001Finest. >> I got it. Thank you for letting me go home. >> We're good. All right. Good evening, everyone. If we could uh start with a moment of silent prayer. >> Thank you. Please stand for the pledge. And you want to lead the I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. Can you call the role, please? >> Mrs. Ber, >> yes. >> Mrs. Davis, >> yes. >> Mr. Swagger, >> yes. >> Mrs. Thomas, >> yes. Mr. Benton is absent out of town traveling today as he let us know. Reading of the notice of the meeting. >> This is a public meeting of the board of education for the purpose of
002conducting the school district's business and is not to be considered a public community meeting. There's a time for public participation during the meeting as indicated in the agenda. Each statement made by a participant shall be limited to three minutes. Upon request of the superintendent, the district shall make reasonable accommodation for a person with a disability to be able to participate in this activity. Recording shall be made of each meeting of the board as administrative aid and shall be preserved as public documents of the board. >> Thank you. Are there any additions or deletions to the agenda? >> I have quite a few. Actually, you have one too, right? And then I have um quite a few. Uh just remind everyone that this time of the year with staffing and all and um the state department
003is processing lensure requests so sometimes things come a little slower. So we want to get some things um tonight on the agenda that weren't there on Friday when we published. So under consent agenda there are uh three items to modify under item C district tutors for the 2526 school year. I'm going to strike that entire section right now. um let us go through that a bit and you know look and see if we have everyone we need for that section. I'll bring that back in October and then by policy I have the authority to hire people in advance so if we do need some tutors we won't short change us because I can get them hired before the October meeting. Um, under F, cafeteria substitutes. I want to add, um, two names there. And, um,
004I'm happy anytime we get, uh, substitutes, especially at the cafeteria. So, I have a Michelle with an E and the last name is D T S C H U L E. And then also Brenda, last name Rio S. So, we'll have those two people to add to the agenda. And then, um, the last item is under J. Um, this falls under the category of um, having additional staff members for supplemental positions because we're waiting for all their paperwork to be back. We have Christina and Nasman for middle school cheer and then Mike Triplet for the varsity head softball coach >> and that's under J item. >> That's under J. Y. >> Yep. Okay. >> Is that a new Is that a new J? >> It is. J is a new letter. >> That's what I
005thought. Okay. What was the middle school like? >> Middle school is Christina Nazman NAS MAN and that's middle school cheerleading just for the fall >> and I'm only laughing just to clarify not at the name but there was no J and I was searching for it so I apologize just want to clarify. >> Do they have a copy that has the additional information? No. Okay. We'll get those to you in the future. Typically we wouldn't have as many changes. So again, it's just that time of the year because we're still in the front of the school year. >> Um, and then you have one for resolution. >> Yes. Under treasur's recommendation would like to add resolution 25-09-195, the superintendence contract annual performance >> that's in there. So it's just the added amount of resolutions in
006the amount's not. >> Okay. >> All right. And then the last one I have is um resolution 25-09-198. That's athletic improvement project guarantee maximum price amendment one. Um you had that in the uh Friday's agenda, but we did not have the amount to put into that. So when we get to that part of the resolution, I'll be able to read that in advance. It's $227,230, which is um inside of our budget. We had put a max in there of uh I believe about $275,000 was the original portion of that. So I'll talk more about that when we get there. >> And that's in the attachment in the back row packet. >> All right. And that's all those are all the changes. And if I can get a motion for the resolution 259193, the adoption of
007the agenda. >> I'll make a motion. Second. >> Any questions, comments? Call the role, please. >> Mrs. Thomas, >> yes. >> Mrs. Ber, >> yes. >> Mrs. Davis, >> yes. >> Mr. Swagger, >> yes. On to public remarks. I have Mr. Hill signed up for public remarks. >> Thank you. >> Very, very brief. Um, a couple things. I I noticed something up the the stadium, especially this year. Um, it's always been there though. That's the steps going up and down. Very difficult. No railing. I don't think there's a place to put even put a post as you're going up and down. And the steps are awkward as they go down. And I was I was thinking painting putting a a white stripe then the second step a yellow stripe or even on the corners. I
008saw somebody fall in a middle school game last week. I don't know whether it was because of the steps. I mean, she did get up and she walked out, but um it's it's a little little concerning. Um it's it's been that way always since it was built. Um but I I do think it's it's something that perhaps needs to be addressed either in committee or or by uh by the board. The other thing is something similar, the upper parking lot. I know in the past the board wanted to um pave that or black top it and it was there was some issues or concerns about runoff and things of that nature. I don't know whether that could be solved or not but I was thinking attended a lot of events there band concerts choir concerts
009plays etc. But I always get there. We always get there early so we get a parking spot. But the people noticing as we're waiting in line, people going down that hill. If it's wet, if they have a cane, it's not an easy task. and whether a ramp could be put down or steps with railing so the people who do park on the upper um parking area by the performing arts center could walk down and have a little more security. paving would be good because I think the stones I don't know. I really don't know because I haven't been up there to know whether the stones are big or whether it's nice and smooth or or what. The other thing is dealing with the lighting up there. And I was thinking temporary lighting for um nights
010when there's events there that could be switched on and then turned off. Again, I know there's lighting up there, but we have to be aware of the our neighbors um or your neighbors that's that's up there. I don't think they want a bright light all night long, but they probably would have an understanding of um a light for an event so people can see, especially going up and up and down the the small incline. So, I think that's it. >> I appreciate it. >> No complaints. We're aware of the stadium steps as is. >> Yeah, sure. Of course, >> the stadium in itself, I know we have plans to uh look at and make some adjustments and it's some needed improvements there. The steps have always been awkward. I'll say it's a like a step
011and a half kind of step. >> So, uh we're aware of that. Uh >> talked about it on Wednesday or Thursday when we met. So, >> yeah. >> So, this is a timely uh concern that you bring up because we are looking at on the stadium side, the upper parking uh area. We'll take a look at that as well through grounds of maintenance. I don't know that I've got a great answer. You're right about permanent lighting is not something I don't think that would be a solution up there for the neighbors. Uh however, temporary uh for major event maybe >> and maybe it's lit well enough. Anyway, I I just haven't noticed. >> We can go up and take >> on buildings and grounds. Uh we actually talked about the upper lot and it's on
012our schedule to look at as well too, even looking at the quality of the gravel and that's one of the things we we tackled last week at our meeting. So, >> okay. Good topics. >> Yeah. >> Okay. The other thing we'd add too is we did add a lot of parking this year. the board had a lot of foresight and we put some of those alternates in place. So, we have additional parking behind the building addition and also on the side. We picked up >> 48 total spots, but we picked up 16 on the back and the rest are on the side. So, that makes it even better to be closer to the stadium. So, that doesn't fix everything, but it certainly those are spots that I know when I was here Friday, they were
013all filled. >> Yeah, it was a big crowd. >> It was a big crowd. >> Yeah. Friday night's game, I don't know that we could ever have enough onampus parking for uh Yeah, I appreciate it. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> The school board office parking lot, it was full, too. So, >> Oh, yeah. >> We've gained a lot of parking. >> Oh, yeah. Yeah, we have. >> But even that, you know, I I looked specifically um when I was in the statement, all those I walked around the back, all those spots were taken. So, >> good job for adding those additional endorsing the additional spots there for parking. >> All right, moving on then. Um update on the building project. >> Yeah, we just had one presentation. I have a paper copy
014so the board can see this as well too. >> Thank you. um some of this that you know the board has seen but I thought it would be good just to get it into one format and then there's some work to do still um and then also this will be something that as it grows and matures we can share with others as well too. So if you want to go to the first slide um exciting that you know uh we have the high school edition came in on time. It was a small few items to to still take care of on the punch list. But what's exciting about it and uh when you look at that pink area that that Craig McDonald put together for us, um that's the six classrooms that have been added.
015Um one of the things that we did is we were able to add water and sewer to uh portions of that building. And what you see in the picture to the right are our certified nursing assistant program. So that's our third official collaboration in two years with CEKC and we actually now have six um mini hospital stations if you will. So we have six sinks, six beds. So um through the work that was completed uh we were able to um open up the existing building with the new building. So there's a 17t span between the rooms. So you have a um academic side if you will related and then you have your lab side of it. So, we have our uh ribbon cutting on Friday. Um, and this uh we delayed that a little bit
016to wait a couple weeks into the year because we wanted to make sure that CNA program is up and running. So, just uh something to celebrate our accomplishments there. Any questions about the high school edition. >> I just want to compliment the the the aesthetics from the outside. It blends very very nicely. You really can't tell. >> It doesn't look like an extension of the high school. So, no, >> I'm very pleased with the construction team there to make that blend in. Well, >> yeah, they did a nice job. You know what I think it's important is the foresight when that building was built, like the vertical banding allows like if we had to put matching bricks side to side, inevitably, even if you had the same dial after aging, it's not going to show.
017So, the fact that we had vertical banding of a slightly different or you know, the brown versus the red >> or maroon, it really edges up nicely there. So, it looks good. Yeah, they tell me it's a little different, but I I can't really see the color difference because they're not next to each other. And they say that over time the brick will dry out a little bit or the masonary will. So, okay. >> But I think it looks outstanding. So, >> go to the next one. Um, another thing that we've done is, you know, finished up on over the summer we were able to close on the city building. So, now our next step is to begin working in there. If you turn the page or next slide. Um, this is as a reminder
018and we're having this professionally done, but we have two rooms in the back of the city building there that were originally part of the street department. So, we have a longer rectangular room there. You can see that'll be set up primarily for baseball and softball and we've had our coaches in a few times as well as our buildings and grounds committee members. And, uh, we were there actually on Wednesday, I think it was. Um, and we're getting that area, we'll show you pictures in a few minutes, but we're getting that area prepped now, so that eventually we can have indoor batting in there and a nice space year round for our baseball and softball. The room to the right that's more square in shape, that'll be for wrestling and cheerleading, and there'll be a practice
019area, but similar there that will be able to have dedicated space for wrestling and cheerleading. And then in the middle there is walkway, vestibular area, and there's a couple restrooms in there as well, too. So, getting those refurbished um as well so that we'll have nice facilities there on the back of the city building and an extension for athletics program. >> That's excellent. I do want to uh as we get into that photo but the long area just keep in mind too uh that golf would like to be able to hit in there. So if we buy a net for baseball softball to hit into looking to make sure we're buying a net or some type of small enough that the golf ball doesn't go through. >> We we talked about that actually. insurance because
020it'll have to look at the size of it. And then we were going to file with a golf coach because we were talking about is a simulator or live hitting. So, we were going to look at all that. >> My understanding is they have a simulator, but they need the net to hit into the simulator. That's my understanding. >> And we'll talk about that with this. >> They do. I just went to a facility. >> The size of the netting will obviously be important. >> Yeah, that be the biggest thing. >> Maybe we'll do something smaller that would, you know, baseball wouldn't go through, but a golf. >> Yeah, we'll look into that, too. Thank you. Okay, there's just some pictures from the inside of the building. I think most everyone's been in there, but
021um what you're looking at first here is the rectangular room you can see and uh been great to work with the city. They cleaned out everything and then uh Derek Halter who's our maintenance lead is more formal title call maintenance lead for brevity and then Derek Rosenberg really been leading this with the maintenance team and they've cleaned all this out. So, we're getting to the point now where we can get those walls scraped and get them painted. We're looking at some of the floor work and then um our architects, when you think about the previous slide, they're going to give us better renderings and they actually have the 3D rendering they'll have here soon. So, as soon as that's available, we'll be able to share that. But that's an example what some what the facility
022looks like now. And then this is the other side which is the more square room I'll say for uh wrestling and cheerleading. So again, looks nice, clean, floors in pretty good shape. There's some places on both floors we have to do a little leveling and all, but really it's in nice shape and it looks better with everything out of it. I think you can vision it a little better, too. So, any questions about those two areas? >> No, I think those programs will be excited because currently wrestling's over at the JA belt field using a much smaller area and >> yeah, >> baseball and softball have no indoor hitting here on the campus. Uh, golf certainly doesn't have anything indoor. So, I think just the fact that we're going to add additional space for them
023will be great. >> Yeah. Will you go back two slides? >> Additional indoor practice area for winter or for spring sports because it's winter outside. They really absolutely >> when we went I went back to this slide from two of the you see in the kind of center to the right a little bit where you see the restrooms and all and there >> if you were to look at the two restrooms how they're stacked vertically. Right below that, we're going to have like a a slop sink or a a small sink there, like a 4 inch basin, so that we can have access to water, you know, cleaning the mats and all, too. So, and that'll be also available for baseball in addition to the regular restrooms and all, too. But those are things that
024certainly are value ad that we haven't had. >> I mean, the fact that, you know, wrestling has to roll up their mats every day, stack them at the, you know, the fact that they can leave their stuff and actually have a dedicated room will be huge for that program. >> Yeah. We're also talking in here, too. Is there some storage areas that we can put in place for students? Uh when we were there on Wednesday, we were talking about the elongated room, if you will, and I'll call it the bottom where right where that mouse is. We were talking about maybe putting some cubbies there. So, if you had wet shoes, wrestling even, you can put some things. We might put some in the uh vestibule restroom area, but we're looking at all that right
025now, too. >> Coaches gave a lot of good input. Like I said, that's been the second time they've been there. We have our buildings and grounds team. So, lot of lot of exciting possibilities. >> Sorry. Go ahead. I was back. Okay. Um, another aspect of our building project, this is just something that's still maturing, but we have our multi-purpose building and that'll be just under 12,000 square feet and we're projecting that to be out here. Um, that's about an 18month build. We're getting close to looking at the design for that and finalized design where we think, but we're going to first, you know, talk to the city and make sure that we're in our design review and and review that with them. Um, probably trending more toward what you see there in the middle in
026terms of looks, but you know that that'll need a little bit of time to mature. We've asked our design team to just kind of sketch it out. That's why it looks like it does before we spend too much time on drawing. We want to get an idea about where things go. So, that middle one there starting to mature. The one on the far left was an earlier version, more of a steel building. So, we'll have more direction coming up for the board here. And the right one was just the right picture is just some examples of other buildings. >> And so I think I believe the board knows but Ruthan and I met on this project with the the team design team and that but uh while we like the aesthetic look of the ones
027on the outside, we lose too much interior room with those beams, you lose about four feet on each side of interior space. So that's what's pushing to a masonary uh stick built uh room is losing 8 ft of playing. is too much for us to >> It's a good point because if you look at the first picture there, um we were thinking about repitching that roof and when we were talking with the design team, the taller it gets, the more the base, you know, gets wide. So your internals like on that left column there, you're talking about sticking out about four feet. So that was something >> six to eight. >> Yeah. >> Well, with padding, >> the bigger one, right? Because then we got to pat it and then you lose more room. It
028just >> Yeah. it becomes inhibitive to what we want to put in there. >> Yeah. So, that's starting to mature again. We'll have more to to show you, but I think based on all of the subcommittee work the board's been with and and uh been involved with and then also the overall board, the entire board giving feedback. We're getting to the point where I think we'll be able to get to some drawings and and then some estimates. Right now, we just have big picture, but we'll just certainly get into it. Whatever you see there, I think we can fit into our overall building's budget. So we'll we'll get that, you know, continue to work there. >> Could I interrupt a minute? We will spend time value engineering that one sketch up there in the middle.
029We like some ideas about it, but we really don't know costs yet. So we'll get some more costs at the next meeting in about two weeks. Uh, and more than that, we'll go through it with a fine tooth comb and value engineer it to be sure that we if we have choice A or B and whatever fits in our uh, budget, that's what we're going to try to do, but we will have the building. So, we're all excited about that. >> Any other thoughts or questions from the board? If you want to go to the next slide. Um, moving to the west campus. Um, you know, this is again starting to mature, but just to look at it from a larger view. Um what you see there on the far right is um a walkway
030that would enter into the new concessions area and that would be replacing what what music boosters has right now with a permanent structure that would have restrooms in it, water and sewer obviously adequate with four sinks, everything that we need um there. That doesn't show well in this picture, but you can see it's that gray rectangular building there in the middle. So what's nice about this is and I know the board has um certainly through subcommittee as well as the whole board we'll have um viewing from both sides. Um so and also concessions from uh two sides. So you can have baseball softball concessions on one side and if we have a large crowd if we're hosting a tournament you could open up the other side which is the football side. Um or you can
031restrict access to just one side or the other. Um, we're going to next get with our booster groups and show them how this is maturing and get some input, especially because we're starting to see more of the internals now and how the rooms will lay out. So, we're seeing that. The other thing is you can see, I'll call it like a golden rod color. That's a decking that would, you know, go through the the back of the stadium there and it goes all the way and that becomes a asphalt, which is why it changes color. That's approximation. What's exciting about that is that would be a walkway to to softball now. So, they have a nice, you know, to get back and forth. So, restrooms again for the community and then also um concessions. And
032then through board committee, we've talked, it's kind of hard to see, but there's some bumpouts that are closer to the baseball area there, too. So, you can see look like little knobs or nodules. Those are probably going to be at least eight feet. And so, that if somebody wanted to observe, we think about people maybe can't traverse the entire hill down there, they could get into the middle of that um walkway there and be able to have a good line of sight for the for the baseball. So those are things that are starting to mature there too. But again this is all focused on you know concessions for middle school I'm sorry for high school baseball softball and then also like I said also would help for football and we would have a nice area
033for the music boosters concessions. >> I think it's important to note also that on that one the reason we have decking there is because we did already look at this from a value engineering standpoint to get asphalt in would require a retaining wall. it it gets into hundreds of thousands of dollars where we can we can build the decking portion over there without having to do all the retaining wall because of the hillside there. So that's why it goes from decking which is more expensive than asphalt in and of itself, but not when you don't have to build the retaining wall and everything that goes with it. So that's why we have decking to the certain point and then once you got on to where the slope can handle the asphalt, it goes to asphalt.
034So that's why we have the two different materials there. just so the public understands why we've switched. >> Yeah. No, that was I mean again, you know, these have been going through some process like you said, Mr. Swagre, it was going to be very expensive to build retaining wall and and the maintenance on that and all too. So, this is a better option for them. Any other questions or thoughts about the next slide is important especially for tonight. That's a picture of our baseball um field right now. And what you see are all those uh lines there. That's actually part of a rendering or drawing because that adds the subdrainage to the um baseball field. And that comes up tonight. That's the the 227,000 almost 228,000 that we're asking the board to approve tonight. If
035that's approved, then we'll be able to work with our construction team. And this week, we expect them to organize bids and get this get this moving. We pulled this piece of it out because there's a time sensitivity here. We're trying to and get that drain tile, which is our expected process, in this fall. Be able to get it back into shape and then start to get some growth on top of that. And then you get some in the spring as well, too. Questions about baseball? Again, that'll come up later tonight. And then the next slide, u North Campus, um some work that we've been doing here. And you can see in the green area there, that's looking to be a that looks to be a turf uh field. And that'll be quite a large turf
036field with a width of about 220 ft. So that would give us really a soccer regulation that we've been looking for. If you look at the black area there, just to the right of the green turf there, that's concessions again, restrooms in there, a little bit of storage, um, and a press box in there, too. So, some of that work is still being worked on. This this is earlier on in the phase process compared to some of the other aspects of the project, but definitely coming together. And then you can see where we've tried to address some of the parking that's in there. This is still being worked on. If you look at the bottom though, you can see we have a road coming off of West Maple. Um, and we after talking in subcommittee,
037we have the ability of some parking spots, but a bus to be able to turn around in there almost like a part of a culde-sac type of look, if you will. So again, this will need some more work and input from subcommittees and the entire board, but we wanted to show you about how that's starting to mature questions about that. Um, one of the things that we're trying to do right now because of the lead time I'm sorry, can you go back one second on the turf? Um, the largest, you know, when you're putting these projects together, we're not only looking at the construction but materials. The turf is has a long lead time. So, we're trying to get some appointment organized with about two to three turf vendors and trying to get them in
038here to start showing us product because if we are going to move forward with this part of it, we're going to have to get that ordered relatively soon, even before the construction starts. >> Any questions? Anything I can answer? I thought it'd be good to kind of level set and and you know where we are with all of our projects. And like I said, the important one tonight will be the baseball subdrain. you know, trying to maximize the dollars we have set aside, but also be staying within the budget. So, some of these alternates in there will may or may not come to fruition based on >> uh final pricing. >> Yep. When we get to the baseball, I can talk a little bit about more about that, but we were able to pick up
039a couple alternates and the nearly $228,000 and I'll show you what those are just quickly when we get to that resolution. So, there's no other questions. Those are all the that's the entire presentation I have for tonight. Any other questions from anyone? >> Move on to board committees. >> We had quite a few um board's busy u this week. So I think or the last couple weeks actually. We'll start with buildings grounds and safety and we had a meeting on um September 3rd. Uh Ann Thomas and I, this is an sit on the grounds in maintenance and we are never um we never cease to be amazed at the number of issues that we try to fit into the budget. Um Dave Jenny is is is retired now and we want to send a big
040shout out to our maintenance department who has really stepped up and made our uh grounds awesome. They've met the criteria for every activity. They've done it with pride and we're proud of them. So, hats off to our um to to uh Derek Alter for leading that group. He stepped up into that role a bit. Um safety issues. We are looking at all the safety equipment on the on the grounds and making sure that that is safe and that they're brought up to to code. um the stadium bleacher work. I wanted to and I was laughing because you brought that up, but we have been talking about that and we're trying to decide what we should do, how much we should do, what we can do, and to make it as safe as possible because you're
041right, we've got some age aging spots on there. We need to do something with it. Um the landscaping design in general, we have always weeds to fill or to take out and always lawns to mow, etc. and you see them out here. Well, in grounds and maintenance, we talk about that a lot because Ann and I are very careful about walking the grounds and if there's a piece of paper, we pick it up and when we want to ask who did it or why is it not picked up, so we're not into we're not into that role, but we surely try to help when we can. Um, the North Campus update is exciting uh in as much as we it's going to be a total new area up there from the schools that were on
042that site. So, we're we're thrilled to see what we can do with that site. And again, we're value engineering everything we can and making sure we get the biggest bang for our buck. And the people in Johntown should be real pleased in a few months when they see that transformed into a wonderful round for soccer, um, whatever else. I'm not sure what all >> it's a good point. We talked about primarily soccer, but we're thinking about baseball. softball could be hitting up there especially you know in the >> it's lacrosse is a big one like you said >> right and regarding the city building it's uh as you've seen from the slides he presented we're underway with the renovation of the building here in the back that's going to be exciting too because people will
043will have a batting cage we'll have an opportunity for golf which I had not heard that but I'm happy about that I just visited a golf facility and looked at how they takes the simulator and it's wonderful. We haven't gotten that far. That's about $50,000. We haven't gotten that far, but we know how to do the net anyway, >> but it's going to be great. And so, you're going to see a lot of activity on this end of town very soon. We talked about the overflow parking lot, too. It's item here under number five. So, it was no surprise that someone else is asking us about it. It has some very serious um concerns, problems because it's a drainage problem up there. The permeable surface makes it much better for us to control that parking
044lot right now, but there are some things we should are looking at and what can we do with it. So, it's not it's not pushed aside. It's definitely on our agendas. Um I believe that oh, we did talk about the chains up here. I don't know if you've noticed the chains that are put up between to come out of the middle school. Um they're looking at an alternative to those chains and I think we're going to use a barricade. Is that correct? >> We were talking about maybe some arms and some better way to >> something. Yes. >> Regulate that because I think now sometimes people don't see it and they drive through it. So we were thinking of some better ways to manage that. >> I haven't scraped my car yet, but I've been
045very close. So I'm glad we're doing something with that. But that's all I can remember that we did. And have you got anything that I didn't cover? >> Uh we talked we talked about the Um, speed bumps. Were you going to Tim? Were you getting us something on that for speed bumps that we could pick up and >> portable ones? >> We looked at that before. >> I thought you were getting us. >> Here we are. Remember we looked at that uh >> Yeah. >> few years ago. We had a problem because they get pushed going down the hill. >> So the portable ones as you come down at the crosswalk, >> they wouldn't stay in place when they were the buses and stuff would break on them. You know what I because we're still
046having that problem up there um by the weight room, the side of the building. >> That that was the problem. That's we tried some portable ones there, but they kept and then if you don't then you can't plow because they peel them off. So, it was it's it continued to be a challenge. So, at that point, we added the second sign. >> We had them come in and put the second sign over there for the crosswalk sign and we restriped that. But, we can look at them again and see if there's anything else. >> The portable one, we tried them. They just kept pushing down the road as Traffic went down there forward. Okay. Thank you. I couldn't remember. I know we talked about it, but I couldn't remember. >> Yep. >> Thought it was
047a line item, but we haven't found a solution. >> Yeah. I do want to bring up one thing that uh got brought up uh to us and on that north campus, please, if you have a dog, please do not take them onto the north campus school property and walk them. And if they do happen to go out there and they do happen to use the restroom on our facility, would they owners of those dogs kindly clean up after those dogs? Because we have student athletes playing on those fields every day. Uh and it is a problem. If you go up there, you'll see quite a bit of it. Uh so I do ask the public that if you're walking one, we prefer you and actually you're not supposed to be on there with dogs, but
048if you happen to be on there with a dog, please at least clean up after them. So I do appreciate that because that's an ongoing issue. It is and we've received several incidents. >> Our coaches have called us complaining about it when they have to practice up there. So, if we could uh show some courtesy uh to our student athletes here and clean up after your dogs, that'd be great. >> We did discuss it in building some grounds as well. >> Okay. >> Some from a policy standpoint. We're going to look at for the board, too, and and you know, how we should manage animals on the property. So, watch for that. It probably take some months to get all that review, but we'll come back to you with some thoughts. >> Yeah. I don't
049want I mean, I get it a little bit, but clean up just like anywhere else. If it's not in your yard, clean up after it. >> Yeah. >> All right. Moving on to curriculum. >> Yeah. But curriculum on uh August 28th. >> I'm going from memory. Um I didn't bring my notes. No, that's all right. You'll you'll you'll catch me if I miss something. Um we talked very briefly about a couple things. Um the first is that we started the new curriculum adoption in 6 through 12 for ELA this year which is HMH. Um nothing major but really anecdotally things are going well teachers are enjoying it. The materials have been easy to use and incorporate into the classroom. And so um no no major concerns at the time which was really great. They seem
050to really be enjoying it. And I think the learning curve as far as like new technology and stuff not no concerns which is great. Um we will be um looking to do um study social studies for a social studies adoption for the 2627 school year. So that is what um the curriculum team is going to be jumping into. Uh we also talked about a couple different family engagement uh opportunities um in the K through five. So grandparents day is at the elementary school this Friday. Uh I don't have the intermediate date >> we on something Friday to our parents. We're going to move ours to the spring adjust, >> right? We're going to have a spring grandparent stay at the intermediate school. Um, but we love we love to see those continued. We know it
051means a lot to the families and the children to be able to bring their family members into the building. Um, map and Aadian benchmarking. We didn't talk a ton in detail, just that it's under way. And you know, one thing that is really cool is we have the opportunity to really uh use these tools to drill down into how students are testing. And so you can look at an individual student and really um, you know, look into ELA, but you can look at various, you know, components of each, which is really cool. that gives teachers the opportunity to really highlight specific areas in which students are either excelling or need additional support. So, I think that that's a really cool thing that we've got going on. We spent a bit of time looking at the
052report card preliminary data. Not much for me to say yet because again, not all of that is in and those numbers aren't final. But it was really good opportunity for Ann and I to just get a an understanding of all of the different components that are a part of the report card. Um things that are tracked, how how the data is used and how how uh information is used from previous years. And then this year there's a new component to the report card as well. So, we looked at that, what that's going to look like and uh strategies for uh implementing that. Ann, anything I missed? Got it all? Okay, great. And I will give you the finance report since Allan is not here this evening. We both sit on that committee. Usually, I let
053him do the talking because we both watch the dollar very carefully. Um this last few u months, Alicia, our treasur has been working on breaking down every sport, the cost of that sport, and what can we do to value that sport and make sure that everybody is is getting as much money as we can possibly afford. So, she's done a spending analysis of the sports and by gender as well, which is great. We looked at the cost of the season passes to the ball game to the uh regular price of the ticket to the ball game, a student price versus an adult price. How many people are utilizing the um the special um privilege that they get to attend a game without having to pay for it? And you know what? Should we should we
054raise the prices? Should we not? We are currently the lowest price in Lincoln County. So, but we kind of like being the lowest price. So, we kind of like being who we are, and that's Johntown. So, we but we do review that to be sure uh where we fall in line. We've reviewed the budget and every possible detail. I know more about the school budget than I know about my budget, for fact. So, I don't balance my checkbook. I gave it up. I balance the church or the school's checkbook. But any rate, we've gone down to every finite detail to be sure that the projections in our five-year forecast and our 10-year forecast are going to be as close to being accurate as possible when that time comes. So, if we follow a guideline, um
055we we think we're going to be able to nail down on many things that we haven't done in the past. And I have sat here many years and watched the budget. And I think it's in the most accurate shape that I've ever seen it. And I want to thank our treasurer for doing the job that she does because she doesn't let a penny roll without talking to it. So that's good for all of us. Um, we have a new computer program that we're working on and it's it takes it takes every budget and every possible expenditure to the finite um end. So, I think we're going to know a lot about us ourselves and I think that the town the community is going to benefit because we won't we won't make as many projections that
056we really can't honor and we're really excited about it. The um legislature is definitely pay playing playing an active role in our lives right now. They are looking at all budgets including school budgets, m municipality budgets, etc. I am sympathetic to what they're trying to do, but I'm also very very concerned that from a school perspective, we have to really think about where they're going to be cutting our budget. And I've said that for years. Well, you they cut the budget and they mandate programs. that doesn't seem to gel real well because we have to afford those programs that they mandate. But moreover, that if we don't um if we don't really pay attention right now to what will pass or not pass legislatively, we're going to have a burden that we have never seen
057before. So, we're very aware of that and we're looking at it with through this new computer program. So, we're excited about the fact that we're doing our homework and if you have suggestions out there, I know that everybody's paying property taxes and we're concerned about those. How does that balance and how do we all afford afford schools and afford your lifestyle that you're accustomed to, but how do we be fair to every area? I can't see some of the legislation that's being talked about right now. I get very irritated in the evenings thinking I they really can't do that. But I also see that they are and they keep introducing legislation that's even more punitive and they're I should say they're considering and evaluating legislation that's even more punitive. So I think we have to
058stay on our game. Be sure and communicate to your school board members about how you feel about what's being proposed because we are here to answer. We're here your to be your voice. We're not our voice. We're your voice. So be sure and let us know what you think. The capital projects that we're doing are very expensive and we're very proud to say that we think we can do this with a lot less pain and anguish than some school districts. So, we're working hard to do that and be sure that we don't have to run another levy or something like that. So, I don't think you can I don't think we can expect that we're going to run a levy or even put one on the ballot. We do have to. We're excited about the
059items that we're building and um again tell your school board members how well you uh are appreciating what they're doing because it's a lot of hours. So that's it for um finances. >> Thank you. >> On insurance, is it okay if Should I do this? Okay. Because I know that you know board members had different commitments. >> Um do you want to go through it a little bit and then I'll I'll support you because you've been leading it. Sure. So when we meet, the main focus is looking at our utilization of our plan and we continue to see that our our plan loss ratios are exceeding 100%. We're at 121%. Combined for calendar 25, our high deductible um health plan has performed significantly better with a 51% loss ratio. So it is outperforming our PO
060um which has 157%. So that loss ratio. So that first number I gave you of 121 was blended with the two plans. But that's pretty significant difference at 51% for high deductible health plan and 157. So we have started also um an education initiative with our staff and it is being led by the insurance committee. Um, and Dr. Wagner and I in going out and helping people understand our insurance benefits, how how the plans work, the differences in the plans. And we spent a lot of time at the meeting preparing the committee. They will lead the actual um kickoff of this education at with the PD day and presenting for about an hour and taking questions. So, we prepared a brief little and talking points and flyers so all staff can get the same message
061on September 19th. Um, we also gotten some preliminary renewals in for medical. It looks like the renewal may come in between 12 and 15%. Is what we're expecting. That is given the unwritten rate cap rule that we've been enjoying by Ohio um school benefits consortium. Uh dental is also trending a little bit higher. It's a 95% loss ratio, but that is down from prior years. And the pulmonary renewal there is about a 4.7 increase. So that's really I mean that's been a lot of our focus is we want to educate, we continue to monitor the plan utilization so that we're using benefits wisely and we're making the right choices when it comes time to choose a health plan for each individual. >> Only things I would add is we're getting ready for renewal, right? So
062that's that's coming up. And then the other thing is, and this has been with the board committee as well as the staff, is we have many more um meetings scheduled this year than we ever have in the past. So we can see what's what's happening with our healthcare. And we've made some small changes to the to the plan as well. Like this year, any new staff hired on as of July 1st uh only have two options, either of the maximum value plan or they have the high deductible or the HSA. um they don't have the PO option right now because you can hear that it's the way it's trending. So I think that's really everything. I mean we'll have uh we have another meeting scheduled here and then non-renewal or not I renew renewals are
063coming up right uh non renewal I guess renewal because we'll start it in January because we run out of calendars. >> So they from the industry standpoint where do they want their loss ratio to be in the high 80s. What's what's their kind of expectation? I mean they got to make money. get, you know, they can't >> pay out more than they get paid in. >> I would say typically in the low 90s, you know, they're in that range. Anytime. >> So 88 to 92 kind of that window >> somewhere. I would say there if you get beyond that, then that's >> that's right. I was looking at like what triggers a rate increase once you get above the low 90s that kind of triggers a a probable rate increase >> because you know like
064>> and we're at 157. >> Yes, we've been we've been high for >> Oh, I Yeah. Yeah. Well, and like Felicia said this the other day, and I when we were looking at this, I thought it was a really good way to think about it. >> Even at a 15% increase, >> you're paying a dollar or $100, however you want to look at it. And then you're getting, you know, in the dollar, you're getting a$15, $115. I mean, it just escalates. So, that's the value of the consortium. And I'm glad we have our consortium as well, too. I think one of the things that helps the consortium when they're looking at loss ratios now is we can bifurcate the um HSA from the PO and start and we have the minimum value but that's a
065that's a small portion only have a few people in there but it's really the two lead plans. So you start to look at how those plans are trending and I think they see that we're trying to make some changes there. Then we had we have some coordination of benefits that we implemented in 2023 sometimes called spousal carveout. So we're watching that. We've did we've conducted a dependent audit make sure everything is good there. And then like I said even the change as of July 1st of this year where we have the um you know now the only option we don't have a PO option anymore. So those things you know it's it's not going to change things overnight but I think we're headed in the right direction. So, we're pleased that, you know, that looks
066like we're going to come into a range. We're going to be, you know, have a renewal. We'll see how it trends, but it's probably going to be that 12 to 15% range. >> So, when we talk about the uh average uh is that a weighted by participant or cost when you talk about the 51% increase or fix loss ratio on the uh high deductible versus the 157 whatever it was and you gave us a number of whatever it was. Is that weighted on participant number of participants or overall loss ratio? >> It's the actual Yes. number of participants and then the utilization the claim. >> So they average the two. So it's weighted the overall loss. Okay. Yeah. And it's still an immature year, right? Because when you I'm doing off the top of my
067head on the numbers with me, but when you look at loss ratios on the HSA because we've done we've had two full calendar years. No, we've had one full calendar year because we started in 20 Yeah, we've had 23. We've we've been we've averaged under 100% I think >> in in two of the years. What is that? 93 93 from >> actually 107 1159 that's calendar year. So calendar year there the loss ratio um was 93% for all of the calendar year >> just in the high deduct >> just on the high deduct >> high deductible yeah and then the loss ratio interestingly it was the same thing in capital in 2024 if you look at the PO we lost >> for the year we lost 112% in fiscal year 203 and then if you
068look at last year which calendar year 128%. So, we'll we'll see how it trends, but the important thing is we're conversing with these numbers and what's what it means behind the numbers, too. >> Yep. Okay. >> I appreciate it. Thank you. >> Well, and on a related note to that, we kicked off the financial Fridays. >> Oh, yeah. >> On Friday at um JIS was our first one and it went really great. The teachers were warm and welcoming and they were curious. We had good discussions. So, we're looking for We have another one on Wednesday at the high school, I believe. >> And that was something that came out of the committee meetings that the teachers, the staff, >> that was >> I just want to clarify financial Friday was on a Wednesday. It threw
069me off, but >> there's actually it's it's actually financial Fridays with Felicia, but we call that we call and then I'm the backup where I can I go and >> Oh, because we have professional development next. So, they moved it to Wednesday. Is that okay? All right. >> We thought we already branded it financial Friday, so we didn't want to rebrand it. like trademark all over stuff. >> But it was >> But you did a nice job because, you know, we're sitting there looking at all this data and we get to see a regular basis, but you got to make it consumable for people. >> Definitely. >> That's really the the part of it and the staff's been really good about it. Our insurance committee been, you know, with the two board members been very
070viable and we appreciate that. So, it's kind of a spree decor like let's roll our sleeves up and see what we can do here. So, >> we've also had our high school uh financial uh teachers. Yeah. Involved in there, too. Yeah. So, >> moving on to policy, then >> it was a riveting time for policy committee. >> Always is >> bright and early. Um we looked at seven policies, four of them which were technology based. The good thing is Allan and I are also the technology committee. So we were able to have the technology committee look at the policies at the same time. Um and then there were three others. Um student records AED and other items and all are on the agenda today. >> Sounds great. Thank you. >> Strategic planning, economic development, construction.
071Ruthan and I met today. You saw the presentation tonight. So that's what we covered. >> LPDC. >> Well, that is the report. It's a presentation you saw earlier >> and then I'll and when we get to the resolution I'll have on the sub drainage there's a little bit there we can go through too that involves that committee. LPDC doesn't have its next meeting until um September 16th. So there I don't have an official report tonight. >> All right, moving on then into consent agenda. >> Resolution 25-09-194 is approval of consent agenda. And I would remind the board just real quick that there were um changes to items C, F, and J as we had talked about at the beginning of the meeting. Y >> I get a motion. >> Motion >> and a second. >>
072Second. >> Run through these real quick. Okay. U salary degree changes. Um we have a process in place where teachers can show they've advanced their education and once they meet certain thresholds, they can be advanced on the salary schedule. So that's um Michael Malloy there. And uh we may have another teacher or two before the end of the uh deadline. Um next we have uh Lisa Smith who will be a permanent sub for us. So we're happy that she'll be housed out of JES but she'll be working throughout the district and that's what we did last year. So that's helpful. Um classified employment. Um see that we have a person there. Um person there. Um, >> oh, I'm sorry. I should have said when I said C, I should add district tutors in there as
073well, too. Sorry. In addition to Lisa Smith, >> we removed those, right? See, >> sorry. Yeah, those are all removed from there. So, just to be clear, and I'll bring those back in in October. Um, cafeteria substitutes, we have names there. And then we have the two additional people I told you about. So, excited that we're getting some more food service cafer support there. Um, next we have in their volunteers. Um, at the last board meeting there was a question about what volunteers were doing, you know, and the value they provide. I think we did an update on that last year. So, we'll bring we were thinking more like mid year. Let us get in if I can. When did we do that last time? Was it at the end of the year? We did
074it about by about mid to end of the year. I'm trying to remember. But we'll we'll bring that back like mid year once we get things up and running and we can see. >> Question on that. >> Yeah. >> When we say are general volunteers. Did who takes care of assigning them? Do they know where they're going on a weekly or daily or hourly basis? What do we what how do we handle that? >> Yes. So then um the buildings that are responsible will be you know assigning them and then we have some cases we have to coordinate. So you can see like Diane Schaefer there is coordinated around three different buildings there. Okay. >> So the principles coordinate that. It's easier when they're just assigned to one building. And I know a lot of
075these, not a lot of these, some of these for the intermediate are like parents who want to go on the fifth grade camp trip. So, so we would mark them as general >> fifth grade. We've had some other things. >> And so they might do stuff in the building, but that also could be the one time they volunteer. So, >> yeah, sometimes they get in and they enjoy it. So, we find some extra opportunities as well, too. So, >> that's wonderful. >> Yeah. Um, board meeting minutes are there as stated. I think those are pretty clear. um monthly finance report and that's all been shared with the board. And then the um last one is >> the item J. >> J, right? >> Yep. >> Why do I have an I on here? >> Because
076I H I J I is the financial report. J is >> I is the letter before J. >> Okay. I just want to show you that. >> Mine is a different one. Listen, I get the alphabet. >> I thought you were going to say because I comes before J. Not for the viewing audience. Do you notice that my eye says something? Oh, it does. It does. His is different though. >> Mine is a little different because we were work I have a executive summary of this. So, >> and I'll give I'll give that one to you. >> Okay. Thank you. It's front of the entire public here about I don't know. >> H I Jesus. >> I didn't have to take my shoes off for that one. And I could do it. I count that
077one. But I just want to show you so that we I have an executive copy here. Sorry. Um so anyways, >> you don't get anything by me, sir. Yeah. Again, I just want to show you. I'm make this available for anyone who wants to see it. So, um anyways, we have the two names, Christina and Mike, that we're recommending. Christina for middle school head cheer coach and then, um Mike Triplet for varsity softball head coach. And I think that's all. Did I miss anything? >> Okay, just checking. Got all the letters of the alphabet. >> That's right. We're good to go. I'm sending this to you people tomorrow. I want you to know I'm sending them SC look at board members. >> I want it to be a blooper at the end of the year,
078right? All right. Any other questions, comments on the consent agenda? Call the RO, please. >> Mrs. Thomas, >> yes. >> Mrs. Brewer, >> yes. >> Mr. Swagger, >> yes. >> Mrs. Davis, >> yes. >> Consent agenda is passed. Congratulations, Mike. Welcome aboard. >> Softball coach. >> Yes, I read that. >> All right. Moving on, treasurer. >> Yes. Treasur's recommendation resolution 259-195 to approve the superintendent's contract annual perform annual performance bonus. >> Can I get a motion? >> A motion >> and a second. >> Second. >> Any questions, comments? This is the contractual one. We give Dr. Wagner different goals each year. We will be setting his new goals uh for this current year soon. Uh we've talked as a board uh we haven't finalized them, but it's probably going to be like two goals. One
079will be have to do with uh um uh continuing our partnership with the CEK and the trade skills, you know, continuing that and continuing to increase because we're very pleased with how that's working, bringing those in students, keeping them in the district. Anything else that we can continue to expand on that? And the second one will uh be uh focusing on our uh high school and the curriculum at the high school and improving our uh grade scores and things at the high school level. So those are the two uh goals that we'll be setting for you for next year. We appreciate uh reaching your goals that we set this past year. And if any other board members have any questions or comments, I think we're good. Call the role, please. >> Mrs. Thomas, >> yes.
080>> Mrs. Ber, >> yes. >> Mr. Swagger. >> Yes. >> Sis Davis. >> Yes. >> Resolution 25-09-196 is increase substitute rate. >> And can I get a motion? >> A motion. Second. >> Uh on this one, this is we we discussed this as a board. You guys know it's a work session. U and this is uh welld deserved and it brings us in line with uh the rest of the uh the county community and puts us in a in a fair position. >> Um and it we're making it retroactive to the beginning of school so that way the the uh substitute pay is back to the first day of the the school year. So appreciate that. >> You have anything else? Anyone else? Any questions, comments on that? All the role please. >> Mrs. Thomas.
081Yes, >> Mrs. Ber. >> Yes, >> Mrs. Davis. >> Yes, >> Mr. Swagger. >> Yes. >> Resolution 25-09-197 is approval of the 2025 2026 bus routes. >> If I can get a motion. >> I'll motion. Second. >> Any questions, comments? >> Just want to compliment Community Bus Service for their work. Derek Boozenberg is their primary point person and done a nice job with this. You know, this has become even more timely. The other thing on this whenever we look at any kind of bus routes, we always have to look at sexual predator lists or those are identified and we make sure bus stops are arranged. I won't get into details on that, but it's an important >> there's a lot more that goes into this than realize and and I appreciate the work on this
082because we've in recent past been getting this in November, December, you know, so getting it this early and actually approving bus routes this early is greatly appreciated because it solidifies where we're at. Uh, I'm more than happy with how the busing has gone. Uh, it's gotten better each year. Uh, Derek, I know you put in a lot of time and effort for that. So, I do appreciate that because there's there is a lot more that goes into busing and we were one of the knock on wood few districts not experiencing busing issues for drivers and you know, we're actually able to get our routes out. Uh we're tight as is everyone in getting back and some of our extracurriculars sometimes might be a few minutes late uh getting off their bus, but we're doing an
083excellent job getting there and getting our students because the other schools that I've uh talked to and and are in the newspaper about it uh are not having the success as we are with busing. Obviously, uh we're doing something right in that regard. So, I appreciate the work there. >> I was just going to add um Mr. Dr. Bruenberg, I know that with with your continued partnership with them, they've really done a great job to increase their communication with parents. If you are not on Stopfinder and your child is on a bus, please get Stopfinder. It's incredible. You can track the bus, but I the the messages on there, hey, we're five minutes late. Small things like that. Um, you know, there was a road closure, whatever. It is it's very helpful. it's going to
084start getting cold out soon and and and then the mornings are going to be dark and so just, you know, having that I think has been really really awesome. So, thank you for that. >> Can we um check with our folks at the Jersey Township that live in that area with the construction? I know Jersey Township reached out to us um and or I should say u to you Dr. Wagner and Mr. Boozenberg to about the construction that's going on there. They wanted to be good partners. Yeah, I I was going to say that, you know, um on the heels of what Mr. Swagger said, but you know, in addition to everything, all the accolades, I think we have an added well, I know we have an added burner burden because of the road closures
085and all too. So, that's a good extension of our partnerships. We're receiving that information from Jersey Township. We sometimes get it from New Albany as well, too. I should say some we get it when it's relevant. So, that really helps us a lot with this. Yeah, we good good thing to mention. I think it makes our job that much harder in the school district. You know, people don't realize we have 52 square miles, >> you know, that covers this district. So, >> and busing is one of our larger costs. I mean, it's it's a significant cost to to bus. So, uh that's a number that never goes away and continues to go up. So, it's important we be as efficient as we can in those regards because uh you can quickly uh change the fortunes
086of a school district if uh busing is not handled correctly. >> Yeah, that's right. All right. Any other questions, comments? We can call the role, please. >> Mrs. Thomas, >> yes. >> Mrs. Ber, >> yes. >> Mr. Swagger, >> yes. >> Mrs. Davis, >> yes. >> Resolution 25-09-198 is athletic improvement project guaranteed maximum price. Otherwise, GMP amendment number one. >> Get a motion. >> So, moved. I'll second. Um, this is the one I added some detail in. So, I give me a minute here. I'll just read through this because it's um a little more legal. Um, GMP or guaranteed maximum price amendment one to the agreement with Robertson Construction LLC for the athletics improvement project. Specifically, the subdrainage for baseball is approved and an amount not to exceed $227,230. The board hereby authorizes the board
087president, superintendent, and treasurer working in conjunction with the other ministers and legal counsel to negotiate the terms of the GMP amendment number one and to execute GMP amendment number one and any related documents that satisfactory conclusion and negotiations on behalf of the board. Um I also have um a quick handout so you can see how the price breaks down. Um, inside that you notice it said not to exceed for the 227,000. >> Um, that's important because there's a couple alternates that were picked up in this and um, so you know that your commitment it won't be any more than 27,000 um, and change here. But the two alternates that were picked up is in the outfield um, is once they install the drain tile um, then we replace that with sod. We thought because of
088growing, you know, that we can get a little bit of depending on how the fall goes, we can get a little bit of growth there and certainly in the spring side will help us as opposed just trying to grow from grow from seed. And then the other one is adding cleanouts. I think Mrs. Thomas, that was your idea. So if you look at the um picture that's on there at the end cap of every one of those, there's like a little mark or a demarcation there. We'll have cleanouts there available. Um the other ones that we had talked about and we and and a we do not have in this and it was just over $12,000 and that was to run the sub drainage through the infield. There's not the same timeline where we can
089get if we did that this fall, you know, it would be corrupted for the spring. So, you know, as I said earlier when we were talking about this there's phases to these projects. We believe we're going to bring back the infield sub drainage at another time, probably right after the season ends. if the board agrees with that and then we can get that and then it'll be ready, you know, it'll get about a year of growth and be able to make sure that that gets accommodated. And then the other um the other alternate there for the 8,644, we didn't really need that because they had a different application. >> Yeah, they put it into the base bit. I wanted to mention that they actually came up with a different type of piping that's better. It's
090smooth on the outside, perforated on the uh smooth on the inside, perforated on the outside. it actually meets what we want and is better than what the alternate was. >> So, we went with that and it's in that base. So, >> you know, we were we came in $48,000 under budget. Yeah. >> On this and got two alternates that we wanted. The only thing we're not doing is the infield sub drainage and we're not doing that because it's a grass infield. >> We can live with a grass outfield that has a few bumps in it come spring. We can't have an infield that has bumps. We're going to have to wait until right after baseball's done to do the infield stuff uh next year >> to make that safe >> the cost and what we'll
091do is we'll have to rebid that bring back the board the estimate from our construction team that might be a little bit more money because there's the whole economies of when you're doing this work but right now it's not really safe and yeah you know that that can create especially balls in an infield can take some directions when you have problems with the infield there. So we'll look to bring that back to the board as one of the other phases. It might be a few dollars more 000 or 2,000. We'll see. I don't know where it'll be now. >> We're still going to be significantly under >> Oh, yeah. I was going to say even with the 48,000, >> we'll be getting all the alternates we had and still being significantly under the budgeted amount.
092So, I'm more than pleased with this project so far. >> Again, that's an outgrowth of a lot of work from board members, too. So, appreciate that. But anyways, that's the that's the resolution I walked in. >> Any other questions, comments? >> I'm excited for this. We're to get started. >> Call the RO, please. >> Mrs. Ber >> yes >> Mrs. Thomas >> yes >> Mrs. Davis >> yes >> Mr. Swagger >> yes >> resolution 25-09-199 is first reading revised policies >> can I get a motion >> I'll make the motion >> and a second >> Alan's not here to second >> I know >> any questions on this call the role please >> Mrs. Davis >> yes >> Mrs. Thomas. >> It was It was okay. Pardon me. >> Doesn't matter. >> Yes. >> And
093Mrs. Thomas. >> Yes. >> Mr. Swagger. >> Yes. Resolution 25-09-200 first reading to resend policies. Can I get a motion? >> I make a motion. >> Second. >> Questions, comments? Call the RO. >> Mrs. Davis? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Tom. Mrs. Ber. and Mrs. Thomas. Yes. Mr. Swager. >> Yes. Resolution 25-09-201, first reading of replacement policies. >> Can I get a motion? >> I make the motion. Second. >> Third time's charm. >> Had to watch. >> I was hoping Ann would second it because I thought it'd be funny. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Mrs. Davis, >> yes. >> Mrs. Ber, >> yes. >> Mr. Swagger, >> yes. >> Mrs. Thomas, >> yes. >> Any board comments? Anything additional >> to you? >> Yep. Couple things here real quick. Um, just a report card. We're still waiting.
094I know Mrs. Davis mentioned some. We're still waiting for final results. We've seen some preliminary. Um I if I had to predict based on what I've seen I think our report card is going to look similar to maybe even slightly lower in some areas. Um you're going to see and we'll tease through this when we get the final data. Um it'll probably be in about a week and then um that'll be the public facing version and then there'll be uh information coming for the teacher value added information. Um you know we've done made so many changes in curriculum recently. So, I think this is, you know, within our expectations that things will, you know, get a little tighter here before they get better, but we'll see. Um, as soon as I have information about that,
095I'll share that with the board. Um, been giving some updates and I just want to give you another update. Crater Johnson Parks and Recreation District and the structure there. Um, looks like, you know, if there's no, we're in the comment period now. So if there's no comments after or as of September 19th, both public bodies being the school district and the board can vote to modify the changes which will be primarily in two areas. One will be to change the organizational structure. So instead of that fifth position being voted on um it'll be a Monroe Township position and then the other will be the ability to levy over 30 years which is you know they have 10 right now too. So >> we also as a board so you know we need to appoint a
096second member here soon. So we'll we'll have some discussion as far as that goes because one of the members August 31st term expired they can be reuped. We just have to make that decision. >> So I I'll work on that keep the board updated and then bring that to the October meeting as well as most likely the structure again unless there's changes uh that come through or questions that come through during the comment period. Um, high school ribbon cutting is this Friday as a reminder. So, we'll be at the high school. We talked about that a bit, but you know, want to make sure that CNA part that's where we'll be meeting is CNA. So, we're happy to have that and share that with the public. Uh, grandparents day already talked about on um well,
097it'll be at least for the elementary this Friday and then we'll have the spring for the intermediate. That'll kind of work out nice too because it won't sometimes we have competing interests with, you know, people trying to get to both buildings. We try to alternate schedules. So, this will help a bit. Um, PTO fall festival, Johntown, this is home is the official name. That'll be October 1st through the 4th. And I sent you some information. That's certainly exciting and uh looks to be possibly an ongoing event. I think as I've been saying, >> got a lot of potential. I think >> I think so. Just from a community standpoint and and the PTO's been leading that just tremendous to work on some fundraising and and um I think it's going to be a very nice
098event. All in all, I have a feeling if it goes as well as I think it will become It's an annual event and really celebrates the community. And lastly, I want to thank you for the annual contract performance. Um, I tell people all the time this doesn't happen without a team and you know that includes the board of education and I appreciate all the work you're doing but also the administrative team because I couldn't do this without all of them. So, thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> That's all I have. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Any other questions, comments? >> Get a motion to adjourn. >> A motion. >> Resolution 259202. >> A second. Sorry. >> Call the RO, please. >> Mrs. Thomas, >> yes. >> Mrs. Davis, >> yes. >> Mrs.
099Ber, >> yes. >> Mr. Swather, >> yes. Meeting is adjourned. Have a good evening. >> I have a question. >> Yes. Praise