001Okay. Good evening. Welcome to the Thursday, September 11th, 2025 Marlington local school district board of education meeting. We stand for the pledge of allegiance. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. And um today being September 11th, um I'd like to take a moment of silence. I want to read um it was just a simple post that I saw someone put on um Facebook and I just lost it. We were broken and afraid, a nation shaken beyond belief. Remember all whose lives were changed that day. remember the love, support, and patriotism that followed. And I would say in light of yesterday's circumstances, too. Um, I would just like to take a moment to remember
002um and honor those who have died um just living their lives in freedom. Thank you. Call the role, please. >> Jeff Shagan, >> here. >> Karen Humphre >> here. >> Kathy Krepco >> here. >> Mark Ryan >> here. >> Jonathan Swift. >> Invocation. Mr. Foss. >> Let's pray. >> Lord, we thank you that we can be here again this evening. We ask for your blessing to continue on this school district, for your protection to remain upon the students and staff here, that it would indeed be a blessing to our community, all the families that that live here too. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. >> Thank you. >> Reading of the mission statement, Mr. Ryan. In collaboration with staff, community, parents, and students, the Marlington Local School District will develop lifelong learners who understand
003and apply knowledge and demonstrate excellence in pursuing the highest standards with effective intervention to challenge every student. >> Thank you. Um, additions or corrections. Are there any additions or corrections? No. >> Adoption of the meeting agenda. Is there a motion to adopt the following agenda for tonight's meeting? >> So moved. Second. discussion. Call the role, please. >> Mr. Hagen, >> yes. >> Mr. Ryan, >> yes. >> Miss Humphre, >> yes. >> Miss Krepco, >> yes. >> OSBA presentation, Mrs. Krepco. >> Okay. Um, there is a property tax reform workg group um in the state of Ohio. The governor's property tax reform work group has been meeting weekly throughout August on Thursdays at 2 p.m. in the Rift Center. This week, the work group heard invited testimony from the Fair School Funding Work Group, which presented
004several school funding topics, including the shift of local taxes to residential property o owners, a reduction in the average state share percentages, and the mechanics of the state funding formula. Public comments to the workg group can be sent through the governor's contact portal. Um, we still have time to nominate a student program for the OSBA student achievement fair. Um, and I can we send an announcement out to staff if there's an art group or any group that would like to participate in that so we can nominate. >> You send it tomorrow. >> Thank you. Um, we do have a letter from the new executive chief executive officer of the OSBA, Tom Hustler. Um, dear OSBA members, I'm honored to join the Ohio School Boards Association as your new chief executive officer. For the past 25
005years, I've had the privilege of leading school districts, including the last 18, as superintendent of Perry'sburg Exempted Village Schools in Northwest Ohio. I've seen the difference that dedicated schoolboard members make in the lives of students and communities. Your work has never been more important and I want to ensure OSBA remains a trusted partner providing resources, training, and advocacy that meet your needs. Thank you for the work you do each day for Ohio students. I look forward to meeting you, learning from you, and serving alongside you. Um there has been some post-pandemic student um achievement levels being tested and what they have found is nationwide students are still lacking in academic achievement. Um a report was created by curriculum associates which which is a firm for classroom testing and curriculum and they collected data from millions
006of K through8 students in subjects of math and reading. Um, October will be National Bullying Prevention Month. That's a great time to make sure your district staff has facts on bully, how bullying can affect kids, and how educators can intervene. And we still have time to submit media honor role nominees. Um, it's to celebrate the best in local education coverage by naming a journalist or media outlet to OSBA's media honor role. And I would like to suggest, goodness, I'm tongue tied, that we um add Stragg Media to that honor role on behalf of Marlington. >> We already we already have we will add that with uh we typically or try to add in there uh the Hartville News and then we will that will be an addition to that. >> Perfect. That's it. >> Thank
007you. Superintendent update. >> Okay, good evening. Like to wish everybody a nice evening. The weather has just been fantastic. Uh thanks for coming out today. This is September 11th, 2025. Again, I'm going to stick with, you know, our theme is every minute, every moment, every memory. We we really push for that with our with our staff and our kids to really take advantage of those times we're with children and what we do. So that that will not change uh throughout my tenure here. Uh we're going to talk about again reasons to celebrate as I said last month. Uh I'm going to get a little bit in each month a little bit about the secure data center and what that is. It kind of gives you uh just some different data points and as they update
008it as we'll go but that comes directly from uh the department of educational workforce. It's the only way you can get into it is actually having an OID and being able to go in this. There's a public and a non-public side. uh it gets our you know our data that comes directly from EMIS again climate culture and just kind of where we're heading in the next few weeks. A lot to celebrate right now. So we had the Star County Fair. So I uh I did get the opportunity to get over to the fair. I did get to see some of the animals, some of the kids. We got to see our uh wonderful band show. Uh so we did, if you didn't see, we put a parent square out. We asked for parents to submit
009photos about, you know, a little bit about their kids that we will share through our social media posts in the next few months. But I wanted to give you just a little quick two-minute snippet uh of this. Next one. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Again, [Applause] [Music] I just that was a a very quick snap very quick snapshot of our kids. So, we're going to as you know, these parents put in pictures, they put names and kind of maybe places they got or what they did when they showed their animals or what they did. So, as our social media post, we'll slowly start releasing those out. But, I just want to kind of give you guys a snapshot of, you know, we just got an amazing group of uh K through 12 kids that uh
010did a very nice job at the fair and they had great weather this year. I mean, it was not overly hot or overly humid. Uh very little rain. Uh so, it was it was it worked out really well. Okay. Next was uh just this past week here on you know I lose track of days. I want to say yesterday. >> Yeah. >> Was it yesterday? Yeah. So >> as you know years ago so it been four years ago uh Renee Kaye uh really worked hard when I came on. So I was probably four weeks on the job and writing a grant uh based on the data that we had from our youth science that we do. Uh, one of the specific needs that was in this area was culinary. Uh, and it was one of
011those where we weren't quite comfortable at the time with the amount where we were at financially. We were, you know, the deficit of spending was huge. We had a massive amount of teachers uh, leaving through attrition or retirements. And that was the year, if you remember, we cut about 14 staff through that thing. So, we kind of made the decision through our compact that we were going to hand the grant off to Alliance. um even though it still serves both of us. Uh they submitted it, made some tweaks to it obviously because it's a different layout, different setup to where it was. Uh they did get the grant uh which we did which is basically a Marlington Alliance Salem grant in our compact uh to build that $3.4 million project. So uh we have right
012there in the center is we those are all Marlington kids. So this is the first year of it. So there's a total of 17 kids, five of which that's the chef there with them is Marlington students. uh is part of the culinary program. We were obviously there for the ribbon cutting uh yesterday and just give you a little you know just a picture of the kids and then the group on the left was all the kids that are in the in the in the program for its you know initiation and then obviously we had some inside picks and they gave a tour. So, uh, this will benefit both Marlington Alliance tremendously, obviously Salem, too, but it's a little bit farther on that aspect for them to come in for that. But we, you know, with
013the way Alliance and Marlington operates within our compact, we have buses that go back and forth all day long. So, uh, we're very excited to see this take off and we're going to expand on the program with our horiculture program with some green things with that. So, those are things that are coming in the future. So, we're just kind of, so Renee was very excited, I was very excited, Mr. Frell was very excited. We were there as part of that. That's what I I think I sent that to you guys in the Friday update. You know that out there that so just give you an idea. So it's good things moving there. That gives us 15 total I think in our for career or CTE on that aspect. Uh the band, you know, I always
014talk like the band. It's it's the the amount of work that they put in throughout the summer is amazing. So I just kind of put some pictures in here because I don't know if you know how much they get together. So this is, you know, you know, they go to they do go to band camp. Uh, and they come out of camp with different at least three different shows, sometimes two shows, maybe three, you know, could be like a football show, then their main show that they work forward towards the year, but they do have a good time. So there's a few pictures from them at camp. Then obviously uh they were at the Stark County Fair uh you know so I guess you know some picks there and then they've been at our football
015games and then tomorrow night if you're here for community night obviously I think they will be uh they usually about week four and I could be wrong I don't want to speak for Mr. Pentagramrass but this is the time where they'll start at halftime showing they won't use their football show they'll go into more of their state show so you'll get to see a little bit more when it comes to what they plan on doing there. Am I right Josh? Am I I think am I doing that? Okay. All right. Moving on. So I said I was talking about the secure data center. So secure data center. I'm just giving like different snapshots that I'll do each month. So uh Ben, you got to scroll out a little bit more. Make it a little smaller
016for a second. Then you can get bigger. So in the secure data center, this all comes from our EMIs. This is actual data, live data that changes. So, we're still haven't got the finalized data, which usually about next month, which is September 15th when the report cards come out. October 1st is when we do a lot of uh counts and things. So, like Josh, you asked last month about bus. That's October 1st when we get the hard count. So, that's why I'm waiting. I a you know, so next month I'll have you that about butts and seats and bus and what we do. But one of our report card measures is chronic absenteeism. All right. Chronic absenteeism by definition is basically 10%. You can't miss 10% of your school year regardless of anything. Vacation, medical,
017excused or unexcused. At the end of the day, the state says if you miss more than 10% of school, we have a problem. We got to start working with you as a family. They don't really matter if what it is. There's no reason. That's their that's the law. That's not Marlington's. That's the law. So you can see there in 2022 our chronic absenteeism was roughly around 26%. 2023 because I'm trying to put basically where I, you know, I kind of look at where I was at on that. 2023 it's dropped to 20%. Our building principles have worked hard. 2024 we're at 21%. This past year we're down to 14%. Okay. So it's it just goes to show when you you invest we've spent a lot of time and Renee has with our administrators and our
018teachers have spent a great deal of time to make sure the kids want to be at school. Now obviously it's a you know the elementaryaries where we we we have done a really good job at the elementary level and I'm going to show that and our middle school level and our high school level. So if I go down then you can go by school. So this is Lexington Elementary. gives you a little idea there of, you know, we were where we were at down to 12% 8% a year ago to 11%. I mean, just remarkable for a building that is, you know, has typically struggled getting, you know, getting kids to school, how well Mrs. Weber and that team has done to really get kids to to be there. If you look at uh Marboral,
019you got 12 13 7% last year. Okay? You know, these are good for our report card measure. It's good data to have when we talk about it because it is something that, you know, affects kids. They need to be in school. Uh here's Washington again. 22 13 14 11%. Excellent. Uh our middle school good 21 18 14. Now you get middle school high school, you know, kids get a little as you guys you know you have middle school and high school kids. they just uh they don't get quite as excited about school. Uh high school's a little harder because we got to be very careful how we code them because if they're in CCP, we got to make sure they're coded right. These are things that took us a while to figure out. So some
020of our numbers earlier in high school were high like the 23 24 school year was not because we had 36 kids absent. It was because we coded them wrong in EMIS, you know. So those are just things that we had to catch when we met with other high school administrators and we went with other attendance officers, you know, but you can't change it once it's in there and it's in the past. That's kind of the the direction what it is. But you can see went from 36% to we know that what's right was that 19%. All good stuff. But that's just one aspect of the secure data center. When I say it's a huge amount of data, I just want to give I'm going to give different snapshots every month. Uh the next snapshot, you
021got to scroll out there, Ben. Uh student enrollment. Okay. So, as I promised, when we start the school year, I started it last year late that I I put enrollment figures in there. So, those papers are going to grow for you. So, you'll see in your in your packet, you got last June at the end enrollment figures, which is butts and seats. All right. for us and then obviously butts and seats and and you'll see our most recent one in September. Now the secure data center may not be exactly what we match because we do have transient population in and out. There's only snapshots in time when they do that. Okay. So you know you kind of can get an idea but it does give you trend data. That's the other thing I like about
022the secure data center is it gives you trend data. You can't hide from it. All right. you can only show you know what it is. So you know so if you look at and I'll give you an example you look at Marbor you know you look at 21 22 23 24 25 but if you look in your packet at our most recent September enrollment I would say marroll is what at the end across 231 you know because that's 25 26 school year okay >> you know if so in Lexington you go across you'll see Lexington shrinking. But there's a reason why Lexington's shrinking. It's because since I have taken foot, we have closed the doors to open enrollment at Lexington. And the reason why is because we were trying to keep our teaching staff at
023two two and two across the board. Lexington was always the outlier that had three classrooms of this, two classrooms of this. And at the end of the day, the way we're under the funding guarantee, adding more students right now does not give us more money. So why are we continuing to let students in? Like I've talked about this, we have to be very strategic about letting students in. So it's not because Lexington's trending down. It's because we're keeping the doors much tighter. Washington is is staying steady up down. It's actually probably higher than that. Uh the high school is going to go down because our class sizes are smaller. We're starting to catch up. Okay, that's just the that's just the nature of our normal class sizes. We're not 170 166 kids anymore. We're averaging
024class sizes between 135 and 140 by the time we get there. So that is going to trend until it it's going it's settling itself. It's just finally getting to the the settle and the middle schools just kind of it just depends on the class. So when I look at June enrollment and this September enrollment, when I actually physically look, you know, at the at the difference between the two, >> yeah, I think the the the elementary, and if my mind could be wrong, if you looked at the two and did your own math, I think we're up two overall this year as a whole. Middle school, we're up two. High school, we're down 19. you do the offset. I think we're a total of down 15 kids from when we ended the school year to
025where we were at at the end of Sep or through September enrollment. Okay. So, that's it's and that's not necessarily a bad thing because our high some of our high school classes were a little larger and we're and we're just kind of settling into this now where Marlington is, where Star County is. You know, they're just not having as many kids. So, that's just this trend data will continue to grow once more data comes. But I just wanted to give you that as an example when we're talking about students. Wrong button. Okay. Educators. So this is other thing you know. So uh this will after September 15th this will become more in the public side on that end. But this is like just 2425. So uh you know teachers are your FTEES is what they're
026looking at you know. So you can look at our fine arts teachers 3.4 career tech 5.8 gened 82.4. four gifted one music 5.2 to PE, special education, uh FTEES, all student support side. These are ones that really aren't with kids. Uh the pair of pros, the 13.7, those are typically classified, so they don't really go as FTEES, but your school psychologists do. Your speech paths and your school counselors are typical FTEEs, but they don't see kids. So that's how the department of education now they'll lump them all together in a number but they they se separate student support from teachers because and I talked about this earlier you know you can have one lump sum of FTEES but at the end of the day your student support staff does not technically have a block of
027kits you know so but this is kind of from the 2425 angle this is the data that they have you know for our for our current district. So they and then you can go back and look at trend data where your teachers are and so forth. You know, you can honestly like I'm going to demonstrate next month through this department of education and workforce. I mean, this is all here. I'm going to have them show that, you know, if I say that I've cut 34 staff, it'll show directly against the FTEEs how close that is to what our general FTEES are. >> So >> this is people on our payroll, not people that we contract out to. Correct. >> Okay. >> So, you still have So, I the best the one of the best examples
028I can give you is we do have a school nurse. You guys do a contract. You approve the school nurse. Okay. So, that is a contracted service that we pay, but that doesn't come off of Yes, we pay it out of our payroll, but it's not part of a general hire that we do. Uh SRO's are not in there. Uh we have two school sites, you know, but we have we we have contracted out the other one because we don't even have one. those there's a you know there's and those are not anything that's out of the normal. Our physical and occupational therapists obviously we have uh a multitude of them but that depends on each individual kid and they're they're all like uh maybe 20 minutes here an hour here twice a week you
029know it just depends on what the students individual education plan is when they would see a physical occupational therapist. Our district is not big enough to uh >> employ one physical or occupational therapist due to the cost and we're too large to be able to stretch it out. So like the that's why we do it through the ESC. So they may have we may have three physical therapists here in one day but that's because they're ones at Washington, one's at Marbor, and ones at Lexington, but they're only there for an hour. But they can't meet those needs all in the same confines of the week based on individual schedules. So, but as you said, if you have questions, like I said, you know, when people do, please reach out to me. I mean, I can,
030this data is going become a lot more clear. It's just when we sit down as an admin team, we use the secure data center because that's true data from, you know, it comes right out of OD or from the department of education. Again, I I can't stress enough that the reason why our chronic asism go down is because our climate and culture. The reason why we have very limited staff turnover besides retirement is because of our climate and culture. It's because what this board has done. It's because of what our principles and admin has done. It's because of what our community embraces. It's just it's a good place to work. So, these are things that I we kind of set forth on a yearly basis. And then obviously the now what's coming up. Uh and
031I I guess I didn't put in next month's meeting. So, if you remember last month, I said that Mr. Foss was going to give some finance update and Mrs. Kaye was going to give Renee was going to give some curriculum. Well, I sent you in that Friday update that the uh the the due to House Bill 96, the 5-year forecast, now a three-year forecast has changed. So, that has to happen now in August and February every year. But because August is passed, they allowed a grace period of letting it happen in uh October 15th is the deadline. So, we're going to have to do a work session under finances and works in a board meeting all before that, which kind of works into what we'll talk about the end of the meeting. And then the
032report card doesn't truly come live or active. It's only preliminary till September 15th, which is today's only 11th. So, Rene is going to be the main speaker next month, talking about what's going on with curriculum in the district and touching base on our report card and how we did from a, you know, the the multitude of grade graded measures we have. Uh, obviously our Arlington Post an October, November edition will be going out. Nothing out of the ordinary there for me. Uh, community meetings. I do these every year. Uh, just I sent those to you guys. I'm at Science Hill on September 17th at 6. Uh, Bob and I are meeting with Aaron Roush. He's basically the school finance guy from the Department of Education in SE on September 19th. Uh this gives Bob and
033I some conversation about why how school finance directly affects Marlington and some things that are coming down. For example, diff, you know, how how we spend our money, what we have. We were able to send him specific questions to get a one-on-one with him. So, this is this is good for Bob and I. Uh Marorrow Christian on September 30th. Uh obviously the minister's breakfast should be getting the invite for that on October 9th. Uh First Christian Church on October 22nd. And the township trustee meetings I typically always hit in September, October just based on my schedule. Like if I can squeeze in, you know, depending on the night, we don't have another thing, then I try to make sure and get out there and just just say hello, give a brief update of what's going
034on in the district. So those things are all all coming within the month of October uh and I guess September to finish up the month. That's all I have. You have any questions? >> That's good. Thank you. Welcome. public participation. Did anyone sign up to speak? >> No. >> You no old business. So, new business. >> Okay. We have we have one new business uh for tonight. Uh so it is I recommend the motion to approve the following out ofate field trip as shown in exhibit A. >> So moved. >> Second discussion. >> Uh this is the volleyball team taking a trip to Pittsburgh to watch Pit play. >> Okay. >> Call the RO, please. >> Mr. Hagen. >> Yes. Miss Krepco. >> Yes. >> Miss Humphre. >> Yes. >> Okay. I don't know where
035I'm going with but um treasur's agenda. Mr. Fost. >> Now, the first item will be the minutes, but I thought I'd give you a brief update on uh one thing I mentioned the last board meeting. I wanted to let the board know that uh the audit was completed for fiscal year 2024. The auditor state report in an unmodified opinion which means it was a clean audit and the audit is available in the Marlington treasures web page under the community information link and it's also available online on the auditor states website. Great. And I think I mentioned it last meeting, but we've already begun um they've already begun working on the FY25 audit. So, still moving, but if you have any questions about that, um please let me know. >> Is that the same report we
036got in our emails? >> Yes. Yes. Yes, it is. >> Yeah, they send it out directly like that. Okay. So, back to the agenda here. If there no questions right now, um I'd like to recommend that the board of education approve the minutes from the August 14th regular board meeting. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Discussion. >> Call the role, please. >> Miss Krepco, >> yes. >> Mr. Hagen, >> yes. >> Miss Humphre, >> yes. >> Mr. Ryan, >> yes. I would like to recommend that the board approve the financial reports for the period ending August 31st, 2025. >> So move >> second. >> Okay. Highlight. Okay, we finished uh the month of August with a total fund balance of 11,693,72966 during the month of August. Um [Applause] we let's see let me let me
037give you a couple balances first here. In the general fund, we finished the month of August with a cash balance of 9,451,4161. Um, permanent improvement fund, the balance ended the month at $544,345.72 and the capital projects fund 784,727.80. 80. We paid during the month of August checks totaling 1,192,293.88. Like the largest one uh in there was is one for the roofing project which is the second to the last payment that we have for the roof. Um, any questions about any of the checks or >> um, have we heard anything back about the sidewalk at the middle school, Dan? And because I know that hadn't been paid yet? >> No, we have not. Uh, he was getting back to me. I asked for as I think I put in the update like a for that one
038particular section where you're kind of pulling up that you and I discussed when we were there at Vasco. uh like a what the price was per square foot of what they installed and just basically options outside of painting which I said no. Um I wanted to know what the cost would be to remove and replace versus what they could uh basically take off the bill you know and options and come out and give that. So they said just give them some time to get back to me. So as soon as they do that I was going to share that with you and then I can share with the board. >> Okay. I also wanted to share uh how much we've paid so far year to date for the roof project since we did both, you
039know, all the remaining phases to finish it. Uh we've paid $2,424,240 so far this year. Uh the balance remaining based on the estimate is $269,360. So we should see that invoice pretty soon. >> Good to have that one done. Do we do we do like a final walkthrough of the roof or anything or do they >> So they sign off so they could so Team Craft comes in and does does a walk through then the insurance company comes and walk through and then we actually had Stark County has to come in and do their walkthrough and they also signed off >> from the Stark County. Yeah. So that that's all we have all the documentation for all of that too. >> The insurance company does that? Is that just for roof projects insurance? >> Well,
040I don't want to say it wasn't Liberty Insurance. It's just they got to we got to send all that cuz we have a 30-year warranty. So through the uh the company that obviously we bid that out through they cover so Teamcraft covers like the first year or two if it was something that is up there but after that the we have the 30-year warranty that covers everything else very similar to like the middle school. Yeah. >> You know it was a different company that did that but they don't come back and fix any issues in the middle school. The warranty comes back and does that. So, we've actually had two official walkthroughs, but Stark County was the biggest one, >> you know, that they come in and sign on. >> And I know I brought
041this up in the past, even before you were superintendent, is we never had any final walkthroughs that I know of for the projects at Malro or Lexington and Washington. >> Is there any way we can get with Plugsmart? >> So, we have reached out. Obviously, we had a public records request from from a community member asking for that. that was uh a previous board member that was solely on the project. Um obviously we reached out to Plugs Smart for punch card receipts and you know final walkthroughs that was in part of the contract. A lot of that was uh the emails were you know we responded and plugs smart sent us and obviously we looked through our old emails prior to me obviously like you said >> uh you know we found that there was
042meetings set you know with board members and uh maintenance and them but you know where what transpired from that meeting we we're still waiting for that cuz plug plugsmart said they should have documentation of that they agree. So, we've requested it. Um, they said they've been searching for that and we're still waiting for an answer. So, we just kind of Bob has responded to the public records request with everything that we've gotten from Plugs Smart. >> Yeah. >> You know, but we're still kind of >> I I know one one thing in particular that you know some of the units at Malber Elementary and I don't know I don't think they had the problem at Lexington Washington because it was because of supply issues. some of the units they couldn't get with the actual covers.
043So, they fabricated temporary covers for them. And I think there's some in the steps, you know, where the where you go up the steps, second floor at Malbor, they've got like fabricated covers on them, but they were supposed to come back once they could get a hold of the covers for those units to put the actual covers on them. But, I'm pretty sure they still have those temporary fabricated covers on. >> So, the I have no I mean, even I've been here four years. That's the first that anybody's ever questioned the covers including >> I brought it up before. >> I I have I don't have any anything remember that I'm not saying my memor is >> perfect but I mean I do know that when I came on board Dr. Mike was still kind
044of not getting maybe crystal clear answers would be fair. Yeah. You know and >> uh so I think but the main key components and I'd have to go back and look at his emails that I kind of inherited on there. You know, there was some wiring at Lexington, uh, you know, a stage issue at Lexington, a few other odds and ends, but the way Plugs Smart explained it in the contract was, you know, you know, the the signoff was for substantial completion, you know, so obviously there would be some things that needed to be, >> you know, probably tied up on that end. Um, I have no emails that I I've said it like you might have 100%. I'm not saying you didn't. It's just that was not one or I would have probably followed
045up a little bit. >> One of the other things in particular at Malber were the line set covers that they have for the units because they got the lines for the refrigerant and there were spaces where there was I don't know if they were they didn't have enough material but there were gaps and uh those were things that were supposed to be addressed but you know that was during COVID and all that mess. I know that you was part of it but >> I mean Marboral units are all solid. The only one that we've really had an issue with that I've been aware of and been told by Alman the one in the office that was remedied probably a year a year year and a half ago where they went they went for quite a
046few times where we couldn't figure out the code. You know I mean uh RT Hampton was the installer that PlugSmart used as a subcontractor. Now, RT Hampton was uh uh is no longer, you know, they they they weren't LG certified, by the way, but that was a question I had for PlugSmart because you're installing LG materials and you don't have an LG certification, which I thought was interesting. Uh so, we've been kind of dealing with these units above our things and all buildings uh um for quite some time. high school being probably some of our biggest issues, you know, of uh not working properly or, you know, leaks or things between the hoses and the gaskets. But Marvel has been one that I think has been fairly consistent. And they also still have a few
047of the old rooftop units, you know, that have, you know, that are still a little bit on the larger side, >> you know, that aren't the smaller units. in uh Washington's I think they've had two that were like kind of like really basically I want to say went out of warranty that had to be completely replaced you know from that but u they're holding their own right now but I mean I can follow up on those things I just >> yeah I I just think it'd be nice to actually have you know them come through and do the final walkthrough that was part of the contract >> well they're they're not called plugs smart anymore they're called Amaresco. >> Yep. >> I think. Am I correct? >> That's correct. What's it called? >> Amaresco. So,
048but I still am able to reach out to Will. Uh that's who I that's that's who I spoke to. I think he was the original project manager before his new position of what what he does. So he was the one I spoke to when the public records request came in for punch cards and or you know final substantial completion status sign off and so forth which um was in their contract with us back when this was uh you know set up originally in the contract when Joe null was here with the with the previous board. though >> for for Malber at least. >> No, it was all three. >> All three Joe was here. >> No. >> So that was when >> Dr. Mike was superintendent when Washington and Lex >> He inherited that issue.
049He inherited those projects over. >> He he was superintendent. Joe Joe might have been here. >> In hindsight, it doesn't really matter to me. At the end of the day, we're trying to answer the request and make sure that, you know, if there was something that was supposedly tied into a contract that the board's approved from a previous superintendent that it was completed, you know, it's just, you know, outside of what I walked into, yes, I I feel confident in what we've done so far as a board when I've been here, but and if there's something that you want me to look into from that. Yeah. We have I could ask Will again to >> I just I just like you know those things to be tied up you know like those covers on those
050units and you know it's just something that it sounds like between different you know administrators and co and everything some things fell through the cracks that need resolved >> maybe I mean we've had work sessions I that's not something that's ever been discussed in any of our work sessions so um I'll be happy to look into that that's not an issue be thorough. So, you could uh >> Not a problem. >> But thank you. >> I appreciate it. >> Okay. Call the RO, please. >> Miss Krepco, >> yes. >> Mr. Ryan, >> yes. >> Mr. Hagen, >> yes. >> Miss Humphre, >> yes. Next item is to recommend that the board approve the revenue and budget revisions. So moved. >> Second. >> Okay. The revisions I'm I'm asking for with this um I'll read each
051of them. There's three really. Uh the first is for the permanent improvement fund to add uh $135,000 to cover the purchase uh of a school bus out of the permanent improvement fund. And then also to add $116,150 to the termination benefits fund to uh cover the retirement payouts this fall. and also um an estimate of 75,000 in uh the incentives that'll be paid in the spring. And then uh just a heads up too, as we approach the end of the year, I'll be asking for another transfer into that fund to cover to bring it up to bring it up to $150,000 have balance of that much in there. The last item is um for fund 551, which is a title three grant. That's just $1,289.88 so that we have enough to um enough budget there
052to cover what they're giving us for that grant. >> Okay. Call the RO, please. >> Miss Humphre. >> Yes. >> Mr. Ryan, >> yes. >> Mr. Hagen, >> yes. >> Miss Krepco, >> yes. >> I would like to recommend that the board approve uh the following fund transfer. Uh $116,150 from the general fund to the employee severance fund. So moved. >> Second. >> So this is really a followup to the one budget revision I mentioned. It's to um actually transfer the cash to that 035 fund so that we can make those payments. >> Call the RO please. >> Miss Krepco. >> Yes. >> Mr. Ryan. >> Yes. >> Mr. Hagen. >> Yes. >> Miss Humphre. >> Yes. donations. I would like to recommend that the board approve the following donations. The Joe Ferrell Memorial Foundation
053from Tony Ferrell, $7,000 to the Joe Ferrell Memorial Fund, and $100 from Bill Co in memory of Frank Berkkey, a longtime supporter of Marington's program for any needs of the Duke's softball program. >> So moved. >> Second. Okay, >> call the role, please. >> Miss Humphre, >> yes. >> Miss Krepco, >> yes. >> Mr. Hagen, >> yes. >> Mr. Ryan, >> yes. And thank you for those donations. Yes, >> personnel. personnel. All right. As usual, I would uh like to consent personnel. So, I uh I will go through the highlights of all personnel there. [Applause] >> Okay. >> We have uh we have one certified resignation. Uh that was a tutor that never started the school year. She ended up getting a full-time job in another school district. We have one classified resignation. That's a
054bus driver midyear. We have a certified staff hire. That's actually the tutor that did start on time that we were able to hire for the one that uh had to leave. We have our typical classified hires just to fill in any uh missing blanks or anything to start the school year from custodial to bus to what we need there. Aids. Uh we have subhires from the certified and classified side. Uh supplementals we're still trying to fill. We have one leave request right now for a uh for a staff member. We have an amended retirement date just a little bit shorter based on what the uh serves uh uh told them to retire the retirement people. We have a few supplemental pay corrections. And then we have a part-time tutor hire. Uh we could actually do
055full-time, but we could not find a a qualified full-time one. So, the part-time one will be perfect. >> A motion. So move. >> Second. >> Discussion. >> Call the role, please. >> Mr. Ryan, >> yes. >> Miss Krepco, >> yes. >> Mr. Hagen, >> yes. >> Miss Humphre, >> yes. >> Okay. For upcoming events, obviously tomorrow, um, I send it out is community day. So, we are home against Lewisville tomorrow. Uh, Lewisville is 3 and 0. We are 2 and one. I expect that to be a, you know, hopefully a really great game. We also have Hall of Fame night. So, we have our Hall of Fame of Excellent inductees. I sent that to that out and to you guys. So, board, you're obviously invited. So, if you can make that, that'd be great. Uh,
056we have our community day from 4:30 to 6:30. Uh, so that'll be going on. Uh, the band does come and perform for that, too, as part of the community day, plus face painting, plus hay rides and the normal, the hot dogs. and uh add that on top that the FFA asked if they could do their hog roast tomorrow night also. So you have, like I said, pulled pork sandwiches, fresh cut fries, you name it. So, and the weather looks to be perfect. So, we're hoping for, you know, a really nice turnout. That community day, we're on our 14th one. So, it's kind of grown every year. Specifically, it seems to be in the last three to four years, we're really getting a, you know, a really nice turnout uh for that night. So, um if
057you guys can make it out, that would be great. Uh athletically, I just will continue to send those to you, you know, through Friday. And I think you also have the Google doc that's updated, but I'll send that to you. I know you're going to ask, you're going to go in the next board of education meeting date, which is is the standard October 9th date. Um, I am going to request that we do a work session on October 8th, the day before. I just would hope that a time would work for all of you because with the department and House Bill 96 passing, October 15th is now the deadline to submit the five-year forecast. So, I know we typically spend a lot of time in, you know, November is was our normal window in May.
058The new window this year is going to be October and February. >> And it's no longer a five-year forecast. It's technically a three-year forecast. So, Bob will kind of and he talked to Ryan uh Gazone, and that's the the only real date. He's kind of was in the same crunch. This email came out and >> is Ryan changing the name of his business? He could. He probably should. That's a good call. Should be a three-year forecast instead of five forecast five. It could be forecast three. >> He is available at 6 PM on October 8th. >> Is the 6 p.m. work on the 8th for that work for everyone? >> I'm okay with October 8th. 6 p.m. to Wednesday. >> Then we would have the board meeting on >> the 9th. >> On the 9th.
059>> I have a voice soccer record. >> Yeah. Now >> that's our question. So, we have for some reason boys senior soccer night was scheduled for October 9th also. Um, I have not heard if that has changed. So, I'm going to go with that's the same thing that I have on my calendar. So, the question to the board is this. We're not changing our general meeting. Nate, do are you willing to change the time to 7 p.m. instead of 6? You could we could do senior night at 6:30 uh over at the soccer field and then kind of hustle across the street and start our board meeting at 7 or we can just not worry about it. They they you know we can't control the schedule and we just hold at 6:00. Either way is
060fine with me. Um it's just really something if you guys based on your guys' time schedule how that how that works in for you guys. >> Okay with seven. The soccer group has done a lot for the school. Josh, >> either way is fine with me. >> Either way. >> Is that okay with you, Mark? >> Seven. Okay. So, >> 7 p.m. rather than six. Okay. >> Speaking of the soccer teams, who do you contact to get the uh soccer cash cards? >> Uh, fundraising cards. >> Mr. Eric, Eric Cers, or uh me and I can get you some. I mean, you need >> Good to know. >> I can take care of that after the meeting. >> What time? >> Those are those are a really good deal. >> Yep. >> They're only five
061bucks. >> Okay. >> All right. Is there a motion to adjurnn? >> Yep. Uh can we make sure we have everything right for dates? >> October 8th at 6 p.m. >> For the work session. Okay. >> October 9th at 7 p.m. >> for the regular meeting. Okay. >> Very good. Okay. Is there a motion to adjurnn? >> Some second. >> Everybody wants to stay. Okay. >> Okay. >> Call the role, please. >> Mr. Ryan, >> yes. >> Mr. Hagen, >> yes. >> Miss Humphre, >> yes. >> Miss Krepco, >> yes. Thank you and good night.