001Good evening. It's Thursday, August 14th, and this is the Monica School District Board of Education meeting. Stand for the pledge of allegiance, please. [Music] Caller roll please. >> Josh Hagen >> here. >> Karen Humphre >> here. >> Kathy Krepco >> here. >> Mark Ryan here. Jonathan Swift. >> The reading of the mission statement. Mrs. Kreco. 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. Are there additions or corrections to the meeting agenda? >> Is there a motion to adopt the meeting agenda? So move second roll, please. Miss Kreco. >> Yes. >> Mr. Ryan. >> Yes. >> Mr. Hagen. >> Yes. >> Miss Humphre. >> Yes.
002>> Mr. Foss. >> Let's pray. Dear Lord, we thank you again that we can meet like this. We pray that you bless the board. Help them make good decisions that will benefit the children of our community. Please give them wisdom and protect the students this year. We ask in Jesus name we pray. Amen. >> Executive session. Motion for the board to during executive session pursuing to revise code 121.22 G5 for the following purpose to discuss matters required to be kept confidential by state and federal law. >> So second discussion call the role please. >> Mr. Ryan. Yes, >> Miss Krepto. >> Yes, >> Mr. Hagen. >> Yes, >> Miss Hump. >> Yes. >> 602. Excuse me. Very good. lonely. >> Oh, they do. >> They're in executive session. >> How long does this take? >>
003They went in about seven minutes. >> The first one they've had for a long time. >> What's that? It's the first executive session they had a lot. >> Yeah, they won't know how to act. >> It's a good thing they don't make money off of the admissions here. >> I don't think the date would be too great on this. >> I think they might have to pay us to come. How How do you get 10 people there? You pay them 50 bucks a person. >> There you go. >> So, what's the word? Oh, we were down in Louisville getting our trust made up today. >> Oh, it was the uh your new lawyer. >> So, we're there all day. >> We were there from uh 2:00 to about 4. >> You get your bill? >>
004I already got the bill. We We paid the bill before before we showed up. >> The last time I used water, he charged me for a stamp. You're kidding me, aren't you? >> Oh, no. That's That's the way life is. >> I think arms are like 6700 bucks to do that. Oh my goodness. So it see have like four Okay. Executive session OSBA presentation. This is a little bit. >> Yeah, you're close to the mic. [Music] Okay. Um there have been a lot of things in our emails from uh Ohio ENA which is really looking into the charter schools and voucher schemes. Um, three decades ago, state officials in Ohio initiated charter schools and voucher schemes that were sold to the public as pilot projects to determine if Ohio education could be improved by the
005alternatives. Both projects failed. Yet to date, we have spent vouchers have hidden billions upon billions of dollars for public scrutiny and over 300 school districts have been supporting the coalition that vouchers hurt Ohio choice and voucher litigation. Um it has been determined that it's unconstitutional, but of course the voucher people are fighting that. So it's an ongoing process, but we'll see where it goes. There have been several states in the United States that have declared that the Fouchy system is unconstitutional. Uh, House Bill 96, which was all the financial stuff, um, went through with some modifications and um, vetos by the governor. He specifically issued 67 line item vetos, the ones connected to education. um are for non-chartered educational savings component program STRS and STS employee contributions partisan schoolboard elections county budget commission authority and
006procedure 40% balance cash balance carryover 20 mil floor calculation school district property tax restrictions um it is messaged the governor emphasize the need for comprehensive property tax reform and announce plans to convene a working group that willcl include legislators, agency officials and school officials and committee members and tax policy experts. Um he has now announced the the members of this group. They held their first meeting and he is asking them for concrete proposals by September 30th. Um they have done some scoring uh COVID rebound scoring for reading. Um five years after the COVID epidemic shutdowns epidemic shutdown, schools have uh and hang on a second. Five years after the COVID epidemic shut down schools and moved learning to online platforms, reading scores are improving for the youngest students in the school districts. Um there have
007been sign significant gains in literacy skills among K through2 students. Um kindergarteners have experienced the highest increase in meeting and exceeding their reading benchmarks. The percentage of these students has jumped 21 points from 49% to 70% in the most recent school year throughout Ohio. uh the trend is less dramatic in the older students and students considered to be far behind at the start of the AC academic year has been steadily decreasing. Uh the OSBA hired a finally a new CEO Kathy McFarland that resigned in the spring. His name is Thomas Osler. Um he will start September 1st. to extend. He was superintendent at Perry Berry'sburg Exempted Village Schools in Northwest Ohio for the past 18 years and leading school districts for a total of 25 years, including seven in the down river Detroit area. Um,
008under his leadership, Harrisburg launched a public school development office to secure millions in private support and establish departments for college advising, careers, and community support. Um there are still apparently more than 80% of K through2 schools are experiencing data breaches this year. Um so the ransomware tax on schools are still rising. Um and there are some the banial budget included several policy changes that will ex affect our school our school policies and usually when it's ready you already know about it on top of it and so does Niola but we'll go over it anyway. we have to have a very specific cell phone policy. Um, we used to be able to adapt it to our own needs, but the the new bill now requires that schools adopt a policy by January 1st, 2026 that prohibits
009the use of cell phones by students during the instructional day, but they don't define the instructional day and they leave. You also have to have some accommodations for emergency situations. Um, we also have to have a policy on artificial intelligence and there's been some modifications to the religious instruction release time. >> Very good. >> Okay. Uh, as for the AI policy, we did approve that back fall and last spring the religious release time. We also in our cell phone policy is up to date. And we also, since we order our handbooks, we define that as no instructional time in our middle school at all. We lock up in lockers. That's where they're asking you access if they would need itvious. It says high school obviously is zero instructional time in the classroom and they do
010have the ability to use their cell phone during open time that would include they need lunch or recess recess lunch or uh a study hall or something like that during instructional time. >> Okay, perfect. >> Uh welcome to August 14th. Uh this my superintendent report sticking with our purpose which is summer projects because we're summer's still not quite over for us yet. Uh I always give a staffing history in in the summer and I'll kind of explain what that means and then >> and then kind of where we're going. Uh so here we go. All right. Go to All right. So, these are projects that obviously we have that it's been ongoing since June almost since the kids let out. We're still there. So, we're going to about this slow. Let's talk about the high
011school route. Let me set this real slow speed. All right. So, we have pictures of before. So, we did two phases. If you guys understand, we were able to based on Nexus pipeline being settled, uh the large transfer we were getting in and the back interest gave us the ability to go ahead and complete the high school roof completely. So, we did phase three and four in one shot, which was well over two I think it was like $2.2 million, you know, to complete that project. Again some before pictures during the tear off phase but you guys see these every year and we have probably you know teamcraft that does the roof basically has to do a daily pictures before after the weather. And then a large booklet at the end that kind of gives
012you a detail of you know day by day all bearing and then after. So officially all five of our buildings including the horiculture building if you remember we did that part of phase one um and we did some mall center repair on our roof there. I think all our roofs are um in pretty good shape. I mean pretty good shape they are complete. So I do thank the board for going ahead and allowing that be approved to get that done. high school parking lot. That also gave us the chance. We had that broken down originally in three phases. We did phase one last year which was around the high school. We are now we decided to do phase two and three which is basically the rest of the lot. Um I think it's been about
01320ome years for the lot. We've sealed it and like kept up with it. So but actually you know grind it down a little bit and do that. That was during them, you know, going through the grinding process. Also during there starting to lay it. There's the after. If you've been out there just really, really looks sharp, you know. We're just going that will then go into basically we'll keep up with that now about every two years with some type of receal or you know just to make sure that it lasts you know as long as it should to keep up with it. High school lighting that was the other, you know, we have approval I guess was before high school finished middle school lighting. Um our high school parking lot was dark. So we had
014these islands obviously you know the islands that are out there that were on grass. Um, so those were all kind of the islands kind of trenched as you can see there. Now we got the lights up. Middle school sidewalks just in shambles. It was um falling apart pretty good. A lot of cracks. It gets used a lot by our community in the evening. It gets walked a lot. That's the one lap around that sidewalk is almost 400 yards. So basically about four laps and push you in a mile. It's not quite that, but it's right around there. a little bit pictures before obviously during the sidewalk and bases. It was really amazing how quickly they did that because the first part of our summer was pretty wet. We had a lot the weather was pretty
015inconsistent, but if you've been out in the middle school right now, it looks really nice. It freshens the middle school. It makes the whole outlook of the building look different. So, it's going to be a nice addition for our community to use and our kids. a middle school platform. I'm not sure if you're aware as far as I've been here for 21 years, it's been uh tilted, crooked. Yep. Uh so we decided that let's let's let's fix the crooked black hole. Okay. uh brought a crane in and that's all cement by the way. That's not dirt. That's a one. So, uh we did we did not buy a new flag pole. We actually uh had a group go out and basically hammer and chisel with a jackhammer and clear off all the cement to get
016the flag pole back to be able to be resubmitted because it was flag was in really good shape. There was no reason to Why either was I have no idea this before I've been here. This is going on 21 years and it's always been >> tilted. No, it's it's it's straight >> a marble playground. Now, this was not one that was in uh as part of something the board approved. We talked about this, but we had uh I would say four I don't I I'll give you the exact donors hopefully next meeting, but right now there was four anonymous donors that stepped up that uh came and met with uh back in the spring and said, you know, we would like to add new playground equipment to Marboral. We had uh a company saying we'd
017like to break up the asphalt and grind it down new basketball courts. Um so this was no cost to our district. The only ask was it really wasn't an ask. It was one that I said hey when this is done we would u remulch it because we always do mulch in the playground. So we would do the mulch side of it. So that's just during the project out there. Obviously, this was originally on a list to attack down the road, but uh this this uh the donors were gave us an opportunity to get this done um over the summer. So, you can see the new piece of playground equipment. >> Individuals or businesses? >> Individuals. There's one business slash individual. Um so, we're working with them now. I think that they have come to the
018conclusion that um I think we can write up a bill. I'm hoping to be able to have a them as a donation. It will be on the next board agenda and we could recognize the fact that they did that because I think it's pretty special that they're willing to do that. So you see that equipment and playground equipment. I don't know if you know commercial playground equipment is not cheap. I mean be very clear. I mean you can take a picture of that and go to playtime structures or a couple others and say I'd like this to price out this exact piece of equipment. They're probably going to tell you I think it's maybe $120,000 maybe just for the piece of equipment. All right. It doesn't include the canopy over there that kind of There
019it is after we just receded, you know, between the mulch and there's some receding and that it's definitely a different look for the playground. And obviously then we have new hoops, gorilla hoops that that go up and down. Then obviously the asphalt was grinded and redone and graded a specific way. And there was a drainage basin put in at the end down there to the I want to say the right of that second basketball that leads out and out into the field. Uh high school parking lot islands. I think you kind of saw a glimpse of them during the thing. That was kind of something that's been on my docket since I've come over is just, you know, we just got a grassy bump there, but since we're putting the electric in and digging them
020up, um it's pretty hard to mow. You know, you get a single mower out there, like why wouldn't we just rock it and be done and do that, right? So, we were able to uh pull that off, have a company come in and kind of really dig down in there a little bit, clean it up. And then, so if you look out at our high school, at least all the the islands now are rocks and something that kind of permanently stay and we're not having to mow that. Uh our cross country course, we have two big races, just so just so you know, every year we have the Ashley White stuff and we have our own we run the EBC cross country. Uh it's we run through our woods. Well, the ocean has very specific
021rules in the last few years like you can't no longer run through creeks or water, different things like that. And so we've been kind of working through the process. So this is kind of a little problem now uh for our kids to run through. It's been an ongoing problem for years. We just kind of wanted to address it from more of a >> Yeah. That's not allowed. So So we kind of uh we had to address that. So we had to put, you know, a couple culvers in there and get this so they actually have something to run over. We didn't want to lose, you know, the Ashley White stuff is is very large and it's a it's a good it's good for the community and um it's actually good fundraiser. So, that's something that
022we were able to also accomplish in addition to here over the summer. There's the after. I don't know how many like if you guys want to run or walk back there and it's open. It's also a nice walk, you know, so like we do have community members that do just walking, you know, bring their dogs and go out and do that, which is nice. Uh this was one that also was not on the docket that is um a last minute addition. Uh so we uh the roofers found a drain that was clogged and they know when they go through they find it, they unclog the drain. No big deal. This drain has been clogged for probably 20 years. Who knows? Uh the drain that goes then into our school was not connected to anything. And
023unbeknownst to anybody that at least that I spoke to, which Rayo was unaware of it, Al was way before Al was here. Uh so it did we did have rain uh over the course of summer. So that rain went into our cafeteria just the main cafeteria. We did fix the drain that goes into but at the same time our cafeteria has tile so uh different sections throughout the cafeteria and it wasn't like inches and inches but enough to make sure the whole floor was wet and soaked down in it bubbled up the tile so our multi bubble said we just get the tile up place it put new tile well obviously there's a we open the tile up and wouldn't you know it underneath it is a best. >> No. >> Okay. So, you know,
024to do it right and to do it and be legally correct, which we've dealt with this, you know, obviously almost every year now something this was small. We just decided to abate the entire cafeteria and be done because most of the high school is gass. Um, so why that is, I I don't know. Somebody I think Josh asked because why would that section be that way? I guess I don't know the answer. when the high school was built, why that why that happened. So, um the cost for that was bought at 17,000 roughly. >> Yeah. 17,800 >> $17,800 to abate uh the entire cafeteria. So, that is completed. Just so you know, the entire cafeteria is done and and completed. So, we are then adding and I don't think I have pictures of the after
025because it's not done. So right now we are in the process of redoing the floor. We're not putting tile back down. We're doing something similar to like we did in the CTE room. We had to add something that we can be, you know, a little bit more user friendly. Plus, it wouldn't, you know, more durable in the long run. >> Also, >> no, it actually does not. >> That's the kitchen is actually >> no carpet. No, it's like like the new when we got the grant for the >> I can't remember what it was. It's an epoxy. >> So different from like some garage floor finishes. Oh it would No, it's more like epoxy but according to save money in the sense of it won't be strip wax like it's painted like So, we're still
026waiting on completion there. We're completion date should be August 22nd. So, we're probably like in the next six or seven days here we'll have that wrapped up. >> So, be on that uh softball training. So, I don't know if you guys are aware, so when we back there with the old asphalt where the you have the softball field and you got the batting cage for the softball team in the back corner of our parking lot, if if it rained at all, our drain would not drain. So, there's two drains back there. Uh, so we actually had them come out and uh I wanted that addressed. Why would we do all the asphalt and the drains weren't working right? So, so we had major events. We actually have that dug up where it drains where it
027should and then it drains into the next drain and then we have them draining into our pond. So now we've had rain since then and it's just those were just old and broken drain tile. We were able now to see that's the drain there as you can see in the left. We connected that first drain to the drain in the back which is behind the fence. That drain in the back right there. You can see that we trenched all the way out to the pond. the second picture there straight out. >> So by the football right between the football field and the softball >> we don't know that's been there for years. That's a >> Is it any better? >> Uh this helps the softball field stay dry. But um down there, no, that'll be
028addressed probably in the next two to three years when we have to address some type of track maintenance or maintenance or something, you know, down the road. >> No, it's there's no drain down there. This is like it's like it's just like there's a section of like 10 ft where she's talking about round of walking outside of our football field just like standing water. We don't you know it's dry now but we've had 20 days. >> Yeah. >> So that's done. So that's that was a big help. So that's that's the major projects that you guys approved, you know, back you actually we actually were early on this because we were able to get them done so early, which I'm glad we did. We did get these back last November, December, if you remember, because
029we needed to kind of make sure that we got on the docket for the roof and get the materials ordered and also paving and get them there early enough so we can get these done. Knowing that we start sports so early, we kind of want to make sure. appreciate that. >> Can I ask a question? >> Absolutely. >> Um the horiculture area, I know we redid the roof. Who's maintaining the pavilion and all the other structures that were put up? >> So our um Annie Leus and his landscaping crew once they start fall, they'll catch up what they don't. So they do that in the spring and they keep up with it. Kind of gets a little bit I would say overgrown a little bit over the summer because we just don't have his group
030of kids. uh doing that. Probably our next project is to kind of look at how that's going to look moving forward. Um the walk path itself and the soccer stadium itself. Um, I didn't have any events. I should I guess I should have put pictures on there, but we had a probably 100 parent volunteers show up on a Saturday or Sunday or Sunday actually, Sunday at 2:00 and they redid all the bleachers in the soccer. Basically, all the wood came off it. They put brand new wood, all the bolts. Um they cleaned out all the concession stands, the um bathrooms were all redone and then they turned around and weeded the entire soccer field, all the flower beds, then they sprayed and did all that and they took a group picture. So if you you
031look on Facebook on there, you would have saw big thanks that just goes to show you, you know, all the soccer boosters did was say, "Hey, we need help. Can you give us a couple hours?" And we had well over 50 maybe 75 parents show up and they actually published all an hour and a half. It was pretty impressive. All right. Any any questions about the summer project? >> Thank you so much. >> When did you say the roof done? >> The roof is done is done 100% complete. >> All right. I I every August I just go back and look. So I was an interim in the summer of 22 and that's the year that we had you know a lot of teachers that you know decided to try different districts or retire or
032whatever. So you know and that was the same time we were also in a financial huge financial crunch. So it kind of wasn't we we just what I call right the ship that year you know we kind of needed it was okay we could take the hits 14 positions we didn't replace we talked about the cost of that um this is nothing new I've shared I share this every year and obviously my at the end of my first year uh we continue to I was always look at there was nine positions that we didn't replace that saved us that there was 30 positions that we did replace at a cost of that so please understand there was a cost so we didn't there was no savings on, you know, with the 39 positions that were
033shuffled around that year, but we did have a savings of 329. >> This is all, >> huh? >> All staff. This is all staff. 100%. >> Doesn't matter who you are. Correct. >> Yes. Absolutely. All staff in general. That's what you look at, you know, from that aspect of it. The only thing I don't put in there is the purchase service portion. you know, like when I say purchase service or contract, like I impact Group when I first got hired, we were paying them 60 or $70,000 to do something and I just said, "Well, we can do that." So, we just let them know. So, those aren't in these numbers, you know, things those are what I call purchase services that uh then my second year at the end technically second full year, not not
034the ending year. So, we would have been last year four positions weren't replaced at that cost. Then we had 24 positions that were replaced, but we did have a savings there because we hired staff at a lower amount. Um, so that gave us a total savings as an estimate there. And then obviously this year and I still going to update this. I'm still I think this is I have a I looked at it actually. I had the my notes and there's I think I have three bus routes. So I can actually add another position there. So I have seven positions that weren't replaced at a savings of about 494,000. 19 positions that were replaced at a savings about 68. So about 562,000. So I mean over the course of four years from a staffing position,
035we have not replaced from a staffing in general certified or classified 34 staff. Okay? We've not that's where we trim 34 staff from our from our budget. when you take that what it is it's you have to add it up I did not I'm guessing it's around 2.2 2.4 million dollars you know but at the same time like Bob says you know the only it helps because we've been able to keep that with our fiveyear forecast because if we had that on the books it would be huge but we also have inflation step raises things like that so it's not as simple as saying hey you save 2.4 four million every year. It's just that's not a realistic way to tell anybody what we wouldn't be in the financial position we are now if we
036would have just let those just replace just to close. So, but I think that's a and I'll give more details September and August. I always kind of give you since I've stepped foot here, this is kind of the direction we've gone um in a very broad process. Obviously, you have more details with what we know. Uh climate culture has always I believe we have we have established and got staffing to come here strictly because of our culture. We have we haven't seen anything. We got two staff members this year that came to the high school that took pay cuts from other districts just because they want to be here. Uh, you know, we do try to celebrate our individual successes. Not everybody agrees and thinks we have a great culture. That's fine. I'm not here
037to make everybody happy. But I think you know we our district and our staff from our bus drivers to our cooks to our custodians to our secretaries to our certified teachers they work so hard to communicate our vision and our purpose embrace our rituals and traditions encourage collaboration. We try to we you know when I say maintain a culture of shared leadership that's for me with our DT I mean those teachers drive what we do. Um so that's kind of where we're going to stick with that. what I say moving forward this is what the be next couple months this is kind of what I want to kind of we'll be addressing with you uh either through a work session or board meetings it really doesn't it's going to happen so obviously for my community
038meetings this is normal for me this is not anything new I'll be heading to township meetings just giving them a general update of what's going on I will be setting meetings at various locations in the three townships just to kind of allow people to ask questions and I can give brief updates ates. I've been doing this since uh I started uh major projects in the district. We need to start talking about that. Okay. What do we want to talk about moving forward? 25 to 26. Uh I'm going to give you current staffing numbers. A lot of people like I gave you back in June the staffing numbers from the secure data center. I think I'm just going to log in and show you right out of the Department of Education workforce the actual upcoming how
039it is. Um I told you every month I'll be giving you enrollment numbers. I started that in June. Obviously, we don't have school yet. So, I don't have that's not in your packet. Uh you guys approved the strategic plan and said in there that we would review it yearly. So, we are going to do that. Um and see where we're at. Uh Renee will be coming in September to do a curriculum update and Bob is also doing a finance update. So those are things that sometimes we address in August, sometimes that I they're not long, but I it's good to start the year off making sure you guys informed what's going on all month. That's kind of where we're going to be head. That's all I got. >> Thank you. >> Presentation. Did anyone sign
040up to speak? >> Thank you. There's no old business, new business. >> Okay. All right. New business. In the right spot, too. All right. We have a few items for new business today. The first one is recommend a motion to approve the following bus routes for the 2025 2026 school year as shown in exhibit A. So second these every year you guys have to approve our bus routes um that you do have them in front of you by all three townships. You as you can see they um you would compare them to last year's bus routes. We are three routes smaller this year. So I did ask Sherry to absorb or cut three routes we had through a trip, you know, basically drivers that have retired. So that would bring us to a total of
041six routes we've taken off the road in three years. >> Do we track at all? I know we have to provide or not. Do we keep any? >> Yes, we have a yearly count that we have to submit to the Department of Education and workforce for exactly how many kids uh ride our bus and then you know so we're required to submit that so I can get that once the year starts give you an idea by route or at least by township you know what what who's riding who's not >> and I know I asked you earlier but parents will find out drop off pick up times. Yes, that date um I want to say is August. It's either Monday or Tuesday next week. That date will actually be uh available on our website in
042the in the bus in the bus section or transportation section. And then also what we did last year for the first time and it worked out wonderful is we will send a parent square message out that will tell you um let's just say my kid Jay Swisser you're on bus XYZ your general pickup time will be blah blah blah between blah blah blah and your drop off time will be between X time and B time. So that also goes out um too. So I can't say when, but I'm going to say within the next probably two weeks, every pair will have a rough idea what their rout. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Miss KCO. >> Yes. >> Mr. Ryan. >> Yes. >> Mr. Hagen. Yes, Miss Hump. >> Yes. >> Okay. Item number two, new
043business. Recommend a motion to approve the following foreign exchange students for the 2025 2026 school year as shown in exhibit B and E. So move >> again. I will not try to say the name correctly. Wait a few days. >> How many are there? Three. >> Four. Four. >> Oh, we got four. >> Y. So you have the attachments with you. >> All right. Call the RO, please. >> Mr. Hagen, >> yes. >> Mr. Ryan, >> yes. >> Miss Humphre, >> yes. >> Miss KCO, >> yes. >> Two from Spain, one from Germany. >> Yes. I think we will have one more added next. I put over >> item number three, recommend a motion to approve the following outstate field trip as shown in exhibit F, the ban to Orlando, Florida, April 6th through the
04411th in 2026. >> So moved. >> Second. >> This is the annual >> This is your annual trip. Yes. >> Call please. >> Mr. Hagen. Yes. Mr. Ryan. Yes, Miss Humphre. >> Yes, >> Miss KCO. >> Yes, >> item number four, recommend the motion to approve the following transportation and low agreement for the for 202425 school year. This is what student that um we did not get on for last year. So that's why it's 2425. discussion call. >> Mr. Ryan, >> yes. >> Mr. Hagen, >> yes. >> Miss Humphre, >> yes. >> Miss KCO, >> yes. >> Item number five, recommend the board to approve the following contract FY26-58. >> So, second discussion approval. Please, >> Miss Kco. >> Yes. >> Mr. Ryan. >> Yes. >> Mr. Hagen. Um, Miss Humphre. >> Yes. >> Okay.
045Item number six, new business. recommend the motion to approve the following amended health department contract for the 2025 2026 school year as shown in exhibit F. So move second. >> You guys already approved the health department contract. What had the health department had? We had two nurses that was included to one nurse. They just that's the way we've been for years. They have decided just to go to one nurse period here. So instead of having two, so this is just anou, no price change, nothing like that. Are the same, hours are the same. It's just that instead of having two nurses doing the same job and splitting it up throughout the week, it's just one. >> Yeah, we always same thing. We had somebody here every day. So, somebody would be here every day. So,
046it's no different than before when we had two. One was here one day, the other one wasn't. >> Yeah. Without >> she rotates. >> Okay. >> Please, >> Mr. Wright. >> Yes. >> Mr. Mr. Hagen. >> Yes. M Humphre. >> Yes. >> Mr. Krep. >> Yes. >> Item number seven, recommend a motion to approve the following sub rates for the 2025 2026 school year as listed. County sub rate 110, preferred sub rate 130, long-term sub rate 150. >> Asking if this is a change. For the last two years, this is a change. We have we have gone up $10 for the county sub rate. We have gone up $10 for the preferred sub rate just to try to stay somewhat competitive with our neighbors. And we have added a long-term sub rate at 150. >>
047Kathy, were you the motion of this? focus on what >> the reason for a long-term sub rate to be higher than a preferred sub rate is a long-term sub would be somebody that actually has to do lesson plans, do the grading, do all that. The preferred sub is just basically coming in and working the day based on a somebody that might be out for a day and they're just running off their current plans. So these would be for maternity leaves, longterm health, long-term health care needs, things like that that we have to find somebody for somewhere anywhere between 8, 10, 12 weeks or maybe even longer. >> This is um different permanent sub. We have no permanent subs. >> We they used to define like they'd have like a permanent building sub, right? But they're
048still paid at the preferred sub rate. Really doesn't make any difference. It's all the it's all the same. Mr. Greco, >> yes. >> Miss Humphre, >> yes. >> Mr. Ryan, >> yes. >> Mr. Hagen, >> yes. Finally, number eight, recommend a motion to approve the following transportation and loo agreements for the 202526 school year. >> Second. >> Yes. >> Uh, this is normal. Um, Miss Sickle sends those to us. So, like last year, as you saw, you approved one before it was 58386. This year, according to Department of Education and Workforce, Transportation in Woo is $67.15. >> Follow, please. >> Mr. Ryan, >> yes. Miss KCO, >> yes. >> Mr. Hagen, yes. Miss Humphre, >> yes. $17.15 treasur like to recommend that the board approve the minutes from the following meeting June 12th 2025. So
049move >> second >> discussion call please. >> Miss KCO. >> Yes. >> Miss Humphre. >> Yes. >> Mr. Hagen. >> Yes. >> Mr. Ryan. >> Yes. Next on the agenda is the financial reports. I'd like to recommend that the board of education approve the financial reports for the periods ending June 30th, 2025 and July 31st, 2025. So second, share a few high points here with you. As far as the financials go, I'm just going to focus on the July one since we skipped last month's meetings. We'll show our current balances. If you have any questions, of course, related to the June financials, please let me know. We finished the month of July with total fund balance of 13,714,2855. That's for all funds. The general fund we ended July with a cash balance of 10,560,86686 during
050the month of July if you look at the 070 the capital projects fund we spent um $453,69. So that's um some of the payments for roofing and and paving starting to come in. Leave that leaves a cash balance currently of $952,7201 in the capital projects fund. We also have though however with these the remaining payables on these projects we still have $918,440 in comfort payable on purchase orders to finish out the projects and other things that we have uh have already committed to this year. We'll recoup that when we get our next >> Yeah, at this point in time that leaves like an unencumbered balance point $34,000 to change. But yeah, as Mr. Swisher mentioned, um the pipeline money that we'll transfer there that we expect the board will transfer when we when it comes
051in uh will reinvigorate that fund. So, we're definitely hitting the capital projects hard this year. What is the amount of tax? >> Well, over the U it's I would say it's 1.2 million for the year about 1.2. We were getting about 1.2, but since since the settlement, we'd already got paid the back interest, which we were able to do. So, the current I mean, there's some depreciation, but it's for the next 30 years, but it's only it's very minor. I'm talking about maybe 10 or $20,000 off the the original. So it's it's about 1.8 or more a year. Obviously there is some depreciation. So it's not an exact figure. That's depends on what the county auditor says. And of course some of the personal property like that will go directly to the permit improvement fund
052is in addition to the pipeline. So issued checks for July 724,000 and change. Yeah, those are really the high points right now. If you have any questions about any particular checks, please let me know. I'll try to respond to those. Call, please. >> Mr. Ryan, >> yes. >> Mr. Hagen, >> yes. >> Miss Humphre, >> yes. >> Miss KCO, >> yes. >> I'd like to recommend that the board approve the following revenue and budget revisions as presented. >> Second. Okay, there are a few more revisions than typical this month. Um when we met in June, it was really just the initial appropriations and so some significant revisions are necessary for to like make the general fund, for example, match the five-year forecast expenditures, but they're all and then we just received last week um the
053amounts that they are giving us for our grants. So there's budget revisions associated with that. So I'll just kind of cut to the notes at the bottom. They start on page two of the of the report and I'll just cover each of the revisions that I'm recommending at $1,872,750 for the transfer out of the pipeline proceeds and the retirement fund. So that is really related to the last question. how much is going to be moved into that 070 fund um and also into the retirement fund because we keep that at $150,000 each year. Also, the second item going to add $659,888 to match the forecast. That basically brings the general fund budget up to what was forecasted. Al the next item add $138,813 for utilities. Uh these were just basically some utilities expenses that were
054associated with FY 25 that didn't get paid until July uh that need added into this year's budget to reflect that change that timing change. The biggest one that or the one that requires most explanation is the next one. It's uh this is to the general fund as well. It's to add special education costs, additional ones that we expect to have this year. $122,357 for one student. It's going to be direct build to our district. Um plus an additional $4,000 for transportation. We also need an additional $39,871 uh for the agreement that um was approved just a few resolutions ago. Also, uh about $130,000 additional tuition for some students that are attending Star County Learning Center and Educational Third Special Schools. So those are the revisions for the general fund for funds 003 and 070 which
055is our permanent improvement and our capital projects fund. Um I have some additional amounts listed there for those uh to cover the existing projects and uh to cover the future repairs that we anticipate at this point in time. uh $400,000 to the permanent improvement fund and an additional $34,271 to the capital projects fund. Then for food services, um this is just to basically max out their budget to what we expect in revenue to make it match what we expect to have come in for funding. Um, it's possible too. It's it's speculative at this point, but I think it's conceivable that um that we may need to transfer some money into the cafeteria farm before we end. We'll see how things come out with this. Last year was a little different. We had we run the
056C program, which is like the free reduced lunches for everyone. So my calculation if you my estimates here more based on the year before how much money we're expecting to come in. So just a little heads up there nothing nothing known I hate to provide something so kind of fuzzy at this point but I just wanted to give you a heads up in case it turns out that way because part part of the reason for me saying that is that we've been kind of riding on the cash balance that's been in the cafeteria because of about three four years ago we had one year where the entire food for the year were paid for with the co federal monies. So that gave us sort of an artificially high balance that we've been spending now. So
057that's why I say that. Obviously later in the year I'll have some more a better idea of what we're looking at for that. But either way we're going to try to keep our attention on controlling cost there so that it's it's minimal qualify for that program. We did we opted out of out of this the community education and prevention program just because um we did not see the return and the investment based on what the possible expectation was for the kids that used it. And when we looked at our overall fund where it was headed, we felt that would be best just to go back to the way the district has always done it, which is you guys approved back in June, you know, the lunch rates for breakfast and the lunch from there. Obviously,
058if the family qualifies um just like they do, they submit their free reduced form and then it all will be the same. It's just for parents that don't, then they're just going to be charged their lunch if they choose not choose to buy that. >> Yeah. Just for perspective too, um like last year cap the expenditures were 1,251,326. So it's an expensive program to keep them running but obviously necessary >> obviously we have reimburseed that's what that is our funding comes in and based on our our district and our district makeup this was the recommendation that we got from the state lation they suggested go back >> that one question is that staff and Yes. >> Yeah, that's everything I >> um couple more revisions as well from the 07 fund um increase the budget
059to reflect uh what we spend each year or typically. So these are some of our grant things like the Fulk scholarship 035 fund add $150,000. Uh that's to reflect the money that as part of that transfer to the general fund that we'll do with the pipeline proceeds in the student activity funds. The 200 funds at $16,500 basically that each activity group requests their budget. If they have enough cash in there to do a project expecting enough, we'll increase the budget to reflect whatever they plan on. The last items are combined are for our federal grants and the revisions that you see there are to add or change the budgets to reflect what allocations the state just released last week. Kind of a lot of exciting stuff there. >> Mr. Ryan, >> yes. >> Mr. Hayden.
060>> Yes. >> Miss Humphre. >> Yes. >> Miss Ker. >> Yes. >> Like to recommend that the board approve the following fund to fund transfers. $11,969.18 from the class of 2025 to the class of and $5,652.51 from the class of 2022 to the class of 2026. >> Some moved. Okay, this is typical um that that the classes do that any remaining funds they have usually designate to another class they choose which ones. Uh we have two on here this time because I was just when I was looking over this transfer I realized there was still cash remaining the one this which should have to taken place about the time that I was hired and the previous treasures. So I think it just slips >> something the treasure does arbitrarily class officers have seen that >>
061actually yeah they um I think I upload it into the board docs but no they we have to get their authority to do that. So the uh the class officers sign on request that and sign in and send us request to do that. And each of these classes uh um the the class of 2025 just FY2 their directive was uh they were buying a picnic table like a poly real nice one for the the district and then the remaining funds were to be transferred to the following class. Yes, >> Mr. Hagen. >> Yes, >> Mr. Ryan. >> Yes, >> Miss Humphre. >> Yes, >> Miss Kreco. >> Yes. >> I'd like to recommend that the board approve the agreement with the auditor of states local government services section to compile the annual financial statements for
062the fiscal year ending June 30th, 2025. >> Some moved. Second. This is the standard letter we get, correct? >> Yeah, this is really a required audit. Um, and speaking of audits too, just a little quick update as well. Um, they're just finished up like the draft of our 2024 audit, FY24 audit. And so, um, they'll be releasing that to the public very soon. And uh so I had to mention that because as you can see here we're finishing one audit immediately starting the next like it's not stopped. Um but this uh and the cost there's a cost to this too. This uh agreement for them to do this audit is $14,400. It's not it's not to exceed that amount. They anticipate they estimate 180 hours worth of their work to do it and it's one
063of the two audits that we'll have done this year. >> Call the roll please. >> Mr. Hagen, >> yes. >> Miss Krepco, >> yes. >> Miss Humphre, >> yes. >> Mr. Ryan, yes. Item number six, change orders related to the summer paving. Like to recommend that the board approve the following change orders. The concrete sidewalk area around the middle school, $10,890. The flag pole base at the middle school, $7,200. Concrete at the board office entrance, $2,587. Concrete walk to the middle school door. Door number five by the gym. $18,977. Second. >> Okay. >> Call please. >> Mr. Ryan. >> Yes. >> Mr. Hagen. Yes. Miss Humphre. >> Yes. >> Miss Ko. >> Yes. I'd like to recommend that the board approve the following donation from the Stark County or the Stark Community Foundation. The John
064N and Normal Tifa, excuse me, let me start the Stark County Stark Community Foundation. The John N and Norma Tle Lucille M. Cone Memorial Fund. This is for assistance in the education of primary and secondary school students in the amount of $300. Second, this is including but not limited to books, school supplies, clothing, or other items necessary to permit a child to attend school. Very nice. >> Thank you. Call >> Mr. Ryan. >> Yes. >> Mr. Hagen. Yes, >> Miss Humphre. >> Yes, >> Miss Creo. >> Yes. >> Personnel. >> Okay, personnel. If the the board is okay with, I will do a brief run through, but we will consent one vote for personnel. >> Okay. Personnel, we have uh one certified resignation that came in over the summer since June. classified resignations. We had
065two. We had a supplemental, we have three supplemental resignations. Uh we have a few certified staff hires uh that we actually had wrapped up right at the end of June. We had very uh I'm very proud to say that we did not have any staff leave in July at all. So, it's been uh it's been a quiet month. Uh we have our classified staff hires uh that we needed to fill that people that left. We have our tutor hires that we just bring back. Our tutors are non-renewed every year, so we just bring them back based on our availability with our funding through the CCIP. We have our classified RIP recalls. These are our pair of professionals and buses. Then we have one long-term subhire that is for Eric Tanner start the year over in
066horiculture. We have our certified substitute list, our classified substitute list, both of those which will continue to grow. We have a certified staff transfer uh which um we have a teacher that's requesting to go to a tutor so she is be a change for her. Uh we have supplemental appointments for 2526 school year and we have one supplemental pay correction that was incorrect in June. A motion. >> It's so moved. Second >> discussion. Call, please. >> Mr. Hagen? >> Yes. >> Mr. Ryan? >> Yes. >> Miss Humphre? >> Yes. >> Miss KCO? >> Yes. >> Okay. Upcoming events. Uh, Monday, August 18th, we have our new teacher day. So, they will get a tour of the districts with Renee and I on a school bus. up. Uh we take all our new teachers because most
067of them really don't understand quite how large our district is. So it gives them an idea. They may only work in one building, not knowing where the other four buildings are. Uh Tuesday, August 19th, freshman orientation. It's always a good morning there. Obviously, Monday, August 25th is our convocation here the building. So please try if you can make that available in your calendars, please try to attend. That would be wonderful in the morning. Uh September 2nd is obviously the first day for students and our community day uh which we do every year is September 12th. That'll be a home game against Lewisville. And by the way, that's already week four of high school football at that point in time. >> Next board of education meeting will be September 11th, 6 p.m. right here. Is there
068a motion to adjourn? Someone >> second. >> All please. >> Yes. >> Mr. Ryan. >> Yes. >> Mr. Hagen. Yes. M. >> Yes. >> Thank you. Good night.