001We're good. We're good. All right. Good evening everyone. We can start with a moment of silent prayer. Thank you. Stand for the pledge, please. 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. Call the role, please. Mr. Swagger, here. Mrs. Davis, here. Mr. Benson, here. Mrs. Ber, here. Mrs. Thomas, here. Reading, please. The John Toma Road Board of Education will hold a regular meeting at 5:00 PM June 16, 2025. The meeting will be held in the board's new regular meeting space within the council chambers of the Johntown City Administration building located at 599 South Main Street, Johntown. This meeting replaces the previously announced uh June 9th, 2025 board of education meeting regular session. This
002is a public meeting of the board of education for the purpose of conducting the school district's business and is not to be considered a public community meeting. There is 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. I request the superintendent of the district shall make reasonable accommodation for a person with a disability to be able to participate in this activity. Recording shall be made at each meeting of the board as administrative aid and shall be preserved as public documents of the board. Thank you. Any additions or deletions to the agenda? So I have a few tonight. Um under number six, consent agenda H, I had some be determined in there. Um, at this time of the year, we're
003often going through the interview process. So, I have one additional name to add in there. The others will remain to be determined. Um, under the high school ELA position. Oh, actually, we have it in there. We got it. No, we didn't get a second. Um, no, it's the high school. We don't have the high school. It's not in ours. Yeah. Um, oh that's why I have to it is an addition. Let me see. It's not changes. Okay. It's on there. Okay. Um, so we'll so we'll add in and yours will be Benjamin Gert for the high school ELA position. Sorry, I Debbie and I have a more detailed copy. So I saw that yours didn't have a copy. So other than that, everything else will stay as to be determined as we go through the
004interview process. Okay. Sure. It's Ger N. Uh some other changes to the agenda. We have executive session um tonight. It's resolution 162, I believe. And what I'd like to do because of some implications to the board agenda is I like to put that earlier in the meeting. And we have make sure that's Yes, 162. So, I'd like to move that earlier in the agenda. We have Representative Kevin Miller here and he has a presentation. So, if we can get started with our presentations tonight and then go into executive session and then what we'll do is um we'll code that as I'll give it a new number so that we can trace it. So, it'll be 25-06-133A and that'll go in between the first and second presentation. And then the reason for going into executive session
005um will be twofold. Um one is for um it's for its original state of purpose discussion with the board's legal council of disputes involving the board that are in sub are the subject or of pending or imminent court action. And then the other do you have a list in here? Oh, you put it in there. Um, the second reason will be in for matters to be kept confidential by federal laws or rules or state statutes. Um, and we have two more. Um, resolution and 256142 are included in your agenda. We did not put the names of the design professional architects or the construction manager at risk. So, I'll have resolutions later on plug those in for the board, but right now we'll um I'll have to walk those in later. I think those are all
006the changes to the agenda. Good. Okay. Sorry. This time of the year there's a lot of moving pieces especially with the personnel process. So that's it. If I can get a motion to adopt the agenda. So move and a second. A second. Any discussion? Call the role, please. Mr. Benton. Yes. Mrs. Thomas. Yes. Mrs. Ber. Yes. Mr. Swagger. Yes. Mrs. Davis. Yes. move on to presentation. Any public remarks? Okay. Um presentation. So the first presentation want to introduce Ohio Representative Kevin Miller. He has some acknowledgements. I won't steal his thunder. Um this mic works if you want. And then we have building representatives as well too. Excellent. You know what though? We we record so we won't be able to hear. You can you can you can move at the mic if you want. You
007can take the mic out of the stand and move if you want. That might help. Okay. Well, let's just do this then. We'll we'll we'll use it as is. If I could, could I get the um building the principles? So, from the middle school, the high school, and intermediate. Our high school, our middle school principal had another commitment unexpectedly tonight. So, we have our dean of students, Abby Fitz, is here to represent the middle school. Excellent. Thank you. Well, first of all, thanks to the board and superintendent for having me here tonight. Um, these are the things that I look forward to, uh, to be able to go and recognize folks in my district for great things. For those of you that don't know me, I'm State Representative Kevin Miller. Um, I do represent, uh,
008the area here. I also represent portions of Fairfield and Perry counties as well. Um but what I'm here today to do or tonight I should say um is to congratulate um three schools and actually your elementary school was awarded this designation last year. Um but unfortunately I wasn't the rep then so I'm here here now and I wanted to make sure that I recognize these folks. So what it is is it's the 2025 Purple Star Award. Um, and it's given by the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce. And what it does is it acknowledges the great things that our school district does here for our military folks. So, the support they give the families um, you know, when when folks are overseas or serving or even if they're in uh in the communities, but there's
009a certain uh amount there's like five different criterias that they have to meet in order to do this. And what I will tell you is it's not easy because I don't think I have another district or another school district in my district that has all of its buildings designated. So this is really a a big deal. So congratulations uh to the board for you folks that are working hard every day. Appreciate what you do and happy to I'm not going to read this to to everyone but um I will Johntown Middle School And once again, just thank you to the board for all the great things that you're doing. I know Dr. Wagner, we've had several conversations. There's a lot of stuff going on downtown. We'll continue to have those conversations and and interact. Appreciate
010everything you guys are doing. very fortunate to have leaders like this in the district. Uh congratulations. Thank you. I think Thank you. Get some pictures. Can I get Mrs. Wagner to come up too? She's our elementary principal. Absolutely. And I normally I would stay for the rest of the meeting, but unfortunately I have a prior commitment, so I have to dash. So sorry about that, but thanks so much. Thank you so much for coming. Thank you. Representative Yeah, represent I did want to thank you for coming out. I I thank you also for the other support you've given us. you know, obviously just coming out here to give out the awards is a small part of your uh importance to the district. I do appreciate you meeting with staff before meeting with other board members
011and and working with us uh as best you can on these issues. So, I do appreciate that. And I think everybody knows in this community, the the veterans, I mean, we work with the American Legion regularly. We've got a great community. A lot of the veterans, we we think uh extremely highly of all of our veterans here. We we elevate it. We certainly promote it uh within the district. So, I'm very pleased to see that we've uh reached purple star recognition at all of our buildings. So, I thank you for coming out. Thank you. Thank you. Now, we're going on 25613A. Yep. Okay. 133A. If I can get a motion to go into executive session under 256133A. I'll motion. Second. You have me. Yeah. So, we're going in for two reasons. discussion with the board's
012legal council of disputes involving the board that are the subject of pending or imminent court action and the second reason matters required to be kept confidential by federal laws or rules or state statutes. Thank you. Call RO please. Mrs. Thomas, yes. Mrs. Ber, yes. Mr. Swagger, yes. Mrs. Davis, yes. Mr. Benton, yes. Thank you. We're going to go next door for the executive session. So everyone stay here. We'll make it as fast as we can. Thank you. I am going to take a mentor with me. Good. We did Yeah. All righty. We are back out of executive session which ended at 603 and moving on through presentations. Uh Dr. Wagner, when you get a moment. Sure. Um, next we were going to talk about staffing and give an update. Um, what I'd like to do
013is highlight some of the people who are here actually that we can recognize. We have um, Mr. Shift and maybe you could help me a bit with um, our athletic director and uh, we have Aaron G here. We can introduce him and I think we have some members of our interview team, at least a few here. I think Polly was here too in the back there. So, I'm going to talk about so we can introduce the board to some of our upcoming candidates and we'll go through our rest of our list. Y, good evening. Um yeah, Aaron G uh comes to us from um uh West High School. Uh five years of experience there as the head AD. Um it was uh uh a good process, intense process, uh interviewing process. Um but it was
014quick. We we uh started um screeners and then um did several rounds and then had our third and final round interviews uh this past Thursday. So, um, but, uh, Aaron's eager to, um, come and, uh, and, uh, and take over, um, for Mr. Gant. And, um, I think the programs are in a good place. Um, Mr. Gance left them in a good place, uh, moving forward. So, I'd like to introduce um, Aaron G. 32. Good evening, everybody. Um, very excited to be here. Uh again, Aaron G. Um I've uh it's been a quick process like uh like uh like like Mr. Shipton just said. Um um but I I come from Hillyard, Ohio. Uh I'm I'm a local guy. Um I grew up in Hillyard when Hillyard wasn't the size that it is now. And
015um you know, I was raised culturally kind of like how Johntown is. And so my background and and everything that uh um I believe in, you know, mimics and and and parallels uh this community. And I'm excited to work for this community. I'm excited to work for this school district. Um I'm eager. Uh that's a good word. I'm a driven individual. Um I believe the students in this community, the the families in this community uh deserve the best and that's what I'm going to give them. So I'm excited to be here and uh I look forward to building relationships with all of you. So thank you. Welcome. Thank you. Absolutely. I heard the word quick a couple times, but it really wasn't tense more. It really because we had um we were talking Yeah, we
016were just talking. We had 32 uh members on the final interview uh process which was all the all the uh coaches of every sport, community members uh all administr represented even if we had a parent there. Jessica was there for golf. I mean we had every sport recognized and we had both our game managers there for middle school and high school. Game managers uh administrative assistant for athletics. We had Jeanie from Oh athletic trainer. Yeah. And we had some parent representation there as well. Yeah. Yeah. It was a diverse group. There was, like I said, there was 32 people there uh for the final three candidates. Had to uh interview in front of two separate groups of 16 roughly each. And so we had 32 community members. It was a long night. Yes. Five hours.
017Yes. It was a long night. Five hours of interviews. And I know we were promised pizza. I'm just going to throw that out. We had it in our group. Yeah. We just our group was great. Nick Nick Hancock was taking care of it. So, uh, I just want to, you know, for those that weren't involved in the process to let them know what it really takes to, uh, get a community choice and and how, uh, you know, Erin, when you walk into the room and your chair sitting in the middle of 16 people, uh, with a spotlight on you essentially, uh, and then you get to repeat that on the other side of the wall with another group. So, I think it's very uh, nice also that we have that many community members willing to
018and wanting to and all the coaches showing up. The fact that we have 32 members in this community that stepped up and said, "I definitely want to be there." And they all showed up tells you the expectations we have here in Johntown when it comes to athletics. I mean, there are high expectations here. So, I do appreciate the process that you guys put together. And then, uh, obviously, we're excited for the choice that is being recommended. And I I do want to comment that Mr. Worman led a lot of this, too. He had support, but um, he he led really the process for us. Did a nice job. Thank you. Yeah. Can we introduce some of our other staff as well too? Absolutely. Um, do you want to introduce Ben and then uh principles if
019you have other people we want to introduce who maybe were approved at a previous meeting but are here tonight to be recognized. Yeah, just um um Benjamin Gernard uh comes to us from Manimo um Academy. Uh it's in South London, Columbus. Um found out today it's Somali for unity. um been there four years. Uh language arts teacher. Um he's going to replace Megan Van Horn at the high school and be our uh new ninth grade ELA teacher. Um so come on up, Ben. The name might sound familiar as well. I'll let Ben explain. Uh hi. Uh nice to meet you guys. I am Ben Garner. Uh I am related to Joe and Monica. And if you're familiar with the students, Sydney, Gernard, we're all big family. Uh but yeah, I'm excited to be working here.
020I've seen a lot so far. I'm excited to be part of the community here at John'stown. And yeah, thank you for this opportunity. Excellent. Thanks. Welcome. Anyone else from your building? Hello. We have with us Emily Driver. Emily, will you stand up and then I'll have you come up here. Emily is going to be an intervention specialist uh at the elementary school for us this year. She's coming from Cardington, so she grew up in Ohio, which is great. Attended MVNU, has been heavily involved in VBS, other volunteer kinds of activities, and then did her student teaching with us here in Johntown. So, it was really great that we kind of had an inside look and then she got an inside look with us. had a really nice collaborative uh interview team with both building principles,
021um a couple of intervention specialists, and several general education teachers. And all of us thought Emily was going to be the right person for the job. So, we're really excited to have her here with us. So, here's Emily. Yep. Hi, it's nice to meet everyone. Um yeah, like Grace said, I'm from MBNU. I just recently graduated and um I did my student teaching at Johnstown and I just loved the uh collaboration that I saw, the community that I saw in the district. So, I'm just really excited for the opportunity to work here. Thank you. Excellent. Welcome. Welcome. So, Johntown Intermediate actually has two uh two new staff members on the agenda this evening. First is Megan Justice. She's going to be taking over our art and innovation uh program if approved tonight. We're excited to
022have her. She comes to us from Upper Arlington, seven years of experience there. Uh so she's looking for a little bit smaller district. She works in a large building. So we're excited to have her here. So I'll just kind of turn it over. Yeah. Good evening. My name is Megan as you just heard and I was in Upper Arlington for seven years. My husband and I live over in Padascala and we have a three-month-old precious, precious boy, Charlie. and I was really excited at the opportunity of seeing that was there was an opening in your district. I think this adorable community is so special and I really felt that in my interview process as well. So, I'm excited to be here and I'm excited to uh be a part of this community. Excellent. Thank you.
023Welcome. Thank you. Welcome. And our other uh is our a new math teacher. Her name is Victoria Woo. She couldn't be here this evening. She's actually on a mission trip um to support something that she's a part of there. Uh she comes to us from Nashville, Tennessee. Her husband got a new job here in Columbus, so they're moving up here uh from Nashville. They got here last Thursday. She met with Dr. Wagner, I think last Thursday or two Thursdays ago. Uh she's excited for math. She's taught seventh grade math. She's already actually working with the reveal program that we have here. So, it's kind of nice that she comes in knowing a little bit about that. So, and she was excited to come down to fifth grade. I said, "Why fifth?" She said, "I I
024I like middle school, but they're different." And so, anyone who has a middle schooler, you know that they are a little different. So, she's excited to get into the upper elementary. Hopefully, she'll be able to come next month. She uh just lives over in New Albany, so not too far away. Either her and her husband there or over there. So, we're excited to have both of them be a part of our district. It's going to be really good. We say the same thing about the principles. We like them, but school, they're a little different. They're a little All right. Well, thank you so much. Thank you. Principles or ministers, anyone else? I think we got everyone right. Marissa Hatfield was here, but she had to leave. She told me she couldn't stay too long, but
025I think you all know Marissa. She was here when you officially approved her last month. But and that's all we have for staffing. Um we go to next presentation. Yes, please. Um next we wanted to talk about um our facilities. So I got to turn my pages here. Um and our uh athletics uh improvement projects. So you know, talk about busy and intense. We um have had a busy process with design professionals and uh we had 24 uh companies respond from uh design professionals andor our construction management companies and then we ended up doing some interviews of uh some of the firms. um appreciate the board members getting involved with that process because it's a a screening process we work through. And then we have two firms that we want to recommend to the board
026later tonight and then I'll ask um Derek Boozenberg later to put those up on the monitors so people at home can see those too. Um we'll start with design professionals. I will tell you that um it was very close. We had actually five firms we looked at and the criteria it was really interesting to see how well the firms did but we had a couple and it was very close between two. Um the design professional firm that we'll be recommending later on is a VSWC and that'll be for our two athletic projects. Any questions about and I know some of the board has been involved in these instance. Okay. And then the next um part of this we have and it's a little bit more intense when you have a construction manager at risk. It's
027the model we use. So we equally had um many firms there. It was very close on that as well too. And we actually had three firms that we interviewed for that. the final interviews we you know did some work before that of course and um of the and I'll read the resolution later on but of the three firms Robertson will be the top recommendation from the um the team so it'll be uh VSWC and Robertson for the construction team and that'll be for both athletic projects at the north campus and the west campus and again I'll have resolutions later on and and I'll read the official because I have to read the rank in it and I'll put that too. Okay. Thank you. Sure. Moving on to board committees. Um let's see. We had buildings,
028grounds, and safety. Oh, that's coming up, right? Um all we had is finance. Um insurance and insurance. We had policies coming up later. Policy and then we got another one coming up. So we want to start with finance. Yeah, uh we met uh last month in the finance committee and I want to thank the athletic director for helping us because um we had two agenda items. One is we're looking at our uh cost structure for the different sports that we have. So, we look forward to working with our new ad because we're trying to get a handle on what we're actually spending on each sport that we support with the school district. So, I know um we've gotten a lot of data from the the previous ad and we're trying to really drill down and
029really understand what we're spending our money on with our sports and make sure that we have everything budgeted correctly because a lot of times we run in a rears we have to make it up at the end of the year. So we look forward to working with you and getting some additional support and information. The other thing that we worked on was our capital allocation our capital budget for our projects going forward. So making sure that we have the financing and and the money available for different projects that we're undertaking and everyone knows that we have multiple projects that we're doing within the school district. So those are the two main things that we talked about. And then the other other thing that's a concern to us is there's a lot of house bills and
030Senate bills that are coming up for funding. And uh some of the proposals in the House bill and Senate bill will affect funding for schools, especially the House bill. The House bill They're talking about eliminating inside millillage uh for uh school districts and that has a tremendous impact on our revenue stream. So u Felicia if you have anything you want to add to that. I mean I know there's a lot of detail. We have seen all the proposals as a board but uh if you have any brief you know comments on that. Well there is we have a house budget a senate budget and I we'll go now to conference committee. There has been a late House Bill 335 introduced and so we don't know what we're going to end up with, but they all
031represent sweeping change that will have a very dramatic impact on our financial operations. So, we just as an administrative team and board will look at those proposals, model how they'll impact us, but it's not over. We're like at halftime. So, we'll we'll just keep everyone up to date and as soon as we what we will be living with, we will model that impact and communicate that. And currently, as I read all the different bills, uh they some have significant impact, some have lesser impact, but there's none that have no impact on us. None of them are on the positive side. They're all on the negative side. So, those are going to be difficult for us to to uh manage. And we're not alone in this. This is, you know, 600 and some school districts will
032be affected. Cities will get affected, townships get affected. there's a lot of other people that are affected by these proposals as well. So, uh it'll be interesting to watch how this plays out and what becomes the actual uh bill that uh gets passed. So, I appreciate if you your continued updates. I mean, for those that don't know, Felicia continuously sends the board updates and and uh uh synopsis of what this would do to our finances, what this would do, you know, all the different proposals that the state puts out there. And as the bills go through, Felicia runs those numbers and shows the impact of the five-year forecast uh as a result of those. So, we have those. We know what they uh could potentially do and and uh obviously that's why we like to
033see our uh representative here to make sure he understands the impact to us as well. So, I do appreciate your work on the inflation. Our finance committee was very innovative and looking forward to how we can adjust our budget and not get in the main squeeze of the sweeping change. How's that? Yep. Anything uh anything else on finance insurance? That's uh Ann. Yes. Uh we did meet. We had a great um meeting to plan for this upcoming year. Um Gallagher is gonna do a mini presentation at the convocation. Um very many I promise. But um many that's right. And then we're going to have uh on professional days in smaller group settings where um the points of contact for each building, they'll give um they'll be available, but they'll also um give a little presentation.
034Um but they're always available. Your building representatives are always available in there um to and they have a booklet. Um I don't have it with me tonight, but we have a booklet. It's got all the information in it. Felicia also has it. I think it's in the might be in the principal's office. So, if you do have questions, they can go to that. But very excited that they're going to have some professional days and and talk to each other about this. The new people that have joined our group. Um it's been enlightening to see um some of their suggestions. Um so, the convocation and the professional days are some of those suggestions that they've been that they've brought forward. Excellent. Thank you. Policy. Um we met on May 20th and we looked at 10 different
035policies from um several of them were Neiola updates that we were making our way through. Um some of the highlights were safety and transportation policies as well as special education policies and um attendance and they are all on the agenda for first reading tonight. All right. Thank you. uh technology. Okay, we met also on the 20th and uh I want to first thank the entire technology committee met which consists of uh Amanda and myself plus the administrative staff plus a lot of teachers. A lot of teachers give up their time to support us with technology within the buildings and I want to thank everyone for their time and commitment to enhancing our technology within our school district. So, um, we talked about several items. Uh, one was, um, we're doing a copier refresh, which may
036not mean anything to most of the people, but to the teachers and the staff, a copy of refresh is a very important move forward. We're also doing our every year we do a computer refresh for our students as our work through our system. Each year we buy a new set of computers for our students as they as they traverse through our educational system. And then uh we also are buying we have a refresh cycle for combo boards which is instructional boards that we use for the teachers to actually instruct the students and they're very they're very u advanced. They're very interactive where you can bring a lot of information that's interactive within the school district with these boards. And then the other big thing that we did is and this may not make uh everyone
037uh may not notice but it's very important to us is that we're going to go with a common door lock system and video system and vape vape sensor system within our school district. Right now we are operating with two different systems and they don't really mesh with each other very well and we're going to the one system that's One of the systems we got kind of when we did the new new builds, you know, we didn't have much choice as to what we picked and we're going to try to make everything common within the school district and I think that will help us from an administrative and organizational safety standpoint will help us. So basically uh those are the items that we talked about. Um we also talked about cyber security and u you know
038we have the multi- uh factor authorization within our school district now for accessing everything and cyber security is is an issue and we want to thank everyone for all their support or our staff and administrators because all it takes is one person to make a mistake to have a problem and we want to thank everyone because we're not making those mistakes. Those are the items that we talked about at the technology. Any questions? Amanda. Amanda. So, Amanda's with the technology and I are finance. Thank you. LPDC LPDC met. We had Stephanie Stoie, Laura Curts, Renee Britain, Matt Price, Michael Shipton, Brad Weman, and Abby Fitz in attendance. Let's go through this quickly. Uh they approved five individual professional development plans. One was sent back for modification. I have those names listed if you ever need
039to look at it. Uh two licenses were renewed, one of which was mine. Um I'm required every five years. So congratulations. Stuck with me. Sorry. Is it too late to vote on it? Uh yeah. Well, you could not vote on this, I guess. Right. You can tell me. I'll pack up now. Um and uh and then they also approved some contact hours for staff too. Those are the ones that are working toward getting their um hours they need for their uh committee and then they uh they convene and that's it. I mean they uh they commence the meeting and that was it. Okay. Thank you. Moving on to consent. Resolution 25-06-134. Resolution of approval of consent agenda. Can I get a motion? I'll motion and a second. Second. Let me run through. Okay. First one
040is our salary changes. Know the board is familiar with this, but these are people that um you know move horizontally on the schedule. You'll see that you'll notice and I'm always kind of interested in this on who's on schedule A and B. And it's starting to tip more towards the alternate schedule B. It'll it'll take a while to get there, but um you can see um unpaid days is the next section. won't list anything there, but people who are out of time for one reason or another. Um, so we want to record that they uh missed some time. Um, resignations, we have a three people there that you can read. Uh, classified contract corrections. Um, you know, as much as we look at these agendas and they're this one's 21 pages, there's there's things we
041catch after the fact and this was just a clerical omission because uh we should have corrected the contract length to two years. So that's just a easy one to fix. Extended days. We have um two people there, Mr. Hatfield who was here. She's beginning to work with Debbie Cyel and uh getting involved. So we thought it would be good if we give her some time. So she actually works with Debbie during the summer before she'd come back on a regular teaching assignment. So we have eight days scheduled for this year that will end by July 31st and then two days that start as of August 1st. And then Michael Shipton may need some additional days. we put not to exceed. Um that'll be just through July 31st he can add into this contract. Primarily uh
042there is obviously we have the high school building project coming online. So there's some things there we're moving some buildings but also uh as some rooms have been delayed but also we talked about Aaron G and making sure that Michael he's the direct supervisor anyway so to make sure that they get some time to work together and actually the labor but the interview process is interesting because you get to learn things and talk through. So we we learned some things. I think there's some process improvement focus. So, Mr. Shift will be working on that and if he runs out of days, we'll have the exact extra time. Erin G min uh as a athletic director, administrative employment, we met him earlier. Certified staff, Emily Driver, Megan Justice, Victoria Woo. Um couple there that I said
043we would not be uh we wouldn't have to have there uh because we're going to fill those positions later on. And Benjamin, we're not. And then u then we have as well um we have a couple supplemental employments there. Um you'll notice that for uh track headtrack and assistant track you'll say the 2425 school year and all of our work we realized that we didn't have them on the agenda. So it's just something we caught after the fact and we thought we should get that this year and that came about when we're getting ready to pay the supplemental at the end of the year. So clerical error there. Apologize for that. Uh supplemental employment. These are all supplemental employment positions. They're listed there. Pupil activity. We have a list of people there. Um, next we
044have volunteers. I won't read all these names, but you can read those. And then board meeting minutes. Had quite a few board meetings. So, you can see there's four me uh four meetings to cover there. One from April and three from May. And then we have the month monthly finance report. And that's all consent. questions. Any questions, comments on any of this? Call the RO. Mrs. Thomas, yes. Mrs. Ber, yes. Mr. Swagger, yes. Mrs. Davis, yes. Mr. Benton, yes. Well, Emily, Megan, Victoria, Aaron, welcome aboard. Right. You're official now. You're official now. You're official. Under the treasurer's um recommendations, we have resolution 25-06-135 to approve donations. We had Melanie Maine donate to the James Warther Citizenship Award, $100, and David Cloutder, uh donation to the Karen Hartman Memorial Scholarship, $200. Can I get a motion?
045A motion. Second. Obviously, thank you for the continued support of these uh scholarships. I do thank Melanie and David for that. Thank them as well. It's very important. And at our graduation ceremony, we also spoke to that and thanked everybody for their donations to our small community. All the role, please. Mrs. Thomas, yes. Mrs. Ber, yes. Mr. Benton. Yes. Mrs. Davis. Yes. Mr. Swagger. Yes. Next few resolutions have to do with the preparations of closing our year end and um some procedural items. Resolution 25-06-136 will be to authorize the treasurer to request advanced settlement payments of tax year 24 assessments collected during the second half of the 2025 calendar year. Can I get a motion? A motion and a second. A second. We do this routinely. Any questions? All the role, please. Yes. And just
046one thing I would add to that. Um because of the timing, this is not in advance of what's due. It's collecting it as the county auditor collects it because that can be tricky getting it advanced before year end in a different fiscal period. Mrs. I'm sorry. You got it. Me? Yep. Second. You were second. Mrs. Thomas. Yes. Mrs. Davis. Yes. Mr. Benton. Yes. Mr. Swagger. Yes. Mrs. Yes. Resolution 25506-137 authorize the treasurer to post transfers, advances, and account modifications as may be necessary to balance and close the books for the June for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025 with um transactions to re be reported at the next regular meeting for ratification. Can I get a motion? So moved. And a second. I'll second. Any questions, comments? Again, I would just comment for clarity
047that um I have given the board trans um transactions that I do anticipate. Those have not yet occurred. They're basically required because um these are reimbursement grants and so we have to wait for that money to come from the state. Understood. Any other questions? Call the RO. Mrs. Ber, yes. Mrs. Thomas, yes. Mrs. Davis, yes. Mr. Benton, yes. Mr. Swagger, yes. Resolution 25506-138 would be to authorize the treasurer to submit to the Licking County Auditor the FY25 final appropriations and FY25 final amended certificate of estimated resources as of June 30 with the submission of any revised actuals to be reported at its next regular board of education meeting for ratification. Can I get a motion? A motion and a second. Second. Questions, comments on this. Call the RO. Mrs. Thomas, yes. Mrs. Ber, yes. Mr.
048Benton, yes. Mr. Swagger, yes. Mrs. Davis, yes. And the last treasurer recommendation would be to establish authorize the treasurer to establish 26 temporary appropriations and estimated resources at 50% of FY25 to provide for operations beginning July 1st with any modification to be reported as next regular board of education meeting for ratification. Can I get a motion? A motion and a second. A second. This is where I'm sorry. This is where we close the books and then if anything comes in during that period of time then that's where we come back to the board and you let us know which ones those are and we'll approve them. Right. Right. Okay. So we we project a budget and for spending but we still have a a payroll to pay. We will continue to pay any of our
049utility bills and other payables that are due before the 30th. So we are conducting business right up until the last day. Okay. Thank you. Call the RO, please. Mrs. Thomas, yes. Mrs. Davis, yes. Mr. Benton, yes. Mrs. Ber, yes. Mr. Swagger, yes. Moving on to superintendent recommendations. Resolution 25-06-140 is a donation agreement for Carnell School. We get a motion move and a second. I'll second it. Okay. Okay. Um, I just handed out a piece of paper because it's fresh, but um, this is actually the donation agreement. The friends of Fernell School have already voted to donate the building, and this is signed by them because they've already voted, the board approves this tonight, and I'd ask Mr. Swagger to sign that. And that's uh, gets us that much closer to taking over possession of the
050building. If the board approves this tonight, and I know you've seen the donation already, but if the board approves this tonight, um then we're going to start working on a survey and then a a deed. Um because there is no deed for this property because of, you know, its age and all too. And it's actually a kind of a unique area within law that we've been working on. So, but um if there's questions on that otherwise, I think we're just headed down there through the process that we've started for some time. And I do appreciate the Cornell school board because we've been working for some time on this. Any questions on this? I mean, we've discussed this at length and, you know, it's it's the right thing to do. The property, the building's on our
051property already. Uh, this allows them some comfort in knowing that we're going to maintain it and it's not going anywhere anytime. So, uh, this just kind of solidifies that. Yep. Call the role, please. Mrs. Ber. Yes. Mr. Benton. Yes. Mrs. Davis. Yes. Mr. Swagger. Yes. Mrs. Thomas. Yes. Next resolution is resolution 25-06-141, selection of the architect as design professional for the Johntown Monroe local school district athletic improvements project. And this is to pro approve VSWC. Yeah. If you do first and second, I'll I'll have a long sorry resolution, but it's just one of those. If I can get a motion. So moved and a second. A second. I'll just There's a long resolution, but because it's such an intense process. And then Mr. Boomer, are you you're broadcasting the resolution. Is that in front of
052me just for the audience that he'll be able to put it together, but it's gonna take a while to read, so it's okay. Um the board previously identified well the superintendent recommends and the uh the board select VSWC architects as the most qualified firm to serve as a design professional and design professional related construction administration services for the athletic improvements project thereafter called the project and requests authority to negotiate an agreement with VSWC for those services for the project. Rationale is the board previously identified a need for the project. The board requires a design professional to provide design and related construction administration services for the project. Sections 153.65 through 71 of the high revised code prescribes a qualifications based selection process which is required to be followed by public entities when professional design services are
053procured. In accordance with the statutory process, the superintendent publicly advertised and issued a request for qualifications for professional design services for the project and the evaluation committee evaluated the statements of qualifications submitted by the design professional firms. Five firms submitted statements of qualifications. The evaluation committee evaluated the statements of the qualification in accordance with the criteria outlined in the request for qualifications and rank the top three firms in the following order. Number one, BSWC. Number two, BSHM Architects Incorporated. Number three, Sports Works Design. Thus, the evaluation committee identified BSWC to be the most qualified to provide the required design, professional, and construction administration services. The superintendent recommends that the board adopt the ranking of the evaluation committee and select DSWC as the most qualified to perform the design, professional services, and related construction, administration services
054for the project. The superintendent also requires the authority to work with other administrators and legal counsel to negotiate an agreement with VS SWC for the project. Therefore, the Johnston Moro board of education resolves as following. Uh one, based on the recommendations of superintendent, the board adopts the rankings provided by the evaluation committee and selects VSWC as the firm most qualified to provide design and related construction administration services for the project. to the board authorizes the superintendent treasure working with other administrators and legal counsel to negotiate agreement with BSWC for the project on behalf of the board which agreement will be presented to the board for approval. Sorry that's long but it's and that replaces the language that's in our make sure everyone understood that. Yeah, we didn't have right we didn't have that terminology in
055detail. I just want to make sure and you know just clarification we always try to do this well in advance but this is one where the timelines were close because we finished our uh second round of interviews latter part of this week and then we had some more. So that's all for that resolution. Any questions, comments? Call the role please. Mrs. Ber yes. Mrs. Davis yes. Mrs. Thomas Mr. Benton yes. Mr. Swagger. Yes. Resolution 25-06-142 is selection of construction manager at risk for the Johntown Road local school district athletic improvements project. Can I get a motion? I'll motion. Second. The super and this will be long again. Sorry, but this is uh required. The superintendent recommends the approval of the selection of Robertson Construction Services LLC uh thereafter referred to as the CMR by the
056evaluation committee as the best value firm to provide construction manager at risk services for the athletic improvements project thereafter the project and requests authorization to enter to an agreement with CMR for pre-construction services for the project. The rationale is as follows. The board identifi previously identified a need for a project. The board requires the services of a construction manager at risk to plan, coordinate, manage, perform, and direct all phases of the project for a guaranteed maximum price. Sections 9.33 uh and on of the Ohio Revised Code in chapter 1 through six of the administrative code prescribe a best value selection process which is required to be followed by public entities when construction manager risk services are procured in accordance with statutory process. The superintendent publicly advertised and issued a risk request for qualifications for construction
057manager services at risk for the project. Several statements of qualifications were received from interested firms which were re reviewed, evaluated, and ranked by the evaluation committee to create a short list of three most qualified firms. The superintendent then solicited pricing and technical proposals from the shortlisted firms. The proposals were reviewed by the evaluation committee and following the review of proposals, the evaluation committee held interviews with the shortlisted firms. After the evaluation committee's review and evaluation of the submitted proposal and interviews of the short-listed firms, the evaluation committee ranked the short listed firms in the following order. Number one is Robertson as a CMR. Number two, Bieber Constructors Incorporated. Number three is HGC Construction Company. Thus, the evaluation committee determined that Robertson provided the best value proposal for the project and its pricing. Robertson offered to
058perform the pre-construction services for the project in an amount not to exceed $10,000, which is considered the pre-construction fee. Based on the rankings and the recommendation of the valuation committee, the superintendent recommends that the board select Robertson as the firm that best provide the best value proposal for construction manager risk services for the project. Almost done. One more. Um, the superintendent requests authority in conjunction with other administrators and legal counsel to negotiate an agreement for pre-construction services with Robertson for the project and to execute the agreement for pre-construction services with Robertson for the project in an amount not to exceed the pre-construction fee at the conclusionary of satisfying satis satisfy factory sorry I'm getting tired satisfactory negotiations on behalf of the board. I almost made it through that. That's a lot. Yeah. Read that code.
059to read. Oh, there's some on the back. Oh, yeah. I gotta get there, too. Don't care. Therefore, uh the Jones Road of Education Resolve says file. Here's your resolution. Uh based on the recommendation of superintendent, the board adopts the rankings a ranking of the shortlisted firms provided by the evaluation committee and selects Robertson as the firm that provided the best value proposal for the construction manager risk services for the project. The board authorizes superintendent treasurer working with other administrators and legal counsel to negotiate an agreement for pre-construction services with Robertson for the project and to execute an agreement for pre-construction services with Robertson for the project and any associated documents consistent with the intent of this resolution in an amount not to exceed the pre-construction fee at the satisfactory conclusion of negotiations on behalf of
060the board. You did it. Anyone got any questions on that? No. Yeah, I do. I I was Could you read it again? I did. Yes. And not ones we we deal with often. So, we do rely on legal counsel. So, sorry about that. What's that? Yeah, those are copies. Okay, I'm done with that. We had a motion in a second to any qu any questions, comments on this. Call the role, please. Mrs. Ber, yes. Mrs. Thomas, I think I motioned. She I told her dismissed. My backup. All right. Mrs. Thomas, yes. Mrs. Ber, yes. Mr. Benton, yes. Mrs. Davis, yes. Mr. Swagger. Yes. Okay. Resolution 25-06-143, overnight field trip for fifth grade. Can I get a motion? I'll make a motion. I'll second. Um, you know what's exciting about this is our processes are working.
061Look at how early this is being approved. 11 months, you know, or Yeah, about 11 months there. So, that's that's exciting. So, kudos to everyone for policies, especially Mr. Boozenberg, and then leading that. and then we're getting it cleaned up just so I'll make a comment to uh our new athletic director. Mark those dates in your calendar because their busing is always difficult when we send fifth grade camp. So when you schedule away uh baseball, track, and all of those on that same day, softball, all those sports, fifth grade camp, you you'll be down some buses. So watch your scheduling. Yep. Appreciate it. Any other questions, comments on this? Call the role, please. Mrs. Davis, yes. Mrs. Thomas, yes. Mr. Swagger, yes. Mrs. Ber, yes. Mr. Benson, yes. Resolution 25-06-144, Four Seasons Environmental Incorporated Energy
062Management and Technical Maintenance Services Agreement Renewal. Can I get a motion? I'll motion. Second. Um, you'll note that this is for a one-year agreement from July 1st through June 30th, 2026. We met as a buildings and grounds committee and uh we wanted to do just one year. This is one of the things that we're going to evaluate and uh really look at see if we need this scope or if there's some other ways to meet the services. But for right now, we're going to recommended continuing for this school year. Thank you. Any questions, comments? Call the RO. Mrs. Thomas, yes. Mrs. Ber, yes. Mr. Benton, yes. Mr. Swagger, yes. Mrs. Davis, yes. Um, next resolution 25-06-145, four seasons environmental and carbonate maintenance track agreement renewal. And I get a motion, please. I'll motion. Second. It's
063related to the other company, but this is just a tracking software. This probably less under scrutiny, but we'll we'll have a more comprehensive review during the school year. Any questions, comments on this? Call the RO. Mrs. Thomas. Yes, Mrs. Ber. Yes, Mr. Swagger. Yes, Mrs. Davis. Yes, Mr. Benton. Yes. Resolution 25-06-146, the Learning Spectrum Contract for Services. Can I get a motion? A motion. I'll second. This is uh for some special needs. We don't put a lot of detail in there, but this is something we work with. Mrs. Wagner. Yep. Call roll, please. Mrs. Thomas, yes. Mrs. Davis, yes. Mr. Swagger. Yes. Mrs. Ber, yes. Mr. Benton, yes. Resolution 25-06-147, Eagle Wings Academy purchase agreement and a motion. A motion. Second. Second. Senator last resolution for special needs. We work with Mrs. Wagner on this
064one, too. Any questions, comments? Call the RO. Mrs. Thomas, yes. Mrs. Davis, yes. Mrs. Ber, yes. Mr. Benton, yes. Mr. Swagger, yes. Position 25-06-148 approval of student handbooks for the 2526 school year. Can I get a motion? A motion. I'll second. So on our list, we have the high school, middle school, intermediate, elementary, and use of technology device handbook. We did not uh bring forward the athletic and gifted handbooks. Um Mr. Gant did prepare the athletic handbook, but we thought in deference to Mr. G, we ought to Mr. uh shift and we ought to have that looked at by our incoming um athletic director. So, I didn't bring that forward tonight. And the gifted is in review. So, we should have both of those uh probably at July's meeting. If they're ready, I'll bring those
065back to the board. Sounds good. Thank you. Any questions, comments? Um, I was just going to say, um, I know with the upper grade dress code is important and as we've seen revisions each year, parents are not always aware that we've made revisions and so um, I just didn't know if we would make sure that it, you know, parents know, please review your handbooks. There are revisions to those things because there were some positive changes that they did not know and missed out on. We can talk with the administrative team on that, too. We've done some summaries, if you will, about some of the changes so we can get that ready for the next court. Excellent. Thank you. Call the role, please. Mrs. Thomas, yes. Mrs. Davis, yes. Mrs. Ber, yes. Mr. Benton, yes. Mr.
066Swagger. Yes. Resolution 25-06-149, teacher Chromebook purchase. Motion. I'll make the motion. Second. Um this resolution and the next one is it's really exciting because we're refreshing the fleet and somewhat at a faster pace because we're either uh the u technology has become somewhat antiquated like with the next one with the Cuomo boards we can have faster processors but we're also refreshing some of the teacher machines and Debbie Cyel isn't uh here today working but she leads a lot of this and I'll be working with MJ on this. So nice work on this one and the next one. Thank you. Any questions, comments? Call the role please. Mr. Benton, yes. Mrs. Davis, yes. Mr. Swagger, yes. Mrs. Buer, yes. Mrs. Thomas, yes. Resolution 25-06-150 Cuomo board and Cuomo Flex Fox purchase motion, please. I'll make the
067motion. I'll second. Any questions, comments on this? Nope. This is like related to the last one. So, this is just refreshing if this primarily will be for the middle school, too. They have some of the oldest processors. So they they'll appreciate this when they see this. I would like I'd like to go in and see it when they do get it installed. Just a demonstration. Doesn't have to be during class or, you know. Yeah, it would be nice to see that. Yeah, we should do that. Sounds like you're going to summer school. I'm going to summer school, evidently. Call the role, please. Mr. Benton? Yes. Mrs. Davis? Yes. Mrs. Thomas? Yes. Mrs. Brewer? Yes. Mr. Swalker? Yes. Resolution 25-06-151 is licking regional title 3 consortium memorandum of understanding for fiscal year 26. Motion please. A
068motion. A second. Um this is we received some monies for limited English proficiency and uh because we're smaller in our size and scope we're required to join a consortium. So we join with the licking regional educational service center. Any questions, comments? Call the RO. Mrs. Thomas, yes. Mrs. Davis, yes. Mr. Swagger, yes. Mr. Benton, yes. Mrs. Ber, yes. Resolution 25-06-152 is a maintenance supplemental out of classification extended responsibility. Get a motion. A motion. Second. Um, Mr. Holter is here tonight. Uh, he's been one of our maintenance personnel for some time. And with Dave Jenny retiring, we thought it was time to look at some potential restructuring trying to keep some things in house. So Mr. Boozenberg will have some expanded responsibilities and then also Mr. Holter if the board approves this. Uh we had a
069buildings and grounds meeting or not meeting. We actually did an interview last week and see if that was actually a meeting and had a couple board members there. I don't know if you want to say anything about our meeting with Mr. Pter. I would just say that we had a great discussion on FMX, which is the platform we use for managing our employees and maintenance. Um, I think we've come up with some great ideas, suggestions. I'll be eager to see how those work out. Um, we're happy to have you on board. I think it's an interesting restructuring and we want to wish you the best. We had had a very nice uh conversation on Friday um with Derek and uh he provided he gave us some suggestions that he'd like to see. Um we also
070had an open conversation about some suggestions on our side too and how we could work together. Um and it was interesting the FMAX like um board member Boomer mentioned we found that it has an app. Derrick's going to look into that further. So very exciting. Um and we look forward to a new position. It's not giving additional respons. No, it's Yeah. No, that's exactly right because it's it's additional responsibilities and uh you know, we're looking forward to Mr. Holter. He actually presented us with a plan which was Yes, he did. Nice to see. So, we're going to dig into that. Mr. uh Boozenberg, I keep saying Dereks. I'll have to keep this separated, but uh with the Dereks. Um but u they're going to be working together. Direct supervisor is Mr. Booenberg. Looking forward to
071it. Sounds good. Any questions, comments? Call the role, please. Mrs. Thomas, yes. Mrs. Ber, yes. Mr. Benton, yes. Mrs. Davis, yes. Mr. Swagger, yes. Um, resolution 25-06-153, Facilities and Maintenance Special Projects Consultant. Can I get a motion? A motion. Second. Um, this is Mr. Jenny who is retiring and um we talked as a group and we thought we'll offer him uh 10 extra up to 10 days next school year. Um Mr. Jenny has really carved out some good expertise like when we went through this entire process and those resolutions he does a lot of work Mr. Booenberg in the scoring process it's very labor intensive legalistic he does a nice job of that. some other projects. He's got some good history. So, um it'll be as needed, but we'll be looking forward to working with
072him. One of the things I will tell you right now is we put this as um a board approval as for redeemer of $350 a day. Um Mr. Jenny's going to look at that. He has to check with retirement system. Um I might end up resending this next month and then he might come through with an LLC. But we thought we'll get this started now and if it stays, it's good. If not, then we'll switch it to an LLC and talk about that next month. At least we have a if the board approves this, then we'll have this ready to go and we can start our planning or continue our plan for next year. Any other questions, comments? Call the role, please. Mrs. Thomas, yes. Mrs. Ber, yes. Mr. Swagger, yes. Mrs. Davis, yes. Mr.
073Benton, yes. Resolution 25-06-154, second reading of revised policies. Motion [Laughter] Nudge him down. Nudge him down here. All right. Oh my goodness. We got to go now, right? Yeah. Any questions on these uh policies? No. Call the role, please. Mrs. Davis? Yes. Mr. Benton? Yes. Mrs. Brewer? Yes. Mr. Swagger? Yes. Mrs. Thomas? Yes. Resolution 25-06-155 second reading to resend policies. Can I get a motion? I'll make the motion. I'll second it. Any questions or comments on these resend? Call the role, please. Mrs. Davis, yes. Mr. Benton, yes. Mrs. Thomas, yes. Mrs. Ber, yes. Mr. Swagger, yes. Resolution 25-06-156 is second reading of replacement policies. Motion. I'll make a motion. I'll second it. Any questions on these uh second reading replacement policies? Call the role, please. Mrs. Davis? Yes. Mr. Benton? Yes. Mrs. Ber? Yes. Mr.
074Swagger? Yes. Mrs. Thomas? Yes. Resolution 25-06-1577 second reading new policies. Motion, please. A motion. I'll second it. This one I want to call out to the board because the policy committee does a lot of work. But after our last board meeting, we um looked and we made some small adjustments between the first uh revision and the second one. Bottom line is this this uh policy released time for rel education and has a lot of attention. There's discussion about some uh procedural legal changes to the policy. There is um some potential litigation that exists as well as some discussion now about inclusion in the budget bill. um and some of the parameters there. So what we did is we we uh really kind of zoomed out on this and it's more big picture and then we'll
075um you know decide how we're going to implement based on the other parameters that are outside the school district. So it's less restrictive but we'll it doesn't mean we have less control. We'll just be monitoring it and then we'll see what happens in the environment. But we appreciate the policy committee. This is an active you know process that we go through and again Mr. Boober leads a lot of that. Any questions, comments? Call the role, please. Mrs. Davis, yes. Mr. Benton, yes. Mr. Swagger, yes. Mrs. Ber, yes. Mrs. Thomas, yes. Resolution 25-06-158 is first reading revised policies. You get a motion. A motion. I'll second it. Any questions on these? Call the role, please. I'm sorry. on the criminal history record check for contracted school services. Would that include any type of contract services? Yeah.
076Whether they're building, not building, or anyone we contract, anyone that's on the campus that we contract with. Yes. Yeah. We specifically see that with the building projects and all too. So, um they bring us the list if there's ever concerns. Yeah. And then on the attendance, um this was more just a note, not against the policy, but um can we see the final attendance for the year for 2024, 2025 um in comparison to the last two years? Sure. Because I know we've been working, our building staff has been working to address those issues. Yeah. Any other questions, comments on these? I'll uh we'll go if we can get everything organized by Friday, we'll put it in the Friday report and we'll get it to the board soon. Great. Thanks. Call the role, please. Mrs. Davis,
077yes. Mr. Benton, yes. Mrs. Thomas, yes. Mrs. Ber, yes. Mr. Swagger, yes. Resolution 25-06-159 first reading to resend policies. Motion. Motion. I'll second it. Any questions on these? For sending the role, please Mrs. Davis? Yes. Mr. Benton? Yes. Mrs. Ber? Yes. Mr. Swagger? Yes. Mrs. Thomas? Yes. Resolution 25-06-160. First reading of replacement policies. Get a motion. Motion. I'll second it. Any questions on these first readings? Call the RO, please. Mrs. Davis? Yes. Mr. Benton? Yes. Mrs. Thomas? Yes. Mr. Swagger? Yes. Mrs. Brewer? Yes. 25-06-161. First reading of new policies. Can I get a motion? A motion. I'll second. Any question on this? I did have a question. Um, on the back of the policy, do you have it, Amanda? I'm sorry. I apologize. I can bring mine over. This is 7421. Yes. Do you want
078my copy? She's got I think Alan's got 7421. I have all the ones that we went over. We can find the right one. Here. I'll just send it. Just send it down. Wait. She's sending it down to you. I'm just sending it down. Is it? The question is really easy. Okay, I promise. So, do you see where I put the purple note on the back? On the back. Is are the two sentences above where the X is? Is that all in the same policy? And then we're just adding the X to it. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Sorry. I got to Yeah. Sorry. Okay. X being what we selected. Yeah, we should. So everybody knows what we're doing. Any other person who willfully enters into a multi-occupancy facility designated for use by the opposite biological sex
079for a purpose other than what is considered permissible pursuant to this policy and refuses to leave when asked to do so by school personnel may be removed from the premises and subject to future restrictions. Yep. That's in the violations of the policy. Yeah. I just wanted to ensure that was in there. Thank you. Thank you. Any other questions on this? Call the role, please. Mrs. Davis, yes. Mr. Benton, yes. Mrs. Ber, yes. Mr. Swagger, yes. Mrs. Thomas, yes. Any board comments? Just wanted to say graduation. This is the first meeting we've had since graduation. And congratulations to all our class of 2025. And um I believe Mr. Shipton has the actual number for the scholarships. I know it was two million plus 2.2 million dollars in scholarships that the class of 2025 had and a
080lot of those are local scholarships. And again, want to thank our community and uh great job to the graduates and everybody that had a part in it because in a a small school like this, everybody's out there, the maintenance team is out there. Um but staff, Tammy Wartman, um all of our principles at the other buildings, uh they're out there. It rained so they were drying off all the seats that that it turned out to be a beautiful evening. It was a beautiful evening and uh everything went very well. I just commend them and I also want to commend all of our staff and building principles for um the purple heart or purple star, excuse me. We do that all the time because it just kind of rolls off our tongue, doesn't it? Yeah. Yeah.
081Yeah. So, um the Purple Star recognition, um our schools are very active with our American Legion, as Tim alluded to. Um and you our games, the American Legion is here. They also do more. The American Legion is very active with our schools. It goes both ways. So, it's a really good relation. Girls, um I want to just give a plug for the uh girls and boys camp as well that they do each year in June. In fact, I think it's this week, boys and girls. And that's something that you do as a juniorbody. So, if anybody that's a rising junior would like to do that. Um the applications come around in March, February or March. So, thank you. Any other comments from the board? Do we have a work session next week? Are we skipping?
082Don't have in the summer, but if you want one, we No, my brain is just I'm just used to showing up. Okay. Just It's a Monday. I'll be I didn't have it on my calendar, but Jar, can you cut off her mic, please? I didn't have it. I'm just so used to showing up. It's a Monday. I'm going to be here. Did we have four board meetings? We said it's at when we did four board meetings and then we had our committee meetings. So, I spent like 25 hours here last week. So, I'm I'm good next week. Yeah. And you know, that's something else. I You did thank everybody, but I just want to again thank everybody for their participation last week. And Brad, you uh conducted a great interview night. none of us expected
083to be there as long as we were, but we were all committed to it and we did stay and um I just even the applicants. So, just appreciate everybody and uh their dedication last week. It was 10:00 when we left here. It was Thank you. Any other comments, superintendent? Uh just a couple things. One is um the governor announced uh the tax holidays. So I've got to get something out about our school supplies as well too. So I'll meld those and Mr. McDonald already put something together as a draft. So we'll get that out to celebrate that especially as parents are going to get ready for that tax holiday. And then um they'll have to buy much less much less for that. Much less, right? Yeah. Especially because the board's going to continue a second
084year here what we did in the past. Um appreciate all the thank yous. Like you said, graduation wasn't important and uh well done. And and one of the things we talked about was how many new staff we had involved with graduation, but it went off very well. And even when you deal with the variables of the rain, it it all went well. And then very proud of the Purple Star and and we'll make sure to follow up with American Legion so they're aware also because I thought it was really significant when Representative Miller said he believes at least in his district, we're the only school district have all of our schools. And I think that's really tremendous. Um That's over multiple counties that he represents. It's pretty significant. Mrs. Wagner led this last year. We
085asked her to do that and she picked up the town and worked with it and that became the foundation for the other buildings to work on. So really a lot of Sorry, this is my time. You had your Sorry, I know I punchy here. It just came to Derrick's going to shut off my mic now. All right, I'll shut up. No, I'm just teasing. It wasn't something new that we have done. They were always doing our Veterans Day assemblies and uh working with our our American Legions. Yeah. But but you know what's good about that though too is you're right. But the thing is if nothing else it becomes an affirmation because sometimes when you have criteria and get to measure against it and there honestly were some improvements, some things we we learned from
086it that we could do a little bit better. So um that sharpened us up a little bit more. That's great. It was good though. Okay, now I think I'm done. This is Mrs. B's over laughing at me like we're all getting a little punchy here. I have nothing to say. So on the agenda, we still had an executive session. Uh but if we have no need, I'll present it and if we don't get a motion in a second, then it dies on the floor. Why don't you go to executive session? That would be that would be shut her mic off. Shut her mic. Right. Right. Sorry. No, I'm just kidding. Um that would be my preference. This does just let it die if you don't vote it because just from a sequencing standpoint because I
087know we all think we're going to remember this, but six months from now we're going to be like, "What happened to 162?" Okay. You know, and then in your minutes, what we could put is that if the board doesn't advance it, then we could say took care of it earlier in 133A. I'll ship my mic. So, uh, for motion, uh, re resolution 256162, executive session. Do I get a motion? Hearing? None. Move. Yep. And then resolution 256163, a motion for adjournment. I'll motion. I'll second it. Any comments? Call the RO. Mrs. Thomas, yes. Mrs. Bard, yes. Mr. Benton, yes. Mrs. Davis, yes. Mr. Swagger, yes. Meeting adjourned. And I have 710. Here we go. That's great. I don't ever look that far. Like, I don't know what's on my calendar next week. I look at
088it day by day. But because this had moved, I was like, "Huh? Do we still do