anticipating for students
070for the 25 26 school year. An increase in numbers is the two new kindergarten students uh that will be attending our district. Number two is a contract with less roofing. Uh as a reminder, this was tabled um I believe in April. We tabled this one contract with West Roofing. It's recommended that the board approve the contract proposal for West Roofing Systems Incorporated for the repairs to the modular classroom roof at Coventry Middle School at a cost of $15,250. Number three is a contract with Alco. It's recommended that the board renew the three-year contract with Alco beginning July 1st, 2025 and ending June 30th, 2028 for the purchase of custodial plies for the district for the cost of $7,758.36. Uh four, five, and six uh are all sort of related as those are all related to
071the phone lines of the district. Number four, contract AT&T. It's recommended the board renew the annual agreement with AT&T for complete link 2.0 CHS. This agreement will run from 612531 to 2026. Number five is contract with AT&T. It's recommended the board renew the annual agreement with AT&T forcentric service at CMS. This agreement will run from 6125 through 53126. Number six, the contract with AT&T is recommended for renew the annual agreement with AT&T for business local calling essential service. This agreement will run from 6125 to 5312026. Number seven's contract with Gardner. It's recommended the board approve the contract with Gardner to furnish and install a cloud-based HBAC patrol system at Cupree High School at a cost of $45,910. As the note says, this is for there are two uh items are called Jaces that are the
072brains of our HVAC and there's two of them that one controls half of this building, one controls the other half. Um they're both um unfortunately with the newness of this building, they're both obsolete. Um they're recommended for replacement. Uh we had looked at um train originally uh and Mr. Olsson was able to become involved and work with Gardner uh to cut the price nearly in half to get these replaced. Number eight, a contract with pay schools. It's recommended that the board approved the purchase agreement with I3 Pay Schools to provide software for an online fee and charge payment system to begin July 1st, 2025 to June 30th, 2026 at initial cost of $6,920. noting there will be an annual recurring cost for subscription in the amount of $3,340 beginning in the second year. Um there's
073a general fund expenditure and there is also u one cost that's not in there. There's a transaction fee uh that the district will have to pay. Um in addition for the uh opportunity for the electronic payment number nine is an agreement with Mark Bendis. is recommended that the board enter into an agreement with Mark Bendis at a annual amount of 24,000 for the 2526 school year. Like to point out that Mr. Bendis is uh transferring from a uh regular administrator to a 1099 employee beginning this school year. Number 10, staggered start time CHS 2526. It's recommended the board approve the following stagger start times for CHS effective with the beginning of the 2526 school year. And this is to allow the freshmen uh that are new to the building to acclimate uh before the entire
074population of students are here. Number 11, student handbooks. It's recommended the board adopt the student handbooks for CHS, CMS, and CES for the 2526 school year for exhibit S6. The major changes there are related to cell phone use. um is uh there's been more adjustments to cell phone use in districts uh as well as some changes to the dress code at uh Coventry High School. Um those would be the major points uh to point out there. Number 12's Calamity Day alternative makeup plan. It's recommended the board approved the resolution to adopt the Calamity Day alternative makeup plan. This plan outlines the steps our district will take to ensure that our teachers are prepared if we should need to exercise the option of cleaning completing makeup days through online means for the 2526 school year per
075exhibit S7. Uh and the state a few years ago I think it was 22 changes these used to be called blizzard bags and now they're called online days. Um so same process it just gives us three days uh to make up if we have any sort of major calamity uh that we close school for a long period of time. Uh number 13's deletion of inventory pupil services department. It's recommended the board approve the following deletion of inventory from the pupil service department as listed in the table. Number 14's deletion of inventory curriculum department. It's recommended the board approve the following deletion of inventory from the curriculum department as listed there as well. And last number 15 revised policies and procedures. It's recommended that the board complete the first reading of the revised and/or deleted policies
076and procedures for discussion only per exhibit S8 and this relates to changes u in the SCS requirements u that brings our policies in line with the requirements for SCS and those are all of the items under other business. Is there a motion to approve these recommendations? So second discussion question Mr. Davis. Yes. Mr. Bowser. Yes. Mr. Costler. Yes. Mrs. C. Yes. And Mrs. McGro. Yes. A few items this evening under financial. Um it is recommended that the board grant the treasurer the authority to prepare and apply any transfer advances and expenditure adjustments necessary to close fiscal year 25. This exhibit will be posted after the fiscal end. Item two. It is recommended that the board approve the POS over 5,000 per exhibit T2. Number three, it is recommended that the board accept and place on
077file the amended fiscal year 25 permanent appropriations, the request to amend the certificate of estimated resources and the May 27th, 2025 certificate of estimated resources for the fiscal year ending June 30th, 2025 per exhibit T3. Item four, it is recommended that the board accept and place on file the amended fiscal year 26 temporary appropriation and the May 27th, 2025 certificate of estimated resources for the fiscal year starting July 1, 2025 per exhibit T4. And item five, it is recommended that the board approve the renewal contract with Liberty Mutual for property and liability insurance coverage starting July 1st through June 30th, 2026 per exhibit T5. Is there a motion to approve these recommendations? moved Lisa. I I didn't I don't have those copies of those um attachments. Am I missing it somewhere? They're uh well, they're
078in court doc. You see that? Yeah, I'm there, but I did not see them. They're not in They're not in there. I reviewed them yesterday, so I'm good. But if anybody didn't have the time to look at them, they're not in there. They're not in We're not logged in under our names. So the regular shouldn't matter. They're all public. Some of the attachments seem to be missing. Should I just a minute look? They're I can show her. She can. Well, I have them right here. Are they on your view? Yes. Yes. Okay. See, when I clicked on it, it didn't. Yeah. Can you Can you hear the other Okay. Well, that's mainly what I want to hear. Thank you, George. Yeah, they're not there. They were missing from the certified log into your own account.
079I didn't log in today, so I just reviewed the paper. I looked at it earlier today, but and didn't see it, but then I thought what would be here like under your own account, but it still wasn't there. No, but I thought well would be here when we got here. I mean, it's okay. I just they're under public. Yeah, they're all under public. But I thought I could print from here, but you can do it. It's okay. I can just if there's nothing stands out I press that I but it's online. Well, I mean the POS most of these are blanket to set up for next year. Uh Yes, we have quite an extensive list too of purchase orders this time. There's three pages which is pages, but it is not unusual for the time
080of year. But most of them are are utilities and blankets that we put in place to begin next fiscal year. So that's what the majority of these involve. Um Uh we it's okay. I mean I if there's something that stands out I think someone would we went through them yesterday. We didn't see anything that was out of line that's normally on a June. Yeah. Well I thought maybe it was waiting till your meeting is over. So Jun says that it's I believe that was not but you can see everybody else's attachments uh certified personnel I think there was supposed to be one it was missing but they were in classified and other business items we had attachments are just okay thank you could you explain the um the audits and different um costs for audits
081and what's happening this year versus other years. Absolutely. So for for when it comes to audits of district's um finances, we always have gap audit which is done. You can select you have that done by which vendor or um business. So for us, LGS is has completed that since we went into fiscal emergency. So that's the gap audit. And the gap audit really is about making sure our practices and the the general accounting principles are in place and updated and all that. It doesn't it does include the financial piece of it, but it's more focused on practices um and standard operating procedures where a financial audit is usually done by an independent auditing firm. We've used SUMPA for a very long time. Um but this next year the actual auditor state office will be in
082auditing our book. So that will be different and they do that once every 10 years for school districts across the state. So they have team that'll be out. Um it'll be more rigorous than normal. Um so we are anticipating that and the the depth of the work that's going to go along with that for this. When does that happen? They should send well what they explained to me because I was anxious to get their contract and have it in place before July 1. However, they will not send us that contract till August and then it'll begin I'm sure as soon as they get scheduled starting as soon as possible, but it's for this current fiscal year. So even though they're going to be working on it as always, they work next year audits, but it's
083for the prior prior school year this school year. So those are the two big ones, but we're audited constantly for by different programs and overseers all the time. So for example, like federal grants, we undergo audits from them all the time. Right now we I have to complete one over our what's like student student uh health wellness funding. So that's the current one. We just went through a big gifted one. We're still currently undergoing one for food service that so there's a lot of them that take place like all the time but the biggest ones are those two that are on the this is over 5,000. So, Zuka will be replaced. Hopefully, all goes well. Now, that the state can still defer to an independent auditor if they should choose to do so. Like if
084they have too much on their plate and don't have enough people to get out there and do that for them, they can still defer to the independent auditors or just kind of wait. See what final post questions. I see that uh I didn't see this yesterday when we were in our pre-board meeting, but um under boring for stadium sound speakers. So, we're getting a new sound system for us for the fall. Yes. I believe sound system for the I beginning for the proposal or for the system underground boring at the stadium for sound system speakers. Yes, we're working on so that the proposal is to put speakers on both sides to make it easier because we've been trying to do with one and it hasn't been working. Correct. Um to run the the lines underneath
085and then we'll bore under and um we'll also have access then if we have to run anything else underneath the uh the field in the future. kind of future proof it. Any other questions? Okay, Mr. Davis. Yes. Mr. Fer, yes. Mr. Hetler, yes. SC, yes. And Mrs. McGra, yes. We are um are we okay? Um uh is there a motion to I have to read it first. Um Monday. Can I just read? I have right here. Yeah. So this is the board of education recommendations. So number one is recommended that the board approve the amendment to the superintendence contract to ensure ongoing compliance with federal tax laws specifically internal revenue code section 414 guidance from the state teacher retirement system as outlined in exhibit B1. And then the second recommendation is virtually identical to first
086but is for the treasurer's contract. So those those attachments are also not in there. They're not in there. Do you have a hard copy? I've reviewed them already. I understand it. But for anybody that hasn't seen them should brought up I've already looked at them. Yeah. You look in that board file right there that folder. Do you want to explain those? Yeah. Let's have George explain. We don't really Yeah, we need to read what they were saying. I don't think we need to read them, but there's a good explanation of why they were doing why they're recommending this. Yeah. Should I take a take a shot at it? Sure. Yes. Okay. There is current proposed legislation at the state that would take away benefits that we are providing contractually to our superintendent and treasurer related
087to retirement. Um it seems that the state legislature is um trying to deflect superintendent treasurers um efforts away from fighting some of the funding things by trying to attack their compensation that's part of the contracts that's related to retirement incentives that are paid by the by the board. So these resolutions protect us so that we can fulfill our obligations to their current contracts. Okay. Um, does that kind of make sense? It does. Yeah. Doesn't cost the district anything no more. It's a Yeah. Yeah. It's no net cost to us. We just have would have to comply with the if we didn't we would be out of compliance because then it would be a reduction of their sales. They wouldn't be able to enforce the current contract, but they wouldn't override ours or do we need
088to do the process to avoid that? That's what this is. These are contract amendments. something. Mhm. So, we can do that on our own, but theirs doesn't override ours. Correct. Yeah. Thank you. Until they realize what's happening and then they find out a way to do it. But we'll work around that when that time comes. Okay. Hopefully, that time doesn't come. Yeah. Would you just at your convenience send me a copy of the things that I'm missing? Just Yes. Even in an email is fine. Okay. Thank you. Thanks Josh. Sure. I didn't ask for a motion to approve that recommendation. That's fine. You can do it now. Can we have a motion to approve the recommendations for these two? So moved. Second. Then we got our discussion. Sorry. Mr. Davis. Yes. Mr. Fer. Yes. Mr.
089Hler. Yes. Yes. And Mrs. McGrath. Yes. There's one more. You got that? The um the board resolution open with buses. Do you want to blessing? Sure. Item three. It is recommended that the board approve the resolution to purchase school buses through cooperative bidding with Ohio school council for exhibit fe. So this is related to uh it's a board resolution. It's kind of like an a say after the fact, but it is in this essence uh kind of a formal notice that we are going to participate in a cooperative purchasing initiative with Ohio schools council. Now we are already a member of Ohio Schools Council which gives us access to any cooperative bidding may do purchasing uh to help reduce costs and or things that on our own would cost a lot of money. So based
090on the presented school bus plan replacement plan that we appeared few months ago, several months ago and the funding available at this point. We wanted to move forward with helping and and providing those two new buses to replace some of the ones that are older and ready to come offline. So the opportunity came available because Ohio school council does did have a bid out and so this is us acknowledging that joining that process formally with the intention that we'll be buying two buses this purchasing two buses next year or this it'll be next so in July. July. Okay. Well, we should have probably motioned to approve that recommendation first. Second. And then discussion. Mr. Davis. Yes. Mr. Bowser. Yes. Mrs. P. Yes. And Mrs. McGall. Yes. Very. Okay. So now we're done through all of
091that stuff. We would like to go into executive session um for you say for number one for um the reason for this meeting is the appointment employment the appointment employment dismissal discipline promotion demotion and compensation of an employee or official or the investigation of charges or complaints against employee official license or student unless the employee official lency or student request is a requested public hearing. There will be no um action taken during the meeting and then we are as I say executives no action will be taken during the meeting and then there'll be nothing after. Is there a motion to enter into exe executive sessions? So move Davis. Yes. Yes. Yes. F.