001Good evening. Welcome to the Thursday, June 12th, 2025 Marlington School District Board of Education meeting. Roll call. Where's Where's the pledge of allegiance? Where's the pledge of allegiance? Pledge of Pledge of Allegiance. Let's do Pledge of Allegiance, man. Holy moly. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Do we need to add that to the church? I think we do. Are you That hurt. Roll call. Um when you're ready, Mr. Boss. Josh Hagen here. Karen Humphre here. Kathy Krepco here. Mark Ryan here. Jonathan Swift here. Reading of the mission statement. Mr. Hagen. In collaboration with staff, community, parents, and students. The Marlington local school district will develop lifelong learners who understand and apply
002knowledge and demonstrate excellence in pursuing the highest standards with effective intervention to challenge every student. addition or corrections to the meeting agenda. We have one addition to the meeting agenda tonight. We will be adding the folk scholarship winners um the college students here. We can add those as 4 a 4 a 4 a. So on the second page okay under a. Should we add the pledge to the Yeah. and and at the beginning the pledge. Let's add the pledge in there. Okay. Adoption of the meeting agenda as amended. So move. Second. Discussion. Call the role, please. Mr. Ryan, yes. Miss KCO, yes. Mr. Hagen, yes. Miss Humphre, yes. Mr. Swift. Yes. Folk scholarship. Who's Leah? Gas. Guess it coming up. Welcome. One second. All right. Good evening. Uh this is at this point in time
003we uh every year uh our students in our high school and obviously and that you can be this is a renewable scholarship that burning folk the birding folk scholarship has. So I'm just going to tell you a little bit about it and then we'll call the students up and and give them reward. So uh the philosophy behind the Burning Folk Scholarship was grounded in supporting students who demonstrate academic promise, strong character, commitment to hard work to service that reflects the belief that education opens doors and not just to a personal achievement but making thoughtful contributions to the world. So overall we had I think this year we had 43 burning folk scholarships which is a remarkable number both for the generosity of the folk family and the excellence of our students. Even more meaningful is
004this is obviously renewable. This is why we have these students here today because these students are all obviously attending college at this time. So, it continues to support our Marlington alumni as they pursue their education beyond graduation. Today, we're recognizing these college students who are recipients of this year's Burning Folk Scholarship. Each one of these students has demonstrated not only academic success, but also strong leadership, character, deep commitment to their community, and qualities that reflect beyond. At this time, we're going to recognize these these students. So, if you could uh please hold your applause at the end, we will bring them up each one by one. So, out of these 43, just to give you an idea, you know, how large this scholar this scholarship is, there's been years where we've had three when I've
005been here to we had 30 some last year and this year was probably the highest number that I've seen apply, which was 43. Um, their endowment is just remarkable. So, we were able to I think for all 43 of the students, they were able to give each one of those students $1,500. So, it's pretty amazing when you think about the the number of students that applied and were able to get this scholarship. So, we really appreciate their generosity and what they what they've done. So, I'm going to go ahead. I know I think I got all the students here. If I miss you, you can yell at me, but I think I'm good. Uh we're going to bring you up one by one and I'll give you your check that you'll need. and uh we'll
006give you congratulations. But I really appreciate you being here. So I think we have Leah Guess have her come up Conor Powers. Connor Powers, Luke Deble, so I got to put them down each time. Claire Cox, Rachel Frank, corn grinder. Blake Howard, Kendra Scott. and Carly Scott. Round of applause. [Applause] I usually have people here for pictures and that so together do this. Dan has Let's go over here in front of the wall. Dan. Dan. Hey, Dan. Yeah. What about the Yeah, the background right over there. Let's go back. Just keep walking this way. You got it falling in. Go outside. That's nice. Well, oh yeah, maybe the go or the Dukes. Under the Dukes. That'll work. Maybe the football field. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if they victory. The victory bell. They'll get their
007exercise. There we go. That's better. Yeah, definitely. on it in the cafeteria. Next year maybe a second. Yeah. Okay. So before we start the formal part of the meeting, if you choose to leave, you can do that now. Unless you can stay for the formal meeting. It's up to you. Students, this is your opportunity. If you It's all right. We know. Go ahead. It's okay. Great. It's pretty exciting. You can stand. She's my exciting. Oh boy. And she doesn't want to. Thank you, Maria. call. Thank you guys. All right. Okay. This is this is this is a fun fun night. Okay. Uh the invocation of Mr. Foss. Okay. Dear Lord, we thank you that we can be together here tonight in this public space and see these good things happening with children. We pray that
008you bless the board tonight. Give them wisdom of course to do to make good decisions. We just thank you uh for the opportunity to impact the children's lives in our community. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you. OSBA presentation. Mrs. Parkwell. There. Um everything in the OSBA seems to be pointing towards the budget concerns and they're looking for schools to participate and write letters and um they're just actively working on trying to get a budget that suits everybody. That's about it. Okay. Thank you. Superintendent report. Mr. Swisser. Yes. Good evening. Uh I do not have a presentation. I'm just going to be speak from the microphone here tonight because there's just a small small things that uh I'm going to have to review by law and just talk about some additions that
009we're going to be adding to the agendas moving forward. You know, when it that so um obviously our our roofing project has started in the last two days. Uh so they did about 40 square ft uh today. Their hope is to um pending weather tomorrow to get another 40 square another 40 square done and hopefully get the gymnasium roof complete. Uh now I know the question came up from the board about uh is there vents up there? You know because you see the circles in the in the gymnasium. So on the north side of it today that they did there was no vents and there isn't over there but there are four over here on the south side but they haven't ripped that off yet and started. So once they get into that tomorrow, we'll
010take a look at what that entails, if they were boarded up, what it was. There circles in the gym. We don't know. So we're going to we're going to find out tomorrow because they have not got in there yet. So once they open that up, but they just changed the forecast a little bit to a 40% chance tomorrow. So it's going to be I think they're going to watch that a little more closely, you know, where they're at. So that project's be our lighting project is roughly 75% complete. Um they're working through that right now. And then Vasco is going to start paving. I would say probably mid June is when that project will get started. So I'll keep you updated on that. I'll have a complete overview with pictures as always and everything what
011we did step by step in August and then a breakdown of the different financials if there was any change orders or anything that came up with that. Um, every year I'm required uh to basically review with the board our DIPA and our uh student wellness and success fund. So the DIP is your your fund initiatives to support wraparound services for disadvantaged pupil aid. So basically we used to get a grant a federal grant called DIPA and a federal grant for student wellness and success success funds. that grant would be a separate entity in our CCIP, which is where we track our grants. Um, in the state's infinite wisdom, they thought it would be more fun just to throw it in general fund. So, that's what they do that you so that we don't really know
012if we just know it goes in there and we get an allocation and then we're required to report on it. So, we use our DIPA funds and our student wellness funds for our school counselors, our SRO's, our FSS, and nurses. So you don't see it in a separate line item because it's directly just related to related rate. It's all this money is deposited directly into general fund. So just so you know our allocation this year for disadvantaged people aid was $149,84059 and our allocation for student wellness and success fund was $253,787.37. And then we're also required and it's on there if you go to our district website and then you go under administration um you would see there on the right hand side it says our student and success and wellness plan and I also
013put it in your folder. I just put it front back but that's actually on our website. It's just required that there's a link. We submit that link to the department of education workforce every year. It just basically describes what what roles our school counselors do, our SRO's, our family support specialists, andor our physical health needs, which is basically our nurses. Um, that's kind of the rationale behind that. So, I'm just uh wanted to make sure that so this year for obviously with our school counselors, our SRO's, FSS, and nurses, we use that's where we use those two pots of funds for. anything overage is just comes that's just out of our general fund but it's all in one bucket but they still ask us to set it try to set a set that aside so
014it's a little more difficult on Bob's end but I am required to report out every year to the board so same thing I did last year any questions about the DIPA or the student success wellness fund it's really just two grants that they've just inherently put into that bucket Okay, moving forward, I think it would be a good idea of us um to give you guys an enroll. I think you should have on the I'm going to start putting on the agenda or in my update basically a monthly enrollment so you guys have it. So, you should have in your somewhere in that packet. It should be probably in the back I think is your it should say your student enrollment for June. So if you have that you can kind of pull that out.
015So basically what the way that is going to look and I can tweak this if you don't like the way it looks. This is what we've been doing for the at least the last three years that I've been here. I get I ask my the this the administrators to basically submit we work with our EUS coordinator and then they submit to me a monthly uh basically a student enrollment by month. So we have Lexington, Marble, Washington across the top. It'll basically have by kindergarten, first, second, third, fourth, and fifth. By building, how many is in the building. Next to it, you'll see KT1 T2. That's how many teachers in that grade level that teach that. So if you're looking at like a number, it gives you an idea, you know, what that is. When it
016comes to teachers by home room, obviously middle school and high school, they don't we don't do that. By enrollment, no need. Uh they have six, seventh, and eighth grade. in high school 9 10 11 12 then you'll have a total enrollment. Now these are kids that are basically butts and seats. These are the kids that are here on a daily basis. Okay. Underneath that though um you'll get a total of open enrollment out. So by grade level if kids that are out then you'll get courtplace kids out because obviously we have handful of kids that are courtplaced out but we still get you know we still pay for okay uh tuition out following a staff parent out the the word out that has a small number there of three they're just they're just out that's
017the good word for it and special let So if you'll see two different numbers. So you have a button seats number for example of 1,83 for the end of June enrollment but a a grand total ADM for us of 2063 if they were all in. But really when you're when the department of education and workforce looks at Marlington looking at the butts and seats when we're submitting enrollment that's what they're looking at. But I think it would be good if you guys if you come up with questions if you don't. But I'm just I plan on adding it to the agenda and just sending enrollment every month. I actually do have a question. Yes. Um part of potentially the state budget is saying that if we have any buildings that are 60% or less, we
018have to get rid of them. We don't know if that is going to go through or not, but it's in there right now. Correct. Do we have what's our percentages at each building right now? Do you know? No. No. And the reason why is and I actually put the the the ominous side of the budget, the House Senate. In back of your folder, I would have put the educational updates. I kind It's a 15-page document. I did front back. I just stapled and gave it to you for general updates that possibly that the House and Senate are going to bicker back and forth with while it goes into conference committee now. Yeah. Because that, you know, obviously the House did not concur with the Senate, which we knew that uh if that would go through.
019Marlington's buildings uh were built at an age where capacity wasn't directly like in a line item when they did it. So they basically say for buildings that are our age, they you bring in the Ohio Facilities Commission and then they make that call. Okay. So if the house f the Ohio facilities commission comes in and says the high school could hold X, then you have X number of kids in your high school. Obviously, if if it's under 60% technically that law went into effect, it could say just like, you know, that you would have, I guess, say this building could be offered for sale. Now, there's an appeal process if that would go into effect and things like Yeah. And to make it clear, I'm not looking to close any buildings. No, no, no, no,
020no, no, no. I just want to know how close we are to that line. So, if we have to make adjustments internally, then we can to avoid having that problem. No. as as I went to the educational forum on Tuesday night, you know, and all superintendents were there in attendance, you know, uh Rob Grass being our closest neighbor in Alliance made a very excellent point. You know, this is this was his viewpoint on that exact question you just asked from the moderator. You know, Alliance High School was built for a capacity of 3,500 students. It currently has under a thousand. So, it technically is below the 60% threshold. you know, like really, you're going to close a very beautiful building just like ours. It's been maintained. It's been there a long time. Where are those
021kids going to go? You know, so it's kind of that thought process. And they're not the only one. You know, Jeff Talbert says the same thing. Timkin houses their career tech center. Of course, their career tech center is going to be under 60% based on the capacity of Timkin. You know, they're not going to shut down an entire adult and career tech center, but they could. So they're kind of that's an there's a lot of discussion I think that's going to happen in the next three to six weeks before this comes out. So I don't if that gives you an idea it would be the facilities commission to answer your question. Thank you. Yep. This is the Phil facilities commission. No this is the this part portion of the house bill they have different things
022embedded in there. So this is all preliminary. There's no uh no decision. I'm just wondering what the enforcement mechanism would be. We have no idea. We really don't. It's like I said, it's I'm not a uh sky is falling person. So I, as I've always said, I just think we wait and see. As you know, there's so much that's changed. I think in the last what since March, we started talking about this. Yeah. Every month there's been a different version between the House and the Senate. So for us to speculate where this is going to go or how it's going to affect Marlington right now, I don't think fair until it gets passed and then we can get then we can have a direct answer. So I plan on giving you enrollment just to give
023you an idea every month put it on the agenda from that aspect of it. It would be good to you know if there's any more information as it comes comes to you or I did share in the back of your packet Mark a bunch of information there's about 15 pages worth that's just came out so that give you an idea and that's all in there. Okay. And typically when anything does come that is like a short summary of you know like the original house bill that got sent out it was it's 640 pages so they just kind of briefed it in the educational section of it. Um so it's as those come I'll send it to you guys just in a group email. That's fine. Uh other enrollment figures just to have an idea. So
024for 2526 obviously uh our kindergarten enrollment we still are taking kindergarteners. Um so we're up to about 125 kindergarters right now for next year. where we're at. Uh open enrollment wise, we accepted we only accepted 42 open enrollment this year. Uh just to give you a little breakdown on that, uh we had uh for kindergarten, we from open enrollment standpoint, we had seven students at Washington, five students at Lexington, and eight students at Marbor. Uh grade one we had two students at Washington only. Grade two we had three students at Marboro only. Grade three we have uh one student at Lexington and or they actually moved out. Sorry, three students at Marbor only. Uh grade four, one student at Marboro. Grade five, three students at Mar. Grade six, two students. Grade seven was closed. Grade
025eight we had two students. Grade nine three and grade 10 two. And the reason why there's only certain grade levels because when I made the as teachers retired and I we chose not to replace them to kind of be more fiscally responsible for what we're doing. We're trying to keep our you know it's you have to basically limit your numbers coming in and as I told you the way the current design of the the uh budget bill is we do not get more money for bringing in more kits. So, for us to say, "Hey, we're going to bring in let another 30 students come in." Um, and we end up having to add a teacher, that's another $100,000. That's not $100,000 that's going to we're going to end up having to ask ask taxpayers for
026it's going to come out of our fund. So, until that changes and they recorrect, we can't do that. Any questions about those type enrollment figures or that's my plan moving forward? Just so you guys have that. Correct. That's really all I have for tonight. Excellent. Thank you, Dan. Yep. Public participation. Did anyone sign up? Yes. Um, Mrs. Kathleen Pertie like to address the board regarding safe school zone. Miss Perty, you have three minutes. Good evening to those of you in attendance. My name is Kathleen Pertie and my address is 361 Bark Avenue here in Alliance. Uh both of our children, Roland Jr. and Valerie Perie attended Arlington and graduated in 9495. Uh my late husband Roland uh was an assistant track coach here for 11 years. I'm here to emphasize uh safe zone school districts
027for all students. Why? Because every student should have an opportunity to learn without the fear and distress that results from harsh immigration enforcement. A safe zone school board resolution contain reassurances for students, procedures for responding to law enforcement and information and support for families and staff. Countless school districts across the country have already passed safe zone resolutions. These districts include large urban districts like Los Angeles to small rural districts in Colorado and New Hampshire and everywhere in between such as Omaha, Nebraska and Louisville, Kentucky. Educators are witnessing the impact of this type of trauma on our students, their families, and communities firsthand. Because of this critical and pragmatic approach, I'm asking for the Marlington School Board to develop a resolution and district policy to create a safe zone resolution. For the record, I have supplied
028the Marlington School Board with a proposed sample resolution and through the board's normal governance procedure, it can approve and sign a safe zone resolution, including a policy that would then take effect immediately because all students all students should have the opportunity to learn without the fear and distress that results from harsh immigration enforcement. So join the movement to make school campuses safe zones for immigrant students and communities. Teaching all kids regardless of status has been the right to public education. Tyler versus do which was 1982 in Texas. That concludes my remarks. Thank you. Thank you. After the three minutes. Yeah, you did good. Good. Thank you. That's what a retired teacher should be able to speak within the um confines of the requirements. Thank you again and have a wonderful evening. I'll just take my
029seat and continue um listening to the uh policy and okay business. There is none. Okay. We have no old business. New business. We have three for new business this evening. Uh Item number one is our bullying report for the second half of the 202526 school year. So I recommend uh I'm just uh I don't even this is not even have to be moved. It's just I'm showing the report. So we have one reported incident in K12 buildings as presented in exhibit A. I got to ask. I do it every time. You're telling me there's only one instances of bullying recorded for in half of a year throughout our entire school district. She is reported. There's I would completely agree with you that there's definitely issues of bullying that happen in all districts including our own
030that is more than just one. Now, our policy has specific documentation on how what has to be submitted or requested by a parent. Once that's submitted and then given to that and they go that process, that's the process that we have to follow based on new policy. That does not mean that Mr. Frell, Mr. Rizlei, Miss Weber, Mr. Smandal, or Miss Moore doesn't have internal documents or notes of parent concerns, complaints, their child being picked on, issues at recess, issues that happen in the lunchroom, issues that happen in any part of the high school that they haven't dealt with. But is it is it something that happens over and over again? Have they dealt with it? Have they follow the right channels or do they handle it on the spot? There's a little bit things.
031It's a good question. Fair question. I report what's good. Okay. But I will happily bring that up tomorrow on my 18 meeting at 8 a.m. I'd like to see some That's why I just Okay. Item number two. recommend the motion to approve the MPI and Robertson heating supply resolutions as shown in exhibits B and C. So move second discussion. Okay. So we also have another one in here. Is that a mistake? No, there's two. NPI and Robins. No, there's three in here. What? There's not three. Two. Only two. Get a duplicate. Oh, what RF RMPI or I think RFI PM holdings. That is NPI. That's their official. Okay. In here. Yep. Yeah. Okay. I was just confused. Sorry. So, we talked about NPI back in March. Uh we tabled uh in between that time. Obviously,
032I was not available in April. And since then, we had Robertson Heating Supply also submit a community reinvestment area. So CRA, just for just for a reminder, is a community reinvestment area. It's a property tax exemption to businesses that invest in new construction, renovation, or to a designated area. Um, it's also to support economic development. Now, the main thing is obviously, you know, if I always said when it comes to housing developments and asking for property tax exemptions, I don't even typically even bring it to the board because it's a it's a hard no because we know how difficult it is to fund our schools as it is. You know, when you're talking about economic development, I always feel it's the, you know, it's the board's decision to take a good look. We we want
033to support economic development. At the same time, anytime we have good economic development, it's going to support our schools. Uh so the one for MPI, we talked about this was a small addition that they wanted to add. So the construction cost itself was roughly just about a million. Um and that was going to bring in 10 new employees and two part-time employees. And they said roughly they're guessing about 367,000 in the payroll. So the main question when you talk about a CRA is so we're we obviously get you know that it's just on the addition piece they're asking for tax exemption on the addition only not their business itself. So for NPI the question was what is that going to cost the district from a yearly basis um roughly around $7,000. Okay, give you an
034idea when we're talking about Robertson heating supply. This is a little bit larger uh project. So, he's looking at adding Scott Robertson is here. Uh 95,000 foot addition to your to your uh property. 93,000. It's quite a large addition. So, he currently has 252 full-time employees and 26 part-time employees. This addition would bring in another 20 full-time and five part-time with an added estimated payroll around 800,000 to a million within the next few years. the addition or new construction cost as you can see on there is $17 million is where so when you're looking at line item 13 when you're talking about a tax portion of it from the county perspective they're looking at new construction costs they're not looking at the equipment you put in there or this or that. Okay. So, we did
035reach out to John Oats over in over at the auditor's office. Um, and just wanted to kind of get more of a specific number when it came to these. So, John did get back to us on an email. Um, he said he had the appraisal department look at this and they thought the appraised value of the addition would be probably closer to about 5 million once it's done. He said, "Using that number, a foregone revenue would be about 40,000 for general fund, 2,000 for your permanent improvement fund." What are those numbers again? 40,000 for the general fund, 2,000 for the permanent improvement fund. Now, obviously that's per year obviously per year. And now obviously that's based on you know the submitted designs what it is they're guessing with the appraisal based on you know it's
036warehouse space for warehouse right correct all warehouse all warehouse um so I just you know that was trying to give us a number to be able to share with you from a board member's perspective so between these two is $49,000ish that's correct now that's if NPI chooses to do anything. Now we have uh Pete Warsler here, correct? And you are give me your full title. Director of planning. Director of plan development city of Alliance. Is NPI plan on doing Okay. We're not sure where NPI sits right now. And obviously Kirk Keller's here too. He's the one that submitted the CRA works in with Scott Robertson as as owner of Robert and have both of these already been approved by the city of Alliance. City until we do. Okay. questions in here. I I I give
037this to you as a recommendation to move forward with. That's my recommendation. Um, excuse me, Dan. What did you say the numbers were for NPI? NPI would be about 7,000 per year. Why does one put money into the PI fund but not the other? What's it's our levies what we have levied. Basically, it's going to look at they're looking at what we have levied out there and that's how they determine based on the on the uh appraisal of that. Got it. Dan, based on the estimates of new employment, what are we looking at getting as far as income tax? I do not know. I can find out. I have never asked the question based on the amount of employees on income tax. You know, I know that we get that money that comes in, you
038know, with our different area companies that obviously sit on the industry park right there on Maine. Um, I can give you those specific numbers and find out and Lucy inquire and get that. It's a good question. Yeah, Kathy, I think to clarify to even with NPI, we would still get some some PI money. I think that estimate was given to us just as based on our overall millage. Thank you. At the time and I believe that 7,000 was on the high side like using the full cost of the construction whereas um it might be appraised less than that. So I think that's a worst case scenario for NPI. I've got the estimated payroll on these. I guess we get 1%. Is that correct? Alliance gets 1%, we we get 1%. I I don't want to
039I'm not I'm not 100% sure to be honest with you. But I will give you the exact number. I don't want to speculate and be wrong. Bob, do you know the answer? What was it? Did we get 1% of payroll tax? No, I don't know. So there would be some offset is bottom line to that. Is that right? Yes, there would be some offset. [Music] Okay. Any other questions or comments? I I just uh I think anytime the businesses that sit on Main Street and they want to invest in Alliance or in Marlington and a combination of both to expand their businesses and add jobs is only going to help us in the long run. That's my my opinion. Good for the community, right? Okay. Okay. Call the RO, please. Mr. Ryan, yes. Mr. Swift,
040yes. Mr. Hagen, yes. Miss Humphre, yes. Miss Krepco, yes. Okay. Moving on, we have our third new action is recommend the motion to approve the following summer pay rate shown in exhibit C. So moved. Second. discussion. We just have secretary, custodian, and any computer tech uh support that we get in the summer. So last year they'll it would have been a much larger amount cuz we had certified teacher tutors, bus drivers, head cooks, cooks, pair of professional aids, uh extra workers, but like I said, we have uh trimmed back all our programming uh just to make sure that we uh meet some of our financial goals that we wanted to set. We set forth like I said last month. So, it's a much smaller amount this year. Definitely. So, okay. Call the RO, please. Mr.
041Swift, yes. Miss Krepco, yes. Mr. Hagen, yes. Miss Humphre, yes. Mr. Ryan, yes. Treasures agenda. like to recommend that the board approve the minutes from the May board meetings. So moved. Second. Any discussion? [Applause] Call the role, please. Mr. Swift, yes. Miss Krepco, yes. Mr. Hagen, yes. Miss Humphre, yes. Mr. Ryan, yes. Financial reports. I would like to recommend that the board approve the financial reports for the period ending May 31st, 20125 as as presented. So moved. Second. Oops. Go ahead, Mark. Kathy, give us Mark. I already had Mark. Okay. Like to share a couple of high points. Um, we finishes finished the month of May with a total balance of 12,460,141.31 and the cash balance uh in the general fund itself 6,592,64425. the permanent improvement fund, million50,416444. Also at the end of May, we
042finished with in the capital projects fund 3,568,42726. Uh after taking out the purchase orders we have for these summer projects, especially the high school roof, uh the available balance is $518,796.21 in that capital projects fund. This is what I talked about last month. This was our heavy poll. We did about $3 million plus dollars in capital improvements this summer. two phases of the roof. Two phases of the roof, the large portion of the the entire high school parking lot which needed redone and the lighting. Yeah. Completion. So, yes. And then uh also in your packet there's a a list of issued checks. If you have any questions about those, I'd be happy to try to answer them. Hey Bob, I I know that I just can't remember the name. Um we have a bunch of
043$1,500 checks. Scholarship. That's the folk because it comes out of the general fund and then we get reimbursed for the or it goes into the general fund from the folk scholarship and then we got the checks. Oh uh no actually we have those are paid out of the scholarship fund. We house burning folk money. Okay. We do the you know Got it. I see what you mean. I just want to make sure this works every year. Yep. It's always that. Yeah. This would be any checks we issued regardless. There'll be 43 issued checks in this check fund. Okay, that makes sense. Uh, any questions? Call the role, please. Mr. Swift, yes. Mr. Ryan, yes. Mr. Hagen, yes. Miss Humphre, yes. Miss Krepco, yes. [Applause] I'd like to recommend that the board approve the fiscal year
0442025 final appropriations and revisions as presented. So moved. Second. [Applause] Uh as far as these go, um the main things to share, uh there was only one fund that ended the year where I need to ha ask you for additional budget and that was the food service fund uh to cover basically the food costs more this year and the estimate was too low. [Applause] Um and also um increasing the budget and the capital projects fund as well too. Oh wait, no I'm sorry that was last month. I have both months shown on this column here. Yeah, it's just the food service fund. 122,000 additional budget to be added to finish out this year. No changes in revenue. Okay, thank you. Um, call the RO, please. Mr. Hagen, yes. Miss Krepco, yes. Miss Humphre, yes. Mr.
045Ryan, yes. Mr. Swift, yes. [Applause] Then to start the new fiscal year, I'd like to recommend that the board approve the fiscal year 2026 permanent appropriations as provided. So second anything to Yeah, there's a little more going on here. Um the first item on it is the general fund to increase the appropriation versus what I initially had by $80,000. And uh that was just kind of an anomaly. Uh looking at the forecast in detail, what was put together by the firm we use etc. Uh looking at some of the accounts, there were two that the budget was either missing or way too small. One had to do with the college credit plus textbooks. The other was for curriculum. I don't have an explanation as to why uh but I did notice that as I was
046putting together the detailed budgets for the year. So I'd like to ask for 80,000 to remedy that situation for our initial appropriations for the year. Uh the next item would be in the 08 budgets. um just increasing that by uh $29,000 more. Those are based on basically we survey the the principles. We give them a sheet with all their accounts on it and they look at how much they expect to receive in revenue and that and how much their cash balance is and they basically establish their own budget for the following year. So that's just basically building up the initial estimate I had to match what their sheets showed for the year that they turned in. and the 022 that's um the service funds at each building that's a similar story adding 35 basically $3,500
047there. Um also the 200 and 300 funds the you know clubs and groups um increasing those as well too to reflect what they turned in in their budget sheets at each for each uh entity. So most of those are just donations coming in, fundraisers, uh donations, um events. So they they budget, but they can't necessarily spend their budget. So they have a revenue sheet and a budget sheet they submit. So at the end of the day, they may assume under that they're going to budget X dollar, say $10,000, and they're they're anticipating this many fundraisers for to reach that thing. So that's what he has to budget that amount. That's what makes it so difficult. At the same time, they have to then submit, you know, their fundraisers, their revenue, and then what they bring
048in, and then they know exactly. So, they may not even come close to spending, say, $10,000 out of activity account. They may only spend three, but they have every right to decide like, hey, I'm going to work real hard to, you know, do that. So, that's how we anticipate when he writes into these budgetary amounts what we plan to budget for. Because if we don't and he budgets too low, then he's got to come back to the board. So, say they do a huge fundraiser and they only budgeted 10 grand and they did a b fundraiser and got 40 and they said, "Oh, I can't wait to spend this 40,000." They can't legally because the budget is only approved for this much. So, this is why they have to pay that kind of that. Yeah.
049And behind these numbers too is that idea that they don't spend all the money that they budget typically. I start my initial budgets usually based on what was spent last year. So for those kind of things, it's going to start low, but then once they get their sheets, it's going to be more accurate to what they are authorized to spend. Doesn't mean they will spend it, but they're authorizing year. Correct. Mhm. Absolutely. Yep. The budget also can be can include their carryover cash balance. Okay. Call the role, please. Mr. Ryan, yes. Mr. Swift. Yes, Mr. Hagen. Yes, Miss Humphre. Yes, Miss Krepco. Yes, Mr. Ryan. Oh, I got Mr. Ryan. Sorry. Mark twice. Okay, you can only get one vote. 60 one one. All right. One moment, please. Next item is the donations. I need
050to find my fund to fund a transfer. You want the fund to fund transfer? No. Huh? I don't have one. They must have an old one. Okay. Yeah. The next item number five is uh donations. I I'd like to recommend that the board approve them. Oh, there are two. Do you want me to read them off first or get a motto to fund? Is that a mistake? Do we need a motion and a second? Do we do we skip the fund to fund transfer? That's a Yeah, has the fund to fund transfer on it. Okay. Um, there's not one that must have been printed at a different time. The fund to fund transfer u isn't on my copy. I did not have one. I believe uh Nicole must have printed off that agenda before I
051made my changes. Um there was one I was going to do that I was waiting for information on. the uh senior class every year um authorizes me to transfer their money to class of 2029 in this case. Yep. They're buying a picnic table and I don't have the final cost for that yet. So I wasn't able to we'll make a note of it in the minutes to make the uh fund of fund transfer. So that'll be on the next meeting's agenda. Okay. So that will just be taken out. Yeah, Bob, you need to make a note in the minutes that you have two number fives under tre under the treasur report. That was a title and that is for fun to fund would be for next board meeting. Yeah. Please note that in the minutes.
052Yeah. Okay. Fund to fund next meeting. Okay. All right. So, uh for the donations, we have a motion. Yeah. Some second. Okay. Yes. Please read them. To the FFA from ANA Lawn Works, $100 to the FFA from Chives Grill, $50 for the to the class of 2025 uh for prom from the American Legion Post, $166, $500. Awesome. We thank everyone for their donations. We call the role to please. Mr. Ryan, yes. Mr. Swift, yes. Mr. Hagen, yes. Miss Humphre, yes. Miss Krepco, yes. Okay. Section E, personnel. Um, if the board so approves, I would like to consent as our personnel number one through 15. I would like to pull out item 16, which is a leave request, and do that on a separate vote. Good. Is there a motion? So, second quick. Okay. So, what
053we have here is recommend the motion to approve the uh let me get to personnel. All right. So, we're going to recommend the motion to approve the following personnel. So, we have a classified retirements where there would be two. Um, we have one administrative staff hire. That would be our athletic director that I shared with you. His name is Scott Stair. He would have been here tonight, but he is out of town for with his family. Um, so he will come to the next board meeting. He is excited to meet you. So, he apologizes he could not be here tonight. Scott's from Canton South will be coming over to us. Um, we have some certified staff hires. These are just replacing teachers that have left that were able to bring back. We have some classified
054staff hires from uh that just were cleaned up from LA uh that's that's already worked. So they're on the 2024 25 uh fiscal year. We have classified staff hires for next year. These would be our cooks, custodians, uh anybody that's kind of turned in retirements. We have a transfer classified uh class transfer. We have preferred subhires, summer staff hires. We have substitute hires uh going into we had some that's already worked out the rest of the year that we had to get them hired. Um and then obviously for next year starting for the 2526 school year supplementals and extended days that we always have. So those are 1 through 15. Any questions? Any questions? But the supplemental corrections you you removed two people. You didn't need them. Yeah. They were on there and they shouldn't
055have been. So they were never paid. Yes. Mr. Baker. Once we got hired. Okay. Call the RO, please. Mr. Ryan. Yes. Mr. Hagen. Yes. Miss Humphre. Yes. Miss Krepco. Yes. Mr. Swift. Yes. Item 16 is is I recommend the motion to approve the following leave request for Becca Ryan August 25th, 2025 to to September 26, 2025. So moved. Second discussion. I have to abstain. It's my daughter-in-law. Okay. This maternity le. Okay. Call the role, please. Mr. Swift, yes. Miss Krepco, yes. Mr. Hagen, yes. Miss Humphre, yes. Mr. Ryan, abstain. Noted. Before we go on, I do do have uh we in part of those hires, he is back sitting back there, Mr. That's Brian Baker, correct? He is going to be So, as you guys know, Rayo is retiring at the end of next year.
056So, I've talked about this. Uh, I wanted Rayo to give me at least a year's notice because Rayo has been with us for over 20 25 years and pretty much knows every ins and outs and consistently saves us a lot of money. Uh so Rayo and Al have spent uh the last six months reviewing applicants uh that kind of fit the the mold of uh I guess somebody that has a jack of all trades type thing. Has a lot of you know extensive skill set. So he'll be he's going to be joining us and he's going to be joining with Rayo for the next year just to get acclimated. So I my first question is do you know what hours Rayo works? and he said he likes those hours because Ro comes in at 3:00
057a.m. Wow. You know, that's the hours he likes because he can get a lot more work done when there's people not around. So, he he comes from 3:00 to 11:00 a.m. So, that's his uh his new working hours coming up moving forward here. So, but welcome. Thanks for coming, Brian. Welcome. You're welcome. Yeah. Um upcoming events, honestly, we're we're into summer schedule here, so we uh anything that comes up, take a look at our website and we'll share out with you. and next board of education meeting. Um I July is a tough month I think for some people. Um I just I looked at the agenda the last two years. There's not a lot that we have to review in July and I do not foresee anything coming up. So if the board's okay with
058it, I'm going to make a recommendation to uh not have a July meeting. So, the next uh board of education meeting would be 14th um August be the second Yes. August 14th at 6 p.m. in the DLZ be the second Tuesday or second Thursday. I apologize. Is that f? Is that okay with everyone? You want to be here no matter what? No. Okay. We could be a wise guy. We We cannot. No, we cannot. Yeah, we cannot. Okay. Is there Hey, is there a motion to adjurnn? So moved. Second. Any other discussion? Call the role, please. Mr. Swift, yes. Miss Krepco, yes. Mr. Hagen. Uh, yes. Miss Humphre, yes. Mr. Ryan, yes. Thank you.