001e e e all right so welcome to the Tuesday March 11th regular board meeting we can do a call to order please Mr bman here Mr ful pres Mrs lindman here Mr naor here Mrs Mrs Winger sorry here and then if we can also do roll on the adoption of the agenda so move second Mr naier yes Mr bman yes Mr P yes Mrs lindman yes Mrs Winger yes and item number four the approval of the minutes um for the special board meeting that was held on February 11th so moved second Mrs Winger yes Mr FK yes Mr Bellman yes Mrs lindman yes Mr naier yes okay and number five public participation I believe we have one this evening Mr cochan you wantan to I'd like to thank the board for your vote the recognition
002my sister and a to our family and to me and as you remember when she went to Ohio State the Del K took her classes every day and Carri 91 steps third class you couldn't go became a part of her life while she was there so when this started working out I contacted a couple of guys man that did that for took care of her and they were so excited and this Focus do this some of L and so they were very excited about it and told me pres Iowa about this they are aware of the whole story also so very excited about thatp of been very successful in I very sucessful they know where you thank you okay item number six one of my favorites we have um a lot of special accommodations this
003evening and I have practiced reading these students names it's important to get those correct so um you'll have there on your agenda but I'm going to um take a minute and recognize um these students um as you all know this is a a part of their education that's important it gives us of them an opportunity to be a well-rounded um student so we have a lot of um things to recognize this evening so um soloist uh brilin O'Neal um these are through um they've received you'll see their excellent Superior Etc I'm going to read down through the names but you can see the um what they what they performed and what they received um Cassie fiser Patrick McAn Drew dumball Adeline McKinley Cassie Frasier Trinity amats Ryland conle Ruth Walsh under the ensembles Wyatt Payne
004Adeline mickley Leah hbert truth Yarman pink Payne Gracie Rees Dakota Fuller rice thank you Dakota Fuller Reagan green Ella Sheriff meline Bartlett Olivia Workman Madison shade Janelle d hly Hogle will Pletcher Patrick mcguan Wyatt P what is it mcck mcck mcgucken okay meline Bartlett Zachary Davidson Grady Mills Isabella Richie Madison shade Trinity amads Drew dunball Ross Hamilton Darren Hartley Joseph van sik siisy bch Jonathan Burns Olivia Harris Cara Fields Kelsey hes Tara Gregory Gabrielle Miller Elana kersner and they were in the select choir there um under the soprano Al Alto vocal Ensemble Eliana kersner sic barch and Olivia Harris uh flute Trio Izzy brorman Jenny Alexander Cassie fiser French horn pink Payne Aubrey Whitley Ella Sher Dominic holdren brillan O'Neal John dbus Rebecca busy Patrick M mcgucken Izzy bman Ella Flynn Cassie fiser Eliana kersner
005Olivia Harris Trinity AMS and pink Payne um just congratulations to all those students that are you know putting in that extra time and um taking time out of their weekend to compete and then um a motion to approve the following donations um once again our PTO continues to step up and had some donations to our elementary um cart and some games of indoor recess uh snacks for uh staff development day and kindergarten field trip deposit so we need a motion for those move second Mr bman yes Mr Napier yes Mr P yes Mrs lindman yes Mrs Winger yes all right moving into treasurers report okay uh revenues did exceed expenditures in the month of February this is due to um property tax advancement uh Revenue exceeded expenditures by 2.2 million this is approximate 500,000 low
006than fiscal 24 some of the large expenditures for February of we had um northern Buckeye for vo Services Universal Refrigeration those for the gas lines out where they did the repair Schmid security the village of Fred count for s project lead the way as of February 28th the district so far we've received almost 74% of all revenue and for uh we have expended 46 almost 47% of all expenditures compared to 2024 Revenue at this time was almost 93% of all revenue that received in expenditures were at 49% so both are a little bit lower than last year that is the basically everything for the month of February um the other item that I sent um part of my report and I placed the letter in front of you that is the letter that I sent
007off for my testimony for house B96 um I know sh want to go over some of it um I can join in with you do your legislative part if you would like um but I did I wanted you to see what I did send in um and get that in front of you and then Gary will also speak to that when he gets to his superintendent report I believe is going to share that out with staff as well that's all that I have okay so a motion to approve the February 25th financial report second Mr F yes Mrs Winger yes Mr bman yes Mrs lindman yes Mr Napier yes thank you okay number nine superintendent report okay good evening everyone welcome again beautiful March evening spr um I have a couple items just to share
008on first before we we um introduce u m Mrs Reynolds and the English language arts curriculum uh selection process um would like to share with you last night we had our uh spring parent advisory council meeting we had at least an attendance of 11 that attended there and as far as uh the discussions um and I know I've shared the agenda with you last week in the the board update but we went through Communications the strategy and approach um also then um solicited their feedback on the on a communication survey we and I think you saw that as well we just wanted to throw a survey there in front of them about 15 questions and get their feedback not only on the survey itself but on the survey questions themselves but also uh their feedback
009on should we be answering any type of of questions or asking any type of questions differ um and so we had some good discussion revolving around that around all of our communication mediums that we have we have quite a few what's effective what is not one interesting piece that came out of there um as all of them are receiving at least within the parent advisory Council they're all receiving the 43019 magazine but not all are receiving the Freddy scope which was interesting so we have to work on that as far as the district is Con concerned to make sure that our parents whether they live in the district or not are getting those Communications so that's just one example there of something that has already come out of that so if we can refine that
010survey we would again as we present the district quality profile which send we're working on that as well um we' like to share that out and survey later in the spring here our whole community and see what comes into that so awesome very good discussion really appreciate the parent advisory Council and their their feedback back on that and I'm very willing to share the other thing we spent the rest of the meeting on was the impact of State funding which obviously Heather is has talked about here and and the impact of the state funding and the budget Bill 96 that impact on Frederick Town schools and really my mine was delivering a lowcost high value education as far as how to present that um we focused on the um Freddy scope that will be coming
011out here we're hoping to have that mail boxes next week that we have some really good data and information in there on House Bill 96 and that impact specifically and also refer to the letter here that you all have in front of you um and really some really good discussion there um on all the ins and outs of it at this point as proposed and how that impacts Tre town so I want to thank Mrs Reynolds she was there taking copious notes last evening and we'll get those ready to go and hopefully share those out with you by the end of the week to to see that as well um but I just want to thank all those uh individuals that attended last evening um and thought I had one one other thing we also
012like we always do we look ahead and start talking about uh next school year um from Staffing to enrollment and different things like that and then um we'll be looking at scheduling another meeting probably after graduation at the end of May there bringing that group back together so overall a very positive meeting and again thank those members with that being said um if I can direct your attention to the superintendent's consent agenda to item F uh we have there a motion to approve the first reading to adopt the ELA curriculum into reading k6 version two through the hton hoton Mifflin harport company or that's hmh as presented and so what I would like to do is have Mrs re come on up here and present that selection process and even samples for is there a
013test there might be I do not know already F my it's and we very proud of our work quite honestly um this is short version of presentation so this was teachers in teacher teams they were um we live in a K2 world and a three five world and we don't mesh very well not that we don't love each other it's just that the focus of our work is still very different so my big goal is to get us all focused on the same work um we have a reading teacher a third grade teacher um she's representing the fifth grade team in the kall um I'd like to reference first that Ohio has a revised policy to raise literacy um I've worked all year last year learning policy and it was changed January 25 so the
014beginning of the publication starts with the root cause of low reading achievement Nationwide and they site that a lack of consistency across grade levels is one of the root causes and that was eye opening experience for us because we have been living near two hallways we might have been living our own great level we might have been living oh this is what works for me and I'm a good teacher and this what I'm going to do so my work for the last year and a half has been unifying us and I think we have come Leaps and Bounds so these are the things that we agreed that we would do we would choose a kpod Ela curriculum we would choose one that's on the list um this little paragraph is what I know and everybody
015else that's doing the work would believe in that you have to do the curriculum with Fidelity and integrity develop foundational skills language R academic vocabulary text complexity that you're demonstrating your comprehension through written text and we talk about that a lot at a district level it's not just Mrs re speak um the last thing is we all do work together at 15 teachers every grade level was represented every special ed entity all 3D teachers those so there were 15 not counting mrman and me that worked on the process then I had several others of teachers that were just interested and I would say I want them to try this so I had numerous classrooms that weren't in that 15 that were trying some of the new materials we chose and mostly this is J chose
016that we were going to investigate um to back up a little bit in 2021 22 school year the district purchased inte and integr is um a program that teaches bonic awareness so you'll see the kindergarteners go cat C that's comes from then foundations also used in kindergarten through third grade it's recommended Statewide by through second grade but we haven't been third grade and they've been doing it exactly as it's written to do and those are the things that got us um partial implementation when the state evaluated our Effectiveness and put us so that we had a category that we got um just going to thr maybe $30,000 I don't know if they really come our numbers will line up pretty well so amplify is a company and their program is K it stands for um
017comprehensive knowledge um and language and language arts and great minds produces Whitten wisdom great minds is a company that came out of engaged new yor a few years ago we use their math program H three um we use h& Ma program in so um the first two that I just talked about they were developed merely to align with all the criteria that me size of reading the scriptures um wonders and hmh are the other two programs we looked at wonders and hmh and stands for par raill um they took their standard reading programs and added to so that the biger was increased and that their foundational pieces are also included this is our so you see a reading teacher fourth grade teacher student teacher Jun not really in the world of this is a work
018you have to learn but it doesn't us to reach them this would be a kindergarten teacher and fth grade intervention specialist here you have all still so after our second session I just said are there some programs that you know you just really couldn't live with so the first two that were eliminated Wen wisdom Wen wisdom does a great job of developing knowledge they only have four units so for your whole year you're only going to talk about four topics when you're reading in most schools that I've investigated that are using it don't even get to the board so that means all of your reading instruction has been on three big topics and our teachers were like we can't do it okay no one's going to you do that um CA is also rigorous and
019it's a little more engaging they have many more units it's colorful but um some of the content is just not what F town is written for lots of neighboring schools are choosing one of those two programs so if you're hearing talk you just need to know that it really wasn't ready for us so this book is just a book that was part of the C program and it's a wonderful book it's a story of this girl who was um attacked by the tan when she was at school she was shot so it's wonderful resilience but this is a second grade book or C and the teacher that was using it said I am not going to talk about these topics with my second graders they are seven that's not appropriate when you're seven okay I've
020talked to the CK R since then and she says so we fully know and we're ramping I said well sister asked I do not have time for you to get it together so talk to me in a few years um so hmh and wonders were still in the running and at the end of the day everyone said we can do either one they're very much similar um they have just different tweaking features that made one more favor than the other and all of the discussing that we used was a RC that was by US Department of Education it required um two sets of papers to completed analysis of so many little subsets the rubric itself is like 15 pages long and each of the things that you're looking at you need to go back and
021justify why you gave it the score you gave it this is intensive work that we do and I couldn't even face it till the next day but I added up the so I really want to part love it so here you'll see our balloon drop and the kindergarten team can we the balloons here's the curriculum that we were going to reveal and this is a bag of confetti and the confetti was made from programs that we didn't get I handed those bags of confetti out to people that were on the team and said you tell why we didn't want to choose it was very so what we did choose I went to first grade cuz their box was sitting in the hallway I I would wanted to claim it it breaks my heart then I
022pulled piece out they had it there so everybody could use it it's already filled in with poits of something someone has tried they loved it and they did a TBT meeting about oh I tried this using some of our new materials and I love to it maybe you want to try it so this is first grade thing and this would happen after you did all of your regular teaching there's a whole lot of whole group we all going to do this on grade level we're going to learn the things that we have to know no matter what your grade level is you're always going to have some that didn't quite get it the first time so this is for I didn't quite get it the first time so this is um characters this is what
023you talk to your little group of probably four or less students on the back if you didn't get very well prepared here all of your teaching points that's fourth bag everything with the teaching manual that is huge and overwhelming everything you could possibly think of is in here and already somebody has obviously T something they lik because that is overwhelming this is the teacher version that's friendly so here is the story and here's what your kids are seeing and here are your little talking points if you're the teacher that's giving I love it love it love it now you stent have seen the same resource only here are their stories this is first grade still and most of the stories are stories that you would find in the library so you might have already read
024the book at home some of might have read it to you then you're taking it the next step so that you're doing some writing about your reading writing about your reading is very very very important first grade has a section where you can plan in pictures if you need before you try to use your words and um in my work down first grade hallway today one of the teachers said oh I use that at Danville and when we were done with the story at the end of the week we ripped it out I stapled it I sent it home teaching points that parents can do at home and your book is used these are5 a piece not very this is the writing piece we're asking for that to be an online purchase um you can't
025do anything without having online is just not possible so I'm only going to ask for the books that the kids use then these are all available teachers can print it or they can do it on their whiteboard their Smartboard um this is their foundational piece that I would recommend use for tier two would you like me to pass these down they have level books that are also online to use them if you want this is the fourth grade book so the fourth grade students have a little more space in their margin so we're doing this hard learning together everybody has to learn the hard learning underline this that's the important part now make some notes here as important love this is theth grade version of they also have their many lessons sales I'm doing a
026pretty good job oh was a snow day in my bedroom that doesn't sound good Jim thank you for all your work on that sharing this with so would you I'm serious you to we'll pass them out here pass them around you can leave them there Mr can pass them around it's all right but thank you for all your work with us your honly thrill there you go thanks so much okay superintend or I'm sorry superintendent's consent agenda we're ready for that I think we are okay that's a tough act to follow but I know it is you should go for it I volunte everything I know I volunte Katie came here in second grade and I volunteered in Mrs Reynolds class in third grade and she was all about business and some fun too so
027there you go anyways all you yep thank you all right on item a we have an annual rental agreement agreement approval with the senior activity center that would run from April 1 25 through March 31st of 26 that's at a monthly rent uh rental fee of $600 a month um ex also Item B is a motion to accept a bid from Hill International Trucks for the purchase of a one uh 71 passenger uh diesel bust uh that'll be a at a cost of 142,000 this bus will have the capacity to transport three handicap students as well so that is a handicap bus that is much needed for our district and for our Fleet there if you will item C is an affiliation agreement with Walden University for a nursing student to help out with Mrs
028Sheriff we have two us which would U be to approve a an additional supplemental position of halftime girls track coach at group four and then another one to approve the spring ban instrumental assistant at group six item f as we've shared before and then also item G is a speci approval approval of the special education model policies and procedures released by the high Ohio Department of Education and Workforce in December of 24 it does direct all staff in the district to use and comply with the model policies item H is another first reading of Neola volume 43 number two those would be updated um new and resented policies adjusted language there from both federal state and local policy motion to approve then item I is professional development for science of reading and then also we
029have a list of classroom volunteers for the 24 25 school year and item L is uh a motion to renew a 60 month cont contract with modern office methods for copy or lease and copy or printing services and then number 11 would be to be voted on separately is a supplemental volunteer for Middle School track and that would be for Katie Majors okay there's a lot there so I would entertain a motion to um approve number 10 a through all the way through L superintendent's consent so move second any other questions or just discussion yes Mr here I'm sorry um Mr Chapman I did not get this to you before um but looking at this the item D um the half girls track coach what I just I'm just curious is that because of the
030numbers it's a numbers thing okay and then um and we lost Kathy kble too right yeah we lost we lost Mrs y okay I mean she's still with us she is with the high school I'm sorry yes you're right she is still with us thank goodness absolutely and then Heather how's the is the are the reimbursements still coming in for they are they still are yep um we get it the second payment from the state of month so when payroll is done I submit it to do and then the second payment of the state aid it's on there okay yeah money yet not yet okay any other questions discussion hearing none mror yes Mr FK yes Mr bman yes Mrs lindman yes Mrs Winger yes okay and to be voted on separately um number 11
031item a we can do the roll on that or motion sorry so move second Mr Napier yes Mr Bowman yes Mr F yes Mrs lindan abstain Mrs linger yes okay moving into committee reports item or number 12 um just reminder we've mentioned this at previous board meetings um this year but this is a way that the board um is able to connect um with our community Through um several organizations um that we attend and are able to report back um to the board so looks like it's me here for the first couple and I've got notes a little bit everywhere so for the career center um attended their last board meeting and I'll be attending their board meeting this coming Thursday um they are in the full swing um of accepting kids into labs and
032prepping um to expand um into being able to accept 70 more students most of the board meeting um was spent you talking through those Logistics some presentation from admin to the board questions Etc um so I would say that was like like I said a large focus of their meeting um also wanted to mention that something that um the career center does does each year is the kids participate in the professionals oh wait what's it called here I wrote this down business Professionals of America BPA um and Frederick toown was well represented um actually Shelley and I both had the opportunity to judge at the school level and then kids moved on to the state so we had I'm just going to list them here um Jacob Spalding Luke Overholt Caroline uh I'm G to
033say that wrong again rice why do I mess that up every time I should know that Abby CR um Elizabeth schwarts and trooper and Elliot Anderson and I know her as Kaylee small um they all attended um today actually and competed at the state level um and we actually have three Freddy's that are moving on to Nationals and I'll be um heading to Orlando Elizabeth sworts and Trooper Trooper Elliot Anderson and Ken Small so that opportunity for them is pretty exciting um so yeah congratulations to them so that is my career center report uh moving into fcdf um we've actually had two meetings um since our last board meeting and most of that has been around um Sarah who used to be Archard who used to be the president of fcdf um is kind of
034stepping back a little bit um also she currently was serving as the marketing chair and stepping back from that as well she um spearheads you know a lot of the marketing stuff one of the big ones being the 43019 magazine so a lot of discussion about what that's going to look like who's going to take that over um so that's why there's been a couple and actually one meeting and then an additional meeting as well um the other thing that we're focusing on an fcdf is um the website so Emily Shipley um who is the downtown experience coordinator um is going to be revamping the website we've actually voted to use a different platform a little bit more user friendly um and maybe a little more updated and looking like we're in the year 2025
035so lots going on as always um with fcdf um those are kind of the M the main focuses um right now for that organization make sure I didn't miss anything oh one last thing with that um because I don't think I reported out the last month we did have our first um what I would call annual dinner um grateful that the um School allowed us to have it down in the The Commons was well attended and we were able to celebrate um some local small businesses including you know D list that was been in business for 50 years Etc so lots of good um going on there I think that's all I have on all my notes all over the place here Mr belman all right you are up all right work Dev meeting uh
036for business advisory Council we had that meeting on February 26th um we got four things here Ryan feel free to add anything to the first two points I've got here um you may have some of this information as well um Ohio Means Jobs uh May 6th they're going to have a career fair at omj they've got 17 employers so far there's information on their website uh but seniors are going to be busted in for that um they also have updated um virtual reality equipment uh that they've gotten that's been pretty popular there and then just to kind of get it on everybody's radar um October 1st uh they're having their career Quest at Mount Bon's energy Fieldhouse that is going to be for eth and 10th graders um again on a October 1st um so
037next year there uh and then the second one was Knox aspect that's going to run in April or May um and I assume Sean is connecting with Ryan on that um and they working through that um and giving those opportunities to the predic town students there um third is BHP gave a brief presentation of the of their services um they've got a mobile unit now um that they use for um employees as well um I've got information and contact information with me uh if anybody needs that um but they did a nice job uh with that presentation um and then ADF really just wanted to kind of relay they they talked about this at the end of the meeting but they meet with local state and federal officials regularly so if we have things on
038our plate that we want passed along um obviously we can do that ourselves but they wanted to reiterate that we can pass that information along to them and they will go to bat for us in those meetings and relay that information as well so thought that was a a good one to end on um with everything that we have going on and shelle's going to talk about some of those things in her report so thought that was that was pretty important to share so those are my four awesome thank you uh next up is policy I I didn't realize what an exciting committee this was Paul and I sat down with Gary to go over all these policies so I'm so glad I volunteered for it this year anyways we went through quite a bit
039you can see everything on item H there we went through my comment go ahead yeah like uh we met on uh February 18th uh myself and Mr Faulk and Mr Chapman in our uh policy rep uh quite a few things were deleted as you can see uh old language in that and most policy does come from just what um Mrs Winger's going to talk about actually once we get into legislation so that's where all this stuff comes from um we are it was a good meeting I've been on the I've been on the policy before and um this it was it's felt like it was much more concise this time and we moved right through everything and was really happy so awesome okay uh Finance we have not met I mean we met prior and
040I hate to keep passing it to Shelly but Mrs wer is going to be talking about probably a little bit of some Financial stuff through the oh I skipped you I'm sorry yeah I get to I'm sorry you get to go now and then I then I can just refer back to it are you sure I'm positive yes NOP keep going it's all you all right well yeah I um I actually have quite a bit here so um the general assembly has been extremely busy uh over the last month there's been um quite a few bills that have been introduced recently that have um potential uh education implications um most of those bills are just now starting to uh have like be introduced and to committees and have testimony and um all that so um
041there's not a lot yet to report on there but there's a couple that have gained a little bit R traction that I thought I might mention um first one is Senate Bill 66 and Heather you might have to help me with this one a little bit but uh this bill um proposes to uh kind of change how um the floor is uh calculated so I think right now it sounds like um inside melage and fixed rate levies are included in that rate but this bill is proposing to include additional fixed SU cor which would be emergencies are not included in any reduction but with this one those would be rolled back so they could go actually they could go below the floor yes with this new bill okay which would impact this District because all
042of our levies are emergency levies sorry I put there no you're fine negatively negatively impact us correct okay um and then the other one is Senate bill 62 there's a lot of focus on school buses and school bus safety right now um this one's called the school bus safety act um it aims to uh crack down on drivers who illegally pass um stop school buses that are loading or unloading passengers um it'll allow a civil penalty to be assessed and then the funds from uh that are generated from that is intended to support um schoolb safety technology initiatives so um so then shift and focus a little bit here um most of you know most of what everyone's been talking about recently is the state operating budget um at the last meeting I reported out
043on the governor's budget proposal and since then uh the Ohio house has compiled uh that budget proposal and the house bill 96 um hearings and public testimony began um for that on the 26th of February in the House Education committee um and are scheduled to continue and the house finance committee uh they are working on an accelerated budget timeline with a goal to vote this bill out of the house by April 9th um so House Bill 9 um a lot of it is funding which I'll get to you but um there are a few or several actually Provisions that are not directly budget related so I thought I would just highlight a few of those um there are quite a few reporting requirements uh being proposed for data regarding things such as Mathematics Curriculum um
044completion of the science of reading training uh and then vacancy reporting for teaching administrative bus driver like all kinds of uh positions within the district um there is also a proposal for uh cell phone policy adoption that would require now all districts to prohibit phone use during instructional hours um there are proposed changes in attendance requirements for students and then there's also AI policy adoption requirements so um all the fun stuff uh this is the uh funding um part of House Bill 96 um so as it as it is currently written uh it would require the completion of the phase in of the fair school funding plan so there's two more years left on that phase in um so I'll please like jump into you're good so far um it also is updated property and
045income data in that calculation but conversely um there are no updates to the input data um that is being used to compute the per pupil based cost in each diff District so that has been fixed um based on fiscal year 22 So based on pupil C per per pupil cost for fiscal year 22 and that would remain they flatlined it so there's no increase in state funding for per pupil cost so at that point the the cost is Shifting so it's going to be more reliable upon the taxpayer rather than state so by the end of 2027 the local taxpayer is going to be paying almost 80% of the per pupil cost and the state will be down to almost 20% of the per people cost and and the cost to educate a student of
046course will continue to increase but that per pupil amount is going to stay stagnant at right 8200 thank you you're welcome um it also reduces the funding guarantees uh to 95% in fiscal year 26 90% in fiscal year 27 um at the same time increasing funding for vouchers uh by $265 million um and it does again uh this focus on on school bus safety uh it does uh it does increase the minimum State share for transportation over the next two years um and requires uh or not requires but establishes uh school bus safety grants that can be used to help um update school buses with some of this safety technology um so House Bill 96 as it currently stands sign significant funding implications for public school districts across the state um there was an an
047analysis conducted by the Ohio education policy Institute uh that found that between 80 and 90% of school districts in the state would see a decrease in their state share funding for the next two fiscal years um so this is obviously something that we're talking a lot about as a group um and that we're following very closely um there's a state legislative conference that's being hosted by osba um on March 18th that's intended to help provide uh additional Clarity regarding the potential impacts of House Bill 96 on Educational Funding um I'm unable to attend that conference but Christine is attending uh on behalf of the board so just wanted to say thanks for that appreciate it and um I'm sure you'll have lots of good info to bring back so think uh if I can add
048on to that the state did give out simulations so the districts can go in and see uh basically how much we anticipate to lose or some some schools May gain money over the next planum our district unfortunately is going to lose funds over the starting next year and then more in 20127 um the simulations are based on the October ADM so of course we started the year at a higher number we started at 1127 we're currently at 113 those are funded students so the simulation that the state provided has us been almost like ative 580,000 when you actually calculate it out at if we stay at our 113 our deduction or our loss of Revenue is going to be close to 620,000 right off top so we will lose that money move from then moving
049forward but then it also pushes us onto the guarantee now the guarantee it states that we cannot go below what we got in 20 okay but and that's fantastic but as you said he's reducing some of that so they're taking that that amount of 20 reducing it by the 5% and then that next year they're reducing it another 10% so they're not taking the actual number from 20 they're taking that reduced number and then moving it Forward by that reduction so our guarantee is less than what the guarantee should be because of that reduction factor which then again is a little bit more than what the 620 is going to be it's just that and it's a really like a lot of talk about the imbalance of the formula because of the cost that it
050takes to educate a pupil is not being it's not the current of what it cost us to do it absolutely it's like not updating your budget at home on groceries and all the things it cost us almost little over 12,000 educated kids get an 8200 right there it's offset some right but with that reduction and then no base increase that's and my famous quote that I will say that he did was that he's not funding empty seats that that's um everywhere or just about every meeting I attend that's the one that they always stick out is he refuses to fund mtyc it's just um but then all the money then goes to the Charter and private schools so that's Public Schools I would just add that I mean I do think our associations are trying
051to do their best I mean like you can if you're really bored or can't sleep you want to jump on the Ohio Channel and listen to all the testimon AB Heather's done a great job with her written testimony but there is like hours of testimony where people are you know trying to Advocate yeah we would on the back of the letter too you contact our Representatives we would I encourage you to do that you can s make a phone call we have those numbers there to representative leer and then also um Andrew brener also send an email if you want to as well um just so you know Bo two Kno count super attend on Friday um we'll be meeting with representative leer and representative Mark heiner um for our monthly meeting so they've agreed
052to at least come in and and sit with us the county superintendent met today even uh in preparation and efforts to prepare for that so we are delivering a consistent message across the board so a lot of work out there and and a lot of conversations and advocating for public education in light of what's Happening this level the other thing too Heather and I have scheduled on March 18th as well to go down and see representative leer in her office down downtown Columbus so um going going there um and telling our story and I think that's the challenge right now is is being able to communicate the impact of it and tell our story um on that impact and how it's impacting our students and how we day to-day basis and our our ability to
053care for our kids and staff so um that's the message that that we want to just be able to get out there let people know yeah I think last thing I'll just add is school funding is really hard to communicate and really hard to understand and so I just encourage anybody that has questions to reach out to our experts I mean we will try to feeli those questions the best we can but it's that I think is the most challenging piece and kind of always has been is you know just how to communicate that in a way that's you know we can absorb it and understand it and so anyways thank you for thank you sh for all the due diligence on that any other I mean I know that this is really a dis
054a report out but anything else from anyone on thanks sh yeah thank you sh thank you heather also for putting this well Don I think we get out of Finance the aison I I think right but thank you I know and prob the way you through your math too thanks thanks [Music] mrul yes so we with the finance committee meets um quarterly and we have we met recently and haven't met again but we will um especially as this kind of comes down the pike and we get a little bit more clarity on where this is going to land I'm assuming yeah after they truly do vote in April I would like to meet then and then of course again in May before the forecast but yeah to see the actual impacts what it what it's
055going to do um to our school district yeah okay so under committee reports e any other board member report outs on anything the play was the clue was really fun exciting it was a good good three days a little biased my daughter was in it but um I've gone to those for years even before she was in it and like they just do such a good job it was it was very well done and great like it good good three nights so we had a good time yeah I'll just add was able to attend Beauty the Beast and we had a couple local actually somebody's grandson yes was cwell the yes got got to see the show and um so will was in it and then um one of the me boys Zaden I always
056have to go through all the Z there but yeah just love that our kids have that opportunity to do that so yeah and I will say I will add like the set like took took them a ton of time to put together and I don't think in all the years since 2012 that I've been here that that we've had a set yeah the stage crew I mean nailed it I mean they they were very busy I don't think I've ever had seen a stage crew have to be that busy for one of those well done they did they did an excellent job y so who was murdered night two and three CU I was only there night one oh it was you don't remember it yeah there yeah it was uh Miss Scarlet was first
057and then uh M peacock was Friday and then pretty much all of them but Mr Green on Saturday so good good too long to explain but it was pretty entertaining it's pretty entertaining awesome Darren nailed it was good good y good y um I just thought that I would mention that I uh I had the opportunity to sit in on the DT meeting this month uh it's the district leadership team so um I learned a lot um but what I really learned was that um we have a great group of leaders in our district um that care an awful lot about our kids and it was just a really positive meeting and it was it was really nice to be part of that so thanks they might ask you back after awesome okay letter F
058A for Adam I don't know I don't know I don't know um all right so at the Middle School uh the seventh eighth graders went to the BR County Fairgrounds I think it like two weeks ago at this point for the Junior Achievement Inspire event uh they had a good time uh had positive feedback from from the people that I talked to about it so the kids really enjoyed that got to see a lot of different career options uh hopefully they kind of thinking about that what they could do the future uh this week and next week I feel like there's something going on about every night um tomorrow night High School Middle School band concert uh Choir concerts Monday High School Middle School uh the next week parent teacher conferences on Tuesday then Thursday
059uh Middle School uh doing kind of a science sched parent night uh so if you want to come check out the sixth grade science gr projects those will be set up in the gym uh that evening from 4 to 6 you can come in check them out uh if anyone wants to judge during the day let me know I have some openings still uh for that um but it'll be should be a fun night uh the teachers are going to have different experiments for the kids and families to do uh when they come in so check out the science Spirit projects do some experiments have some fun uh when is that Adam that is next Thursday 4 to 6 when when's the high school junor high school acire Monday it's just Monday yeah what time
060I'm not sure but I know it's Monday usually it's at 6 it's on this Monday night though um talent show next Wednesday that's uh opened up to like everybody elementary through high school so that's the first time so I don't know so it should be fun um that's Wednesday night though um and the only other thing um State Testing wise on my end U started going over uh working with the principles uh to kind of get all the staff trained over the security plans do their their training uh then we'll start you know getting the kids organized and ready to go in April when we get back from ring any questions on the middle school or testing youall are going to DC too yeah that's like that's another that's April sorry spoiler spoiler I'm sorry
061oh other thing I would say with this testing the ACT Testing uh went very well uh so you know Ryan Matt helped out a ton on that uh Rael Reas and Brian Snider helped Proctor that and then Rene liar helped with with it as well so thanks all them for making it run run smoothly that thank you all right um yeah it's pretty drama CL mind I think you guys explained that pretty well it was performance stage crew did did really well can't believe many lines had to memorize that was a lot we heard a few of them uh I went to I had a chance to go to pltw conference in Carol Ohio last Wednesday with Jess web and Alissa Shriver we made a lot conts a lot of people we'll be reaching out
062to uh in the near future and just had a chance to sit on a few um they had different breakout sessions with the biomedical Pathways the engineering Pathways and just just getting ideas about what other schools are doing how how they're partnering with different people so uh that was that was useful I'm glad we were able to go to that um really right now we are we are in scheduling mode we're looking at looking at number sections just trying to try to get some ideas how we're do that Karen's going to go tomorrow um to run a a preliminary schedule just to kind of see where everything falls out and then um we have a nice we have a scheduling board now and Adam's office that we come back and uh get set up and
063and start really uh playing around see see how that's going to start working at um so that process is getting going and then our really the last thing I have um oh we have the majority of our CCP kids uh we're a little ahead of schedule we have the majority of the CCP kids are now registered and their applications are complete um we brought them in on that in L that parent teacher cont we brought uh CC in and then they came in again last week and we were able to get a lot more kids fin getting register and signed up so uh that's nice and then our Factor I'm just U update on that we are uh I think Cindy right now is looking at Cindy Stacy looking at getting some people from elementary
064to start developing curriculum next year to get at least the first part of the year uh laid out to where really everybody K12 is getting very similar lessons maybe differentiated maybe sometimes not but um get that ready to go for the first part of the year and then maybe we can work start working next year to get the second half of the year but I'd like to leave this school year with some curriculum in place for for those so that's questions I'm gonna follow right ran right on that r factor initiative and that culture blueprint um we'll be working with the high school with Cindy so that we have a program that's K through 12 and supports that but at the elementary we need a little bit more support to make that culture blueprint understandable
065for our students so um when we were talking is it Jen coordin trainer she had mentioned that Hax was a really good um system that supports that um and an opportunity came across my desk for free training um available for teachers or a school that was interested in implementing packs and luckily our um building was selected so Taxas and in a joint operation with Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus will um provide in-person training for um third up to 30 staff members um free of charge for us and they're going to do that in person um when I surveyed my staff to see how many people would be interested um out of the2 responded there were four who weren't but two were already trained so um we had over an 85% interest in that training and
066what even makes that more impressive is that when I asked would you be interested if it happened outside the school day outside the school year everyone who said they wanted a training said yes they would still be committed to that so we're looking forward to that I met with um Dr um samanta Buddha Pete um from Nationwide Children's Hospital and to participate in this as a principal there are just a few meetings that I need to attend and give feedback on tools with them and she goes but you will still get the funding even if you choose not to but I'm like I will participate in anything that helps get our um teachers um that support and for our students what is the uh what's the cost the average cost for the training and the
067training will be free and they'll Supply the PX kits for our teachers as well but the total would be about 600 a person so if we have 30 people participate $18,000 that great will save us from having to invest in that thank you for being at your desk I'm just kidding when it came across your desk you know what amber Perry got an email and she's like hey is this something we would be interested in and it's what we had been wunning and been so it's just everything fell into place it's awesome thank yes so I'm excited about that and then we'll be working with suy um Ashen Meer and our PBIS team to work on some of that curriculum piece so that Sol throughout our district um I'm excited about the tax but also
068I have other reasons to be excited it's read Across America week and our um read Across America committee has like by hands down um revamped and made it positively um enjoyable we went with a dog man theme um inspired theme so it's pets and dogs ired um every student is been will be given a book by the end of the week um through the Scholastic Book Fair that tra organizes and is able to get those books for our students and every classs um will have the opportunity to leave with our therapy dog and have cookies and sco snacks and juice boxes when get um there is a comic book or comic strip contest inspired by the work of Dave POI for his dog books that so many of our students love and Carolyn um Grim's
069honors class will be judging any submissions for our contest so that's all felt together very nicely thanks to our lead Across America committee um and then um our fifth grade um team will be at academic Challenge on Thursday and um I went to a career and stem teacher workshop at Ontario that was hosted by LJ create and Bucky Educational Systems so we got to see Ontario school um their middle school steam lab and their High School um Career Tech in um engineering and Manufacturing lab so really enjoyed getting to see that and hearing what other districts are doing because I know we're working on that initiative K or 12 down to love it love the collaboration Mr yeah a few things just I'd like to share with everyone tonight um we did have our our
070profession of development day for our our intervention Specialists across the district it was a great opportunity to slow down with folks and just be able to answer questions I was deciding whether to have this my first year in this role and decided yeah I do want to get with everybody to begin with just because I've been noticing a lot of things that we needed to make sure we were on the same page about I provided some of the PD regarding some of the nuts and pie needed to be kind of tweaked and changed as we're moving forward but I was really always also happy U Molly Ryan our school psychologist was there to be able to present as well and kind of made that connection between the evaluation she completes and then that document that
071we to follow to help support our kids with special needs Megan our speech therapist uh we couldn't find our spe therapist but we were really I was really got lucky contct service with her she's done a phenomenal job she's excellent at what she does she did some great presentations to give real life tools to teachers so that they could take that day and go and work with them in the classroom regarding how kids think about the way they think I won't get into a lot of details about it she used a lot of big words that we had to look up that day okay so but really had nothing to do with anything that was fancy except the how to be able to approach kids their level and meet their needs and then we also
072had Le Sher aard certified behavior analyst there that was able to share with us some of again some of the basics as far as managing kids that may have some challenging issues and some of the roles that she plays in The District um we have lots of preing with testing there is lots of nothing bols lots of things that need to be checked for all of our kids with testing every time we turn around for finding some more things that we need to add on as far as that goes I'm being sarcastic because he doesn't like it when I find these things um and then also the big thing for next year is we're looking at um taking care of our kids looking at our numbers of kids and looking at what we have as
073far as um services for kids across the board how many kids we have with disabilities where we how we going to be serving them the needs of the kids the net goes from our contract services our speech our OT our Physical Therapy um tvi um the whole gam so um we're looking at the whole K Kaboodle last year I started that in this role way too late luckily there were a lot of pieces in place and Heather was very instrumental and making sure that we could work together on those things in in June in July but this year I need to get a jump on those things um now so that we can um I do also want to mention one tiny little bit thing regarding that PD vein that professional development ve I did
074take Montana Hoover and Michaela cordal our mhmc teachers down to baky valley outstanding visit down there the folks welcomed us um you know they always say teachers are Master thieves we stole a lot of ideas and to be able to bring back and things that I've talked with them about that I want Incorporated in our classrooms anyway to help support our students with the most significant means in the district so they're ready to go they're partnering up and they're already making plans for making changes for next school year there's anything specific youall would like to ask me either now or later more than happy to talk with you just briefly why I Valley what made you select what stood out to them I know the director there I know how she runs I looked around
075for some exemplars I wanted I wanted to go into a place and have not some pilot or trial that we're going to check and say hey they're trying this I wanted something that was a proven program uh one program the person was in it for seven years already the other program was nine years um the opportunity this year I'm going to take um Montana to the high school program because they they have great program PW okay awesome um so I'm looking for places like that um that are proven already sure so that's why good job good question okay to the other side of the room I believe I'm G try to talk fast um so ly and I attended the oea professional conference in February um L of very good session lot of househ legislative
076upds updates technology of conduct so thank you for that opportunity to go Grant cover um FBA has also had some members attenda workshops that took place on a Saturday a couple weeks ago and then to celebrate uh Valentine's Day we had a ga Bri to enjoy a beverage first our grant and the Bri house is always so good at accommodating us coming in and making a tab for us so we appreciate that and then on February 26 we hosted the district low night at Trio L prizes were awarded for various categories um f by everyone and a big thank you to Tri L for allowing us to occupy the space for the private event and as Gina said we've been having read Across America this week I'm just going to add a little bit more
077to that so our theme was reading this fun and it tight in withing the dog series um we kicked off the leek by inviting students and um family members to come attend the B for books last night uh we had over 100 people in attendance uh student council work concessions for us and then we'll give a donation to their their fund for doing that um and we all always looking for a way to um partner with communities the community and the county so to keep in spirit with the theme we um did a donation drive for thex County Dog Shelter so families that brought in items could then be entered to win one baskets so we collected $25 as well as several items that they will be very appreciative of and then as Gina said
078we're do the cook with the bookie and um BS by the support of the community with our Scholastic book and the punch of the scoo snacks um the gr is paying for those and um we had the therapy dogs we had a new therapy dog this today I was very excited it was a doberman he was wearing Tut he and very soft so the ks seem to be enjoying that and I appreciate Brian letting us occupy the high school library events um and then um and I also want to thank Mr B and his colleagues for volunteering their time to come to do that uh and then on Thursday the PTO has paid for an assembly for us to have um they're called hro K9 and they are agility dogs and they will be coming
079in enjoying two shows for the kids um and they've been in like believe People magazine website they've been in like Stadium very exed the teachers I think are just as excited as the kids for watching that and we're going to do um two assemblies um thanks to P one so we can have K2 and then the the 35 section or three4 um and then as Gina mentioned the comic book contest PTO has also donated um gift cards to The Bu theater for our top two winners um to go see movie is still out just one if not something else of their choice and a big thank you to Mrs grim and her kids that are going to judge those comic books and then the other each grade level each grade class will have a winner
080and they will be receiving a copy of a dog book that was also by Grant and now I'm going to turn it over to April be focusing appreciation and mental health uh we're going to head into testing season and approaching end of year activities in May so on April 3rd FDA will be offering a flower bouquet class um I will not be leading that U me members will be able to kick off April with a spring bouquet of flowers later in the month we will have our after school de-stress event that will be open to all staff uh staff members can come make a survival bag enter to IND prizes enjoy a snack and visit dogs we're also looking into scheduling a yoga and meditation class and wrap up the month uh we plan to
081have Sunny sip smoothie truck come to provide a smoothie or beverage in choice and that's it us tough act to follow huh the bowling night was fun right it was a lot of fun and I have some room for improvement of my bowling that was really fun thank you and um with the reading this week um I subed this afternoon and one of the places I had to go to was the library when I went in fifth grade was and fifth grade class was coming in and then two kindergarten classes came in the fifth graders had books that they chose several different kids and they sat down on the floor or at a table and were reading to the kindergarteners oh my gosh I was impressed some of the I don't know how to put
082it some of the challenging fifth grade students oh my word they sat there with those kids and couple of them they had the just like a teacher would do they had the book like this and they were reading it was awesome to see it was very good I really I was impressed with our fifth grade class so that was fun but other than I also forgot we have two board members coming down to read on Friday so thank you she hasn't told us what we're reading yet go hopefully better hopefully better some of my my pronunciation this evening with names but okay well I think the theme of that is collaboration so great great work there all right so we are to number 13 which is executive session um so I need a motion to
083enter 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 executive session second Mrs Winger yes Mr Bowman yes Mr yes M yes here yes may I say something on a personal note for everybody on good news my wife and I are celebrating our 50th W anniversary and are we going to