001All right. Well, welcome to our regular board meeting here on Tuesday the April 8th. Um, and if we can go ahead and call the This is the call to order and we'll do a roll call. Mr. Bowman here. Mr. Here. Mrs. Lman. Yes. Here. Here. Mrs. Winger. Here. I don't know if I'm Yes or I'm here. Whatever. I'm both. Um, so then if we can move on to number three, the adoption of the agenda. So move second. Mr. Bman, yes. Mr. Wolf, yes. Mrs. Lman, yes. Mr. Baker, yes. Mrs. Wer, yes. Okay. And also number four, a motion to approve the minutes from our regular meeting that was held on March 11th. So move. Second. Mrs. Winger. Yes. Mr. Davier. Yes. Mr. Bowman. Yes. Mr. Yes. Mrs. Lman. Yes. Okay, item number five. I don't
002believe we had anybody sign up for public participation. So, we'll move past that and right into number six, which is our special accommodations. Um there's a whole lot of lines there from our um amazing FEA and PTO. um both pop up in this section of our agenda often if not every um meeting. So just continue to you appreciate um the support of both of those organizations and what they do for um our teachers and for students and really we've got some you know lit the literacy night and and what they do for the community and the parents to be able to come in. So, I think they'll be talking about the uh basketball assembly or the dog assembly for a while, right? Yeah, for sure. Okay. And then, um, moving into B. I'm not going
003to lie, when I was sitting at a track meet last night, I may or may not have wished I was still sitting in a gym or a bowling alley or It was cold last night. It was a little chilly last night, but um honestly, Clear Fork did a a great job. I gave Jessica a road call the ad there a quick call and said, "Hey, like they ran a very efficient meet. We were in our cars pulling out by like 7:39, which is not bad for I think there was at least six school districts there." So, they were they scooted us through the meet and the kids did a did a great job as they were dodging, rain, and cold. Okay, so moving into um I'm going to read through these. So, um the girls
004basketball team um was the they were the KAC champions um and district runner up. Um Cali um Carpenter, first team all KAC player of the year, first team um central district player of the year district 11 and first team all Ohio. So, just a a great way for Calie to um wrap up her her senior year on the basketball court. Ella Belton um second team all kayak um second team district 11 Maya Bryant honorable mention all KAC and honorable mention central district um Olivia Harris um KAC all academic and then um our coach coach uh Jared Prior uh came coach of the year which then he also coached the uh senior showcase game that they hosted here for the county. So, um under boys basketball, the team um again KAC champions um district and then
005district 11 um coach of the year for um Mr. Dipley, Gavin Tombs, first team all Kayak, first team district 11, second team central district, honorable mention all Ohio. Carson Reinhardt, first team all KAC. First team District 11. Honorable mention, all all central dis all central district. Sorry about that. Blake Sites, second team all KMAC. Um, second team district 11. Brody Davis, honorable mention, all KAC and honorable mention district 11. And then uh coach Diddling there the KAC coach of the year who also coached in the senior showcase for the county boys. Jordan Moore first team all KMAC all KMAC tournament state qualifier. Ryan Zers first team all KMAC Cohen Frasier second team all KMAC. Evan Maghard honorable mention all KMAC. Drew Wicker all KMAC tournament. and John Douglas KAC all academic under the go girls
006bowling team. Uh the team was KAC champions and district qualifiers. Riley Ryan first team all all KMAC and then all KAC tournament. Pink Payne, KAC bowler of the year, KAC all tournament. Uh Kristen Cobb, first team all KMAC, KAC all academic. Maddie Bartlett, second team all KMAC and all KAC tournament. And then into wrestling, Trent Rook, second team all KMAC. Devin Whit, honorable mention, all KMAC and district qualifier. And John Burns, KAC, all academic. So our students, you know, just continue to thrive outside of the classroom and participating in extracurriculars, which is obviously such a important piece to their education and life skills. Can I add can I add a couple cool things on that? So, uh, Cali Carpenter all-time leading scorer. She became the all-time leading score. Um, Jordan Moore, I believe he finished
007sixth. He's a state qualifier. He finished sixth. I think that's the highest any Boy has ever placed. I think Hannibal got second or third. Awesome. Years ago, which I thought was kind of cool. Um, and then Trent Rook got his 100th win right down the stretch. So, um, thanks for going through all those. I just those three things kind of came to mind. So, I was like, I'll mention I mean, those were some pretty cool accomplishments this winter. So, yep. Okay. Do we need a motion to approve then all of the special accommodations? So, move. Second. Mr. Bman, yes. Mr. Ner, yes. Mr. F. Yes. Mrs. Lindman. Yes. Mrs. Winger. Yes. Okay. Number seven, treasures report and then into the treasur's consent agenda. Okay. Uh revenues did exceed expenditures during the month of March by
008near 700,000 that was due to property tax allocation. Um we had just a few large expenditures of the month. One of the big ones if um was the was ABS money systems are our little check sealer machine that we had probably for a good 20 years finally took its last breath and we had to order a new one. That was um right around 7,000, but it was yeah, it made a horrible noise and checks all kinds of checks got stuck in it. So, it was very much needed, but we did order that. And um then other ones are special ed services and then our normal food services and then we did order curriculum for school social studies. Uh I did give you a glimpse of state aid. State aid so far is down 293,000 from
009March last year to this year. So FY25 we have received to date 5.3 million. Last year we've received 5.6 million. So um state aid due to a decrease in enrollment that is the amount so far that we are receiving less from the state. Um and then I also gave you some comparisons between substitute teachers, substitute aids and overtime what we have spent the last three years. Um two years ago 2022 versus this year 2024 we spent 77,000 in subteers. This year we've spent 92,000 and that is as of um the current most current pay date was through the middle of February because our pay dates are running a lag and overtime was 29,000 compared to 40,000. So there's a big difference between there between the overtime from a year ago and that was the end
010of COVID to current. Um, and then the other one that I just wanted, this is just field trips for bus cost only. Uh, two years ago we were at 7,000. Now we're at 10. And that is just um that is not part of athletics. This is just field trips only that we have spent the 10,000 for. And that's the cost of transportation. Those are the highlights. Now, I do have I want to continue with um Seedwick for our TPA for workers compensation. The increase from last year to this year is only $5. So, I would like to continue with them to our workers comp. And then I do have some modifications or amendments to certain funds. uh the 08 which is the principal's fund uh I have for revenue and expenditures increase in both same
011way with student manage which is all of your class advisors so it would be your um NHS your senior class your junior class those are all fundraisers that we are brought in same way with the drama and musicals and then your district manage which is your athletics and then we did receive a bump in one grant. Uh it's the one net. It is used to offset some of our internet costs for meta and that was increased by $573. And that is all that I have. Okay. So I'll entertain a motion to approve the um treasures consent agenda. Then we can do discussion. So move. Second. Okay. Any questions or discussion from board members? I just um I don't know if you have your whole packet there that you sent. So um really I was just
012kind of every month I try to maybe look at a different report. It's a lot to take it all in. But I was just kind of looking at the um comparison FY25 to 24 and just anticipated with where we're at then percentage, you know, received because we're kind of getting to that to the end end of the whatever. So, is there anything on that that stands out to you that was just like way off the mark one way or another from anticipated versus The big one for me was my state aid because they I had anticipated clo well over $7 million. Right now, it's not going to come in at 7 million. It's going to come in for close to the 6.8 to 6.7 million that we're going to get with state aid. And um
013as you can We received 100% of property taxes. So, I was I was close on that one. I estimated uh 5.2 million and it came in 50,000 60,000 higher. That one I was a little surprised about, but um because I get those numbers from the county auditor, but what threw us over was the delinquency. So that people paid their delinquency over the estimate. But the other one that shocked me was um in the other restricted we got money back from Medicaid reimbursement for two years prior. They go back and do audits and we received that 65,000 where it has other restricted aid the 65,000 that came in and we weren't expecting that much. We were expecting right around 20,000 and it came in at So those were the the main ones that kind of some
014of them were happy um anticipations. The other one what the state aid that one still concerns me. Yep. And then just for the good of the group I think we all know this but you know people are people don't pay their property taxes we don't get the money. Correct. Just FYI. So correct. So every year there what there's a line item for delinquency. Um delinquency has gone up when I first started here our delinquency was right around 3%. We're creeping to the 10% mark for delinquencies. So this as you can see the amount that we got extra for property tax says 60,000 those are for delinquencies 100%. So they people are starting to to get payments in is just coming in slower as times are harder. How about that? DPIA. You speak to that just
015a little a little bit. Yes, that pretty please. DPIA. Um it used to be called economic disadvantage. So that is based on the number of free and reduced lunch that we receive. Uh it was anticipated again that our numbers would be closer to the 30% mark. That's the reason that it's I have $70,000 budgeted for that and right now we're not even clo Well, we're a little bit close but to me it's not close enough to that 70. We're at the $40,000 mark. So we're not going to reach that 70,000 right now. Our free and reduced lunch we're right at like 27%. So that the the lower that number is the less money we get. So that means that poverty level in our district has decreased, but and that also goes hand in hand with
016the number of students that we serve as well, right? Number of students go down and if you don't turn in that free and reduced lunch, that does count towards everything that we do. Those papers, I know um some families may not want to fill them out. Even if you don't qualify, it does help. It does help that count. Yep. for the DPIA because we solely rely on that paperwork to determine that number. Correct. And that number also helps the food service fund itself, the O6 fund, right? Because that is a self-sustaining fund. So those forms also generate revenue for the food service fund. Right. So, it's not like they're the state's pulling that data from somewhere else like you're No, they pull the data from from us from what we what we submit. Okay. Yep.
017Any other questions on this one? No, that was just report of the month for me at least. So I can ask a question about the the overtime that you sure is that is the increase there mostly due to like decrease in staff or is it increased workload or is it like a combination? It's a little bit of a combination um with a lot of absences the some other staff maybe picking up what the other staff wasn't there to help with. We had quite a few events too. That adds to that as well. Correct. A little different than previous three, four winners. I wasn't I wasn't anticipating that high a number for overtime. Thank you. You're welcome. Anybody else questions? Okay, I think we're ready for roll on the treasures consent agenda. Mr. F. Yes. Mrs.
018Wer. Yes, Mr. Gman. Yes, Mrs. London. Yes, Mr. Nier. Yes. Thank you. Okay. Nine and 10. Superintendent report and then consent agenda. Okay. Thank you, Mrs. Lindamman. Good evening everyone. Welcome to the April board meeting. Uh as far as superintendent report, just wanted to uh as we discussed a little bit last month in March there, I wanted to bring to your attention or at least you have in front of you a hard copy uh of the draft. We think this is about the final draft of the quality profile. Um we would like to get that in mailboxes here within the next three to four weeks if we possibly can. So as you're looking through that, if anything catches your eye there as far as wait a second, this may not this doesn't look right to
019me or yes, this is good or what about this, please let me know um of that. But just take a look through that one. And again, we want to get that out. The other thing too that we talked about last month was a communication survey. I have a hard copy uh pretty much a final draft there too of that survey. So our intentions would be to include a QR QR code when we do send out the quality profile and then also push out this survey through social media as well district website and various other forms. So um just to get some feedback there um as you can see with the questioning there as far as our various communication methods or strategies and communication plans. So, um wanted to get this in front of you and
020then I will share um some of this my intentions are to share some of this with the staff uh during afterwards tomorrow as well possibly to get their feedback and then set it up that way. Okay. So, just wanted to bring that to you. Um circle back on that because of last last month talking about it. One other thing uh that wanted to bring to your attention here too as we start to look ahead to what's five weeks away to the 20 2025 commencement um which is scheduled for Friday May 16th 700 p.m. Uh we've been meeting uh with the administration and had several discussions and just wanted to at least put this out here first so everyone knows that I've determined that we will be holding graduation ceremonies uh indoors instead of at the
021stadium. This is our intent to ensure a comfortable and safe experience for everyone all attendees. Uh this decision accounts for as you know unpredictable weather conditions including potential rain, wind or extreme temperatures which obviously can disrupt that event. An in indoor venue as we know provides a more controlled environment ensuring the ceremony proceeds smoothly for graduates, families and all guests. So just wanted to announce that here and then begin to push that out, communicate it. Um especially as Brian and Mrs. Grim more and more discussions with our senior students and families here because it's it's coming quick. Uh as you know, Mr. Shoemaker was unable to be here this evening, but he did want me to share something with you and just bring this to your attention. Uh it was also in the board update.
022I don't know if you picked up on it, but they've been having some they being the high school staff, they have a grading committee who have put together some recommendations there on their grading system. Been taking a hard look really at that. um they have some observations there for you. But just uh if you would if you have a chance again give me more homework here, but take a look at that. Give us some feedback as well on that. But you will see what teachers were involved in that committee. But that's some ongoing work that's that's occurring. It's good work. But he did want me to at least bring that to your attention here this evening as he is unable to be here. So that kind of takes care of his report if you will
023for tonight. Uh so that would be the superintendent report. If we could we'll move on to the consent agenda. Quite a few items here for this evening. One on the top of the agenda there would be to change the regular the May regular board meeting from Tuesday May 13th to Monday May 12th. would be due really a significant spring event with our KMAC track and field that evening on on Tuesday. So we would like to move that to Monday same time 5:30. Um items B, C, D, and E as well as F include several resignations as you can see there. high school social studies, Raquel Rivas, a second grade teacher, Alexis Curry, Cassie Hull, third grade teacher, and Lily Tate, middle school science. Uh, all uh, resignations effective at the end of this school year.
024Also, then item F is a one-year unpaid parental leave of absence for Mrs. Rachel Erit. Moving on down, uh, we would have the second reading or the final reading of the ELA curriculum as was presented last week by Mrs. Reynolds. And then item H would be, as Heather referenced there, the to renew the middle school social studies curriculum with HM as well. Item J would be meta services solutions for 2526 and that would have the master service agreement of schedule one services which you can see there and then also a master ser service agreement of schedule two which you can see the offerings that they would have we have listed there and that also includes emis coordination at 24,000 for the year. So, this is an annual uh contract that we do approve, bring to
025the board annually. Item K includes uh two change orders with the bus garage construction and those would be in the amounts of 5,500 and 19,855. The first one would be for to really to bury a down spout gutter or a gutter down spout uh that was draining out actually exposed onto pavement and we needed to be able and get that underground because that was right at the right at the main door where you walk into the bus garage. The other one would the the bigger one the larger one there for 19,000 was the under under the bus garage is a sewage line that was damaged. have been touched for probably since 1969 if you will and we had to replace that um as well. So those are what those change orders are for. Item L,
026this is as last year a a proposal there for a two-hour delayed schedule for testing for the high school to administer the state in course exams and you can see the dates there. So only students that would not be taking exam would be able to participate in that uh on those respective days. Quite a few contracts here on item N. You can see our one-year contracts, two-year contracts, three or four year and then extended service days. That would be the same there for our classified staff with two-year contracts, continuing contract extended service days, and then also retiree hire of Larry Hazen, part-time custodian who takes care of administration offices here in the evening, and Vicky Nelson, bus driver. also with the OLA policies, final reading or second reading of those as presented and then science
027of reading professional development reimbursement and a large group of chaperones, if you will, our classroom field trip volunteers to finish out the 2425 school year favoring pending favorable background checks. Item Q would be supplemental contracts or um high school assistant voice track and then also track volunteer. And then item R would be with supplementals. And this would be for the board to declare its intent to nonrenew all one-year supplemental and pupil activity contracts effective at the conclusion of the this year, the 2425 academic year. And number 11 would be to be voted on separately. Would be a teacher contract, four-year contract for Mrs. Stacy B. Okay. So, let me flip back two pages. would entertain a motion to approve the superintendent's consent agenda through well that would be number 10 and then we'll vote on
02811. So let's do a motion and then we can have discussion if needed. So move second. Okay. Any questions discussion? So is everybody good on R? So that's we do that every year, but we typically put all the we type out every single coach and put them in there. Whereas this just is a little cleaner just to do that instead of listing every every coach. Yeah. So you just do that one time in the spring every year because you got to do it anyway. Phone calls to people. I know. The first time I sat on they'll still get the letter. You just got to give him a heads up. Yeah. You're getting rid of your Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We talked about that in the meeting like that was one thing we learned like make
029sure you let your first year coaches know that they're getting that little heads up. So they got a heads up. Yeah. Yeah. Thanks for calling that out. Yeah. Yeah. Anything else? Anybody on there? I'm waiting for Paul. He's got the eyebrows. Just making sure. I mean, I'm sad about our resignation, so I'll say that. Yes. Yep. It's a tough week last week to be honest. Okay. So, it sounds like we're ready. Yep. Mr. Navier. Yes. Mr. Bowman? Yes. Mr. F? Yes. Mrs. Lindman? Yes. Mrs. Winger? Yes. Okay. in a motion um for number 11 item A. So move second Mr. Folk. Yes. Mr. Napier. Yes. Mr. Bowman Stain. Mrs. Lman. Yes. Mrs. Winger. Yes. Okay. Moving into number 12, committee reports. I know this is going to be repetitive when I say it every month,
030but a good opportunity to share with each other um ways that we're connecting in the community and meetings that we're at that um information either we receive are able to um give you report out um is a good way to connect. So it starts out with me with the career center um attended the meeting on March 13th. Um just a I mean honestly just kind of a routine uh meeting. Um I'm going to just say Frederick Town is there pretty cons Jordan can attest to this. They're pretty consistently unless for some reason I've got a conflict with another meeting. But um just really appreciate that partnership and um you know Kathy and the board are always very willing to allow me to share and I never decline an opportunity to share about what's going on
031here in Fredericktown. So, um, as much as I get to take from that meeting, I get to also share, you know, the great things that are going on on here. So, um, really again was a lot of routine stuff. They're, you know, planning for next year while also trying to finish strong, um, and, you know, really celebrate, you know, what's going on the end of the school year. Um, I mentioned it the last month, but I'll mention it again. there there is a BPA Orlando trip coming up and we've got quite a representation from not only you know our school but the county and this is a really good opportunity for kids um to get to first of all you know get out of the state um and go and be able to compete. So
032just congratulations to all the students there. Um, moving into FCDF, um, we're continuing to work with, um, a company called Edge, um, on the planters that will be downtown that kind of are going to enhance the streetscape. Um, spring and summer banners are up and military banners are going to be added here early May. looking forward to. Those have actually been hanging in our um up in the mezzanine in the gym since um Veterans Day last year. So glad that those have not been in a closet anywhere. They're either, you know, I think um Mr. Shoemaker and I have talked a little bit and they'll probably either be on a pole or, you know, in our school, which is pretty great to be able to honor um those folks and their families in that way.
033Um Emily, who's our downtown experience coordinator that works for ADF that works um works with the different municipalities um is most likely going to be on maternity leave here pretty soon. So she'll be she's wrapping up and actively working on the website platform and kind of enhancing that. We do have the quilters market coming up this coming Saturday. Um, and just want to shout out to our different organizations within the school as well as some local 4 clubs um that are helping uh with uh the quilters carrying in and out um their stuff. So, just a great way to get again people involved in and helping out each other. That is held here at the school down in the commons. So, um another great way to get our community into the into our schools. the
034April 19th, the following Saturday is Spring Fling. Um, Brick House typically sponsors that and spearheads that. Um, you pick up a a little scavenger map and go around to the different businesses to get your birdhouse piece and then go back up and build it there and paint it and do all of that. So, like, why does that all matter when it's FCDF, which is really focused on economic development? Um, you know, that's bringing people into town. It's bringing people in um to businesses. um which those of us that are business owners uh appreciate that. So that's kind of the purpose of all these events and um just ways again to get our our community, you know, together. Um we are doing a walk this Friday with um ADF to kind of look at I don't
035know if you guys have noticed, but there's been some for sale signs and some businesses and some open storefronts. So, um, looking at maybe an approach that's a little bit more instead of waiting for the magic person to drive through town and see for rent and write down the number and call, like what what's open? What's the space look like? What businesses do we want here? What do we need? So, um, there's a few of us getting together, um, Andy Fox, Terry Diverus, and then some folks from ADF, and we're just going to literally walk the streets and kind of just map it out. And, um, maybe that's something that we'll even um, most likely on the website um that'll be able to kind of a broader reach um to some folks that might be
036interested in having their business and plus doesn't it feel great if somebody gives you a call and says hey bring your business to Frederick town instead of them having to seek us out. So those are some things that are going on with um FCBF and I think I'll pass it on down to Mr. Alman. We covered a lot in our last meeting. Um this past the meeting before the uh this past one um the last one we had it was our spring break. I was on a little mini vacation so was not able to attend but like I said we we covered quite a bit at the last one. So um we'll have more at the next one. Okay. Okay, let's see if I can not skip anybody that Oh, yes. Don and Paul, Mr.
037F, Mr. Napier, um, we uh did not fall on March. March Well, there's been nothing going on in legislation, so I'm just kidding. Shel, you are up, my dear. Well, there's been a lot going on, but I'm honestly not going to report on all of it tonight. Um, try to give you the abbreviated version, if there is such thing. Um but yeah, so all the focus obviously has been on House Bill 96 still, which is the big banium budget bill. Um the House has mostly been engaged in uh just hearings over the last month. Um just taking in all kinds of testimony. Um a lot of it's been on the education part of the bill. I think, you know, obviously some of the other pieces um too have been um receiving some hearings and testimony.
038Also, uh last week um the House made over 2,000 amendments to the Ohio House Bill 96. So, I thought I would go through those one. Yeah. Okay, perfect. Brentton, you got that plugged in? Okay, just checking. Uh Just kidding. Um I thought it might probably just be a better use of all of our time if I just told you that um you know even though there were 2,000 amendments, um those amendments did not significantly change how that bill affects our district. So um that's largely due to the fact that the guarantee reductions remain uh the calculation inputs remain fixed. Um, so that coupled with our decline in enrollment, um, means that we're more or less right where we were prior to all the amendments. So, if you have anything to add to that, please please
039do. But, um, just Yeah, there's again, okay, there's a lot to it. So, um, so it does sound like with all that, uh, the House is still thinking that they're going to wrap this up and vote this out of the house tomorrow, I think, is the goal, right? Yes. April 9th. So, um, after that, I think the, uh, intent is that they're going to adjourn for a couple of weeks and then um, when they come back into session, the bill will get kicked over to the Senate um, for their consideration. I There's already a few Senate bills that have been circulating that are probably going to get incorporated then into House Bill 96. I'm sure they'll have their own, you know, list of amendments. Maybe not 2000. Maybe maybe um it's a huge bill. So,
040there's just still a lot to accomplish. Still very, very difficult to pin down exactly what this bill is going to look like um by the time it's finally complete. Uh which has, you know, to be completed by July 9th or not July 9th, July. I don't know. Yeah. Why is it but anyways um so uh you know with that said it's just it's really important for us to continue you know to follow its progress um to continue to um you know remain in communication with our legislatures uh or yeah um I just I did want to give a big thank you to every everyone that has already reached out to um our representation. Um I know that that takes some diligence and some time um and it doesn't always feel like, you know, it has
041an effect, but I think it's important to do that and I know that people have been doing that. Um and I think that that has made a difference. So just encourage anyone um that wants to to continue doing that. Um, and then also just a big thank you to our superintendent, our treasurer, our board president for all the time and effort you guys have been um, dedicating to this, to just following it along to analyzing, reanalyzing, communicating with us and our district and our community about what the potential um, effects could be. Um, thank you just for, you know, always having our students and staff and our families, um, you know, at the center of what you do. I know that this has, you know, added a lot to your plate and um, it's just
042been very appreciated. So, thanks. Yeah, it's 2001. 2000 2001 I don't know probably one that's it for me this week okay we're moving into finance we have a meeting next month May um it'll be well when we have agenda pre anything gone to add to thatcept that we're meeting in May. Nope. Okay. No, I was going to comment about the state. Let everybody know, even though the state's not concerned about school finances, they are looking into a 6 $600 million building a new stadium for the Cleveland Browns in Brook Park. So, that was just something I just read today or yesterday. It's they're considering. So, your sports covered going to help those billionaires out. And there's a lot of money that could have been used for us. I know it's still up in the air
043though. That's not again concluded. But that's you want it right. There's another thing to complain about. That's a lot of money to go to a private company and that is a hot topic. For sure. Yep. A lot of them pushing that up in that area. So, moving into um board member reports. I've got a couple things just to add, but anybody else want to anyone else have anything first? Okay. I just want to piggyback off a little bit of what Shelley um shared. I was able to attend the March 18th um legislative conference and to be honest with you, and I have it on my laptop, a nice printed out summary. Um, but so much has changed from the 18th till today that I mean quite honestly a lot of it I don't want to
044say doesn't apply but doesn't really apply because they have you know we're at the substitute bill and actually today I think at 2 o'clock with a 19 to 10 vote um the ominous ominous yeah that passed um so they'll they'll be back in session um tomorrow there is a webinar on April 22nd that we can register for and sometimes even just by registering then you get the recording which we all have access to the recording regardless but um I think there'll be an update from all of our associations. So I guess you know I guess what I'd like to add to all of that is that I appreciate that our district um does you know allow us to participate and pays for us to be a part of the the OSBA in times like this
045when we get are able to get information from them and their they're advocating, you know, for us. Just appreciate, you know, having access. Um there's a lot to learn. The Ohio channel is I mean, obviously, you can watch all of these um witnesses and testimonies, you know, depending on what kind of learner you are. Um I learn that way. It's like nice to listen. Um so there is that's available. It's very interesting. Um I think that there's you know that the budget is the whole state budget. So an education is a sliver, but it's like I think 3% of the budget. So it is a big and you know public schools are educating 89.5% of our youth. Um so we have a large responsibility um with that. So um dollars are obviously you know tied
046to that and I think it's going it I mean it continues to be a battle that's for sure. So we'll see how it how it shakes out. Um but Shelley already mentioned this, but just appreciate you know even boards that came before us um that have traditionally this district has been very conservative and equitable in how we educate and so it puts us in a position um will it impact us? Yeah, of course it it will. I mean, right now it's impacting us with head space and time that is being spent on it. Um, when we would really love our administrators and superintendent particularly to be able to focus on our kids and our teachers and etc. But anyways, in the meantime, um, do feel comfort and that we have some experts here sitting to
047my left um that have been doing this a long time and are um, really good at their jobs. So, we're fortunate to and they're, you know, kept up to speed and wannabe and um so appreciate what you do um for sure. So, uh what else did I have on here? Did have the opportunity to judge the science fair. So, a shout out to um the sixth graders. Um it was great to um have them have to have some conversation, which they all did a great job. I mean, they may have I don't know if they were nervous or not, but I don't think it felt like that. I thought they did a great job. I loved how it, you know, there was those of us that were adults and then they had students um buddied
048up with us, you know, that were high school students. So, that was pretty cool for them to get to interact um as well. So, it was a really enjoyable um day and I think they learned a lot of things about science, but probably even more so just about how to control those nerves when you've got an adult coming up asking you some questions and stuff. But they did a really a really nice job with their the science fair. And I think that's I want to thank Teresa for the invitation. I had a ball reading to the kids. That was so much fun. Oh, yeah. I know Christine and I were both there, but I had a ball. Thank you for the invitation. Yeah. And Mr. Folk showed up with a goofy hat. I did not.
049Right. With a goofy hat. So, guess who all the kids loved? Yeah. The kids the kids definitely enjoyed him probably more than than me. But you do forget what it is to like re, you know, read a I don't say like a bedtime story because it wasn't bedtime, but my kids getting too old for that. Okay, I think we're moving on to administrative reports at the elementary. We're um getting ready for our state testing. It started this week and we'll continue for several weeks as we work through ELA and math and science for fifth grade. Um all of our staff have been working to get our students prepared for that. We started the first and it's carrying on through now. And then um May 7th is our night at the museum evening where student work
050will be on display for families to come and um peruse and enjoy. And that same day we're having our fifth grade band concert and that will the fifth grade band concert will start at 4:30. Be a short performance but the night at the museum will go from 4 to 6 with concert in the middle and Katie D um is going to do a world druming drum circle and have families that are interested sign up to participate in that and they'll be performing in our outdoor learning lab. And our outdoor learning lab hopefully if the rain stops we'll um get some rejuvenation and some things before kids um leave for a summer break. Awesome. Thank you. You guys over there? Rock, paper, scissoring again. Mr. Brown, Mr. Caputo. All right. Um, at the middle school really
051right before we went on break. We had a lot of things happen. So, just want to thank some people as through that. Um, had some excellent band choir concerts right before break. Um, so you know, thank Katie Dur, Andrew Holland, Jess Overhold for all the work they did. And then the kids, some of the middle school students, they had their solo and ensemble last Saturday did really well there as well. So all their hard work and practice definitely is is showing uh what they do in their classrooms. Uh, thank Ben Mcclelay for, you know, he stepped up and took on academic challenge last year. The kid fifth, well, now it's 5 through eight. Um right before break they went and competed in Ohio again. Um did a did a good job. Again we have a
052decent amount of kids that are interested in joining that. Um like Christine said science fair thanks to you know Miss Neb for u being willing to bring that back when we brought it up. Uh for especially she did a great job but especially for the first time bringing it back and doing that. Um, thanks to the judges for sacrificing their time to come in. Uh, and like you said, it was really more it's about science, but I think they learn more about the social interaction, talking, shaking hands, eye contact. Um, and they were definitely definitely nervous when when they went in there, but they did a really good job. Uh, then that same day, uh, that night, uh, we had some parent teacher conferences still that night, but we did the science night. Um, so
053thank you Stacy Meyers really helped organize that. Um, had the pass foundation. Uh, we borrowed some stuff from them like a drone, digital microscopes, things like that. Uh, and thanks to all the teachers for, you know, sitting at the different stations. Uh, I think the families that were able to come check out science fair and that had a good time. Uh, so that's something we're going to kind of look at. What can we how can we tweak that a little bit uh, next year? maybe pick a better date that's not right before uh spring break where people are wanting to, you know, get out of there. Uh so, you know, working on that for next year. So, you know, thanks to all the staff that helped uh clean up and get that set up. Uh
054and really, like Gina said, gearing up for state testing. Uh we'll start picking away out of here the end of this week, but then the next week ELA is the the big days there. Uh, and I'll send this in to you guys later, dates, but um, fine arts night, uh, I I don't know all the details of that yet, but April 29th, I got to get some more information from them, but there'll be some artwork, some music, um, for, you know, people to come in, check out. Um, have another middle school dance May 2nd. If you're free, come on down. Uh, chap. Is that the theme? Come on down. It's a good time. Uh, and then do you guys know where May 7th through the 9th will be in Washington DC. So looking forward to
055that. Any questions for the middle school? Um, we've been busy in student services with a lot of different things, but some of the things we've been working on is looking at contracts for next school year. Um, I've been trying to reach out to some folks. All of our contracts basically deal with staffing. A couple in particular reaching out to some folks for our speech therapy services. Couple different organizations I'm trying to get to work with there. We also have some specialized ones some for students with visual impairments. I've been looking for uh a new vendor for them because our current vendor mid Ohio does not have the service available to us there. Um but um there's about six different vendors plus that I'm looking at to try to make sure we got services in place
056for kids. The important piece about some of this is is as we're looking at efficiencies is I'll give just the speech piece for an example. We don't we can't find speech therapists on our own. They're not out there. They're not around. So um we're kind of at the mercy of trying to see who we can contract services with. But we can do better how practices and two years ago 2022 23 we were serving approximately about 87 kids which really is getting close to way more than one speech therapist. Uh we put some things into p practice in 2023 24 school year and started making sure we're a little bit more efficient do some things differently implement some best practices and we got down to about approximately 45 kids which is much doable. Um, right now
057we're having 1.1 uh FTE of speech therapy services, which is going to be perfect for us because we're able to do some preventative things and provide the services that we need to to keep kids and our case loads at a manageable amount. This year, um, we do have a few more evaluations coming due, but we're for the 2425 school year, we have about approximately 38 kids that will be serving with direct services. Okay, that's direct services for that. So, that's uh what's what we're putting in place is working and that's good. Um, students who receive accommodations, both of them mentioned that we're starting testing. It's kind of a a race for us when we have the kids that have accommodations because some of those are smaller group different type of setting for administering this test.
058So that started last Friday for students with accommodations. Parent teacher conferences were very interesting. I think we didn't mention that but that was a very extremely valuable time. I was able to really uh work with teams across the district to work with families to make sure we're getting things set up for kids to finish off the school year and even implement their next school year. So, I was really happy to be able to work with all three principles behind the scenes, so to speak, with during parent teacher conferences. It was quite a busy time. Christine, you brought up really about community connections and I think that is really also a very important thing. Um, I did have the opportunity to go and attend the Knox TV annual lunchon. They were able to kind of reconnect
059and make some really good connections. uh rekindle some relationships I should say with other agencies. Um two of which that I'm going to set an invitation to to come out and meet with all of our folks in guidance so that they can understand and know what services those agencies provide and u be able to work better with them to help support our kids which is one of our goals that we kind of set up in student services with the guidance area at the beginning of the year. So it's been a busy time we're going to keep on these last few weeks. I apologize for the late of my report, but if you have any questions that's in there, but I haven't answer. That's a huge jump from 87 to 38. Wow. I mean, in a
060good way, but I like the preventative piece of what that that's the piece that's taking that's helping to take care of the preventative piece. We have the point 2 helps out with evaluations and preventative in K1, two and three and the majority of that services is provided in K. So not to get on the soap box of it but you know another hot topic in the um governor's budget is early childhood education and child care in general. Um it just a lot of that you know it's quality. I mean, if kids are going to be in a child care setting that's outside of, you know, their parent being able to be home with them or whatever and what that looks like and the quality of that so that some of these things that can get
061identified and maybe addressed and looked at before they hit us um kind of that preventative slash early identification. At the end of the year, I'll bring like districtwide intervention data to MTSS data because that system is also working pretty well to where we are not referring kids for evaluations for special education because they're improving and they're not needing to be referred. So that's exactly what that's supposed to be doing. Those efforts really need to focus. I agree with you there. I do want to mention though what I'm sharing here is not I didn't share any data from our preschool right program. I just school age that birth to five is important piece of development and then we what happens when they land with us. Okay. Sorry. Let me get my Matt's paper off top of
062my paper here. Okay. Moving over the other side of the room. Mrs. Snider. Hi. Hello. Um well for April is probably one of the April May is the most intense stressful time for teachers due to testing and end. So we try to take some time to do member appreciation and press events. So we have something scheduled every week for our members to participate in. Last week we did the flower day which was 24 participants we had last year. And then this week um tomorrow is our sit stays event so all staff are invited to attend therapy dogs coming ice cream teachers can come in and make bags relaxing things to you know selfare so that's usually well attended and we have two hours so we appreciate administration not things on that night I know something
063for us so we appreciate that flexibility and then next week we're having a she's going to show us how she makes resin necklaces which Facebook page of the track coming to not quite sure what the last week of April will hold for us week and then as you know in the middle of negotiations. So we want to thank the board and administration for their time. We know it's long evenings quality time together. So we appreciate each other. I don't have much other than looking forward to Thursday night. We've gotten be my first go around. So, okay. All right. Well, thank you all. We are um to number 13 on our agenda for the evening, which is executive session. It's weird that it's still light outside like this time of year. We're getting more light over
064there. I have to say motion. uh need a motion to enter into executive session for the discussion of personnel and for the purpose of superintendent and treasure evaluations and there will be no action to follow after executive session. So moved. Second. Mer. Yes. Mer. Yes. Mr. Bowman. Yes. Yes. Yes.