001[Music] Hey. Hey. Hey. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] All right, we'll go ahead and call the meeting to order. If we could all stand for the pledge of allegiance, please. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America to the republic and one nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. >> All right. So, I'm going to call for roll call as a president, but as the secretary tonight, I'm going to go through the roll calls. So, Mrs. Bloom >> here. >> Miss Layman >> here. >> Miss Lewis >> here. Mr. Nally >> here. >> Mr. Price obviously here. Uh, can I get a motion to approve the minutes from our regular meeting held on June 23rd, 2025? >> So moved. >> Motion by Mrs. Bloom. Do I have a second? >>
002Second by Miss Layman. Any discussion? All right. Roll call. Mrs. Bloom. >> Yes. >> Miss Layman. >> Yes. >> Miss Lewis. >> Yes. >> Mr. Nally, >> yes. >> Mr. Price, yes. Motion's approved. Uh, moving on to legislative report. >> Uh, yes. Uh, as I'm sure everybody knows, the the governor signed the budget. Now, it's kind of back to the legislature to determine if they're going to do any uh uh veto overrides. So, I just want to take a minute to go through all 67 vetos. Um, no on the um the the facts um in a flash, you know, sent out and I think kind of covered the three critical ones for us. Um, one being the uh property tax um where the uh some of the provisions were vetoed to reduce um that would
003have reduced the um millage on any voter approved tax levy. Um uh that's except for um a debt levy. Um, I think that's probably, you know, uh, one of the key ones. Uh, the 20 mil floor calculation. Um, you know, uh, our treasurer, I'm sure, have not talked to her, but, you know, that's still one that's of great concern if they, um, overturn that veto. and and then looking at uh school property tax levy restrictions. So, there's really there's three there. There's many more that are uh within the budget um that uh definitely affect us. Um, uh, I'm just trying to think the the one that that I would have concern also about is the provision where the county tax commission can have the authority to affect some of the the levies and they can
004reduce or not collect um, if they so choose. if that veto is overturned. So, there's there's several um that jump out there. Uh I don't know if there's any that anybody is familiar with that that I missed. If not, um so so that's kind of what I had in the report um for this month uh this month's meeting. Uh, so, um, pretty much that's it. I sent sent the, um, the report to you and if the public wants a copy of that, they can contact the superintendent's office at any time. So, that's all I had. Thanks, Don. Uh, no walk-on items tonight. >> None, sir. >> Great. U, no reason for hearing of the public. There's no one else here. So moving on to superintendent report. >> Fantastic. Thank you. Good evening everyone. Um this
005evening I have asked Jessica Michael to join us. Jessica is our child nutrition supervisor. Um so she oversees everything in our district that has to do with feeding our children. Um and we know that that is a very large job. Um that's six buildings, that's six kitchens, six cafeterias, six staff, groups of staff. Um all have run at different paces and have different pieces going all the time. Um and that's what takes place during the school year and then we come to summer and at that point in time lots of us in the school district step off our pace just a little bit. Um, and I thought it was just a great opportunity in the middle of the summer to invite Jessica to join us this evening and be able to share some information with
006you as well as our entire committee um, community out there to hear a little bit about the food service program that's taking place this summer and how we're what we're doing to feed our children. So, Jessica, thank you so much for joining us this evening. >> Thanks for having me. Um, I absolutely jumped at the opportunity to share more about this program. Um, this is my second summer doing it and it's it's so much fun. I mean, I love the opportunity to see the children in the summer, especially the little ones that remember me and, you know, from my teaching days, but it's just it's so much fun out there. Um, so each Monday from 11:30 to 1, we hand out 5 days of breakfast and 5 days of lunch along with a half a
007gallon of Tooff's milk uh to children ages 1 to 18. That's two bags of quality name brand food and produce for each child. And this is open to every child, not just our Fremont children. Any child is eligible regardless of where they live or go to school. Um, we did change a few things up this summer as far as with registration. The state asks of me that I can verify that these meals are going to children, that it's not just someone coming through and saying, "I have five kids at home and there aren't any children in that car." So, in order to verify that, I have asked for families to go onto our district website and fill out a Google form each week if they are not going to have their children with them. That
008way they get on there, they register, they say who they are, who the children are and then, you know, I mean, a lot of times they don't want to have a car full of children and sitting in that line could be an hour and I understand that, but we needed something to verify that it was going to children. So, that's a little bit different this year and we've been navigating that and the first week was a little rough. It's getting better each week. Um, I have an amazing staff of four people that choose to work over the summer instead of enjoying their summer break away from the kitchens. Um, the main person being Candy Cane. She's the Ross cafeteria manager and she's also the manager of the summer program. She's been running it for many
009years and she has been wonderful and she's been a wonderful source of knowledge for me. Um there are so many strict guidelines and things that I need to follow to make sure we are compliant and we can receive uh federal reimbursement for these meals so that we can make it happen. And having someone like that, like Candy, and the rest of her staff in place that are there for the right reasons and they want to do it, they want to do it the right way. It's just it's been it's been wonderful. But along with her staff, they pack meals um meal bags throughout the week beginning on Tuesdays. Last week, they packed 1,160 bags for 580 children for today's distribution. That's 5,270 meals that they packed up. We ended up handing out today 5 meals
010to 527 children. Um we planned for 580. Like I said, the leftover meals will be disassembled, the bags will be disassembled, and we will use what we can for next week's distribution. You know, there are some things that we might have to dispose of. Um, but that's a significant increase from our first week in which we only served 351 children. >> So, each week it's increased a little bit more, but that first week was when it was so hot and I know they didn't want to sit in their cars for all of that time. Um, so like I said, I work very hard to make sure everything is compliant with the state so that we can receive that federal reimbursement for each meal. Um, this along with the help of wonderful volunteers are what allow
011us to run the program and keep it going. um volunteers from Prometica and from Temple Christian Academy show up weekly in the heat and occasional rain and helping to put those meals into the cars and be a smiling face to all the families and show them that they're all welcome. Um we also have the Fremont Police Department and the Suski County Sheriff's Department that help out with it. I have uh Fremont police officers out there on their bikes riding around, you know, talking to the families in their cars and also making sure that the traffic is flowing in a safe direction. Um, and we also have had generous bag donations from Rule King, Ace Hardware, and Walmart. And that h helps for us when we're packing the meals. Saves us a little bit of money
012than ordering them from GFS. Um, like I said, there's quite a bit of work that goes into the program, but everyone involved in it has so much fun doing it and we all want to be there. Last week, um, we had Mr. Nally there. Uh, we had Rosco, our very own Rosco in attendance and we had Munch the Fox. And Munch the Fox is the state's child nutrition mascot. and he came along with his boom box and they were out there dancing and high-fiving and giving out stickers to the kids. The kids loved it. It >> was very fun. >> Yeah, it was fun. We had lots of people out there that day. Lots of extra hands on duty. Um Mr. Walker, Mrs. Hurt, um just it's it's a great it's a great team. Uh
013we also had a visit from the state a state child nutrition education specialist and she was there for the entire duration and watched everything we were doing and said how everything was going wonderful and she had nothing but positive feedback to give to me about our program. Um some of our administrative team like I said has also joined us on the Monday fun and they keep coming back for more. So, it's my hope that we can continue to meet the needs of the children in the summertime because we all know that they need it and their families with the summer food program. So, I want to do everything in my power to make sure we keep that going, pull in as many resources and as much help as we can from volunteers. >> Thank you,
014>> Jessica. Tell us when is the last Monday that um families can take advantage of? August 11th. >> So every Monday, >> every Monday >> moving forward until August 11th. August August 11th is the last one. >> The last day. August 11th. Every Monday from 11:30 to 1. And like I said, they do not need to register if the children are present. >> Mhm. >> Okay. And we do ask for all of our families um they line up behind Ross High School um and Fremont Middle School and they should enter the middle school the back of the middle school parking lot off of Cedar Street. Um and there there's a time frame where that line goes from the student entrance behind Ross High School all the way out to Cedar Street. Um but I think
015our crew does a fantastic job of Yes. uh keeping the line moving and making sure everyone is there and and like you said with the Fremont Police Department out there on their bikes, that has been very helpful just to make sure it's all it all goes smoothly. >> Oh, nice. >> Yes. And the the kids love to see them out there, too. >> Especially on their bikes. I'm sure that's pretty neat for the kiddos to see. So, if if um a person and maybe not so much for this summer, but moving forward in the summers to come, if a person or maybe an agency wanted to sign up to volunteer um >> maybe a few Mondays, like how how would they what would they need to do? >> They just need to contact me, which
016um the other companies organizations have done, and we figure something out. We don't want to have too many people because we get too many people in there and it's just it's >> yeah it's not flowing well. Um so I'll organize it with whoever what representative is calling me or getting in touch with me and we'll figure out when they can come out and volunteer. >> Sure. There might be a a service organization or a church group that might want to donate one Monday or two Mondays during the summer. >> Yeah, definitely. We welcome them >> if for nothing else than to keep the the line entertained maybe. Sure. >> Live music or something to keep the line entertained. >> That's what I asked Munch the Fox to come back each week and bring music and
017keep him keep everybody entertained. >> That that keeps spirits up. That's for sure. >> Yes. >> I know. I put a um a post on face Facebook and I just hope Munch the Fox I I forgot to mention that Munch was there. So, I'm hoping that um he wasn't upset with me. >> But, uh you guys do a phenomenal job. >> Thank you. >> You know, just watching the organization and you know, the process of keeping things cool and you know, and and and then also, you know, seeing the the kids coming through, they are just very excited. One to see you guys. Um and you know and then to know that there is that need for nutrition food in the community. Um, you know, that that we're meeting a need and it's I guess
018it concerns me that that there is such a need, but um but it's it's very fulfilling to see that we're able to do that during the summer um program and and like I said, I just watching uh you and your staff and the volunteers, people are just jumping in and and and it's just a a well well-run uh opportunity uh for the district. So, >> thank you. >> Keep up the great work. >> Thank you. >> And I also think it's important that, you know, that we do show that we want to be there. I don't want anyone to feel shameful of having to rely on this. >> Yeah. >> You know that. So those of us that want to be there and are smiling and happy and having fun, it just makes it a
019pleasant experience for everybody. >> Yeah. >> So I think that's really important, too. >> And and there's no there's not a judgment on people that are coming through. Right. >> And and and I think that's a hard thing to convey to somebody that's going through the line that realizes that they have a need. And so it's it's the the other thing I wanted to give an can you give an example what what's in a bag? What actual foods? I know you rotate it, but just what's there this week? Um, okay. So, well, let's say there's a pack of um frozen French toast bites. Um, >> a pack of um probably two packs of Pop-Tarts, two different days for that. There might be a pack of pancakes, a breakfast bagel. Um, so there's the breakfast items,
020but there's also five servings of fruit >> for each breakfast. >> Yes, fresh fruit. >> Um, there are some frozen strawberry cups and things like that once in a while, but for the majority of it, it's it's fresh. We are struggling a little bit of getting with getting some produce in. Um, >> so it might vary each week. >> Yeah. >> Off the menu a little bit. We do hand out a menu. Um so there that's a sample of breakfast. Uh for lunches there are um like a stuffed buffalo chicken cowzone. That's a really popular one with the kids. >> Oh, I bet. >> Um we put uncrustables in there and a string cheese. Um yogurt. That would be a meal. Um there are different uh small personalsized portions of like a little pizza that
021are easy to prepare. Um something that could be microwaved or, you know, put in the oven. Um but like I said, there's there are there have been quite a few instances that we're having a hard time getting stuff in. >> So um >> and then you rotate each week. get some possibly something a little different. >> Yes. Yes. You might get something the same if we got in a lot of something and we couldn't get something else in then. But it's all good food and it's all stuff that the kids, you know, that that they've been very popular items throughout the school year. >> They'll eat. >> Yes. Yes. >> Super. Thanks. >> Well, and it's great there's a mix of things that kiddos in different age ranges could prepare by themselves. I imagine, you
022know, parents at work with maybe a um an older sibling at home keeping the, >> you know, other siblings and if we can pop something good in the microwave or >> um you just pull an uncrustable out and eat that right away, that's awesome. And and we all we all go to the grocery store. We all know that um groceries are expensive. So, >> Exactly. >> This is a judgmentfree zone >> for sure. The milk alone the milk is crazy. Um and to get to a half gallon of Tooff's milk. >> Tooff's milk. Hello. >> Tooff's milk. Yes. >> So it it's well worth it. And again we we see lots and lots of individuals come through the line and we're happy to see them all. >> Job well done. >> Yes. >> Thank you,
023Jessica. >> All right, Mr. Price, if you're okay, I'll continue. >> Yes. Right. For recommendations this evening, item number one, I would ask your approval of the donations. Um, we have Red American Red Cross and then Fremont Ross music boosters. If you remember our last meeting, I had several of our PTOs and boosters. Um, our music boosters were still pulling some of their information together. So, that's why you see that here. >> Can I get a motion to approve item one, please? >> So, move. >> Motion by Miss Layman. Could I have a second? >> Second. >> By Miss Lewis. Any discussion? All right, roll call. Uh, Miss Layman, >> yes. >> Miss Lewis, >> yes. >> Mrs. Bloom, >> yes. >> Mr. Nally, >> yes. >> Mr. Price, yes. Motion's approved. >> Thank you.
024Um, beginning with item number two, we'll start some of our um staff issues. We have uh two resignations. Um item number three, we begin some appointments. Uh we are really close to being all done. We're ready to go for next school year. Hi. >> Um, so those appointments beginning with Devon Hart, uh, school counselor here at the middle school. Um, Angela Marquort, uh, here at the middle school. She'll be teaching some computer classes for us. Um, Sylvia Benvdz, I believe, and Jessica Hasselbach will both be um, cook positions here at the middle school. And Daniela Ortiz will join us um, in the split secretarial position between Lutz and Otis. Um, item number four, we have some extended days that I would ask your approval for for our new assistant athletic director whose contract won't start
025until August 1. Item number five, um, I'm asking your permission to approve supplemental contracts for the 202525 school year. So, these are all those staff members that do a little bit of those above and beyond pieces um and supporting our students when they're choosing to participate in something outside of the school day. Um we greatly appreciate all of those. Item number six, we have um coaches and some of our uh non-certified staff members that will also fix those roles with us um and fill in those spots to lead our students. Item number seven, these are special event workers. Um this is a real important one. These are our lifeguards um that we utilize throughout the school year. And just a quick note that you will see some of those students as lifeguards. Um, some of
026our certified qualified students may have a study hall during the day that may align to a instructional class where we're teaching students to swim. Um, by law, the instructor cannot be the lifeguard. So, I need to make sure that we have both in the pool ready to go at the same time. So, you'll see both students and adults there for lifeguards, but a very important piece. Item number eight, just a few status changes with some individuals that have brought in um some additional paperwork and showed us that they have met different criteria. >> Right. Can I get a motion to approve items 2 through eight, please? >> so move. >> Motion by Mr. Nally. Could I have a second? >> Second by Mrs. Bloom. Any discussion? >> Roll call. Mr. Nally? >> Yes. >> Mrs.
027Bloom? >> Yes. >> Miss Layman? Yes, >> Miss Lewis. >> Yes, >> Mr. Price. Yes. Motion is approved. >> Thank you. >> All right. Um, obviously we will skip the reporter. The treasure. Um, >> Megan is on vacation and Justin is out sick. So, that is why I'm calling for roll calls tonight. So, um, we'll move past the recommendation of the tre. Well, we can do the recommendation of the treasur, the report of the treasur. I'm sure she'll have something for us in two weeks. >> She will >> um with the end of the year, end of the fiscal year, finishing up June 30th, plus all of the who knows by then what the state will decide to do with the budget, and you never know there. So, um so item nine, >> um do
028you want to can you expand on that a little bit? >> I can a little bit. Okay. Um, this just allows for us, if you remember, there was a change in legislation, I want to say at the start of last school year was the first time we had this in place, um, where across the state, we needed to have board action when we were going to exceed a particular dollar amount that would support a particular event. Um, and so we set um Megan and John I think work together um to set that dollar amount at that uh for for an event. So anytime we will spend more than um I think it's $2,000 to support an event, we will bring that to the board for your approval. Um an example of that might be opening
029day when we are welcoming back 550 staff members to start our school year. Um that may be something that if there's a speaker, if there's some refreshment, if there's So that's all one event and that might be a good example. Um doesn't happen too often, but this allows us the parameters for that. >> All right. Can I get a motion to approve item nine, please? >> So moved. >> Motion by Miss Lewis. Could I have a second? >> Second by Mrs. Bloom. Any discussion? >> Roll call. Uh Miss Lewis. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Bloom. Yes, >> Miss Layman. >> Yes, >> Mr. Nally. >> Yes, >> Mr. Price. Yes. Motion is >> All right. Almost lost it on that very last roll call. So, >> good. >> Oh, yeah. I got to do this still.
030>> All right. Um, moving on to board member communications. Let's uh keep it kind of crazy. We'll go Sarah first. >> Sarah kind of crazy. I see what you did there, Mr. Price. Um, just again, thank you to Miss Michael and and all of the the staff and volunteers helping helping with the summer meal program. Um, just # community. I mean, that's just it's so awesome to see like so many entities come together to make this happen for for people in our community. So, that's that's awesome. The only other thing that I have is um the tax-free holiday is uh coming up here quick. Um it is a long period of time. So it's August 1st through August 14th. Um that's an opportunity for people to shop for things um and not have to pay
031tax on certain items. Um it's a great opportunity um to get some school shopping done uh if possible for lots of different things. Um, so whether you have a schoolage kiddo or a college age kiddo, um, it's a great opportunity uh to shop during that time. And you can simply Google um the tax-free Ohio tax-free holiday uh to see what items qualify um for for the no tax incentive. We did send some information out uh via final forms. Um and we've shared it on Facebook and I believe there's something on our website. Um so if that helps our families get some of that information in an easier fashion, we want to make sure that we're we're communicating that out there. >> Fantastic. >> Good info. >> Yeah, it's a nice twoe window. >> Save a
032few dollars. >> Absolutely. >> Yeah. Those dollars are better on in your household, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> All right. Um, well, the meal program that's that's awesome the way it's going and it's as organized as it is. It's not a chaos or a mess. It's just flowing well and helping a lot of people. um the donations. Thank you for the the scholarship from the Red Cross and from the boosters for the music for the music the for the music department and um everybody have keep having a safe fun summer. >> Done. >> Oh yes. Uh items one and two that I had there is already covered so I won't I I won't repeat those. But um the from my report earlier, I forgot to mention that the House meets this coming Monday uh July
03321st to discuss all the the potential overrides of the governor's vetos. And uh for the most part, you know, I I thought the governor's vetos were good things. So hopefully they don't override too many uh of the um of those areas and just encourage everybody to uh just stay cool and enjoy the rest of their summer. That's all I had. Laura, >> I want to give the shout out to the students that did the artwork in Denise's office. Um, I actually got to see it with my own eyes and it's very colorful, very 3D, very creative. >> Very much. >> They did an awesome job on that. And for them to even come up with that design in their head. I thought that was really neat. Um, so glad that you showed me that. Yeah,
034that was well worth it. >> Very It's It's an amazing piece. >> Yeah, th those kids need should be very proud of themselves. So, if you can make any other artwork artwork like that for anybody else, I believe you'll be having some money in your pocket because uh seriously, that's I don't you'd have to see it with your own eyes. And it's I know you guys have seen pictures of it and I don't know if you've seen it with your own eyes, but when you see it, it's I don't know. It's just you just by looking at the design, it's something that you wouldn't normally think to do like that, but it all came together. So, I I love art, so whatever. I thought they did a great job. >> Thank you. >> So, Price
035and myself, I'm just kind of working on an outline of different things I'm going to do this year in the school system. I like to get involved into the schools. So, I'm trying to figure out kind of what classes I want to visit, teachers, schools, just kind of be out there and see what's going on. So, that's kind of the routes I'm taking right now in my brain. So, since I figured out, me and Denise will get back together and I'll be visiting here, there, and everywhere. Other than that, I'm counting down the days of football season. >> Amen. >> As I know many other people are. >> Amen. >> Yes. Uhhuh. So, that's what I got. >> Okay. Um, I'll reiterate. Um, thanks to everybody who helps out with the summer meal program. What
036an important piece. Um, I think once you're involved with the school district in any community, um, but for ours, when you start seeing the kids on a bigger level than what you might just as a person walking around or whatever, you see, there is a need. I you know I um you don't think that kids don't have food at home, but they there are a lot of kids in our district that do not have food at home. And that's just the reality of it. And so if we can be there to help and we have the system to be able to do it, um what a great outreach for us to be able to support those kids through the summer. So, um just a great thing that that we get to do and the staff
037that puts it all together and does it. Um great job there. um have a great rest of the summer. August 1st is coming quick for official fall sports. So yeah, football season, volleyball season, everything's right around the corner. So their summer's going to end pretty quick here. Sorry about your luck, but you know, that's what it is. So >> band camp will start to do the same. Yeah, all of the >> Yeah, band camp, everything else will be kicking in here. So hopefully the the weather dies down a little bit. We had that August weather pretty early this year, so maybe they'll get a little reprieve here in August. So, >> it's good. >> Um, with that, we don't have any reason for executive session tonight. Um, so could I have a motion for adjournment,
038please? >> So moved. >> Motion by Mrs. Bloom. Could I have a second? >> Second by Miss Layman. Any discussion? >> All right. Roll call. Mrs. Bloom. >> Yes. >> Miss Layman. >> Yes. >> Miss Lewis. >> Yes. >> Mr. Nally, >> yes. >> Mr. Price, yes. Motions approved. Meetings adjourned. Heat. Heat. [Music] Oh, hey. [Music]