001Call this regular meeting to order. Treasurer, please call the roll. Mrs. Ansel? Here. Mr. Gammon? >> Here. Mr. Gibson? Here. Mrs. Shutt? Here. Mr. Sol? Here. Please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. First item on the agenda is to go to the superintendent's report. Mr. Callen, please. Um with regards to our cafeteria report, just notice that you have a claims report in the last month. That'll probably be the last big claims month. The other ones will be good, but March tends to be a big one because there's no a lot of school breaks. And so, as a result, you
002tend to see like 22 days of claims in there. They'll be a little bit smaller moving forward uh for April, and then May will be a little bit smaller yet because we don't really have a full month, and we have some some days off there. So, uh I also want to turn it over to Mrs. Deer, who will update you on where we are with CEP, which remember stands for community eligibility provisions, and that's about students eating for free. So, if you want to go ahead and uh fill them in on the latest developments, I'd appreciate it. Every April, we're required to report our direct cert numbers to the state. Uh the direct cert numbers are any kids that are pulled from the state that are on TV and kind of benefits. Um I do
003that every month, and it's just a list of those those students. So, every April, we compile that list, we look at our numbers, and we submit that to the state. And then we have the option of whether or not we want to apply for CEP for the next school year. Currently, our elementary school, Bascom, is CEP. Um our percentage numbers are actually um a little higher than they have been in the past and we've gotten guidance from the state that the guidelines for qualifying for benefits are going to become a little stricter. So, beginning next year we'll probably see a drop in our numbers because less will qualify when they change the criteria for the benefits for qualifying. So, what they have recommended that if they feel that it would be beneficial to the district
004to go CEP, they're recommending that we do so. So, looking at our numbers and my regional manager, she met with Brad and then we talked with AJ Mr. Calderon, I'm sorry. And it was with our percentage percentages being what they are, we wouldn't be able to claim all of the meals at the free rate. So, how they do it is like a percentage of the meals claimed at a higher rate and then the the rest claimed at a lower rate. Right now, because Bascom because so many of the kids at that building qualify, they get to claim all the meals at that higher rate. So, if we go for the whole district for overall, there would be some meals that we wouldn't be able to claim at that high rate and be claimed at the
005lower paid rate. But from Mr. Calderon and Brad, we talked about it would be beneficial. They feel that the district moving forward that even though there might be a little bit of a loss, the district is in a position to cover that. So, that that would really benefit the families and the students so that all the meals would be free to the community. And if if we had the community but that the students within the community. So, if we have that, that would really help them out. And then, you know, being able to offset that cost, you know, the district would help and then we wouldn't have any any kids struggling to pay any debt that they might owe because of not being able to, you know, cover those meal costs. So, that's kind of
006what we're looking into for next year going CEP for the whole district. And it is world, still like, looking into the finer of the you know, the accounts and everything, but And the regional manager projected in a cautious budgetary figure of about a $7,000 deficit. And that was assuming uh same level of meal status as this year. Not status, but meal counts. In other words, we we served the same number of meals. Let's say we have a a slight drop in population. If that If those two factors are in place, it actually means that with a lower population, you're serving more meals. Okay? But, it was a cautious estimate that it was something that under a free status, we could we could reach. Uh and keep in mind, you see what our balance is in
007the cafeteria. The other danger is that with this with this healthy balance, um that the state might step in, and they did this a few years ago, and said, "You got to have a spend-down plan." And if you recall, when we had a healthier balance previously, we paid for the new kitchen coolers and the new kitchen freezer out of the cafeteria fund. And that was about a $115,000 project, and we paid for it out of that fund uh as part of a a state's warning that, you know, we needed to find a way to spend that money. Uh and so, we're in a similar situation where we know that And And Mrs. Fear brought up this point, you know, how much money Her question to me was, "How much money do we transfer every year
008in student debt?" Thousands. You know, there've been years it's been 16 grand. There's been years it's been 8 grand. And we roll that out of the cafeteria fund, and we put it on their student accounts. And they have to pay that before they graduate. Um so, the long and short of it is, we're already losing money in the cafeteria on a number of students that aren't paying bills, and that very well could be because of financial situations. Being able to go CEP makes a lot of sense because the budget figure of the loss is much smaller this year. Very negligible, something we can afford. And then the other component of that is I don't know if you said this or forgive me if I'm repeating myself. You lock it in for 4 years. And if
009we don't lock it in now then we're going to be under those new guidelines and probably not qualify at all. So, now it looks like it's you know much more advantageous for us as students and families and the district to be able to participate and expand that program. So, when do you have to file? May? Well, the the numbers are are due by the 15th. Like what we have currently, but you have till June 30th to decide if you want to apply. Any questions on that? Okay. Well, I just just one So, what you're saying is there's some issues and problems coming up, but you you're working out a solution that's going to Well, not necessarily problems. It's just financially to have those kids that qualify for free like for Bascom, we're on year three
010out of our 4 years. So, next year will be our last year and then we would have to redo our numbers. And if we have less families that might be qualifying for basic benefits from the state, we might not meet that threshold to qualify for CEP for another 4 years. So, that's why they're suggesting like if you think that it'll be advantageous for your district, do do it now so you're locked in for 4 years because those guidelines could be changing and less families would qualify and then we wouldn't have that opportunity to be CEP. So, we need to seize the opportunity. Exactly. Okay, got it. Thank you. Do you want to comment on the uh student counseling meeting? With the LIOs? I mean I I I can, but I would normally do that in
011the next months or whenever I go back. I'll I'll I'll mention it this time. So, we did meet last Thursday with the intermediate student council. And this is part of our routine meetings schedule that Mrs. Deer has with each building, whether it's high school students, middle school. Do you meet with the elementary as well? We do little things like we did They do pictures of like draw their favorite meal. But, you don't have the same style of it. Yeah, it's a little different to get their feedback. >> So, it was an opportunity to do, you know, some feedback, ask some questions, get student responses. And I know one of the things that has been brought to our attention a couple times is the the perceived lack of food at the intermediate lunch. And it's primarily
012hits with the fifth grade because the fifth grade is the last group of students to go in. And so, one of the answers to the concerns should be there's never a lack of food because there's always a type A lunch. And that's the base lunch the state says you've got to provide. And students generally get one choice in that type A. And so, when they come to the line, they can pick, you know, item A, item B in that base lunch. If they don't want the type A lunch, then there's other things they can pick in the line. And so, sometimes we have run out of those particular options, but so there's never been an opportunity where we don't have something in the type A lunch category for the kid. It is one of the
013dangers of having a lot of choices. So, school lunches have changed a far cry from that little thin slice of pizza that I had back in the '80s or the beef stroganoff with the hamburger gravy or some mac and cheese. So, a lot of different choices today. And so, one of the things we did talk about was how can we resolve that so it's not always the fifth grader who's at the tail end of that lunch line. So, we'll look into that cuz sometimes some of the items that are left over from the middle school we brought down as some of those extra choice items that they can choose from. For example, chicken patties are not the norm in the intermediate lunch. It's a sandwich. But, when there's 10 of them left over from the
014middle school lunch, well, we're going to try to put them on the line for the intermediate instead of not selling them uh that particular day. So, and sometimes there's leftovers like that and sometimes there's not. So, uh Mrs. Dear's regional manager, myself, and her and and Mr. Kelly met with the students, got some good feedback, even from kids that don't even eat lunch here. They pack. Um you know, in terms of what's their sentiment, why they pack, why they don't buy, those sorts of things. Uh so, outside of that, um the one there are issues when it comes to what those choices are, but no kid goes without food because there's food there. They might not get the choice they want. Now, then the other thing is sometimes they did we did feel some complaints
015where, "Hey, the Bosco sticks are cold." Or, you know, I can't remember some of the other things, but >> Well, it was interesting cuz we have we're having feedback Friday all every Friday for the month of April. I have a little suggestion box and we ask different questions each week. And at at the young meeting a couple kids said, "Yeah, the the chicken nuggets are always cold." And I'm like, "Are they?" I found out going through some of the ballots that it's the chicken nuggets and what we call our munchable. Well, they're intended to be cold. It's it's a it's a cold entree. It's kind of like um it's got a little scoop of pudding in it. It's got like crackers and and the chicken nuggets are kind of like you have leftover cold slice
016of pizza. So, they're they're intended to be cold. And I found that out that that's the that's what they were talking about. Well, nuggets are always cold in the munchable. They're they're supposed to be. So, I think there was confusion there for the kids in regards to the chicken nuggets being cold, but um as far as the Bosco sticks, there's a lot of kids that really enjoy the Bosco sticks. So, I did mention to my cooks just for that that last group to make sure that you know, we're we're re-temping them just to make sure that they're where they're at where they're supposed to be, but I did solve the chicken nugget mystery. So, that's the benefit of having these meetings that she periodically has with what once a semester? We do it in the
017fall and in the spring. >> Okay. So, once a semester we meet with the student groups and this timed up perfectly to be able to meet with the students at LIS where we were hearing some complaints and and then get some feedback and see if there's some things that we can address, you know, moving forward. Okay. Any questions from the about the cafeteria? No. Okay. It's an area of finance. I'll let Mr. Soul address the topic that really is the core issue of, you know, most of what's going on. I will tell you that the property tax settlements just came in, so that's kind of closed out for the our collections for the spring. And then uh recently he attended a tax incentive meeting. So, Mr. Soul, if you will. Yeah, we had a a
018Trumbull County, the commissioners have a tax incentive meeting where they go through anybody that's been issued any type of abatement for anything, you know, putting on additions or hiring new people or whatever. There was one issue in particular that came under our jurisdiction for our school and for Braceville Township. So, I went to the meeting and Tom Shay went and represented to uh Braceville Township. And it was for Adventure Plastics. Uh 2017, they applied for abatement because they're putting on a big addition. They said they were going to hire a bunch of people. So, they did it, but the report was due at the end of the year and they had just laid off some people, so there were eight people short just for last year. They were supposed to have 110, they only had
019102. Uh at the time of the filing, so commissioners had to vote whether to do it. Now, they had 2 years left on their abatement. And um they asked us what we thought. And I said, "There's only 2 years left and I'd learned in March they'd actually had a hiring event, so they're back up to where they were, but at the time of the report, they did not have enough people. So, it had to be brought before council and they had to vote, so they asked for our opinion in Braceville Township and we both agreed for only 2 years left plus it was a temporary thing and now they're back up to full speed, so we voted told them to vote in that commissioners voted to let go ahead with the abatement in our district.
020And they did that. There was a whole list, there was only 20 or 30 items they had to vote on and there was a lot Liberty because they're doing a lot of expansion over there. And so, you got to hear everything going on. We had a lot for Warren Township, too, because of Kimberly Clark and all the new stuff going on in Lordstown. That's missions. So, they they bring in everybody that any school district it affects or any township it affects. So, it was I hadn't been at one of those in probably 20 years, so it was interesting. A lot bigger than it used to be because there's a lot going on, a lot of additions, new stuff. So, it it did pass. So, we don't want to have anything that we didn't have anything
021else in our district, but it is one we wanted to bring you up to speed on. Okay. Um in areas of facility and transportation, the band shell uh is complete. And tomorrow I meet with uh Brock Builders and uh BSHM Architects for a punch list review and we'll have a discussion uh you know, about the panels uh because those panels were actually made by a very reputable company called DMI Metals. Uh or DMI Incorporated, I believe. They are the actual company that has the metal sheet metals on the roof of this facility. Uh and they uh you know, we're going to have to explore why that is. I don't believe it is a uh an assembly process because they started on the As I told the architect, they started on the far side. And as
022you wrap around that facility from this direction towards the complex, you'll if you look at it closely, you'll see that some of those depressions are towards this uh over in the southeast corner, and then they carry around to the south side. So, or the east side, if you will. So, uh you know, that that looks to me like it could have been a deformity in the run of the metal that got stacked at that point. >> When did When did those appear? They They've been there since I found them back in I took construction photos along the way, and I shared it with the architect that those were present in November. So, that's not something that's not a new phenomenon. Yeah. And I shared with him the photos to show that. So. Uh but they're
023really more pronounced when you see the sun on it, that's when you really notice it. Uh not there. So, so that it is officially complete and uh of course I know everybody saw hopefully today Mr. Schatz's email with regards to the year of engagement and things of that nature, and I did respond to that. If you got any questions about that, I'll be sure we talk about it. Uh the van is expected to be delivered in the next 2 weeks. Uh it apparently is in the region. And I'm sure it's got to go through its final shipping phase and phase inspection. And then once we get it, uh we'll we'll have UC Graphics put some uh our name on it because we got to have uh we we got a school transportation sign that we
024bought. It's magnetized, it'll it'll be on top, and then you have to put the the school district name on each side, and then we're going to have the name on the back of it as well as a magnetic sign that says, you know, that this vehicle stops at all railroad crossings because it operates just like a school bus, if you will. Uh but as soon as we can get that operational, then um we'll go get a license and insurance and be ready for use. And then, uh as I indicated to you in a memo regarding the Bascom playground, you know, we we just got our pricing quote, and I dropped that pricing quote in the folder for you today. We got Friday. He updated the pricing quote. And so, in essence, when we had the
025playground meeting, um probably 10 days ago with at Bascom with uh the teachers and Mrs. Kowatch and some parents, uh the discussion really started focusing on if we're going to try to do it all, we're not going to be able to make this happen. So, we need to focus in on what we really can make happen. So, the discussion as we realized that first grade and kindergarten never really conflict recess became can we combine one playground and have it be a first grade and kindergarten playground, and they can both use it. It's the design of the first play grade playground from the type of equipment that was selected is age-appropriate for both grade levels. So, you know, first grade kindergarten is not much difference there between the two. So, there's no issues in changing any
026equipment. It's just a matter of when would it be used, and can we logistically manage when kindergarten is at recess not conflicting with first grade? Well, we already do. Um so, the discussion was can we look at doing first and second grade? Don't do anything with the current kindergarten playground because we can leave it there as a backup, you know, in the event that some teacher for 15 minutes wants to get kids out at the end of the day, thinks they need to burn off some energy, hey, use it uh until we can't repair anymore until we have to open up. So, we have a parent, uh, that is willing to donate $100,000. And we already have, uh, $63,000 in our Bascom Playground Fund that we created last year. That's the 070 fund. In addition,
027we also know that after the band shell's done, in our facility fund, we have uh, roughly $100,000. So, you start doing the math and you realize with the new price quote of $278,000, counting the parent's donation, we're right there. We're not very far off. And we have an opportunity to do something, you know, special, uh, for kids. I met with that parent following that meeting privately and said, "Look, if you're serious, then I will go to the board and be my recommendation and we move forward. And if they want to move forward and the consensus is let's pursue it, then I'll go back to that parent and say, "You get us a check, we deposit it, when the money's there, we'll move and then we come back to you next month with that contract from,
028uh, PlayCore. And we approve that contract for purchasing that equipment. Uh, we are saving money from the previous quotes comparatively on the shipping, uh, but I will tell you this will be the cheapest we get this equipment. Cuz if you know it's only going to go up. Uh, so considering that we practically have, uh, all the money, if this parent would donate, that if we get the donation, I think it's in our best interest to do something great for kids down there, uh, to pursue this project. The quote that you will see in your board folder is a quote from OMNIA Partners, one of the big purchasing consortiums that's out there. Uh, we belong to them. We've been a member of OMNIA since 2013. And, you know, bottom line is that we can, you know,
029move fast with that purchasing consortium uh pricing already in place. Um one of the other big discounts we have in that quote is by attending a one-day training on child play and recreation and the physiological biological responses to children when they have recreation time during the school day and that for learning. Uh that qualifies us for what's called the OPRA grant, which is nothing more than a discounted price. And so, in partnership with the Ohio Parks and Recreation Association, when Mrs. Kowatch and Mrs. Theofilosio attended that, they now make LeBre a dish qualify for that additional discount. So, you'll see both discounts in there. You'll see discounted consortium pricing and the OPRA grant in the title. Uh and that quote, as I said, with install uh turnkey operation is uh 278,000. And then, we also
030have parents that will do all of the We have an excavator company in the community that has offered to do all of the excavating and removal for free. Um I have met with that parent and I told them that we would really not want to do that for free, that we need to come up for with a nominal figure. I don't care if we got a couple of gasoline and some labor for some of the workers because my concern is a liability issue. And when you have volunteerism going on, I would want us to have some nominal small amount that we could agree on and say, "We'll pay you this." Whether it's you know, a thousand bucks, for example, to de- to demolish these two playgrounds. Then, their liability insurance has kicked in, ours has
031kicked in, we've got a full vendor contract, and it's kind of a cover-yourself type of situation to have that uh you you arrangement. So, just wanted to share that with you and I would want some feedback on whether you want me to follow up with that parent and have that conversation about securing that funding and moving forward. Uh also, you know, switching gears and talking about students, just one general thing I went uh had the opportunity to be at the drama club presentation on Friday and um generally the opening night is bigger of the two crowds. I'm not sure what the crowd looked like Saturday, but I'm sure it was pretty decent. It was a great crowd on Friday night. The kids looked like like they had a blast and I know Mrs. Stillwell and
032the her students uh really enjoy uh the event. So, kudos to them uh and under her leadership they did an excellent job. It was quite an entertaining uh rendition of Clue, which if I'm not mistaken is set in the McCarthy era of US history with the story lines and talking in the 1950s. Uh but just uh great murder mystery there. Um and then, last but not least, we're going to want to acknowledge some of our uh staff members who have retired from La Brae. We want to we have them here in attendance tonight. Want to make sure that we acknowledge them and publicly thank them for their service. So, uh Mr. Sue Wyman retirement award and all board members and each one of them will come up here and get a photo. Uh the first
033one will be Cheryl Anderson. Uh Cheryl retired in January, January 1st in fact. Cheryl was started off as a bus driver 19 years ago. Uh probably did that for like seven or eight years before she became a custodian and then served as a custodian at the middle school and also at the intermediate uh where she ended her tenure in December. So, uh we want to acknowledge her service to the kids and we thank her for her 19 years of service to the La Brae Vikings. So, thank you Cheryl. IF YOU'LL COME UP. DID YOU WANT TO SAY ANYTHING? NO. COME ON OVER HERE. LET'S GET everybody moving in one photo. Good. Thank you very much. I see you. Oh. Okay. Yeah. He's very energetic. The attorney made it tonight. OKAY. CONGRATULATIONS. SO, YES, YOU OKAY.
034ALL RIGHT. SO, OUR NEXT INDIVIDUAL IS Debbie Lynch. Um Debbie is uh an individual that has started with us 29 years ago. Started off as a bus driver, did that for about 4 years, and then became a custodian, I think, in 2001. And then was a custodian at the middle school, and then probably how long you've been the head custodian? Oh, jeez. 6, 7 years. So, and then eventually became the head custodian at the complex when she a chance she was on the afternoon turns forever and then got to the middle school or the high school head custodian complex and really is just you never stop running when you're the head custodian you're in the course of the day because every time the phone rings or an email hits your desk somebody needs something and
035so Debbie has done an admirable job for us for 29 years of service and I know that you know she's enjoying her retirement just as much as Cheryl but I want to thank her for her service to kids so thank you very much DEBBIE FOR YOUR OKAY. AND THEN THE LAST PERSON WHO WAS NOT able to make it I'll just make mention of Terry Burwell who was a bus driver for us who's finishing her 10th year this year, and uh Terry just uh came to us as a second career, if you will, and has spent a lot of good years with us as a driver and did all sorts of uh things for kids when it came to taking tons of trips because it's hard to do the transportation in the afternoon, especially since COVID.
036And so, uh someone like Terry, she's just been tremendous in taking all kinds of trips and always being there to get kids to the events that, you know, they care dearly about uh in the evening hours. So, hopefully I'll reach out to Terry and see if we can get her in here officially. Maybe something came up. Um but we'll turn it over to Mr. Sloan and we'll start to recognize our students who won Independence today. Okay. Uh tonight we have one special certificate of excellence. This is for uh student who participated in the Trumbull County Challenge 24 and actually ended up winning the seventh and eighth grade division. We're proud to be there cuz there was a lot of kids there from our district and our students did very well, but uh Johnny ended up
037winning it all, so we're pleased to present him with the eighth grade award for the Trumbull County Challenge 24 division winner. So, Mr. Sloan, if you'll come over here and talk to the people. Sorry. Okay, at this time we'll turn it over to our speech and debate team with us tonight. We have our speech head coach and Mr. Steve De Blasio and we also have our assistant coach and Mr. David Michael and we want to make sure that we honor the students who have qualified for the state competition. We had an opportunity with Mr. De Blasio said that they could come and even maybe do a little microcosm performance of what it is that they did to qualify for state. So I'll turn the floor over to you then. Thank you for being Thank you.
038Briefly then Mr. Michael will introduce congressional debate but we'd like to thank you Mr. Calleron and the board for having a team this year. It's our first year. It's been a rewarding experience. We competed in 14 different tournaments. And it's mostly the kids with their hard work. We coach them and Mrs. Buster also was a volunteer coach who was board approved this year. Our competitions are generally mostly Saturdays in the 14 so they're giving up Saturdays or a couple of them were evenings. They're It's not a spectator sport so even some of their parents have not seen them in full action before. So they usually average the different judges' scores and that's how they determine the tournament finalists. So right now our congressional team is going to go first and Bryson and Landon, thanks for
039coming out to help out. Robert a little bit. Robert also was a state semi-finalist in congressional debate this year. Woohoo! So I will say really quickly before they get started, the two gentlemen left are part of congressional debate which is generally 10 to 15 people per room. Obviously for the sake of time we've kind of split it down to something where it's a little bit back and forth banter between people. So we're going to start off with Bryson and he is what we call as our presiding officer PO. He's going to introduce a bill that they actually wrote for this. They wrote a kind of mock bill for you. Uh but then we're going to alternate back and forth between a speaker questioning speaker questioning real quick. And then from there we'll kind of turn
040over to we have standard level of a little bit of dramatic interpretation and then original oratory, which is where they either are reenacting a scene or they're doing something they wrote themselves. Ladies and gentlemen, today we will be voting on bill 4-13 that ban the act ban the act um stands for ban all non-justifiable occupancies. It requires all properties owned by companies or organizations to be purchased by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. It allocates $100 billion annually to fund appraisals and the acquisition of these properties. With appraisals With a Yeah. With appraisals instructed to estimate homes at their lowest value. Companies must accept these payments on these appraisals and distribute the funds evenly among their employees. The Department of Housing and Urban Development will then resell these homes to US citizens at 75%
041of the appraised value. Seeing as um starting new speech, we would like to find any um speakers in the of affirmation. Any such speakers if you'd like to start. Representative Stevens. Hello, my name is Representative Stevens. This is my first time speaking today first time this legislative legislative session. I'm going to let the side let both vote me. Monopolies are inherently non-American. They prevent the American dream and they ensure that people don't rise up in the ranks. What we have to sell before us today is a bill that attempts to prevent the monopolies over a basic necessity of life, housing. The Lincoln Institute says that one out of 11 homes in America are owned by companies. These homes equate to what seems like a small minority, but that equates to a large influence on the
042market. They are able to control who is able to buy a home and for what price. This is ensuring that people who should be buying homes are not able to afford them. They cannot spend the exorbitant money that is required for a home, and this bill intends to fix that. And the Scotsman The Scotsman guide says that 60% 62 62% of Gen Z has given up on ever purchasing a home. They also say that if given the opportunity they would purchase a home with serious structural damage. This includes asbestos and termites, which are a which are detrimental to them and their potential families. This is something we can't stand for as a country because inevitably it will lead to worse homes and it will lead to exorbitant prices for homes that simply aren't worth it.
043We are pricing our constituents out of existence and that isn't okay. This bill helps lower the prices of houses and ensures they are beholden to democratic institutions and regulations to make sure that our constituents are able to control our houses and they are able to make sure that their homes are affordable. They are able to use their right to vote to ensure that they get their wants on the market. It is not up to the right of the few to control the market, it is now theirs and that is something that we can't take for granted. We as a country value independence and we value individual determination. Monopolies against a critical institution of life go against directly against that. We as a country need to dream better. We need to forge ourselves a better path
044and we need to bring freedom home. Thank you. Thank you. That concludes a speech of 1 minute and 46 seconds. Um we will now be opening a questioning block. Any such questions, please direct us now. Representative Wetherell. Do you think this bill would violate violate the Fifth Amendment the right to own private property? Well, in the Fifth Amendment it says that it says that the government has rights of eminent domain. If this is for the benefit of the people and we're paying a fair price for the properties, then I don't see why it would be violating the There are 15 seconds left on the question block. The chair will absorb this time. Representative Winnemucca, thank you. I thank you. The chair thanks you. Um seeing as I was the first speech in the affirmation, we
045will now proceed to first speech in the negation and the second speech in the negation. Please rise now. Representative Winnemucca. Ladies and gentlemen, today sitting negation of the of the Banning Act. As for this proposal, it's not just flawed, it is dangerous. It grants the federal government sweeping authority to seize privately owned residential properties simply because they are vacant. That does not conform, that is not fair, and this is a direct challenge to one of the most fundamental principles of our nation's golden rule. The right to own and control private property. Under this act, companies would be forced to sell their assets at artificially low government-determined prices. Not market value, government value. That alone undermines the very foundation of a free market economy. But it doesn't stop there. This bill goes even further, dictating how
046companies must distribute their earnings and certain punishments in making ordinary business decisions like restructuring or layoffs. We must ask ourselves, what message does this send? It tells businesses that success is conditional. It tells property owners that ownership is conditional. It tells every American that the government may just may decide at any time what is yours and what is not yours. That is not That is not how we solve the high housing crisis. Yes, housing housing affordability is a real real urgent issue. Yes, vacant homes in some areas are concerned. But pressuring the owners is not the answer, and confiscation is not the answer. Undermining economic stability is not the answer. That is why I stand in negation of the danger act in the passing of property rights in the housing market. THANK YOU. THAT WAS
047A SPEECH OF 1 MINUTE AND 19 SECONDS. Um the chair now opens a question floor. Representative Stevenson. First of all, you had a lovely speech, but based off the way that you brought right forward your points, does that mean that you are valuing the company's rights over your constituents' rights? The companies could potentially go bankrupt from these from some type of practice. Yes, of course, but that's really necessarily matter for making them bankrupt, because the whole goal is to make sure that our citizens are living happier, healthier lives. If these companies that are dictating their lives in negative ways are going bankrupt, why is that a negative? Companies are going bankrupt from these people also losing their jobs, which could end up making But they're going to get paid for the stuff they sold, and
048who's to say that So that was a short snippet, because generally there's a 3-minute speech, and each person can present multiple speeches on different legislation throughout the day. And there's question blocks in between, so thank you guys. And thank you again for being able to come up and help rock a little bit in this play conference. Hello. Uh I'm in the dramatic interpretation category of speech, which means I've given a speech that has already been written, and I have to perform it. Um the speech that I did was about a mental patient who believes that he's Edgar Allan Poe reincarnated. That's largely important to the passage I'm going to present. Currently, that's just what the story's from. Uh he's saving a little girl from a burning building, uh and I'm going to take it from
049when he's on the roof try to calm her down telling her they have to jump off onto a trampoline I told her it was okay and that they would they would catch us and she wasn't listening to me she she was crying backing away and the fire said grab her and I held her but she was squirming and kicking me and and SCRATCHING ME AND BITING ME RIGHT WHERE I'D BEEN BURNED AND IT HURT AND IT STARTED TO YELL BUT I WASN'T ANGRY WITH HER. ANGRY SCARED I WAS SCARED THAT SHE wouldn't jump on her own I was scared that I was going to I think I went to the edge looked down I could barely make out the silhouette of the trampoline through the smoke. The girl wouldn't look at me and why would
050she to her eyes crazy man about to throw her off so I did but she was squirming so much and so dark and and smoky and I I couldn't see her land but I heard it I heard the sound of her little head hitting the pavement I was still holding her stuff there. THANK YOU. UH HELLO, MY NAME IS FROM THE PAST FEW SIMILAR TO LIAM, I also in the dramatic interpretation section of speech so that means I do perform a scene or script of a book that had never been written. Um in my case, my speech is about a girl, she's about 15 and her sister had just committed suicide and for this portion I will be performing the very beginning of my speech uh really up until about the filler bit, um which
051is when I would portray the title. My sister Lizzie died today. What? I mean what am I supposed to say? You know, I mean it it almost sounds like the beginning of a poem your teacher would read you in English class or something. But my my sister Lizzie died today. I mean it's it's not like we didn't expect it. She's been missing for months and even before that she was always in and out so Mom and I were always just like Lizzie's gone. Now it's not like we said it to each other or made any faces or anything or actually we didn't say it at all. It was always kind of just there, you know, hanging in the air. Lizzie's gone. Dot dot dot. Maybe maybe that's what's so different about it. I mean now
052it's the kind of sentence with a period on the end. Lizzie's gone. Period. It's funny, you know, like I didn't even cry at night. And mean, I felt a little bad, but it's obviously you're supposed to cry when people die. But honest to God, all I could think about was that if I were to jump off of a bridge like she did, I wouldn't do it in the middle of July. I'd do it do it in November on one of those rainy days where it never really stops drizzling. The bridge would be just a little bit slippery. And people would have to wonder, did she do it on purpose, or was the handrail just too slick? There's going to be a funeral. I mean, who are we going to invite? I mean, Mom and I
053don't know who Lizzie's friends are. She stopped telling us things like that a while ago. And I mean, Mom pressured her for it, and they would fight, you know, screaming and yelling and breaking things, and pretty sure she just stopped coming home at all. Maybe maybe now she's gone for good. It's like we can finally solve the problem, you know? Oh. I mean, it's almost like I'm glad MY OWN SISTER IS DEAD. THANK YOU. HELLO, I AM DAISY PEACE. I AM IN A DIFFERENT category than the other two speech members. I'm in original oratory, which means I write the speech myself on a topic that I think is a problem in the world that we can do a little bit better at fixing. Um my speech is on nostalgia and how dangerous it can be.
054I'm going to present it from a middle portion. In the beginning portion, I kind of just introduce nostalgia and what it is, how it was originally viewed as a disease, and so forth. So, this is taking it from there. Taking this into account, I believe nostalgia today may be more dangerous than it presents. While on the surface, it can show itself as a warmth like no other. A reminder of the beginning. A beginning where the cartoons felt realer, the worlds were colorful, and our imaginations left us speechless. But nostalgia, it tells you what you want to hear. It forces you under the belief that the past was a simpler time. But when we view our experiences through this lens, have our minds on the good old days, we close off the possibility of us actually
055living in them. We confine ourselves to these places, these feelings, that we physically left, to convince ourselves we are the people who we were in them. But what makes these versions any better than who we are now? What? You weren't as naive as you were at 7. You no longer watch on the guys and girls that thought not caring about this is cool. That's how it's supposed to be. You're supposed to recognize that the past was like the present, just as, if not more, flawed. The time will change with or without Nostalgia romanticizes the past by ignoring what defines it. Not giving a glance to the nights you begged your parents' time. They don't understand you. Or the time it took to realize why they had. Nostalgia introduces a destructive demand for comparison. Often measuring
056the incorrect or fantasized perception of something to what it is now. This can become particularly dangerous when applied to someone not worthy of being looked up to. Putting someone or something on a pedestal because it's familiar rather than because it's proved to be a good example. This can become especially dangerous when applied to someone where things turn bad. This can be seen through the passing of bad or hurtful tendencies across generations. The feeling of nostalgia may be having a direct tie to continuing the cycle. This highlights the significance of learning to be your own person and constructing a framework of beliefs in which you believe. Rather than assuming the ones placed in front of you are right. Thank you. We have some certificates for uh some of the debates in speech team that they were
057state tournament qualifiers. So, I want to present them at this time. I'll give you a certificate and go over there and take a picture. First, I have 12th grade, Liam Feist. Ninth grade, Ryan 10th grade, Davis Peace. 11th grade, >> And the Great March Lovelace And the Great March Lovelace is here. Mr. DeMuzio, do we have any idea when you'll find out if we have members qualified for Nationals? We have our National Qualifiers, so our goal is within the next 3 years. So, we do not have any this year, but we also have exciting news that the students who know well as a team, they've earned enough points that our school has earned charter status and will receive a plaque within a couple weeks. Good. So, that's Congratulations. Uh Do you have anything else? >>
058That's all I've got unless you have questions about what was presented. Questions for anything, Mr. Calrone? Nope. Okay, we'll go to concerns of the board. Braddock? No, I don't have any. Julia? Uh yes. Uh I meant to address last at our last meeting to bring up the idea which we talked about the previous month which was um basically coming up with some verbage to make an insertion as a new sentence into our policy bylaws regarding the board nomination process. Mr. Calrone suggested that we uh use the following verbage which I like and that says following the closing of the nomination process for an officer position, that would be president and vice president. The board shall conduct discussion on the nomination prior to the roll call. If we insert this, which I do believe we should,
059it'd be it would be the remedy for me. And I that would be I'd want to hear if there are, you know, nominations whether they'd be two or four or six or whatever. Um we we get to hear from the persons nominated and we get to ask questions and so forth. And I think that would be a lot of some healthy discussion of ideas and um Mr. Calrone suggested that by bringing this up we could just decide as a board to insert that versus bringing it to a vote. Is that Is that your feeling? in our packet Well, I think you actually have to formally vote on it because it's a board bylaw 142. It's in there now. He put it in. He inserted it just like you said. That added is on that list
060of policies for this evening that we we would vote on. for the first reading against So we have to vote on that tonight. Yeah. Um Okay. Ashley, that's all of us. So, after the voting, we'll talk about it if there's Yeah, if you want to have further conversation, yeah, on the on the discussion part, but it's in there. Um Yeah, and then the only other thing was that I I did send out a a little, you know, sort of selection of photographs that I took during a well, it would a rainstorm kind of was coming to an end. I was at the band shell. And just looking at the water situation now, I know you said that you've decided that you're not going to do anything about the drainage situation. No, we are doing something
061about Pardon me? We are doing something. But not right now. No. In other words, we're not looking at we're not looking at um uh any more or we don't have estimates from outside companies to look at the >> not have other estimates from outside companies. The only estimate I had is the change order uh that I had sent to you in reply to my email. Right. And my question was that um like we built the we built the shell on the on an old foundation, right? No. We We >> It looks like there's two different kinds of cement. There are, and the new cement uh So, uh one of the things is outside the existing cement pad, they excavated and poured a new footer. They also put forms uh I don't know, three, four feet
062down for the vertical beams, Mhm. stanchions. Mhm. And all of that is on new foundation. Um and I can >> And the other But the other is old foundation from just what Yeah, the old cement that you see when you talk about two, that's the old cement pad that the stands sit on. Okay. That is not part of the actual foundation for the the actual band structure. Just the stands. And I can send you some photos because again, I took construction photos along the way. Uh and I can send you some photos that actually will show you those treads and those warnings. The other thing that happens with the architect and the builders is we have a third-party company that we pay to come out and stress test those as they were poured. So they
063actually have third-party testing to show that it meets the engineering standards as designed for that load. All of that was done by an engineering firm in terms of coming up with that load. And then um that company I think was out of Cleveland. And we have those reports as well. So the water problem's not really new in terms of I can see the grade of the existing cement the where the the bleachers stands are is at the same level elevation level as the lawn. And so in front of the bleachers it was soupy wet and rolling in. In other words, rolling into the to the new leak covered area from the the front, not the back where all the water's pouring off the uh the the roof. I yeah, and down into the gutters. So
064uh that that was I'm just wondering um because being a landscape designer that's the kind of thing I we fix and look at all the time with new structures, old structures. Um is that addressing that water rolling into the thing part >> Well, of the fix? It doesn't. Not the particular drainage. It doesn't I don't think it would hurt if we wanted to add that, but I can say in 15 years I don't think you know, we had any accumulation of water there. One of the reasons we have that now is because they routed it up with the crane that they used. But when I have the architect out tomorrow, I mean that could be a conversation. I don't know. I haven't looked closely enough at that cement to see. I would think if we
065had a problem there over the course of What are we in? 20 years now? 21 years? That the freezing and thawing throughout the course of the two decades, we might have some found in the cement issues there, but I don't know if we do or not, to be honest with you. But if we felt like we needed to put drainage there, you know, while we're doing the drainage, it wouldn't hurt to run a line in front and then connect it to the run that goes to the sideline. Mhm. Yeah, just I mean we we can talk about this Yeah. Later. But anyway, I could just see things that were would be simple fixes, not expensive fixes, >> Yeah. that could address that cuz that's part of the issue, too. >> ft. That's not Yeah, it's
066like Yeah, anyway, okay. All right. Thank you. Mr. Gibson. Um I'd just like to thank the the team that came tonight. It was very uh inspirational there to see the emotion and the dedication they put into that and uh that's the first time I've seen that I think from the grade on anything like that. Uh their interpretation of it and it was impressive. And uh congratulations to you. Thanks. For a small school, it's an amazing opportunity, especially for the kids. Okay. I'd like to thank you, Steve. Great job. Talented kids to go so far in your maiden voyage. I mean, that's phenomenal for the kids and and I'm glad that there was that you were there to tap into that you know, that talent there cuz it gets sometimes gets lost in the smaller schools
067and Debbie and Cheryl, thank you. You'll both be missed. Yes. Thank you very much. You both did a great job. Enjoy it. Did a great job. Both of you. Thank you. Many bus trips, many kids in the band, and many, many. Well, congratulations for your first year doing that. That's awesome. You guys actually got people to qualify. Like you said, for a small school, first time out, that was awesome. They They did did their stuff very well, and the drama club I did go Friday and Saturday. Of course, I had two grandkids in there. It was It was It was unbelievable. It was probably one of the best ones I've seen in 20 years, one of the best plays. And they did ad-lib least Friday's ending and Saturday's ending was different. They kind of changed
068things up, so even surprised Mrs. Still works on It was a lot of fun. I appreciate that. Okay, now we'll move into public participation. If you have anything you want to speak up, please stand, be recognized, give your name and address, and start up here. I would like to say I'm City of Westerville, 1501 Westerville Road in Sunbury. And I would like to thank Mr. DeMuzio and Mr. Michael on behalf of the speech and debate team. This was definitely something that you know, I'm really glad that that he stepped up to be the head coach so that we could have a team and these kids just seeing their transformation. I'm not going to name any names, but some of the kids were so timid and shy when they started, and then to see them go
069this far has been just so rewarding. So, just looking forward to the team growing, and thank you for your support, and you know, I'm just looking forward to great things in the future and have a long history here at La Brae, I hope. So, just thank you. And I I do want to also thank Mr. Bailey and Mrs. Sabo and Mrs. Shanower for My son was one of the Challenge 24 folks, but he absolutely loved competing in that and he Those teachers are so dedicated. They took They took those kids very far and as Mr. School stated, they We had a great showing at LaBrae at this event. I mean, it's just impressive. We just We almost sweep the whole thing. So, it's just amazing what our kids can do, you know, not just in
070in all these academic endeavors. We are small but mighty, so I just want to just say how proud I am of our kids. Anybody on that side? Okay, we'll move back into the regular agenda items and I'll turn back over to you. Okay, first item on the agenda is a recommendation that you guys approve the minutes from the board's meeting on February 25th, 2026, which is a special board meeting. So moved. Second. Motion by Mrs. Ansel, second by Mr. Shut. Any discussion? Treasurer, please call the roll. Mrs. Ansel? Yes. Mr. Shut? Yes. Mr. Gamblin? Yes. Mr. Gibson? Yes. Mr. School? Yes. Motion carries 5-0. Next item on the agenda is a recommendation that the board approve the minutes from the March 9th, 2026 regular board meeting. So moved. Second. Motion by Mrs. Ansel, second by
071Mr. Shut. Any discussion? Treasurer, please call the roll. Mrs. Ansel? Yes. Mr. Shut? Yes. Mr. Gibson? Yes. Mr. Gamblin? Yes. Mr. School? Yes. Motion carries 5-0. Next item on the agenda is a recommendation that the board approve the March financial report as presented by the treasurer. So moved. Second. Motion by Mr. Gibson, second by Mrs. Ansel. Any discussion? Treasurer, please call the roll. Mr. Gibson? Yes. Mrs. Ansel? Yes. Mr. Shut? Yes. Mr. Gamblin? >> Yes. Mr. School? Yes. Motion carries 5-0. Next item on the agenda is a recommendation that the Board of Education approve the fiscal year 2027 Foundations contract with the Trumbull ESC for our excess costs in special ed in the amount of 1.5 million. So, it's 1 million 550,000 dollars as the foundation contract. So moved. Second. Motion by Mrs. Anstael, second
072by Mr. Gibson. Any discussion? Treasurer, please call the roll. Mrs. Anstael? Yes. Mr. Gibson? Yes. Mr. Gamble? Yes. Mrs. Shut? Yes. Mr. Soul? Yes. Motion carries 5-0. Uh next item on the agenda is a recommendation the Board of Education approve a shared services supplemental contract for participation in the career navigator program with the Trumbull ESC for fiscal years 2027 and 2028 at an estimated cost of 11,985 dollars. So moved. Second. Motion by Mrs. Anstael, second by Mrs. Shut. Any discussion? Treasurer, please call the roll. Mrs. Anstael? Yes. Mrs. Shut? Yes. Mr. Gibson? Yes. Mr. Gamble? Yes. Mr. Soul? Yes. Motion carries 5-0. Uh next item on the agenda is a recommendation the Board approve the following change order from Brock Builders for the band shell project. You can see uh that summarizes the original contract,
073change orders to date, the adjusted price, and then the new change order to adjust the ingress and egress of the band shell handrail uh for 548 dollars, uh bringing the total total price tag to 293,600 dollars. So moved. Second. Motion by Mrs. Anstael, second by Mr. Gibson. Any discussion? Yes. What What was that? Can you explain what what Well, if you were at the band shell, you would have noticed it's already been fixed because I gave them the approval to change this. We had to cut the handrail that stuck out and did not give a lot of room for kids with instruments to get up into those stairs. So, the ingress and egress in and out of those stairs in the band shell, we needed to create some room. So, we had to cut that
074and then re-pipe them, cap them off. And that that was the original uh bleachers or The original bleachers, yeah. Yeah. Which tomorrow I got to address with them. They didn't fix one of the issues that I told them they bent. So, they had to get somebody back out here because if you would have seen that the top rail crossed, it was bent because I think they hit it with a crane or something fell down. Can't get the pipe for us, so they still have to fix that, but we haven't paid the final payment yet. So, we still have that leverage. Any other? Treasurer, please call the roll. Mrs. Ansel? Yes. Mr. Gibson? Yes. Mr. Gamlin? Yes. Mrs. Shutt? No. Mr. Soul? Yes. Motion carries 4-1 and no. Next item on the agenda is a recommendation
075the Board of Education approve the creation of a general scholarship fund and designate uh 007-9250 as the assigned fund number. So moved. Second. Motion by Mrs. Ansel, second by Mr. Gibson. Any discussion? Treasurer, please call the roll. Mrs. Ansel? Yes. Mr. Gibson? Yes. Mr. Gamlin? Yes. Mrs. Shutt? Yes. Mr. Soul? Yes. Motion carries 5-0. Uh next item on the agenda is a recommendation the Board approve Dawson Moisio for senior rate status for the remainder of the 2025-2026 school year. So moved. Second. Motion by Mr. Gamlin, second by Mrs. Ansel. Any discussion? Treasurer, please call the roll. Mr. Gamlin? Yes. Mrs. Ansel? Yes. Mrs. Shutt? Yes. Mr. Gibson? Yes. Mr. Soul? Yes. Motion carries 5-0. Next item on the agenda is a recommendation the following job descriptions effective immediately. We have one new classified job description
076for an instructional aide. You can see we're going to uh have a revised athletic job description for the administrative athletic event manager position. So Second. Motion by Mrs. Shutt, second by Mrs. Ansell. Any discussion? Treasurer, please call the roll. >> Mrs. Shutt? Yes. Mrs. Ansell? Yes. Mr. Gammon? Yes. Mr. Gibson? Yes. Mr. Sole? Yes. Motion carries 5-0. Next item on the agenda is a recommendation the board accept the resignation of Ronald Knight, classified employee, from the position of bus driver, effective March 27, 2026. So moved. Second. Motion by Mrs. uh Mrs. Shutt, second by Mrs. Ansell. Any discussion? Treasurer, please call the roll. Mrs. Shutt? Yes. Mrs. Ansell? Yes. Mr. Gammon? Yes. Mr. Gibson? Yes. Yes. Mr. Sole? Yes. Motion carries 5-0. Next item on the agenda is a recommendation the board accept the resignation
077of Matthew Bartholomew, classified employee, from the position of custodian, effective April 16, 2026. So moved. Second. Motion by Mrs. Ansell, second by Mr. Gibson. Any discussion? Treasurer, please call the roll. Mrs. Ansell? Yes. Mr. Gibson? Yes. Mr. Gammon? Yes. Mrs. Shutt? Yes. Mr. Sole? Yes. Motion carries 5-0. Next item on the agenda is a recommendation the Board of Education approve the voluntary transfer of Joan Hart, uh classified employee, to intermediate afternoon custodian, effective March 6, 2026. So moved. Second. Motion by Mrs. Shutt, second by Mr. Gammon. Any discussion? Treasurer, please call the roll. Mrs. Shutt? Yes. Mr. Gammon? Yes. Mr. Gibson? Yes. Mrs. Ansell? Yes. Mr. Sole? Yes. Motion carries 5-0. Next item on the agenda is a recommendation the board approve the employment of Thomas Long, classified employee, as the complex custodian on a
078one-year limited contract subsequent to the completion of required background checks and drug screenings. And that would be effective March 30th, 2026 through June 30th, 2026. So moved. Second. Motion by Mrs. Schutt, seconded by Mrs. Ansell. Any discussion? Treasurer, please call the roll. Mrs. Schutt? Yes. Mrs. Ansell? Yes. Mr. Gibson? Yes. Mr. Gammon? Yes. Mr. Soles? Yes. >> Motion carries 5-0. Next item is a recommendation the board approve the employment of Scott Shafer, classified employee, as a afternoon complex custodian. So, I think that got copied over without the edit on it. So, it should say afternoon complex custodian. You got that? Mhm. Right. Uh on a one-year limited contract subsequent to the completion of background checks and successful drug screening. And that would be effective April 6th through uh through June 30th of 2026. So moved.
079Second. Motion by Mrs. Ansell, seconded by Mr. Gibson. Any discussion? Treasurer, please call the roll. Mrs. Ansell? Yes. Mr. Gibson? Yes. Mr. Gammon? Yes. Mrs. Schutt? Yes. Mr. Soles? Yes. Motion carries 5-0. Next item is a recommendation the board approve the employment of Tiffany Steel, classified employee, as the Baskin Elementary Title 1 instructional aide, effective with the 2026-2027 school year. So moved. Second. Motion by Mrs. Schutt, seconded by Mr. Gammon. Any discussion? Treasurer, please call the roll. Mrs. Schutt? Yes. Mr. Gammon? Yes. Mrs. Ansell? Yes. Mr. Gibson? Yes. Mr. Soles? Yes. Motion carries 5-0. Next item on the agenda is a recommendation the board approve the employment of James Starkey, classified substitute, as a substitute driver, be compensated at 19 per hour for routes and field and athletic trips, effective March 12, 2026. So moved.
080Second. Motion by Mr. Gamblin, seconded by Mrs. Ansel. Any discussion? Treasurer, please call the roll. Mr. Gamblin. Yes. Mrs. Ansel. Yes. Mrs. Schatt. Yes. Mr. Gibson. Yes. Mr. Soul. Yes. Motion carries 5-0. Uh next item on the agenda is a recommendation to board approve the following individuals as a classified substitute. Uh and that would be Rebecca Bearfield as a substitute cook. And also hire her as a substitute custodian. That would be effective March 25, 2026. So moved. Second. Motion by Mrs. Schatt, seconded by Mr. Gamblin. Any discussion? Treasurer, please call the roll. Mrs. Schatt. Yes. Mr. Gamblin. Yes. Mr. Gibson. Yes. Mrs. Ansel. Yes. Mr. Soul. Yes. Motion carries 5-0. Next item is a recommendation to board approve an unpaid leave of absence for Johnny Semento, certified staff member, for the entirety of 26-27 school
081year in accordance with Article 12, Section G of the negotiated agreement with the Le Ray Teachers Association. So moved. Second. Motion by Mrs. Schatt, seconded by Mrs. Mrs. Ansel. Any discussion? Treasurer, please call the roll. Mrs. Schatt. Yes. Mrs. Ansel. Yes. Mr. Gibson. Yes. Mr. Gamblin. Yes. Mr. Soul. Yes. Motion carries 5-0. Uh next item on the agenda is a recommendation to board approve the following individuals and the corresponding amounts for their 1-year administrative supplemental contracts for the 26-27 school year. Hey, skip one. Yeah, skip one. Then I missed one. The FMLA. Oh, FMLA. Sorry. Okay, back up. Recommendation that the board approve the FMLA leave for Aaron Fee, certified staff member, effective March 4th through June 1st of 2026. So moved. Second. Motion by Mr. Gibson, second by Mr. Gammon. Any discussion? Treasurer, please
082call the roll. Mr. Gibson. Yes. Mr. Gammon. >> Yes. Mrs. Schott. Yes. Mrs. Ansell. Yes. Mr. Stoll. Yes. Motion carries 5-0. And now, recommendation for the board to approve the following individuals uh for their one-year administrative supplemental contracts for the 2026-2027 school year. You see the fall event managers and the winter event managers. Those are initial hires. We'll have more coming back to you next month. So moved. Second. Motion by Mrs. Schott. Seconded by Mrs. Ansell. Any discussion? Treasurer, please call the roll. Mrs. Schott. >> Yes. Mrs. Ansell. Yes. Mr. Gammon. >> Yes. Mr. Gibson. Yes. Mr. Stoll. Yes. Motion carries 5-0. Uh next item on the agenda is a recommendation that the board approve the following individuals who are being recommended for academic supplemental contracts for the 2026-2027 school year. You see the list
083before you. Again, this is not complete. We'll have more for you at the May meeting as well. So moved. Second. Motion by Mrs. Schott, seconded by Mrs. Ansell. Any discussion? Treasurer, please call the roll. Mrs. Schott. >> Yes. Mrs. Ansell. Yes. Mr. Gammon. Yes. Mr. Gibson. Yes. Mr. Stoll. Yes. Motion carries 5-0. Uh next item on the agenda is a recommendation uh that the Board of Education approve the following uh head coaching supplemental positions for the 2026-2027 school year. Uh you can see the list before you. We're truly leading golf, volleyball, basketball, and our varsity marching band director. So moved. Second. Motion by Mrs. Ansell, seconded by Mr. Gammon. Any discussion? Treasurer, please call the roll. Mrs. Ansell. Yes. Mr. Gammon. Yes. Mr. Gibson. Yes. Mrs. Schott. Yes. Mr. Sol? Yes. Motion carries by 5-0.
084Uh next item on the agenda is a recommendation the board approve the following athletic supplementals uh which will become effective for next school year. Of course all these individuals well a few of them are for this school year. I apologize. Just volunteers but then the remainder are for next year. Uh and of course they have to uh meet the higher advice code coach or leader of the people activity. So we need your approval for those. So moved. Second. Motion by Mrs. Ansell, second by Mrs. Schatt. Any discussion? Treasurer, please call the roll. Mrs. Ansell? Yes. Mrs. Schatt? Yes. Mr. Gibson? Yes. Mr. Gamlin? Yes. Mr. Sol? Yes. >> Motion carries by 5-0. Uh next item on the on the agenda is a recommendation the board of education acknowledge and accept the following donations. Uh and
085that would be for uh Papanitas for her husband's scholarship the memorial scholarship for Harry Papanitas. For those of you who don't know Harry was a good administrator in the district. Uh and then for Greg Barnhart's monthly donation to our league. So moved. Second. Motion by Mrs. Schatt, second by Mr. Gamlin. Any discussion? We appreciate any donations to the school for our students. Treasurer, please call the roll. Mrs. Schatt? Yes. Mr. Gamlin? Yes. Mrs. Ansell? Yes. >> Mr. Gibson? Yes. Mr. Sol? Yes. Motion carries by 5-0. Uh next item on the agenda is a recommendation for the board to approve the following use of facility requests. So you see a couple there from band boosters for next school year. So moved. Second. Motion by Mrs. Schatt, second by Mrs. Ansell. Any discussion? Good evening Welcome over
086there. Mhm. We don't forget you. Attention. Okay. Treasurer, please call the roll. Mrs. Schatt? Yes. Mrs. Ansell? Yes. Mr. Gamlin? Yes. Mr. Gibson? Yes. Mr. Sol? Yes. Motion carries by Uh next item on the agenda recommendation the board approved the first reading of the following board policy and bylaw recisions, additions, and revisions. You see them organized as such there. So moved. Second. Motion by Mr. Gibson, second by Mrs. Ansell. Any discussion? Okay, so the one thing I do want to I don't know if you've had a chance to look through these thoroughly or not. But you see there's a theme in of course the one I will tell you that's the the bylaw policy that Mr. Shephard office bylaw 0152 officers. But then you also see there's a theme when it comes to job-related expenses
087and also um use of credit cards and then also uh affinity rewards and other discount programs. So one of the things that has traditionally been unethical is for someone to use their own personal credit card for an item which would garner rewards on their credit card and then seek reimbursement by the school district. So we generally have um a school account with Walmart, we have credit card. We also have a credit card for Sam's Club. Um plus we have our gas cards, but no one uses those for anything other than going to the BP station and filling up our buses. So uh and those are a different system. So and we actually as a school district get rewards from Sam's, right? Yeah. Yeah, every year we get a you know, $150 or whatever from Sam's.
088Cuz that comes directly to us. And we really try to tell people don't use your own credit card to pay for stuff and then now, but I think that happens probably. And what the what the auditor's office has finally determined is that look, on a nominal level frequent flyer rewards on your credit card or the the joining or advantage points that someone might use for something are really inconsequential and we're not going to get that minute in the details and we're going to permit that. So, when you see some of those policies on travel and daily expenses and affinity rewards, that's where the auditor is now saying, "We're done with that. We're going to permit it. We're moving on. It's no longer going to be considered an ethical violation." And so, the old is adapting
089our policies to fit that. Another one that ties with purchasing of products is it is uh Prior to the law and now changing in this policy, it is illegal to reimburse someone the cost of tax. So, if someone would use or pay for cash, however, to buy something and they pay $5 in taxes on a purchase and then submit a receipt to Mr. Panik for reimbursement, we'd reimburse them everything but the tax because it was illegal to do that. This policy uh basically allows that now. And I can't remember exactly which number that was. I know it's in the 6,000s because that always deals with purchasing. But, what we have allowed is for up to $500. Uh now, I can tell you we've never reached anywhere near that where someone's buying that much because we
090always generally are saying, "Look, let's put this on our MasterCard for the school or let's put this on, you know, the school Walmart card or put it on, you know, the Sam's Club card." And that is always accompanied with a uh nonprofit tax exempt form that we provide to the vendor. So, you know, really minor change to us in the way we do business for the occasional purchase that doesn't fit how we typically do business. We will we will be in compliance because the state's going to permit those types of things. Other than that, a lot of these are changing because of uh you know, some of the state requirements with testing and uh transportation. Remember the whole thing we talked about where you can buy a 12-passenger van, but the federal government doesn't permit
091it. You know, there's some policy changes for that as well. You know, the Ohio High School Athletic Association is now allowing uh uh what do you call it? Name, image, likeness. So, we have to have a policy for that. And lastly, there is that policy 6425 that's brand new. That's the one that deals with the tax exempt certificate where we put a threshold in there where we can pay taxes as reimbursed. So, first reading means we wait another month before we pass the second reading. And if there's some recommended edits, we can always entertain that uh prior to the meeting. So, when we come back, we can have an edited proposal for the board to uh finalize and pass. So, any questions? All right, Treasurer, please call the roll. Mr. Gibson? Yes. Mr. Ansel? Yes.
092Mrs. Shott? Yes. Mr. Gamble? Yes. Mr. Chisholm? Yes. Motion carries 5-0. Next item on the money agenda is a recommendation that the board approve the following resolution. I'm not going to read through that, but uh with the way things have transpired in our current athletic league, I thought it would behoove us to officially pass a resolution explaining why we're changing leagues, and then certify it with Mr. Panek's signature this week and forward it on to the to the MAC um so that we knew we had the authority of our board behind our our transfer. So, with the passage of this, um, you know, we've had this conversation about why we're doing it in the past. As the league is dissolving, we don't have a lot of options, but we want to put that in formally
093into writing with your ratification in this resolution before you. So moved. Second. Motion by Mrs. Ansel, second by Mr. Gammon. Any discussion? Treasurer, please call the roll. Mrs. Ansel? >> Yes. Mr. Gammon? Yes. Mr. Gibson? Yes. Mrs. Sharp? >> Yes. Mr. Soltis? Yes. Motion carries 5-0. And then the next resolution is a recommendation the board approved resolution to adopt the NIST Cybersecurity Framework version 2.0 as the official cybersecurity program framework for the LaBrae Local Schools, and then to authorize the implementation of it in accordance with Ohio House Bill 96. So, um, as I noted to you in prior communications, this is something that we are required to do by state law, and then NEOMIN is coordinating that with FES, and for $5,000, we are going through that cybersecurity audit, and this resolution is provided by
094FES because they want again official board action because the law requires us to adopt the framework. That's what our policy will require. So, this resolution accomplishes that, and then we will certify this resolution, and Mr. Calderwood will, who's our lead point, he's our lead contact with the FES group as he works and leads us through that audit process. He'll provide a copy of the certified certified resolution to that so that they know that the board is officially acting and allowing us to move forward. So moved. Second. Motion by Mrs. Ansel, by Mr. Gibson. Any discussion? Um, did you have Did you want to say anything about this or No. Mr. Chairman, Treasurer, please call the roll. Mrs. Vansel, Yes. Mr. Gibson, Yes. Mr. Gammon, Yes. Mr. Shutt, Yes. Mr. Sole, Yes. Motion carries 5-0. And
095then the next item on the agenda is a recommendation the board enter in executive session uh for the following reasons. We have employee discipline, collective bargaining, and pending litigation. So moved. Second. Motion by Mrs. Vansel, second by Mr. Shutt, any discussion? Uh Treasurer, please call the roll. Mrs. Vansel, Yes. Mr. Shutt, Yes. Mr. Gammon, >> Yes. Mr. Gibson, Yes. Mr. Sole, Yes. Motion carries. We will not be taking any votes during executive session. We will come back in an open session if there's any items to be voted on. We'll decide at that time. Uh we'll take 5 minutes before we come back out or before we start the executive session. Take a short break. And thank everybody for attending. Okay, we're out of executive session. We'll continue the meeting. Executive session ended at 8:18. I
096need a motion to adjourn. So moved. Second. Motion by Mr. Gammon, second by Mr. Shutt, any discussion? Treasurer, please call the roll. Mr. Gammon, Yes. >> Mr. Shutt, Yes. Mr. Gibson, Yes. Mrs. Vansel, Yes. Mr. Sole, Yes. We are Meeting adjourned. Votes 5-0. Thank you very much for coming. Thank you. Hanging around, I know it's a long one.