001here. >> Jonathan Swift here. >> Reading of a mission statement. Mr. Pen. In collaboration with staff, community, parents, and students, the Marlington local school district will develop lifelong learners who understand and apply knowledge and demonstrate excellence in pursuing the highest standards with effective intervention to challenge every student. >> Thank you. Additions or corrections to the meeting agenda? Are there any additions or corrections? >> There are none. >> Okay. Adoption of the meeting agenda. Is there a motion to adopt this agenda? Second. >> Any discussion? Call please. >> Mark Ryan. >> Yes. >> Kathy Krepco. >> Yes. >> Josh Hayman. >> Yes. >> Karen Hest. >> Yes. >> Jonathan Swift. >> Yes. >> Okay. Good evening. Uh, tonight is May, our May board meeting. Our May board meeting also was packed board meeting. This is a
002night that pretty much is a celebration night of our students, our staff, our retirees, our 20 years. So, we're going to spend a little time now just uh you know giving some I guess a nice presentation and going to be able to have a discussion about some of our most uh valuable assets which is our people. So, I'm going to start off with Mr. Frell. He's going to come up and do our Elks uh students of the month and we'll go for them. Good evening. I have the privilege of introducing two of our high school students as Elk's teams of the month tonight. When I call your name, you would please come to the front. I like to brag about you for a little bit and take a picture afterwards. First student of the month
003was Emma Hoy. Emma is the daughter of Joanne Foy and Jason Foy. She is president of the class of 2026, president of Spanish Honor Society, a member of National Honor Society, a 2025 Buckeye Girl state delegate, member of Character Counts Club, Duke Crew, Tri Music Honor Society, Duke Street Select Vocal Ensemble, the Marlington Corral, Drama Dukes, and Spanish Club. Following graduation, Emma plans to attend Hamilton College to major in mathematics and Hispanic studies and minor in music. Our staff says that Emma is an outstanding student leader who is actively involved in many areas throughout our school community. From serving as class president to representing our building in a state recognized program, she's earned the respect and admiration of both staff and peers. Her passion for performing is evident every time she takes the stage and
004her dedication, leadership, and enthusiasm make a positive impact on those around her. We're excited to see all she will accomplish in the next chapter of her education. Congratulations, EMMA. Our other Elks team of the month is Bryson Jones. I didn't see Bryson yet, so I will go ahead and still read um his bio here as is welld deserved on his end as well. Bryson is the son of Robin Jones and Andy Jones. He's a member of National Honor Society, Duke Crew, and the varsity football and basketball teams. Following graduation, Bryson has committed to continue his academic and football career at Baldwin Wallace University to major in nursing. Our staff says that Bryson is a positive influence throughout our school community, always bringing a smile and contributing in meaningful ways. His peers see him as a
005leader both in the classroom and in athletics where he consistently leads by example on the field and court. Bryson's continually looking for ways to get involved and strengthen our school culture through his attitude, effort, and character. We're confident he will continue to grow, make a positive impact on those around him. About a round of applause congratulating Bryson. Okay, congratulations to our Elks uh teen students of the month. All right. So, the next uh little bit of time here we're going to spend we we uh every year in May we get the opportunity to honor our Marlington staff that has been in Marlington as an employee for 20 plus years. Okay, that's basically it doesn't matter you know you have to be in you're working for our district for 20 years not just being in the
006field you know in any type of educational field for 20 years. So, every class is different. That's what I call it. So, it's like, you know, the class of 2002, the class 2020, whatever, when they come in to Marlington, you know, where they're at 20 years later. Uh, so, and this current class, we have three uh staff members this year that have hit 20 years, two of which I think are here tonight. So, before I talk about their 20 years service, I'm going to go ahead and have them come up here. Uh, so if Jen Batdorf and Susan Kathy and I'm going to mention our third, our third 20-year uh employee that would have been here tonight would have been Lisa Manos, but she does have some f things going on with her family and
007she was unable to make it tonight. Uh, so tonight obviously glass is getting bad. You know, I I had to write down and type out what I wanted, but you're talking about 20 years of service. Now, both Jen and Susan or Sue Susan, doesn't matter, huh? I go with Sue. Uh, both both work in the field of food service. I mean, correct. Uh, and they've been doing this a long time, which is huge for our kids. All right. Because a lot of districts, they satellite in food. Our cooks or our food service actually make the food. They get to see the faces. These kids get to know who they are. So when you're talking about 20 years, it's to me it's more than a number. Like I said, it represents thousands of days supporting kids,
008encouraging colleagues, solving problems, celebrating successes, and shaping the culture because I'm a firm believer in culture and community. That's two decades of educational ch changes, technology changes, generational changes, student changes, and they're just been consistent. And that's really to me extraordinary. We honor those tonight. These two or actually three, their talents, patience, and the heart that they've given to Marlington local schools. Their work has made a lasting difference to the lives of countless students, families, often in ways that are never fully measured. Their impact as a caring adult, supportive colleague, and steady presence goes along with the school community lasts long beyond every school year. On behalf of the board of education, our administration, the entire Marlin community, we thank you for commitment to your professionalism, your belief in our students. You set the tone.
009We are better because of your service, your time, your commitment. We're deeply grateful for the example you set. And I'd like to please join us in a round of applause one more time for our 220 year service employee. >> No, you're good. All right. Okay. Moving on. This is probably one of the more every year I This will be 21 years for me here at Marlington Local Schools. And we average on any given year 10, 12, 15 retirees in the scope of our district when you're talking about almost 400 employees. This year's current class of retirements is about 20 strong. That's a big class. uh this this class when I look at and I call them a class because it's just amazing that they're retiring. You know, a lot of these individuals have been with
010me 21 plus years. So, it's very hard to see them go. It's difficult to watch them leave. It's funny because we have an expectation of change for our children every single day but we as adults and we as educators completely dislike it including myself. I like consistency normaly. So tonight as we roll out our retirements, how it works is basically if you currently where you retire from, your administrator, your maybe your supervisor, the person that you kind of spend some time with as you retire is going to come up and say a few brief words about you. I may chime in at the end of each one. I may not. It all depends. All right. So, it's it's pretty rare on a superintendent end that you have as a superintendent, you've been there long enough
011where you get to see a somebody in your I would say your administration office retire from a district. So, but I'm going to start. So, the first person that I have one that I could say two tonight, but I'm going to go with one. Uh, but I will say uh is Sherry Sickls, our transportation director. I'm gonna have her come up here, please. No, you're not talking yet. >> Everything. >> See, Sherry has multiple people that are retiring from the transportation fleet, so she gets to talk about them here soon. She goes, "Am I talking?" I'm like, "No. So Sherry Sherry had a surprise. She had some family show up. She gave me the she uh rolled her eyes at me sitting over there. She said something else. I'll discuss that here in just one
012moment. Uh tonight we celebrate someone who has truly been an part of Marlington for nearly three decades. It's Sher Lynn Sickles. middle name. >> Sherry started her journey with the district in 1998 as a substitute bus driver. In 2004, she became the secretary to the business manager. By 2007, she was premoted, promoted, or demoted the food service director, which Jackie now holds. Then in 2011, superintendent walked in. According to Sherry, she was force transferred to transportation director. She has lived in the transportation director since 2011. It's now 2026. If anyone knows Sherry, you know that phrase always that she will always deliver. You know, she does that and she does it with a little bit of sarcasm and a little bit of laugh. When Sherry first started, the administration office was actually much larger, a
013larger operation than what it is. There was about 12 people working together and and and those 12 people all worked in the little chicken coupe right up the thing. We call it the White House. So, if you imagine putting 12 people in there as the years positions came fewer, but the in the effort to save money, more responsibilities were passed on to staff, which is fine. that remain. Sherry became the perfect example of reality, wearing many hats far beyond transportation and always stepping up to do whatever's done. She's not just a transportation director. There's a litany of other jobs that she does on a consistent basis that really nobody even thinks about. You think the three townships need salt, the salt to be stored, Sherry's doing that. You talk about shredding, you talk about plowing,
014you talk about ordering for for all the facilities and things that happen within this district, Sherry is there. If you ask Sherry the best day of the school year is like what's the best day of every year? That's when you ask Sherry. Ask Sherry. She doesn't want me to say this, but it's true. She said that the first day the school's out and there's no kids. But she said really it's because the buses are all in and the kids are safe. And honestly, that says everything you need to know about her. Beneath the nononsense personality was someone that cared deeply about her kids' staff and doing the job the right way. Now, let's be honest here, and this is where I'm at. Sherry's never been one to sugarcoat anything. She calls this exactly as she
015sees it. If an administrator made a questionable decision, there was plenty plenty pretty good chance, I'm going to say a solid chance, you're going to hear about it with a strategically placed f word in there, which I got tonight when her kids shows up. And they're always why. That's the why. Truthfully, you got to love her for it. We always do. We always knew where you stood with Sherry. She's honest. She's loyal. She's hardworking. She's genuine. Outside of work, her greatest pride is going to be her family. She shared more than 40 wonderful years with her marriage with her late husband. Together, they raised two amazing children, Ashley and Brady. She now enjoys spending time with her daughter-in-law, the grandkids, and continues to bring so much joy into her life. retirement is going to fit
016Sherry. I completely disagree. She's looking forward to traveling. Occasionally, having a soda pop or two with friends, maybe enjoy playing a little bit of the lottery or gambling. And I did find something out that I didn't know. She's looking forward to painting and of course spending time with her best friend. It's not Lee, it's Ruffles. Her big lovable laugh. Oh, if you just so you know, Sherry's looking forward to a trip she gets to take in Jamaica. She's doing that in September. So, on behalf of everyone here, I can't thank you enough for your years of service, your honesty, your humor, and the countless ways that you made Marlington better. And I can't say enough that I've been with Sherry for 21 years and she has helped me grow as much as I'm sure I
017have not helped her grow. But at the same time, the the countless stories that I'm sure I could sit and tell you about what's Sherry's had to deal with from a transportation to a food service to buy superintendants to diff business manager to you name it. Her list could go on and on. So with that, I we want to wish you nothing but happiness, relaxation, safe travels, little bit of winning at the slots or gambling, beautiful scenery, paintings, wonderful years ahead. Thank you. You're good. All right. There is a three minute speech timeline, but since I'm the boss, I got to break that. So, I apologize. Uh, next up I'm going to have Allan Serpy come on up. Al is a jack of all trades, head of our uh, basically a lot of our facilities,
018maintenance, you name it. So, I'm going have Al come on up and introduce who he's going to speak about. I don't know how these guys do it, but uh Okay, I'm going to talk about starting already. All right, I'm going to talk about Reo. So, if Rayo wouldn't mind coming up, that'd be great. When I was first introduced to Rayo, I couldn't tell if they said Rejo or Rayo. So I asked him again to say his name and he said Rayo. With a puzzled look, I say Rayo. And he says like the batteries. Freyo back. Okay. And your last name? He says, "Sorry." Right away with my keen intellect. I knew he must be a little deaf. So I spoke up a little louder and again asked, "What is your last name?" And he said,
019"Sorry." Now my genius is kicking in. And I'm thinking, man, he is really going deaf. So, I need to talk slower so he can read my lips and maybe a little louder. So, I ask again, "What is your last name?" This time with frustration in his voice, he goes, "Al." And before he could finish, I say, "Your last name's Al." And he says, "No, sorry." I'm like, "No need to apologize. We'll come to the back to that later." >> Oh my god. >> So, today we're going to talk about Oops. Next up, hang in there, bud. >> Reo, sorry. He was born in Finland. I'm sorry, Ro. I'll put your sorry name up. I mean your proper sorry. As I was saying, he was born in Finland. He came to America when he was two.
020He speaks fluent Finnish. As a matter of fact, he taught me how to say bicycle in Finnish. I've been practicing. Okay, ready? Oh, hold on. I need marbles. Okay, ready. >> Go ahead. Say it. >> Nailed it. SORRY ABOUT THAT. We'll get back to the important stuff. Ra has been working in the district for about 35 years. First as a custodian, unlike Swisser who broke everything down like 1950 something. I I don't know. He's been he's been with us for 35 years. First as a custodian. And in 2013, he moved over to maintenance. Two things I noticed about Rya. When we go to Lowe's, he would get a big greeting kind of like when Norm ended the bar on Cheers and the patrons would shout Norm in unison. Rail would get Rayo from the low
021staff and I would have to say hi Al. And I would get some quiet voice in the back say, "Hi, Al." The second thing I noticed at Lowe's was the speed at which this man walked fast. Extremely fast. I would try my best to keep up with him, but it was impossible. We would enter the store by the contractor entrance. And after the greeting, we we be heading to the plumbing department, which was located in the far back corner. He would take off in his normal walk, and I would be jogging, trying to keep up, but by the time I got halfway there, he would be back with the 10 things he needed. Naturally, I wouldn't want him to think that I couldn't keep up with them. So, as I'm sitting there and he come
022around the corner, I would just act like I was looking at something trying not to show that I was breathing heavy. He would look at me and ask, "Why are you so winded?" And I'm like, "I'm not winded. I'm just excited over these rail batteries I found." Now, I didn't think anything about it. This happens all the time. But then something happened that showed me Rayo's genius. One day after work, I stopped at Lowe's to pick up some things for the house and I had a conversation with one of the cashier ladies and this is how it went. Jean the Lowe's cashier woman. Al, why didn't you apply for Ro's job instead of giving it to Brian? Al, what do you mean, Jean? like be the boss. Jean, yes. Why not? You've been doing this
023for a while now, Al. Well, Jean, I am Ryo's boss. Ben's boss. So So she looked shocked and a little embarrassed and she apologized and awkwardly walked away. So this whole time putting up with meetings, putting up with Swisser, having to say something nice about Rayo was for not. Ryo has been the boss this whole time. Do you know what we call Ryo for pulling this off? >> Genius. Anyway, Rayo is like a hummingbird. constantly in motion, blitzing here and there like poetry emotion. He moves so fast it's a blur and you really can't see what he's actually doing. But one time I caught him at rest and I saw exactly what he was doing. eating. Now, let's talk about Ro today. Today, he is like Forest Gump. Do you remember the scene where he
024is running and running across the country and then what does he do? In case you guys don't remember, he stops. And what does he say? I'm pretty tired. And what else? I think I'll go home now. In all seriousness, well, that is Rayo today. All the flitzing emotion, he's tired and going home. In all seriousness, I've been I've had the honor and priv privilege to work beside Rayo for about 10 years. He's a man of integrity, a man of talents. Am I out of time now? He's a minister. He is knowledgeable, funny, and tough. If you tell him he can't do something, he will prove you wrong. Sadly, Rayo's time at Marlington is coming to an end. And to borrow a phrase from the second from second Timothy 4:7, Ryo, you fought the good fight
025against the chaos at times. You finished this race and most importantly, you kept the faith. to describe Ryo the man and help you understand why he works the way he does. I'm going to quote Colossians 3 23- 24. He already knows it because it's very good with the Bible. This is what it says. Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart as working for the Lord, not for men. Since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward, it is the Lord Christ you are serving. That is right. His work ethics, hard work, his commitment to excellence wasn't for Marlington or for me. It was for his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Rail, may you have many more years with your woodworking, your Bible studies, and most of
026all spending time with your wife and family. Keep fighting the good fight. Thank you for everything you've done over the years for Arlington School. You're loved and will be missed. Thanks. Okay. Congratulations, Ra. Next up, we will have Jackie. Come on up. >> Yeah, there's an order. >> You're good. >> Good evening. Tonight I'm honoring Sue Kathy. Sue, you want to come up? I'm gonna try not to cry. Been emotional today. Sue asked me the other day if I had her retirement speech ready. I politely told her she wasn't retiring. Sue has been here for 20 years, as you already know. She was my daughter's lunch lady and maybe some of your children's also. Sue started in the high school kitchen, then moved to the Lexington kitchen where she has been the head cook for
027the past four years. She has four children who I remember feeding at the middle school and now they have given her seven adorable grandb babies crying. She's looking forward to spending more time with all of them, but most excited about no more five o'clock alarm. Sue, you have a be you have been a huge asset to our whole lunch lady family. You have always been a problem solver on short notice and an awesome last minute fixer. You have always loved the kids, your job, and your co-workers. But you have also been a true friend. You have made the Lexington kitchen an enjoyable place to be and you are most definitely going to be missed. Okay, congratulations, Sue. All right, next up we are going to bring Sher Lynn Sickles back up >> to talk about
028her retirements. So Kristen came to work for us as a bus driver in the fall of 2020 as a subbus driver and then she got hired in full-time uh August of 21. She worked as a bus driver for Lake Local for 12 years before coming to us at Marlington. She has also worked as a substitute teacher here at Marlington, also Lake North Canton, Lewisville Plain Local and Akran public schools before she became a bus driver. She's got two grown children, Morgan and Logan, that both graduated from Marlington. And uh two granddaughters, Kinsley, that's seven and Carter that's 19 months. Uh Kristen officially retired back February 1st of this year. She took a couple of months off to travel to Florida for a fun trip and then Texas to visit family recently. But in April, I
029guilted her into coming back to help sub for us this year and she has graciously done so. Thank you. Um, so when she's not ignoring my calls of crying for help, she's helping her younger granddaughter um, watch her care uh, Carter and caring for her mom. We've all we've enjoyed her also working with us and I hope that she will continue to give us some help subbing and as a driver and we wish her the best in her future. Colleen Kunman, please come forward. We're taking a big dent in our department this year. So, Colleen Kunman, she started back in 2004. She has been with Marlington for 22 years. Uh she said it started out, it was only supposed to be for a few days to help out her sister as a bus aid uh
030on her bus. That was Sue Cobb. She retired a couple years ago with a wheelchair student. She told me on the first day the student had a hold of her hair on top of her head and held her head down. Her sister asked if she needed help and if she should pull the bus over. She said yes. Uh that was the first of many episodes with special needs students that she has dealt with. She was then asked to cover for staff many staff members um to help in the classrooms at all the buildings and at Latchki. Over the years, she has been punched, poked, kicked, bit, smacked, and screamed at. But above all, she truly has magical powers. She has learned over the years how to calm and console the most troubled children. She has
031had a bag full of tricks that she carries on the bus with her, like pictures, books, games, and she seems to figure out how to calm them down when something triggers them. Colleen has been a very important part of the transportation team and dealing with so many of our special students um that get transported in our district and ones that are taken to different schools in the Stark County area. Colleen doesn't have any big plans right now after school is done except for taking care of her husband Gerald for now. Hopefully, she will get some time to relax and not be rushing so much to get back here to the school to get back on the bus. She will be missed greatly and maybe down the road we can talk her into maybe subbing once
032in a while. We wish you a lot of luck. Okay. So, next Sabrina Helman. Sabrina Helman has been with the Marlington District for 26 years. She had subbed as a driver for almost a year, I believe, and then got a regular route. I know for several years that she had the most dreaded route in the district, but she handled him like a champ. There had been many challenges during her route. Um, also she was mass massotherapist for a while and I went to her quite often for stress relief. I wish she would do it again. Sabrina has a few trips planned for the future. I know of one of them for sure. She's planning on going to Jamaica in the fall. She plans on working some on some projects in her house and not stressing
033about driving the bus in the snow, the cold, and the dark. I know for sure that she will not be wanting to be called back for a subbus driver. She also is looking forward to not stressing out over the random drug and alcohol testing, which means she plans to relax, enjoying a few drinks and maybe a gummy or two. We will definitely miss her wild sense of humor and quick Italian temper and she will be so missed here. So we wish you the best of luck in your next chapter. Next, June Remy. June Remy started here driving bus in 1998 and has been a dedicated employee for 28 years. She also graduate graduated from Arlington in 1976. She has been my partner in crime, participating with me for 15 years at the bus rodeo, recruiting
034other drivers to join us, and always organizing and setting up practice courses on the campus, marking up the freshly paved parking lots with paint, which then Mr. Swisser would yell at us for marking them up. June would always come up with the greatest designs for our t-shirts every year and would help with with the help of her talented daughter Sarah. I must add how talented this woman is. She can decorate the Chicken Shack, which is the White House, on a dime. She recently uh she's a great expert shopper at finding deals at all the Goodwill shops. She recently found great cushy chairs for our driver's lounge room for $1.98. But she waited until Wednesday's senior discount day and got him for $188. >> June has also worked at the grounds department for 18 years and
035worked through spring through the fall months. She lined sports fields, got them ready for the games. This woman is full of a lot of knowledge. She plans on spending lots of time with her family, Sarah, Keith, and um watching her two grandchildren play ball, Remy and Caleb. She has a trip planned this summer to Virginia Beach for a ball tournament. So, I hope she has time to plant her feet in the sand for a little bit. She will be greatly missed here and will be a she will be has been a great piece of the puzzle here at Marlington. Good luck. Last but not least, Tom Mather. Tom Mather, our head mechanic. Where do I start? Back in 2013, I hunted this man down and kept after him to come to work at Marlington as
036one of our mechanics and he finally buckled. It was the best hire ever. This man has many mechanical talents and is an extraordinary mechanic. I've learned working with him that he has had many accomplishments over his life. He enlisted in the army before he graduated high school and was a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division. He joined the fire department at 16 years of age. He held current he has held current certifications as a firefighter, fire instructor, fire inspector, and an EMT member for 56 plus years. He has worked for Youngstown Building Materials, Cumins Diesel, Farm and Force Truck Service, Quazer Transportation, TFI Transportation. Before he started here, he worked 10 years at the Salem City Schools as the transportation supervisor, route coordinator, onboard instructor, which trains new drivers and also the only mechanic at
037the school. He told me he worked out of his pickup at first before they built a bus garage. While in Salem, he was awarded from the state of Ohio transport transportation director of the year. He says his most favorite job has been working here with us at Marlington. But we have a nickname for him, which is pitbull, because he will not stop bugging you or poking you until you give him an answer or get done what needs to be done. Uh his plans in the future are spending time with his wife Carmel of 38 years and taking several trips. Also, he wants to help more veterans through the Legion Post and help out at the Damascus Fire Department. I can tell you this that this man will not be able to sit still, and my
038sympathy goes out to Carmel, his wife. It has been such a pleasure working with him, and I know the drivers will miss him like crazy. We wish him the very best. THANK YOU. SHE SHE WAS VERY GENEROUS about Tom there. You could you could go on. I mean, when pitbull was a minimal nickname because he is adamant when he wants something done, he will hunt you down regardless. So, it's uh I told him tonight when he walked in with his wife, I said, "Don't be mad, but you're on the retire rehire business for coming back." And he just rolled his eyes like his wife's looking like, "That better not be true." He said, "No, it's not." All right, moving on here. So, we're gonna have Mr. Mike Frell come on up, our high school principal.
039If I could have Rick Nelson come forward, SIR. SO, I got I had the privilege of getting to know Rick over the last few years. Um, working with him, alongside him here at the high school. One of the one of the things that I noticed immediately about Rick wasn't just how hard he worked. It was how attentive and kind he was to every single person that talked to him. whether he was talking with staff or students or parents, visitors, he gave every single individual his absolute undivided full attention in that moment. So, he he really had a way, and I'm sure he still does, of making you feel like whatever you're talking about is the most important thing in the world at that moment. If you have to ask him something, he was right in
040the eyes staring at you. Yes, I got it. Every time. So, I saw this firsthand many times. Rick would he'd stop and talk with coming for athletic events. He'd stop and he and my daughter are talking for like five minutes before we even get to the event and just having a full conversation and it was the same thing as when it was an adult. Um, every time he greeted parents as they entered the building for any event, always took the time to check in on me or anyone else who crossed his paths. Hey Mike, how you doing? every single time. Never once passed by without getting asked that question. He would beat me to the punch. And he genuinely wanted to know because he was locked in at that moment and there was nothing else
041going on. He genuinely wanted to know how you were doing. So it was never just a passing comment. It was always more of invitation to have a conversation with him and I appreciated that very much. Rick was someone you could always count on no matter what he was working on. Whenever assistance was needed, he responded immediately. I'm on it on the radio, right? He found a way to get things done quickly and efficiently. Anytime you called on the radio, it was, "Yeah, what could I do for you?" Or, "I'm on it." That willingness to help and serve just it's it made a tremendous impact on our students, our staff, our community, and myself. And just seeing how you carried yourself and how you go about your business. Rick, thank you for everything you've done for
042all the students and staff here at Marlington. Your kindness, dedication, and work ethic have left a lasting mark on this district. We hope you're enjoying retirement. Our conversations, I know you were looking forward to it. Every day is a Saturday and we wish you nothing but the very best in the next chapter. Congratulations. Thank you again. Okay, congratulations, Rick. Next to No. All right. Next up, we're going to have Mr. Rizleti from the middle school. come on up and talk about his retiring. >> All right, Alice, please come up. We'd like to recognize Alice Sat for her years of service to Marlington. So Alice has worked as as a secretary at every level in the district, elementary, middle school, high school, admin, everywhere. Alice has been there. Her retirement was at Christmas break this year.
043And at the middle school, we miss her every single day. Alice has a thorowness and a professionalism that's unmatched. If she tells you something, it's right. If she says she's gonna do something, she does it and it's perfect. Her attention to detail is impressive. There's many times over the past few years when I've recorded a date wrong on a form or filled something out incorrectly, and Alice always spots it. These professional habits are important, but they're not the most important thing about her. Alice cares for the people around her. She consistently makes connections with both students and staff. She's been the welcoming face, the first face of a school for years. And it's a good thing it was Alice as the contact point for so many students and families. And even though we miss her
044at school, we're happy for Alice to be enjoying her family and her retirement right now. Congratulations to Alice. And I do want to add something else too because words are nice and that's great. There's not enough good words about Alice, but actions are better. So, I did bring a prop. >> Oh, man. >> Actually, I didn't bring a prop. Alice did. So, Alice came in tonight with a bag of Marlington shirts that she's accumulated over the years. Brings it to me and says, "Hey, I if there's anyone else who could use these, I just wanted to bring these in just in case." So, we can say all the words that we want about Alice, and she deserves them all, but actions truly show what a person is. This right here is Alice Adam. Congratulations, Alice.
045Okay, now I'm going to have Miss Ashley Weber come up from Lexington Elementary to introduce her retirees this year. >> Good evening. Good evening. It is my honor this evening to start with Mrs. Becky Meyers. Come on up, BECKY. I just I want to share one of my favorite memories of Becky is when I started at Arlington, I started out as principal in a car um because our elementary was in three different buildings at the time and Becky was very supportive of me at the time. And I remember I just I was so grateful for that. you were at Washington and uh and we got to know each other, found out we were both TCount girls and um just I was very appreciative of that. You were so kind. So, let's talk a little bit
046about Becky. It's my honor to recognize Rebecca Myers for 26 years of service, all of them right at Lexington Elementary School. Over the course of her career, Becky has worn many hats in our building. She began as a Title One tutor, as most do. Um, and she tutor and she worked with students in grades three through five before serving as a first grade teacher, a two three combination classroom teacher, a second grade teacher, and eventually landing in third, where she's been since 2007. Through every role, she has made a lasting impact on students and colleagues alike. Becky's commitment to education extended far beyond her classroom walls. She has served as our district lead mentor for a period of five years, participated on both the DLT and the BLT and contributed to countless committees and initiatives
047over the years including report card committees, race to the top work, everybody remember that um ELA imple implementation team and our social committee. Her excellent and excellence in education was recognized through earning her master teacher designation, being named teacher of the month by Alliance Chamber of Commerce, and receiving a Martha Holding Holdings Jennings Holden Jennings Grant. Those things are all great and we know that's you. But perhaps the most meaningful measure of her career is the former students who come back, write letters, send her cards, or simply stop to say thank you. That kind of connection speaks volumes about the relationships she has built and the difference she has made in the lives of her students. Thank you for 26 years of dedication, leadership, and care for for the students and families of Lexington. Congratulations
048on your retirement, BECKY. OKAY, our next retire retiree is Mrs. Carrie Smith. What I think I want to say about Carrie is she came to Lexington and the reason that she came to Lexington, I I love this. We are so fortunate because if you get Carrie, you get Heather. They are a team, >> right? They are a team and you wanted to end your career at Lexington to work with your best friend. And I think that says a lot about both of you. We will miss you and and both of you. So, please come back. So tonight, we are honored to recognize Mrs. Carrie Smith for her many years of dedication to students and families in public education. Carrie began her career spending three years at Akran Public Schools as an intervention specialist before joining
049the Marlington team. She's been here for 29 years both as a fourth grade and fifth grade intervention specialist and a first grade teacher. Altogether, that represents more than three decades of service to children. Throughout her career, Kelly Carrie, sorry, has built strong relationships with students, families, and her teammates. When reflecting on her years in education, she shared that the friendships and the students she met along the way are what she treasures most dearly. Working in both intervention and classroom settings requires patience, flexibility, compassion, and a deep belief that kids can succeed. Carrie consistently brought those qualities to her work and helped support students through both challenges and successes during her tenure. In schools, it is often the steady, caring people who leave the greatest mark. The educators who show up day after day quietly doing
050their work and making things work for kids. Carrie, that is you. Thank you for 32 years in education and for the care and commitment you have shown to generations of kids. We wish you the best in your retirement. Yeah, we got a picture with that. I have two other retirees to honor this evening. I don't believe either of them are here. >> Oh, Lord. Did I miss >> Laura? Are you here? This Oh, Laura, you are sneaky. So quiet. >> Yeah, we want to talk about Laura Hoover. >> Don't cry. Don't cry. No. Clearly, first I just have to say if you have walked in Lexington and you have seen a beautiful bulletin board, um, a beautiful backdrop, a unique painting, that is Laura Hoover. She graciously shares her artistic skills with us and I
051might just, you know, give her a call and see if she's available for that. Again, the other thing, if you see someone packing up their car with all of the donation items that we're cleaning out at the end of the year or the end of the lost and found, Laura Laura knows that she will she will pack it up, take care of it, and and we just appreciate that so much about you. So, it is my pleasure this evening to recognize Mrs. Laura Hoover for 27 years of service to Lexington Elementary School. And Laura starts as a lot of our a lot of our team members at Lexington start as a parent before being an employee, right? She was a volunteer. She first became part of our school community as a volunteer and a PTO
052mom. And over the years, Lexington became much more than just a workplace. It became a second home for Laura with her team. For 27 years, Laura has helped make Lexington a welcoming and caring place for students, staff, and families. When reflecting on her time, she described Lexington as a special place filled with people who truly love and care for one another and for our kids. Laura shared that some of her favorite parts of her work included decorating bulletin boards, the cafeteria, and the staff lunchroom, always finding ways to brighten spaces and make them feel inviting and joyful. She also loved organizing and helping bring order and care to many moving parts of our busy school. But beyond all of those things, Laura hopes to be remembered most for her love and kindness towards both staff
053and students. And I can confidently say that is exactly how people will remember you. Laura, thank you for the countless ways you have cared for Lexington over the last 27 years. Your kindness, creativity, and heart have left a lasting impact on our school. Congratulations on your retirement. Thank you. Laura. All good. My last retiree to recognize tonight is Mrs. Wendy Leiden. Wendy um over the course of her career has served many years in 28 years actually in Youngstown City School District teaching both special and regular education students. In 2009, she was recognized as the teacher of the year for her outstanding work in special education as the at the alternative high school level. Wendy's passion for literacy instruction led her to become trained through the Ohio State University's literacy collaborative program as an intermediate literacy
054coach. That's when I got to meet Wendy. She then spent five years coaching teachers and administrators in grades three through six while helping implement the literacy collaborative framework throughout multiple buildings in Youngstown. Her work expanded across northeast Ohio through the Mahoning County uh educational service center where she served on the ELA team and helped secure two striving readers grants supporting districts across four counties. In addition to her K12 work, Wendy also taught in the literacy masters program at Youngstown State University, helping prepare future educators for the classroom. Here at Marlington, Wendy continued her commitment to kids through her work in special education. Beyond education, Wendy volunteers at Mil Creek Metrop Parks in NA in the nature education connection program, continuing her passion for teaching and learning in new ways. Wendy, we know you're not here,
055but we do want to thank you for your dedication, expertise, and care you have shared throughout your career. Your impact has reached far beyond a single classroom and will continue to be felt for years to come. We wish Wendy the best on her retirement. Thank you. Okay, congratulations to Lexon. Okay, next up we are down. If you'd like, if you're a basketball guy, we're down to the final four and they're all here. All right, we have Mrs. Moore come up from Marville Elementary. Good evening everyone, our board, administration, and our Marlington community. It's a bittersweet honor for me to stand here tonight to recognize a true cornerstone of Marboro Elementary, Mrs. Danielle Heather. Uh Danielle told us Danielle told us a couple years ago that her name is actually pronounced Danielle. So we we try
056really hard to say it the right way and we tell her, "Hey, you know, remind us we say it." She's so humble and kind and cares more about what other people are feeling. And uh she forgets to correct me all the time. So I hope I say it correctly tonight. We're a good combo. Good combo. To truly understand Mrs. Danielle Heather's impact, you have to look at the numbers. They only tell part of the story. She has dedicated 32 and a half years to the students of our district. 16 years at the middle school and 16 years at Marboro. And now she prepares to hang up her whistle and enter a welldeserved retirement. When I asked Mrs. Heather about her plans for retirement, she was wonderfully honest. No big trips or schedules just yet. She
057is simply looking forward to a life without an alarm clock and the freedom of not having a set schedule. In a career spanning over three decades, you collect a lot of memories. But for Mrs. Heather, it isn't the big events that stand out. It's the hard work. She told me that what matters most are the small things. The smiling faces at drop off each morning, the pure excitement of her students faces when they see a new game set up in the gym, and the deeprooted relationships she has built with parents, staff, and thousands of children. If you know Mrs. Heather, you know, she is the definition of humble and kind. She is a role model for fitness, but more importantly, she is a role model for character. She is a kid- centered educator who cares
058for her students just as much outside the gym as she does inside. At Marbor, she's been the ultimate team player. She didn't just stay in the gym. She was a vital part of our academic mission over the years. She consistently provided academic interventions to support student skills and was always the first to ask, "How can we incorporate movement into this intervention to make sure her students were engaged and learning?" Mrs. Heather, you leave behind a legacy of health, happiness, and heart. You have been a steady hand and a kind soul for our students for over 32 years. We will miss you greatly, but we are so excited for you to finally enjoy those quiet, no alarms. On behalf of Marorrow Elementary and the entire Marlington School District, thank you for everything. Congratulations, Mrs. Danielle Heather.
059Congratulations. Next up will be Mr. Yanni Spondell from Washington Elementary. >> All right. Good evening. Been a long ceremony tonight. So, thanks for hanging with us. Just want to say get settled in. They're not going to get shorter. So, get ready. We have three retirees at Washington tonight. uh three people that are integral to the fabric of our school, the district. They've been there for a long time, longer than I've been there, longer than the first time Dan was there. Um and they're going to be missed. So, we'll get started with Mr. Sha Dylan. All right. Sean has been teaching for a total of 33 and a half years. 29 of those years came at Washington. Uh he is a Marlington grad. He's only worked at Marlington. Uh started in 1993. He subbed for a
060while. Uh did study hall and did in school suspension for a couple years. then came to Washington full-time in 1997 and he's been there ever since. I asked Sean what he'd miss the most. Uh he said he's going to miss the staff and the kids the most. He enjoys coming to work each day, interacting with everyone, just seeing smile on people's faces. Um his favorite part of the job is the relationships that he forges with the kids and the staff. Um he gets to play games every day with kids. So it's one of the best jobs that you can ask for and he does it really really well. Some of his best memories, uh, all the fun times, the carnivals that Washington used to have, sitting in the dunk tank, messing with kids, um, you
061know, just being a role model for them, being a positive influence. Sean's big thing is Olympic day. He loves Olympic day. He has some really good memories. Um, he likes to see competition. He remembers when Brock Balderson dove across the finish line to win and broke his arm. That was memorable to him. Uh, when he got Gatorade dumped on his head. um from the Gatorade tub. Some of memories like that really stick out to him and he really enjoys his time interacting with the students and uh getting them to have fun and play games. I assume what advice he would have for any incoming staff members or teachers coming into the profession. He said, "Just embrace the students, you know. Embrace the kids. Embrace the students. Have fun. Enjoy it. Make sure you aren't miserable.
062Have a smile on your face. And most importantly, become friends with the custodians and cooks because they're the most important people in your building." Sean's been the head teacher the whole time. I've been at Washington. When I'm not around, I'm not available. He's always stepped up and helped bail me out of a couple situations. Um, he has incredible knowledge of the families, familiarity with with the district in Washington. He's dependable. He's somebody I can go to. He's always been professional. And, uh, I appreciate his friendship and everything he's done. We are sad to see him go. He's made a great impact, not only through teaching, but also the 52 sports that you've coached over the years and all the success you've had there. Um, we will miss him, but I have a sneaking suspicion we
063will still see him around sometimes. So, thank you, SHAWN DYLAN. NEXT UP, MRS. Cindy Bowser. Cindy has been teaching for 35 total years. Uh she's been 29 here at Washington. She is originally from New Jersey, went to H Highleberg for undergrad, then went to Akran, uh Sacred Heart of Mary, kindergarten preschool for a couple years in Indianapolis. Um subbed for a couple years when she came back, then got a full-time gig at Marlington. and at Washington. She has been teaching kindergarten and third grade ever since she came back. Uh she's a staple of the building. Kids always come back to see her. Her reputation precedes her and she is well loved by the Washington community. I asked her about um what she'll miss the most. She said just getting children to love reading. Um she'll
064miss that the most. She loves working with the Washington staff. She has great friendships she's forged over the years. Um, but she loves when she sees kids light up when they start to learn to read and love it. The favorite thing about being a teacher was uh spending her day with the kids. Um, that's just it. That's the best part of the day is just being able to be in there with the students and um share her passion of learning with them. Some of her favorite memories, her best memories, she had one good one. Um, her one favorite me memory was of Daniel Kco. Um, he was an excellent storyteller. He had the class believing that they had went to Africa for a long trip, visited and tooured around, but there were no pictures. The
065camera fell in a pit, it broke, so he couldn't show the class anything. Uh, came to find out that was that wasn't true. Um, >> city has been chosen twice to be an honored educator by students at Marlington, which if you know is is really hard to do for elementary teachers just because students are so far removed from them. Um, so that's impressive. Last year's validictorian uh reached out to Cindy. She was one of his most inspirational mentors that he had. Wrote some very nice things about her and um that really speaks to Cindy's character and what she does. There's always students that come back that write to her, that send notes, that come and visit um to tell her that she's been a great motivation to them and how much they appreciate everything she's
066done. I asked her for her advice going forward for new teachers. She said, "Just have fun each day. You look for the positives. Um there's always going to be rough days, but start fresh each and every day. Just smile, enjoy everything about it, and sometimes just teach. Don't worry about anything else. Just get in your classroom and teach because that's what's important. Uh Cindy has been a wonderful friend and really mentor to me uh when I got to Washington. She gives excellent advice. She's always there for me. I trust Cindy. She does a great job in her classroom and with all of her colleagues. Like I said earlier, she's well known. She's well respected and a beloved member of the community and we are sad to see her go. But uh I think we have
067her convinced to maybe come back and help out a little bit next year from time to time. So I know she's going to travel. I know she's going to enjoy time away doing things she loves. But um there's definitely going to be a gap in Washington when she's gone. Thank you, Cindy. Finally, Mrs. Laura Ray. No crying. I'm telling you that. That's fine. Mrs. Ray graduated from Akran. Upon graduation, she moved to Cincinnati where she taught fifth grade for two years. Got married, moved to Toledo where she taught fifth grade there for two years as well. took a break, raised kids, uh took time to be a mom, came back home, and uh got a job at Washington in 2001. She subbed at first, did a bunch of odd jobs here and there, some part-time
068title stuff, bunch of different things until she became a full-time title tutor uh in the mid 2000s. She's been there ever since. She spent one year at the middle school, but she doesn't like to talk about that. And then during COVID, she spent one year on DDA. She also doesn't like to talk about that. But the rest of the time she was at Washington. I asked her what she'll miss the most. She said she's going to miss the laughs, the kids, her team, and just the general dayto-day uh craziness of the building. Um meeting with her colleagues, seeing the kids. Her favorite part of teaching is watching the light bulb go off when a kid gets something. That's the most rewarding part. It's the best thing to see when you help a kid. accomplish a
069goal and reach an end that they were working for. Her advice to teachers, make connections with uh with your students and families, make them feel important and heard, build relationships, and just find joy and humor in every single day. Her best memories um I asked Laura about her best memories and uh she yelled at me and said, "I can't think of those right now off the top of my head. I need time. You can't spring this on me. I'm up here. I got to go do something. Just I'll just get them to you." Okay. Okay, that's fine. So, she did. She came back a couple days later and she gave me this piece of paper and on it there's a bunch of really good memories. field trips um when her kids were little little. Uh
070lunchroom stories and laughter. Uh beating the fifth grade in the kickball game every year, cheating to make sure we beat the kids in the kickball game every year. Forming friendships, all those kind of things. Um but because I'm so observant, I didn't realize till about a minute ago that there was a back page to her favorite memories. And one of the things she said on that back page as her favorite memory was hanging out with the Spondio kids. And um just personally, Laura's a wonderful person. She's an incredible teacher, all those things. Um she's been a great friend over the years and a uh a great resource for me and a rock for my own kids and my own personal life and um has given me a lot of advice and has been there for
071me and um some things I'll never forget. So, I'm going to quit talking now. Thank you, Laura. We appreciate everything you did. We will miss you and uh hope to see you soon as well. Thank you. Now, hold that. As I stated, this was, I want to say, an enormous loss to our district this year. It's just an amazing retirement class. As you just heard, multiple people come up and speak. As the bulk of everybody on here, I could individually go down and say one way or another in the last 21 years, there's a different story that or conversation or yelling match or disagreement that has happened with myself just personally. It's just a strong group of people that our kids, it's a loss for our kids. It's a loss for our community. It's change.
072So, I want to congratulate them one more time because it is just an amazing group of people. we just witnessed to walk up here to see what they've serviced for our district and I cannot thank them enough. So, we're going to give one more round of applause before we move on. Okay, we are going to take a brief minute to give you an opportunity to not be here anymore before we get to the formal part of the board meeting. If you're really motivated, you can stay. Good to see you there. Okay, and we're back. Uh, invocation, Mr. Foss. >> Okay, let's pray. Dear Lord, we thank you that we can meet again like this. We pray that you give the board wisdom to uh make this school the best it can be for the students.
073We thank you for the teachers and other staff members who uh did so much good for our district that retired this evening. And we pray that you'll bless those that are still here and and those that will be hiring in the future. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. >> Amen. >> Thank you. Superintendent report, Mr. Swisser. >> Okay. Good evening. Welcome to our May 14th, 2026. Uh we just did uh our students of the month 20 year, our retirements. So continuing with the theme that May is a celebratory month. A lot happened since our last board meeting in April. So we're going to talk about reason to celebrate. We're going to talk about what's going to be happening here next uh for our June board meeting coming up. Uh first I want to start off
074just so you guys you know everybody's aware that uh Shelley Mallister uh is our middle Marlington middle school and high school Spanish teacher. She's our whole language arts teacher. She also does work at our elementaryaries. She also does work with our plays. She will spend countless hours here. You would have saw her at the art show tonight. She is always around. But she was Martin Lo school district's teacher of the year. So, we did have a dinner uh a few weeks ago as a recognition banquet for that. Our Martin Luther School District rookie of the year, somebody that's in their first three uh three years as a teacher, was Kaylee Atkins, and she is a first grade teacher at Lexington Elementary School. So, she was also honored at the dinner at Law Pizzeria. So, it's
075nice to uh be able to, you know, honor our our rookies that are coming in. Like I said, we don't we're starting to get now, as you can see, with a large retirement classes coming in, we're going to get a lot more rookies coming in. Kind of just kind of refreshes itself from there. Uh we talked about students of the month. So, we got our elementary uh fifth grade students of the month. Uh so, for May, we have there at Lexington Elementary. And you know, this young man was obviously honored at Lexington is Eastston Hone. And at Marorrow Elementary was Isabella Phillips. And at Washington Elementary was Jace Swisser. So he was very excited about that, by the way. We move over to our middle school. Two students of the month. We have Norah Miller
076and Kayla Hornac. So those students then obviously were honored then within their own buildings for our fifth grade Kuana students. Obviously the Kuanas do come to each of the buildings and do give uh do get to meet with each of the students. So congratulations to them. So the Elks we did the Elk students of the month. So we have students every month for that that is brought through through the high school for Elk students of the month. So Kaden Tucker, Natalie Price were at some point in time our Elk students of the month. The Elks then choose a teens of the year. Okay. So, we had two teens of the year from Arlington local school district. Elks teens of the year. So, that would have been Natalie Price and uh Kaden Tucker. So, the Elks,
077what they typically do is they have a nice banquet for their teens of the year from not only Marlington, but West Branch, Alliance, Lewisville, uh St. Tom and then any other awards that they do throughout the year when Elks does to recognize kids, they hold one banquet in the evening. I happen to be at that banquet, so I was able to get a picture of them. It was very nice. So, we congratulate both Kaden Tucker and Natalie Price. This all happened since our last board meeting. Prom court. So, if you need to know, we had prom. We had prom over at the Hall of Fame. Uh, so that is our prom court. So, that happened, I think, on April 25th. Our prom king uh was Carter Frank and our queen was Ava Bond. You see
078there there in the middle. It was a nice evening. Talk about our band. Our band had a chance to go to Disney. So there's a picture there in the bottom right hand corner of them, you know, together with their trip in Disney. Uh those of you that were able uh to come last night, I think it was LA, was it last night? >> Tuesday night. Tuesday night we had our fifth grade middle school and high school band show. Um they always put on an excellent performance. So we were able to enjoy that. So just some pictures from the band show the other night. Also uh since then we've had on Monday I think May 4th we had the Marlington Alumni Association Award Banquet. So this is a banquet that's held at Hartville Kitchen every year.
079Uh obviously we have our Marlington seniors apply for these scholarships. Uh, so they were able to give away, the Marington Alumni Association was able to give away 159,600 scholarships to our 2,26 seniors that applied. Um, I think it was 56 seniors that received that $159,600. So, it was just a wonderful evening and a chance to sit back and enjoy and listen to the accomplishments and the amazement to the amount of money that our alumni raises um to be able to give those scholarships on a consistent basis, especially when if you look back in the last 20 plus years, it started with maybe a couple hundred to where it is today. Then, obviously following that uh that that past Thursday on the 7th, we have our awards our our awards ceremony for all our seniors. So,
080you know, some schools are different. So, for us, we kind of looked at there's additional scholarships on top of the Marlington alumni scholarships for a total of all our seniors for a total of $245,400 given in scholarships, which is just an astounding price. And that is not including money that they get from the colleges based on their grades or ACTs or anything else. So that's not saying that if you got a full ride to Kent State that we would be, you know, doing that then you would be adding another say $60,000 to that number and so forth down the line. Those are scholarships giving to our students from our district or our area, you know, when it comes to Alliance and Marlington. So it was just amazing amazing honor the other day. That's some pictures
081there that the other the first brace was from the alumni banquet. That's our auditorium. Uh the one thing that we do get a ton of compliments on from the people that give the scholarships is in our district, we bring our students in and they get to sit and listen and learn. On top of that, it gives them an idea of what they could get if they participate or apply for these scholarships or sometimes they miss out. I call it laundry day. We do it a couple times a year, but our family support specialists there, Jill, Crystal, uh, you know, they they get together and they give an opportunity for Marlington families to go at Quicks and just basically get all their laundry done at no cost. We sell out every single year. We've done it
082twice this year. So, I cannot thank them enough. Our care teams that sponsor that entitled with the United Way, it's just it's a good day. you stop down, you see them. It's just it's just our families who truly appreciate the time and be able to get there and get and get things cleaned up and done. If you haven't attended, as you see, the flowers that were given tonight to our retirees and our 20 years came from Mr. Tanner and our horiculture students. We're obviously in the midst of our horicultural sale that started this past last few weeks. That's kind of what the green houses look like inside. if you have not been there. I talked to Mr. Tanner today. I said, you know, how's sales gone? He said, it's just been it's just been an
083amazing year how this community gives all the way around. He said, right now in sales alone, they're pushing well over $24,000 in sales. So, it's you're when you're talking about that real world experience when we we we do those things, that's what that's what that is is those kids are taking care of those green houses, those kids are taking care of those flowers, those arrangements, and then they're able to sell those out. So that's important. So we can't thank Mr. Tanner and the horiculture department enough. They've done a fantastic job. Uh just within the past week or so with that, we obviously have our annual fishing derby. If you didn't know we have a fishing derby, shame on you. So we do have a fishing derby every year. So our kids participate in the fishing
084derby in the ponds. So you can see there in the flyer in the middle kind of has, you know, some different uh sponsors that made it a great event. and you know how things have helped out. And there's just a few pics of uh some of our students that uh won some trophies based on the fish. And then over there in the far left is the group of students that all participated voluntarily to be in the fishing derby. So it's a good day. Uh we have the exceptional Olympics on May 8th. So every year I I think I have hit 21 straight years of the exceptional Olympics. So, this is where in Stark County, it's uh this year was held at Masselin. It's typically held at Perry. Uh we have all of our students with
085uh different types of disabilities that have a chance to participate in some type of Olympic style event. Um they go up in the morning, they get to participate, they're assigned uh students from our character counts or national honor society or high school student in general, and they get to enjoy. They get lunch from Chick-fil-A. They get to mingle with uh students from various schools. You're talking I think we had about 845 students from just Stark County alone that was there. So, it's just a it's an absolutely remarkable remarkable event and if you ever get a chance to go, it's well worth it. talking about June, the now. Uh we we're going to have a big meeting in June. Um I I want to be able to give you a good analysis of our current resignations.
086Um the board asked for a high school middle school facility plan slash renovations for the next three years. What that's going to look like because we have a lot going on. Uh Mr. Hagen and I uh took a look at some of the elementarymentaries and some examinations of some district needs that we kind of got some I'm going to make sure that you guys have a list of all the projects that we are going to do this summer uh which is the summer district projects and then some other district needs that are be coming down the pipe or down the road here in the next few years and ultimately due to legislation uh this is a moving target. So, this is this has been a month, probably three month process to get this together and
087ready for you guys for June. Um, I didn't put it on here. So, Bob and I are going to kind of work through some legislative things that are going on. And, uh, Mr. Evanich is going to be coming and speaking to the board about special education, giving you an update on when we talk about tuition out kids, what does that mean and how many talking about some of our our preschool and high needs children just so you guys have a better grasp because obviously you hear it from Ryan Gazone, you hear it from Bob and I, but there is a cost educating kids and why and we have to be very aware of that and be okay, you know, that's how that's just how it works. And then obviously Miss Kaylee is going to be
088coming also to that meeting. Um she's going to be giving a I want to say a brief curriculum update. I want to say follow up with the report card. The report card's just starting to come out. We do not we do not have a fully sample of it. We're still waiting on reading. Um so we have a lot of solid highlights to be able to give where our district is potentially. So from there, any questions for me? Okay. >> Thank you. Public participation. Did anyone request to speak? >> No. >> Thank you. >> Old business. >> Okay. Old business. So, the first item in old business is recommend the motion to approve the following board policy volume 44 number two from uh January 26 special update from March 26 as listed. It's policy 40 5430
089class rank 5421 grading. >> So move >> seconded. >> So we did all the we did the bulk of the policies last month. I said there was two policies that were removed. This one um we're asking for you to move forward on because we did not we had to get the administrators together just to make sure what was in our handbook matched what was in policy because now the Neola or the state requires both to be in sync. So, we had to make sure that those were in sync. So, that's why we're asking for the approval tonight. >> Okay. Questions? Call the RO, please. >> Miss Humphre. >> Yes. >> Mr. Swift? >> Yes. >> Mr. Hagen? >> Yes. >> Miss Krepco? >> Yes. >> Mr. Ryan? >> Yes. >> Okay. Number two in old
090business is recommend that you get to review the following board policy from volume 44 number two January 26 special update from March 26 as listed. It's policy 7540.09 artificial intelligence. So I'm not asking for a vote. This so we this was brought to your guys's attention two months ago as our first read. Um, the board had questions about AI. As I stated, by law, the board must adopt an AI policy by July 1, 2026. I said, give me some time to put together what is legally binding. What would be a recommendation? So, that's why I'm giving this to you today. So, all of you have in front of you would basically be the AI policy, which would be consist of one, two, three, four, five pages full. in the green that's highlighted in green and
091you get to spend the next 30 days reading it. So I'm not going to go through it right now. Uh is the law. Okay? So as much as you may or may not like what's there, that's what the law is requiring us to do. Let's just say that would be the bare minimum if that's how you want to put it. Everything that's like crossed out, striketh through if you want to call it, are ones that would be recommended from the would be good to strike through and my conversations with area superintendents and other school districts. From there, if you scroll through, you're going to find portions of it highlighted in yellow. Okay? Okay. So, everything highlighted in yellow are ones that I would make a recommendation for that would cover us better moving forward when
092we're talking about AI, giving us tools or options to better protect ourselves in our district. So, what I really would like for you to do is take it back home, read the yellow, read the green, and you know, as I follow up with you in the next six weeks or so, can you just review it and tell me your likes and dislikes? Because we do have to come up together as a board with uh in the June meeting, we have to agree on a policy because by law, we have to have something in place by June. >> So, thank you. >> Thank you. New business. Okay, new business item number one. I want to recommend the motion to approve the following student lunch prices for the 2026 2027 school year as presented in exhibit A.
093>> So moved. Second discussion. >> So two you see you have the lunch prices in your folder if you want to talk about last year's prices we have for breakfast has gone up a quarter 25 cents. >> Not according to this. >> Yeah. It shows the same on everything. Yeah, that's not correct. >> Whoops. >> So, I'm just going to be frank. That's not correct. So, I'm telling you that breakfast this year is a uh for 25 26 was $1.75. Let me see here. Let me make sure I'm right in your you're in my notes. I could be wrong. No, I highlighted wrong. There is zero change. So, we are blessed that way. >> I got them both. >> No change. >> None. None of it's changed. >> Nothing's changed. >> Okay. Call the role,
094please. >> Mr. Hagen? >> Yes. >> Mr. Swift? >> Yes. >> Miss Humphre? >> Yes. >> Miss Krepco? >> Yes. >> Mr. Ryan? >> Yes. Item number two, recommend the motion to approve the the 2026 graduation of the following student list as shown in exhibit B. >> So moved. >> Second. >> These are our graduating seniors happening March 26 this month or May 26th of this month. >> Tuesday, May 20. It's in the back a little further, I think. Um call please. >> That's the whole list. >> That's all we got. Is that right? >> You guys may not have the full list. That is for teachers. So that's it. So >> this list is in mind. We do have 146 seniors you guys will be approving. >> Okay. Call the RO please. >> Mr.
095Hagen. >> Yes. Miss Krepco, >> yes. >> Miss Humphre, >> yes. >> Mr. Ryan, >> yes. >> Mr. Swift, >> yes. >> Item number three, recommend the motion to approve the student handbook, the athletic handbook, the Duke's digital handbook for 2026 27 as shown in exhibit C through F. >> So moved. >> You guys do not Sorry. >> Go ahead. >> You guys do not have these because they're too thick. What I can tell you is the student handbook. There are no changes but the date. In the DDA handbook, no changes but the date. In the athletic handbook, I do think possibly in your packet there, your list of changes should be stapled in there. So, it would have the page number of the change and what exactly was changed in the athletic handbook. For
096example, page two, athletic administrators would change obviously from Mr. Mr. Hillyard to Mr. Stair. Uh obviously the athletic secretary from Tasha Cost to Tessa Pursuiti. Uh there's page seven there's some coaching requirements that needed to change based on law. Um on page 17 obviously the athletic award policy. We just removed some things and replaced it with some different language. So, if it's not in there, I can send that to you, but the changes are attached inside your inside in uh Yes. >> Yeah. And I thought you emailed I thought you emailed something those to us. >> We did originally, but I don't know if all the changes are in there, but I wanted to make sure there's not too many, but I just kind of It's in there. Okay. >> By page and changes. I
097you know, make sure >> to I think we have links to it like I downloaded a PDF. >> So, but they're there inside board docs. It's all there. >> Board docs. Okay. >> Okay. Call the role, please. Mr. Hagen, >> yes. >> Mr. Swift, >> yes. >> Miss Humphre, >> yes. >> Miss Krepco, >> yes. >> Mr. Ryan, >> yes. >> Item number four, recommend the motion to approve school fees for the 2026 2027 school year as seen in exhibit G. >> So moved. >> Second. There is zero changes in school fees from last year. >> Call the roll, please. >> Mr. Hagen, >> yes. >> Mr. Swift, >> yes. >> Miss Humphre, >> yes. >> Miss Krepco, >> yes. >> Mr. Ryan, >> yes. >> Last order of new business number five, recommend the
098motion to approve the following summer pay rates as shown in exhibit H. Some move. >> Second. Obviously, we have summer secretaries that work at the high school. Uh we have summer custodians, uh students and staff that work. We have a computer tech person that we use as additional for what we do to get our our tech ready. And then we obviously hire students that be nice. >> Okay. Call the role, please. >> Mr. Ryan, >> yes. >> Mr. Hagen. >> Yes. >> Miss Humphre. >> Yes. >> Miss Krepco. >> Yes. >> Mr. Swift. >> Yes. >> Okay. Chad's agenda. >> We'd like to recommend that the board approve the minutes from the April 7th, 2026 regular meeting. >> So moved. Second. >> Any discussion? >> Call the role, please. >> Mr. Swift. >> Yes. >>
099Mr. Hagen? Yes, >> Miss Humphre. >> Yes, >> Miss Krepco. >> Yes, >> Mr. Ryan. >> Yes, >> I would like to recommend that the board approve the financial reports for the month of April. >> So, move >> second. >> Share a couple highlights from those. Marlington ended the month of April with a total fund balance of 11,24,197.83 of which uh 8,551,1575 is the balance in the general fund permanent improvement fund. We had our real estate settlement um finalized for the half and so the balance has bounced back a little from the low with all those big projects last year uh to $420,7523. The food service fund is uh in the negative as was been mentioned throughout the year. really cash balance is $125,1682077 in the negative right now. Um so on track to be
100approximately 174,000 uh the end of next month which means uh you can expect that I'll be recommending a transfer from the general fund to cover that next month. So, and uh just quick uh reminder too, a lot of that was due to m um kind of that we have been spending more than we've been bringing in in food service for the last several years, but we were working down a balance that was uh generated by the COVID monies that had come in and saved us a lot of money in food service at that time. If we're having a deficit and shouldn't we be raising the prices of lunch and breakfast? >> You continue to raise the prices. We have less that eat. We kind of just wanted to stay talking with Jackie kind of equivalent
101to where our neighboring schools are at. It's more or less we need to start taking uh we've taken it like I told you I think a couple months ago we talked about when he did the first transfer you know which will cover the encumbrances was as as I've looked at each different group or category over the last four years of through retirements or attrition you know do we need to replace that so we have some cooks that have retired or moved on so we're not looking at you know immediate replacement right now we're kind of waiting to the year ends and then figuring staff around you know because obviously personnel is a bulk of the cost and you know we're trying to >> ultimately our food service in a perfect world is self-sufficient. You know
102what they make, what they sell, what they eat covers the salaries and so forth. But through inflation, inflationary costs, medical costs and things like that. Um right now it's just not sustainable with what we're doing. So we have to offset those costs in the general fund. So, we need to it's a it's one place that we haven't, you know, there's some formulas that Jackie looks at when it comes to how much a a particular kitchen sells based on the amount of workers that are in place. She's done that math for us already. So, we have uh we have that in front of us sitting in our office. So, that's why we're kind of making those decisions now about what that's going to look like moving forward in the next year. So there will be some
103uh changes in our kitchen staffing through that and then we'll just have to keep evaluating you know where that goes from there. >> Any other discussion? >> All right. >> Okay. Just well one other point too. If you notice, fund 070, the capital projects fund, has a cash balance of $1,261,000 in it. Um, one of the items we'll be having tonight, too, is to transfer uh the second half of the pipeline money there as well. So, that number will get larger. >> Okay. Call the RO, please. >> Mr. Swift, yes. >> Mr. Hagen, >> yes. Miss Humphre. >> Yes. >> Miss Krepco, >> yes. >> Mr. Ryan, >> yes. I would like to recommend to the board the approval of some revisions to revenue and expense expenditures. So move >> there's really only two items
104affecting this request tonight. Um the first which is against the permanent improvement fund. It's for $80,000 uh or $89,000 worth of uh equipment. That's the uh reimburseable amount that we'll have um to the money that's or to the items that are bought with federal money for the -ate program for computer stuff. So, this has to do with connectivity, internet, etc. All the Wi-Fi routers that are on the ceilings and stuff each year. Um, and then also a phone maintenance contract, phone system maintenance, $42,971 for that. The other item on here is um in fund 300. This takes a little explaining. It's it's just kind of odd, but this is last month we talked about the esports program that we'd like to start up and how I had uh put aside some money towards that end.
105Well, even though it's going it's being transferred from one fund within fund 300 to another fund in 300 basically from the computer gaming account that I had it in for the gamers club to the east new esports fund. So you could think sub funds with the 300 but nonetheless to do a transfer I have to budget that's treated as an expense in our accounting system. So I'm basically what you have here is u the $35,000 and change amount is being budgeted so it could be transferred and then appropriated out of the new fund. So it's more of like a move but they have to show it on both sides the way the accounting system works. >> Makes sense. Okay. Call the role, please. >> Mr. Swift, >> yes. >> Mr. Ryan, >> yes. >> Mr.
106Hagen, >> yes. >> Miss Humphre, >> yes. >> Miss Krepco, >> yes. >> Like to recommend to the board uh the following transfer. $900,75345 from fund 001, the general fund, to fund 070, capital projects fund, for the 2026 first half settlement of the Nexus pipeline proceeds. >> Some moves. >> Some move. >> Second. >> Okay. >> Any questions about that? >> Normal process. >> Same as it ever was. It is it has been our normal process. And I guess just one comment I have as treasur too is as we have some deficit spending going on, we see some expenses increasing like in special ed was one area we had especially we see like this transfer in food services there. You know at some point it might we might want to keep some of that money
107in the general fund. I would just say so obviously it's something to be discussed in the future because it has been our practice to maint to use that for capital projects. >> So it doesn't have to be all or nothing like you could >> it wouldn't have to be >> it would not have to be what >> was it ever made board policy or is it just practice that we've put the pipeline model >> resolution? >> It is a resolution. >> Correct. >> It's a couple resolutions. Do we have a board policy? >> Not a policy. It's a resolution that the board made >> in order to fulfill Bob's request, we would actually have to change. >> You would have to make >> if if the board shows if we got to the point, we
108try to stay consistent with that, which is my goal also. But if there comes a point where the board feels, hey, your deficit spending this year is say X dollars and we just want to make it even, you know, and say it's $200,000, you know, out of that 1.8 million. you would make a resolution just for 200,000 to be transferred back. You wouldn't necessarily change the original resolution, >> you just transfer back. >> You're just putting back in what you what the board would deem if they felt that they wanted to have this brought back over for a specific reason. >> Okay? >> So, you could you have it's like a win-win. So, you can always transfer so it's used for what it's meant to be used for. At the same time, it is a
109property tax. So, it could be used for something. >> It could be used for general fund purposes also >> covering the deficit. >> It could. Yes. >> Yes. So, that's just something to keep in the back of your mind as we look at cash balances, especially as the forecast gets gets updated here later this summer, see where things are. >> Okay, call the RO. >> Mr. Hagen, >> yes. >> Mr. Swift, >> yes. >> Miss Humphre, >> yes. >> Miss Krepco, >> yes. >> Mr. Ryan, >> yes. I'd like to recommend that the board approve the donations that were received in April. So move second. >> Read them both. >> Yes, if you would. Thank you. >> Okay. For our donations for April, for academic recognition, we had the Alliance Elks charities give $200. We
110had the American Legion Post 166 charities, $1,000. Glousman Fire Equipment, $50. Buckeye Packaging Company, Inc. $100. Dehoffs, $150. Kuanas Club of Alliance, Ohio, $250. Marbor Manufacturing, $100. Paulus Orthodontics, $150. And White Physical Therapy Services, $50. That's for academic recognition. from the class of 2026 or for the class of 2026, Chipotle gave $9746. That was through a fundraiser, I'm assuming, through Chipotle and that's what the check they cut back to us uh to Lexington Elementary for the rocks program uh or Lexington Elementary gave the rocks program. I can't really say for sure, but it's $1,000. And then obviously for robotics at the high school, Harding Heating and Cooling gave $300. >> Thank you so much to everyone. >> Thank you very much. >> The the Lexington Elementary gave the Rocks program a thousand. Is that how
111that went? >> Unless that's the way I read. >> Or was it the other way around? >> Would have been the other way. >> No, I I I mean there's there's no money awarded from rocks. I mean, I >> So, I think that must have been from through Lexington Elementary. They either did a fundraiser or PTO. They would have gave the Rocks program $1,000. >> Okay. Call the RO, please. >> Mr. Swift? >> Yes. >> Mr. Hagen? >> Yes. >> Miss Humphre? >> Yes. >> Miss Krepco? >> Yes. >> Mr. Ryan? >> Yes. >> Okay. Personnel. If the board is okay, I would like to consent. personnel one through 19 and number 21 and I will read through them. Number 20, supplemental employment we will do as a separate vote. >> Okay, so this is
112it looks lengthy. This is a normal May situation here. So, uh part of it just follows our collective bargaining agreement and both are certified and classified. So bear with me here. We have our obviously we have the certified non-renewals, our tutors. We do have six tutors we have to non we we non-renew with the hopes that once we get our title funding back at the end of June, uh we take a look at that and hopefully we're able to 99% of the time we're able to bring those tutors right back in. We have our certified non-renewal substitutes. So obviously these are the subs that you guys have approved throughout the year that we need to non-renew. We have uh our certified continuing contracts. We have uh we have three teachers that have uh turned in
113their continuing contract eligibility and met that those requirements. We obviously have the certified limited teaching contracts. That's the list that you do have in there. So these are the teachers that are in limited contracts that you'll be approving for teaching for next school year for the 2026 27 school year. We have our classified reductions and for our rifts. So these are our bus aids and our classroom aids. every year that we do have to we do a reduction in force and then we obviously bring them back on an as needed basis. What I can tell you is that every single one of those people are going to be coming back. So uh classified employment these are just the how classified world works according to higher revised code is these are they're in their it starts
114with a you get hired and then after that you get a classified employment for a one-year limited contract and then you go on to a first of of a two-year limited contract and after that you would go to a second of a two-year limited contract and after that you would go to a third of a two-year limited contract and if you get through all of that then you go on to being what we'd call tenure, you know, you're kind of just you're you're you're here. You're ours. So, that group there is all that. We have one administrative recommendation. Obviously, we have Mr. Rizleti was uh resigning from being a middle school principal. You guys were aware of that. We have a certified resignation uh a teacher from the high school. We have a classified a
115few classified resignations all effective here at the end of the school year. We have an administrative transfer. So you guys already have Mr. Travis was approved in March. So he we're what we're do is we're going to transfer him from an assistant high school principal to the middle school principal effective the exact same dates as his current contract. >> We have our obviously some certified staff hires. These are some replacements. Obviously Mr. Rizalleti coming back in as a teacher and then some other new teachers that are replacing retirements that we've had. We have classified staff hires. Uh I think you guys met him tonight which is our new transportation director. It's James Williams but Jim. So he got a chance to for all of you. I think most of you Marky might have just missed
116you. Yeah, he's on the jacket. >> Yes. >> Yeah, that's Jim. He is a Marlington alum. 1986 82. Okay, we go. 86 sounds a little better. He likes that better, I bet. Uh >> he might, but it's not true. >> Lives in Washington lives in Washington Township, lives out on Senfield. Uh we have some certified subhire for this year. So we still have some subs we still use at the end of the year. We got to hire them even though they're also, you know, non-renewed. Uh same with classified. Uh we have our summer staff hire. So these we these are uh these are staff members that potentially could work all summer. It doesn't mean they are going to work. These are people that are volunteering to work. It does not mean they're working every day.
117It's just if we based on availability or what we need, they're going to work. We have our summer student hires. Same thing. Uh and then uh we just had extended days. Uh it was not added back when I do it typically in June for the year. Uh three days for our CCP lab teachers. So >> your motion. >> So second. >> So motion was second. >> Josh second. Thank you. Any discussion? Call the role, please. >> Miss Krepco, >> yes. >> Mr. Hagen, >> yes. >> Miss Humphre, >> yes. >> Mark Ryan, >> yes. >> Mr. Swift, >> yes. >> Finally, in personnel, I just want to recommend the motion to hire uh the following supplemental positions. >> So moved. >> Where's the list? >> Where is the list? Uh it's >> second >> list
118is probably not in there and it's in your board docs. >> Is it list? >> No, that's certified teachers. >> Uh so what we have in front of you for supplementals that were we these come throughout the year. I asked Mr. Stair to get as many in for the fall as possible. So what I can tell you that is filled that's in board docs. You can take a look. Our faculty managers filled our site coordinators are filled. Our football varsity head coach and most of their assistants not all. Uh, middle school is is is 50% filled tonight, now 100% filled as of next meeting. We're middle school coaches, which is good. Boys basketball is on here with two assistants currently. So, going to be looking for some assistance. Girls basketball, obviously, you guys have already
119hired your girls uh girls basketball coaches coming with assistance. Wrestling will be in there. Boys track, girls track, boys cross country, girls cross country, baseball, girls golf, girls tennis, volleyball, boys soccer, girls soccer, swimming, cheerleading, bowling, strength and conditioning, music, publications, advisors, math coaches, lead meners, menners, head teachers, and so forth. >> That list is all in the board documents. Yes, if it wasn't earlier this week, >> it is here. So, if not, I can make sure that it's sent emailed to you by the end of the night. Not a problem. Uh, so that is just our supplemental list. There will be some more coming as there always is, but Scott there and our principles did a really nice job of trying to instead of you guys doing five or 10 every meeting every month,
120we just try to get as bulk as many really pushed hard to get these in. And most of these are internals, which is great. >> Okay. >> Um, but uh I'm still pushing for bringing some things back at our high school level. We didn't have academic challenge. I want to make sure that that's brought back to us. Um, so we're still looking for that speech and debate. I want to make that brought back as we move into this new league. That's one of the things that we're making a priority is not only the the fact that we do things athletically, but we want to do things with uh and challenge our leagues, when it comes to um dance, when it comes to bands, when it comes to choir, speech and debate, academic challenge, those things
121we can start now. We don't have to wait two years to do. No. So, we're try to we're in the process of trying to plan some of that now and get ahead of the curve on that, which will be good for our kids. >> Okay. Okay. Call the role, please. >> Miss Humphre, >> yes. >> Mr. Swift, >> yes. >> Mr. Hagen, >> yes. >> Miss Krepco, >> abstain. >> Mr. Ryan, >> yes. >> Okay. Upcoming events. Um May 21st we have balorette here at the high school. We have also Memorial Day weekend coming up. Tuesday after Memorial Day is graduation. We are at the civic center. >> What time? >> Doors open at 5:30 p.m. Graduation will start promptly at 6:30 p.m. Our graduation in the last four years that I that I've been
122superintendent has lasted approximately 60 minutes. So that's our >> goal. >> Not a goal. It's just that's just what how kind kind of works itself out. >> You have a time for Baloria? >> Uh I I do not. Is it 7 o'clock? Okay. >> Uh last day for students is Thursday, May 28th. Last day for teachers is Friday, May 29th. Obviously, I will shoot you guys another list of that and a reminder through text. And obviously, we do have banquet season still coming up for spring. Um, our track season will not end till we're out of school. So, any of our students going to state will be into June because that's when that's when the state tournament is for track. And we have banquetss that don't end till the middle of June. That's where we're
123at. >> Okay. Next board of education meeting. >> Okay. Here's my request. Uh, I would like to have the next board of education meeting on Thursday, June 25th. So, if you guys could take a look. >> Pushing it out two weeks. >> I am. Um, I'm out of town on the 11th. I'm out of town on the 10th. U, Bob also needs some time. that helps close out the books for part of what I mentioned in my thing having to be able to give you a we'd like to give you a pretty accurate picture. Uh that gives us an end of the year close out um where we're at with the books. I can give a better idea from a facility standpoint. Um, my recommendation, hear me out please, if 25th works for you, to
124start at 4:30 p.m. for a work session and board meeting at 6:00 p.m. And I say this because obviously I have a presentation that I'd like to obviously review this this main campus and and what we're doing for summer projects. Mr. Avanich does I want him to review. He has not spoken since he's taken over the job. I think he needs to give a little update on pupil services and specifically the sped side because it's a it's a monster and uh I think it'll be good for you guys if you have any questions when it comes to that and obviously Renee giving a quick update on where we're at with our report card being finalized. It could be shorter than that, but I don't want to limit ourselves either. You're saying the work session is
125going to take an hour and a half? >> If you'd like me to shorten that, I can. You can do it at five. >> I was just wondering if you know I didn't know if we set the meeting for an hour afterwards. Like if we finish early, we have to wait till that set time correct to start that the meeting. >> So just kind of have a break in between and following. >> So we don't know exactly are we are we able to do that? That's what I was I was asking if we set the meeting for an hour after it and we start the meeting a little late. >> Could we do that? I'm fine. I'm fine. >> I'm saying that that gives us the option to just go right through. >> I'm fine
126with that >> versus being forced to take a break. >> No, I'm fine with that. Yeah. I mean, if we get done quicker, yes, I'm fine with that, too. >> Okay. I just >> set it to set the instead. Is that what you're saying? >> Or 4:30 and 5:30 or whatever you want to do. It's it's I just I was trying not to I was trying to be aware of time times you want to start a five. It doesn't matter where we start. I'll be honest with you. I'm good. Whatever. I was just trying to whatever time we normally started at six. I was trying to push back based on if I talk for say 30 minutes. Bob and I. Nick's probably going to take 20 minutes or so. Renee talks for 20 minutes or
127so. You're really talking, you know, close to that hour and a half time give or take 10 or 15 minutes. So, can we start at 4:30 and just say the meeting will will follow immediate the regular meeting will follow immediately after and not have a start time for our meeting? >> We could do 4:30. >> I think we have to have publication. >> I think an hour and a half is enough to listen to anything anybody's going to bring us and say at a work session. I think if we can't wrap up what we need in 90 minutes, then >> I agree. >> We've got other problems. Yeah, >> that's but what I was saying though is if we if we set the meeting start time for an hour and a half, we have to
128wait >> until whereas if we set it at that and we were late starting the meeting, there's no issue with starting the meeting 15 minutes. >> 5:00 p.m. >> like mean 5 p.m. >> So just why don't we set the work session for 5:00 p.m. with the board meeting starting at 6:00 p.m. >> Yeah. we happen to run late >> and there is there is executive session then >> there would be there's a potential executive session uh for the June meeting does not have to be that'll be up to the board president if she chooses to have that or not when she talks to you >> say 5 p.m. We'll just set the meeting time. All right. And then start with the work session. Yeah. >> The board meeting itself should be relatively short. >>
129Correct. >> Executive session could take some time. Right. >> Correct. There's notating >> June's board meeting would be some hires that were coming in that we're interviewing now. Uh I'm hoping to have the contract. Matter of fact, we will 100% have an exec session because that I'm we do have a agreement with the classified union for contract. I do have an agreement in place. So that tenative agreement is being typed up now. So once that gets in back in the hands of the Oopsy president, uh she'll present that to her union and they'll have about two weeks to review it uh by law. Uh so my goal is, like I said, is to have that ready to go for you guys by the June meeting. So, we'll have an exact session because we're going to
130have to review that contract to make sure the board's okay with it. >> Okay, cool. >> Thank you for remind >> Mr. Swift. >> Yes. >> Mr. Ryan, >> yes. >> Mr. Hagen, >> yes. >> Miss Humphre, yes. Miss Krepo, >> yes. Thank you.