001thank you good evening everyone if we could start with a moment of Silent prayer please thank you please stand for the pledge Amanda you get the lead Alan's not here I Al to the flag the United States of America and to the rep for it stands one nation God indivisible Justice for All call the RO Please Mr Swagger here Mrs Davis here Mrs Thomas here Mrs Boer here and we heard that Mr Bon will just a little Mr bent will be coming soon notice of the meeting please sure this is 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
002by 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 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 I have one um there was request by the board to add executive session at the end of the agenda um so what I would say is why don't we do uh we'll do 25-3 d58 a and that could be an executive session 25- 03- 058a and that'll be for the purpose of personnel and I'll read that actual purpose when we get to that um other than that I don't have any
003additions or dels to the agenda can I get a motion to adopt call motion can I get a second second call the r Mrs Thomas yes Mrs Boer yes Mr swager yes Mrs Davis yes any public remarks moving in winter sports Mr Gans right um yes so we have some students we want to recognize and Mr gant's G to leave this section here of our recognition but we're going to talk about girls basketball a lot to celebrate their indoor track two students to recognize and then wrestling so Mr K take it away and be the MC for this part of it please hello hi hello M um you know what let's get your mic yeah it wasn't on that's me hello everybody hello thank you I am Mr Gant I'm the athletic director if you
004have not met me yet um today we will be recognizing as Dr Wagner said uh some of our winter athletes for their accomplishments uh first I'm going to start off with our girls basketball team I ask that our ladies could join behind me as you hear your name uh called so first we will start off with girls basketball team Payton Snider was a sophomore Riley stefanic sophomore Lauren boffman junor Kylie sharp senior Kaylin Cox freshman Amelia Bonito sophomore Lauren hro sophomore Bailey nef freshman manager Tori winam and now our coaching staff will join us Co coach Jeremy nef coach Deb Merill and head coach coach Scott helmy so number one thank you coaches and athletes for being present as well as to the board for wanting to recognize this group of exceptional young ladies um
005just going to give you a snapshot of their season as you can see they are few in number but that did not um have an impact on the outcome their season record was 21-4 they were the dist Champs uh this is our second time in school history making it to Regionals we had three LCL recognitions Lauren bman being first team kayin Cox being first team Kylie sharp being second team um as well as pton Snider being honorable mention additionally Lauren Balman was first team uh District 11 kayln Cox was first team District 11 and Kylie sharp was second team District 11 Peyton Snider was also second team District 11 and a Amelia Bonito was honorable mention for District 11 a little bit about Coach helkey um he's not going to like that I'm going to
006say this but we're going to say it anyways next year we will be celebrating his 100 wins in the program um as he has now 86 wins so far um he was also named The District 11 coach of the year and the LCL coach of the year as well so round of applause for this [Applause] group while we while we do have a moment I do want to ask just coach Hy if he has any words that he would like to share uh first of all to the board thanks for inviting us up here for the recognition um these eight girls well nine with torsi um we've talked from day one about facing adversity and the stuff and the things that they go through every single day whether it's at home uh whether it's School
007whether it's basketball related on off the court Court um and I think this season showed their toughness um and the things they had to fight you know throughout the entire season but to accomplish what they did um you know with eight players to finish 21 and four we ended up playing you know the district T sex on District tournament we had two girls hurt so we played all three of our tournament games uh through the district with six players so uh I think it's a credit to them of the time the effort everything they put into it um set a goal you know our goal was to win the LCL our goal was to to win the district and we did both of those things so uh really proud of them assistant coaches Jeremy Deb
008uh Lauren her's not here tonight but uh the time that those three put in um you know everything is for these girls that are up here everything that we do uh is to give them as much as we can to for them to succeed so thanks again and really happy [Applause] for all right we're going to go ahead and let the ladies have their seats I will say um being the athletic director it's been a privilege working with coach hel King and staff as well as these young ladies um being that they had fewer numbers myself Mr Shipton Dina suud Mr Grove uh we were around a lot more I don't know if they wanted that but I think over time the the young ladies enjoyed our presence so we're very proud of you all
009next up we are going to move uh to indoor track so we have two athletes we're going to recognize today uh first up is Junior cam beverett we can give him a round of applause and next up senior Alexis Dill uh so we are very happy with the outcome this year was the first year that we were able to have Club indoor track um and it really came at the request of these two and their coaches advocating for the opportunities of them um we have a senior that we're going to talk about and her pursuit of College athletics as well as a junior that is having um some some good success so we're grateful that we could be recognized at the state level um with the indoor track program uh so first up we're going
010to talk about our senior Alexis Dill so Alexa qualified for both shot as well as weight throw for her track and field Indoor state championship meet and at this meet she played seventh in shot putut and she got first team all Ohio honors and 14th in weight throw congratulations to her and Alexis is currently pursuing um playing in college and I shouldn't say playing more so competing in college um so this was a good opportunity to just give her exposure um with a lot of college coaches being present so we're grateful for her outcome and congrats uh next up we'll talk about Junior cam beverick um so this season cam was able to PR um in the 800 meter with 2 minutes and 50. 54 seconds he was a state qualifier for 800 he achieved
01112th Place in the state meet with a time of 2011 and 9.97 seconds he was a 2024 CrossCountry State qualifier in the fall and his outdoor track accomplishments also include being a regional qualifier for the 4x8 as a freshman in 2023 and then also in 2024 being a regional qualifier for the 800 4x4 and the 4 by8 so really proud and excited it's track season now and we're hoping to have some more recognitions in a couple [Applause] months all right last but certainly I hit a button that's me sorry uh last but certainly not least we would like to recognize our girls wrestling program um with one young lady if we could have kayln Casto come on up Round of Applause for her uh so before I get into her accomplishments I just kind of
012want to acknowledge who she is as an individual uh when she qualified for States and um the coaching staff and the athletic department Mr shifton wanted to recognize her for achievement um she had won non-negotiable in that recognition and she wanted the boys wrestling team to be present with her um and I say that to say that speaks to the character of the type of person she is in a sport like wrestling where it's individualized um she still had a mindset of I want to be up there with my teammates that I practiced with throughout the season and have G this journey of four years with so I just want to acknowledge that and say that means a lot uh a little bit about uh Miss Casto is she's a two-time state qualifier both as
013a Junior and senior her overall record was 45 and 10 in the past two years she has had 26 pins she was a sectional champ this year and placed fourth in the district and she was listed in the top 10 upsets beating the number five opponent by Techo and she also does Jiu-Jitsu correct she's pretty good at that as well so congratulations to her I know that post high school she's looking to be a professional wrestler hopefully we can have some collegate wrestling as well but nonetheless we're really proud [Applause] of so all in all I just want to thank again the board Dr Wagner for wanting to recognize our athletes um to our student athletes I encourage you to tell your peers be multiport athletes um there's strength and numbers girls basketball you proved
014us that their strengthen numbers with eight um but I say that all to say being a smaller District as your athletic director I think we have a lot of talented athletes um and if in some of our female sports we can choose not to specialize as much I think we can be hoisting some gold medals so great job to everybody though really proud of you all thank you thank you [Applause] you all right excellent thank you uh yeah for the Johnny's nice job with the basketball I enjoyed watching quite a few of your games this year it was nice to see the uh ladies that were injured walking normally when they went up so uh that seems to be a good sign for you uh and you got a lot of uh talent coming back
015so 14 wins seems easy next year Scott well Greg already committed you to it so you at least have 14 coming next year so I appreciate that uh camon Alexis I was curious the facility you went to what was that like I've heard I've never been up there and was it nice because that's becoming one of those Elite locations for a bunch of sports up there like they're kind of a charter basketball school and all kinds of other stuff so I was just curious what that facility was like it was nice I've never been up that that's up by is that all the way up by AST up in that area or where's that at yeah Geneva between Cleveland and ASA there okay I was just curious on that then wrestling uh I don't know
016what excellent excellent job it was fun uh uh following you online I didn't make it down to to the uh wrestling tournament but uh wrestling has a huge following uh it's I don't that's a group of folks that uh they're Die Hard Soh it's fun to see at the state tournament when when I work in downtown and when I go when it's State wrestling week you can definitely tell at the uh restaurants and stuff because the wrestling people take over that whole entire area down there so uh congratulations on an excellent season that's all I have anyone else congratulations yeah congratulations everybody it's that's fantastic it just shows how strong Johnstown sports are uh the Athletics are continuing to be great uh and we can only get better and I I think Scott you built
017a great program here and while your numbers weren't fantastic this year as far as numbers of your the elite athletes you have shows and and I think you've got more talent coming up from what I see in the seventh and eighth grade so I'm excited to see uh that program continue their success so excellent work thank you all right you're not required to stay yeah everybody's everybody's welcome to leave they're all wait someone's got to make the first move thank you for coming I I was Scot D can you push that policy up hey Deb the policy come in come I didn't even know you were here I didn't see you come in come in perfect I'm missing half my tongue no bassb hit under the chin chopped off a piece of my tongue oh
018no did you have oh no they can't Stitch the tongue believe or not there's nothing they can't stit the it'll heal itself [Music] yeah Mr Swagger I did make a note that um member Benton arrived at 507 thank you all right moving on no he called he said he was R late at work and Amanda led the Pledge of Allegiance it's like we didn't even miss you Alan all right R Crow thanks for hurrying here appreciate it uh moving on sure our next um presentation we talk about athletic booth boosters um up on the screen you have board policy 9211 so we'll be referring to that um I do want to thank slats and Mrs Kaiser for coming tonight they met with me and some other administrators and just talking about the state of the
019boosters so um wanted to talk through some things tonight and then you know talk about potentially next steps I don't have any action item for you on this but um you know there's some things we need to work through um with the athletic boosters they're down to two out of five offic um and certainly that's that's a difficult you know way to move forward when you don't even have a quorum so one of things we talked about is should we you know dissolve the the boosters that was brought to us uh what should we look to do um you know moving forward so if you hand down I know it's kind of hard to read but at where you have a copy of this paper as well too but if you go down to um
020it's the fourth paragraph I believe um yeah and then there's a line in that second sentence here the board May revoke formal recognition of any support group that fails to comply with these rules and there's following rules so that's and we don't have that to deal with but derck I'm gonna ask you to go to the bottom of the of the policy if you go all the way to the bottom there's one that says n it starts with letter n um and what this starts to talk about here is if we did dissolve the um boosters what do you do you with the money there and you can see under that section it talks about there's a separate policy 7230 which uh would require the boosters to donate um everything that they have as an
021asset to the school district um there's um guidelines that we have to go through it's very complicated process and then once that happens there's property of the board and we have to determine how we're going to use that um this is a very complicated situation so again I don't have anything you for you to vote on tonight but I think what we're going to do first off is we're going to try and support the boosters and see what we can do uh as we're moving forward uh my thinking is that um we may restart them at some point and I think what we're going to do is PTO to help us with a little bit on that too I'm want to look I think there's been some revisions of guidelines that need to be considered
022right yeah so just wanted to give you a high level overview on things and let you know if you have questions but again this isn't as simple as just closing on a program and bringing here for our board V so we'll go through this I think if that does occur it could be as early as April's meeting and then we talked um jam was on the phone but was able to participate and Kaye was there with us so we'll make sure we provide support to the boosters in this inter them as we go through this process one of the things that we have to make sure is that we're still able to process requests from boosters so that's going to be something I think that's um we want to make sure that if coaches have
023requests and there's monies that we're working with you know our two officers to make sure everything moves forward as as it should be so happy to answer any questions or any thoughts the board has I'm assuming the bo is this being done in coordination and conjunction with them so it's not they actually yeah they working Clos to Mr Mr Gant I do appreciate they've been doing a lot to people and Kayla was telling me she's having to run a lot of the concessions because that's it was interesting looking at the structure I think it is time to reconsider things because there's support organizations within like touchdown club and all two we want understand how that all fits together how the money flow how it distributes but you have two people trying to support entire booster
024organization and that's obviously not even a quorum but it's not fair to them either Kay's about how much she has to do for concessions I believe right fill in yeah yeah yeah and I've noticed volunteerism continues to decline uh people just donate a little bit of money or and but that problem is it's very difficult to find people to want run those concession stands all the time and be there that are reliable and know what they're doing and yeah I appreciate uh you guys' work on that because I know there's other aspects to it but the concessionaire side of it is you know a large portion of the volunteerism that's required to make the boosters work uh and then all the individual sports uh with all their different fundraising and I've never been uh to
025the booster meetings as a board member because I tend to stay away not to influence anything but uh I certainly uh hear about it as my son participates in athletics here so I do appreciate your work on this and uh I think from a board standpoint We Stand ready to help in any way we think can be beneficial uh in the long run because if it helps all of our Athletics in the long run that's what we should be doing then so appreciate it I think in the in one things I want to talk to their two officers about is Mr Gant I think can help with some of the requests that come through and then we'll figure out how we're gonna manage when they do have requests to to just spend some booster money
026um and then like I said that you know I might have something for you as early as next meting but this is a highly complicated situation it's not as easy to just close up you know nothing else there's run out and things too so Mrs drum she's going to help with this a little bit too but again we do appreciate the report and I I think we can really build a program moving forward okay that' be positive so sounds before we would dissolve the boosters as we know has there been a plea to the alumni boosters those that have had students in the program and expanded as a volunteer organization is that has that been explored or we haven't yet this C just came about last week so we you know met last week and
027we just um they've been working with Mr Gant and and uh it was discussion about dissolving them so we're really at the early stage that's why I didn't want to bring something the bo honestly it's just too complicated I can't do that in a week or something I've read the little notes but I was hoping that we might have another solution as opposing or as conversely to actually dissolving the boosters or putting it under the board or whatever I guess I'd like to look at options and if there are none then we've done our part well I think we're going to need a booster group you know it's just how it's structured and I kind of better understand like I was learning a lot about the support organizations and how they fit together um I
028think it's honestly something I'll probably ask a couple board members to help with on this too like you know we can have informal committees um because we're talking about something so large and and to your point Mr Swagger about volunteerism I think there's more that we can you know help stimulate some interest in this and and what's the function of the boosters too I mean it's need to understand they do a lot of good work but I want to understand the support organizations But ultimately you know all of this really works at the pleasure of the board right so you have to endorse support organizations so I want to make sure we look at everything by uh bylaws financials and we'll get it organized I would really like to see the booster organization stand on
029its own as a board member it's not really what we would like to do to take that yeah right I'm not even sure what that looks like um and as far as volunteerism as an active I before I was on the board I was active in the athletic boosters and I have not been called to help and I know several of my friends have not been called home they need be volunteers we would have been so I I really highly suggest um and the Middle School the middle school kids their parents fin be active the structure boosters typically goes for the because we know that get to be a junior senior parent have a lot of responsibilities so I really encourage people to get involved you want to have a booster group for the Athletics
030we need involvement we need you to volunteer and go to the booster meeting that's the other issue is it's not just concessions there's a lot of other things that they have to be involved in once your child graduates you're out of the system get yeah those are things I think we can really help with we're g to look at every facet of it and see what can be done because I think if we can help push some of that as well too but you know it does remind me a little bit of the PTO last year we talked about what we're going to do with the PTO we've rebuilt that that's been highly successful now the K12 the district has a more intricate crical role in the parent teacher organization Association there um so I
031think that you know we'll do the same thing for boosters is just going to take some time and again the financials are significant they're managing their own funds they're managing other team accounts um one of the things I I'm going to repeat myself I know I said right but we'll make sure that the flow of the money come out is still be be taken care of I talked to Mr K about that a little bit today as well too so we won't hold up any coaches that are expecting something for their sports but we need to have better systems in place it kind of reminds me almost like County we do zerve based budgeting I think we want to take it down to its lowest common denom and rebuild from there and figure out I
032need to understand how the separate support organizations are organized are the separate 51 c3s are they sitting inside of the current booster but then the oversight for the athletic booster board that's part thing you have to get yes no that's fine these are the discussion so that's why I just didn't want to bring in about a week to bring your resolution to for some disolution boost there's a lot of intricacies but if they have separate 501 c3s you need to understand how those relate you know to the bylaws of the overhead over the existing athletic booster organizations we'll do this I appreciate them coming forward very cooperative and we appreciate that again all the extra work that's going in this transition um some people have asked me can't the schools just take it over it's
033not that simple you know it's just not that simple there's you have to look at how it's organized technically the board recognizes this as a support organization but there's a different function administratively so I would join an as far as the school taking it over that would be a last resort I mean very end I don't I would prefer to have a booster organization that's independent and does what it does well we may have hit a little bump on the road but we're going to be back so let's think better communication and get the word out that we need help not we the boosters and also so we want to thank you for all your efforts we know it's it's a thankless job right and U we appreciate all the things that you tried to
034do for us and and even reaching out to us here with you know that it's not sustainable gr so we really appreciate you reaching to us all thank you yeah thank you so again we have board policy good news policy committee this was updated uh January 8th of 2024 so we had the most current policy by state law so we're in good shape there thank you Mr brenberg for shepherding that process he's always stand on top of that so we'll stay in touch thank you ladies boost officers we'll stay in touch here keep you up famous and Mr G like I said I'll help in the interim with some of this as well that's all I have for boosters unless there's questions anything more okay um next on the agenda we have program of studies
035including Career Tech and um did you want something else oh I thought no I thought maybe I jump um so we were going to talk about program not a lot of changes we've been working through curriculum committee um on things so there's a couple highlighted changes that you'll see you're asked to vote on later on in our um program of studies and this for the high school and this comes up also later in resolution we do have final approval from cc to add the heal science pathway so if the board V there's a resolution later on if you vote for that then we'll continue our planning as a reminder that is part of we're going to have that one of our existing classrooms and we'll also have the connector classroom which will be a new
036classroom um those two will connect and we'll have the academic side if you will and the Practical side we have six hospital beds in there CC's GNA supporting a lot of that um we also have the next step in electrical trades and multis technician I know we've highlighted and talked about that program but just as a reminder for the electrical trades um this is where we're developing cohorts for next year so our Rising Juniors um when they're in their senior year can basically be if they qualify working a week and then uh in school the opposing week and then we'll develop a cohort like basically an A and A B so that we'll have that evened out but um if students are eligible and keep their grades and they're doing all programmatically we'll have that
037um and then actually something that we're adding to uh is we're adding Commercial Art as a course and that'll be in our steam lab I think the board's heard some about this but our current Media Center this year we used uh partially as a steam lab um we're going to take that entire space now and make that Steam for next year and then we'll move the media center to another location I do have to thank our high school administration for helping that's not an easy process and also Mrs dod's been helping and Mrs Merill um Mrs do will take out some additional responsibilities where she'll do more kind of think about College and Career Counseling in some respect particularly counseling but advising I would say so she'll be helping with that she does a lot
038of that work anyways focused on global scholar so we'll shift her location there and some of her responsibilities but those are the three I would say significant changes there's a few college credit plus now but nothing on that significant um and the Middle School uh even fewer changes really um other than cleaning up some there will'll have an advanced science uh course in e8th grade you know we keep reaching back earlier and earlier now to some of the grades were appropriate to try to advance the curriculum so we'll be doing that as well um another area in the program of studies is Bo boag and if you recall our numbers how we dwindling we looked at this last year and then for this current school year we have a partnership with Northridge and our students
039IM migrated to the Northridge schools I believe we have about eight um there were in discussions about potentially continuing that for next year Mr Shipton led a survey I know Mrs Tomas help appr proove it um and we ask parents and students what they're interested in coursework Wise for next year and the members for goag we're still very low so we expect to continue that partnership with Northridge um late probably like an hour before this meeting have an update that we believe Northridge is willing to continue that partnership and we appreciate that because they have actually been reciprocal or we've been reciprocal with them because we actually have one student right now in our electrical trades from from northri and potentially more because next year we'll be able to grow the program our junior class
040can grow up to 22 students next year we have the proof of concept and you know our space is limited we could probably go little bigger a bigger space but for right now we go up to 22 so we'll have more openings um available in addition to what we'll we'll take our CH next stents do we have more room in that building Rec not unless we move that that physical room um the way that room is designed is really helpful I mean can take no credit for it but the way the building was designed where we take that wall out and extend so you have basically like a large l in there now for electrical Trad so you have the more practical side and then you have the smaller section I'll call it an L
041basically that's that's your academic size we could um I think there's 24 stations in there but it's a little too tight because the seniors are going to be doing some advanced work and they to store some materials so we agreed 22 would be space over time though and this Bo ask you a question you know I have the vision I'd like to see a Workforce Development Center at some point maybe that's even public private partnership you've heard me talk about that so I think that would at some point be ear here you know hopefully future oh yeah something I think we can do you said public private partnership know well I won't say anything publicly but I will tell you when I talk with business bus is I barely can get it out of my
042mouth about what we're trying to do because it's not only the the high school programming it'll be 1112 or sometimes 912 but it's also I'd like to see it as a true Workforce Center because you can upskill adults you can do an adult ed program in there and we could partner with cotc ctec others that's the challenge as physical school buildings you've heard me say this before but we use them about six and a half hours a day give or take other than maybe the gyms and all and boy if we could use that run some Adult Ed and you know upskill some staff and but I'll tell you very well received um by the businesses when we talk so no one's writing us a check yet but the conversation is is definitely there I've
043heard good comments yes yes yes well and I think what's a win on this is um also from the fact that get to stay in their home District too you know that's the challenge you're you're traveling 30 40 minutes sometimes to get to see nothing against that and there's some programs we can't replicate but in these cases it works well I think I was talking to Mr shift I think we're gonna hold a parent night at least for the rising sophomores and try and show them um some of those programs we might do it for all the 912 but certainly um the other thing and we just kind of Cl is the sa the L Sciences pathway and we will have um boards asking about certification before we'll have minimally a a state tested nursing
044assistant um program and you could be a senior and get that certification it's aggressive but you can do it so it's a marketable skill afterwards or you can look at that for military and possibly get yourself a bump or two we'll talk to recruiters when that becomes the the opportunity um and then the other part is you can matriculate to um Advanced education whether it's two-e four year school so we're and again if you vote for that tonight that'll be moving quickly we expect to open that by the Fall yeah anything that's not stationary will be brought in by CC so right now the way we have the we're about it what I call schematic design and what we been need it's in it's ins set partially in the um six classroom Edition so they'll
045be bringing anything that's not fixed so they have like tables and some tables uh six hospital beds uh we think we can fit those in a room things that um there are some responsibility for the district because uh we will have four sinks in there we have nursing stations so in some cases you'll have a bed on either side so there's a little bit of a cost for that to the school district to convert the space but it also um we save some M because we don't have any loose f as many loose Furniture Furnishings as you typically would in the classroom so we're not buying as many chairs tables things like that so it'll bot wash I don't have the exact prices because we uned all that but it's it's pretty comforable yeah so
046that's um progam M STS around the um we've cten the attention of Channel 10 news and we've been part of their Boomtown series they actually came out today and I think we have a little video we can show you just have a quick one but they're starting to really recognize the students and then um when we're and we and what they've been doing with these series is we'll see small vignettes and typically they'll weave something together at the end of the week and it's about a half an hour Series so we can show you we kind of have a recording recording but it's it's viewable and then when we're done with this if you have any questions I have to answer anything about the program of studies for either of the middle school or the
047high school the inov apprach high school is taking to get are prepared to enter the workforce I'll explain coming up care afternoon at get ready forj compies to move in local school districts are working to prepare students and train them for the new jobs and that includes Johnstown High School in liing County TTV news reporter K Lake was there earlier today to see the skills the students are learning this classroom behind me and also this classroom here are the two new spes that open to give students real work [Music] experience Juniors one classroom was built for electrical trade students and the other for multikill technician there's also a meta and Intel sponsor robtics lab featuring a robotic dog along with these Labs the high school is looking to expand for County the next expion includes
048adding a heal scien career path and ultimately the students who sign up hands and academ learning experience but coupling those things anytime you can make education more threedimensional I think it really helps if you're and you just don't want to like you know jump students at beginning of a little bit ago and I think they'll have more it's always interesting me do those interviews because they took so much material for the students which is is great but you know would we get maybe less than minute and a half there I would guess yeah any questions I can answer for you about program of studies Direction whats we um I don't know I really don't know I I I think there's some um Pockets that it's occurring I I guess to sound a little modest as
049a school district I think we're probably fairly Progressive in that um and Endeavor I don't know up the top I know there are some Regional area schools that that do some work but I think if we look within ourselves this has been a vast acceleration uh it's successful you know I think we can honestly run tours at least once a week if not more for what we have up already that multikill technician uh we've talked a lot about electrical trades but multi-kill technician program that was a a bigger lift in some respects because with electrical trades you have such a curriculum you can follow you know we can look at journeyman down to Apprentice to K12 you know really a high school curriculum um so you know mul skills a little more challenging but we
050we got that moving too and um that'll become more refined the Health Sciences will be more like the electrical trades because we'll have the STNA you know embedded in there that'll be one that'll grow in morph over time too we expect it to be more biomedical over time it does help us with things to kind of bring us full circle like even in boag remember when we were studying and there were some many different Pathways there's some medical Pathways in there too so we do think that would help even though we won't have the actual program here but there's medical terminologies and other courses that would come with this Health Sciences pathway that could broaden the base for many different areas um I yeah I I don't think they have internship set for next year
051um but I um but they will the workforce I know is getting ready for this summer and then that'll be something we'll focus on next year since we don't have any graduating seniors this year so from either one of those programs everyone's just you know a junior but that'll that'll be part of the work we do and I would imagine that some of that especially electrical trades if we're doing we at that cohort with an A&B um I imagine that's going to lead us some jobs too we've hosted a lot from businesses coming in you know we've had many large businesses coming in and they're all extremely happy they'd asked for 200 I we can probably get to 22 but I'm not sure we get to 200 but at least that's a tenth of the
052way and we'll keep going there I do want to highlight the partnership with C this would be possible and actually when you ask the question this is poor about other schools really all this comes to everyone working on this including the Board of Education I don't think every board would um approve such Innovative uh changes in such a short period of time well we've talked to the news even today she said how many years You' been working on this I said about February March last year so so we appreciate it because it you know you help create the conditions for all this to be successful ultimately focus on anything else I can answer for program of studies or anything else with there you'll have that later on in your agenda to look at that's all
053I have for presentes um we don't have anything for athletics extracurriculars but we will um we're still working on some things there um you know Mr spam his Comm in that committee there's some things even like we were looking at today with track and making sure they have everything they need so have have some updates for you there's some things that were stuck in a requisition process we were able to get moving today R's going to help with that so we should get some things moving there any meting 21st I'm open okay Friday the that's in the afternoon I've got I can take the day off of work that day I have nothing scheduled as of now okay let me look and see because we were it might be good time to have a meeting
054I thought Greg said he had some stuff he want to talk about so that's why Greg always has stuff to talk about so please enjoy spend time with Greg he's a he's a thought guy no shortage there okay so I'll possibly look at the 21st yeah if you have any I mean I'm we look um building some grounds of safety I know we're going to schedule that uh had some challenges schedules there but we'll get that done that's that's hued up here so curriculum we have that in April 9 we anything scheduled for finance we really don't need anything right now trying to get something in ail lock down St okay we did have an insurance committee meeting so if we can get a report out on that we did we did have one and
055this was the one with our um different building Representatives came to this as well um and which is a good uh turnout new people come from the different buildings with great questions and we're looking to possibly go to the different building and just kind of talk to sit there and the staff have questions or want to sit with her and ask about their particular situations that that would be good based on some of the feedback we got from people attending um some ideas were shared there um as far as like in the professional work day possibly having think that was be this year abouts it's be next year not okay Professional Day discuss have more information but it's just a lot given to them day one hired in especially for some of some of the
056um people that are new to the Working World and uh it's overwhelming to get all that information so y we did talk about the HSA just so the board's aware too and it's it's an exploratory phase but um I want to thank Mrs schaer as our one of our team leaders in this because we had a lot better attendance I think you know just to call what is our insurance is trending well one of the things we're studying is um for staff hired as of July one would we automatically put them onto the HSA and uh not have the PO as an option so we're looking at that that needs to be studied but I think the idea here and everyone seems be rolling their sleeves up again Le double plus okay double plus of
057the attendance and then we had U more people you know jumping in yeah she's providing reminder that we I talked a couple of the principles too we might have a little bit of time we can put in um for insurance one of the things that we learned actually from the staff is that it's an education you know and um I I'm as guilty as an next person you don't really pay that much attention to the details until you really need it when it comes because health insurance is very intricate right so but there's some things we're looking at there um we even like give you an example we even even though even HSA we can do a limited uh Flex savings account and we're even going to start that we believe in April so that's
058been born out of these two discussions and that could be focused just on Vision hearing needs you know but I'm sorry I should say vision and uh Dental needs yeah I thought it was a great conversation yeah and we're going to have more frequent too that's one of things we committed almost monthly so we'll see we're watching the trend data come in yeah very productive meeting I'll look for at the PD day though professional development team policies policy um we did have a meeting we reviewed 11 Financial policies um fortunately but unfortunately most of them had actually been recently reviewed by us stand updated but it was in mola's update volume two so we had to look at them again um our fabulous Treasurer looked over them ahead of time which was really helpful in
059making selection our fabulous treasur I looked well it was very helpful to see what you picked because Financial policies are a little trickier than other policies um and so glad you looked over those for review and uh the agenda for first review question apprciate does app abely um yeah and then we'll have we don't any technology some point we'll get back to our strategic thing but we haven't anything there recently we've been doing more as a larger um LT lpdc met local profession development committee met on February the 20th those in attendance Stephanie stookie Lauren kirs uh Renee Brittain Anette price Eric lenberg and Brad wman um they had individual professional development plans they had three of those approved for staff uh one is still outstanding uh they also approv two licenses and those are
060based on continuing education units that met um they did look at some staff and make sure they're approved for uh some of their professional development contact hours um we had an other business section there um M schaer and I don't always attend those meetings their staff by others but we did go and we talked with the entire team about House Bill 8 which you've heard a little bit about which is that parents Bill of Rights and um we're going to look to possibly change some things with the local professional development committee and how information is submitted for example we want to make sure we understand what college classes um staff are signing up for and then also they're asking this for reimbursement you know there's some restrictions now um and for this in this house
061delate and it'll be um aspects that minimally require compliance in July so for example if there's certain content we have to make sure that it's something we support as a district if a teacher's going ask for uh training in that area or Advanced education and if that's going to be also asked for reimbursement so we're going to work on the system there that we had a robust conversation that day um and then other than that they have another meeting scheduled in 20 on March 20th I think that's it for LPC andless there's questions moving on to consent agenda consent agenda is resolution 25 -3- motion I'm going run through some of these resolutions sure uh So within consent we have unpaid days I won't mention the reasons why but we have some staff who need
062some time off and we ask that the board approved those dates so they're all listed there in the agenda we have a resignation and uh this is from Kendra and we were teasing her today in the office I'm going to tell all of you to vote no and that what would happen if you didn't accept someone's resignation but I will try to talk to Kendra and she feels uh really bad I don't think I'm sure anything I shouldn't but it's for family decisions and you know growing family there so we certainly respect that and she'll be missed I know Mr Worman and his time working with her is very appreciative so we have her as a resignation and then we'll get ready to post that probably soon here uh class F employment we have a
063staff member there people activity employment staff member there or volunteers we have quite a few people there for volunteers uh we have board meeting minutes we have two of those from February 10th and February 24th which is a work session and then we have the monthly Finance report I think that's there's questions put a cap or have we considered a cap on on um no no no no no it's it's it's a fair question it depends um let me answer it this way if it's for sick Le there's certain Provisions um within the hybis code so if someone um has sick leave that the school district recognizes through the process um as sickly there are Provisions within Ohio Ohio revice code for certified classified staff and H long you have to keep them providing days
064for them as well as if uh we have to just hold a position for them so if there's anyone specific I can talk about on the side though yeah I'll work on that because obviously W talking public person any other questions comments okay Mrs Thomas yes Mrs Boer yes Mr Benton yes Mr Mrs Davis yes Mr Swagger yes the next section of consent is 25-3 d48 can I get a motion a motion a second these are uh complaints against valuation of real properties so this is something we take very seriously Mr strum's done a lot of lifting on this but you can see as you go through the list it really starts with b c d e and f and g um just you through quite a few there that there are some businesses we
065don't do this on residential but there are some businesses where evaluation has changed and uh we have an opportunity to challenge some of that and um typically can go the way to the board of revisions but we'll this will be a first step if the board approves any questions comments call the r well this is something that we've done in the past this is not anything usually this happens every year whenever we have transition yeah no it's yeah good point it's a standard practice and sometimes when we go to um Turk meetings you know these things will come up as well too from some of the businesses so we can see you how well they're doing even if there's some recent purchases those are the ones or additions those are really seems to be more
066more this time this year because we have more transition different ownership that's why many oh yeah yeah we've had years we've had a lot uh I think it's important to note that we don't do individual homes or anything when we do these we we have the option to but as a board we elect to to not do those ones on individual homes well and that's a good point because we have talked about some of that because there was a c the C so we didn't bring that one back either you know not going to have much of an impact but the point thing important part of this we go through it I do want to thank Mrs dry because she did most I'm speaking on this but she really did most of the work on
067this work with legal council parsing you know what was uh what's residential what's commercial any questions comments call the r Mrs Thomas yes Mrs Davis yes Mrs Boer yes Mr Benton yes Mr swag yes on to your recommendations Treasurer recommendation resolution 25-3 d49 is a recommendation to approve donations from uh Nancy Moore in honor of Charles weeks it was a monetary donation of to the athletic department can I get a motion a motion second obviously thank you to Nancy Moore and uh it's nice to see Charles weeks there continue to be honored had a yeah had a tremendous impact here so I do appreciate seeing his name on the agenda um any other questions comments call the RO please Mrs Thomas yes Mrs Boer yes Mrs Davis yes Mr Swagger yes Mr Benton yes to
068you resoltion 25- 03-05 is a memorandum of understanding with ctec for grades 9 through 12 he Sciences pathway chance get a motion a second any questions comments on this clarify who was and was ready she hit the buzzer clearly before OPP St call the r Mrs Boer yes Mrs Thomas yes Mr Benton yes Mr Swagger yes Mrs Davis yes resolution 25- 03- 051 is the high school program of studies can I get a motion motion have a second second any questions comments on this I I did look at it so both on the lot of pages it was a lot of pages so I noticed on the first page we include the facilities man we include everybody on there but the facilities manager is d Jenny but for the 2025 2026 school year would it
069be good point um I noticed that and that's that's on JM yeah it's online but we can we can fix that I we can put a placeholder in there for right now till we have that ready another thing um when they I forget what page it's on but as they talk about the terminology or the tools um the Common App and school rinks I don't see that listed in the handbook and I think those are important um it was mentioned on page eight about School links but there's nothing in the handbook to direct them to set that up okay um and it's also difficult fors to get that set up sure students in build yeah so um I think that should be added okay those are two you have notes over there I do okay
070I'll take those afterwards just because trying to make good eye contact silly me right you see why I had the end of my proof transcri the transcript request it mentions it on page six and it goes into detail but it doesn't list the link for the Google form okay I think that hasn't changed it was the same for Adam same for my son same for my daughter so I think we could add that okay in there and then um as a curriculum committee I think we need to go back and I I look at the courses I'm still strongly supportive of an algebra course that's two years not just one year because I don't think every student can just pick up math I I didn't uh very easily but there's a course out there in
071Algebra 2 and I know Mrs St was looking at it um and I don't know if we can offer it but I know that students today Algebra 1 geometry Algebra 2 we've added a higher level courses for students um statistics oh yeah cus AB BC think that's great I think leaving behind some students C has their own math Incorporated techn math inated but I think we still need to have something for our own students here that you know just GLE I don't know what yeah well it's a it's a timely discussion though is what they used to call um they still have that because I didn't see yeah is that what they're calling it now model and reasoning we brought that this is the first year that we that yeah yeah it's math modeling and
072reasoning we this is the first year we've run that okay but the questions are still timely though because you know how the state's been focused on the science of reading there's not really a science of math per se but they're going to be start looking at math there's some discussion about bringing some math course is down into uh more into the middle school even specifically eth grade so we'll look at we'll look at all that so that's just what I my because it's it's part of an approved it's part of no it's part of an approved program I know that's what that is well it's under course description though is what it is it's math modeling and reasoning and that that's all that's a program we went through with the state last year and we
073yeah we can bring that up if you want to review it at curriculum committee we can go through that at curriculum committee again and look at those different permutations we have for math yeah I have to think yeah I I I don't want to say know we'll have to look over that and see because um a little yeah provides the same Bas yeah I have to look and see how you do that with a year-long course and if it can extend more I'll have to look at that we we'll we'll we'll put that on our list for curcan committee and again if you can share your other notes um that'll be perfect because then we can don't be sorry and you're always my good proof reader I rely on you all the time okay that's
074good questions comments I heard you say about students is that resolve we will be changing it's not finalized yet there was there was yeah I think well I think it can but but even if if northri wouldn't come forward we're going to have to look other options because there's not enough students to support I don't know what those would be I can go to other districts too it's just the parti with Northridge has been the best for us so um saying it's looking promising looks promising yeah we were just talking about very late in the afternoon say like 3:30 or so and uh it looks like promising I you know I don't want to force their hand but I hope it would be promising unless they have some other challenges like their you know overflowing
075with numbers and they can't accom because we're opening our doors as well too and this is the reciprocal aspect like I said so we have just one electrical trade student but as you hear me talk about we can open up to 22 students next year electrical trades and 22 of multi-skilled you know we said we'd serve when we we talk to CC about the western side of Li counties we can have licking height Southwest Licking and North rid yeah we'll get a curcum committee meeting together at some point we'll go through and give updates and I gave this c a topic there to bring up a curriculum she'll bring it to that's great all right anything else on this call the RO please Mrs Thomas yes Mrs Davis yes Mr swager yes Mrs Boer yes
076Mr Benson resoltion 25- 03-25-18 discussion questions comments on this Mrs Thomas yes Mrs Davis yes Mr Benton yes Mrs Boer yes Mr SW yes resolution 25- 03- z53 is approval of home instruction um we have three students in here we just number them so that we have the information at back end um but you know typically there's students who can't come to school for a reason so we help with that um it works out generally for about an hour versus every day you miss the school give or take so but we'll be U if the board approves us we'll be deploying these to students typically outside of a school day any questions comments Mrs Davis yes Mrs Thomas yes Mr swager yes Mr Benton yes Mrs Board yes uh resolutions 25- 03- 054 second reading
077revised policies get a motion any questions on these U organizational officers committee presiding officers no meeting executive session or vendor relations cook Mrs Davis yes Mr Benton yes Mrs Board yes Mr swager yes Mrs Thomas yes resolution 253-5553 R Mrs Davis yes Mr Benton yes Mrs Thomas yes Mr Swagger yes Mrs Board yes resolution 25-3 056 second reading of replacement policies resed get a motion any questions comments on all the ROP Mrs Davis yes Mr Benton yes Mrs Boer yes Mr Swagger yes Mrs Thomas yes resolution 25- 03-05 7 is the second reading of new policies motion questions comments these are on board meetings agendas and electronically put call the RO Mrs Davis yes Mr Benson yes Mrs Thomas yes Mr Swagger yes Mrs Boer yes resolution 2 5- 03- 058 is the first reading
078of revised policies these are mainly to do any questions comments on call the r get the first in second again please Amanda was first Alan was second Mrs Davis yes Mr Benton yes Mrs bler yes Mrs Thomas yes Mr swager yes any board comments at this time a couple things to review um over Friday Saturday and Sunday had the musical sister U tremendous you know I it's just amazing what High School production looks like and from sets to students um I do want to thank the board for approving we had updated mics this time um Mrs Warner come forward and because it could take a little longer time to get things approved for a foundation we approved it as the board and then um you know if we get the foundation monies in the future
079we can do a reverse expenditure and get that money to the back to the board um but having updated mics was noticeable um we also did some um had some revisions Mr brenberg uh was able to coordinate that and approved it and they had some updated lights we have I think 10 house lights now or 10 stage lights we used to have six so I'm not the Arts and theater person but I could just tell visually there weren't dark spots on the on the stage just tremendous so but beyond that just you know my wife when I go every year you know she walks away too because she doesn't get to see this like wow you know and just very impressive so to celebrate there um we talked about this little before talk public before
080that PTO Wizards game what a success that was um yeah did a I'm sorry did a nice job with that and uh they I think they made over $1,000 when it was all s after they paid all their bills so it was a tremendous fundraiser um there's some discussion about that was such a good activity we want to do every year so I think they're thinking about next year and then probably go to some Cadence about every other year but it's brought to the attention maybe we do some other things maybe some other sports we're looking at it so yeah that was certainly exciting left us all day um Elementary reading of math night we had that on Thursday we had some locals uh including Mr Swagger helping his readers so I have a video
081that McDonald's worked on so we'll get that published relatively soon as well so that well um to thank Mrs Wagner for all her efforts I think you know you make it look easy sometimes but I know those AR those aren't easy events when you're try to coordinate both math and and uh reading that night so well done um Intel I think you know it's well known about what's happening them they did come out and meet with us specifically or me with actually and to talk about things there was a couple things they wanted to share is one is they're committed to the work with the school district so that's not changing in fact on Friday uh they're sponsoring our freshman students to go to Kai and they're paying for all that last year was our
082first year that and we agreed they would do the entire building and then the maintenance of it would be every ninth grade so they're contining that so they want to make sure to tell us that that's moving forward we know the dat's been pushed back to 2030 now as is potentially open May later they did tell me that um with that that they could be Advanced depending if they had a customer need so I guess there must be something there in the works potentially so if they got a a need that date could be P back 2028 year again but that it remains to be seen we don't control um and lastly they've we're talking about some of the funding aspects and they're going to see how that works out as well too you know
083I've been asked that of course we don't have any information about that but I do appreciate you came the talk with us and commit their commit or agree with their commitment to the school district they do so um school funding just talked a little bit about that there's a lot going on with school funding around this is Dr me I working at it and trying to keep contact with it but it's an area of concern uh some of the funding formula changes could be significant we looked at simulations from the governor's office and just to Johnstown we could potentially lose $2 and a half million do if the current proposal moves forward so um you know I think we're in a spot where we're okay but that is alarming we'll have to see there's some
084advocacy groups moving forward and all um you know see what happens with that so there's a couple different funding proposals that are being proposed so have even greater impact the school district I'm not trying to Doomsday all this but it is an area to watch so that's 10% of our budget are they are they looking at that for the 2025 2026 year yeah when they do budgets they by any budget just a two-year budget so we're on the second year of that so the budget would be for two years so that's two and a half with two years it's over five years five years yeah well but but even over five years it pull that through the forecast that that's a lot of loss for us yeah yeah well and you know you think about
085it too we have some levies that are coming up as well too and um you know if you're talking the 2031 26 next year so you know it could be impactful to us yeah with the Intel delay obviously we don't collect income until people working you know that is the thing I I could probably wear a sandwich board and walk up and down the street and still people wouldn't no but everyone you know they think that there's money's here and it's you know we've gotten a little bit because of real estate transfers but everything is based on that income or that Workforce yeah from the workforce and there's no you know the construction workers don't really count for us on that so yeah the equation for US starts when the building up the exact yes
086so when they talk 2031 that's really 2032 for us before we start to realize some of those Gams so those delays certainly impact in in here cuts from State funding those are two concerning things yeah yeah it's I'm glad we're fiscally conservative because it helps in these times you know think everything's going to be great but you know like you said and and honestly that date of 2030 could be pushed back further we don't control those variables more information than the next person so it's something we're working on both this keeping on top of um exciting news though is we're still working on closing the city property uh we're almost done with the environmental survey that comes back without any concerns then move forward and closing could happen this month still so we'll see possibly
087even early but we're trying to get it done as soon as possible if everything comes back well on the on Environmental Studies and then we'll be able to work in the building um but more specific to this if everything goes as planned I think we can hold our next board meetings and in the future we'll hold them at city council and the council chambers there so the Acoustics uh probably be a little better um the mics are sure the mics are sensitive you can do page turning so you got be careful with their mics they have almost like floor mics you know they're so sensitive and the audiovisual um looks comparable to ours we actually have some Advanced aspects that we're going to be able to share with the city because when we like when
088we show the policy tonight the audience or anybody streams that can see the actual what's on the screen and I think they have to pan in uh for the city or I don't even if they have that option but um anyways we're going to infuse that technology so it's I'll tell you um although it's not officially closed tremendously Cooperative relationship we um derck and Debbie have gone over and got ready getting ready for the transitions so that'll be exciting to be in that next venue that again it could be as early as the April 12 meeting interestingly they have a mayor's court and they have a magistrate that comes in it was exactly in the same cycle as our board meetings so we think we're able to get that mov now so that in perpetuity
089as long as we stay on our cycle think about that that'll be exciting name well and then lastly I should have said Mr Gant um there's an athletic booster meeting I think scheduled for Wednesday I have a conflict that can't be there but I do want to I know we got to get a meeting in will you work with the boosters and see if we can get maybe the following week we can get a meeting in because I want to be there to support them and make sure we have the administrative team that where you work with the Boost maybe we do a week from Wednesday we'll look at schedules and see their availability okay and that's all I have unless there's questions from the board no Mr G you and I received an email
090today too I need to schedule time to meet with jyaa so they invited us to meet with them so we just have I'd like to make sure you and I coincide executive session yeah also reminder work sessions next week oh good good spring break yeah SP work session because of spring break where your green yeah Pat's yeah better write I I do have it written there I just yeah same thing it's there but it's not there thank you a good I'm early that's right so resolution 25 where we go yeah where did you invite us I'm going to Bahamas first time in years ni exting it's warmer I have to check my mailbox today and get Theo today I'm get that'll help all right so resolution uh 25- 03-05 a this is when we added
091I'm sorry 58a yes um is resolution for consideration of appointment employment dismissal discipline promotion demotion or compensation of a public employeer official in executive session and I don't believe a votes inspection okay I can get a motion motion and a second Mrs Thomas yes Mrs Boer yes Mr swager yes Mrs Davis yes Mr Benton yes and we're going into a session with no action afterwards thank you