001e e e good evening welcome to the Thursday March 13th 2025 marlington Local School District Board of Education meeting please stand for the pledge I pledge Alle 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 roll call Josh Hagen Karen humre here Kathy kpco here Mark Ryan here Jonathan Swift here reading of the mission statement Mr Swift oh 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 interv intervention to challenge every student thank you are there any additions or corrections to the meeting agenda no is there a motion to ad adopt the agenda
002sove second discussion call the rooll Please Mr Swift yes Mr Ryan yes Miss humph yes Miss krco yes special presentation okay good evening uh Welcome to our March board meeting uh tonight we're going to bring up uh to do our students of the month we're going to be doing the elk students of the month so we have January students February students and March students of the month to honor tonight so I'm going to have Mr frell uh come off the podium and please share with us his uh Elks teens of the month all right good evening as Mr swisser said I have um three months worth of our Elks teens of the month so first I have the January Elks teens of the month and when I call your name if you come up stand
003here um get your certificate from Mrs humph and while I get to brag about you a little bit then we'll get a picture afterwards so first Elks teen of the month for the high school is Clare battershell [Applause] Claire is the daughter of Mike and Janine battershell she is a 2024 Buckeye girl State Delegate member of Spanish National Honor Society Spanish Club character counts Club The Fellowship of Christian athletes and is a Duke crew director she is a member of the varsity volleyball team and also a Duke pound leader in her free time CLA enjoys playing volleyball and spending time with her family following graduation she plans to attend tiffan University to pursue a degree in education while continuing her volleyball career Mrs Francis wrote The Following about Claire Claire is a wonderful young lady
004who has left a lasting impression on me and many others I have enjoyed having her in class and witnessing her growth as a student and an individual she always has a smile when she walks into my room and she is one of the hardest working students I have her involvement in various school activities has allowed her to develop and demonstrate exceptional leadership skills she has shared how teaching young children BR brings her joy and fulfillment and I'm excited to know that she will be joining the teaching profession one day congratulations Claire [Applause] all right our other January Elks teen of the month is Sam [Applause] Yoder Sam is the son of Daniel and Bethany Yoder he is student council president and president of the fellowship of Christian athletes he is a captain on the varsity
005golf basketball and baseball teams he is a volunteer with the youth basketball program and camps Sam enjoys hunting and fishing in his free time following graduation he plans to pursue a business degree at Walsh University while continuing his baseball career pitcher correct go Mrs Francis wrote The Following about Sam what stands out most about Sam is his growth and maturity over the past four years I have watched him grow into a well-rounded young man with a strong sense of responsibility who takes his leadership role very seriously as the student council president and captain of the basketball team underclassmen look up to him not only for his athletic abilities but also for his character and his Integrity Sam is fun to have in class he is polite respectful and just a little bit ornery I can't
006wait to see what the future holds for Sam that's from Mrs Francis congratulations Sam [Applause] all right for our February El teenss of the month first up is Zoe [Applause] Mort Zoe is the daughter of Katie Mort and Carl Mort she is a 202 for Buckeye girl State Delegate vice president of the fellowship of Christian athletes a member of character counts club and is also a Duke crew director she is a member of the varsity girls Golf and basketball teams and also a Duke pound leader in her free time Zoe volunteers at marbor Christian Church she enjoys Sports spending time with her friends and family shopping and traveling following graduation Zoe plans to attend Ashlin University to pursue a degree in fashion merchandising while continuing her golf career Mr oyster wrote The Following about Zoe
007I have the pleasure of having Zoe Mort in my college credit plus statistics class this year in the classroom Zoe's highly organized and always has her assignments done completely neatly and on time she is enthusiastic about learning new material and is engaged in the lesson every day Zoe's extremely gifted in mathematics and in her Athletics she is a young lady with integrity and takes pride in being a Duke she is is an exceptional role model for her peers and is admired not only by other students but by the staff here at marrington high school she has a warm personality and puts a smile on the face of everyone she comes into contact with throughout the day congratulations [Applause] Zoe our next February teen of the month is Travis [Applause] hoffm Travis is the son of
008Todd and Heidi hoffmire he is a member of National Honor Society Spanish Honor Society sources of strength and character counts Club Travis is a member of the varsity baseball team and is on the grounds crew at tanhoff golf club Travis enjoys being outdoors hunting and fishing in his free time following graduation he plans to pursue a degree in construction engineering Technologies at the University of akan M Wright wrote The Following about Travis with much pride and satisfaction I have observed Travis and have been favorably impressed with his dedication to academics not only has Travis earned commendable grades but he is involved in a variety of extracurricular activities he is a person of many talents and a great personality too Travis is an honest caring individual idual and has my highest respect he is a very
009reliable and dependable person as well Travis is always willing to help his peers and share his understanding of physics Travis is extremely helpful when it comes to teaching his peers how to use the calculator in physics Travis takes pride in his work and whatever Travis chooses to do in life he'll be successful because of his unique blend of natural intelligence determination and devotion congratulations Travis [Applause] okay for our March Elks teens of the month first up is Gina [Applause] Hoover Gina is the daughter of Trisha Hoover she is a member of national Honor Society triam music Honor Society co-president of character counts Club a member of sources of strength and is a Duke crew director she is a member of Duke Street select vocal Ensemble the marlington Corral drama dukes and is the choir secretary
010she was the chairperson for this year's slam dunk Childhood cancer event and is one of our Duke the Dog mascots in her free time Gina enjoys singing and listening to music coloring and painting and watching movies following graduation she plans to attend the Ohio State University to major in Health Sciences and minor in biology a few words from our staff about Gina Gina is a student- centered individual who consistently prioritizes the needs and success of all of her peers as a natural leader she takes on the role of a peer mentor guiding and supporting others in their academic and personal growth Gina is highly involved in a variety of activities always eager to contribute her time and talents to make a positive impact her strong work ethic and dedication are evident to everything she does
011always giving her best effort to every task despite her busy schedule Gina remains kind and helpful always ready to lend a hand to those in need her leadership compassion and hard work make her an invaluable asset to any Community congratulations Gina [Applause] and our final March elk te of the month is Owen [Applause] Mariner Owen is the son of Brett and Elizabeth Mariner he is a member of National Honor Society robotics Club ski ke club and sources of strength Owen is a member of St Paul's Lutheran Church in his free time Owen enjoys painting Warhammer Miniatures and playing video games following graduation he plans to attend Kent State University to study animation and game design and I'll also add he's been recruiting me to try to run um an ultra marathon right with him quite
012a bit over the last few months Owen Mariner is a kind and compassionate individual who consistently goes out of his way to help others his willingness to lend a hand to classmates and peers highlights his selflessness and dedication to the well-being of all those around him Owen's strong work ethic sets him apart as he approaches every task with focus and determination he is a model student always prepared and eager to engage in class discussions his attention to detail and commitment to Excellence make him a standout in any academic setting Owen's positive attitude and unwavering dedication Inspire the around him to give their best effort [Applause] congratulations that's all for the team of the month thank you okay I would like to thank our families for coming out uh tonight this would be the time now
013before we get into the formal part of the meeting if you wish to go enjoy the sunshine in the evening uh please do so and thank you again for coming out tonight we're ducking okay okay um invocation tonight is going to be given by Pastor TRX he I think everyone heard I was going to pray and they all off let's let's pause and give God a word of prayer oh Lord we thank you as we see winter melting into spring and we know Lord that good times are ahead good times for our community good times from marlington we know Lord that the spring brings with it lots of times of Celebration and and good things happening we thank you Lord for the board meeting tonight we pray father for your spirit to be here here
014to guide and and lead the board members and and the staff and the public Lord as we all interact as we form Partnerships together for the good of the district and the good of our community we pray Lord for your will to be done here and for you to to lead and guide all that is said and spoken we thank you for the the building of unity in our community and the mission of Education we pray for the safety for our schools we pray Lord for uh the blessing upon our ad Administration and staff and and teachers Lord everybody that is a part of the district the students uh Lord may they all grow uh safely and fully as we follow you in Jesus name amen amen thank you thank you thank you okay so
015next up uh every March for the last this be my year three here I've I've asked Baxter to uh speak to the board uh so I'm going have Rick come up Rick is the obviously the president of the alliance area development foundation he's also the current president of the alliance Area Chamber of Commerce um and I could go on I think he sits on just about the YMCA board he sits on the rotary board and there's probably many others that I'm missing there but uh he can give us a Economic Development update uh with the City of Alliance and marlington and the uh surrounding areas even up through Canton because I know now he's tied into to canton's Area Chamber of Commerce also yeah great yeah uh appreciate you having me out opportunity to come
016and speak to the board um one of the things to me mention about the C chamber we have uh partnered with the c chamber uh for many years there was a plan through the altare uh plan for healthcare for small businesses it's called the altare miat plan it was only offered to Canton Regional Chamber members uh worked with the Canton chamber to now we can have an associate membership as an alliance chamber member for $100 and then those businesses can now protect participate in the C in the allare Mi plan being allare in Alliance Alman Hospital Alliance it only made sense uh the new Jeff dappler the new U president of the chamber and I worked real hard to kind of get all that put together so it's a a good thing for our alliance
017business to get an opportunity to be part of that healthcare plan um some other major things uh as you well know we've had a lot of activity uh in the alliance area especially on State Street Meyer opened up in May of last year raisin canes uh as you see uh up just recently across from Marx is the 5 Oil Change um soon to be next to them will be the Chick-fil-A that's coming um had a conversation with the potential uh franchisee uh he is from the Canfield area he's really really excited um asking a lot of questions about Alliance and he really really wants to get involved and um I mentioned about Marlton School District hey have your kids come and live in Marlton School District so he's definitely had heard a lot of good
018things about our area um so that's exciting the A1 Japan Steakhouse uh is open now we're having a grand opening for them on Monday um so if you're available at 10:00 we're going to do ribbon cutting they're going to have lots of prizes and things to give away but another nice addition to our to our town as far as food goes uh pulp smoothie I believe from what I've heard is possibly opening next week uh there's been a lot of talk about a nice Healthy Choice uh so pulp smoothie will be a nice one to have open up here soon and next to them is the Cantina hollisco it's a little bit different style of restaurant than the H lisos that we normally go on every Tuesday for taco Tuesday right um but this one
019will be a little bit more of a bar in more of a street Taco type of environment um but they are planning to open I believe sometime in the month of April so that's coming along there sign just going up today uh the modash which opened up last year interesting statistic about modash they they have over a 100 locations throughout the United States a lot of them down south um the modat in Alliance Ohio was the fastest to a thousand members out of all of their locations throughout the country so I guess we like we like clean cars and we like chicken so uh we we have a lot of good things happening with that so that was I thought that was a neat statistic that shows how uh well our alliance community supports businesses
020um IML containers as you know uh opened up on our uh industrial park I'm actually going out there in April to kind of take a tour and take my board out there um they have created about 30 jobs uh in the alliance area they're looking at adding a second line with what they do they make a lot of products for uh the food manufacturing business and they're going to add another line they also have uh plastic Uh Wood and cardboard types of of products uh but they're looking at creating probably another 30 jobs in the next uh probably two or three years so that's exciting uh the 50 acres that's next to it has been uh looked at a couple of times we had a really big company that uh we were down to the
021final two unfortunately we didn't make we didn't get the Final Cut but we were really close it would have brought about 250 jobs here um but we have since uh stepped up our marketing plan we're working with a company called Cresco real estate they're a national company out of Cleveland and we're really marketing that property we've got every detail on the property done from how much water is provided how much electricity we even had a phase one done on the property so as a businesses these companies that are looking to come to United States to to manufacture uh they want they want property that is ready to go and so we've pretty much spelled everything out so that it's could be ready to go and it has rail access which is another good selling point
022so we're hopeful to get uh that uh a big business attracted to that 50 acres here sometime soon um other businesses that have opened throughout Alliance to Harbor Freight down on the east side along with Ryan steal storage um those opened up we have a stark fresh grocery store in downtown that opened up in the alliance Commons uh if you haven't been to the alliance Commons I encourage you to go check it out uh there's probably about 20 or 20 plus nonprofit organizations that are in there um it's kind of a One-Stop shop for everything from uh people that need to get assistance with uh with their um medical medical supplies or things like that fores there's a place called Beacon Pharmacy uh men's challenge has a a spot there the habitat has a spot
023there but it's really a One-Stop shop for anybody that needs help um send them to the alliance Commons for pretty much anything that they could possibly need uh it's really great place um also Sky High Fitness uh has a space in downtown Alliance uh he does a lot of training probably a lot of our marlington athletes are going there to train with Daryl Sullins Jr he's a great trainer a graduate from Mount um he trains a lot of high school and college athletes uh he's doing really well uh zuk coffee is getting ready to open up downtown a little coffee shop uh we're also getting another Mexican restaurant downtown called spicy burrito if you've ever been to Hartville to the masasa restaurants the same owners uh they're going to be opening up in downtown Alliance
024uh where the old um bun Insurance Agency used to be so another ENT another uh uh Mexican option for us um our downtown Caboose uh we have six summer concerts planned and those are most of those are going to be all on Final Friday um so if you're not doing anything on a final Friday of the month starting in the month of May um come on down to the Caboose we're going to have lots of music and food trucks and festivities happening downtown we're also working with the city to do um an upgrade to that facility and make it a really to a fullscale Amphitheater uh which is exciting so we can continue to attract more uh activities and things to do for uh for that we have a concert series of Jimmy and the
025Soul Blazers John hampo band Back to Eden which was here last year I do a lot of 70s music uh we also have vocal fusion and Acappella group that's from Canton that's really fantastic and then New Wave Nation will close us off in the month of September and then we also have in August Alliance of Church's Music Festival we have about five churches I know John shx and I kind of started to put that together and it's probably one of our biggest attended events of of the year we have uh five local praise teams that all get together and we just have music and we give away free food and everybody comes and just has a good time so that's a really fun time too um our Farmers Market will be opening up on June
02621st that's going to be moving back downtown um um that's going to be June 21st on Saturdays from uh 9:00 until 1:00 uh we have lots of vendors as far as fresh fruit uh there's meat there's bread there's also Crafters that are down there um so that'll run through October 4th and then uh some other things we're working on we're trying to work with some developers to get some new housing in the Washington Hills area uh that's been a development that has been just kind of not really kind of continued to grow um I think there's some developers we've been working with to try to help spur that on a little bit so uh I think there was a housing study done in June um by the Stark Economic Development board and just found out
027that it just seems like there there's a lot of people that want to have houses but they don't want to buy them they would like they'd rather rent a house for 1,500 to $2,000 a month um if you look at the Redwood apartments that go to 62 out there in louville they've got a waiting list and it it just seems to be the the new way that kids buy houses nowadays not the way I was raised you know buy house build equity that type of thing they want to rent so they can kind of come and go and things like that but there's a lot of stuff that's being put into that study to find uh what key housing type of housing we can build to to to attract people here and then also uh
028we have three local companies um that are looking at um some expansions um you'll probably hear more about that um but that's totaling probably well over $20 million of investment in expansions um probably close to 40 to 50 new jobs um so it's exciting to see our local companies that are growing a lot um and expanding so you'll probably hear more about those as we get further down the road but that's a little update on what's going on any questions questions awesome great report that's a great a lot of good things happening so thanks for the opportunity they come appreciate it yep you thanks Rick okay moving on from there we're going to uh have a curriculum update I want to have Miss Renee Kayley come on up and give an update to the board
029on a few items that uh she's uh reached out to you guys recently just to make sure we're uh clear on what's uh what's going on in our Direction lately here at the district all right good evening thank you so we are going to take a few moments this evening oh man I feel like you guys are so far away um to do um a benchmark Advance update which is that it's our K5 Core Curriculum that we adopted also talk a little bit about our engineering Career Tech pathway which will then lead us into our marlington high school program of studies um so as you know we went through a rigorous process to determine the K5 core Ela curriculum that we were going to uh propose to the board and then the board adopted um
030last year for our kindergarten through fifth grade students we have been successfully implementing that since the um beginning of the school year in September we um wanted to make sure they are 100% aligned with Ohio's learning standards and the science of reading and our overall goal was to improve our literacy outcomes and instructional consistency across not only all grade levels but across all buildings as well so um beginning last year we had some initial trainings with uh our Benchmark Advance experts we've had ongoing support throughout this year through what we call grade level pullouts where we're getting if you since we have um teachers in grade levels across three buildings we're pulling those grade level teachers together allowing them an opportunity to meet and collaborate and plan together to just to get to know the
031resources as well as talk about best practices um we've brought in the continued to bring in the Benchmark experts that that was part of what we purchased we purchased professional learning along with the actual curriculum resources um we've been doing that in person we also have a virtual option there as well there's a lot of different um videos and things on the platform that teachers have access to at their Leisure and then we also have our instructional coach for the K5 classrooms she has been going in in coaching modeling and providing feedback to the teachers um throughout the dur or throughout the school year since September um some of the main instructional shifts when you're thinking about what we were doing prior to the implementation of this curriculum um with our K2 phonics and phonic
032awareness we really have that structured systematic approach that aligns with the science of reading um that also integrates with our Core Curriculum we were doing wonderful things before when it comes to that K2 phonics and phony MC awareness if you remember we were doing hegr and we were doing foundations we're still doing heg because it's a quick practice every day for students in grades K through 2 and it um doesn't take away from our overall program with Benchmark in grades 3 through 5 with reading comprehension and vocabulary we've seen an increased focus on text evidence and explicit instruction um our students are now able to begin what they call annotating which is marking up their books and responding to text beginning in first grade um I will tell you just talking to teachers um lots
033of different comments from kindergarten teachers saying I never knew kids could have this type of vocabulary right so um because it is rigorous it is exposing them to things that maybe we didn't um necessarily um exposed them to before in a in a positive way and also that vocabulary piece um with the writing the WR the amount of writing and the quality of writing we are seeing just in this short period of time from September to March is incredible um even our students are struggling students we're seeing them being able to make you know where we sometimes would say we struggle to write a paragraph those students are now writing a multi-paragraph um essay we're talking about like our fourth and fifth grade students there and then um continuing on like student engagement and early
034dat we are seeing an increase in student engagement with just the diverse high quality Tex um that was one of the things that that Drew us to this curriculum was that kids would have their hands on actual books and it wasn't just going to be like an anthology that they were looking at they have actual books in their hands um our early assessment data from fall to winter we see a lot of improvements with K2 phonics we see fewer students in that urgent intervention kind of tier um which hopefully that's the goal right we want to see less Stu students needing that tier those tiers two and three supports um we've seen a growth in our vocabulary and our comprehension and just some of our formative classroom data is showing stronger performance and comprehension and
035writing so um just very positive some of the challenges not you know I would be remissed if I said that it's easy implementing a a brand new curriculum K to 5 is not easy there are going to be roadblocks there are going to be things that we have to discuss as we kind of pace ourselves through one of those were pacing concerns we're just talking about you know um making sure that we get everything that we need to get in before we have Assessments in grades three four and five being that it's the first year um we aren't going through things maybe as quickly as we will in the future because we're getting to know the the program so um we've been having meetings with our implementation team um material management just getting to know
036the materials just like anything else it's brand new so we're getting to know our resources and as we get more familiar and more comfortable with those um it it'll it won't be a concern anymore right we know how to utilize those and then just that continued professional learning we're going to be focusing on that differentiated instruction and that small group support how do we make ensure that we're meeting the needs of each and every child so our next steps um we're going to continue to refine our instructional pacing based on the teacher feedback we're going to continue that data analysis to keep guiding our interventions we will continue to have ongoing professional development just to ensure that long-term success and um I'm actually going to propose to the board um in the April meeting that
037we we adopt Benchmark advance for grade six at marlington Middle School um Benchmark only goes up through grade six I've had a lots of um meetings with Mr Rosetti our current sixth grade teachers are piloting Benchmark currently um what we love about it is it would bridge that gap between our elementaries in the middle school and give them a transitional year with curriculum that they're used to in K to 5 so um that is something that we will be hopefully on the board agenda for vote um in April any questions about Benchmark before I kind of transition us into our some exciting news about our engineering pathway I will tell you also um just to kind of toot our our teachers horns and our principal's horns we actually had Sandy Valley come in and observe
038classroom instruction because Benchmark is one of their finalists um for adoption they went to Washington Mr sond deal graciously hosted them and allowed them an opportunity to come in and and observe our teachers teaching very vulnerable right our teachers are new at teaching this curriculum but yet they're open to helping and supporting our colleagues across the um across the county and then we actually are hosting um Lewisville next Wednesday at um at Lexington so they're going to come in and do the same thing they're going to go into some classrooms have an opportunity to ask teachers some questions so we're happy to be able to facilitate that dialogue across the county what are the options for seventh and eighth grade of Benchmark is uh there's lots of different things right now we are seeing like
039um we are I apologize it's going to it'll come to me as I'm like midcareer T right so one of the do one of the resources that we are using it really heavily aligns with the standards and we're seeing a lot of success with it and it's free so there are a lot of resources um I think what we what will probably end up happening is once we um get board approval to to adopt Benchmark in sixth grade we're going to see that consistency in the spiraling up to six and so I think that um we've already started having conversations about what that could look at High look like at high school as well so that might be like a 712 or a 710 curriculum then right looking at something like that but that would
040be a different conversation in respect to where we're going to kind of move to the secondary shift then okay I can I can see that happening and those conversations are already happening at our district leadership team good question all right so talking about this is going to kind of segue us into our program of studies so really excited to announce that we have revamped our engineering program with Mr Denny um prior to this year or up through this year um students were able to take engineering courses kind of freely um and we said it was Career Tech but it did not follow our actual Career Tech model in that our Juniors and seniors take our Juniors take it first and second period our senior Career Tech students take it third and fourth and then we
041provide electives in the afternoon to kind of get your feet wet and get you excited about a particular career pathway um so that is what we are transitioning to for next year where it will be a true Career Tech pathway that um is consistent with our other Career Tech education programs here at marlington to accompany that we are excited to partner with the University of Mount Union we are going to be the first school in the state of Ohio to offer um CCP with the engineering course they've had lots of requests for that um they are excited with us being kind of in their backyard or them in our backyard um that we are going to partner with them and offer a college credit plus option to our intro to engineering course which is our
042junior level course um and then if then what that means is those students would be able to earn college credit towards an engineering degree elsewhere um or at Mount Union if they choose to go to Mount Union the um goal of that is then in the senior year if everything goes well so it's it's considered their engineering 110 is the actual course at Mount Union if everything goes well then the goal is to then incorporate um a CCP option in the engineering 120 course which is equivalent to our senior Capstone course with Mr Denny so once again it's not changing our program at all in regards to the content that students will be have access to it's just giving them the option to earn that um college credit while they're already taking that course um
043do we have teachers that are certified to do that Mr Denny is yes yep so he had worked diligently to make sure with the um department chair from Mount Union the dean of engineering so that he had his credentials and yes we have the letter with the stamp of approval saying that he is credential to teach that course or those courses once hopefully there will be more than one after this year here um and we're really just looking to strengthen the connection one of the things when Mr frell um and our school counselors and I met with Mount Union last Friday we really um talked about how to utilize them and build that partnership um being able to go in and use their labs and and our students having access to some of the equipment
044there and um being able to bring in more industry um recognized Partnerships um and that leads into that next one just building those relationships with our local Manufacturing um manufacturers and engineering firms like Morgan engineering and SCS we want to make sure that we are utilizing them once again they're in our neighborhood they're part of our community how can we ensure that our students are um getting internships and doing job shadowing in those types of things and getting real world experiences through these classes so our next steps with this is just finalizing those course Integrations with the IND industry needs using our Advisory board meetings to stay up to date on what the industries are like the demand is and ensuring that we are providing that um to our students so that they're marketable when
045they leave when they leave marlington um and then just continuing to develop that long-term sustainability through Partnerships and funding sources you know we were able to do a lot this year with our coding with um the grant that we received so just consistently looking at opportunities to secure funding sources equipment and hopefully that'll come through those Partnerships um that stuff is not cheap robotic arms and and things like that come with a a pretty hefty price tag so um hopefully those Partnerships will allow us to continue to update and upgrade our equipment can you tell the board that you did apply for your Grant team what you did talk about that no I'm just kidding we didn't get it so yeah we uh worked really hard to apply for there was a um a c
046tech Grant it was for advanced manufacturing and engineering and science Pathways right um and it was through battel so it wasn't through the state and it was a pretty rigorous process they asked lots of questions lots of narrative um we applied there were over a hundred of us on a webinar when they did the informational session I told Mr swisser I was a little defeated after that because they were only awarding up to 10 high schools not districts high schools and so when I heard that I was like oh there were a lot of people on there um we got really good feedback you know that we're doing the right things I don't know who received them I I have to look on their on their website the last time I checked any see a
047list of school um high schools that had received it but we applied for they had $1.7 million to distribute so if you do the math 1.7 divided by 10 about 170,000 and what we did was everything we put in that Grant we're doing with the exception of the updated equipment we asked for some fanic robotic arms updated CNC U Mills that would have allowed our students to then apply what they were learning so high of schools on the webinar or were they all over the country there Ohio for sure mhm just Ohio um and they were looking for a variety of things they were looking at um different typologies like so your Urban your rural your small town your you know all of those they were also looking at existing programs versus programs that were
048just starting you know so we would have Fall Fallen under small town and we also are an existing an existing program so I I didn't get any reason you know why we didn't get it right it's just um there was they said everything that you turned in was good you know we appreciate it you're doing great work but that the exent it's not like when you apply for things through the state where they will give you a rubric and let you see how you scored so like if you were to apply for it again you know areas in which um maybe were some areas where you could strengthen your application that didn't happen with this one so a private nonprofit um I don't know if they're nonprofit or not it's a it's a company it's
049a company yeah it's a company I don't I so let how mhm okay Renee what's the um enrollment of the engineering good question well for next year with the true way that it's going to look I believe we have 15 Juniors current sophomores signed up to take it next year which that's our sweet spot we want to be between 15 and 25 students so um and that can I can only anticipate that it's going to increase as we start to build these Partnerships and not only with local universities but with industry partners as well so the last I checked on our spreadsheet that we share with Alliance I think we had 15 students currently signed up between us and Alliance our students and Alliance student but the max would be 25 we would not accept
050more than how many senors do you have currently oh Mr frell do you know that I don't know that off the top of my head how many like right now taking the course the this is what's hard about it because here's why we're here's kind of why changing and I'm going to get to your and kind of answer your question in a second in the Career Tech world if you take two courses that are in like the same Silo right so engineering is in this certain Silo if I take two courses in there I now become a concentrator which means I'm concentrating in that career pathway right what was happening is we have concentrators but they never go into a true Career Tech um pathway so they don't become concent or they don't become completers
051so we have concentrators but not completers and what that does is it does impact our report card right because we have kids taking classes but they're not finishing so the way that we've restructured it they'll be able to take some of these electives they're coded as electives so they won't count they won't count towards like a concentrator and then once they become a junior they become that's once they've taken their two courses now they're a concentrator and we're hoping and praying that they go into their senior year and become a completer does that make sense so the way that we're doing ITR Cur how many classes would that require complete yeah so um two their junior year so it's two yearlong classes their junior year and then two yearlong classes their senior year so it
052would be as a junior it would be my first and second period class I'd be with Mr Denny and then if I'm a senior it's the third and fourth period class and then the afternoon are set aside for those electives and we'll talk about that when we get into the program of studies like intro to Aeros space right to try to get kids freshman sophomore is excited about engineering and get a taste of what that could look like um we're also doing a stem one and a stem two where our robotics is kind of broken up into there so just getting getting students excited and and interested in that field so I don't know to be honest with you Mr Ryan I can get back with you I'm not quite sure what that total is
053because I'm looking at for next year you know and so we'll have one kind of like with Mr Kendall's class this year our seniors next year are going to kind of be under well they aren't they will be under like the old program and they'll be finishing out so they'll be taking their Capstone and Aerospace and then next year's juniors are starting our new pathway so it'll be like a transition year so we're excited I mean we're excited to partner with Mount Union I think we have some really neat things in store for us um I like I like being the first right the first school district to partner with them I like to be able to say that I think that goes to show the work that we're doing here people are are wanting
054to be a part of that because they they sat right in that meeting and said we've had lots of school district as and so probably be open to you kind of noticed what Renee and Mr frell and the high school and the counselor's office they're kind of they started with coding you know with Mr Kendall that was different you know we need to re Rebrand our Career Tech if we're to continue to grow as a district is really what we're trying to do we have you know so this is another step engineering then you know as we need to move forward in the next you know few years we need to make as we look at you know our landscaping and our Hort and our EG and our other functions we need to make sure
055that we're branding it right meeting the needs of what has changed so we can make sure we can continue to get students to do that it just takes time and we're taking advantage of funding opportunities right so what's being funded through the state currently trying to apply and take advantage of those and it's all right now with Advanced manufacturing engineering coding all the anything with technology all right any questions before no okay all right so the mo uh program of studies this was said to you all I believe back in February originally and then I set an update um this week only because we wanted to incorporate now the um items with the updated Career Tech pathway with engineering um I am going to go quickly through this if you have questions please please stop
056me I'm going to turn around and kind of look on here if you don't mind um here is our actual program of studies so just going through those um quick changes we did change the um Lots were just name changes things of that sort financial literacy it is now a requirement for all students so it's on page six that was updated um to show that it's a it's a requirement for all students um here we go that's page six um page 789 and 10 all deal with the new honors diploma so there's a new honors diploma requirements for the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce there's a new honors diploma for Career Tech and there's also a new stem honors diploma requirement so these are not anything that we've come up with these are strictly
057from the um Department of Education and Workforce and those are in um in here um we did add School links School links is a resource that we are hoping Mr frell and I are hoping to share with you um maybe in April or May what it is is it's a it's a really neat platform that we have used this year for the first time we're implementing it at the high school lots of different um features with it that include scheduling it includes um being able to look at colleges and U take aptitude tests and be able to link those to different colleges you can do virtual site visits virtual job visits on um the platform so we will we wanted to add that to our um the scholarships section cuz there's also you can go
058on to school link L and see different scholarships as well and what you can apply for um lots of different Resources with School links we did um on pages 14 and 15 let me get down here we also edited career exploration to include School links because that is once again one of the platforms that we are using um for students to be able to um explore different career opportunities on page 21 we did um clarify Co valedictorians make this a little larger I apologize that I have to scroll through this that's the easiest way to do this so um when we talk about the co- valedictorians to be honored at graduation as a valedictorian or salutatorian a student must be enrolled at marlington high school at the beginning of his or her her freshman year
059of high school this is this is not changed and then the determination will proceed as follows using the seventh semester cumulative grade point average so you're going through all of these right this is what we use to determine our valid dictorian what we wanted to add in here is that if all qualifications result in a tie co- valedictorians will be recognized so if we go through all of these and we have two kids that are neck and neck and there's no difference between them we would like to have calid victorians and then the next ranking would be the salvatorian that just that goes with what most districts are doing current currently just to clear the board this is not something that's came up in our high school but we are following suit with some we're
060following similar suit with other high schools of you know if we get into a position where we have identical students with identical test scores and you know based on that criteria down what do we do we just can't keep going you're out of options you know to be a tiebreaker you know so you know districts have moved to the in the scenario that that's happened they have done a co- valorian option call me traditional I believe we should have one validor fair enough I'm not opposed to the change of policy I just want from record I support one validator fair enough um software so then the other things have to do the software and web design updated to include senior level courses because this year Mr Kendall's class was still the seniors were fall finishing
061up the prior pathway the Juniors were the new first ones in the new pathway we had to add the senior level courses in for next year for those Juniors so and that's what it'll be moving forward so those changes were made on page 30 31 and then the remainder of the changes had to do with what I just talked about in regards to the engineering pathway so you'll have on page 33 it talks about engineering 1 and two with CCP option is updated to the true Career Tech model I'll go to page [Music] 33 and then um stem fall and spring those are those new electives that will take place in the in the afternoon that U Mr Denny will be teaching and that is on page 34 and it talks about that and then
062the last part would be that introduction to Aerospace the introduction to Aerospace is um what another one of the electives that'll be offered in the afternoon to entice students to look into the engineering field um other than that those are all the changes that are made I know that Mr Ferell U Miss aring Mrs Arrington and Mrs Joyce go over this with a fine tooth comb every single year that anytime there are updates that come down from the state you know that have to be reflected in here they're they're doing that as well so um we appreciate the opportunity to be able to share this with you and um you know solicit feedback and be able to move forward with with the program of studies thank you that's all I have any questions for about
063the program stud aome thank you thank you thank you okay next up would be Mrs Kathy kupco if she has any information from osba um Regional spring conferences are being held during the month of March I think everybody got an invitation for our area one um uh March 11th is an important date SL deadline students can register to participate in military signing day which is hosted by the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce to recognize Ohio students committed to the military service uh March 27th is a de is the deadline to nominate local companies to the osba business honor role and the oh osba lead board Leadership Institute is coming up in May I believe and other than that I sat in on an energy webinar today where they're talking about Senate Bill 2 and
064House Bill 16 and how it's going to impact funding to the schools um I think at some point because of that we need to really have Bob and and Dan formulate a letter on behalf of the board and let our legislators know how these brilliant ideas that they come up with are actually impacting our kids and the education that we're able to provide for them I'm going touch Bas on that at this point um it's looking like 80% of our funding is going to start coming from property taxes and they just keep increasing it several years ago it was 46% and every few years it rises and and we're Hing up on 80% and it's just not reasonable so we need to do something or let her voice be heard on what what they're doing
065to our school and our students and how it impact that's all I have I like it I will be talking a little bit about that tonight more in April May but I will touch base it a little bit on it tonight but but you'll be perfect coming coming if you want to that I don't know if you don't want to be sat in on that but it's recorded so you can go back and watch it I did not but I'm very familiar with senville 160 Thank you any questions from Mr sco thank you okay get on to my report all right Welcome to our March meeting feels like we've been a little bit here since we've we've got together again I'll stick to uh we're going to talk some a little bit of reasons celebrate
066here and now I'm you know we had a lot lot to celebrated last three months I'm just going to pick a few things that we missed that would have kind of come up on there uh one of the first things I want to talk about is is our school counselors you know this is the time of year where I just they're just kind of like uh under represented we don't talk about him enough um I know there's like there's a week for everything anymore but at at the end of the day we we don't talk about all that they do from the left you got Jaclyn knock there that you know is one of our school counselors new this year she does a phenomenal job and even you have jod Fellers and sioban there kind
067of going across from left to right you got Ashley Mitchell there in the middle you got Kylie shackle then our from the middle school and our high school we have you know this is Bri Arington this is Marth Joyce and then obviously our new added addition Gibson the dog uh I could bring any principal up here and they could tell you at length you know based on a a school our size we were very blessed to have the counselors we have now when I when I put jod and Ashlin in there they're not really actually school counselors they're CNA counselors but we treat them that way I mean they're only here at best maybe one day a week or two days a week as a in a partnership with Child and Adolescent I mean but
068our true you know counselors that we employ from our Point are just you know Jacqueline sioban Kylie Marth and Bri you know and it's hard to put in perspective when they're dealing with academic support social emotional support Crisis Intervention College and Career Readiness attendance Behavior School culture family engagement you know the general needs of a child on a daily basis just to see what's going on because they could have had a good or bad day from home that could totally slow them down uh scheduling you know depending on where you're at when you're talking about Kylie merth or Bri it's it's just very we're very thankful and blessed with what we have and I I can't thank them enough for what they do what they give our kids what they give our administrators and and
069what they give our staff I mean they're they're they're just a a tremendous support that we have so I can't thank them enough moving on uh our board uh January it's now March but January is board appreciation month so uh we we didn't we met in January early but we did not have a late January meeting in February obviously we we did not have a meeting so we're into March but we do we do want to thank the board um personally for myself uh there was some gifts from our horiculture building gifts from our staff um you know I'm G to show you a video some has a video so they this is a short video here think that's good hey bet is there any thank you thank you Mrs SM for helping us get
070the best education possible thank you [Applause] thank [Applause] you thank you Mr Hagen for caring about our education [Applause] thank thank you Miss for helping M to world [Applause] the TRU thank you Mr Ryan for generously sharing your time with our district thank [Music] you thank you Mr swier for leading our district thank you thank you Mr Boss for helping our thank you for sharing your heart with our school switch to our most affordable Unlimited phone you missed you thank you oh thank you thank you thank you have some cards and some other items from each of our our buildings it just they do they it's hard they got to understand what a board does I'm sure a lot of the kids don't I mean I can I'm hoping our public understands I appreciate the
071vision and goals you guys set for Bob and I for the district uh it helps support student exess you guys got to support fiscal responsibility you have to advocate for public education you have to work on a positive School climate in your willingness to work together for the last three years that I've been on the board is just a testament to how important this district is to you guys so I just I just want to say thank you so it's officially working with each other it's a tough group so anyways congratulations on board Mom thanks two months late apologize for that uh also we had celebrity readers so out of marbor uh we had a uh boy take take a look up there Miss Kitty Mo sitting back there but she uh invites uh pretty
072much anybody that wants to come out from you know board members to administrators to community members uh in our in any of our three townships to come out and read to the kids as you can see up there we have some of our board members Mr krup Go's in there uh Mr Swift Mr Ryan and Mr Hagen uh all reading uh to the youngsters there at marbor and then we have somebody our curriculum director there Mrs Kayley was in there we have Mr lamusa uh there and and a few others with from Mount and I think somebody from the Lexington fire department or water Mar's fire department sorry I apologize Marvel's fire department there so I can't so we appreciate so that was fun I have got to do that every year I could not
073make it uh that day so unfortunately it did not work out for me uh we typically as we said we do students of the month this a little bit of a change but I I do want to honor them so we do have J February March students of the month in our elementary and middle school you know that they honor so you know these are our Lexington January February and March students of the month so over there on the on the left hand side is a Camille Denny uh is the fifth grade obviously quana student of the month for that and in February we have meline Williamson and then over on the right for our March student of the month is em mother's ball so we uh we we did want to give a chance
074to honor them and I know in the schools they're doing something special for each one of those uh fifth grade students of the month uh at marbor uh there we have our students of the month for marbor and you can see right there Kitty was kind enough where she took pictures by their sign so we got our students of the month there so January was actually Tristan Mitchell there in the middle and then in February was Silas Shoemaker and then obviously in March was Hayden Lang so they're very excited Kitty's uh Kitty will tell me she goes that I want a new sign CU it's a hard time getting those letters to stick on there it's a lot of lot of tape on there what she's going to tell me uh Washington Elementary uh again
075we have our three students of the month there so our January student of the month now uh these aren't some reason we didn't put these in order so if you go all the way over to the right is uh kayn Wilson she is the January student of the month and then our February student of the month is in the uh all the way to the left I apologize Riley calucci and make sure you get the names right then our March student of the month uh is in the middle and that's Linda ke want to congratulate them then at our Middle School we have our middle school students of the month so in January there the students of the month we had two for the eighth grade students we had a Jil uh Julian banovich and
076Ryan rhs in February we had two we had Chloe Hunter right there and then obviously not pictured in there is Alex Hammond and then our March students of the month for the middle school is cat Denny and Landon Nelson congratulations to them at the middle school so the each of the K8 or the middle school and the elementaries have done something or will be doing something for those students of the month you know to go through that so we really want to thank them okay all right where we're kind of at right now are moving forward it kind of as a combination of both so I'm not taking up too much of your time so in the next few months I'm going to just be contining calling a district update uh so I'm going to
077be talk about not not tonight but I'm going to be talking about retirements as I always do resignations uh anybody that's leaving and you know potential Staffing for 2425 I say potential because we're really in a unique you know every year I've I've never really added things you know like you know two years years ago I we we obviously had a lot of Staff leaving we looked at those retirements resignations and made appropriate Cuts you know to kind of as I called it then write the ship to help fiscally last year again we made uh based on retirements or through attrition we made some adjustments and and had did not replace certain staff members so we got to continue to look at that uh it's more important than ever now uh when you when you
078talk about when I say the legislative update and the possible effects on this district and obviously then of course that falls into planning for the 5 forecast which are all going to be coming within the next few months you know and things I talk about and so I'm just going to give you like a snapshot here so let's let's just in general we're going to let's just talk about House Bill 96 all right this is the governor's the governor's proposal for the banian budget and uh this has put this in perspective so I just P down to Stark County all right and I highlighted in Green marlington Local so this is pretty much what they say is a true projection of what marlington will receive in a change of of money that marlington is going
079to receive uh starting this June or July in our new fiscal year so typically we are a guaranteed District so for the last few years three four years it we're just we just get the same amount of money state Foundation money every single year okay that's what comes out well now we have a new budget we have new we're in a lame duck session we have uh a senate uh and senators and a legislative side um basically they're going to be discussing how to move forward if you look there for 25 26 change $520,000 is what we anticipate a cut right here coming this summer do they have mat metric that they're going by because the one thing I see up here that's kind of shocking is in Star County we're one of only two
080schools that's getting a 5% decrease in our funding why is why is that percentage Yeah asberg and us why so I I can get in I'll get into a little bit in the next few months about the the layman's terms because these are all speculation hasn't been voted on but this is about as close as they're going to come now if you look at FY 2627 the following year 56,000 if you look at all the way over to the far right from the the for the banum change they look at cutting marlington Local Schools $1.5 million I understand why some schools aren't even getting cut so that is one of I'll talk about three bills here real quick and I'll come back to this so as Kathy mentioned Senate Bill 116 is the S it
081on the table so that the legislators and their infinite wisdom and I'm a conservative let me be very clear thinks that Senate Bill 116 is basically a bill on tangible personal property tax for pipelines only and they want to change how the pipelines pay from 88% to 25% to school districts and B basically take that money and give it back to the pipelines wow that's so if that passes your Nexus money that you currently get would tremendously drop they're talking about grandfathering but and that could be like I said this is just looming like when you say have discussions with your legislator these are things that are not passed but sitting there in presentation the legislators that got I mean have any of these guys in Columbus actually been inside a public school in the
082last 10 years no and I can tell you I've I've sat with the treasurers in Stark County so is Bob we've sat with the superintendent you've never seen a group of treasures that you can bring in any of our 20 some Treasures in this County and they're all going to tell you the same thing they've never been more uneasy or scared in their life about what is possibly coming to public education then you have sitting out there the third Bill remember if you remember a few months ago back in December I said there's buckets all these buckets are looming out there that could affect marlington I basically said there's four buckets is how I look at it that affects our district bucket one is Senate House Bill 96 the governor's biannual budget the way it
083looks yeah we're going to take a big hit how do we accomplish in coming up with that type of money trimming what we've trimmed and continue to trim then you got set Bill 116 if they mess with the pipeline money we lose our pipeline money that's a whole change that's a game changer for this District I'm not saying it's going to happen I'm saying it's it's the the conversation's with that then your final one you or the final two is obviously you get Senate Bill 66 Senate Bill 66 is to change the 20 mil floor so you get to the point where you get the 20 mil floor because the state con constition says your school districts you know at the bare minimum are going to get property tax money at the at at least
08420 Ms if they lower that that means that we would get less money in general period now there's different options inside of Senate Bill 66 so there there could be the potential where it doesn't affect marlington but could affect other districts so there's like four buckets inside of Senate Bill 66 that could one of those four doesn't hurt us the other three do those are all still in those discussion phases the fourth looming be obviously we don't control is what the federal government does what do they choose to do or not with if they choose to close the Department of Education where they fund our federal money you know that's about1 to $1.5 million you know so you're talking about all our title tutors you're talking about our our intervention specialist when it comes to
085idea money things that have direct effect to education now I know Renee spent some time as our federal programs coordinator um at the ESC today dealing with a great deal of time reviewing a lot of what's going on in the federal program side it seems to be that the only good news out of that day was how they fund title and Ida's kind of already been taken care of so it's not one that's a direct effect in what maybe the news media puts when they're talking about the Department of Education but I feel like you know those people that were cut or they say you know job losses weren't directly affected on the title side or idea or those kind of fiscal operations for schools so that's that's that's good news because you got to
086you got to kind of you don't know how to respond when people ask you know the next question so yeah what what about this push to eliminate property taxes there's a bill that's coming down you know talking about eliminating property taxes I don't think it's realistic that it'll pass but has anybody proposed what's the alternative they just said we're going to cut money good luck so or is there an alternative into place that okay we don't fund it with property taxes so we're going to fund it with cigarette and Alcohol Tobacco taxes I I have not heard that I I kind of you know in the position you sit like I say you s in this you know part of your job is to oversee the district and Safety and Security of students and worry
087about the curriculum at the same time you need to advocate for your school you know this is the first year that I I've I guess I've had to spend a great deal of time trying to reach out to as Mrs krco said do we reach out to our legislators I mean I can tell you as a board I have met with state representative oer twice no three times in the last three weeks I've met with state senator Jame timkin I've met with state representative Matt kishman I've met with state representative Jim Thomas I've met with star County Commissioner Richard regulus star County Commissioner Alan Harold all within the last two weeks not only myself some of it's been myself personally with Rick Baxter some of it's been with a small group of superintendents where we
088can address that have a common concern um they're they're really not given a whole lot of guidance I mean at the end of the day the most powerful man in Ohio is is is is Matt huff and is he for public education he is not's okay so you know I mean there's no way way I'm getting in the seat to have a conversation with this gentleman nobody is in this County so the best we can hope for is the example I sent you in your board update you know enough pressure on o slanger that they pushed back and gave you an idea of where they're going to head for the 20 mil floor okay so that's I'm hoping one of those buckets works out for us I do not foresee the bayum house pill 96
089with this budget I basically have to since this has come out our admin team and and our specifically our central office team has been trying to find a way to come up with how do we make another round of fiscally responsible cuts at the tune of a half a million dollars to be able to keep us where we're at for another year and then we just move on but that's just to maintain the status quo we're going have to cut half a million half a million dollars just to stay status qu so yeah so you give an example of plain local if you go all the way to the far left is $3.5 million you know it's it's interesting we sat this week with our new County auditor Angela can you help me with her
090last name so and Allan Harold and you know goes back to Mr Swift's Point Kinsey Angela Kinsey you know that and when we talk to Senator timkin and and the legislators you know they're all for economic development so what Rick Baxter does and everywhere else but they call like three big circles at least for this area so you got your one big circle it's be Economic Development you just got to have it to be able to grow uh because I guess the overarching thing is enrollment you know everybody's enrollment in the county is basically on a decline of about 1% a year that's just what it's been for the last 10 years or more so how do you stop that how do you reverse that Trend well that's Economic Development what's the other part housing
091well the housing study has come out where where where is Stark County lacking in housing we're lacking housing and we're lacking housing because it it's it's it's it's all of the above so you got your your young students that graduate that want to get into their Apartments we don't have enough apartments for these young young students from there when they go from Apartments they're going to go to their first home you know hopefully have a family from there they go to their second home which might be a little larger and a little bit more that way and then after that they're finally going to start downsizing to a smaller home and then the retirement home and then the goodbye home I mean that's how you know that Circle of Life how are you want to
092look at it but then you got that fun story you know but you have that that we lack that I mean that's but that's that's if you if you read the housing study that's what they're saying we're missing all of the above you know we don't have we don't have that that layout of housing across the board you know we have pockets of things that fit but we don't have enough in start couny to do that in St okay in Stark County in Stark County so you know where because that's where you're trying to draw you're trying to keep people there and then obviously the Partnerships you have with your your you know your your colleges your universities and how we add to that so it doesn't help when the governor comes in and says
093I'm going to cut you this much money when at the end of the day you know plane local said it best he goes you know the superintendent plane just looked at him and said listen all of us we're we're a service industry where do we spend our money we spend our money on people you can't I he goes I can't cut $7 million he just doubled that because that's what's going to cost him over the course I can't cut $7 million from paper gasoline or purchase purchase Services the only way I'm going to cut $7 million is to cut people so if I want to cut people I'm going to cut programs but at the same time you need programs to be able to fall into your Economic Development to follow into keep people here
094in housing and the people that want to live here want to be able to go to schools where there's programs that offer and you want people to stay so you're right we have to Advocate you know I mean I have spent more time than I thought I would ever imagine trying to at least explain that marlington exists and the effects you know you may not see it in Columbus but you're seeing it how it's here so I just want to give you a Stark County View now in the next few months I'm going to give you views on a lot of things that all come from release data from our cup report from the Department of Education and Workforce things that directly come from that that I'll be able to share uh to share with
095you but you need to be aware that I am working very hard on trying to fiscally find a way to come up with a half a million dollars because I really don't you know if we don't unfortunately he's already been met with Columbus to kind of slowly update our forecast that'll be coming out in May to adjust to based on this current budgetary scenario and the answer go back to his original question how does this happen how is it 5% for us and different for others right the the best answer I can tell you and very I don't know the formula in detail I don't know if anybody does when it comes to the cup Patterson AFF Fair funding form formula that's changed but the two main components are property valuations and enrollment now we've
096been on the guarantee okay so if you look up there we've been on the guarantee and I think Fairless has been on the guarantee so if you look at Fairless local they're also at 5% just like us 5.3% 10% just like us they're identical the two districts in marlington on a guarantee and I think plane there's three I think three of us are on the guarantee so what that means we just consistently getting the same amount of money that we got back in 2020 now with the new Governor's plan they're just basically saying no more guarantee so it's kind of saying okay marlington we Allan Herold just came in and just did your evaluations your property values and marlington local schools went up 30% as a whole so you are wealthy District So based on
097the fact that your district is wealthy and your enrollment over the last 10 years has continued to Trend downwards as is everybody else do they look at the number of kids we have on free launches it that does not play into the budget maybe it should you take those two those are the two large factors that kind of tie into that and and I know there's other factors but those are the two big ones so we I just want to give you a snapshot I will get way more better objective as we get into April as we get into may I will be sharing more concrete data so again this is speculative they've already done three and four revisions on all these bills correct com Our Hope obviously is it isn't this our hope is
098it's less how about just give us what we got before I'm not even looking to get more money just you know I mean I I never thought we get in the day and age where we're not even looking at asking for inflationary costs we just want to get the same amount we got the year before and we'll deal with we'll deal with it um but so like I said this is this has been within the last week that we've got this sent to us um from Columbus and uh so hopefully that will uh change in a better and not worse so we'll go from there I don't is it valid or more valid more effective to put things in writing I if your county superintendent meetings have they talked about as a county getting every
099school board to send a letter and sign up sign off to superintendent and and to send them with a wave of information they're doing to us you know what they need to care if they want to get reelected be honest the people are not going keep getting reelected the same guys keep getting reelected in Columbus and then doing the same thing without any real I understand care about I don't think there's anything wrong with putting together a letter that would say you know here's the potential legislation that's looming and if you have any concerns or thought on it you know here's who you you know reach out to your legislators and make it you make your decision from there uh there's a in Stark County it's it's a they say you know cautiously walked optimistically
100because I mean at the end of the day those legislators were voted in most recently um were very conservative County as a whole you know so you know I would say that many of our legislators in the state of Ohio but even possibly in Stark County are very supportive of the direction this is going so uh there's but so it's you just got to be you don't want to you don't want to be spiteful from a from a s from an Administration or board end at the same time you don't want to take people off either so um there's got there's got to be a they don't seem to care about ticking a well there's there's got to be a bridge I will happily draft a letter I will share it with the board you
101bless it then we will happily have that sent out it's not a problem um but that has been discussion no one has in Star county has done that yet it's still this is such a fast moving wave right now of of consistent legislation that just keeps getting introduced day after day no different than you heard ed Holland the other night you know any different night you get a different special update send from niola because things change so rapidly in Columbus that you could feel strongly about one thing one day and the next day completely changes so all I can tell you is I'm going to continue to keep advocating for marlington and hopefully we'll get some change but you have a lot of superintendents that are in the same boat that are advocating the best
102they can for hopefully no changes that will affect their district from 20- Mil floor to the buy a budget then you got other districts that aren't saying a word because they're getting money they're in the black and they're getting more you know and I don't know that answer right so they're kind of like I don't really want to get involved they just flip a coin or they pull these names out of a hat so some committee room and I and this I just want to give you a snapshot of what's coming the next few months from now that things that I'll be able to brief you on and um as I said I know I do send you know I guess you know moving on I I do send Community newsl once or twice a
103year when I get a chance you know so I'm going to try to you know Bob and I talk there's going to be a you know we'll be sending one out with a superintendent update that's going to talk about you know things we've done with Staffing our Capital Improvements curriculum and then obviously the finances and the forecast the looming forecast the the things that are looming out there that we need to be prepared for and what we've done well to kind of keep us in the position of where we're at uh so I'm very optimistic as always I I think we can weather any storm it's just a matter of this one this one get makes me a little nervous but until it's all said and done come June July I'm not going to go
104oh the sky is falling we just need to be prepared for what is coming and we don't we want to be cautious on how we move forward with our staffing how we move forward with uh our purchase services and so forth which is what on the administrative side uh we've talked about you know that's kind of where we're at that's where I'm at my update thank you yep public participation did anyone sign up to speak no old business none right new business all right new business item number one uh as you know by law twice a year we need to uh do a report on bullying so we have our bullying report for the first half of the 2024 2025 school year not to be skeptical but we've had no bullying in any building anywhere
105so I'm going to tell you that report's going to look different in June than it does today that I that I can tell you but for this first half of the year when we specifically send out to the administrators ask they're going to have to follow what's actually been documented you know based on what their criteria is in our board policy that's not to say that somebody didn't report bowling that's not to say they they didn't research or do it okay it's just based on the fact that they have that based on what our policy says that's what the administrative turned at you want do you want me to sit here and tell you that there's probably no kid in the last 6 months that has not been bullied in our in our buildings I'm
106going to say that's probably an incorrect statement I'm just going to tell you what's been reported to our office in that okay be careful on your recommendation right there you're just going to recom so I'm going to State it because sorry speak out of turn no I'm just going to do uh I would just want to recommend the motion to approve the bullying report in our cas 12 buildings as presented in exhibit a so move second okay do do you see the recommend I do okay that'll be corrected okay okay all right call the rooll Please Mr Swift yes Mr Ryan yes Miss humph yes m kpco yes I know okay number two this is the program of studies recommend the motion to approve the high school program of study as shown in exhibit B
107and C Some Mo second um any questions or comments call the roll Please Mr Ryan yes Miss kpco yes Miss humph yes Mr Swift yes item number three recommend the motion to approve the resolution as presented for the Stark County Schools Council of government Cooperative advertising and receiving bids for integrated bus units in exhibit D so move second this is not for us to buy any buses this is just giving us the opportunity to be part of the Cooperative bus purching program that we are with every year as we look into that for bidding purposes all the rooll Please Mr Swift yes Mr Ryan yes Miss humph yes Miss kupco yes IEM number four recommend the motion that the board continue to participation in the inner District open enrollment program policy 5113 for the 2025
10826 school year for grades K through 12 so move second this is just our open enrollment that we do every year as Ed mentioned um this is something I also agree that we continue to move forward with we don't you know we we we have our criteria based on class sizes and what we currently need or don't need on a yearly basis color roll please Mr Ryan yes Mr Swift yes Miss humph yes Miss kupco yes item number five recommend the motion that the board continues participation in the intra District open enrollment program policy 531 13.01 for the 2025 26 school year for grades kindergarten through 5th so second this just allows any of our students that uh live in a specific Township if they wish to go to a uh one of our neighboring
109districts they have that ability to do so all the rooll Please Mr Swift yes Mr Ryan yes Miss humre yes Miss kupco yes item number six is uh recommend to approve the resolution as shown in exhibit e which is an electricity RFP uh RFP sove okay so this is just authorizing very Sim similar to the buses basically this authorizes the Stark County Schools Council of governments to that we can join in for their electric aggregate to save District our district money Bob can elaborate where they're at with that too M yeah we being in Ohio Edison District we've been outside of their group if you will for bidding in the past and so they uh made the effort for us and I think one other District too um so that we could they negotiated with
110them to give us the same rate that was being obtained through the other electric companies if you will and U it looks real good we I just received word this week that their rate that they're able to secure uh is 4.5 cents per kilowatt hour and we're at 6.33 right now nice so actually should have some savings so I was quite pleased that that came in um that way so it looks really encouraging call roll please Mr Ryan yes Miss kupco yes Mr Swift yes Miss humph yes item number seven recommend them to approve the resolution is shown in exhibit F this is the special education update Senate Bill 20 n that was discussed using model policies um oh you guys just got a first a second I'm sorry some of second again this is
111was brought up with ed Holland this is a requirement by law now from the Department of Education Workforce we ought we have every year since I've been here used the model the State Ohio model policies to service our special education students we're now required to that the board knows that and passes a resolution for that and then we send that into the Department of Education Workforce call the roll Mr Ryan yes Mr Swift yes Miss Humphries yes Miss kco yes um item number eight is not a vote it's just to recommend the Board review the following resolutions from volume 43 number one uh the Edward revisions uh and Corrections so these are the policies that were reviewed Tuesday night in our work session just let you know first reading any questions over the next month
112please reach out and let us know item number nine I'm going to start off with we'll get the first and second recommend the approval of the community reinvestment area agreement between the City of Alliance and R and uh rfm 1p uh MPI labels basically it's rfm 1p Holdings but it's MPI labels so mov second okay this is you know this is a discussion piece so in the back of your packet all the way in the back is a what the City of Alliance sent to us uh I did send this in a board update tell you that this was this was going to be talked about in February uh the you know this is obviously something as a board you you need to discuss an open session so MPI labels we currently get you know
113like any other business on the uh that resides in marlington local schools we're getting their their property taxes investment things like that which is fantastic NPI labels has done so well they want to just expand so they're not they're asking for what they call it's called a CRA it's a community reinvestment so they want to add a 19,000 500 square foot uh I guess I would call I don't want to call it a pool barn but they want to add that you know off the side of their facility there on Main Street this will add 10 new full-time jobs and two part-time jobs okayi MPI would be if you come off salberg you go down Maine you had the old Terry's tiretown building that used to be a baseball academy then next to that I
114think is NPI labels is right there oh yeah yeah okay I think that's where we're at they have a PL and see bring too or they might but they want to expand here okay uh so of course I met with the City of Alliance brick Baxter multiple times you know uh where MPI is at is that CRA is they're asking for tax relief for just the addition so cra is just for the addition they're asking for tax relief for the addition for 15 years that's all they can ask for for the addition so my response is if you want me to bring this to the board which I have no problem bringing to the board is let's just say MPI chooses to do this 19,500 foot addition on their own and they don't even ask
115the board's permission which they don't need to they can expand that means that we would be getting uh property tax values from this expansion how much money would that be to marlington Local Schools so Bob did some math we talked to John Oats and Allen Harold they all came back with the same conclusion it's anywhere between $8,500 and $11,500 a year based on that smaller expansion I guess that's how that's that's what they come up with what was the amount again between $88,500 and $1,500 is where they is that right Bob yeah one calculation I had came out to $2,820 for certain that would be like U this would probably what I just mentioned would probably be more like the maximum based on how it appraises afterwards it'll probably be less more like in line
116with the number stand said because they don't often use the Full Construction cost I guess when they set the value of it the 15 years with those between those two would be either 1275 to 1725 and that 15year period so same here period they what they have said that doesn't mean I'm just telling you what they have said because where the how the board votes is completely up to the board uh what they have said they said they they really can't move forward with with doing this without this helps them you know I okay I I do like that they're adding 10 new jobs I do know you know there's two trains of thought it's either just an absolute hard no um period from the board for any tax relief for anything like I've already
117been very clear as he as Rick talked about Washington Hills I think uh I can tell you I've sat in four of their meetings with the the developers from Canton to Cleveland and the lawyers from Cleveland and the Washington Hills owners and they have obviously what their request was was for a tiff for new homes in property you I that was a hard no I wouldn't even bring it to the board the only money we get in general at a blessing is from our property taxpayers so that is not that would never be one that I feel would even be a recommendation from me in a any type of fiscally responsible Manner and they completely understood it took them a while to understand that we're on a guarantee that bringing you know even Building 200
118new homes or apartments in our in the current way bringing in new students to our district has its pros and cons because we're we're only set on x amount of dollars so you get to the point where if you have if you got if I get 100 new students tomorrow well that's fine I can place them in classrooms but I'm going to need more staff well you need more staff that cost money where you we don't have money what you got to do you got to go back to your taxpayers you you can't do that it's a very fine you got to look at all the options so it's very interesting and how you how you look at everything so they understood that so it took four meetings to get them to get to that
119point but they understood that so that uh they asked me not to attend anymore for a while so that was fine uh the reason I bring this to you is their request was regardless of how you vote they wanted to bring it to you this is I I am more apt to look at when business in our community wish to expand when it brings in more people and when the expansion's over there's still going to be an existence it's going to bring our district more money I think it's worth the board making a decision moving forward as Mr Baxter said tonight there's going to be a few other larger expansions I know what they are I just you know this isn't going to be the only there's going to be another one coming our coming
120down that's going to be a much larger expansion looking to help and it's it's going to be a good thing for our District in the long run too so but there's no guarantee like if these businesses want to come or not so let's just stick to this one that's where we're at they're asking for basically it's not a tiff it's a CRA as you see in front of you it's for tax relief for 15 years and I gave you the number that we got from the auditor and then Bob also did his numbers um if you wish to table that that's fine and you want to come you want to sit on this for a month there is no way to you you know we haven't had a you know you can't this isn't an
121exec session conversation this is just a new business this is public conversation so uh we can table this for a month if you wish I don't want to wait any longer I'd like to let NPI labels know I think they were hoping to start here sooner than later um if you want to vote on it tonight that's fine but um it's really up to you that get this might give you some time to think about it read through it if you have any questions I could follow back up with the City of Alliance or us if you want if you just wish to table went for we'll be remating again here in about 3 weeks three and a half weeks you looking for are you looking for feedback yeah I'd vote on it tonight you
122would vote on it tonight well this is krco says wait Mark says we could vote Mr Hagen's not here I guess we could wait Josh is here let's wait till Josh is here I mean I'm I'm skeptical right now I mean I've always been supportive of tiffs and c and understand the importance that those have in our community um but we just got told tonight that we're going to be looking for half a million and MPI wants to give them you give give them 200,000 over the course of 15 years it's hard because so many people are telling us we're not getting money that we're going to have to transform what we do why shouldn't they have to build their Building without losing tax revenue over it and I'm I'm sorry I I'm really conflicted
123here I don't know I think I think it's fair I think it's fair to table it till Josh gets back that gives you guys some time to think about it and uh we can we can ret talk about it in April if that's okay I just okay so we're tbling that yeah I would table that if that's okay uh do you have to have a motion to table it I don't know cuz you seconded the motion to vot v on it vote on it do I need to make another motion to table this I believe so yes I think so I'm going to I'm going to make a motion to table the community reinvestment area agreement with the City of Alliance and MP labels for one month some of second the ru Please Mr Ryan
124Yes m kpco yes Miss humph yes Mr Swift yes okay item number 10 Board of Board of Education meeting schedule uh I have mentioned to you that we have typically gone to the third you know we approve in January our yearly schedule for the third Thursday of of every month um I'm I've basically there is a conflict in my schedule on the third Thursday uh I've asked if the board I would make I'd like to make a motion to move our regular date and time of our regular meetings to the second Thursday of each month or or any other alternate date that you deem an agreement with the motion is B will be a week earlier than normal instead of the third Thursday it be the second Thursday which we're doing this which is what
125we're currently doing this right now yeah I'm good with that I which need a motion I am out on the second uh or for April on that Thursday first meeting not that it should affect the whole Year's schedule or when you set the regular meeting but just so you know um April 10th I'm out so town I'm I'm basically that's two things we're setting the yearly schedule for the second Tuesday and then we'll talk about second THS we'll talk about next month the second Thursday we'll talk about April's board meeting at the end of the agenda tonight okay there you go that sounds perfect yeah when we set the schedule if you have a different date I just wanted to talk before I make the motion I'm good with the second thir so I'm going
126to recommend a motion to to establish a date and time in place for regular meetings for the mon local Board of Education as the second Thurs day of each month at 6:00 pm in the dlz some second and it's of course to finish the motion is at marlington high school said Board of Education May set an alternate date or other location is determined by the board at the conclusion of meetings do we need to do the motion I just finished it you first and second sorry I jumped it on you did um I have talked to each each of you that this you know this was something we're going to talk about in February I just kind of put it out in an email that I obviously said if you don't want to change it
127it's fine I'll readjust my schedule it was just a conflict with me but that's where okay fine call the roll Miss kupco yes Mr Ryan yes Miss humpr yes Mr Swift yes uh final item item number 11 recommend the approval of the updated administrative salary schedule and new latch key hourly schedule as presented in exhibit G and H so move second discussion all right to see here the the administrative salary schedule is is not updated it's updated as per the certified negotiated contract in my opinion they they follow a me too so you guys approve the certified contract in December that you know so next year the certified gets a base increase of 2 and a half% that that's the same thing that principles would get I think it's only fair that you see you
128get you we also approve that and maybe that's not been done in the past that's just my opinion as as superintendent so there is no change in the administrative salary schedule with the exception of it follows now what you know the updated base phrases that the teachers get at follow suit which always has it's been that way for 20 years it's just in writing now it's always been in writing I'm just not sure it's been shared with the board oh okay the last time this administrative salary schedule's been actually I think presented to the board was probably when Jim nicodemo was here uh that's the last person that's actually mess with so okay right call the rooll please oh if so C to just mention what's up with the latch key salary schedule as well
129too all right um that's just an increase from right now at 1070 an hour to 1248 an hour um this is one of the U positions that in the contract book actually ends up being less than minimum wage okay and so we've manually had to increase it each year because it was set by a board resolution I think back in 2009 that it was a certain rate and we have to just meet the Federal guid l so I'm kind of lining it up with another salary schedule that we have um for the cafeteria and playground monitors so that it just automatically gets updated every year and also protects us a little bit um some of our jobs here can um this was one of them they can result in ACA penalties like that we're not
130Insurance becomes unaffordable per the federal government if a person doesn't make enough money the way it works and we can actually actually get fines of like $300 a month so I'm like it's it's not a lot of money as far as the budget goes but I wanted you to understand the rationale for increasing that and this this affects three people we have three latch ke monitors okay okay call the RO Please Mr Swift yes Mr Ryan yes Miss humph yes Miss kpco yes Treasures agenda first item is the minutes I'd like to recommend approval of the minutes from the January 7th regular and organizational meetings so move second discussion all the rooll Please Mr Swift yes Mr Ryan yes Miss humph yes Miss krco yes the next item is the are the Financial reports um
131with the timing of the organizational meeting being a little early we did not approve or you did not as a board approve the December reports so we really have three months worth of reports here December January and February the three reports to be approved are the financial summary which shows all our balances by fund the cash reconciliation for each month and uh the list of each of the checks issued in each month I'd like to recommend that the board approve these reports so move second okay anything to point out uh a couple quick highlights uh related to February really since the other two are water under the bridge in a lot of ways end of February we ended with to Total fund balance of 11,245 15059 of which U we're to focus in on the
132the general fund the general fund ended February with a balance of is let's see I think that's January oh here we go the general fund ended February with a balance of 8,797 57 um if you look at the financial summary and I know there's a lot of pages there but I'll just point out one thing in February the capital projects fund you'll see an unincumbered balance of about 2.6 million that's because it's been updated to with the purchase order for the roof project the big roof project $27 million this summer so um that will be coming soon if they'll start start that project uh if there's any questions on the check of the issued checks I'd be happy to address those as well too [Applause] I could point out just a couple things as I
133see them here too um help you'll see a couple expenditures one's for about 4,500 the other's for about 1,400 to Consumers National Bank that uh those are Visa charges those are for our teams going to State this year which they uh used the credit card for hotel and travel Cutting Edge finishes $1,800 that was for uh painting at Lexington um that I think we discussed that project at that point in time but it was for painting the walls kind of damage you could say after the ASB bestus repairs that would had taken place um playground equipment to game time game time is the vendor $113,000 that was for all three each each Elementary receiv receives some equipment so do we we pay a fee to Child and Adolescent and then they do they also Bill
134students individually how does that work so we have a we have like it's through very similar through it's called Stark Mar so all the star County schools are combined into that and then so some use different we use Child and Adolescent services so we get starkart picks up a large portion of what we call consultation hours or you know so we have X amount of hours per building where jod Fellers or Ashlin Mitchell work with our our students if based on what jod or Ashlin uh feel would be something that would be a continued basis then they would would we go into intake so then they ask the parents to uh meet and they do this at CNA and then that process gets build then through their insurance their their Medicaid whatever ever the nice
135thing about having those Partnerships within our building is um these parents then don't have to have their Drive their students to CNA for any type of uh meetings that they would have it's all done within the confines of the building during any available time they have in between their academic instruction okay and we still get updates when anything has happened with well just a warning that's from the Star County Sheriff's Department we do we have Handle With Care uh it started about about two months ago so as those come in then um they go directly to uh Deputy Collins and Deputy Miller Deputy Miller them they call and send those to me by uh 6:00 or 7: a.m. I then download them and then send those to the appropriate principal as needed okay CU we
136were down for a while we were down for a while so it's back up and running correct okay good good okay follow roll please Mr Swift yes Mr Ryan yes Miss Humphrey yes Miss krco yes i' would like to make a recommendation that the board approved the revenue and appropriation revisions as presented so move second and a couple notes in regard to this as you'll see on the revenue revisions actually the appropriation revisions also most of the entry are in the 500 numbered funds which are federal grants and these adjustments are basically lining those up with our latest known uh Grant award amounts and what we have remaining to spend in some uh one of the larger ones there you'll see is the migrant Grant which is uh basically being zeroed out um there's also
137uh another Grant the 499 fund we're appropriating $821 41 that's another grant that Mr evanich was able to secure uh for use with aeds and security cameras safety type PS okay uh call the RO Please Mr Swift yes Miss kupco yes Miss Humphries yes Mr Ryan yes I'd like to recommend that the board approve the resolution accepting the rates and amounts from the Stark County auditor as presented some of second this is normal every year right B is that Kathy or it's me you trying recognize the voice yes sorry Karen what did you say Dan you just this is what we do every year correct yeah we do this every year this is um essentially the the county auditor provides us with the document that uh estimates how much revenue would be generated by by
138our levies in total and so you can see it's broken down by for US general fund and permanent Improvement fund thank you it's broken down too there's two columns one for the amount inside the 10 Milli limitation and the amount outside the 10 mil limitation which basically just goes back to statute for how much you're allowed to tax without approval of the voters so need more of that we're going to need more of that okay I like how I like how some of those levies are 1970 198 1968 1969 and then there's like a 20year gap and no new money and then there's been another 20 another 20 year Gap with no new money uh guess maybe we're due to hit one Bob play the lottery for us yeah there can we do a lot
139to communicate now with all these legislative changes I mean uh be clear on what the needs are of the school some what's happening consolid or they may continu continuous yeah yeah okay thank you okay call the r please okay Mr Ryan yes Miss humph yes Mr Swift yes M kupco yes I would like to recommend that the board approve the donations that were received in January February and March so moved second read those I will Robertson heating supply $300 for the high school robotics team from Alliance First Friends Church $2,000 to the 222 group that meets here at the high school dehoff flower group $100 donation to academic recognition Mr and Mrs Gula $250 for marlington wrestling Mr and Mrs Woodruff $100 to the marlington athletic department miss Karen mcac to the marlington athletic department
140$50 thank you very much thank you so much yes okay call the RO please Miss kupco yes Mr Ryan yes Miss humph yes Mr Swift yes okay on to Personnel I'm going to I'm going to break the Personnel up into three sections tonight so we're going to start with we're going to do I want to do administrative contracts we always do in March I'm going to do that uh separately uh then we're going to I would if the board's okay we Will consent the rest of personnel with the exception of number eight preferred sub hire and number 10 supplemental hires I will abstain from making recommendations and Mr fos will make the recommendations for what eight and 10 for eight and 10 you'll see there when we get there okay got it number one administrative
141contracts recommend the motion to approve the following administrative contracts John Yanni spond Del Elementary School principal from 81225 to 731 20128 Mike FOH High School principal 81225 to 731 2028 Michael Rosetti Middle School principal 81225 to 731 2028 Nick evanich people service director 81225 to 731 2028 and Renee kayy curriculum director 81225 to 73 1 2028 so move second discussion I I assume that you've made your evaluations of these individuals and that they come with your recommendation I would not put them on there if they did not come with my recommendation correct it's a standard threeyear that we do with our administrators um they by law had to be evaluated every year um as I stated I think in my board update last week uh the continuity of having a consistent team is critical to
142us to continue to move forward as we have the last three years you know it takes time to build relationships build culture and you know everybody has strengths and weaknesses as do I and we just you know take the constructive criticism and move on all right good any other questions or no okay the RO please miss kpco yes Mr Ryan yes Miss humph yes Mr Swift yes okay second I would like we recommend the motion that we're going to consent the rest of the personnel with the exception of number eight preferred sub hires and number 10 supplemental hires the rest will be under consent and I will review those now so move second so we do have a classified retirement that would just be uh Mr Hoover one of our long-standing bus drivers we have
143a a few classified resignations which are some custodians and latch key supervisors recess monitors some are at the end of the school year some are most recently we have a supplemental resignation uh we had a couple there we have one certified staff hire that's uh you know be our science teacher here at the High School replacing Lyn Francis we're very excited to get her on board excellent uh we have classified staff hire we have some Cooks we have some Cooks leaving these are going to be effective some are effective now some are effective uh going into next year uh certified staff transfer we're just transferring one of our staff members from One position to another we have some classified substitute hires we have a supplemental pay correction for our counselors they were on the wrong
144Step at the high school from step two to three and we have a leave request for one of our custodians okay what's the CBI instructor it's what Chris Maron does okay he's uh so it's it used to be the uh if you were in school here uh owwe I like like you know so it's kind of the workforce right side of it career base instruction call the RO Please Mr Swift yes Miss kpco yes Miss humph yes Mr Ryan yes Mr Foss Number Eight coming up number eight um are we cons sending 8 and 10 together just do eight and 10 sure all right this is for numers 8 and 10 preferred sub hire and supplemental hires I'd like to recommend a motion that the board approve these items so move second okay going to
145Mar the reason for Bob's recommendation is uh my daughter is a track coach last year I cannot recommend my daughters continue to be track coach and she is a sub one of many Subs in our district that can work for us as needed so I cannot rate that recommendation great thank you okay call the roll please Mr Swift yes m Mr Ryan yes Miss humph yes Miss kupco yes okay upcoming events uh starting March I want to make sure I say this right it's the right date it is not the right all right March 27th is the high is the musical so is the musical is Greece so if you get a chance come out and see the musical that our students have been putting on a ton of work on this so uh we
146have you know our staff has been a part of this so it's just we always do an excellent job so if you get a chance starting on that Thursday Friday Saturday or Sunday um you try to come out and see the musical uh April 4th we have a PD day April 7th is National Honor sidey inductions I think you got invit for that Tuesday night obviously our spring Breeze is coming up uh April 17th through the 21st so that's just that from an upcoming uh a technically this is up to you guys our next Board of Education meeting based on the new schedule would be April 10th at 6: p.m. be with a recommendation for the next board meeting now Mr Foss has said that he is he is actually uh out of town or
147Treasures annual conference treasur conferences that day so he would not be here so your option is to stick to the 10th and one of you would be assigned any the treasurers responsibility not a recommendation I think or we would look at a different date that that week I think that's a better option A better I take notes all the time change the date again it's just for April just for April you want to do Tuesday 15th or the 8th uh the 15 we you're getting into uh spring Breeze I am not uh available in in that week at all it's spring Breeze yeah April 8th is April 8th is a Tuesday could work or April 9th I know Mr Hagen isn't here so we could follow up later but if you want to set the
148date if we'd have to switch it we obviously could board approv I'd rather do Tuesday but I can do Tuesday that work Mr Ryan does it eight work okay y okay Tuesday all right so we April 8 so we're looking at the next Board of Education meeting will be on April 8th 2025 at 6 PM in the dlz perfect look at me how was it 600 p.m mhm does that have to be motioned um no we typically just announce when the regular next regular meeting will be so okay just for the record again it's the next regular meeting will be Tuesday April 8th 6: pm. here in the high school dlz hey is there a motion to adjourn so move second any discussion call the r please Miss kupco yes Mr Ryan yes Miss humph
149yes Mr Swift yes thank you and good night all right e e e